The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 30, 1927, Page 14

awe nn Aes PENS? ) cal SO MAJESTIC, SO SLOW ‘That's the ‘Father of Waters’) i). the tand. Vown in the creek = of Today Which Has Made! beds ee AL | grow, birds of br 150,000 Homeless and | from tree to tree, and sing the song Caused Huge Property, *?"#- Pe we) Losses, According to Ar-!, A%d ‘attered thro domain Of King Cotton are many ticle Written By Memphis 5™#!!, outposts “pleasant little towns Editor Pi cypress ant pluma trees of white houses and picket fences; a bank with an ambitious ¢' Z eral stores — a forum to rs IN ELLS "as mighty problems. * Memphis, Apri Rose bushes and big yards, and the beginning, man has guthered at| nted churches with mellow ‘the river, It has enriched his soil, 1 horses with drooping *'watered his flocks and herds, hitching posts, and root about contentedly. nt, genial, soft-speaking peo and ‘transported his goods to the market -places. | Men crowded in along the Nile and settled there, they moved in along the Rhine, and the Tiber and the Danube; and more than 1900 years ago, when Caesar's galley swept up the gloomy Thames, they were there, peering out from the un- derbrush wih startled eyes. The river has always called with -® lure like that of the sea, and man/ has always built his proudest citi on their bluffs, | | | white-pillared on owners live in the placid manner of bellum days This is the delta section of Mi: sissippi, this is the cotton sec of Arkansas, this is a crayon sketch hat vast section which ; nes rests so peacefully | arms of | Today, there are more than 150,000) the i people in this vast section from whom . the Father of Waters enaway.| But now this vast countryside lies | Their lands have been ravaged, their| under water. These little towns homes wrecked, and thei valued| stick up queerly out of the muddy; possessions sent bobbing along the| flood about them. Rowboats ply to | current like corks on a inill pond. d fro in the towns which are still To understand what has, happe inhabited. | to this fertile valley of the Missis-| In others, there is np life, for | sippi, one must understand whut was| those who lived there have moved there before. away. Some are in tents, gazing from | om Cairo to Vicksburg, the Mis-| open flaps at a great, silent stretch | coils and uncoils lazily, kiss-! of water—and wondering. i he banks on either side with aj Where the river caressed the jfas- | zh affectMenate kiss. It winds/tures, there is desolation. A crow along by pleasant meadows, and|flits in the woods under a glower- | through green-leafed groves; it laps|ing sky, and the birds of brilliant softly ashi landi laces. | plumage are silent and still. From the river back there stretch he vast fields which lose themselves in| Where once there could be heard the purple smudge hanging over the! the call of the plowman to his mule, timber line far away. In the spring,| there is silence—a brooding silence these fields ure ruffled with ¢ th hang like a heavy sub- | furrows where the gelid soil stance over the whole country. been turned up; in the summer, they Roads under water, and there shine like white fireflies as the cot-) is heard no lumbering of heavy wag- ton bursts into bloom. on, no crack of the whip, or clucks of , Powder-puff clouds hang motionless | the driver. A vast silence everywhere, ‘ Take a look into a mirror, and judge for yourself if your house and yard are the only things needing a clean-up. Ladies’ and men’s wearing apparel needs regular dry cleaning. +} CITY ean Up and Paint Up CLEANERS . AND DYERS Jim’s wife has the right idea, and “Jim* ig get- || ting the, point in question “straight from the shoul- der.” 4 The point is this: Before you “clean up” around the yard and “paint, up” your fences and the house, be sure to “fix up” the place. If you do this and then paint up, the job will be properly done and lasting. “We have the marie, ater leis, whether it Be a floor for the porch, shingles for the roof, screens for the windows, or planks for the front steps. We can rou a also. good carpenter to do the work in a 17, or come at 601 Main shout this vast): » Iwith drear skies and gray, wind-| driven clouds, Now narrow double n up ackbone ridj y of which th stand refugees, driven up from the iting to be ir househol, p bend up t once~-wom thought of their flowers and gar. dens, lean-faced men with though land under water, and possibly tha i then cl tle themse refugee camps, by toiled in the fields and int ; they have built well; they ered at the river to water their stock, and ship their commerce and build their cities; to take from life, and give to this jcountry a civilization, If the river is inexorable, if it is jo still/grim, if it is relentless, then these reed fine horses and race them, who | people are an inexorable, a grim, a! people, too. They will not y of them are refusing ed, preferring to stay with t homes, despite great danger. they love their lands, and they come back again, and build again—and again the river will take away. A circle they have moved in for years and years. This flooding of the Mississippi valley, a disaster so calm, so unhur- ried, so slow and relentless that it gives the lie to dramatic incident. There is no fleeing as if mad wolves were at one’s back. A levee breaks there is a swirl of yellow water, | : THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE wet a boiling and bubbling, and a sort of | hoarse ar, then ull is calm again. their lives to toil and labor The Mississippi ut flood time e i i that they might build, then go back oves with slow majesty, but it) + ; moves surely. urrent coils and|}and buyild again, when their work it ant reptile, but /has been torn ruthlessly aside. no rush and roar, no sound! So it is on the, Mississippi, and a, no furious white-cap- so it always ‘will be. After a time, ves, Instead, this treacher- Men will s friend of man has an oily loo! es like an oily flood, with niling face to the busines But there is drama in. people who The ; warm sun will bring out t! alks, ind soon’ the voice of plowmen will The skien, will be clear, and the clouds will’ hang once more like ing flood with vivid pen, | powder-puffs in a blue dome. , Life wedie gull drama. of this | will move ‘on, busy but placid.’ For r natéga moves slowly, and) they are a vali ys dran@bically. And yet these printed words can- t give the full dramatic touch 0} as happened. One cannot de along the river. | \ Proper Wiring in Your Home Is | Most Important General Electrical Work, Fixtures and All Kinds of Electrical Supplies it people who live; SATURDAY, APRIL 30, SHOT BY A MOWER the forchend. 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