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About Weekly Chemawa American. (Chemawa, Or.) 189?-198? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 30, 1903)
2 THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN. The Chemawa American. Hinrt L. Lovelace, Manager. PnbHshed Weekly by the Pupils or the Chemawa Indian School. Subscription Price, 25 Cents Per Tear. Clubs of five and over 20 Cents pr yenr. Address all Business Communications to The Chemawa American, Chemawa, Oregon. Entered at the Postoffice at Chemawa, Or., as 8econd-cla89 mail-matter. Note. If this space.... is marked with a red cross it means; :that your sub scription has expired. Please renew. We see by the Daily Press that James Wheeloek, Director of Carlisle's Indian Band, has composed a new march, called "The Class of 1903 March." Mr, Wheeloek, who is a full blood Onei da Indian, is making quite a reputation for himself and is keeping up the Carlisle Band to the high standard attained by his brother, Dennison. In the January Success is published a picture of Mr. Wheeloek, stating that he excels in playing the clariouet. .,. It has sometimes been said that Indian School Institutes do not aecomplinb much good. That we get together, pass resolu tions, go home and affairs remain just as they were before. At the last meeting of the Pacilic Coast Indian Institute, at New port, Supervisor Chalcraft brought before the Institute the subject of Compulsory Ed ucation, and referred to a law passed by the state of Idaho,- which accomplished the purpose for that state. As a result of the interchange of ideas at Newport, the Idaho law with some altera tions and improvements, bids fair to cover the entire Northwest, and is now pending in the State Legislatures of Nevada, Ore gon and Washington. In another column we give a copy of the law as submitted to the Oregon Legislature. Compu'sory Education is a good thing and is a necessity for the Indians aswellas the whites. Among others the great state oiPennsylvania has compulsory education, and we note in the Daily Press that Dr. Schaeffer, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, for Pennsylvania, has given notice to the school directors of certain townships and boroughs of that state, that the children of their respective districts be tween the agesof 6 and 16 years ofagetoat tend school, or he will impose thefu'l pen alty of the law. Good. Let compulsory edu cation spread until every child within the, borders of the United States, whether red, white or b'ack is compelled to receive the benefits of thia twentieth century civiliza tion. Jay Cooke, the venerable financier, always wesrs a felt hat of a pale fawn color. Three or four of these hats are given each year to Mr. Cooke by his friend and neigh bor, John B. Stetson. They are made of the fur of a South American squirrel thatis only to be' captured among the heights of the Ands. They have to be so caMu'ly and slowly made and their material is so costly that to buy and sell them would not pay. Ex. The Chemawa American shows what the Indians can do when given an education. The Murdock. Complimentary to Indians. The Harrisburg Telegraph says: "One oi the most interesting features of the parade whs the battalion from the Carlisle Indian School and had it been possible for Colonel Pratt to have heard the numerous favorable cominentsthrougl'.out thecity he would have been exceedingly gratified. The battalion reached here over the umherlaud Valley Railroad at 11 o'clock. ' There were three companies of 72 members each and the fa mous Carlisle Indian School band of 52 pieces, under the direction of Professor Wheeloek. The Indians marched and looked well and were applauded all along the route."