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Show An Address on Father he makes willingly. The boy must go to college and the girl must have music Iesons; something must be cut, and usually it is some luxury of father's fath-er's that perishes by the wayside. He is not so poetical a figure as mother, not so demonstrative In his affections, eo elated In pleasure, so depressed In grief. And yet many will remember a kind word here, or a thoughtful act there that stands out. clear and distinct, dis-tinct, as one of youth's happiest Impressions. Im-pressions. " 'Not often In he appreciated by the growing boy. Often he stands in the family as the official admonlsher to whom the hoy's faults are related for punishment. On him falls the unpleasant un-pleasant task of applying the rod; his is tlse arm that must enforce respect for mother and regard for the rights of others. In this light the growing boy Is likely to view him with a mixture mix-ture of fear, awe and respect. Not until years bring a proper perspective is he rightfully understood and appreciated appre-ciated and perhaps not even then.' " "We have a 'Mother's day", but as yet no 'fVuer'i day' and that Is typical: typi-cal: of an fnjustlce perpetrated In many forms without alleviation upon tne male parent. 'What Is home without with-out a motherr This form or interrogation interro-gation Intended to stagger the imagination imagi-nation of the average person, is never turned upon the. problem of the fatherless father-less home. A boy's best iriend is his mother.' There is no apparent premium prem-ium on paternal affection. When a child- turns out well 'a mother's influence'; in-fluence'; when the opiwsite is the taso'no wonder, with such a father'! TIi chord of human sympathy is universally uni-versally attuned to the word or mother. Poets, dramatists and riction writers find it good material that never fails them. Jurlee are swung by it to acquit the hardest and sanest looking criminals. Father.' at best but a patriarchal quality. It Is of snch things that the Indianapolis News bids us tke thought, the while it rushes to the lather's defense, father must not be overlooked. It's editorial holds, for "'The avenge fallier succeeds pretty well In discharging his duty to society, lie labors along persistently and quietly for six lays a week that his fnmllv may he provided for; he Ftands between his family ami the world, shouldering the responsibility of the rent, the taxes, the grocery and thfl coal billy; he admonishes the boy r.nd advises the mother. eekln'g always al-ways to make their burden lighter; he works uncensli.gly, without complaint, lighting, scheming, suffering to the one end that bis family may be assured assur-ed eomfert and independence In this be sometimes fails, but he keeps on jtrylng. cheerfully, stolidly, stubbornly plugging along to the end. ' "The sacrifices that must be made |