The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-03-23
FATHERS
There's One In
Nearly Every Home
By CARLTON NORRIS
Editor Gates County Index

of the world, l find very little
written realistically about fathers.
Mothers there were and are in
plenty, and seldom does a great
man stand out above the masses
without proclaiming that he owes
it all to his mother. But did you
ever hear man or woman declare
that they owe father anything?
1t is true that come next June
II we will set aside a Sunday for
father, but Sunday is holiday
anyway. The old boy can't afford
to take off a working day even
in his own behalf. Why he is too
busy trying to earn enough money
to keep up the car and mortgage
payments. AnC often he is so
shabby that Junior is ashamed of
the old duffer because he spent
all his money keeping Junior and
daughter in college. And he may
like to talk over the things that
are in his heart, but no one has
the time to listen and he IS
rather tiresome for he can only
remember the things he enjoyed
so many years ago.
Father is the guy who gives
you unwanted advice and the one
person in the world that you can
always depend on and can wire
for money when you're in a jam.
He is the rumpled shabby little
man hurrying home from work to
the bosom of his family and the
last to get to use the bathroom.
He is the man who keeps a roof
over the heads of his family
through bad times and good, and
the only man in the world who
would rather see you be successful
than anything in the world.
Father is the only man you
know who does not want to be
president of the U.S.A. He is also
the only man you will ever meet
that will never take advantage of
you in any shape, form or fashion
and will always work to help you
in every thing you may undertake.
He is the man that you are
ashamed of when you are young,
but who seems to grow in stature
and knowledge as you yourself
grow older.
Some times he is called Dad
Pop, Father, the Old Man, Old
Goat, Papa, Pappy, Pater and very
often just a plain Sob, but he is
the only man in the whole wide
world who will see you convicted of
the most serious crime possible
and stand up and say to the world,
that's my son." He's the only
man you know who will uncom-
plainingly loan you his tie, shirt
shoes, socks and automobile with
out hope of reward. He is also the
only man in the world who will
give you his last dollar and beat
the tar out of you when you do
wrong.
Fathers are an ignorant lot, for
they don't know the lates dances,
songs or night clubs, but they are
great people to come home to
when you are in trouble and they
never let you down. They don't
seem to know much of anything
expect work and more work. They
don't know how to relax and have
a good time and they are dumb
for they will loan you money
which they know will never be
repaid.
Fathers are the people who gel
the blame when you can't keep
up with the Jones family and they
are to blame for so many children
in their own families. They are
the people you blame when mother
has a hard time at child birth and
are considered funny when they
walk the hospital corridors during
the birth Of their own kids.
To sum up the whole thing,
fathers are dumb, ignorant, give
unWanted advice. stuuid enough fc