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THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN.
0bc Cbemawa American
Published Weekl by Pupils of The
Chemawa Indian School.
Subscription price 25 cents per year.
Clubs of five or over, 20 cents.
Entered at the postofflce at Chemawa, Ore.,
as second-class mail-matter.
There is a great difference between
farmers and educated farmers. .
When the farmers, as a class, be
come better educated, refined, and en
lightened, the mean and misleading
appelation of "hayseed" will become
extinct. ,
Some people greet a friend or an
acquaintance in about the same man
ner, in words and actions, that they
would a person who is entirely un
worthy of any respect. , They grunt,
look over your head or in the oppo
site direction and pass on. This cold
manner of greeting is sometimes used
even by people who hold the person
spoken to as a warm friend.
It is only a thoughtless habit and
should be overcome Every one enjoys
to be spoken to in a kindly manner,
or not at all.
Inspector Chubbuck impressed this
important point upon employes in his
address, that the object of the govern
ment schools is to teach; not to pro
duce so many bushels of potatoes, as
it is to teach boys to become garden
ers, not to turn out so many wagons
as it is to teach boys the trade of
wagon-making etc., etc. That every
employe is a teacher, and every piece
of work done must be done for the pur
pose of teaching the pupil,and not how
to have the mere work accomplished.
Employes in Indian schools are apt
to overlook this in their work. They,
too often from necessity, are obliged
to rush 'a piece of work through to a
finish without imparting any instruc
tion to the pupil except what he learns
by his own observation.
Football is all right. All kinds of
good, healthy, active sports are helpful
to any school, Indian or white, IF.
That big "IF," we all know what it
means. Atheletics is good medicine
for any school if not taken in too big
and frequent doses. Then it is more
harmful than good. When employes
and pupils become so wrapped up in
football that they have hardly tinu'
and inclination to think of their work
and studies, it is time to call a halt
and "about, face." When schools im
port and enlist as students men or
boys for the mere purpose of playing
football, they over reach themselves
and encourage young men who ought
to be at work elsewhere earning good
salaries, to become idlers and lose
their interest in their work. It also
sets a bad example to the real stu
dents of the school. Chemawa dots
not claim to be guiltless in this par
ticular, and Supt. Potter has decreed
that in future years, all athletic cluhs
at Chemawa will be composed of only
the real bona fide pupils of the school
who are here for the sole purpose of
securing an education and learning
trades, agriculture, etc. It is time
other big Indian schools were doing
the same thing,in justice to themselves
and their pupils. j