La Grande evening observer., April 29, 1927, Image 7

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VOLUME XXV.
OREGON. FRIDAY, APRIOOTTT
"NUMBER"
m
MANY YEARS OF
POVERTY FACES
FLOODED SOUTH
Mississippi Valley Disas
ter of Tremendous Inv
. port Reconstruction
, Will Be Huge Task.
' Hjr Itruco Cation "
4; , .,. NK,Y Service Writer .
'MEMPHIS, Tenn,. April 29
And I looked and behold a
Polo Home; and his namo thut But
on him wnn Death. . "
Tho HsHls8ppt valley region to
day la one vast- valley of dissolu
tion. :
UeneaUi tho sodden ruin clouds
tliut a driving wind whip? low over
tho great waste of waters, ovor
GO.000 pcoplo aro homelcus und ono
who is so minded can hoar tlio
phOMtly hoof-beata of threa of tho
Four Horsemen of log-end, rldlmr
on a mission of fatriinc, pestllenco
,tj und dauth down a thouaand-mJIo
V palhwuy that cutn through tho
' heart of the continent.
l-'or 'mllu on uncounted mi to the
horizon hus dissolved In a gray
wasto . of water. Tho Mississippi
has become an ocean; Us tribu-
tnr.cn have burst their bonds, and
towns, villa cos, plantations and
homesteads aro dlwolvlnu beforo
their waves by wholesale.
A Great Disaster
Tho rest of tho country does not
grasp the extent of tho Pood's
devastation and the Imperative
need for real rollcf work.
It dors not reallzo thut southern
financiers estimate It will tuku ut
least five yearn for tho south to re
coyer from this blow; that tho
flood probably will bo tho jrroateat
In history; that tho reconstruction
problem tho valley will face when
tho flood subsides and bear In
mind that tho wuters In omo
places have not yet reached thotr
crest will be as serious as any
thing the south hua faced slnco
the reconstruction days following
the Civil Wt r. Dlra poverty for
several years faces thousands who
huvo lost everything In tho swirl
ing flood waters.
Kully 3,000,000 acres aro under
water today. Tho property dam
age probably will bo ut least $150,
000,000. Tho death toll of storms
and floods already Is close to 800.
Klve slates lie directly in the
path of tho ghostly riders of reso
lution. . ' "
The Mississippi and Its tribu
taries have inunduted western Ken
tucky, southeastern Missouri, tho
custom half of Arkansas, western
Tennessee and western Mississippi.
On Wild lUnipaffo -
, Xn most of these states tho i
flooded area extends 25 miles in-
land for the full length of tho Mis- j
3lsslppl. In. ArkansuB a strip of 50
WET BUT LUCKY
QUICKER THAN TOAST
qmkscs
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: That rich and wonderful QUAKER FLAVOR.
... " Demand the genuine.
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When tlio wIiikh ot tlm iilnn
ho wum tontlnK ovor , Washington
collapsed at 40(HJ fcot, Ueuloii
liat Stephen 8. Mi'Olollun.- Wovll
IJuk Hkymun, Itniicd' villi . Ills
imracliufe.' lie landed in tlio J'p-'
tuinuc, , was flshocl out . u'iid
bi-uimlit a.shuro, : whou this; pic
turo wuh iiiqilo. r." ' ' - ,:,Vi
squiiro.1 miles known ;; s. tho St.
Kruncis'tmstn Is under wtitor.''.,'
Tim .Mississippi in its', wild riso
hus abandoned Its old. channel.. In
nuiny places, and is, rutjilcssly
cutting out a new one,' inlkq. re
moved. It is ' making" islu-hds .' of
whole cities.. It .is cutting 'spnio
towns in hair. . It is transferrins
farms and ' pluntutlon f four ono
statu to another.. ' ' '.'
Lands prepared for sprlnir
planting nro under wuter.'-'.Thpu-sands
of farms will, he totally .un
productive this year und next... A
huge section of the south will hityo
to live on credit for many, many
months possibly a few years. '
' f : Credit IsUy Noerieri
lHit the credit 'inuchinery too is
lielng swept away on the raging
flood tides.- curried downHtream
.with the. moi-u. tangible assets lllco
liarna n4 housfa and corn cribs.
The bad ' cUon. year had already
taxed , banks In this rcirion to tho
utmost: Koorly evrry farmer In tho
Rffcatod neighborhood v already
hi debt; either to tho rornor storo
orito his baok. beforo tho flood
ennio. .Honk after bank has buen
forced .to closn lis doors; when tho
flood Is over many inoro will havo
to, follow suit. .
Kitty yri of progress huvo
been knocked out by tho rising
waters. Charity Is noeded, badly:
but moro thai) charity will bo required-"
In tho Mississippi valley
this summer. Outside capllul
must pour In IMtho wholo region
Is not (o sink Into ono of tho worst
slumps In history.
"When tlio' flood ,gocs down"
that ,ls. the phraso on everyone's
lips. Hut -tho crest' in most places
has not even boon-, reached yet;
nd ono gets tho Impression, In go
ing throuch tho devastated region,
that tho wuters somehow are. not
going to reed'. 'It seems-us If
nature, dissatisfied with tho Mississippi-valley,
had undertaken to
tnko-lt ovef completoly. turning
valleys' into lakes and hills Into
Islands, and wiping out the.' results
of decades' of slow toll.
X -Oolr. Only tle lUxl Cross
- One 'wonders.- too, , what tho
country at large would do lt .lt
cotlld be made-to 'reallzo tho. ex
tent of tho damage. i
, In Nicaragua somcthlngliko a
thousand ' Americans faced possi
ble property loss, and upwards ot
6000 marines ana iuejaenei
wore hurrlpd to the sccno to pro
tect them. i
In . China Amcrlcun lives and
property were menaced by civil
warfare and a wholo fleet, with
threo regiments of marines, went
there us fast as they could bo sent.
Hut here, in tho heart of tho
continent, more thun IKu.OOU peo
ple havo lost their homes und
every bit of property they ownv
They uro huddled in refugeo
camps, where tho pestilence and
famine brought hy tho Four
I Horsemen nre stalking in broad
daylight. And tho lttd Cross Is
tho only national organization on
duty!
Freak Weather
Tho worst of the story bus not
been told. Tho Missouri river Is
rising, giving alurm to u section as
yet unvlslted by tho flood. Count
less small, unheurd-of streams aro
being transformed Into mlniuturo
MlHslsslppls. each spreading trag
edy and ruin over the countryside'.
St. Louis und Kansas City aro be
ginning to cast worried glances at
thu gauges that toll tho water lev
els. What tho next few days may
hold no oiiu can tell.
This ffpi-ing has brought some o'f
the freakiest weather In history.
Torrentiul rains, as- great as 14
inches in 10 hours, have Increased
the flood menace. Ono Is reminded
of tin- blblirul turrents that fell
for 40 days und 40 nights. Tho
skies huvo remained louden, day
after day. In other parts of tho
country thoro nro cyclones and
tornadoes with premature "heat
waves," iu!ctly followed by at-,
most zero temperatures. 1
Northern Cities
Are Celebrating
Event of 1792
8 K ATT LIS. Apr. 2!. (AD One
hundred and thirty-flvo yours ago
tuduy Captain Ueortfe Vancouver,
the British ex pi brer, and Captain
Kobert Oruy. un Amorlcun, con
duct lnf( expeditions of discovery fur
tholr respective countries, acci
dentally met off the Ht rail of Juan
de Kuca.
. Commeniorutini; tho historic
ovent. Governor Holuiid If, Hartley
of WuHhlnKtun and I'remler John
Oliver of lirlttsli Columblit, us well
as tho mayors of l'ugot Hound und
Urltlsh Culumblu cities und others,
fathered In Houttlo today.
Captain (iray turned his sloop
"Columbia" to tho south to discover
tho great Columbia river. and take
possession of the territory for the
United States. Captuln Vancouver
passed through tho strait to dis
cover and name lutret Sound and
to find thut It was not tho long
sought Northwest Vuhhuko.
The waters which Vancouver dis
covered in 17U2 huvo developed
Into ono of the great trado urterles
of the world. Twenty-seven million
ton of cargo moved lust year
through tho Struita of Juun do
Kuca.
A PurlH-mado divorce for nit
American cont on an average $3,
000. Tho top price 1b aomotlmes ub
high as $10,000,
that makes
the.
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fine texture, smooth, rich
creamed dishes all made
with Borden's Evapo
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Made In ' The Northwest
A tall can of Bordcn'f .
(with an equal part of
water) Rives you four
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