It is the flower for mother’s day, and how delightful the train of thoughts while wearing it! But now they have come along with the inevitable imitation—father’s day. We are apprised, mainly through commercial circles, that the day if fixed for June 17. The uppermost thought in connection with father’s day would be the check for him to sign, and the un-Burbanked cactus of a boutonniere. The idea of “the trade” is that the day be signalized by getting a new piece of neckwear for father, and The Observer is getting a big bunch of literature from a commercial organization promotion of the plan. It might as well be so. Get the old man a new necktie, by all means, and let it go at that. It is about as much as he would expect, anyway, and it would be a handy thing for him to pass on to the hired hand as a Christmas present. He would then have that much more money to place at the use of his adorable family. This thing of father’s day is a joke for the goat. But by all means buy him something. It is just as well to hear him grunt as to see him smile. But let us hope—let us pray—that mother’s day may for all time be held sacred from the commercialized touch. May it be always a day for the flower and the thought, let the world jolly dad as much as it may please.
--Charlotte Observer
An editorial from the Charlotte Observer as reprinted on page 2, the editorial page, of The Reidsville Review, Monday, June 11, 1923
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