The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-10-22
JOHN PARKER, R., 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 b gotten together in these
United States. but General Manager
L B. Rsnnyson had bis way. and John
N. Parker. Jr.. will again be at the
head Of the live stock department
Parker 10 = stockman II ever there
was one, even II he still 10 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
to 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 a 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 going to college. and
asked to be given a chance on one Of
the Parker plantations. Then hilly
estate in West Feliciana, near Bayou
Sara, was turned over to him and a
comrade to convert into cattle para
disc
The boys were not given a blank
check to fill in, for that is no way to
learn practical and profitable farming.
They had just about enoug capital
for a 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 a
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
or was asked to go to the city and
give q hand to some of his fathers
large affairs, dividing his time be-
tween the plantations and the cotton
office. AZ live citizen, approaching
the value of fairs, he readily consent
ed to give hand to the National Farm
and Live Stock Show, too.
Young Parker entered herd in the
swine show last year and went out to
the fair grounds to look after Its ar
rival. 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
there. 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 a
Judge and a clerk; he was all things
In all the avenues of helpfulness. and
he did not even stop working when
night came He worked without ap-
pointment. without publicity and with
out pay, and his reward was that all
the stock exhibitors said that he made
the road easy for them and that they
had not a complaint to voice. Man
ager Rennyson regarded the youngster
% almost the entire live stock staff.
and was sure that with such co-opera-
ton the National would become Inter-
national and the greatest fair in the
country. So he appointed young Par
ker live stock leader for life.
When this years show was planned
and the premium list prepared the
name and picture Of John NJ, Jr.. were
high above all others The trouble was
that Parker himself was not around.
The war had come on. and the brave
boys were following the flag to the
front. The nation realized early that |;
food was as vital as munitions and
had ordered the producers to remain
ct the pillow: With meat and grain |