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THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN
one of our great statesman who said, "A
nation can never rise higher than the
teaching of its Sacred Book." There is
not a hospital or an asylum for the blind
or a place for the curs of the insane ex
cept in lands where christianty has in
fluence. If you had trial in the country where
in order to be save out side of your eight
foot high wall yo'u must always have an
armed guard with yon. If you had lived
in a country where man disappear or are
murdered at your doors with no notice
taken of it you would know whnt it is
worth to live in a land where life is pre
cious and the rights and developenient
of the individual of supreme impo'tane.
I hear pupils say, they don t care much
about religion, they don't pretend to be
so verv good' and yet they vuh to this
place where the h-wsof the land at e based
on this very Christianity they pretend not
care for.
it seems to me they are no belter than
tramps. A tramp will eat breakfast
and pay nothing for it, he will take a
coat he lias not earned or steal a ride on
train and count himself lucky, but a
self respecting man regrets the necessity
for living on the charity of the public.
I wish 1 could step aside and, as I
heard one say a few days ago, bring be
fore you in my place, the Cross-Scarred
(Jhrisi. tor it is the Sacrifice there
made that lies at the bottom of our Safe
ty and privelege and success as a nation,
and it will be the vital inll uence of that
life and death before us as individuals
that will decide as to whether you and I
shall come for much or little true and
in Eternity.
I CO0HCS I
Several employes took in the play
"45 minutes from Broadway'' in Salem
Saturday night.
Geo. Ruppert Carrau and Rhoda Sil
verton were admitted and Robert Greg
ory returned to school.
The following are the new pupils from
Northern California, Isabelle, Oscar and
James owie, Adelia, Lestie, and Willi
am . orris, Lawrence McITash, Andrew
Hodge and Sam John.
Mr. G. ). ' McQuesten, Mr.- John
McAleer and Mrs. Shutt, all of Tacoma
Wash, stopped off a day last week at
Chemawa and visited Mr. And Mrs.
Brewer and the school, on their return
from Northern California where they
had been for timber claims.
Asst. Superintendent Campbell return
ed early Monday morning from northern
California with 6 boys and 3 girls, de
was able to secure a party of nice boys
and uirls with the assistance of Miss
Marie Johnston, who is now field mat
ron at Rtqua, Gal. She was an asst.
matron here last spring.
Mrs. Frances C Guage, Secretary of
the Y. W. C. A. of Washington, Idaho
Oregon paid the school a visit this week,
and she addressed the school on Tues
day evening. Following her address was
a duet by Louise ?. unary and Bessie
chiloquin and call the roll oi the Y. V.
C. A. members at Chemawa.
Miss Ella F. White, of Butler, Pa , ar
rived on Monday last and entered upon
her duties as stenographer in the Admi
nistration Building, relieving Miss Mab
el Weakiy, of Carlisle, who for the past
three months tempoiarilly tilled the
position so satisfactorily to all concern
ed. The arrow.