Show AXI ANI SON SOX Portland Oregonian To Io 10 time the credit of or common decency decency de tie- anti and humanity be he it I said it Is not often oren that a n father Cather holds hols U up UI his head in a r respectable community and trl tries s to defend himself If against charges of paternal l negligence by hy attempting to defame the character of his lila young oun son Such a spectacle as this was presented before the time county court a few days lays ago the te father assertIng asserting as as- that his year sixteen old ear on on soum wa was vas unworthy hy of fatherly atherl consideration The flue probation more inure kindly kindly kind kind- I ly and humanely disposed testified that time tho boy was an aim ni unusually bright lad Iud not disposed to evil vl ways and had isad hac come conic to the tho trouble with which his fath father r taunted launt d him through paternal neglect Vh Whore rc was this father r al and what was as ho lie doing doing for his Isis young oung son when time the lau latter hatter r was consigned more than once to time the care of the loy Boys Boys' and Girls Girls' alls Aid society Who ho If it not this neglectful irresponsible father ather was to lo blame that the tho energies of this isis lad lad lad unusually bright bright and and restless wa was restless was not kept in school or given givoni w some mo u useful honorable trade Did this isis father when the time lad ran away after arel the manner mannel of or many lany another restless boy during the lie adolescent follow follos' him him with J kindly admonition tion ton iou Induce him to to return h home me and amid encourage him to exp expend nd his superabundant energy In a useful even enn If i a lowly vocation Did he lie not on the time contrary lr treat at tho ho hoboy boy as an outlaw and threaten him with wih violence If it he lie returned and amid s seek ek to exculpate himself by blaming others tot for his own shortcomings Oblivious to all al sense onse In Instinct of or common humanity of or paternal duty dimLy to every must a father be bo when lie hc can an rise up In court and shamelessly proclaim Ills his own delinquency by casting aspersions as as- a- a upon the tile character of Qt his neglected young oung son on The plea ilea that a boy is wayward does not not call not not-ll can not absolve a father rather from flom a U fathers father's dut duty To Tn the hue question who has haM sinned this boy or em his parents In that he fell feU early Into ll delinquency there can be bo but one answer answel It ItIs itis I Is somebody's fault that the Influence of a good gool home homo the care direction and ami restraint that were necessary IY to bring this boy out I of an active n st s boyhood hub huban into an honorable capable young oung manhood did dil not wait walt upon hl his childhood hose Whose fault was It I Out or of of the hue fathers father's rs r's mouth has imas come conic the tho answer un an answer that hut records his imis own delinquency and disgrace of f which the iho delinquency of the ho boy Is but the sad gd reflection refection |