The Monroe journal. [volume] (Monroe, N.C.) 189?-1965, 1919-11-28
BOIL. MEENIL IL A FARM
DEMONSTRATORS SAYS EDITOR
There l. Prosperity in Weevil-Ri,l,len
Alabama and Mississippi Because
They Grow Things Ia Eat.

The towns that have grown th'
most IN the cotton growing regiol
are those which manufacture cotton
thus getting the benefit of both the
cotton growing industry and the cot.
ton manufacturing industry, SAYS Col
Clawson of The Wilmington Star
Even the cotton growing and manu-
featuring industries combined have
Mt built any Southern Chicago. Cot
ton manufacturing has done more for
New England than cotton growing
has heretofore done for the South
when il was content TO grow cotton
and nothing else. However. the
South does not have to grow cotton
in order to be able to buy automo-
biles. The South does not have to
grow cotton in order to be prosper
Gus. Neither will the boil weevil
keep the farmers from being prosper
Gus. for down in boil weevil Georgia
there is prosperity in spite of the
weevil.
South Georgia has been infested
by the cotton pest for several years.
but in spite of ii. the farmers down
there are prosperous. They are even
ION Easy Street" if this is their con-
dition as described by The Commerce
tGal News
Ii is almost unbelievable. But it's
real fact A fact that spells pros
perity. Old debts have been liQui-
dated Mortgages have been lifted,
Homes have been bought and paid
for The farmer for once is in the
saddle. He is monarch of all he sur
veys. He is free from debt. He is
educating his children. He has re-
modelled his home. He owns more
hogs and cattle. He wears better
clothes. His wife has more of the
conyeniences and Injuries OF life. He
rides in his own automobile He sits
by his tiresde at night. and while
he smokes his pipe, his children are
happy and contented at his side He
sleeps soundly at night, free from
the nightmare of debt, For the farm
er, God be praised. is out Of debt
and on Easy Street.
THINGS down in South Georgia are
not looking as gloomy as the South
Carolina Automobile Association Is
seeing them in lower South Carolina.
There is prosperity in weeyilridden
Alabama and Mississippi, too, for they
have found out there are more things
to grow than the heecy staple.
The fact is. the boil weevil countr.
has been competing with the west
in feeding those who have cotton
it's" In Wilmington we are eating
pork and beef produced down in the
boil weevl country. Not only have
their packing houses been sending
their products here, but Alabama and
hog raisers have been
shipping their hogs to Wilmington
packing house market. II YOU eat
much "Alaga" on your buckwheat
cakes, at the price you have to pay
for not producing cane syrup your
self, you may know that it comes
from Alabama and Georgia.
We are beginning TO believe that
the boil weevl is a farm demonstra-
Tor. 1t might have been sent to eat
up our cotton as a warning to us that
unless we grow something TO eat for
ourselves we might some day have
The disagreeable experience of famine
The West can no longer
feed the Nation. The price we have
to pay the West for what we eat
IS proof enough that we cannot afford
10 depend on the West in the future.
II would be exceedingly foolish for
us to insist on feeding Billy Boil
Weevil" instead of feeding ourselves.
Grow cotton, but grow other things
hat the weevl won't eat.