The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1917-11-01
JOHN PARKER, jR., TO WEAR
KHAKI AS LIVE STOCK BOSS

The second annual National Farm
and Live Stock Show at New Orleans.
Nov. 1919, will have the only fair
superintendent in khaki.
1t required pretty near all the power
that could be gotten together in these
United States, but General Manager
L B. Rennyson had his way, and John
N. Parker, Jr., will again be at the
head OF the live stock department
Parker is stockman If ever there
was one, even IL he still is a young
ster. Everybody In the United States
knows the senior Parker as one of
the most patriotic and independent
citizens. He was RoOsevelt's most
trusted leader in the south as long as
he thought Roosevelt was right. When
Roosevelt, because OF his opposition
10 Wilson, tried to take the Progress
sives to Hughes, Parker thought
Roosevelt was wrong and turned
around and helped elect Wilson. John,
Jr., oldest son and still boy. did not
bother much about politics, but he In
herited his fathers independence and
love for the open air, He preferred
doing things to going0o college. and
asked to be given a chance on one OF
the Parker plantations. Then a hilly
estate in West Feliciana, near Bayou
60 nd g,
comrade to convert into a cattle para
disc.
The boys were not given q blank
check to fill In, for that is no way 10
learn practical and profitable farming
They had Just about enough capital
for a small farmers foundation, and
the rest Of the programme was theirs
10 work out They did it. They built
up with the material they found
around them; they did not waste any
time on scrubs, and they went after
crops In keeping with the high-grade
stock they raised. They constructed
their barns and hog houses out OF the
waste wood, they erected their owl
concrete silos out of the sand they
hauled from the creeks. In only q
couple of years they had alfalfa, corr
and other fields, Hereford and Angus
grade steers, horses, mules and Shet
land ponies, Duroc hogs. SouthdowI
and other sheep, goats and poultry
and were declaring dividends JUS
at the top OF his triumph young Park
Or was asked to go to the city anC
give a hand to some OF his father!
large affairs, dividing his time be
tween the plantations and the cotton
office. As a live citizen. appreciatinl
the value Of fairs, he readily consent
ed to give a hand to the National Farm
and Live Stock Show, too.
| Young Parker entered herd In tn,
swine show last year and went out :,
the fair grounds to look after its ar
rival He found some congestion AM
confusion incident to the rush OF
first attempt, and he straightene,
things out He found the cattle Il
need OF looking after and took charg
there. He found a dozen and on
things that had to be attended to, an,
attended to them. He was buyer an
seller, he was master Of transports
ton and boss OF the barns; he was
Judge and clerk; he was all thing
IN all the avenues of helpfulness, an
he did not even stop working whe
night came He worked without al
pointment, without publicity and Will
out pay, and his reward was that a
the stock exhibitors said that he mad
the road easy for them and that the
had not a complaint to voice. Maj
ager Rennyson regarded the youngste
a. almost the entire live stock stat
and was sure that with such cooper;
ton the National would become Int
national and the greatest fair in tn
country. So he appointed young Pa
ker live stock leader for life.
When this years show was planne
and the premium list prepared tn
name and picture Of John NJ, Jr, wer
high above all others. The trouble wa
that Parker himself was not arOun'
The war had come on, and the brav
boys were following the flag to tn
front. The nation realized early thu
food was as vital as munitions an
had ordered the producers to renal
at the plow. With meat and graf