The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1920-04-30
FATHER AND SON
BANQUET SOCIAL
EVENT HERE SOON
Has No Educational Nor Altruistic
Motive; Purely Social For
Fathers And Sons.
MOVEMENT is ONE THAT
is POPULAR OVER NATION
Banquet VIII Be At Masonic Hall
On Thursday Evening, Thir-
teenth Of Next Month.

Paris fathers, you busy business
men, the assembly bugle is sounding
for you to join the throng en- route
to the Father and Son banquet on
May 1S at the Masonic Hall. Your
boy or some neighbor's boy between
IL and 20 years Of age is waiting for
you to invite him TO the banquet, and
as you won't J : admitted to this
grandiose and gala affair-non-at-
tendance at which will mean your
missing an excellent feast, which q
committee of mothers and church
women are attending to, speeches,
that will be worth your while to hear,
enjoyable music, and other accompa-
niments of a "scrumptious" time
unless you bring at least one of the
interesting species known as "boy,"
and as no boy, however badly he
wants to attend, will not be admitted
by the ticket collector unless he be
accompanied by real or g borrowed
father, it is time you were making
the necessary arrangements TO be on
hand.
You will make hit with her royal
highness, your lady wife and your
sons mother, by showing some con-
cern in this father and son move
ment. May 13 is engraved on her
mind, and she is as anxious that you
join the other 299 sons and fathers
to whom this banquet has become a
delightful anticipatory event. The
growing separation of you and your
son distresses her. Mothers know
a lot of things about their sons that
most fathers are too busy to find out.
Their boyish ambitions, from avia-
tors to movie stars, their taste in
neckties and their favorite pies, the
books and phonograph records that
appeal to them-knowledge, that
should a father happen to possess,
would give him not the whip hand,
but the most finite delicate control
over his young hopeful, because it is
the boys natural inclination to wor-
ship that father of his, to confde in
him, to initiate him. A very small
boy at least has little use for the
fairer sex, and generally thinks
father" tin god, until as he grows
older father gets so used to him, is
so otherwise employed that he never
has time even discuss baseball with
him.
Did you ever hear of a boy re-
fusing a fathers invitation to take a
pleasure jaunt? Did you ever spare
the time to sound the mind and heart
of that little fellow Of yours? Do
you know what he reads, with whom
he plays, in what he is most inter-
ested?
Father never pays any attention to
me, except to correct me-" says Jim
mie. "And he's always going to the
lodge or the Office at night mother,
so I'm just going to messy back up
town and join the gang"
Of course you have to work harder
now to meet the increased prices of
Jimmie's food and clothes, but food
and clothes as high as they are, are
not yet as valuable as your boys
character, and he doesn't need that
new suit nor the roast for Sunday
dinner, one fraction Of the way he
needs the right principles, the correct
viewpoint of life given him.
The Father and Son banquet has
no educational nor altruistic motive.
1t will positively be purely social af-
fair, planned solely for the pleasure
and entertainment of you and your
son, who will enjoy it as fathers and
sons in cities all over the United
States have enjoyed the same de-
lightful function. The only hope of
those who are arranging the banquet
is that it will give you one evening
with your son, and that out Of the
association of that evening may pos
sibly grow other evenings that will
mean for you two an ideal associa-
tion of fatherhoCd and sonship as
Almighty God meant for you to en-
joy.