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w CHEMAWA AMERICAN.
7;? licimiwa mericHti.
H. L. LoVKLACK,
Manager,
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Work baid while you work; when you
play, play with vim; and be cheerful and
happy about both your work and play.
While New York, Philadelphia nnri the
East are enjoying a blizzard, ouly equaled
by the famous one of 1H88, we In I he Wil
lamette Valley are hanking In thesunshine,
the violet are peeping through the ground,
the grass has starttd lo (trow and the in
uiciaiotiB all point to Sprinirtitiib being at
In a school the great thing Is not to
quarrvl ; to pull all to-gi'ner, to refrain
from hasty unwtse words and actions, to
tiuselflshly and wiaely peek the lst fiood
of all ; and to get rid of workers whose
temperaments are uuforiunaip, whose
beads are not level, no matter bow much
knowledge culture they may have,
rantan-kerousiwss is worse, tliao heter
odoxy.' What has become of Ompulary Educa
tion for the Indian? He needs it, just as
much as the whites do in many of our
most progressive states. Give us compul-
sary education and good, Arm treatment of
the Indian after he leaves school and we
will soon have no "Indians." Without
eompulsary education we will, at several
points In the United States, beslmply leav
ening the loaf, but the load will still be to
carry.
It may surprise a verv, very few of our
pupils to learu that socials are not given
for the purposeofteachingus totw spooney.
The boy or girt that cannot exert him
self or herself to be agreeable to a partner
not of his own selection and not the one
he or she is "gone on" needitoexert them
selves to overcome a very serious fault.
Let us see if we can think of any home
where the husband and wife do nothing tn
entertain their company but tusqnrezeeacb
the other's band.
We go to the sociako enjoy ourselves,
yet there is a lesson of great value to be
learned there. It is to learn how to
help make it agreeable fur everybody.
Commissioner Jones is Right.
Commissioner Jones is Tight. A man
wrapped iu a blanket, with long hair
streaming about his face, cannot be ex
pected to work, It is a pleasant govern
mental fiction that Indians can be taujrut
to work. Before this can even approach
reality the blanket must give away tu
clothing that will permit the free ns of
the limbs, and the long balr must be shorn.
In tha maze of theories that have been
woven about the Indian problem it Is grati
fying to find at Inst something practical.
Oregoman.
The Commissioner has ordered that In
dian pupils after leaving school shall not
be allowed to wear long hair or a blanket,
and no sooner is the order issued than all
the cranks and fanatics in the country set
up a howl and talk about personal right,
etc., etc The Cranks, for cranks they aro,
probably never Baw an Indian, and if they
did, looked at them as if tbey were Ofacar
Wildes, or some other monstrosity