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THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN
turn to school and the children scamp
ered off one by one.
We then went out to the barn and
amused our selves watching the horses
cows and chickens.
We had been at the farm for about
two hours when we started for home,
hoping that another drive along a small
country road would be our treat again.
The Indians' Greatest Enemy
By Peter Seltice, Sixth Grade
Who is the Indians' greatest enemy?
This is a question very easily answered,
even by a mere child. The Indians
greatest enemy of today is the dealer
of intoxicating liquors, or any one who
is low enough to give an Indian such a
drink. And why? Because the Ind
ians' thirst for liquor is so strong that
they will take drink after drink until
they finally make brutes of . themselves
and when the Indian is slightly under
the influence of intoxicants, he is very
ugly in manners, brutal, and very
dangerous to be trifled with. Why is it
that the Government of the United States
is so t trict about selling liquors to In
dians? Because they have seen the result,
they have seen that it was dangerous to
the Indians themselves, as well as to her
citizens. It is true that intoxicating li
quors makes brutes out of any one that
uses it, but the effects for simple reason
that the liquor which is generally given
is the very worst, most vile and poison
ous liquor which can be obtained.
The liquor dealer is very friendly to
an Indian, but at the same time he gives
him that poisonous liquor, the effects of
which does its deadly work slowly but
surely on the most powerful of them.
Of course, there are Indians who are.
abstainers of intoxicants as well as ab
stainers of other races, but it is a known
fact that a dealer of liquors will take ad
vantage of an Indian at any and all
times, and if there is any way to get his
red brother under the influence of liquor
in order to get his money they will cer
tainly do it. As a general rule the In
dians' thirst for liquor is greater than
that of any human being, they are slaves
to liquor.
Therefore liquor and its dealer is the
Indians' greatest enemy.
Painters 6, Printers 8
The game last Tuesday evening be
tween the painters and printers was
very interesting. Every basket was
accompanied by the war whoop which
reminded us of the war cry of victory.
To begin with both teams were notably
deficient in team work, yet in consider
ing the work of both teams the small
printers did very well indeed. The
most notable feature of the entire game
was the playing of Bagnell, at center, but
the printer guards were almost too quick
to get the ball away from their opponents.
The painters had some good boys, but
these were so utterly lacking in team
work that they showed up worse than
they really were. In the second half
Robert Davis took Corasco's placa as a
guard. As a rule Davis did. some good
playing. lie was not even seen to go
across the room, but stayed at his re
spective position. The score was 6 to 8
In favor of printers. This game was
followed by another interesting game
between the "soldiers"and the"knights."
. The score was 8 to 12 in favor of
"soldiers."
Said the shoe to the stocking,
"I'll wear a hole in you."
Said the stocking to the shoe.
"I'll be darned if vou do." Ex.