The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-04-06
BARKER SAYS
FATHERS MUST
BES0NS' CHUMS
Noted Lecturer Brings Inter
csting and Instructive
Message Here

Speaking before an audience of
approximately 700 men and boys ,of
high school age ut the city auu,tor-
ium last night, an audience which
listened with such Quict attentivenGsS
that one could have heard a pin
drop ut almost any time throughout
the lecture. Or. Charles r.. Barker. a
doctor Of hygiene and physica! cul-
ture, told the young men how 10
lead clean, healthy lives, and told
the fathers how to look after their
sons welfare and how to explain TO
their boys the secrets Of life.
~Thc greatest business ia the world
is TO bring children into the world
and then bring them up as they
ought to be brought up" said the
speaker. Every father should be
the chum Of his son before he reaches
the age Of II and then should con-
tinuc this relation between that age
and II, as this is the most important
time in youths life He should
take five or 10 minutes each day to
talk over the events of the day with
his boy and thus keep his confidence
and then the boy would always be
ready to heed his fathers advice"
JareutS btamcO
DR. Barker told Of the rapid in
crease Of the young lawbrcakers IN
this country, and said one Of the big
responsibilities Of IA father to his boy
as he is growing up is to teach him
to obey law. "Thc reason for this
growth OF lawlcssncss among the
young is that fathers and mothers for
the past % years have allowed their
boys and girls to grow up with hav-
ing their own way" he said. IF we
let the boy slide from under punish
mcnt for disobcdience we cannot cH-
pect him to obey the law
The speaker made the same plea
for church attendance upon the part
Of the fathers at least once each Sun
day as he did during the afternoon
talk to mothers and high school girls,
which is reviewed elsewhere in to-
nights issue.
He also gave examples Of how faith
ers can tell their sons the things
they ought to know at different
stages in their life, and impressed
upon them the Importance of explain
ing to the boys procrc ion and the
dangers to which they are exposed
from the unnatural use Of God-given
powers.
The Fathers Duty
ut is the duty of the father to eX-
plain to his boy at different ages OF
his life the things he ought to know,
he said. 1.-THE wonder is that more
boys do not go wrong when'they are
brought face to face with the crisis
Of life without any preparation"
At the close Of both the afternoon
and evening lectures, hundreds OF
copies Of the lecture in pamphlet
form were ordered by the listeners te
be distributed to others. These will
be ordered by the local Rotary clut
and are sold for the cost Of printing
five cents per copy. They may be
obtained at Finney's drug store after
next Monday.
Last evening at 6 o'clock few
men Of the city gathered at the Grand
Pacific hotel to attend "a compliment
tary dinner given in honor OF DIR
Barker. Following the banquet H
r. Goddard. in behalf Of the people
Of Bismarck, thanked the guest OF
honor for coming to the city ant
{ giving his all-important messages t.
the people of the city. DIR. Barker
responded, telling in brief how he
I came co ldke up tHlS IlHc VI Noir
! and Of the millions that he had ad-
/ dressed since it was begun.
Sponsored By Rotary
Dr. Barker has been travelling
throughout the country for the past
seven years under the auspices Of the
Rotary international, and prior t
that did similar work for the Y. NJ. G.
| A. He first gained nation wide fame
as the man who kept William Howard
Z Taft physically fit while the latter
was president Of the United States
4 In his many years of medical practice
previous to that he had learned that
almost invariably the reason young
!! men and women got into trouble was
/ because their parents had not giver
! them the proper teaching and he de-
termined that if the opportunity evel
! offered he would devote his time tc
I, telling fathers and mothers of thu
Importance Of properly educating
| their children along those lines.