CARLISLE INDIAN SCHOOL NEWSPAPER REFERENCES TO
THE GANSWORTH'S
Leander Gansworth is printing a little book.
January 27, 1893 INDIAN HELPER.
The Standard Debating Society has elected the following officers for
the ensuing term: President, Siceni Nori ; Vice President, Philip Lavatta;
Recording Secretary, Lewis Williams; Corresponding Secretary, Paul Shattuck;
Treasurer, Howard Gansworth; Marshal, Stanley Edge; Reporter, Bertie Kennerly;
Committee on Arrangements, Thomas B. Bear, Delos Lone Wolf and Clarence
W Thunder, chairman.
May 5, 1893 INDIAN HELPER
The newly elected officers for the Standards are: President, Robert
Hamilton; Vice-President Leander Gansworth ; Recording Secretary, Frank
Hudson; Corresponding Secretary, Samuel Gruett; Treasurer, Frank Jones;
Reporter, Elmer Simon; Sergeant-at-Arms, Corbett Lawyer; Assistant Critic,
Thomas Marshall; Critic, Professor Kinnear.
December 20, 1895 INDIAN HELPER
Foreman Leander Gansworth, ('96) of the printing office is off
on his annual leave. He will visit his home in New York State while
away.
May 7, 1897 INDIAN HELPER
Howard Gansworth, class '94, and class 1900 of Dickinson College, has
gone to his home in New York for the summer. Howard has some prospects
of going to Princeton. A few evenings before he left he gave a stereopticon
entertainment at Steelton which was pronounced by the Steelton correspondent
of the Harrisburg "Patriot" as interesting and instructive. His talk on
Indian life was excellent and the many views shown illustrated it very
nicely.
June 11, 1897 INDIAN HELPER
Those who went yesterday to the Northfield Summer School for
Bible Study, as delegates from our school Y.M.C.A. are Professor Bakeless,
Thomas Marshall, Joseph Blackbear, Frank Cayou, Jacob Jamison, Louis McDonald,
Edward Peterson, Leander Gansworth, Ralph Taylor, and Vincent Nahtailsh.
They have taken a tent, and who says they will not have a delightful as
well as profitable time?
June 25, 1897 INDIAN HELPER
Dahnola Jessan is acting foreman of the printing office in the
absence of Leander Gansworth who has gone to Northfield.
July 2, 1897 INDIAN HELPER
Leander Gansworth, foreman, and Simon Standingdeer, typo of
our printing-office, are rusticating in the South Mountain.
August 13, 1897 INDIAN HELPER
Among the old pupils who returned, looking the best we ever saw him,
was Howard Gansworth, '94. He is preparing for Princeton, and is assisting
temporarily in the school-rooms.
September 3, 1897 INDIAN HELPER
Howard Gansworth, '94, has gone to Princeton. He started off in high
spirits and full of faith that he will get through by hard work, even though
he can not at this time see his way out financially. He is ready and willing
to do anything and everything he can to work his way, and the Man-on-the-band-stand
believes he will make it.
September 24, 1897 INDIAN HELPER.
Leander Gansworth, '96, addressed the Union Y.M.C.A., at the
Methodist Church in town, last Sunday. He told of the work of our
school Y.M.C.A., which organization was highly spoken of from the platform.
October 1, 1897 INDIAN HELPER
Howard Gansworth, '94, is in from Princeton College to spend the holidays.
December 24, 1897 INDIAN HELPER
Last Saturday evening's meeting was the most interesting of the year,
for wasn't it the first? After a few remarks by Captain, the band played,
and Captain called up several of those who are attending higher institutions
of learning. Howard Gansworth, of Princeton University, Alex. Upshaw, of
Bloomsburg Normal School, Thomas Marshall, of Dickinson College, Edith
Smith, Louisa Geisdorff and Estaine Dupeltquestangue, of WestChester responded.
The meeting was longer than usual, but interesting, throughout.
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Mr. Howard Gansworth, '94, left for Princeton on Wednesday morning.
January 7, 1898 INDIAN HELPER
Remember! Money will not be taken at the booths
where things are sold tomorrow evening. Money is good only at the
cashiers' desks, where full value will be given in 10-cent, 5-cent and
one-cent tickets. The cashiers - Miss Luckenbach, Leander Gansworth
and Vincent Nahtalish, will have desks in different parts of the room.
January 28, 1898 INDIAN HELPER
The Sunday Press (Phila) of two weeks ago contained a column and a quarter
article about Mr. Howard Gansworth, '94, who is now a Princeton freshman.
Howard's Indian name is Rho-whas-ne-uh, which was the name of his great-great-grandfather.
He is a descendant on his mother's side of Red Jacket, that Seneca warrior
and orator, whose influence over his people was so great, and whose "quickness
of apprehension, breadth of forecast and appositeness of reply," says Schoolcraft,
"has never bene surpassed by any other Indian of whom we have any record."
Howard is making his own way through college, by working at whatever he
finds to do, when not down to actual study.
February 25, 1898 INDIAN HELPER.
Leander Gansworth returned from his visit to Princeton,
on Saturday, and reports having had a good time. His brother Howard,
'94, is working his way through college and although hard pressed at times
to get work done and lessons perfect, he is getting on, and Leander says
is getting fat. The latter stopped to see his sister Alberta,
who has a pleasant home with good people, in Lansdowne. She too looks
better than she ever did, and is contented and happy.
April 22, 1898 INDIAN HELPER.
Howard Gansworth,'94, now at Princeton, has a friend in Massachusetts,
whom he never saw, and who, in referring to notes of his doings, persists,
very much to the satisfaction of the Man-on-the-band-stand, in calling
him Howard Gainsworth, with Gains underscored. We trust that he will continue
as in the past to gain worth with every added year of life.
May 13, 1898 INDIAN HELPER
A very interesting letter from Alberta Gansworth who is
living at Lansdowne, has been received telling of pleasant times she is
having in connection with her work in the country. There are many
side pleasures that she enjoys very much. School is out, she says,
and she passed the examinations for the seventh grade. It will take
two years more for her to enter High School. She has visited the
Zoological garden recently and had a fine time of the Fourth, while she
rejoices with all true American girls over the news of Samson's victory.
She goes out bicycling once in a while, and is now looking forward with
pleasure to the 14th when their Sunday School is to have a picnic. Who
can say that Alberta has not a good home? There is everything in
looking upon the bright side. If she has unpleasant duties to perform
she says nothing about them, but goes to work and does them. Some
other girls in the country whould have more time for pleasure if they would
hurry up their work. When a girl takes three hours to do one hour's
work, of course she cannot get done in time to go pleasuring. To
work quickly and well is one of the useful lessons our girls get in country
homes.
July 8, 1898 INDIAN HELPER
Mrs. Bull, whom so many at Carlisle remember
most pleasantly since she was here last year with her husband, is now at
Chautauqua. She says it is quite like old times to see some of her Carlisle
friends who are at Chautauqua. Mrs. Bull retains her interest in the school
and HELPER and often sends clippings picked up here and there. Below is
one taken from the N.Y. Sun of July 16, and will be of interest to all
who know the boys at the seashore:
"A New Jersey seaside hotel, where I have
been this week," said a man yesterday, "Has a dozen waiters who would make
an old plains-man jump out of his chair when he first laid eyes on them,
though, as a matter of fact, they are better natured than the average waiting
maid. They are all Indians from the Government school at Carlisle, Pa.,
except the head waiter, who is a Princeton sophomore.
"The Indians take a great interest in athletics,
and one of them, Albert Nash, a graduate of the Carlisle school, was one
of the winning team in the relay races at the University of Pennsylvania.
Another of these waiters is Vincent Nahtalish, who was taken prisoner as
a child in the Apache war. For a time he was confined at St. Augustine,
Fla. Edwin Moore is the high jumper of the group, who distinguished himself
at the Fourth of July games. Healy Wolfe, another Indian, is a little chap
who came from Alaska, and he is very proud of the fact that he served Capt.
Pratt, the director of the Indian school, as orderly. The names of some
of the other Indians are Edward Peters, George Muscoe, John Garrick, Edward
Rogers, and Joseph Scholder, and while their appearance as waiters does
not suggest the ultimate solution of the Indian problem, it does indicate
that they can adapt themselves to the surroundings at a summer hotel, and
that is something that many a white man finds difficult.
The Princeton student referred to is Howard
Gansworth who graduated at Carlise in '94.
July 29, 1898 INDIAN HELPER
Our printing office foreman for two years, Mr. Leander Gansworth,
who graduated in '96, taking his diploma younger than any one who has ever
gone through the Carlisle course, left Saturday night for new fields of
labor. Through Honorable James S. Sherman, of Utica, N.Y., the Chairman
of the United States House Indian Committee, Mr. Gansworth was offered
a position in a printing office in Booneville, N.Y., at a higher salary
than he was receiving here as foreman, and wisely seized the chance to
get out into larger opportunities. Mr. Gansworth will be greatly
missed by the students and officers of the school. He is quiet, but
known only as a man, and he goes out into the world carrying with him the
very best wishes of all at the school who can but feel certain that he
is sure to succeed, if true worth wins.
August 5, 1898 INDIAN HELPER
We are pleased to learn through a letter from Leander Gansworth
who is sojourning at his home in New York for a fortnight before he goes
to Boonevelle, to take his new place, that Willard who went home a few
weeks ago not feeling very well is improving greatly. Leander says
they are eating lots of fruit and vegetables and getting fat.
August 12, 1898 INDIAN HELPER
The first letter from Leander Gansworth since he arrived at Boonville,
N.Y., where he has taken a position in the Herald office, says that he
likes his new place in every particular and that there is large room for
development in his chosen trade.
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LEANDER GANSWORTH OF THE TUSCARORA TRIBE EMPLOYED BY THE HERALD.
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People in all parts of America are familiar with the Indian
Industrial school at Carlisle, Pa. It will be interesting to know
that Leander Gansworth, a graduate of that institution, has entered the
employ of the Herald as printer and compositor. Congressman Sherman
is chairman of the Indian committee and it was upon his recommendation
that Major Pratt, the head of the Carlisle school, permitted the young
Tuscarora Indian to come to Boonville. He spent two years in the
printing office of the Carlisle school and takes hold of his work with
skill. It is hoped that he will find his position to his taste and
that he will want to make Boonville his future home. -[The Boonville,
(N.Y.) Herald.
August 26, 1898 INDIAN HELPER
CANNOT KNOW WHAT TRUE CIVILIZATION IS UNTIL HE GETS OUT.
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The business note below is so complete in its answer to the
oft repeated question, "What can your pupils do when they leave Carlisle?"
that we are sure the writer will bear with us for making public a private
matter:
BOONVILLE, N.Y., Sept. 17, 1898.
Major R. H. PRATT,
MY DEAR FRIEND:
Your letter was received this
evening. I received Miss Luckenbach's letter containing the check,
for which please accept my thanks. I suppose that is the last pay
that I shall draw from the Government.
I am glad that you are going to
carry on such a large school this winter. You have my very best wishes.
I am certain that if all make good use of the advantages the school offers
we need not look for anything but success. I know for my part the
school has done a great deal to help me along. I often think of the
good that I received while in school and out. But I am now away and
must take care of myself. I wish that more of the boys would get
out into places where they would be away from the influences of the Indian
life. A person can not know what it is until he or she gets out.
The experience one gets is just that that will build up. Of course
there are other influences that are lowering if we listen to them.
Wishing you success again, I will
close.
Yours very truly,
LEANDER GANSWORTH,
Class '96.
September 23, 1898 INDIAN HELPER
Alberta Gansworth says in her last business letter: "I
hope there will be a day when every citizen of the United States will take
the HELPER and feel proud of his Indian brothers who are progressing so
rapidly. Indians who once went roaming round the wilds of the earth
now roam in the civilized world."
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Howice Seonia, Alberta Gansworth, James Russell and others sent
in nice long lists for the HELPER during the recent contest and deserve
special mention for the business-like way in which they performed the duty.
There were some who sent in longer lists, who were not business.
They had to be looked after a little in order that the names schould not
be missed. They do not deserve mention. A few kept their names
in ther trunks until complained about, and then brought them out.
If any one takes a HELPER subscription and does not turn the money and
name over to the HELPER office as soon as he or she possibly can that person
makes his or her friends suspicious that all is not honest. We cannot
afford to be anything short of perfectly honest. Anything that has
the APPEARANCE of dishonesty is against us, and we cannot afford THAT.
We must appear honest and BE honest if we expect our friends to have confidence
in us. It does not PAY to be careless in business dealings.
October 7, 1898 INDIAN HELPER
The meeting of the Alumni on Thursday evening was one of the interesting
features of Commencement week. Mr. Dennison Wheelock presided, and Miss
Nellie Robertson performed the duties of Secretary. A large number of letters
were read from ex-students and alumni from all parts of the country. Extracts
from these interesting letters will appear in the Red Man, if not in the
March number, the next issue. The speakers were Henry Standingbear, class
'91, of Pine Ridge Agency, South Dakota. Howard Gansworth, '94, Supt. Pierce,
of the Oneida school, Wisconsin, General Carrington, Albert Bishop, class
'92, Major Pratt, Jacob Jamison, '98, Siceni Nori, '94, and William Patterson
of New York.
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Howard Gansworth, class '94, now a student of Princeton University,
gave a finished address full of quiet eloquence. The dark visaged men of
the forest and plain who in beribboned locks and deeply furrowed brows
sat unable to understand the proceedings, formed a background which brought
into conspicuous contrast this young man of grace and scholastic merit,
thereby presenting a wonderful exhibition of the expansive gulf which lies
between ignorance and superstition on one hand and education and refinement
on the other.
March 10, 1899 INDIAN HELPER
Miss Wood speaks of meeting our old foreman Leander Gansworth,
'96, who is now on the Boonville Herald, Oneida County, New York, supporting
himself and working up an honorable reputation. He runs the linotype
and has an insight into the general working of one of the best equipped
country offices in the State, receiving good compensation for his labors.
He is respected and shows by hi general bearing that he is progressing
along those lines that are uplifting. We are glad to hear this of
one who always proved trustworthy and reliable while with us.
September 1, 1899 INDIAN HELPER
Mr. Thompson reports the game at Utica, N.Y., last Saturday,
as very satisfactory. Our boys won by a score of 32-0. They
were treated as gentlemen, and the praise of the boys regarding Hamilton
College and the surroundings are profuse. Congressman Sherman, of
the Indian Committee of the House of Representatives, with a number of
friends witnessed the game. He was very enthusiastic over "our boys"
as he called them. Leander Gansworth, '96, who is on the Booneville
Herald, as printer, also was there. He is looking in splendid health
all say, and is getting on well.
November 10, 1899 INDIAN HELPER
Miss Palagia Tuticoff, of Emigsburg, Pa., one of our students from Alaska,
has carried off the twenty five dollars offered to the person securing
the largest number of names before Thanksgiving. Her list was the longest,
numbering 587. Howard Gansworth, of Princeton University, stood next with
a list numbering 429. Miss Shields, of Carlisle, next with a list of 418.
There were others with lists numbering two and three hundred, and less.
In all the HELPER subscription list was increased 2584. We sympathize with
those who worked and did not secure the prize, but feel that we paid a
liberal commission, so that the entire time was not lost. We allowed two
cents on every name secured. We thank all for their kindly efforts on behalf
of the little paper and feel certain that they have achieved a good for
the Indians that cannot be estimated. The paper goes into the hands of
over two thousand people who never have seen it before, possibly, and it
is estimated that for every subscriber of a newspaper there are 3 readers.
We shall hope that the 6000 new readers brought to us by the increase will
become more interested in the rising Indian hereafter than in the Wild
West freak so often paraded before the public as the real Indian.
December 8, 1899 INDIAN HELPER
We judge by a handsome card received recently from our former
foreman Leander Gansworth, '96, who is now in the Booneville, N.Y. Herald
office, that he has joined the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
Note! This is Volume XV No. 8. The first two numbers
on your wrapper refer to the volume, and the last one or two to the number.
Have you 158 on your wrapper? Then it is time to renew, if you do
not wish to miss any papers. A prompt renewal will also insure against
delay and error.
December 15, 1899 INDIAN HELPER
Howard Gansworth, '94, now a Princeton University Junior, spent his
holidays at the school.
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Miss Luckenbach gave an informal reception in her room to Howard Gansworth
and a few of his friends, Tuesday night.
January 5, 1900 INDIAN HELPER
Leander Gansworth, class '96, belongs to a Glee Club in Booneville,
N.Y. where he is at work in a printing office.
January 12, 1900 INDIAN HELPER.
OUR FIRST MUSICALE.
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The school has been entertained times without number by superb Band
concerts. The Orchestra has given several performances and the Mandolin
Club has dispersed music to cheer and entertain, but to Mrs. Sawyer's class
do we owe an evening devoted principally to pinao playing.
It was a Musicale in every sense of the word. About two
hundred neatly printed invitations were sent to as many music loving people,
who gathered in the Girls' Society room, last Thursday night.
Programs, giving the names of composers and performers were
handed to the guests as they took their seats. Two elegant pianos,
one Mrs. Sawyer's own and the other secured from the music store in town,
were used and were in perfect tune. Eight hands on the two pianos
produced thrilling results much enjoyed by all. The performers were Ida
Swallow, Dolly Johnson, Bertha Pierce, Fannie Harris, Rose Poodre, Lillie
Ferris, Lillian Brown, Grace Warren, Pearl Hartley, Nora Denny, Ada Smith,
Ida Wheelock, Frank Mt. Pleasant, Nora Jamison, Alice Powlas, Alberta Gansworth,
Pliga Nash, Celinda King, Eudocia Sedick, and they rendered music from
Bendel, Streabbog, Kramer, Von Kornatzki, Lysbert, Leschetizky, Wilson
G. Smith, Sodermann, Heller and Lavignac.
Misses Senseney, and Stewart, and Mrs. Cook assisted, by way
of beautifully rendered vocal selections, and the evening closed by the
audience singing America. The young ladies were dressed prettily,
the room was decorated with the portraits of prominent composers, and the
entire affair one long to be remembered, Mrs. Sawyer has reason to be proud
of the results of her students.
March 9, 1900 INDIAN HELPER
Among others selected by the University Faculty of Princeton to take
part in the Junior Oratorical Contest to be held during their Commencement
week is our Howard Gansworth, '94. The Man-on-the-band-stand is proud of
the distinction given to one so worthy as Howard has proven himself all
through his Carlisle and University life. the Philadelphia Press came out
Sunday with an excellent picture of Howard and an account of him as a student.
May 11, 1900 INDIAN HELPER
Student Changes.
This week the following changes were made among the students.
SENT TO COUNTRY HOMES: Frank Keiser, to State Normal School,
at Indiana, this State; Celinda King.
RETURNED FROM COUNTRY HOMES: Martin Wheelock (out for a vacation,)
Alberta Gansworth, Willard Gansworth, (spent the summer at their home in
New York State,) Thadeus Redwater, Josephine Jannies, Josie Morrell, Minnie
Kane.
ADMITTED TO THE SCHOOL: Kelley Lay, from New York; Francis Fremont,
Margaret Fremont from Nebraska; Reuben Doxtator, Fred Cornelius, Sylvester
O. Cornelius, Hyson Hill, John Washburn, Thomas Cornelius, Fred Doxtator,
Alpheus Powlas, Ophelia Webster, Melissa Cornelius, Martha Hill, all from
Oneida, Wisconsin; Ely Parker, from New York.
GONE HOME: Jacob Horne, class 1900; Arnold Smith, Cecil
Dayon, Sallie Santiago, Nellie Wentworth, Florence George, Martha Ellis.
September 14, 1900 RED MAN AND HELPER.
Howard Gansworth, Class .‘97,.and a graduate of Princeton, one of the leading
men of the Alumni, was
with us a few days ago. We were all glad to see him. Mr. Gansworth
was on his way to Buffalo.
September 11, 1908 CARLISLE ARROW.
A prominent commencement visitor who has spent the week at the school
is Mr. Howard Gansworth, a graduate of the class of 1894, and a graduate
of. Princeton Unversity in the class of 1901, who is at present engaged.
in business in Buffalo, N. Y.
Mr. Gansworth is a Tuscarora. He spoke at the Union Meeting of the
Y. M. and Y. W. C. A.‘s last Sunday night, and his words of wisdom and
advice were attentively listened to by all present.
April 1, 1910 CARLISLE ARROW
A MESSAGE FROM A SUCCESSFUL CARLISLE GRADUATE.
Address of Mr. Howard Gansworth, Tuscarora, of the Class of1894,
Delivered before the Union Meeting of the Y. M. and K W. C. A., Sunday
evening, March 27.
Ladies and Gentlemen: It is a great pleasure
to be back here again; particularly so to be back at this commencement
season. What I shall have to say, perhaps, is not new; it may not be even
an old thought in new clothing, but I do want to say something that will
go home to each one of you here tonight, and that will bear fruit in your
lives hereafter. You will hear a great deal in the coming week about Carhsle;
the ideals of Carlisle, what Carlisle is doing, and so on. What constitutes
Carlisle? Is it the campus here withits beautiful buildings? Is it the
boys and girls here who are students? Is it the teachers and the administrative
officers here? Or is it all these taken together? ‘I believe if I were
to say that wherever there is a Carlisle boy or girl who is living an honest
life, loyal to the principles of Carlisle-whether that boy or girl lives
in Alaska or in Arizona, in Oregon or in Maine-if I said wherever such
a one lives, there is Carlisle, I believe you would agree with me. There
is a sense in which Carlisle is a good deal bigger than the outward, visible
symbols by which we recognize her. Carlisle is a force-a spirit-a life;
and Carlisle is making herself felt. If I may use an abstract term, I will
say the word “Carlisle” is a trade mark. It is a trade mark as much as
“Hole
Proof Socks, ” “Uneeda Biscuit,” or “Gillette Safety Razor,” or any
of those other familiar names you have seen so often in our street car
advertisements, are trade marks. You buy those articles which are advertised
by trade mark words because you have seen them advertised; you keep on
buying them because those articles have “made good.”
Now, I want to say that “Carlisle” is a trade
mark word for the Indians. That is why when they speak of a Carlisle Indian,
they mean some other kind of Indian than an Apache, or Sioux, or Seneca,
or any number of other Indians; it is a certain type of Indian they speak
of when they speak of a Carlisle Indian. Why is this so? Because of advertising.
The same principle that made the Uneeda Biscuit known everywhere has been
at work and has made the name of Carlisle known everywhere. And BO in the
minds of the public today Carlisle stands for something; and it follows
that we who make up Carlisle-the students- should live up to the ideals,
live up to the things which the public expects us to live up to-and that
is a hard thing to do. What does the public expect us to live up to? What
are the ideals of Carlisle? I take it that the Carlisle student should
be a manly man or a womanly woman. I take it that he or she should honor
truth; that he or she should be ready at all times, and under all conditions,
to look the world in the face and not flinch a bit. I take it that the
Carlisle boy or girLi one who is efficient in some trade or in some work,
by which he or she is going to make a living afterward in the days when
they are thrown out into the wide, wide world. 1 take it that the Carlisle
boy or girl upholds those principles that have been handed down from the
days of Christ, and that have been tested by all nations and all classes
of men, and have been found true and lasting. I take it that the Carlisle
boy or girl is loyal to these principles. So, in the fewest words possible,
I shall say that the Carlisle boy or girl
is a well-rounded man or woman. Heor 9he ha9 developed the three sides.
You know the Y. M. C. A. and they. W. C. A. try to develop the mind, the
soul, and the body. I do not know how I could impress on you some of the
responsibilities that re9t on each one of you individually because you
have come here to Carlisle, and because you have drunk deep of the fountain
of life here. You owe great responsibilities; not because the people expect
them of you-not so much that -but because of the good it will do you yourselves.
It pays to be on the right ride,
The world is requiring a great deal more of
men and women today than it has ever required before. You can seek almost
any kind of occupation, and the first thing that they want is character.
There are 9ome railroads that won’t employ a man that smokes cigarettes;
there are some trolley lines’that won’t employ a man that drinks; there
are some firms that won’t employ a man that swears; there are lots
of firms that won’t employ a man that smokes and chews--even if he doe9
it in his own room, they will find it out. You may think these requirements
are stiff-perhaps they are-but the thing that is making these requirements
is competition, For every job that is open there seems to be about one
hundred men after it; and so when they come to sift the men out to See
who they will keep that will fill the position, they select the man according
to his character. Some banks won’t employ a man who gambles, or who even
plays cards, or who doe8 anything else that may later on lead into dishonesty.
So in all kinds of work you will find that the character requirementsare
becoming stiffer; and that is the thing that you who are going out
from Carlisle sooner or later will have to meet-the stiff requirements
which competition is putting on labor of all kinds.
The three sides of the Y. M. C. A. are to develop the body, the mind,
and the soul. Perhaps YOU do not think quite as seriously of one side as
you might, You think of the mind; you think of the soul; but you do forget
your body. I was never so impressed by the importance of this part until
the other day when I was reading a very interesting article on health.
People are paying more attention to this matter than they ever have before.
The stale governments,’ the state legislatures, and the federal government
are taking a hand in it; everybody is looking into the question of health
and trying to prevent disease, trying to find how health may be acquired,
because every healthy man is worth that much more to society. Any man who
has a disease is not only a burden to himself and to those with whom he
comes in contact, but he is very likely to spread the disease.
So, in speaking to you tonight, I will ask you not to overlook the
great question of health. It is one of the fundamental qualities of success.
If you are going to “make good”; if you are going to uphold Carlisle’s
principleft you must do it with good health. With good health a man might
be “broke”-“down and out”, as we say -and yet go out and earn enough to
make a living. Without health, you can have no means whatever, unless you
have a good brain, of making an honest living. I speak of this thing because
I believe that we as Indians should pay more attention to our health. There
are things which your body cannot stand; there are things that your body
cannot do. There are fellows who go to the city and just throw themselves
away. They feed their stomachs with things which they cannot digest; they
go to work and keep hours which are against nature; they break down their
health; they are useless for work; and, finally, we find them going back
home, having made a failure. I have seen that time and again. One of the
strangest things is that they think and this it true of white people as
well as Indians-they are having a nice time by going out and running around
at night.
There are some firms that say this: “It is
none of our business what you do at night; but if you are going to come
into our office the next day, or into our shop and fail to do your best
(and you can’t do your best if you dissipate at all), then it is our business”
-and that is just ;he thing that you who are going to work for others must
consider. You have to have health; and in order to have health, you must
live a life which will enable nature to take care of your health. The other
point that I want to emphasize is efficiency. In speaking of this, you
will pardon my speaking personally. Although I have the advantage of a
college education, when I got out and looked for a job, you know, a college
education did not help me any more than it would help any one of you.
The first question which they put to me was,
“What can you do?” Well, I
guessed what I could do, but I could not tell what I could do. So that
is the first question that comes to young men-“What can you do?“-and that
means efficiently. When you are working at a trade, get it down so well
that when you go out you will know it and won’t have to learn it over again;
that you will be master of it.
And the next questions they will ask YOU are
these: “Where have you worked?” “What experience have you had?’ Of course,
I had neither; I could point back to nothing; so I had to “make good” on
what I could. Now when you go out, these are the great questions you are
going to be asked: “What can you do? Can you do it well!” And then they
will ask you, “Where have you done it; what experience have you had?” And
while they may not ask your former employer’s name, they will feel at liberty
at any time to do so; and if you have not made a good record,it may go
against you some day. Now, these, ladies and gentlemen, are very common-sense
ideas, but I would like to have them sink down deep into your system so
that you can put them into practical use some day when you will.actually
need them.
I need not tell you, I suppose, that in order to prove most efficient;
in order to be the most useful, the most trusted, and to create the greatest
confidence in those whom you approach, that you must have your life founded
on the source of all power-on Christ Himself. You may not appreciate what
Christianity is, and what it means to a young man or a young woman; but
when you get out into these large cities and see the need of it, you will
feel it perhaps as I do. Some I have run across seem to have the idea that
Christianity is a good thing; but, after all, they don’t see the use of
making a profession of following Christianity. They say all the big fellows
in the cities do not follow Christianity.
Over in Buffalo it has been my privilege to
see quite a number of the prominent men that are interested in Y. M. C.
A. work. Not so long ago, they started out to raise three hundred thousand
dollars, and you would be surprised to see how some of the biggest men
in Buffalo turned out-men who are worth millions, or hundred of thousands
at least; they came there and showed their colors and dug down deep into
their pockets and gave the money. In the Y. M. C. A. they have men who
are prominent in the business and social circles teaching Bible classes
and doing other work: There you will find the prominent men actively engaged
in Y. M. C. A. work. You will find it so in the Y. W. C. A. work. A d n
so I want to say that this work is not only good and serviceable, but that
you will find yourself in mighty good company when you join it and take
an active interest in it.
May 1910 RED MAN
A full-blood Tuscarora Indian at Davenport, Iowa, is foremAn of a large
printing establishment and is doing well. This young man, Leander Gansworth,
is a graduate of the Class of ‘96. He is an expert linotype operator and
understands his business thoroughly. Recently he has been selected secretary-treasurer
of the Tri-City Allied Printer-’ Trade Council for Rock Island, Illinois,
Moline, Illinois, and Davenport, Iowa. He has a nice family, owns his own
home, and is highly thought of in the community in which he lives.
February 1912 RED MAN.
OCTOBER 25, 1912 ARROW features Leander Gansworth.