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■ 1 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. cow wTiax 'X l3i5.8^£0«.0^'rQjr.aivDjp,v>.a'rtnia''torf o-c ■ Pnoio aWwtD — i 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&