Norwich bulletin., 1921-05-19
FATHER SON LUNCHEON BY ROTARlANS

the ability in the boy; R is the reliability E is efficiency and the final is the action or pep and ambition. l. Is up to the father to see that these are de- veloped in t6e boy in the right way. The title of father should mean to everyone the big brother idea.
 Rev. Alexander H. Abbott was the next speaker and in his itroductory re- marks told of boy whom he know in Pennsylvania who is now pitching on one of the leading college teams today. He told of one incident that brought out the influence of the father on the boy. The boy had been playing ball on a Satur- day afternoon and some of his boy friends asked him to play on Sunday. 'No" said the boy, "my father is Christian and if I did he would whale the devil out of me" The father of this boy had passed something of his own nature on the boy. Not only the mate rial but the spiritual as well.
 Never have we been quite able to find a suitable substitution for the fath- CT. We tried to find it in the movies. ia tht9 scerts ~nA g''.n and ir tie church and institutions but hey have not Drfoved satisfactory in all cases. In. the flesh and spirit we have found no substitution. All things go just so far but they can not go the whole way. If we substitute anything we substitute something inferior. If a man hasn't that memory of his father and what he meant to him it is a tragedy but if he does possess that memory it is priceless ana no institution can supply it for him. When you have caught this idea of re- ! lation between father and son you have caught the biggest idea in the world. The Greatest Man that ever lived when in sp.red to teach of God called that God | father He could find no greater term. ! When the hosts of Germany entered a small Belgian town early in the war the 1 commaudant demanded 15 people as l hostages to be killed: The list was 1 selected and included old men and wo- men. A priest in that town in charge 1 of the boys school went to the com mandant to make a plea for the old men ] and women. The conmandant told hin I that if he could produce fifteen more as l substitutes he would let let the others go | The father went back to the school and ! talked with his boys and fl volunteerer
 With the father they went to the com mandant and gave themselves up to be [ shot the fifteenth one being the Fathe1 i himself Something had welded these
 boys together that was SO strong that | death could not shatter it. If this some
 thing welds our boys together with thea
 fathers then we need never fear for oul At the business session of the meet
 ing at which President Lucius Brigg' presided, a committee on classifeationt
 was appointed Judge Nelson l. Ayling i Charles R. Butts and Clinton F. Lane. z
 telegram from James L. Case. who hal | been the guest of Ralph Colt at th' | Greensboro. Y. C., Rotary club was read
 T; Russell Smith, chairman of the en
 tertatnmeut committee. announced that
 the meeting next week would be held a
 the Norwich Golf club where buffe
 lunch would be served and golf enjoye after the meeting.
 The meeting closed with the Sta 1, spausled Banner and the meeting wa dismissed by bugle sounded by Golf 5 Briggs,