The Word Carrier of Santee Normal Training School (Santee, Nebraska), 1928-01 - 1928-02

              The Word Carrier
of SANTEE NORMAL TRAINING SCHOOL.
VOLUME   LVI
HELPING THE   RIGHT, EXPOSING THE 'WRONG
NUMBER 1
SANTEE, NEBRASKA.
Jan.-Feb., 1928
Our   Platform
For Indians we want American Education! We
want American Homes! We want American Rights!
The result of which is American Citizenship! And the
Gospel is the Power of God for their Salvation!
Santee Workers Tell What They Do
My work here at Santee is that of school secretary. It is a rich opportunity to be of service
and to help others. During the Christmas
season I was very busy helping to wrap gifts
for our big community Christmas tree celebration. Immediately afterwards we asked
our students to write some thank-you letters
and  we  enclosed  them  with   __	
our acknowledgments. There
is a lot of bookkeeping and
many letters to write every
day. Many friends write to
us every day asking for literature and information about
our work. Some of our students cannot pay the required
amount for their board aud
so we are busy writing to the
kind friends throughout the
country who are interested in
us about these students and
many of them respond in
helping to assume this deficit. I also do much mimeographing, some of which
is the Bible Correspondence
School lessons, both in Dakota and English. Or sometimes there tre school programs or circular letters.
Then there are reports : My
monthly financial reports that
are sent to the A. M. A.,
various church reports and
school reports and blanks to
fill out and the students' work
reports. Our students help
to pay for their tuition by
their work. I compile work
reports each month which
show the hours they have
worked, the rates and the
amount earned. I show this
amount credited on their tuition each month. The charge
in work is $50, and so when
they have earned $50 the
amount over that is applied
on unpaid debts such as board
or music. If they do not
have any debts it is given
in cash. They are much interested in these reports and
like to watch the figures each
month and see how they are
progressing.
We all have some religious duties outside of our
regular service. My work
is secretary-treasurer of the
Sunday School, and clerk
of Pilgrim Congregational
Church. One day while get-
ting some contribution envelopes
give out the
EXTRA!   EXTRA!!
By these famous words Dollie Peniska announced the important event that Principal
and Mrs. Riggs are leaving on six weeks vacation for California. All the orphans promised to do their best to carry on as expressed
by a number of students and members of the
faculty. The Word Carrier joins them in
wishing Mr. and Mrs. Riggs a wonderful vacation and a real rest. The A. M. A. has
granted this vacation to them in recognition
of their long and faithful service. During
their absence, Mr. and Mrs. Hertz are making an extended visit.
FIFTY  CENTS  PER YEAR
What a Privilege! and What a Care!
By
Evelyn Green. Matron of Whitney Hall Dormitory
for tlie older boys.
Santee Pilgrim Church
CHRISTMAS SERVICE
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Sunday Evening, December 25th,  1927
AT    7: 30    O'CLOCK
Voluntary,   Lied,
Piano and Organ
CANTATA,
King Immanuel,
1. The Angels
2. The Nativity
3. The Shepherds
4- The Wise Men
Prayer, by school pastor, -
He Shall Feed His Flock,     -
Girls' Chorus
Beethoven
Stults
Rev. John Wright
Handel
Offertory—Largo,    -----       Handel
Annual Christmas offering to Foreign Missions.
Hallelujah Chorus, (high school arrangement) Handel
Benediction.
Mrs. F. B. Riggs, Director of Music.
Gladys Ripley, Accompanist.
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following Sunday one of our
older Indian students, who is a member of the
church came in. I turned to him and said :
' Would you like to have some envelopes for
your contribution? I would like to give you
some, and then I can give you credit on my
books for your offering." He laughed and said :
"No,I can get my credits in Heaven." I am also
director of the Y. W. C. A. work for the little girls which we call the Blue Birds. They
are the smaller girls living in the Birds' Nest,
and we think Blue Birds a very appropriate
name. We open our meeting with the roll call
and Bible verses. Each member responds with
a Bible verse as her name is called so we learn
many new Bible verses during the year. We
always have a story or talk at each meeting,
usually given by one of the girls. Sometimes
we have dramatization. At our New Year's
program each member gave a resolution.
Now each Sunday we are discussing these resolutions and learning how to keep them.
Last Sunday we all learned about health. We
had a health story and some health rules by
two of the girls. Many of the girls are at
the correct age for memorizing and they respond heartily to the task. The object of the
meetings is to have the students take part
and develop themselves so that they may become Christian leaders among their own people. . Mae Hassinger.
It is almost impossible to vision tbe heights
and depths of this important work; being
"mother" to twenty-four boys from 17 to 24
years of age carries a real responsibility.
The effort of keeping the household cleau
is one thing; health of body is auother thing;
and healthof the spirit is another. With a
house-boy, the first is accomplished each
morning; with first-aid measures and a doctor
fifteen miles away, the second is accomplished
very well; but the third, the health of the
spirit, taxes tbe strength and
sagacity of a matron every
moment of the day, and often
many hours in the night.
It is the manner, the attitudes and the morals of young
boys aud young men that
must be constantly watched;
the comprehending and gentle remark to a boy who
has received a rebuke, fairly
earned, perhaps, must be talked over to keep stubbornness
out of tbe heart; then poke fun
to eheer the grouchy lad; tbe
kindly, but suappy word to
keep up the every-day moral of making beds; keeping
down mischief, correcting innate stubbornness; listening
happily to thein in their happy
moments; cheerfully sweeping up muddy footprints on
your best carpet, and enjoying with them the half hour
in your own sitting room
where they gather to read
the sport page and the funnies of the daily paper before
going to bed.
Iu fact, keeping twenty-
four hearts contented aud
happy for nearly nine months
of the year, and holding your
own temper lest it go off on
a tangent is the biggest and
hardest job a matron has to
do; but her pay comes to her
when she sees her boys, to
the last ditch, go over the top
in a great moral crisis, and
sbe forgets the many undesirable things they do every
day, for then she is very
proud of every twenty-four
of   them.
It is very thrilling to see
how some Indian lade overcome their inherited traditions
at one fell swoop at times,
aud it makes you weep, at
other times, to see how hard
it is to climb to civilization,
how hard and tortuous the
way; how it often wrings
^^^^ —'   from his  soul  a great cry of
pain as he longs within his whole being to
be again as were his ancestors of the outdoors—free ! free! ! Free to be lazy, and free
to come and go as bis soul bids him.
Is matron work interesting?   Well—rather.
The Santee Home Economics Department
Our Home Economics work this year is
the preparing of practical foods, doing a little
meal planuing, and learning a few simple rules
for table service and table manners. In each
class we have worked toward one particular
meal: breakfast for tbe fifth and sixth grades,
luncheon or supper for the seventh, eighth,
and ninth grades; and tenth, eleventh and
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