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Show ; FIRES ALARM-CLCCK SON Farmer's Boy Doesn't Even Come Home at Dawn Any More. 1 Realizing that his son, Roy, aged nineteen, was no longer any use lis an ! alarm clock, his father, Thomas A. , Martin, a farmer of Plainneld, N. .1.; 1 brought him into the recruiting sta-: sta-: tion and turned him over for enlistment. enlist-ment. He said that his son went out to cafes and wild parties every night, and ' when he returned he would know that ' it was dawn and time for him to get up. By the time his son retired for " his day's sleep InTtin was ready to i drive the cows out to pasture, and when the son got up in the. evening it i was milking time. The climax was reached a few days ago when his son didn't return home until S:30 n. m. The farmer was still in bed and waiting for the usual signal sig-nal of duwn. "As long as I could use Roy as an alarm clock I didn't mind It so much," said Mr. Martin, "but I can't afford to starve my cattle cat-tle to death." |
