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Show NEW MOVEMENT TAKES ROOT IN MANY CITIES CLEVELAND. Dec. 25. Queries received re-ceived by Robert E. Lewis of tho Cleveland Cleve-land Y. M. C, A., regarding tho "fafaer and son" movement launched here Indicates Indi-cates the the Idea is taking root in many cities. Washington. D. C. Harrisburg, Pa.. Charleston. W. Va., Mansfield, Ohio, and other points as far past as Bangor, Me., and as far west as Denver, have declared their Intention of spreading the movement. move-ment. Mayor Newton D. Baker, the first of 500 American mayors asked to Issue a proclamation urging fathers a.nd sons to begin tho New Year with a resolve to be more Intimate and companionable, complied today with tho request In a 300-word document, closing with thc words: "If wc can begin t'.io now year with the resolve that our sons shall be more our companions and our fathers more our comrades it will add both to the sweetness of our private life and to thc value of our citizenship." |