Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-23

Father and Son banquet and the event | proved even a bigger success than was | anticipated by these in charge. A feature of the evening was the highly | interesting address on The Boy and | His Father, delivered by H. W. Gib- son, State Boys Work Secretary of | Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
 The banquet was held in the asso- citation auditorium and the menu was | served at 6.sO o'clock. The fathers and sons, some fathers by proxy, gath cred in the lobby and at the appoint | ed time walked two and two to the banquet hall where several long ta- bles had been arranged. Grace was said by Rev. Frederick W. Coleman pastor of Trinity Methodist Episcopal church and then the following menu was servedi
 Crane Fruit Clam Broth
 Roast Ham Escalloped Oysters
 String Beans Pickles
 Rolls
 Pineapple Salad saltines
 Ice Cream Cake During the banquet Swahn's or chestra, John M. Swahn, leader. rend- cred concert programme of popular selections.
 The speakers table occupied a, .po- sition on the stage and among those who sat at this table were Allyn l.. Brown, toastmaster, James l.. Case president of the r. M. O. A James O. | Macpherson, one of the vice presi- dents of the association, R. ". Gibson. | the speaker of the evening and Jona= | than Johnson, of the Boys cabinet MT. Brown presided as to2stmaster | tn a very caDa'ble and efficient man. ner. The addrSss of welcome was de- | livered fy President Case. MT. Case said it was a delightful privilege to | extend a welcome to the fathers and | sons at their third annual banquet and | he spoke of the comradeship between | the fathers and sons present. Mir. I Case then accorded hearty welcome | to MT. Gibson yho Is no stranger to | Norwich as he has been here several | times.
 A greeting, Son to Fathers' was | given by Jonathan Johnson of the Y. | M. c. A. Boys cabinet. Representing the Boys cabinet and in behalf of the | Y. M. c. A. extend 8 greeting to the fathers present tonight, said MT.
 Johnson. Fathers get in closer touch 1 with their boys by coming here and by | taking an interest in what the r. M. | c. A. is trying to accomplish. he con- 1 tinued. In closing he urged the
 fathers to adopt the slogan, Watch l your step," and said 1t might be well to make it read, Watch that boys | step.'
 | The response, Father to Sons, was
 made by MT. Macpherson. am sure | there is no father present but has well | corped the opportunity to come here
 tonight for the third time. said Mir. Macpherson It seems to me he con
 tinued, that there is an evolution of
 the relationship between father and
 son and son and@ father, and it is just
 such organizations as the r. M. c.
 A. that this evolution is more greater.
 Mir Macpherson said that between
 the ages of one and twelve years moth
 CTS exert the most influence over a
 boys life but that after reaching the
 age of 12 years the boy comes to real
 lze the need of more self-reliance. That | Is the time the father should strive to
 be -hfs guiding star.
 At this point Postmaster Brown an- , nounced a treat not on the programme and that was a few words from Boys Secretary J. Harold Ely, the man who
 the. toaStmaster referred to as tne
 most popular man present.,
 Mir. Gibson was then introduced by the toastmaster as the speaker of the evening His address was intensely interesting and he captured the atten-- | tion of every man and boy present
 from the beginning.
 The real boy. the healthy boy, said MT. Gibson, is made up of fifty pel cent. noise and fifty per cent. dirt. Ii he is not noisy and dirty then there l is something wrong with him It's the ], noise that gets on fathers nerves, not !; the dirt In high school you get ar !, example of organized noise-the schoo !! yell. What would the Harvard Yale game be- without noise The success of the game depends on noise.
 There are a whole lot of men who ; will go to a paseban game on 2 Sat. | urday afternoon and make ten times
 as much noise as their small sons eyei home and expect the boys to Be duIet '. If the boy IS unusually quiet, mother : gets worried and says, What's the I matter Charlie. aren't you well3 Whet : making a life, eatd' Mr. Gibson, anC ! not SO much time in making a living ' then the home problem will be nearel
 solution. ''si-- ,'''-''.~t 'f-,-' s It's the dirt that worries mother {, e7efy- aSil ilckerbocker boy here wa k looked over by his mother before h' e came, Boys and dirt have an ahnit, for one 1another. |7S --'. D There Is something a boy will neve
 be- guilty of and that's wearing ou a door mats. Suppose the carpet doe 5 show signs of wearing out, suppos Q they doN wear'out you can buy a nev
 carpet but you can't buy a new boy a The boy ought to have "a room 0 - his own and 2 he ought to be allowe, Z: tos take into that room all his treas 'f uresa and you know how nimerou n they are buttons, bugs, pennants, etc a Theres comes Ia time sin the boys If '5 when you don't have to worry abou
 me dirt. It. happens on a SaturdR, W night: Sunday morning he appears il y his rfirst pair of trousers. The prob n l5m now lis to keep him away iron J the mirror Now,is the time Tor tn l . -f.4 .-s-