The Prescott daily news., 1917-11-22

r,a second annual National Farm
 live stock Show at New Orleans,
 Nav 1O.ls. will have the only fair
 ,0osr,ntendent in khaki.
 If required pretty near all the power Ina, could be gotten together in these uuIted States, but General Manager Rsnnyson had his way. and John u Parker, Jr.. will again be at the had of the live stock department. Darker Is a stockman if ever there vas one. even if he still Is young ,r Everybody in the United States ,,ows the senior Parker as one of Ae most patriotic and independent ,tl,ens. He was Roosevelts most trsted leader in the south as long as Aa thought Roosevelt was right. When poo,eyelt. because of his opposition
 b Wilson. tried to take the Progress
 dyes to Hughes. Parker thought
 poosevelt was wrong and turned
 around and helped elect Wilson. John.
 If, oldest son and stll e boy, did not
 hothsr much about politics, but he in-
 osrtsd his fathers independence and
 hys for the open air. He preferred
 aolns things to going to college. and
 vksd to be given a chance on one of
 inc Parker plantations. Then a hilly
 wtste in West Feliciana. near Bayou
 Saya was turned over to him and
 comrade to convert into cattle para
 dise
 The boys were not given a blank
 check to fill in, for that Is no way to
 ,ssrn practical and profita ble farming.
 They had just about enough capital
 for small farmers foundation, and
 the rest of the programme was theirs to 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 own concrete sIlos out of the sand they hauled from the creeks. In only couple of years they had alfalfa. corn and other fields. Hereford and Angus grade steers. horses, mules and Shet- land ponies. Duroc hogs, Southdown and other sheep. goats and poultry, and were declaring dividends Just at the top of his triumph young Park CT was asked to go to the city and give hand to some of his fathers large affairs dividing his time be- tween the plantations and the cotton office As a live citizen, appreciating the value of fairs. he readily consent cd to give a hand to the National Farm and Live Stock Show. too.
 Young Parker entered a herd in the swine show last year and went out to the fair grounds 10 look after it's ar. rval. He found some congestion and confusion incident to the rush of a first attempt. and he strengthened things out He found the cattle in need of looking after and took charge here. He found a dozen and one things that had to be attended to, and attended to them. He was buyer and seller, he was master of transporta. ton and boss of the barns; he was Judge and a clerk; he was all things m all the avenues of helpfulness. and no did not even stop working when nisht came. He worked without ap- continent, without publicity and with. out pay, and his reward was that all tne stock exhibitors said that he made .ne road easy for them and that they aad not a complaint to voice Man aser Rennyson regarded the youngster @ almost the entire live stock staff, ana was sure' that with such co-opera. uon the National would become Inter- national ana the greatest fair in the country, So he appointed young Par her I've stock leader for life.
 when this years show was planned ana the premium list prepared the name and picture of. John NJ. Jr, were nlgh above all others. The trouble was mat Parker himself was not around. me war had come on. and the brave .oys were following the flag to the .ont' The nation realized early that .Oou was as vital as munitions and aso ordered the producers to remain NJ the blow With meat and grain