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WYNDHAM M. MANNING | I i Candidate For Governor I i DO VOTERS OF SOUTH CAROLINA FAVOR I LAW ENFORCEMENT? DO THEY WANT I THE STATE PROPERTY TAX REMOVED I FROM HOMES, FARMS AND BUSINESS I PROPERTY? I I Do they want the statutes of the state held sacred and ENFORCED, J regardless whether such enforcement be against FRIEND OR FOE? | Do South Carolinians want the WILL OF THE PEOPLE as expressed j j at the polls CARRIED OUT? : If the Answer is "Yes" I Vote for Wyndham M. Manning I For Governor j Manning wants the state tax taken off HOMES, FARMS and BUSI- j j NESS PROPERTY. He wants good schools and adequate pay for j j teachers and other public servants. He wants to keep the state on a sound financial basis. j MANNING PROMISES FEARLESS ENFORCEMENT OF THE j LAWS. He believes that the will of the people should be supreme. Do You Believe He Is Sincere? I Do You Believe From His Record I That He Is Honest? I H as he "pussy-footed" on any issue? from his hrst announcement as a candidate for Governor, over a year ago, has it been t.c^cssary to "smoke" him out on ANY question? Realizing his resposibility to the people of South Carolina as a candidate for their Governor, he has spoken courageously and without reservation on things vital to his State. Manning Promises a Veto For Any Proposal To Take South Carolina Off a Businesslike Basis. MAKE MANNING GOVERNOR! This Advertisement paid for by friends of Wyndham Manning. This Week In Washington Washington, August V.?This time of year used to be called the "silly season" in Washington, because noth-1 ing of importance ever happened in August and the news correspondents had to entertain their readers and earn their own wages by writing trilling gossip about nothing in particular. Times have changed in that respect. Nothing very new and startling is happening, with the President on his vacation and gress back home mending iU political fences, but we have got so used to discussing serious and important things that it seem, to have become a habit. Even in the "silly season" we find it hard to be frivolous. For example, someiboily asked the ever-present question: "Who is going to pay off all this new debt the government is piling up?" at the National Press Club the other day. The usual answer was given, "Our grandchildren, of course." But one inquisitive reporter wasn't satisfied with that answer ^iow many grandchildren are there going to be thirty, or forty years from now? He wanted to know. So ho put in a lot of time studying the records of the Census Office and his conclusions are so I startling and, in the long outlook, so important, that some Administration officials have begun to take notice of them and wonder whether in some ways there has not been too much banking upon a future that does not] seem likely to be realized. ^ The plain, fact seems to be that the population<*fcf the United States is' rapidly approaching the stationary I point. By 1950, and probably sooner! than that, there will no longer be an annual increase in the number of people in this country. Before the war we added about 1,800,001) people a year to the population, by birth and immigration. That was the average I over a long period of years. Assuring that they earned and spent a thousand dollars a year each, which is about the right figure, that made nearly two billion dollars a year of new business for American industry and tcjide, to say nothing of the demand for half a million new homes every year to house this increase. And, from the Government's point of view, that rate of population growth meant a corresponding increase in the number of persons who could Ik* taxed, directly or indirectly, thus enabling the nation to increase its governmental expenditures every year and to pile up a growing load of interest-bearing debt without really i bothering anybody very much. But?this is what the Census figures show. About 11)24 the rate of population increase began to decline sharply. In 1910 the experts estimated that the Census of 1930 would show a population of 150,000,000. Instead, the count was only 126,000,000. And in the past ten years it has dropped so rapidly that the estimates of the Census Bureau?among the most reliable of Government statistics?show a growth of only 800,000 in the past year. At that rate of decline in the annual growth of population, it will only be about 1945 when deaths will bal ante births, emigration balance immi gration and, perhaps, from then on, there will he an actual decline in the number of inhabitants of this country. It is possible to imagine the Administration of whoever is elected President in 1944 depianding of Congress authority to offer prizes for larger families, as is done in France, Italy and some other European count ries. The reasons for the decline in the g-owth of population are two-fold. j First is thg restriction of immigraI tion, which began to take its present i drastic'form in 11)24. Second, is the decline in the domestic birth-rate, i A/nerican parents are not reproducI ing their kind in numbers enough to ' replace the deaths. The figures here i in Washington show that the average \\oman gives birth to less than one i prospective future mother. And that 'condition is causing considerable coni eern among the socially-minded memi bers of the Administration?of whom ' there are plenty. They see their vision of a brave new world of their own creation being shattered by the refusal of American parents to co-operate in providing future taxpayers. 'The reason for the decline in the birth-rate is figured by .some of the smart figures here as a change in the social value of the child in the home. In a principally agricultural country, such as ours was in its earlier days, every child was an asset. In an industrial nation, however, with compulsory education and anti-child-labor laws in force, children are a liability to the average family. Government economists and theorists look at these facts with mixed feelings. Some of them point to them as justification for the movement to curtail agricultural production; some say the remedy will be to get more people back to the land. All are agreed that the great, markets of the future will be in goods for middleaged and elderly people, for before long there will be more people over 40 years old than under twenty. In agriculture, for example, one result j will be a steady decline in the dei mand for milk; in industry the de' mands of the future will be for a higher proportion of goods appealing to middle aged tastes. j High temperatures and drouth caused a rapid decline in the condi, tion of crops in Canada during the month of July. 0. P. Hughes, a former saloon keeper of Eldorado, 111., enraged it a lover's quarrel, shot Mrs. Georgii Summers, divorced wife of a former city judge, and Mrs. Clifford Braden to death and seriously wounded Ed ward Stephenson, a garage mechanir when the latter tried to wrest a pistol from Hughes. "I wanted to b< Georgia's pal, but she wanted to be everybody's pal," Hughes said after he was locked in jail. Walter Baxter, escaped convict will die in the electric chair at Raleigh, and his companion, J. B. Willis will stay in prison 25 years, after having been convicted by a jury at Pittsboro, N. C., the former getting a first degree murder verdict and the latter a second degree verdict. They killed one Hal Routh, a Siler City merchant, when he refused to loan them his automobile to further their escryoe after a prison break. With the smallest yield of grain iQ the United -States in 30 years predicted for this year, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace assures the country that there will be no danger of foot shortage. This year's corn produc tion is predicted at 1,607,108,00( bushels, a decline bf half a billio bushels as compared with last year The estimate for -this year's whea yield is 490,000,000 bushels, far beloi that of 1933. A gang of convicts essayed tb John Dillinger trick of using wood* guns to escape from the Louisian state prison at Angola. When it wa all over two convicts were dead an six wounded, and three others ha surrendered. They were met by blast from the guns of fast shootini guards. Two of the big runways at tb Spartanburg airport are being finish ed with the tarvia combination nor used to pave South Carolina higb ways. _ - I LOOK ^ 1 Taken From the Files of FIFTBKN YEARS AGO August 18. 1919. Andrew Carnegie, world's grates, philanthropist, dies at his home at Isenox, Mass. He was a native of Scotland, born in 1S35. .Lightning desroys barn and contents belonging to H. T. Johnson at Shamrock, causing toss of $2,(KM), with no insurance. Vernon Wolst shot and badly wounded by Policeman Dalton McLeod while resisting arrest. Isaac Gay, aged citizen of Flat Hock community, dies after long illness. ISquire Jesse T. Truesdell, aged 90, dies at his home in Westville community. He held the office of magistrate in Flat Rock township for nearly fifty years and was a terror to evil doers. He left a wide family connection. William King returns to Camden from overseas to again manage Southern Oil mill here. Dr. Josiah Morse, of the University delivers address in Camden on the race problem. Henry F. Clyburn, 40, cashier of the People's Bank of Kershaw, dies suddenly. Woodmen of the World camp at Camden pays tribute to late Sovereign J. F. Bateman. R. 0. Dixon, 74-year old Confederate veteran, at Bishopville. Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Boykin announce coming marriage of their daughter, Ellen Douglas, to Robert E. Allen, of New York city. I * "C* M^wakd| 4 and Thirty Years AlJ| N^THIRTY YKAKH AGO 1 August 17, 1904 . D. Trantham, Jr., awarj^l scholarship to Seuth Carolina m, I tary Academy at Charleston from thiil county. John Whitaker, J*., consolidates hul mercantile business with Watki* J Brothers. 1 Mrs. Mary Murphy, said to ba 1J years old, died at her home netrl Meadville, Pa. She claims she u? J bom in Dublin, Ireland, in 1770 and! came to America in her one hun? dredth year. Mr. and Mrs. Thos, J, Kirklu'nd en? tertain at Cool Springs for Mr. andl Miss Moore, of Yorkville. I Miss Marie Zemp entertains fvl Miss Maggie Childs, who is her guest? from Columbia. I Mrs. R. V. Steedman chaperone? large party of horseback riders tol Knights Hill. Thomas E. Watson, of Georgia, M notified of his nomination as a candi? date for president by the Populijt? party. , J. B. Bermet, white man of Brun? son, in Hampton county, mistook hit? wife for a burglar and shot he? through the heart, killing her in? stantly. ; Announcement made of approaching? marriage of A. Sam Karesh, of Cam-? den, to Miss Mollye Shapiro, of Au? gusta, Georgia. ] C. Vernon Hammond, of Stoneboro? married to Miss Susie -Stover, of thfl Three C's community. ~ ; ^ i Summer Resorts Beckon to Holiday Seekers JVPLtlOfJ^yUL vacation resorts off the usual beaten track can be reached easily with a Ford V-8 ca the K* Illustrated above. For that reason. It is In great demand for week-ends In the woods, ftt the lake or sedshore. Flashing power of the Ford V-8 engine Is equally available for a high-speed cross-country rujlg pulling along a rutted wood's road at the end of the Journey. The seat has plenty of room for three, others can ride In the rumble seat or the rear deck apace can be used for carrying luggage. If * HA threatens the folding top can be quickly raised. ,