Show SOGGY HOMES SMELLY YARDS GREET OWNERS Flood Refugees Attack Tremendous House HouseCleaning HouseCleaning Cleaning Tasks BATON DATON ROUGE Ln June 18 fly Dr The Associated iress D By scores score and by hundreds men women and children forced to fleo from the waters ot of the MississippI pI flood lood are now Setting lettIng forth from the lie refugee camps for lor the homeward trek back to homes by the muddy torrent to land wasted anti and their crops They go with their spIrit ot of the southerners ot of reconstruction days to build again to plant anew In the camps t have ha been restless They have been to go not because they were not satisfied wIth the treat treat- accorded them b by the Red ned Cress and by the ns but they are a practical people and they know what lies before them They crowd the boats when the day to return arrives and they chatter ot of what they wIlt will find at home rho rhe boat takes them up the rIver and leaves them on the levees nearest home Trucks Trucks take talc them on leaving ng theta them at their doors SCENE OI 01 DESOLATION Scenes ot of desolation and amid wreck wreck- wreckage wreckage age greet the eyes ees ot of the re- re returned turned ned exiles For some there are the remnants of homes where currents have ha carrIed all before them Others more fortunate enter sagging sag struCtures water soaked III smelling wIth wih tune turo sodden and warped A coating ot of dirty slit silt Is op on the walls floors and furniture The Theland Theland land only a few weeks ago blooming Lh luxuriant crops ot oC corn and cotton Is an unbroken stretch ot of brown mud covered with a a. dank danl foul rot of oC dead vegetation Here and antl there the decomposing hulk ot of what was urns once a a. cow con a horse a pIg It a dog sickens the air TO THEM 1 I It ls is a a. land to flee from froni as the plague But to the returned ret ret- I It Is homo home and they set to fh rho iCed Cross has given ghen them Clothing and ample food with the promise or of more later The men go first Into the land where death has had his brief brIet reign and clear the way for the ther r return turn ot of the family Corpses ot of death animals are burned or buried deep Fathers and and sons old men and bos bo's side by side to the mud mud from the houses to the furniture where that thatis is possIble to build makeshifts for or beds and chairs they build fences looking to the return or of their work animals It If any were saved Then when nen the women and enter upon the task ot of actual house de the tho farmers plant It Is their first thought to make a crop It If possible at all events to produce food for the family Some ot them bent also are planting cotton luieS' luieS toll toil and worry worn and women worry and work But Dut they area arc not glum Louisiana has bad floods before beloro and many ot of the people have havo gone through flood lood reconstruction days |