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MONDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 6, 1920
MRS. WILSON FINDS REAL HAPPINESS
NURSING PSESIDENT BACK TO HEALTH
I
Zoe Beckley Writes a
Heart Story From the
White House
WASHINGTON, Sept. 4.—For a
solid year the First Lady of the Land
has shut up her beauty and her
charm in the sickroom and private
office of the president.
There have been anxious days:
many of them; but Edith Wilson
has been'happy in her hard role of
nurse and business woman—happier
some say, then ever before.
No Easy Place.
Sentimental Susie, sighing to be
the wife of an illustrious man, doesn’t
realize that it is a lot easier and
more comfortable to be plain Mrs.
William Jones, of Blinkville.
It is never a simple matter, being
a president’s wife.
At best it isn’t all gaiety, pretty
clothes, ball and lovely trips to Eu
rope.
At worst it is a job of sober service
that takes poise, tact,
brains, self-sacrifice and sturdy phy
sical stamina.
As in Mrs. Wilson’s case—unparal
leled in White House history—the
test comes without waring,
bringing a burden of work and anx
iety that only an exceptional woman
can successfully carry. A woman,
say, whose entire character finds ex
pression in one well-marked channel
—a love which is concentrated upon
one object.
In Mrs. Wilson’s case it is her hus
band. Ask anyone in Washington:
“What interests has the president’s
wife?”
“The president,” is the invariable
answer.
“But what work apepals to her?”
“The president’s,” is the reply.
“Surely she has some pet ambition,
some—”
“To make the president happy.”
“Well, has she talents? Hobbies?”
“Yes. Her talents are reading
aloud, playing golf, discussing hu
man affairs, writing letters, analyz
ing reports and pardon pleas, hunting
up good detective stories, supervising
the household, motoring and movies—
all with, for an because of the pres
ident.”
Suprised Many.
This devotion to the president took
a form that caused many a seasoned
politician a start of astonishment
about a year ago.
They know her for a charming
woman, with gracious Virginia-born
manners and a bright way of telling
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an anecdote or dark story.
But that she should develop al
most overnight the kind but stern
competencies of a trained nurse, the
tact of an experienced diplomat and
the resourcefulness of a professional
entertainer, made them sit up and
take notice.
“I confess,” Senator Glass told me
the other day. I was amazed at the
promptness with which Mrs. Wilson
renounced every other interest in life
and from the moment of the pres
ident’s illness applied herself to help
ing and sustaining him.
“She vowed shrdlu etaoi shrdu)
“She showed from the first a grasp
of affairs that surprised us all. She
never intruded, yet she was always
there, ready and able to write a good
letter, see an important caller, con
vey the president’s view to this or
that official.
“No matter how much serious work
she did, sh? always kept her bright
ness and sense of humor, and the op
timism that never failed here even
when the president’s condition was
gravest.
“She had task, too, to:
sense exactly the right proportion of i
work and' diversion to allow him.
His activity and conscientiousness
made him restless, at times difficult.
Yet Mrs. Wilson’s common sense
judgment always guided her aright.”
Now that President Wilson is bet
ter and able to work three or four
hours a day, Mrs. Wilson’s nursely
duties have merged into those of a
trained personal secretary.
Tumulty’s Praise.
Joseph P. Tumulty, apparently far
from feeling that his nose has been
put out of joint by the First Lady’s
assumption of secretarial services,
voices enthusiastic admiration. He
says if he “knew how to write” he
would like to “write a book about
Mrs. Wilson” so that people would
“know how wonderful she really is.”
“—so versatile and dependable,”
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is how Mr. Tumulty puts it. “She
has no showy talents, yet she can
do everything that really counts.
“She does things in a businesslike
way, but always with tact. She
knows how to meet people and en
tertain them. She’s a splendid story
teller and mimic. Yet she never
loses dignity nor says an indiscreet
thing.
“She is a woman who can keep
a secret. There’s just one secret she
can’t keep, and that is her love for
the president. That is her whole life;
her devotion to him”
Being the president’s wife certain
ly has not set Mrs. Wilson apart
from her family, the Bollings, to
whom she is devoted with the very
second-best devotion of her heart.
Every day, during the hour or two
when the president is occupied with
Dr. Grayson’s electrical treatments
and rest periods, Mrs. Wilson walks
over to see her mother at the Pow
hatan hotel.
“She is the most loving and loyal
woman I ever knew,” says the for
mer Miss Benham, now Mrs. Helm
who for years was Mrs. - Wilson’s
personal secretary. “Working for
her was never anything but pleas
ure—and I assure you the lot of a
secretary to the president’s wife can
be far from a happy one.”
Her First Interest.
“What intersts her most,” I ask
ed. “when you were secretary?”
“Her husband,” promptly replied
Mrs. Helm, running true to form.
“She is a woman who asks nothing
of else life than to devote it to the
man she loves.
“Quiet and home appeal to her.. She
goes nowhere, holds no receptions,
serves mut an occasional cup of tea
to the cabinet ladies, has no enter
tainment but the White House phono
graph and movies. Yet I believe she
is happier in her life of seclusion
and constant service than she ever
was before.”
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THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER
Notice of Petition to Validate School
Bond*, Plain* High Sq'iool Dis
trict, Sumter County, Georgia.
To the Trustees of the Plains High
School District, Sumter County,
Georgia:
WHEREAS, The Hon. Z. A. Lit
tlejohn, Judge of the Superior Courts
! of the Southwestern Circuit has set
i the hearing for the confirmation and
validation of Fifty Thousand ($50,-
000.00) Dollars in bonds to be issued
by the Plains High School District
of' Sumter Qounty, Georgia, for the
purpose of building a school house
at a site to be selected by the Trus
tees of said school district; the bonds
to run serially and to be paid off the
first One Thousand ($1,000.00) Dol
lars on January Ist, 1926, and a part
of the same each year thereafter
on the first day of January for each
year until January Ist, 1950 when
the last payment of Three Thousand
($3,000.00) Dollars is to be made.
The said bonds to bear Five (5) per
cent interest per annum, to be paid
annually; said bonds to be dated
September Ist, 1920. The .-aid hear
ing to be had at the court house
in Sumter County, Georgia, in Am
ericus, on the 7th day of September,
1920, at ten o’clock a. m.
You are hereby notified to file any
objection that you may have on or
before the said hearing, why the said
bonds should not be validated. Any
citizen of the said school district or
any person interested, may appear
at the said time and place and be
made a party thereto.
Witness my hand and offical sig
nature this the 28th day of August,
1920.
S. R. HEYS,
Deputy Clerk Superior Court, Sumter
County, Georgia.
LEGAL AD No. 238.
State of Georgia,
Executive Department.
A PROCLAMATION.
Submitting a proposed amendment
to the Constituiton of Georgia to be
voted on at the general election, to
be held in November, 1920, to amend
Paragraph 1, Section 13, of Article
6, of the Constitution of Georgia,
relative to increase in salaries of
Judges of the Supreme Court, Court
of Appeals, and Superior Courts.
By His Excellency,
HUGH M. DORSEY,
Governor.
WHEREAS, the General Assembly
at its session in 1920 proposed an
amendment to the Constitution of
this state, as set forth in an act
approved August 17, 1920, to-wit:
SALARIES OF JUSTICES OF SU-
PREME COURT AND JUDGES
OF COURT OF APPEALS.
No. 773.
An Act to amend Paragraph 1, Sec
tion 13, of Article 6, of the Con
stitution of Georgia insofar as the
same relates to salaries of Justices
of the Supreme Court, and of Judg
es of the Court of Appeals, and of
Judges of the Superior Courts, so
as to increase the salaries of the
Justices of the Supreme Court, the
Judges of the Court of Appeals,
the Judges of the Superior Courts,
and for other purposes.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the
General Assembly of the State of
Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by
authority of the same, That Para
graph 1, of Section 13, of Article 6,
of the Constitution of the State of
Georgia, relating to salaries of the
Justices of the Supreme Court, and
of the Judges of the Court of Ap
peals, and of the Judges of the Su
perior Courts, be and the same >s
hereby amended so as to provide that
the Justices of the Supreme Court
each shall have out of the Treasury
of the State salaries of $7,000.00 per
annum; the Judges of the Court of
Appeals each shall have out of the
Treasury of the State salaries of
$7,000.00 per annum; the Judges of
the Superior Court each shall have
out of the Treasury of the State sal
aries of $5,000.00 per annum; pro
vided that the County of Chatham
shall, from its treasury, pay to the
Judge of the Superior Courts of the
Eastern Circuit $3,000.00 per annum;
said payments are hereby declared
to be a part of the court expenses of
said county, and shall be made to the
judge now in office, as well as his
successors. Provided further, That
the Board of County Commission
ers of Fulton County, or such other
board of persons as may from time
to time exercise the administrative
powers of Fulton County, shall have
power and authority to pay the
Judges of the Superior Court of Ful
ton County such sums, in addition
to the salaries paid by the State, as
said administrative authority or au
thorities may deem advisable, and
the amounts so paid are declared to
be a part of the court expenses of
said county. Provided further, That
the Board of County Commissioners
of the Counties of Claike, Floyd,
Sumter, Bibb and Richmond, or such
other board or person as may from
time to time exercise the adminis
trative powers of said several coun
ties, may supplement from their re
spective county’s treasuries the sal
aries of the Judges of the circuits of
which they are a part by such sum
as may be necessary with salaries
paid each of said judges from the
State Treasury to make a salary of
$6,000.00 each per annum of such
judges; and such payments are de
clared to be a part of the court ex
penses of said counties, and such
payments shall be made to the judges
now in office as well as to their suc
cessors. Provided further, That the
County of Fulton may supplement
the salary of the Judges of the Stone
Mountain Circuit, or the judges of
such other circuit as may be here
after required to regularly preside
therein, for additional services ren
dered in the Superior Court of said
county, such sums as will, with the
salary paid such judge from the State
Treasury, make a salary of $6,000.00
per annum; said payments are de
clared to be a part of the court ex
penses of Fulton County, such pay
ments to made to the judge now in
office, as well as to his succes or.
The provisions of this amendment
shall take effect and the salaries
herein provided for shall be
gin from the ratification of
this amendment, as provided in the
second section hereof, and
shall apply to the incumbents in the
1 several offices, as well as their suc
cessors.
Sec. 2. Be it further enacted that
lif this amendment shall be agreed
to by two-thirds of the members of
the General Assembly of each House,
the same shall be entered on their
.Journals, with the Ayes and Nays:
taken thereon, and the Governor
shall cause the amendment to be pub
lished in one or more of the news-i
papers in each Congressional Dis
trict for at least two months im
f mediately preceding the next general
1 ' election, and the same shall be sub
j mitted to the people at the next gen
i eral election, and all persons voting
iat said election in favor of adopting
the proposed amendment to the Con
stitution shall have written or print
ed in their ballots the words: “F|
or ratification of amendment to ■
Paragraph 1 of Section 13, of Article
’ 6, of the Constitution fixing the sal-!
aries of the Justices of the Supreme j
1 Court, and of the Judges of the
; Court of Appeals, and of the Judges I
1 of the Superior Courts;” and all per- !
sons opposed to the adoption of said
1 amendment shall have written or I
printed on their ballots the words:.
, “Against ratification of amendment
' to Paragraph 1, of Section 13, of Ar
' tide 6, of the Constitution fixing
, the salaries of the Justices of the Su
, preme Court, and of the Judges ol
the Court of Appeals, and of the
1 Judges of the Superior Courts;” and
Smith Conspiracy
to Deceive Voters
Regarding Wilkes
Branded as False:
COUNTY IS
DORSEY’S
(BY BOYCE FICKLEN, JR.)
WASHINGTON. Ga., Sept. 5, 1920—(Special)—Wilkes county sup
porters o Gov. Hugh Dorsey so rthe senatorship against the two party trait
ors, Thomas E. Watson and present Senator Hoke Smith, are indignant, to
say the least, over the attempt of a handful of men to dictate a choice of
party leaders in Wednesday’s primary, as outlined in a telegram to The
Atlanta Journal and flashed across the front page of that paper Sunday morn
ing under a Washington date line.
It is typical of the extremity born of desperation to which Hoke Smith
supporters are put at the eleventh hour to bolster up a losing fight for their
candidate and will, according to the best information of your correspondent
here, have the effect of strengthening the determination of Dorsey men to
see that every Dorsey vote is brought out Wednesday and a Dorsey victory
made more certain. The following signed statement was made Sunday morn
ing upon receipt in Washington of the Atlanta Journal’s fabrication of my
statements which was intended to deceive and pull the wool over the eyes
of those not acquainted with the facts:
“The Journal’s report of Dorsey’s speech here is ridiculous. The tele
gram from the Hoke Smith committee in Wilkes county, stating that the entire
anti-Watson vote would be cast for Smith, is not in keeping with the facts.
Only a few people attended the conference referred to and the people of
Wilkes county resent a clumsy effort of a few men to commit the loyal Dem
ocrats of Wilkes county to the support of a man who has betrayed his party.
“Wilkes county will be in the Dorsey column when the voes are counted
Wednesday. The action of approximately fifty men has already proven a
boomerang and has cost Smith many voes. Dorsey voters in every district of
the county are indignant.
“As for the statement that Governor Dorsey slipped out by the beck
door of the court house after his speech here Friday and secluded himself in
a room of the Hotel Johnson while Senator Hoke Smith was speaking, is
a lie of the whole cloth. Under an agreement from friends of Dorsey and
Smith here Friday morning, Governor Dorsey spoke first and at the conclu
sion of his spech left for the home of R. D. Calloway to take a bath and'
change his linen. Immediately after luncheon with Senator Boyce Ficklen
he left in an automobile for Monroe, Ga., to fill an engagement there that
had been advertised for 4 o’clock.
“The governor’s scathing denunciation of Senator Smith’s record was
delivered with telling effect and won friends, both from Smith and Watson.
(Signed) “K. A. Wilhoit, L. O. Fordon, automobile dealer, Carroll D.
Colley, attorney, T. J. Wills, farmer, R. S. Smith, farmer, Will W. Brunner,
editor Washington News-Reporter, R. D. Calloway, former senator, William
Wynne, Jr., farmer, J. E. Corry, druggist, A. I. Jennings, salesman, F. M.
Winne, cotton factory.
Realizing that in its extremity the Atlanta Journal had “pulled a bone”
in its story of alleged agreement of Dorsey and Smith men, a committee of
Hoke Smith supporters today volunteered to release the Dorsey men at Sat
urday’s meeting from any agreement. The Atlanta Journal, by its unfair
methods, has been an involuntary instrument in promoting Dorsey’s interests
in Wilkes county. The Dorsey men have literally pulled off their coats and
are in the field with the determination that Governor Dorsey shall carry the
county with flying colors against the entire field of Watson, Cooper and
Smith.
if a majority of the electors quali
fied to vote for the members of the
next General Assembly voting shall
vote in favor of the ratification as
shown by the consolidation and by
the returns mad£ as now provided by
If You-
- Mr. Voter, required the
services of a lawyer in Wash
ington to represent your in
terests, who would you em
ploy—Senator Hoke Smith,
Gov. Hugh M. Dorsey or Mr.
Thos. E. Watson?
Think it Over!
PAGE FIVE
law in elections for members of the
General Assembly, then said amend
ment shall become a part of Para
graph 1, Section 13, of Article'6, of
the Constitution of this State, and
the Governor shall make proelama-