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THE TENSAS ZAZETTE
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lensas Gazette Publishin Gomapanv, Ltd. Oftical Journal of the Parish of Teusas. Board of School Oirectors. Fifth Loisiaa Levee District and laTown of St. Joseph. 2.00 P A
EW ERIES-VOL. XXI ST. JOSEP, LOUISIANA, FRIDAY, MAY 26, 1922-
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rTHE RIVER-THE LEVEES
(Jeff B. Snyder of Tallulah in Memphis Commercial Appeal)
The aftermath of discussion by side walk scientists, which
always follows a great flood in the Mississippi River, is again
with us, following the mightiest river flood ever recorded.
The outlet theorist, the reservoir theorist, the diverted
channels theorist are all merely singing their lays.
And all of them directly oppose and flout, as of little
moment, the opinions of the most eminent engineers, past
and present, of America.
There was a time when there were no levees in Louisiana
save a few plough beds thrown up by a planter fronting on
the river across sloughs so as to equalize the height of his
land against the rising river.
In those good old days to which the aforesaid scientists
apparently long to have us return let us consider some things
that happened
When there Ware No Levees.
Gen. Claiborne, in his "History of Mississippi," says that
in the years 1814, 1815 and 1818 the entire country from
the Natchez Bluffs to Sicily Island was deep under water
from the river; that there was great suffering and distress; that
scarcely any crops were grown after the annual flood receded;
that the few people left in the flooded sections did not get
back the seed they planted because of crop failures.
Maj. Bedford, a pioneer of this (Madison) Parish, said
that very often he had known of people traveling in skiffs
from the Vicksburg hills to Delhi, on the Bayou Macon Ridge
A mass meeting in the newly-created Tensas parish, which
was attended by every land owner in the parish, directed their
representative in the Legislature to procure the peasage of
legislation enabling that parish to heavily tax its property
owners for levee purposes, resolving:
"That without levees we must abandon this parish to the
bull frog, the water moccasin and the alligator."
The aforesaid scientists should consider that
There Were Outlets Them.
And plenty of them; there was then an outlet system
that could not be reproduced today for less than billions of
dollars.
Every river and bayou, such as Bayou Macon, Baxter,
Tenses, Talla Bona, the various little Tensas, Cypress, Har
per's, Vidal, in Madisea Parish; Duorsett, Clark's, Choctaw,
Catfish, Shipps and many 6thers north of Red river were outlets,
not the drying up waterways we see today, but deep, rapidly
flowing outlets.
The same condition existed below the mouth of the Red
River, every few miles there was a deep, rapid flowing
outlet-and yet there were overflows in those days when nearly
all the land was inundated. annually-in fact, only the
highest ridges were cultivated-there was never any hope
for a crop en the lower lyhig land.
Gen. Lansing H. Beach recently said before the Louis
iana Societi at Washington:
"If theit were no levees there would be frequent oc
casions when Baton Rouge would be the last land above
water on the way to the gulf."
The Reservoir Faddist.
Is best answered in the words of the same Gen. Beach:
He placed in almost the same class with those sugges
tions the proposal to hold back the floods by means of reser
voirs. "If Lake Ontario," he said "were available as a reser
voir, and the Missisippi were discharged into it, at its present
rate of flood, it would raise the level one foot every 24
bourss."
There remains only
The Divergeat River Theorist.
He would have canals dug so as to divert the Ohio
River, the Arkansas and other tributaries, away from the
Mississippi and give them direct outlets to the gulf or to the
ocean, or in fact, anwhere away from the Mississippi, he
doesn't care about such small things as cuttisg through moun
tain ranges and running rivers up hill-they are but trifles
in the estimation of this scientist.
Gen. Beach has received many such suggestions. He says:
"The chief of engineers receives frequent suggestions from
ell-intentioned perseons as to the solving of problems of
handling the river. One suggestion was - the diversion of a
part of the water through an artificial waterway from St.
Louis to El huo. That plan failed to take into consideration
the topography of the intervening country. Another sugges
tion is that wells be drilled in the bed of the river so as
to permit some of the water to find its way through grvel
strata."
The Only Way.
The levee system in the opinion of engineers who have
carefully and scientifically studied the rivers, and in the
opinion of those of us who live along it, is the only method
of control.
Levees constructed to proper grade and section will hold
any flood that ever came down or ever can come.
The only obstacle is sufficient money to do the work
properly, and now.
For years the engineers have told us how high and how
strong the levees should be. We know that until they are
all built to the prescribed standard we will have "breaks"
here and there. The states and their subdivisons are not
financially able to do the job.
It is a national work from any sanle it may be viewed.
Between Vicksburg, Miss., and Delhi, La., a 40 mile
stretch, must pass every spoonful of water that falls in that
great valley between the Rockies and the Alleghanies-the
drainage of 31 states comes by our doors through the Mis
° Congress ought to provide the necessary funds to com
plete the job, and to complete it now, not to give the money
out in tabloids, but one .ood, strong, soffcient dose at one
time; so as to cure the evil at once.
Is it not best that the advice of the engineers should
be accepted by all? They are the doctors; why not believe
in their scientific study and conclusions and forget the va
rious fads and theories of the sidewalk scientists, and all
pull together and impress, as best we nlay, upon Congress,
asu sung by the American Lumerman's poet:
"If it's your Mississippi in dry time,
It's yours, Uncle, when it's wet,
If it's your Mississippi in fly time,
In flood time, it's your river yet.
There's no other way you can make it,
And so when I give the alarm,
Come get your darned old river and take it
Away from my timber and farm."
What the Mississippi Valley Association and the Rivers
and Harbors Congress should do is to make a long, hard,
strong pull at Washington, get the required appropriation
to complete the levees to the prescribed standard; and once
completed never again will you hear from the outletter, the
reservoir man or the divergent river faddest.
NOT WHAT WE CET. BUT WHAT
WE GIVE.
Dent ask "Has the world been a friend to me?"
But "Have I to the world been true?"
'Ti not what you get, but what you give,
That makes life worth while to you;
Tis the kind word spoken to the little child
Alt you wiped its tears away,
And the mile you brought to some careworn face,
That really lIbhts your day.
"is the huad you ela·p with an honest grasp,
That gives you a hearty thrill;
Tis the god ye peor into other lives,
t comes back your own to fill.
lTrhte dregs you drain from another's cup,
That makes your own seem sweet,
And the hour you give to your brother man,
.That cakes your life complete.
Tie the burdens you help another bear,
That make yeur own seem light;
rsP the danger seen for knother's feet,
That sbows you the path to right;
"Tis the good you do each passing day,
With a heart sincere and true;
For throw the world your very be *-
Its best will retuan to yo.
-Mabel Brown Deniuon.
Vergil's Aeneid
Graduating Essay Read by Miss Hazel Wasson
at Commencement Exercises St. Joseph
High School, May 18. 1922
The question that confronts girls
when they first enter high school is: 1
Whether they shall take Latin, as I
it is with them an elective subject.
When we entered high school, dis
regarding the warnings of the e"lder
pupils, we followed the advice of our
teachers, who told us that tatin is 4
essential to a successful col!ege ca- a
reer. We had great aspirations then
and could see ourselves in .he future i
at the very top of the ladder of suc
cess and fame.
Notwithstanding the hard work re- i
quired, we were delighted from the t
very first to find the intricate rela-I
tions between our own language and I
that of the ancient Romans and to I
learn the origin of so many of our I
words. By means of this most highly -
inflected language we were able to t
understand, as never before, th
grammatical relations between words I
and the fundamental principles of
languages.
We had heard so much about 4
Caesar, the numbers of Gauls he had t
slain, and the many high school stu- t
dents he had caused to fail, that we I
were very.proud when we were able I
to read his commentaries with flu-.!
ent ease. We campaigned with him t
in Gaul and fought with him hisal
many battles. We shared his honors t
and triumphs and wondered at the I
masterful generalship he displayed c
in extricating himself from apparent
ly hopeless positions and turning what t
appeared to be certain defeat into I
glorious victory.
The third year we were charmed It
by the unsurpassed eloquence of the I
distinguished orator, Cicero, as he i
gave his scathik g denunciations of a
the conspirator, Cateline, and the d
brilliant defense of his friend, the b
poet Archias, whom he proved to be t
not only entitled to Roman citisen- t
ship, but to honor in his adopted
city. The clearness of statement, the '
beauty of diction, and the regularity I
of construction of his oration in be- l
half of Pompey thrilled us thru and a
thru. t
As according to the adage: "Finis c
opus coronat"-the end crewns the 1
work, so does our last year's work
crown our whole coarse in Latin. 1,
It is a royal crown, too, studded-with i
glittering gems, for it reveals to us l
the wonderful beauty of the language, a
when used by an inspires poet, to r
give to the world one of its greatest t
epics. Only one poem in a language i
is worthy of being ealled a true epic, a
and the epic of some languages is b
yet to be written. But we have e
Homer's Illiad in Greek, Dsnte's 1
Inferno in Italian, Milton's Paradise I
Lost in English, and Virgil's Aeneid d
in Latin. All epies have some great 1
underlying purpose. Virgil's purpose I
in writing the Aeneid was to glorify a
Rome, to show that the Romans were a
direct descendants of the ancient I
Trojans, and to prove the ancient I
lineage of some of the proud fami- a
lies, especially the Caeears, who were r
his patrons.
The story is really a sequel to a
Homer's lliad and begins, where a
that ended, with the dest.ruction >f 4
Troy by the Greeks, af r a site s
of ten long years. It is replete with I
mythological referencws and reveals
to us how deeply religeus the Ro- c
mans were, causing us to wonder a
that a religion based, as theirs was, t
cc mere tradition an mere pigns and a
omens, could have such powerful in- t
fluence over the people. Virgil, as
did Homer, repreienti the gods Ma t
being deeply concerned s3 the affairs a
of mortals and absolutely controling t
their destinies. They are even rep
resented as opposing one another;
Juno, wife and sister of the great
Jove or Jupiter, favoring the Greeks,
while his daughter, the beautiful I
Venus, is the gelding spirit of the<
Trojans; in fact she is representedt
as teing the mother of Asn~es, the a
hero of the poem. t
The genius of the poet is dis- 1
played in his dramatic treatment of i
the story, for be opens the first book I
with a pleturesque description of a
terrible storm which throws Aeness
onto the shores of Afriaes, near the
city of Carthage, whideh the beatiful ]
queen, Dido, was building.
While wandering on the unknown
shore, to which the storm had drivn I
five of his twenty lhps, be meets his a
mother, the goddos, who has ap
peared in the form of a hatress, and a
she directs him to the city and tlls
him that he will flbd there hib, com
panions from the other ships, all of I
whom had lynded safe in asother a
harbor. To insure to him a warm we- I
come, Venus, goddess of love, sends a
C.pid to inspire in the queen a greati
admiration for Asses.
Cupid pesrforms his errand enly
too well and Dide reesve Aeneas
with honors appropriate to a pdace
At her reuest he tells the eteV ef I
umii sslntap bulog wih the
last day of the ten year siege and
the strategem of the famous wooden
horse that contained a ..umber of
Greek soldiers, who opened the gates
of the city that night to admit the
awaiting army, which rushed in and
completely destroyed the ancient
city with fire and sword and almost
annihilated the proud Trojan race.
Alas! why did they not heed the
warning of the priest of Laocoon, who
said, "Timeo Danavs, et dona fer
entes"-I fear the Greek even bear
ing gifts. The wild scenes and
fierce struggles of that night are
related most vividly and dramatically
by Aeneas, giving his own part in
the conflict and his almost super
human efforts to cave his beloved!
city. When he at last realized that
the gods were determined upon the
destruction of Troy, ani it was use
less to resist the Fates, he en
deavored to escape with as many of
his fellow Trojans as possible, and
carrd his aged father, Anchises,
thru the raging city on his shoulders.
Creusa, his wife, became separated
from him in the struggle and was
killed. When he returned to search for
her, her spirit appeared to him and
told him of her fate and urg~d him to
go back to his companions and escape
to the distant shore, where the gods
had ordained he should establish a!
city and nation.
In the third book, Aeneas tells us
that he prepared a fleet and set sail
for the unknown land, hunting the
site of the promised city, and trust
ing to the oracles of the gods and
fates for guidance. He built a city
in Thrace, but was 'compelled by,
an all-consuming pestilence to aban
don it, and Anchises learned that he
had given a wrong interpretation to
the ancient oracles when he advised
the establishing of a city there.
They landed at other places but
were driven from them by. the foul
Harpies, or the giant cyelops, or
sme other intervention of the gods,
until now, after six years wandering,
they had landed on Dido's shores,
driven by the winds and almost
wrecked by the recent stormn
The fourth book relates the sad
love story of the queen. She urged
Aeness to stay in Carthage and share
with her her throne. He is tempted
sorely to yield to the enticing allure
ments of the charming queen, but
the shade of his father appeared to
him and urged him to go to Italy
and fulfill the destiny designed for'h
him by the gods. Jupiter sat, Mer
cury, the swift messenger of thes
gods, for the purpose, and he pre
pared his fleet for departing. Dido,
divining his purpose, was over
whelmed with grief and had bir
funeral pyre built and as Aeneas
sets sail, she mounted it, killed her
self with the sword be had giveni
her, and as be looked sadly from
his ship to the receding shore, he
saw the flames of her funeral pyre,
mounting upward.
The fleet landed in Sicily oa the
anniversary of the death of Anchises,
and the fifth book is devoted to a
description of the game and contests
which Aeneas ordered to be celebated
in memory of his father. During the (
celebration, the Trojan women, tired I
of wandering about, and anxious to
settle in some permanent home, upon
the suggestion of the revenging Juno, 0
set fire to some of the ships, but
the flames were seen in time to-preL ;
vent the loss of more than two or I
three, and with the others, Aedeas
set ail again and in a short whble,
they lanmded at Cumae, on the West-.
en shore of Italy.
In tim sixth book, we were con
ducted with Aeneas by the priestess"
of Appolo into the regions of the
lower world. She lead him by namer
oas moasters, horrible in form ad
terrible to look upon, ad countl'es.
spirits of the unburied dead, doomed i
to wander about for an hundred years
before they eould be carried across
the Stygian floods into rest. The
boatman, Charon, influenced by the
right of the goldea bough which
Aeneas carried, took him and the
Sybil across into the Kingdoms of
Erebus. They saw ghosts of bables,
heart-broken lovers and dead war
riorn. They got a glance intp Tar
taros and the Sybil described the
seven punishments inflicted upon the
wicked by horrible Furlea. They fi
nally reached the peaceful bomeas of
the ood, and Aeneas met and talked
with the spirit of his father, who'
told him more of the great destlim dl
awaiting him. Then he showed him
the forms of his future desndeatnts
and foretold their great achievements,
and the poet very tIpgeniously uses
this opportunity to praise and flat-i
tar his patrons.
Thea they cams to two peat gate.,
ones of polished ivory, the other of
temnspmret hern-
Aai diorssed at o anf thblg
Our school suits are built to 4
double duty--to stand up for coe
parison in style with what other
boys are wearing and to stand
the rough and tamble after ssheel
hours.
Yod can judge of the style before
buying and if durability fals we
stand behind the suit to make
good.
For boys from K to 16 years, ear
special school suits at $2.00 we
a safe buy-four differeat msdols,
12 difterent patterns.
For boys from 4 to 8 ye $19.00
to $23.00 buys a good suit.
Waner & Sars Cs.
V:CKBUR'S, MIS.
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Str. "Percy Swain"
(EO. PrLNCS, Ca.rais
JNu. u. WANm(UNMm-rrI, luma
NutchZ asd Vibks urg, rel
aLgularTra-w s
Laves Natches Sandays, Tedays sat
Thursdays at 12 o'ohoe&, easa.
L.vbes Vieksburg Mondays, Wedges.
days sad Friday. a soos, or saisal
o 1 sMzesa bats.
as he peased,
Anchises hither leads his stps at
last
And thru the gate of Iv'ry he die
missed
His valiant off-spring and divilng
guest.
traiht to the ships Anea teoo
Embarked his men, and sleasd
along the sew:
Still coasting, till he sained Celets's
bay,
At length on the oosy ground his
galley moor;
Their heads are turned to oa, teir
stems to shore."
i The other sax books of the Amdad,
which we hope to read some time,
in the future, describe his wars with
the natives of Italy, his final se
cess in laying the tonad tioRn tLb
great city, Rome, and the bel-.
nings of the great Roman people.
CATARRHAL DEAFNESS CAIOT
BE CUIRD
by locl appication u t rep
reach Atc dsesed postdoa o the em.
Catarhal D)eafnem requsei
tional treatment. HALL' CATAMIU
Mig)IGitE Is a conatistlmel ria
dy. Catarral Dearfness amed 1I
an inflamed condition ef the magmpe
lining of the Eustachian Tubae Whn
this tube is inflamed yet hawe a
rumbling sound or isperfe Srnmg
and when it is entirely cleoed. ,
neo is the result. Unle the aIhm
matIon ca be reduced, yeur rbe(ia
may be aestroyed tgrever. W/,5
CAfARER MEDICINE acm thrg
e blood on the menemm earhes o
flamunmation and reoruag noerormal
ditions.
SCireular free. All Dru88
. . J. Cheney A Ca., Tdd Oe.
THE HARDING PSALM RlEAD IT
AND WEEP.
SHarding is now my shepherd, and I
am in want.
He maketh me to lie down on prk
benchesr; he leadeth me beside t
ifree soup house.
He restoreth my doubt in the Re
publican party, he leadeth me in tho
paths of destruction for his party
Yea though I walk throulgb' the val
ley of the shadow of stastation, I do
not fear evil, for thou art pinst me,
thy policies and the profiteers they
frighten me.
Then preperest a reduetion In
•ages before me in thd presene of
mine enemies; thou anontest my In
come with tase; my expenses ran
!.neth over my income.
Surely, poverty and onemployment,
will follow me all the days of this
normalcey adminitrntion, and I wil
dwell in a seated hese forever.
Prm a Former e~mhIeaa.
A. ,