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THE GHEMAWA AMERICAN
Cbe ebemawa flmercian
Published WeeKly at th Unitd
States Indian Training School,
9CR80RIPT1ON Price, 25 Cents a Year. Cltibs or
Five or Oter 20 Cents,
Knterert a the Ohemawa, Oreisfon, PostoflBoe a? sec
ond"Clans mail matter,
Edwin L, Chalcraft - - Superintendent
Postoffloe Address . - Chemawa, Oregon
Telegraphio Address - Salem, Oregon
PRINTING STAFF
Benjamin Wilcox, Henry Darnell, John
Service, Robert Service, Oscar Case, Jasper
Grant, Reggie Downie:, Harry Stone, Patsy
Barrett,
BETTER TOUR CONDITION.
Consider everything and see if you do
not conolude that you are worthy some
thing better in life than is offered by
your present position. If you are of
sound mind you will not later on in life
want to do all the hard and dirty work
which others refuse to do. You will not
wish to find yourself in the position of a
human scavenger will you? Of course
not. But such has been the h t of
countless thousands of people from the
beginning of time, because they did not
prepare for something better. Such
will be your fate, too, if you fail to fit
yourself for the better things of life.
During youth is the time to prepare
for some calling or occupation which will
assure not only a competency but self
respect and the esteem of others. It is
well for the Indian youth of the country
to consider these matters. It is well,
also, for the parents and. friends of these
young people to think hard on these
matters.
There is no inheritance of so much
value as a well schooled brain and skilled
hands. You may bewail the fact that
you oan not inherit great wealth, hut
you have no right to lament your ina
bility to secure an education or to learn
a trade to fit yourself for an honorable
position in whatever community you
may elect to reside. Chemawa stands
ready to provide you, free of expense to
yourself, with an equipment which will
better qualify you for the battles of
life than would an inheritance of gold.
Think of it! It is for you. It is free,
You have but to ask for it. Will you
ask? Will you qualify yourself for fu.
ture responsibility and independence, or
will you conclude to drift along from
day to day until it is too late? Now is
the time to wake up and become active,
or eventually you will find that you
must always do dirty work for others,
with little pay for such service you
will become a human scavenger,
-ROOM AT THE TOP.
The higher up you are enabled to
climb on the ladder of life the more room
you will have for your elbows. Very
few people get to the top, or anywhere
near there, and for this reason there is
lots of room up at the top. The vast
majority of people are found down at or
near the foot of the ladder, They find
it too hard work to climb, so they re
main below where everybody is crowd
ing ' the other fellow" and the pay is
poor.
We hope that all of our Chemawa pu
pils, and those who are intending to en
roll at Chemawa, wfcfl resolve to climb
high up the ladder they are on, be it
housekeeping, farming, or what not. f It
is for their own good that they climb
hard and reach the topmost rungs o? the
ladder. The pay is better up there; there
is more room and the air is purer.
Now is the time to begin climbing.