少校的父亲是一个清醒的敬畏上帝的人，他的开玩笑的想法是对他的年龄撒谎。他是一位长期的农民，是一个敬畏上帝的，爱自由的，守法的崎and的个人主义者，他认为除了农民以外，除了农民以外，联邦援助正在蔓延社会主义。他提倡节俭和努力工作，并反对拒绝他的宽松女人。
(Major Major's father was a sober God-fearing man whose idea of a good joke was to lie about his age. He was a long-limbed farmer, a God-fearing, freedom-loving, law-abiding rugged individualist who held that federal aid to anyone but farmers was creeping socialism. He advocated thrift and hard work and disapproved of loose women who turned him down.)