Weekly Chemawa American., June 10, 1910, Page 6, Image 6

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THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN
(Continued from page 3.)
CHAPEL TALK,
your people, and I am sure that your
people fully realize what this institution
means to yon and to them. There is a
wor"k for you to do,, a place for each one
of you somewhere in this great world
of ours, there is something waiting for
each one of you, some duly or some
duties. You may not realize just now
just what that may be, but as you look
out into the fnture, you realize that
there is that work for. you, for each one,
each individual. That there will be
coming to you as the years go by great
er responsibilities. And if I were to
ask- you your purpose in this matter,
most of you wonH answer that you
would be ready to meetv whatever the
future would bring to you The older
boys and girls, the majority, would he
able to say to me, "I am going to have
to meet some responsibilities, not only
that, but I realize that there may be
more than that for me to think of, that
it may become necessary for me to help
others, my father and my mother may
need me, or there may be young broth
ers and sisters who are yet without edu
cation and who are waiting for me to
finish my education in order that they
may get in school."
"There may be other young people who
do not know or appreciate the opportun
ities that are being offered by the Gov
ernment throughout this country for get
ting an education, and I realize that I as
a young man or as a young woman will
have some responsibility along these
lines, and having had these opportunites
in this school, to let others know, and it
will be my duty, my privilege, when 1
go out among these people to demon
strate what an education meant to me."
.Now I am feeling just as though was
one of you. I want you to get this
thought, because I am sure that if you
analyze your own thoughts, I am simply
expressing them for you. you know that
you have these duties and responsibili
ties to meet and that you are going to
have the days go by, more duties to
meet, and that you will have greater
responsibilities because of the fact th
you have had these opportunites j
school. Now, with that thought in mird
having analyzed your own thoughts to
that extent, I want to give you the
thought that I want to have you carry
with you if you forget everything else
have said. There is one word which
means a very great deal to every youna
person in life and the one word is the
one I want you to carry with you when
vou lave the chapel tonight. I V
lead vou up to it and tell you what it is
The dav that I came to Chemawa I was
at Klamath and when I took the train
from Weed a newsboy came and sold me
a Portland paper. On the full front page
wa' the picture of beautiful roses and
two or three other pages of the paper
were devoted to accounts of the comin
Rose Festival in Portland, and I am
sure that it is fully worth while to de
vote so much time exhibiting her roses
if such roses as I have seen at Chemawa
are found in Portland and in Oregon. I
havs never been any place where I have
seen better roses than I have seen at
Chemawa. , I must repeat that Oregon
and Portland can well afford to spend a
week talking about roses. It has paid
me to come from Lawarence, Kansas, to
Chemawa to see the roses growing at
Chemawa, not forgetting of course the
human roses.
There are people who are spending
,time and money getting ready to do
things; there are schools of this country
continually spending money for erecting
buildings and making other improve
ments. There are 30,000 Indian boys
and girls in the schools of this country
today and there are 18,000,000 young
people of all ages up to the young men
and young women between twenties and
thirties in school. Think of it, a great
army of young people of this country
in the schools, and think of the millions
and millions of dollars that have been
expended in the building of the school?.
It is simply wonderful how much people
are spending for college and university
buildings every year, and millions and
millions of dollars are expended for the
maintenance of these schools. Thon-