Show DOROTHY DIX TALK T ALl S Dy DOROTHY DOriOTHY DIY tho ll orl Worlds World's 1 s Paid FATHERS DO YOU REALLY KNOW YOUR SONS AND DAUGH- DAUGH DAUGHTERS DAUGHTERS DO 00 YOU CHUM WITH THEM OR MERELY PAY THEIR BILLS SAY IT WITH COMPANIONSHIP INSTEAD OF WITH CHECKS IY H HUSBAND is II the th best man In the world wrid the th kindest and My the most moat m tt generous generou but he Is a bad father said a woman to me m the th other oth r day Except for f r purposes purpose of f respectability my children had as a well have no n father at atall atall all as us the one they have IF I ANYone ANY one on should bould tell lell him this Ibis he Ir I Mould uld be b hor bor II rifled and ond amazed and Indignant He lie would I uld sa aa a Dont Don't I I toll toil like Ilka a slave elave to support my family Do DoI DoI I ever deny them anything an thing that Is la In my po poser er to toCa e Ca gh e them 7 Haven t I spent thousands of ot dollars dollar on s their education Haven t t they a fine houe to Ih 11 e In e and tine flue clothes to 10 wear and fine automobiles to ride ridIn In Don t the thee theT go to oft off traveling and to cool spots pota In the summer lummer shile I sweat swat In an office making the th money mon y tor for them to take life ure easy Me not a good rood lather What more can a man elan clot do Whore There do ou got get that bad father stuff tuft z i- i And every very word that he h say says ay Is Ii I true He H I UI UIA is a model m del father to his children according to his lights light which are arc ar all financial lights light He Hadre adores his hi children but he ha h sa says ays It with a checkbook and he honestly and truly thinks that he has haa h done his hi full duty to his boys boya and girls girl by giving them the th things that money buys buy BUT OUT he h has been so busy givIng them things that he ho has neer ne er had hadD time to give elv them himself He has bas b s neer ne er even taken laken an hour oft to 10 get tet acquainted Ith them there arent aren't a group croup ot or flappers and jellybeans any here In the 1 acrid orld that are ar greater creater strangers to him than his own bo bois bos s and girls They know each other so 10 little and have so o lIttle in common that they haven t I a word to sa say ay to tl each other When they are aro left alone together the al ale e embarrassed to death and there are aro great chunks of ot solid silence bet between een them that ou could cut sith lIh a knife Of course my poor dear husband Is I riding for a fall fail He HeIs HeIs HI Is preparing for himself a bitter blUer disappointment because he believes that when wh n the th boys boy are ar grown up men a miracle wIll happen and that he h and they will be chummy and that they will repay all the th sacrifices he has ha made mad for them by b devoted to him and going Into Int the big business he be has built up for them and that they will Just juit be two tw souls with but a single lingle thought about the th factory and everything else And he thinks think It is going to be he sweet to t have a loving young daugh daugh- daughter daughter ter to nestle against his hi shoulder and confide all of he her love affaIrs affaire to him But nothing of the kind If going to t happen You cant can't walt to get acquainted with the children until they are grown You have to meet them In the cradle You cant can't force fore their con con- confidence confidence You have to win It and If a man Is I going to be friend father he h has ha to establish that relationshIp in the days when a little tot holds hold on n to hi his finger and has haa ha long yellow curls not when he is t a varnish haired college man mail who thinks think he knows everything on earth I My IY A HUSBAND has always left the entire management of ot the be chil IVA dren to me I have bave had to bring brint them up single handed tinel handed I 1 have havedon done the best beat I knew how but the Ibe job Is js too big bie for me especially now ben alien ft hen they hae hue reached the hobbledehoy stage ben nhen they need a firm firmer firmer er and stronger hand than mine min on the reins and more mor kno ledge or of life than I possess posses as a guide You know there ther comes come a time In the life ot or every boy hen nhen he hhas has a cl contempt for omen een o e en his mother no matter how hov much Ito he 10 es e her lie Ho feels that ho he h Is a man and he be her and do- do de derides rides her opinions I don t blame the bo bol bos s After all most mo t v 1 I mens men's Ih lie es are shut hut in and tree freo reo from temptations Wo We e can only guess nt at tho dangers they Hill have hav to meet But their fathers father know and the boys know that the their fa- fa fathers fa fathers have been along the th road they are ar starting out to travel Father knows know what drink will do to a man Father can show them the wrecks wreck that loose living makes Father can tell them how to avoid getting Into the th snares set et b by the th painted women Father can teach them how to use ue money wisely and well Fa- Fa Fa Father ther thee could help a boy find out ut what Is good for him and save him ten vital years year of his lit life that he wastes waste floundering around trying to find himself And And fathers could do far more than mothers mother to prevent the daughters daughter making unfortunate marriages marriage because a man can find out things about another man that no woman can find out And Its It's It because father Is I asleep at the tho th switch that so many girls iris blunder into marrying rakes rake and drunkards drunkard who break their hearts a 1 THY It If my husband were going colne to hire hir a I new clerk be h would look iv up his record and find out c about his morals his abet nhat 1 bat sort tort or of o family Ir he came from and his previous pre records and habits But some ome dav day he be sill III turn lurn oer o er the daughter da aho ho Is the very core or of his bla hi heart to a stranger to shorn horn bom he hi will wilt have bave to be Introduced My bus husband band Is a very Tory successful man an noted Doled for hi far sightedness anti and tor for being able to pick DIck men but it has never to him to use uee his Ills talents in helping his girls select good rood husbands lies Hes on ten times the intimate terms with sith his office bl boy Y that he is lIh his 0 oso 11 boys And my husband Is I Just Jutt a typical American husband He thinks he h has done don his hla hi full duty by his children when he h makes money for fr them And Its It's It because there are ar so many of these poor fatherless mother reared children that we have our ur bump bump- bumper bumper er crop of hoodlums hoodlum I tell you the real need of our country today Is I for fa- fa fathers fa father ther real fathers father who will chum with their children and give them companionship Instead of high powered cars car and trips trip to Europe DOROTHY DIX Copyright b by Public Ledger 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