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THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN
Cbe Cbemawa American
Published WeeKly at the United
States Indian Training ScHool.
Subscription Price, 25 Cents a Year. Clubs of
Five or Over 20 Cents.
Entered a the Chemawa, Oregon, Postoffice as sec
ond-class mail matter.
PRINTING STAFF
Benjamin Wilcox, Henby Darnell, John
Service, James Evans, Louis Hudson, Robert
Service, Henry Evans, Oscar Case.
Chemawa continues to grow. The
enrollment for the first -quarter of the
fiscal year was 645 and the average at
tendance was 526 against an enrollment
of 571 for the first quarter of 1909 and
an average attendance for the same period
of 486. As last year was a record breaker
we hardly know what to expect for tha
future. We have room for only so many
pupils so we will have to advise those
pupils who desire to return to do so at
once or you will have to be put on the
waiting list.
William E. Curtis the great newspaper
writer who recently visited Chemawa
wrote an interesting letter to the Chicago
Record-Herald in which he said concern
ing our work here:
"The institution is now complete and
has as fine a plant as any industrial
school in the world. The shops, where
the different trades are taught, the chemi
cal laboratories, the stables, granaries,
dairy and other agricultural features are
models of their kind, both in equipment
and appearance, and the manages of
other industrial schools might learn
valuable lessons from the Indian boys
and girls who are in training here.
Next week we will publish Mr. Cur
tis' entire article.
The President in one of his speeches
at San Francisco day before yesterday
said :
. "I am not a paternalist, and yet I am
not a doctrinaire of the 'Laissez
Fairs' school. I think that a judicious
mixture of paternalism where it trains
th,e children of the government in the
way they should go i? proper."
We have to thank the Salem States
man for the cut of President Taft, which
we publish. The president was dressed
in conventional black when he was at
Chemawa, but this photo was the only
one available for this issue.
"More land for the Indian" was taken
from Hon. John L. Chi Ids' paper, the
Del None Record. Judge Chi Ids is one
of the best friends the' Indians of North
ern California has. .
We hear that the Grande Pionde
agency has been abolished and placed
under the supervision of Supt. Egbert of
Siletz.
As Miss Reel's mail still continues to
come to Chemawa we look for her at the
school in the near future.
THE RIGHT RING
I will tell about what I think this
morning. I try to be a good boy in this
school all I can. Please tell me if I make
mistake or any thing wrong in school
room, tell me kindly before I get punish
ed in school. .
The above item was handed in by one of
the new pupils of the school as his item.