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MAIN SHEET-Part II.
MRS. BURLESON WRITES OF EVOLUTION OF WHITE HOUSE WEDDINGS
The White House Bridal Party, Photographed for The Sunday American a Few Minutes After the Ceremony
T) ACK row, left to right: B. B. Burton, C. E. Hughes, Jr., and Gilbert Ilorax, President Wilson, Airs. Wilson, F. 15. Sayre (the bridegroom), l)r. Wilfred Grenfell, Rev. John Evans Sayre and Dr Scoville Clark. Front row, left to right: Miss Marv White
TJ Miss Adeline Scott, Miss Margaret Wilson, Miss Jessie Wilson (the bride), Miss Eleanor Wilson and Miss Marjorie Brown.
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Ho Declares State Commissioner Hart After a
Tour in Support of the New Equalization Law.
He Pleads for Good Local Boards.
Judge John C. Hart, State Tax
Commissioner, who has been tour
ing the State explaining the purposes
and operation of the new tax equali
zation law, believes the administra
tion of the same will be a complete
success, and says that the only thing
remaining to be done is. the creation
by the various County Commission
ers of local tax equalization boards
composed oft he right sort of men.
Judge Hart makes the astonishing
statement that not more than one-
seventh of the taxable property of
Georgia really is returned for taxa
tion, and he expects the new’ law to
bring hundreds of thousands of dol
lars in hidden property to light.
Hart Discusses the Law.
Discussing the new' law’ Saturday,
Judge Hart said:
“The success or failure of the new
law depends largely upon the class of
men named by the county authorities
on the various county boards. That
matter is now of supreme importance,
and I think it is working out right.
“I have stressed this point wher
ever I have spoken, and 1 judge from
the class of men being appointed that
the County Commissioners are im
pressed with that truth.
•The press of the State likewise
realizes the necessity of having the
best of men appointed to this office;
and this feature happily has been em
phasized by the newspapers as no
other feature of the law. There should
be men of the highest character on
the local boards.
“If the law is properly adminis
tered, instead of its increasing the
burden of taxation, it will lower it on
the man who has been doing even
approximately his duty. As is known, !
or at least should be known, by I
everyone, the State can not raise its j
rate, for since the year 1907 it has
been levying the full Constitutional I
rate, to-w’it, 5 mills. The State can
levy no additional tax, and this rate* j
has not raised sufficient revenue to
pay the State’s current expenses. The
deficit has grown until it has reached |
a million dollars and over.
Sees Chance to Pay Debt.
“I made the statement advisedly,
after careful investigation, that not
exceeding one-seventh of the prop
erty value of the State is on the tax
digest. 1£ all of the property of the
State w'ere put on the digest, where it
properly belongs, and placed there at
a fair valuation, the State of Georgia
could pay her debt next year and the
tax rate could be materially reduced.
“Fair valuation of property, with a
low* rate of interest, is infinitely pref-
-erable to a low valuation of property
and a high tax rate. The new law is
designed to place upon the tax di
gest all of the property of the State,
and then as among the taxpayers to
equalize property values relatively, so
that eavffi man carries his exact bur
den. This is the essence of justice.”
Senate Would Set
! Inauguration Earlier
Amendment Fixing Second Monday
in January as the Date Is
Approved.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.—The in
auguration of the President of the
United States on the second Monday
of January following the quadrennial
election, and the convening of Con
gress the first Monday in January
after the Congressional elections, is
provided for in a resolution for an
amendment to the Constitution, fa
vorably reported by a subcommittee
to the Judiciary Committee of the
Senate.
The theory upon which this pro
posed change in the Constitution is
based is that the new- Administra
tion should come fresh from the peo
ple and be given opportunity at once
to carry into effect the mandate of
the people as registered at the polls,
instead of waiting many months, as
at present.
Towu Builds Barges
To Cut Freight Tolls
AUGUSTA, Nov. 29.—The Augusta
I Barge Line Company is making prep
arations to let contracts for the
building of some steel barges, which
will ply the Savannah River be
tween Augusta and >avannah. .
The terminals will be located either
at the present w harves of the boat
line or at Sixth street and Bay. The
aim is to cut freight rates.
AUGUSTA SELLS ITS BONDS.
AUGUSTA, Nov. 29—The third in
stallment of the $1,000,000 city of Au
gusta flood protection bonds was sold
yesterday to the Robinson - Hum-
phrey-Wardlaw f’ompany f Atlanta
for $247,000. The third, installment
was $2.>0,000,
KIDNAPED BRIDE
SLIDES PIPETO
Directions Followed, but Stork i Girl Outwits Mother Who Locks
Gets Orders Mixed and Brings Her in Room and Couple
Baby of Wrong Sex. Flees in Auto.
CHICAGO, Nov. 29.—If there be one
supreme book agent, one mythical
wonder who could convince anyone of j
anything, it would be interesting to
have him try to sell a book on eu
genics t<j Charles E. White, Jr. He
would probably be punched on the
mythical dimple, for what Mr. White
thinks of book agents and eugenics is
a large portion, and theji some.
Mr. White until last night had two
sons. He fully believed that he would
have two sons and a very young
daughter. Now he has three sons.
And, w’hat is more, th^ new young
man is sleeping in a pink baby bas
ket. Everything that’s rolled around
and fastened to him is either solid
pink or pink-edged and °M the baby
gifts that he has received are meant
for girls. He’s as red as a berry with
embarrassment.
Quite a while ago Mr. White be
came interested in eugenics. He met
a bookseller and got to know about all
that one needs to know in a matter
of that interesting sort. The books
were explicit.
Cereals—a boy. Candy and rich
chocolates—a girl. It was about then
that the candy makers in the vicinity
of Mr. White’s home began referring
to business as "picking up.” They
really did very nicely for a long time
Mrs. White’s friends were intended,
read some of the books, and began
making pink w»»at-nots.
Finally the little eugenic star ar
rived, to the consternation of eugen
ics, authors, booksellers and confec
tioners. He is Roger Hu main White,
SAVANNAH. Nov. 29. —Mr. and
Mrs. Joseph Pierce are to-day happy
in their new home at Dawson, Ga.,
following a sensational elopement, in
which the pretty young bride, Miss
Helen Creech, risked life and limb
to escape an irate parent and rejoin
her husband of an hour.
The couple were quietly married,
but as they walked from the parson
age the bride’s mother snatched the
blushing glr> from the arm of her hus
band and whisked her away in an au
tomobile to their home. Here she was
locked in an upstairs room and the
mother announced that no law except
force and arms could force her to
abandon her position in front of the
door.
While the youthful husband was
besieging law offices In every bull
ing in the city and finding that noth
ing could be done to aid him, bis bride
was evolving a method of ’ escape.
When it became dark, she managed
to raise the second-story window and
slide down a drain pipe. After an
hour’s search, she located Pierce, but
they w’ere afraid to risk going to the
station, for the escape had been dis
covered. They managed to recruit
tw'o friends with mortocycles and as
excess passengers they raced through
tiie country to cut off the train at a
station fifteen miles distaut,
Kippered Herring Has
Soul, if You but Knew
Miss Lind af-Hageby, Who Is a
Psychic, Sure Fish, Eaten,
Will Haunt You.
NEW YORK, Nov. 29.—“Do not eat ,
kippered herring, for it has a soul
and wil Icome back and rpake trou
ble for you.”
This was the advice of Miss Lind
af-Hageby, psychic and vivisection-
ist suffragette, lawyer arid author,
who arrived on the Lusitania to at
tend the convention of the anti-vivi
section league at Washington.
“All things have souls, the lowest
animal as well as the most brilliaqt
men,” said Miss af-Hageby as the
Lusitania neared quarantine.
“Then this kippered herring which
lies on my plate has a soul?” she was
asked.
“Yes, indeed.” answered Miss af-
Hageby, “and if you eat it I venture
it will return to trouble you.”
Preacher Finds Still
Ou Own Plantation
GRIFFIN, Nov. 29.—J. A. Drewry,
Ordinary of Spaldii.- County, is a
preacher and landowner. This week
Mr. Drewry learned that an illicit
still has been in operation on his
plantation, so he informed the offi
cers and went with them to the scene
to assist in the raid. Upon arriving
at the still everything was found in
readiness for a “run,” except there
was on “worm” or distillers.
Without waiting for the return of
the operators, the Sheriff proceeded
to destroy the still. But before tne
ax was wielded Mr. Drewry. in the
capacity of preacher, asked the privi
lege of praying for the absent moon
shiners. The request was granted.
I Postmaster General’s Wife Recalls the Pour-Line
Notice of Maria Monroe’s Marriage mid Pon
ders on Modern Newspaper Activity.
By MRS. A. S. BURLESON.
(Wife of the Postmaster General.)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.—While
everybody promptly contradicts the
woman who said that “Grover Cleve
land was the only man ever married
in the White House,” yet one feels
a thrill of sympathy for her. We
might easily have said it ourselves.
For It is the bride who is the shining
figure in a White House wedding. She
wins the eyes of the world, the friend
liness of all nations, tne hearts of
her own people.
Jessie Woodrow Wilson, who be
came the wife of Francis Bowes
Sayre, is no exception to the rule, and
just now is drawing upon herself a
lifetime of cheer. Her wedding was
more fully chronicled, however, than
those of earlier times. The mar
riage of Maria Monroe. the first
daughter of a President to marry in
the White House, received a notice of
four lines in The National Intelli
gencer, which with The National Re
publican. were the only two news
papers then published at Washing
ton. It read as follows:
“Washington, March 11, 1820.—Mar
ried, Thursday evening last, by the
Rev. Dr. Hawley', Samuel Laurence
Gouveneur, of New Y’ork, to Maria
Hester Monroe, youngest daughter of
Notable Absentees
From Wedding,
FORMER WHITE HOUSE
BRIDES NOW LIVING.
Mrs. Thomas J. Preston (Mrs. (
< Grover Cleveland).
Mrs. Frank P. Jones (Mrs. A.
i Sartoris—Nellie Grant).
Mrs. Nicholas Longworth (Alice
i Roosevelt).
FORMER PRESIDENTS.
William Howard TafL
l Colonel Theodore Roosevelt.
DAUGHTERS OF PRESIDENTS.
Mrs. James Robert McKee
. (daughter of President Harrison). '
! Esther Cleveland (daughter of i
President Cleveland).
5 Mrs. Richard Derby (Ethel i
Roosevelt—daughter of President |
’ Roosevelt).
Miss Helen Taft (daughter of ^
President Taft). J
James Monroe. President of the
United States.”
To-day no smallest detail escaped
the army of trained men and wcme&