South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-10-22
Father and Son
Week Set A side
By "Y" Leaders

Father and Son week Will be OBJ
served in South Bend Nov. 70 Is.
/ sponsored by the boys division of
the Y. VI. c. A.
For its purpose the movement
aims 10 get fathers 10 renew their
interest in their paternal obIiga-
tions. 10 lead sons 10 deeper respect
and appreciation for their fathers
ard homes. and 20 get men without
boys Interested in boys without faith
ers.
a b. Thielens of the Studebaker
Corp will head the committee plan
ming the weeks program and ne has
chosen representative men from the
different churches and civic orga nj
cations 10 act with him on the com
mittee.
Define Days
As announced the com mittee VIII
include. James Taylor. Perry Stah-
lev Ross DcunisOn. Horace K.mble.
Donald McGregor G. \. Lppincott,
w O. Davies. H. s. Badet. y. r.
Feltes. Victor Jones, A f. Boyer,
Elmer Durham. William Nitche
Scott MCCOY, Victor Kuppern. e..
II Barnes =. NJ McK bben and Guy
a. Fish. county Sunday school lead
or.
Beg inning on Sunday which viii
be observed as a go 10 church day.
the respective days OF tho week VIII
Dee observed as a home day, school
boy day employed boy day fathers
day banquet day. and recreation
day
That incidental 20 the old adage
thar boys viii oe men, and that
the parental influence exercised over
hem VIII largely determine what
kind OF men they viii be. is the key
note OF the Father and Son Move
ment a. w Gamble head of the
boys division OF the Y NJ G.. a,
claims.
Gumble's Version.
I'm discussing the movement Gam
Bile said.
-: is true that boys have always
been supremacy important The
Great War anected boys n many
subtle and imT Ortant ways. not the
east OF which was the new and
greatly enlarged value il has placed
upon their potential possibilities Al
most WIKI a star- OF surprise. he ma
tions have Suddenly awakened 20
see i'm their boys the greatest raw
material i'm the world the stuff from
which the entire future of society
mus be made The nations great
est asset her chief source of pow
err and her most fruitful field for
f investment
"Of course. the American man
I has always been Interested In the
American boy. tolerant of him and
/ OF his noisy. bo.sterous ways 20 a
marked degree. Boys VIII be boys
has been The free oommer- ON
every side. but AT The close Of the
war that interest has enlarged and
deepeued and taken more serious
aspect until the thinking man Of TO-
day says with a tone OF strons con-
/ vict.o as me sees groups Of boys
+ here and there az their work and az
their play. BOYS VIII De men. He
/ has said well to- but the great Ques-
I zion after all - what sort OF men
/ Consider also the influences which
tend 10 make him the sort OF man
I he - bound 10 grow into. one OF the
most important and most essential
I - The part that the home life should
play in the culture OF the boys. We
/ realize that he present state Or
utilization is hardly The ideal state.
! Whatever demands Of social life tend
\ 20 take the Parents. especially the
/ fathers from the home. work direct
/ ly 10 the disadvantage Of growing
! boys. Parents play an important roll
\ with the definite functions 10 FER
form and these functions can not be
seactor.y carried out by deputy
Father and Son week observance -