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About Weekly Chemawa American. (Chemawa, Or.) 189?-198? | View Entire Issue (July 13, 1906)
8 - THE CIIEMAWA AMERICAN By Webster Hudson; sixth grade. We all had the pleasure , of listening to the address delivered hy Mr. Forbes, Sunday evening. From the subject we learned that by sticking to one thing this means "whatever undertaking we . attempt to perform just make ourselves a' master. We often hear many of the students complaining about that they have to work, and perhaps they discov ered their mistake and wrong idea of what they should do. Other, students, however, are more intelligent and tnose are the ones that listen closely to anyone who gives advices to us. It pays to be attentive, than to just fool around with out giving attention to the speaker. And we often hear,' "Do not try to kill yourself by work," and others, "What .,do we get for working?" Ah! my friends, -5i)ur idea is wrong, we are here ,for the purpose of learning a trade and to ob tain an' education. By working at a ' trade we can learn it .witjh less difficulty, and in acquiring , an education we can accomplish our course with less perplex ty by studying avid thinking of one thing. Nothing in this busy wide world can be obtained by a person who has not tried to do anything, but just think what Ik will do and then for get and lost his vision. This is no way to do if we want 'to be somebody in this busy world. If ve want, to ire pare for anything, what shonld we do? What' good in the ..world will we amount to" if we neglect i' make our preparation while we have a clinn.'e? So let us, boys and girls, get read)' to face the world and prepare for our future lives and think of one thing that is good for us. The Education o f Boys A philospher has said that true educa tion for boys "is to teach them what they ought to know when they become men." What is it they ought to know then? . First to be true, to be genuine. No education is worth anything that does not include this. , A man had better not know how to read, he had better never learn- a letter in the alphabet, and be true and genuine in action, rather than being learned in all sciences and nguages to be at the same time false in heart and' counterfeit in life. Above all things, teach them that truth is more , than riches, more than earthly power or position. . Second To be pure in thought, lan guage, life pure in mind and body. An impure man1 young or old, poisoning th(i society where he lives with smutty stories and impure example, is a moral ulcer, who ought to be treated as the leper of . od( who were banished from society and compelled to cry "unclean!" a warning tosave others from pestilence. Third To be self-reliant and self helpful even from early, childhood; to be industrious always, and self-supporting at the earliest proper age. ! Teach them that all honest work is honorable, and that an idle, useless life dependent on oth'er,, is a disgrace. When a boy has learned all these three things, when lw-has made these . ideas a part of his hciiv, however young he may-be, how ever poor, however rich, he1 Was5 learned some of the most important ' things he ought to know when he becomes a man. Ex.