Show A letter to dad the following excellent article taken from the houston mo ile herald and sent by J C penney to all the managers and employees ot of the penney stores Is well worth anybody s time to read I 1 am writing to you though you have been dead 30 years I 1 feel eel I 1 must say some things to you things I 1 did it know when I 1 was a boy in your house and things I 1 was too stupid to say it Is only now after passing through the large hard school ot of years only now when my own hair Is gray that I 1 understand how you felt I 1 must have been a bitter trial to you I 1 believed my own petty wisdom and I 1 know now how ridiculous it was compared to that calm rips ripe wholesome wisdom of yours most of 0 all I 1 want to confess my worst sin against you it was the feeling that I 1 had that you did not understand when I 1 look back over it now I 1 know that you did understand you understood me better belter than I 1 did myself your wisdom flowed around mine like the ocean around an island and how patient you were 11 with me how full of long suffering and kindness and how pathetic it now comes home to me were your efforts to get close to me to win my confidence to be ray my pal I 1 let you I 1 what was it that held me aloot aloof I 1 know but it la Is tragic that wall that rises between a boy and his lather father and their franc francetic tic efforts to see through it and climb over I 1 wish you were wera hero now across the table from me just for or an hour so that I 1 could tell you how theres no wall wali any more I 1 understand you now dad and god how I 1 love you and wish I 1 could go back bach and be your boy again |