The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-02-16
STIRRING ADDRESS
BY ORBISON "Opens
PATTERSON WEEK

"Our ideal must be 100 per cent.
Americanism, and Bolshevism and
anarchism must co. said Judge
Charles Orbison. Of Indianapolis, in
his address at the father and son mass
meeting in the Grace NJ. E. church,
Sunday afternoon. ''The recently de-
ported shipload OF aliens, are but the
forerunners Of thousands that must go,
and the law will only be safe when
the fathers and sons of the country
stand in solid body behind it."
Fathers frequently forgot their
obligations to their sons, and consider
the latter only as chattels and slaves,
while in reality the sons are not pos
sessions of fathers, but of God, he
declared.
"It Is crime" continued the Judge,
ito start boys to work at an early age
to have them assume the burden OF
family cares so that the selfish inter
ests OF the father can be gratified.
Many promising careers, many bright
young lives, many youth has been
spoiled merely because the father
used the boy as a chattel and slave,
and not as a holy duty impaired by
God"
Confide in Boys.
"We need to be interested in the
life of the boy, to make our lives part
of the boys life and act as counsellor
and companion instead of czar of the
household. Often the boys heart
hungers to confide in the father his
troubles and cares, but is warded off
by the stern, forbidding nature of the
father. Often the boy would love to
roam, hunt and be part of the daily
life of his dad
1--WE also have to be humane to the
boy, for often he will swerve from the
straight and narrow path and unless
the father stoops and helps the boy
to his feet, he will continue on his
path of degradation. 1t is fathers
job to be a saviour at all times, to
save even to the uttermost."
"Boy," continued Orbison, "do not
often stop to think Of the long periods
of worry and care caused their par
ents of insistent demands. The boys
never consider that often these de.
mands take from the life of the par
ents. I do not think much of the boy
that does not know how to work, who
thinks that to wear expensive clothes
and spend money given him by self
sacrificing parents is the real life. He
will often realize when 1t is too late
that is was his actions that hastened
the end of his father and mother"
II Giee Club Gives Selections.
= The Earlham Glee club, under TIN
direction of r. c. Sloane, gave several
vocal selections preceding the ad-
dress. Cyril Pitts, local boy, sang a
solo. Carl Wolfe presided. The Rev.
E. Howard Brown, Of the East Main
Street Friends church, gave the In.
and the Rev. Isley made the
closing prayer.
Father and son week comprises four
principal events the mass meeting
Sunday, recreation day, Wednesday
father and son banquet, on Friday, and
go-to-churcIl Sunday, on Feb. %.
Special gymnastic exercises by the
Y classes will feature Wednesday,
program. Special "stunt" swimming
and inter-class games will be held
These will be under the direction OF
r. w. Harding, physical director, and
Russell Crabb, assistant director
More than 300 reservations for the
father and son banquet Friday night
have been made with c. M. Beatty
boys secretary Accommodations fol
only 400 are available.
Special church and Sunday school
services will be held in all Protestant
churches of the city and county next
Sunday, and pastors are looking fol
record attendances of fathers and
sosn. Services will be held by the
young peoples societies Sunday night