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Focus on America (ABC, 8-8:30 p.m.). The first in a series of ten award-winning documentaries, "Old Hand and the Weevil" tells the story of the drilling of an oil well...
Like a sharecropper's abandoned cabin, Georgia's Taliaferro County has been quietly decaying for 30 years, until little is left but the shell. When the boll weevil destroyed the cotton crops of the '20s, the young people began to pull out and head for the cities. The population dropped from 8,841 in 1920 to 6,278 in 1940 to 3,370 today. It is falling still. Says Mrs. Grace Beazley, a county health worker: "Our families are just an old man and his wife sitting on the porch together...
Ballots & Boll Weevils. Gene Talmadge had long followed the career of Georgia's mellifluous, rabble-rousing Senator Tom Watson. Gene approved of Watson's Populist movement and its appeal to country voters, and set out along the Watson trail to accomplish similar triumphs. The Georgia farmers of the 1920s were being battered by the boll weevil, would soon be battered harder by the Depression. Gene established himself as their champion. He filed for state commissioner of agriculture in the 1926 election, swept out a corrupt incumbent. When he could spare time, Herman helped by tacking up posters...
...land of the bell weevil everything else may be decadent, but mammy teaches her yung'uns to play the best lacrosse in the world. When Bruce Munro takes a 20-man squad for a six day tour of the South next week it will be only slightly less ambitious than a two-week barnstorming tour of the Big Ten by Lloyd Jordan and fifteen of his football players...
Said the Globe and Mail columnist in an appropriate final word: "Spare us any more of these symbols which evoke . . . religious bigotry, boll-weevil decadence and depraved mumbo jumbo...