The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-11-24
school, BOYS, SAYS TEACHER, ARE
FREE ,NDULCERS N CGARE[IE S
Makes Statement in Letter on Ideal Father"-Rev. Nc
Coy Receives Various Views Of Question From Chill
dren, Teachers and Wives-They Must Set Example

The Ideal Father" was the subject
ofsthe sermon by Dr. + NJ. Mccoy at
thes Methodist church last night,
witch was listened to by a large
bows and girls from Grand Forks
homes In which they stated how they
tKopght the ideal father should live.
SOME letters We're also read from
teachers in the local public schools
In which they stated their ideas of
the ideal father from u teachers view
point. The opinions Of the Young
upon the listeners as they heard opin-
ions from perhaps their own chill
dfen. Some of the statements read
we're as follows:
Father a Boys Closest Friend.
~ ideal Gather in my opinion is
friend. A man who teaches virtue by
example and who has as his highest
aim the making of true Christian
men and women out Of his children.
He should be the children's ideal Of
manhood and an ideal in the truest
n Of that word"
The ideal father must be honest
i'm his business. II he must choose
between doing wrong or losing his
position he should not sacrifice char
acter. He can afford to be poor but
o dishonest"
Views by Children.
One small child. evidently, wrote:
"A papa who is a church worker and
one who does not frown when the
coffee is not hot. One who does not
81 Another s91se " wrote ne The nse ideal father
should 60 to church on Sunday with
mamma and us children He should
never use bad words. He should be
kind and good"
A Home Loving Man.
81 think the father to be ideal,
must stay, at home in the evening
with his family. He must help the
home as she should help him share
the problems of his business. He
should love. the company of his own
family in the evening more than any
other group of people"
THE attitude OF a father TO his
Yotion. He should not use tobacco
Q drink liquor. He must not be
so. selfish to spend money for his
oHn appetite when his children are
hungry for food. He must love each
child alike n not be partial to any
"The ideal father does not forget
how 1t felt to be q boy when he was
U age and he should share in our
fun and help n plans"
From a Teachers Standpoint.
The ideal" father from a teachers
standpoint will abstain from all in
t~oxicating drinks and the use Of to-
hacco. He should teach his children
the effects of such on the mind and
body. The teacher has all these
problems to meet and What can she
say when the boy proudly says, my
father does this and he would not do
.t$it was not right"
One startling statement was read
from one Of the teachers in which
she said: The boys in u schools
eRsSSHn in the lower grades indulge free.
l!y@sin cigarettes 81 Does the father Set.
the example by smoking? In passins
boys in their games rough language
Is INDUCED in most freely. Does the
9ay acquire it through familiarity al
sasasThe i%dealgfather should be willing
t1saeave any work to consult with the
teacher in regard to his boy. because
the teacher often knows more about
him than he does. He should not
Hlut- the task of the teaching Of the
hoy upon the already .overtaxed
"a Mans Supreme Profession.
rev. Mccoy tool for his text. "The
father Of the righteous shall greatly
retoice." Prov. 1924.
He said in part: The business of
hHlng a father. is mans supreme pro
fession. 1t is at once the test Of