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Newspaper
Andrews News
Location
Andrews, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1920
Page
4
The Andrews News urges reader signoffs for publication and notes cheaper flour and lion weather in January. It comments on pest control with peanuts, describes farmers deep plowing as insurance, and jests that Congress would earn little pay if paid by acts.
The letter argues that daytime service on municipal electric lines would save time and money for residents. It also criticizes South Carolina good roads legislation, saying road funding yields little result as long as roads remain rough and muddy.
Prof Long estimates the year's cotton loss in the state due to the Mexican boll weevil as conservative. The editor, who toured Beaufort County, notes widespread damage with fields full grown yet unpicked, many bolls ruined by the pest, yielding roughly one bale per twenty acres in most areas.
Farmers report steep drops in cotton income from boll weevil pressure. One landowner estimates rents drop from over a thousand dollars yearly to about a hundred. A large county gin shows 2,000 bales through 1918 but only 300 by October 1 1919, while 1919 planted acreage falls 20 percent from 1918. Despite losses, some insist they will keep cotton as a money crop.
An auctioneer teases a speedometer idea with flags marking speeds as a gramophone plays. A humorous exchange follows about Algy loving a glove counter girl who becomes a manicurist and later works for a dentist, ending the running gag about pursuit and employment.
The American Forestry Association proclaims the hermit thrush the most talented singer, surpassing even the nightingale. The bird has a reddish brown tail, bright back and head, and a heavily black spotted breast. It winters in the Gulf states.
W McDonald Lee, national director of the Anti-Saloon League, outlines a plan to spend nine million for home law enforcement, to Americanize foreigners, and to create a dry world by 1930. He argues money supports missions and suppressing liquor to counter Bolshevism and influence aliens, with emphasis on education and law enforcement.
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