The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-15
DEAR OLD DAD,
TRIBUTE URGED
FOR EVERY DAY
Donald Ogden Stewart
Forms League for Defense
3 of Fathers.
BY SAM LOVE
United Press stan Correspondent

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"dad"-Sunday will be his one day
out Of all the year, and while, as
usual, he will be deluged with car
nations. strange cigars and ready
made neckties, for the first time
something constructive Is to be done
for him this Fathers day.
Donaldo Ogden Stewart. New
York dad. has chosen the day TO
launch his League for the Defense OF
Fathers.
He already has drawn up four
teen points. o. rules. designed 10
make life a little easier for father
every day in the year and not just
on Fathers day.
The younger generation is get
ting too moral" said Mr.. Stewart
by way of preamble.
This can have but one effect. It
Is driving the older generation to
rebellion and immortality.
Can we stand idly by and see the
finest fathers in the country goaded
into immortality?
NO. I. for one, have written a
book about it."
That is quite true. Dad Stew
arts book is called Father VIII
liam and it flays the new stiff
necked generation numerically.
Draws Up IA Points
Drawing up fathers fourteen
points was as far as Stewart had got
when interviewed.
He stopped there for rest and put
them in a drawer, where they were
found accidentally while Stewart
was looking for corkScrew to open
up bottle of cod liver oil for his
son, Ames Ogden Stewart, age IA
months
They are as follows:
l. Father is not to be made worth
while just to please his children;
l. G. has right to play golf. sit in
night clubs, make eyes at young
women and not be frowned upon or
made the subject of family coun-
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3 No father shall be compelled to
read H. L. Mencken.
3. Father shall be allowed to skip
church occasionally.
I. No father shall be made TO go
10 whimsical or Eugene ONeill
plays,
5 Father shall be allowed to wear
any kind of necktie he darned
pleases.
g. Father shall be allowed to dance
when. where. with whom and par
= ticularly in what manner he pleases.
Let Him Perspire
7. Father shall be allowed to per-
spire as much as he pleases.
8. Children are enioined from
shooting under eighty when they
play golf with father.
9. Children are to refrain from
dropping in at fathers favorite
night club.
10. All children are to think
their father is a born comedian.
II. No male child under 81 shall
be allowed to become president or
even dean Of university.
IL. Children are forbidden to
make more money than their
fathers.
IS. Children are forbidden to write
hest-Selling books.
IA Male children under n are
not to be allowed to WOO or worry
Peggy Hopkins Joyce.
Further Remarks
Under the head Of further re-
marks" Stewart had jotted the fol-
lowing:
An ideal father is one who lets
his children alone and vice versa.
More Rabbits is what this country
needs.
1T would be a good idea to have
all children born with all teeth.
Teeth should be straight and no
cavities
AS the league for defense receives
new complaints and encounters
, fresh obstacles, they will be taken
up.
The organization meeting will be
Sunday. It probably will be on a
golf course, somewhere.
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