Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 250, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1920 — HAD HIGH AMBITION FOR SON [ARTICLE]

HAD HIGH AMBITION FOR SON

father Wouldn't Be Satisfied Until He Saw Him in a Really Proud - Position. —*• I An Instructor in the military academy at West Point was once assigned to conduct about* the place the visiting parents qf a certain cadet. After a tour of the post, the proud and happy parents joined the crowd assembled to witness evening parade, a most imposing'spectacle. The march past aroused the father of the cadet to a high pitch of enthusiasm. “There I” he exclaimed to his spouse, “Isn’t that fine? But,” he added, reflectively, “I shall not be happy till my boy attains the proud position that leads ’em all.” And he pointed In rapt admiration to the drum-major.