Show i I t Mom and Pop 1 I V By Y DR FRANK CRANE NE A A correspondent correspondent wants somethIng done about pop OP and ind mom JIe He writes A dIgnity and sacredness seem to attend the very words mother and father Cather comIng from the lips Bps of the child taught to use them and andare andare are unfelt and unknown where Inane expressions such as pop and mom are used Some sort of a law or organization or crusade ought to be started he thinks and andI I ought oUgh t to start It But L 1 wont I gently but firmly decline I read the newspaper st stry ry of oC the girl swimmer who conquered the wind and rain and shIfting currents cur cur- rents cents of the English channel It Is a story of pluck and determination trIumphant trIumph trIumph- ant but it is more than that It Is the story of the influence of a gIrls gIrl's admIration admIra admIra- tion and love for her mother On the sIde of f the boat which accompanIed her hershe hershe she had the words wrItten written- Think of Mother and when she had trIumphed he saId to reporters She really dId did It When her er traIner advised her to gIve V up the attempt attempt at- at tempt as R a storm broke and the waves rose near the English coast she is' is quoted In one cablegram as saying No no no I am doing this for V mom V Th That t eort o of knocked the props out of a crusade agaInst the word mom It was there anything b but butan t tan an inane expression n. n Fe Fei examples of greater respect and affection have been seen in recent years So I dont don't warm up greatly to the prOffered role of being forth faring Coeur de LIon in this new clus crusade de l For or after all 11 the important V thing about a word word is its connotation V The rhe name is never so important as what is signIfied sig- sig by It Mom with a connotation of wins handS down over Mother with an accompaniment nt of cold V estrangement The rhe attitude is always sIgnificant rath rather r than the expression V Copyright 1927 1921 by McClure Newspaper SyndIcate |