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Established 1S44. THE PRESS AND BANNER ABBEVILLE, S. C. The Press and Banner Company 1 Published Tri-Weekly Monday, Wednesday and Friday. I Entered as second-class matter at post office in Abbeville, S. C. Terms of Subscription: One Year $2.00, Six Months $1.00! Three Months .50 Foreign Advertising Representative , AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION WEDNESDAY, JULY 5, 1922 THE BATTLE OF MOInMOUTH I One hundred and forty-four years 1 ago, a year and a half after Wash ington's brilliant flanking blow a-1 gainst the British at Princeton, which ' has just been appropriately com- ' memorated, the Battle of Monmouth' was fought, on June 28, 1778. In its lo/nvim'tlnir mrtTnl infllipnf?p it was as JllOpii 1 U1X5 effective as the Princeton engage-[ ment. Under Sir Henry Clinton the Brit-j ish forces had evacuated Philadelphia; and started for bases in and around New York. Washington was soon at J: their heels. Near what is now Free- ; hold, New Jersey, early in the morn- ; ing of June 28, 1778, came the first collision. It was between the enemy and the forces of the American Gen 1 1 T /.a +Vnf anl^Jor nf fAT* Crell bUitriCd JJCCj uiab oviuiv*. w* . tune concerning whose loyalty to the I patriot cause history has raised grave1 doubts. He had been sent forward to', harass and hold the enemy in check until the main army under Washing- . ton, then at Englishtown, three or four miles away, came up. The sound of the firing brought to the front j Washington, accompanied by Lafay-. ette and others of his staff, at full gallop. He saw the Americans in a disorderly retreat which was fast degenerating into a rout. There is now a marker at the place ( on the highway where Washington met Lee. What he said to that officer is partly matter of history, partly of tradition. Lafayette, who was' present, ?said that "His Excellency's face was terrible." Here Washing-! "Damn !" that has IU11 W??W ^ passed into history. ' Under Washington's firm hand the retreat was halted, the lines were' reformed, the rest of the army came up, the enemy was checked, driven back, and at night was glad to steal j away to Sandy Hook, leaving some. 300 dead, wounded and prisoners behind. The loss of the American forces was sixty-nine killed and a-' bout 160 wounded. j Such was the Battle of Monmouth, an engagement rich in dramatic ana picturesque episodes from the Wash-, ington-Lee meeting to Molly Pitcher1 tarrying water on that fearfully hot day to the American soldiers on the j firing line and seizing the rod fromj the hands of a wounded artilleryman, herself to ram home th| charge. The American officers in the action | inrluHpd nearlv all the creat heroic! figures of the Revolution. Nathanael Greene of Rhode Island, by many re-, garded as Washington's ablest gen-j eral; Mad Anthony Wayne of Penn-. Sylvania, who a year later swept down on Stony Point and captured all of the garrison that survived the rough handling he gave them; big Henry Knox of Maine, who, with his wife carrying his feword concealed under the folds of her cloak, ran the Gates p'cket lines at Boston in timQf to clo valiant service at Bunker Hill;, Lafayette, Aaron Burr and Alexan-J der Hamilton, whom Burr was des tined to kill sixteen years later un-( der the Weehawken cliffs?all these were on that Monmouth field. There are two Monmouth battle monuments. The fine one at Free hold was dedicated with appropriate ceremonies a few years ago. The other is that superb old Colonial Ten nant Church that antedates the bat tle by thirty years. The church look ed down on the hottest of the fight ing. It was a battle hospital. Wound ed and dying American soiaiers were laid in its pews. It bears many a bul let scar. Gleaming white now as then on its hill crest, in the cemetery at its feet sleep soldiers of the Revo lution and of all our wars. It is more than a monument, this old Tennant Church. It is a shrine. The American Red Cross has built approximately 754 miles of railway in China in fighting famine. THE INSECT MENACE The great war of the world was described and pictured and its in creasing virulence foretold by Mr. Lefroy at the Royal Institute, Lon don, in a lecture as jrrim as it was economically important, says the Daily Mail. The point was that man is not as dominant as he thinks he is. The real dominance belongs to the insect. The lecturer gave fourteen ex amples, all more or less blood curd ling. His first instance is the boll weevil, which attacks the cotton plant. No kind or sort of preventive has been found after twenty years'] work, and its ravages are now of such dimensions that cotton growing j is being given up wholesale in the! United States. Nor is the cotton weevil the worst insect. Man's most threatening ene my in the world appears to be the Argentine ant. It reached England in 1918, and has spread half over the world, especially Spain, since 1897. This minute insect has eaten babies in their cradles in the Argentine, has completely wiped out the bird* of Madeira by eating their nestlings,) and is ruining both the orange and j ?Unwoctc in manv nlaces. L'UllCC n<^i ? v-ov.o ... ... ^ r It often kills the plants, not di rectly, but by encouraging other in sects, especially green fly, which it keeps as man keeps cows. It even builds houses for them, acts as doc tor to them, and defends them from enemies. At the same time the ant, which is omnivorous, carries and spreads many of the worst human diseases. It may, perhaps, find a con genial home in London. Mr. Lefroy said many startling; things. The flea has caused 7,000,000 deaths in India by carrying plague, j The housefly kills 1,000 children I a year in ?.ngianu uy impai u?g m-1 fant diarrhoea; and flies are as nu merous as they were 500 years ago. They carry typhoid, enteric, cholera and dysentery. The system of sanitation in Meso-i potamia was ideally designed for breeding flies. A number of women are on the verge of nervous breakdown because of the prevalence of that almost in visible house mite which recently turned a man out of the house in Cardiff. The beetle that destroyed the oakj roof of Westminster hall is at work] in St. Paul's and very many church es and old buildings. The house fly is the cause of typhus in Russia and will wipe nations out ii conditions prevent cleanliness. In spite of such horrors, Mr. Le froy said he was an optimist. Intel lectual man should win against blind insects. They were working for mil lions of years before man arrived, and it is only ten years ago that our board of agriculture appointed its first economic biologist.?Exchange. CONTRACT IS AWARDED FOR NEGRO HOSPITAL Washington, June 30.?Award of a contract for $313,659 for the aiechanical equipment of the Uni ted States Veteran's hospital for negro disabled soldiers to be con_ structed at Tuskegee, Ala., to No_ land Clifford Company of Newport Va., was announced today by the treasury. Tne work includes tne in-: stallation of a boiler plant outside heating, electric, water and sewer services and dt is to be completed by February 1, 1923. v - GUARDS AT BRIDGES On Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louie Railroad Atlanta, July 4.?Armed guards have been stationed at its bridges between Atlanta and Chattanooga, the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway announced here today. Ai 1 i... - r (L. ? ? ? I isiner property ui mc iuau aiow i is being guarded, it was said, the I step being taken as a matter of pre caution during the shopmen's strike. The road also announced that seven ty-five out of 250 positions in its Atlanta shops were filled today eith. er by returning employes or by new, men. G. C. Whipple, business agent' of the local shopmen, asserted, how ever, that there were practically no applicants for work at any of the railroad shops here today, and he also declared that, ultimatums issued by the N. C and St. L. and other roads for their shopmen to r?turn or have| their places declared vacant were being ignored. 'TIS FIFTY YEARS SINCE LAST VISIT D. T. Wilson of Chicago Back In Native State?Long Time Printer Fifty-four years is a long time but that's how long it's been since D. T. Wilson of Chicago visited South Carolina the last time. He arrived in Columbia yesterday fol lowing an absence of more than half a century, and is spending a few days with the family of his late brother, George M. Wilson, 2218 Gadsden street. "Can we quote you as saying that Columbia has changed much since you saw it the last time?" a reporter for The State asked Mr. Wilson. "You certainly can," he said, laughing and calling atten tion to the fact that when he left here in 1868 the old capital city was quite a different looking place from what it is today. Mr. Wilson, a native of Abbeville district, has been actively eneraeed in the printing business since Janu ary 26, 1866, when he started his apprenticeship on the Abbeville Banner. He later worked on the Abbeville Press, the Atlanta Con stitution and several papers tn small Georgia towns. He went to Chicago in the '70s and after ser vice on The Tribune, went with the Chicago Evening Post, four days before the first issue of that daily. He has been on The Post's payroll continuously ever since. The Post is now in its 33rd year, and Mr. Wilson, while past tnree score and ten, is actively at work in the com posing room every day except when he takes a short vacation as he is doing now. During the war period he worked three years without miss ing a day. In his early days as a printer, Mr Wilson worked lor a time in Co lumbia on The Phoenix. As far as he knows there is no printer ir Columbia today with whom he worked at that time. If there is, he would be glad to meet him. He remembers well, however, the late Julian Selby. 'Mr. Wilson said last night thai though he had been here only a few hours, he was much pleased with his visit to South Carolina. He passed through Greenville yester day morning and viewing the citj from a car window said he noticed that Greenville, too, had changed some in this half century.?The State. HOSPITAL BIRTHDAY PARTY The following is the program for the Hospital birthday party which will be held Thursday, July 6th: Parade. Music?Hatch's Concert Band. Birthday Cake Float, drawn by five Cupids, driven by a Fairy. Hospital Baby?Rolled by a beau tiful trained nurse. Decorated Doll Carriages rolled by little girls. Decorated Velocipedes, boys and girls. Decorated Bicycles, boys and girls. 8:00 P. M. Concert?Hatch's Band. Opera House 8:30 P. M. Picture and Vaudeville Program. Music?Hatch's Band. Song?Hospital Birthday by girls. Turner Somersault Orchestra. Uomedian Dance?Jimmie Burns Awarding of Parade Prizes. Hospital Baby?First speech and Song. v Music?Hatch's Band. Picture Program?"Old Folks at Home;" Doris May in "To Eden and Return." Immediately after the parade the birthday party will be held. The lit tle Fairy with her five cupids will place the money containers around the monument. Get your "Foot" now from the committee. Fried chicken, sandwiches, ice tea and ice cream will be sold. PRACTICE DRILLS Practice drills of the Abbeville Fire Department will be held every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon be tween the hours of 6 and 7 o'clock and all volunteer firemen are re. nnooto/l +n ho nrocprif-. anH take Dflrt. Delegates are soon to be selected to represent the Abbeville Department at the state meeting of the Firemen's Insurance Association, and it is de sired that Abbeville make a good showing at the State meeting. r COTTON NERVOUS AFTER RECESSION Following the predicted reaction which carried July cotton from just a shade under 23 cents to around 21 cents the market turned ner vous. Many factors are at work, with their influences about evenly distributed on each side of the mar ket. Because of their irregular play however the counter-balancing brings about a see-saw movement rather than the establishment of a dead center. It is realized that the next move is likely to be a sharp one, with little to herald it. I On Tuesday, the first notice day,! j notices for the delivery of more i than 100,000 bales were issued to ! commission houses of the New York Cotton Exchange. The tend ers were remarkably heavy but were stopped in a surprisingly short time. The Spot Cotton houses seemed to be ready to stop any notices that came their way. Weather conditions have improv -i ?- 1?l ?-?. ea smct; uur i?si/ review ua wic sit uation, and the government report next Monday?July 3?will show the condition as of June 25. The report will 'be much better than was expocted. How much better is the problem that has made, cotton circles nervous. The crop was started late and for this reason a few days or two weeks of favor able growing weather at this period will have a pronounced effect on its; apparent and actual condition. The advance in cotton recently also has I stimulated the farmer to putting his best efforts forward towards making a good crop. He is taking much more care of his crop now than he was a month v or six weeks I ago. Cotton is seling for over $100 , a bale and this means much more I to the farmer than the possibility ' of getting $75 or $80. The im 'iprovement in ground and weather ; conditions coincided with the ad 1, vance to 23 cents here and he is out j working hard. ' I (But it must also be recognized ( that even with the (improvement that has been noted in the past . week or so the weather from now 1 on must be exceptional if a big 11 crop?if even an adequate crop? , j is to be raised. The grower's feel i ings may be raised greatly almost r'overnight and the fears of the i' trade may be stirred up with equal I rapidity, but it takes more than a k; mere change in the outlook to add ! a half million or a million bales to j the outturn. What has happened is J simply that for several days, a week | and in some sections a fortnight, | the outlook has shaped up some what better. The effect upon price ideas of a v?!y favorable report Monday by the government must be taken into s consideration, however. The Finan cial Chronicle's report suggests an , increase of 10.5 per cent in acre age and adds that a good crop can be raised if the weather is favor able, even up to 14,000,000 bales, which we regard as hand-painting the rose. Private condition reports show increases up to 13 per cent in acreage ?.nd a condition of 74.9. On the other hand, the Giles report j {forecasts a condition of 70.9, an I increase of 8.1 per cent in acreage and a crop of 10,900,000 bales. Until the government figures are out the market will be nervous. Out of the way, however, and at_ tention once more will be directed to the demands of trade and the possibility of a crop that will not be sufficient to carry comfortably to the making of the 1923 crop.] For the moment it would seem to ! be well to go slowly but on any pro j nounced recessions from current levels the October and December options may be purchased if well protected and with a vaew to aver aging down should the government figures cause a further drop. But we do not believe that a condition report of 75 should be construed as bearish?and really look for it to be under this figure. SPRINGS & CO. TO COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY Miss Eva Seawright of Donalds was gTies^ of Miss Jessie Chap man pf.College Place Monday. She and Miss Chapman went yesterday to Charleston, where they will be joined by Miss Sadie Parker of Georgetown, and will sail for New York to spend six weeks in study at , Columbia University.?The State. CO-OPERATION The Planters Bank works for and with its customers. STATEMENT OF CONDITION At the Close of Business JUNE 30, 1922. RESOURCES Loans and Discounts $197,452.30 Overdrafts NONE. Bonds 20,482.00 Banking House 11,000.00 Furniture and Fixtures .. 7,000.00 < Real Estate 4,500.00 Cash and Due from.Bks. 26,878.92 TOTAL ,'61'6.ZZ LIABILITIES Capital Stock $ 50,000.00 Surplus and Profits 5,783.79 Bills Payable 16,000.00 Due War Finance Corpora tion 38,000.00 DEPOSITS 157,529.43 TOTAL ; $267,313.22 THF, WORD "BANK" DOES NOT MAKE A BANK. IT REQUIRES TIME, ENERGY, CLOSE ATTENTION TO BUSINESS, SUFFICIENT CAPITAL AND RIPE EXPERIENCE IN BANKING TO MAKE A BANK. WE HAVE ALL THESE ESSENTIALS AND TENDER OUR CUSTOMERS A REAL BANKING SERVICE. PLANTERS RANK* JL 1 1^. "THE FRIENDLY BANK." ABBEVILLE, S. C. J. S. STARK. OTTO BRISTOW, President. Cashier.