San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-23
Dads" Throw Out Their
Chests as Result of Praise
From Children Who
Write Essays Telling How
/. Good He Is. yes. 49,.
BY HARRY COLLIER.

3! Copyright. by .The san Antonlo Llgnt'
Yakima, Wash, Feb. 23.-Fathers
In this little city, where the apples
come from, are sticking their hands
! in their vests today and strutting
! about like pouter pigeons.
There's a reason. Yakima has
taken the lead among cities in Amer
lea in spinning a rose on dad" Other
cities in the country have set one
day apart to honor the mothers OF
the nation, by wearing carnations,
but Yakima has set apart an entire
week to pin a big, red rose on dad
Yakima elders like the idea of
: fathers week" so well that they
are insisting that it be established
as an annual custom.
As q part of the observance, Yaki-
ma school children of the higher
grades have written essays on my
father" Not one of the papers re-
! yealed in any of the fathers an un-
/ desirable quality; on the other hand,
the children avow that their dads
! "just suit" them. Nor, in any of
the essays was complaint made that
the fathers were not making enough
money.
A thoroughly human diversion in
her father is revealed by Pauline
Leach and she says she wouldn't trade
him for any other daddy alive.
Much Praise For Father.
at is one great delight" she says,
"to get old clothes on and take our
car to pieces and put it back again,
even if it is running fine. / love
to play in the snow with dad, be-
cause he likes the snow. 1 wouldn't
trade him for the world and all its
gold"
Ever since my mother died, he
has been both father and mother to
me- is the praise of Richard Jones
for his father. "He isn't home much,
but when he is, he likes to spend his
time with me. Now you can see why
I'd rather have him than a big bag
of gold"
Clara Bryant's father is one of the
proudest in Yakima, fors she wrote
of him off / could have my pick of
hundred fathers, 1 am sure l would
take my own"
Allen Gordon thinks "my dad is
the best dad there is" but there is
a reserVation-"s sometimes, though. it
seems to me, dad makes me do all
the work, but 1 guess he DOESN'T.
Ronald Pool modestly asserts that
his father "has the highest chair in
the X. z. lodge. He has a medal.
sword, a very large picture, as well
as many badges. He is a printer at
the Herald. He has been printer
since he was eight years old when
he made 80 cents a week"
! "Father has lots of friends and
they all think we'll of him. Do you
not think 1 have a fine dad?" asks
Leota Pool. -
Jap Daddy Honorable.
The japanese characteristic of ex-
travagant praise is INDUCED by
George Honda, whose father has been
living in America 20 years.
"His character is the most hon
orable, disposition very kind, and his
traits are of the very best" asserts
George. "Among his associates he is
regarded as man whose word is as
good as his work"
"Would you like to become &C.
quainted with my father?" inquiries
Hope Richmond. HE has always
Deen KIND 10 my mother and us chill
dren. He stands firm for anything
he thinks is right. Although he didn't
get any further than the fifth grade
in schools, he speaks perfect English
and as a mental method of arithemetic
all his own. Though he hasn't in
vented anything or written a book,
he just suits"
Walter Sompi finds his greatest
admiration for his father in the
fact that he is "reg'lar fellar."
Once as he played marbles with
u.s. wrote Walter, "his alarming
skill gave us the impression that he
sure was shark when he was
boy"
Mildred Bridgeford finds consola-
tion in the fact that when I am
IN need of advice, 1 always rely on
dad to tell me the right thing"
Howard Schiffner is proud that
somebody said his father, a policeman.
looked like Bill Hart.
Three of the children accentuate the
bravery of their psternal progenitors
BY relating stories of how they saved
the lives of children.