El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-03-17
WHAT ABOUT A FATHERS DAY?
GIVE, THE OLD MAN" HIS DUE

NFOTHER the sweetest angel known to man. day
W each year that is nationally known hers On this
day the Of America wear carnations IN her honor
red flower for the living and white for the dead
This is q beautiful sentiment But how about father2
The movies and the comic oaroonlsts pant man as
scheming sinner who Is always on the hunt elther tor
liquor for wild When father IS not painted as
rumhound OF some such character he is portrayed in the
sanctty of his dining library denying money to
his wife knocking his ashes the carpet Something,
1t seems, Is always the matter with father.
As matter Of fact father isn't such bad sort Of
brute inside He tolls his bench desk counter
SIX days week and many times at night through sum
mes heat and winters fgd blasts IN order that mother
and the little may have comfortable home and be
safs from want and worry It isn't always pleasure tor
father to do this either There times when he has to
put down day dreams that bob up and beckon him TO
oWerY des and to poker parties and to old
swimming holes and such The whistle Of lad outside the
office window brings back memories of day when life
free the air and sweet honey This recled
lad with his whistle brings Jumps into fathers throat and
tears into fathers eyes Sometimes, and they stay until the
hun Of the lathe OF the click Of machinery browns out the
melody.
Then there is The payroll father happens to be an
employer That has to be met that other fathers may
90 home to eager laughing little with the earnings Of
their toll It Isn't always easy to meet payrols Running
business hard proposition with many expenses and
obstacles But father usually out top If
what hair he has left turns gray falls ont.
Of father isn't all routine and tedium There
times when he reaxes with his fellow at lodge at
banquets. But what is it father thinks about then?
Mother would be surprised maybe, to know that It isn't
always and vine Father is usually planning for
city with better schools better parks and better
police protection that his loved may be safe and
that his children may be educated and have places play
out where there birds and trees And mothers viii
stop think about It they VIII be surprised how much
effort fathers make to keep their wives supplied with nice
cotheswith trappings and drapeTy Just nice the
neghbors wife has And athe old man" usually his
life insured that when he goes west mother and
children VII not be left helpless and homeless IN the world
Father lives mostly for his family he always has
some time left for his friends and for his and his
state and his country During the late war spite Of the
tact that the draft supposed to take single only
nearly HALF OF THE MEN WHO FOUGHT IN FREE
DOTS CAUSE WERE FATHERS.
In consideration Of all these things and many that
have not been mentioned, If that father entitled
day year that can be known as his and his only
Father might net especially whether the children wore
flowers and they did they could hoyhocks for all
he would But what father would like to have would
Be an honor day summer when he could sit
out under tree and without having anything to
worry about Mother could have ice cold lemonade
handy and cigar and maybe apple pie and the sport
ING page Of his paper and fan keep the flies off Then
Just let he old man" make the best Of It To make it
completely successful let nobody ask him for money OF
him to go to church to dress up careful with his
cigar ashes OF do OF say anything else that would annoy
o. irritate him
Father doesn't expect such luck But on the square
mothers isn't it good idea?
There general strike in Poland in America the war
apartment is striking all Of the generals
What We need for president is somebody biz enough 70
weep out and wash the windows.
It is not self expression that is needed but more
self control