| Show National Men and Affairs Flood Recalls Roosevelt and Teddy Bears Dictator t Fri Friend nd of T. T R. R Editor and Pat Harrison in Controversy Sweet Young Thing Sizes Up Situation BY ROBERT T. T Copyright 19 1921 j Dy By The flu ConsOlidated dated Press Association M. M it PAR En former gov- gov governOr 5 ot of Lo Louisiana who has been drafted into active service lien as flood dictator In that state Is the old playmate And Dull Moose 1 running mate mat ot of the late Colonel Theodore elt When hen the Colonel like most ot of the Moos oos- oos ers era went back to the Republican party Mr Parker returned to the raid fold and b by 1920 had succeeded d In re establishing In him him- himself self to win the Demo Demo- Democratic cratic ci nomination for governor which of at course VAS wa-s tantamount to election although that t formal formal- Ity it had to be gone gono through Like all the Intimates of Colonel Colont Governor Par Par- Parker ker Is B a. a man ot of action lie He thought he hal hail retired after leaving lea the governors governor's' chair In bitt In hIs states state's hour of peril he ha has been called front liLs tarm farni and with coat of and sleeves rolled ro up tip he Is once more moreon moreon on the tiring getting things done lie He Ls i also alIa an old associate of It Herbert Horbert Hoover having acted as food tood administrator tor for tor ann ana during the the- world war It was wall John M. M Parker who ho first took President Roosevelt to hunt In the cane brakes ot of L Louis Louis- lana hunting for tor bear Some of the political opponents ot of Mr RoosEvelt at the time insisted that the tho bears were ere driven In for forthe forthe the colonel but that was a canard After this expedition however howe the colonel was Indelibly with bears Following the lead ot of Clifford ot of Washington the cartoonists ot of the tho country began to picture the president with bears and just at this time to toy plush bears bear hap hap- happened to be Imported from Europe for the children They promptly beeme known n as Teddy Dears Bears and will have hare that name until the ho end ot of time John M r. r Parker tall wiry and agile Is just the man for tor flood dictator In the bright lexicon ot of ilLs hla activIties there are aro no such words as red tape lie He goes direct In the Louisiana flood country tar far to the north ot of Ne New Orleans his word is III law As gov c. c he did man many things but his Is rem remembered na- na nationally tonally for tor hs his unflinching stand for law and order and ana for tor trial by the courts Although ho he lx b 64 he still lUll lives the lire life that Roose- Roose Roosevelt velt veit loved Liaising fishing rough rough- roughing In ing It it arid he lies 1 one which Roosevelt lacked and probably never co could ld have the attained ab III l to play a a. darned good game gamo ot at golf golt Senator harrison ot of Mis- Mis I JUl has aroused the Ire ot of some somo ot of ills 1118 LouIsiana by his statement In Washington to the tho effect that when n we think ot of the few fot places Where breaks have o occurred along the Mississippi sippi river wo we can appreciate the lie thelong long stretches on both shIell ot of the tho river nit where the levees have o held and aud are aro holding for tor the pro pro- ot of hundreds ot of thousands of at lives and millions million of dollars ot of property MarshalL Ballard editor ot of the New r-cw Orleans Orleana Item has taken up the the cudgels against the tho senator declaring ilLs his statement Is just about as luminous luminous' as this would be U If ft 10 wet day were not Dot wet is little children It would be or iS If a high lull hili were not high gentle reader It 1 be low or medium or no bill at atall all As a matter of tact fact Mr 1 J. J J s Ballard DOl nays anI and lie he will defend It t against the world It if S Senator Pat wire not where he Is he would be somewhere else Here is III a I. I statesman he con con- continues Inviting e to contemplate the beauty and maj sty esty ot of those levees le which have havo not broken down while everybody behind lots lot ot of them Is trying to escape with his life from the wa- wa waters waters lapping upward front gaps on either side through levees that have Ia e broken down You might M as well contemplate the th devastation Ie wrought by the ex- ex explosion ex ot of a ship full ot of dyne dna flute that had broken its It hawser chain and drifted Into a ship full tull ot of gasoline and then declaim joyously and jubilantly Ah Ab my see what a a. beautiful chain It Is In these loel lovely links that did not hi breal To appreciate tilLs this lively ox- ox exchange change the reader must under under- stand tand that Senator Harrison In the past has been considered a stalwart opponent nt of the for Cor New Orleans lie He has feared that a permanent permanent cut In the tho Just below the bIg city might turn the river In the bit of oC the tho MississippI coast de de- de destroying oyster beds and possibly In the Mississippi sound thereby ruining some somo ot of the loveliest stilt l lt wat r resorts In the south The people ot of New Or- Or Orleans leans Ians have e contended that a con controlled trolled would do little or no harm to anyone anone certainly no such harm as has baa come from rein the present flood S Senator notor Harrl son hM has been known ns as a les-eee les only advocate We need spillways as well as levees In the lower valley and tin tin- pounding basins In the upper tipper val val- valleys leys says Mr r. r Ballard stating the case caso for tor New ew Orleans We 0 know this La Is a large order In- In involving hundreds of oC millions ot of When we reflect how how- es-er es on the excitement which overcomes o so 80 many ot of Our sup sup- supposedly enlightened pc people and upsets our best beet ot of alt all possible governments government when somebody In inthe the tho North sea ca or down In Mexico or over In China kills ono one ot of our our fellow citizens or robs one of them hens ot a a. little property when wo we recall how everybody Is rallied around the flag by the tho jingoes and so 0 all clamor for wars that cost coat billions ot of dollars we begin to suspect our national sanity when wo we observe the men men- cal tal attitude ot of our people on oc- oc occasions like lIko this Here we e are placidly lookIng on the destruction of more prop prop- property crt erty the infliction of oC more ml mu- mu cry the ending ot of more lives In Inthe inthe the hc heart lIrt ot of our own happy re- re public alt the tho victims being our own people here wo we are looking placidly on at moro more havoc oe and devastation de than the Mexicans or ortho orthe the tho or the Chinese and all the other peoples ot of the earth put together have o done dono to us to action since we be- be became became came a nation And all the tho time lime the Intelligent ot of mere mero money would put an end to this periodically recurring abomination In far less a sum than would be required to finance one jerk water war against an interior Inferior nation And yet ret even In the race face ot of such a a. calamity us as the Mississippi valley Is suffering It Is Bible to repress bubbling youth at a a. dance a night or two ago on ona New Orleans a 0 root roof garden an an- ant t cec pretty girl was as heard to exClaim I 1 think It would bo be adorable It if the levees Ic would L break for In the moonlight our dates could como come to see S us In gondolas Woul be o ro ro- ro mantle mantic 1111 4 i iv |
