By John Paul Lucas
Raleigh, March 16—“Unless our people in the cotton growing sections of North Carolina produce at home the things they need to eat and sufficient feed for their live-stock, they face bankruptcy, ruin and hunger.” This was the emphatic statement here of Senator Joe Brown of Chadbourn speaking of the farming conditions in eastern North Carolina and the “Live at Home” campaign which was recently inaugurated.
“In my section and in some other sections of North Carolina, there is already considerable distress as a result of the depredations of the boll weevil. Conditions in every section which has been even slightly invested by the boll weevil will be much worse during the coming year, and if our people will not profit by the experience of others, they have a dark and gloom period ahead of them. In some sections of South Carolina Georgia, where the farmers were as big fool as some of ours and grew cotton to the exclusion of all food and feed crops, there has been much suffering even for the very food necessary to sustain life and for adequate clothing. “When one considers how simple the remedy is in so far as actual living is concerned, he can not help but lose patience with the farmer who, in the face of boll weevil infestation, continues to neglect to have a year-round garden and keep one or more cows, a good flock of chickens and sufficient hogs to provide his supply of meats. If he doesn’t do this, he doesn’t deserve much sympathy, and even at that, sympathy is not going to keep his wife and children from suffering.”
From the front page of The Hickory Daily Record, March 16, 1922
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