| Show WHY MERS FATHERS F NOT AT AP WHIR Id idleness loness enforced by conditions editions stay leair once k badge tit t iloncai Ilon cli N ovi AKl AgRi tiNt lt iliin 11 alln ile seeka anti anil ability to u not collict lie fie 1 works but father and he sits around all da fact propped up to the fire smoking his pipe of 1 y mother takes in washing so does docs sistr sister ann works at oi cat o i liole hooe hoo e rn oll old man to a tune that bagels tit in the mcm or EO co run runs a au deville ballad that has a popularity larit we laugh as ue c hear it we laugh at the picture the A ord co conjure it is A good joke on the old man but did it occur to wu noll that there li ib kidneys in the lines that the chec c at aie e I 1 cains N hy y the support up port of the household no longer tests on father that his hib idleness ih ib not but enforced 7 ahtie is elhai in fathers hair hio hib shoulders m be boded with the toil he has done and perhaps time is the supie suspicion ion of rheumatism in his walk ile he is strong yet ind healthy and milling to and i is the man who aho bisno is no longet to get a joba the tim v as ab tint that not until he be vas as CO 60 was N as i man considered too old to work but gia duall the limit has been re luid to 15 and then to 50 and now the dead zinc line is around 15 A man inan who be holds a poli position tion at this age may inay retain it but let him be reduced to the rn of seeking ieli a new nen job how cold the world becomes to him how hoa scant geant la is its courte courtesy syl its his fit robs ma 3 not be questioned questions d ITs ins ea experience peri perie ence is beyond belond iny any doubt but his white hiir hair one a badge of honor is against him arid and a man gets the place all that is left foi him to do is to sit foet feet propped a up lip to the fir ani c smoking his pipe of clay while the support of the household do de olvea upon his it wife and children ile he would vork k if he had a chance ile he would care fol foi his hia lood ones and keep his children longer in the but what is he to do when the door booi of opportunity is closed to himl the public mind has been poisoned against the old man against the man who has accumulated arid and s still t ill must work for his bread it is a cruel prejudice cold blooded heartless mercenary and wrong the young man ma may think it increases ine his its chances to hae the old man mail out of the way of his promotion but will not the limitation apply to him also in time and will no not the effect be to make him a derelict in when hen he should be at his best a ad to make make I 1 laboi cra of tits his hildien when thea the 5 should h id bo be still at school smil it the ball d if will ind and in the pride of oui eiith and strength laugh at the old man iq hl h smokes ins pipe of clay but let the ill smile be of tenderness the the laugh be not of contempt think of the humilis that must gnaw anav at the old mans mane heart of the sorrow sorro in his soul boul thit lie hp I 1 is nu no longer the brad braad Nj ii inner ind and merely li cLause lie he is 10 old there used to be glor in gray grav hairs hair ind and strength in the I 1 beirs cars of experience and why should there not be still P gi and ra rapids P herald |
