CHIEF JUSTICE CORRECTED

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 680, 4 June 1929, Page 2

CHIEF JUSTICE CORRECTED

ERROR IN PRESIDENT’S OATH LITTLE GIRL FINDS MISTAKE A 13-year-old miss has had the ten- | erity to correct, in a personal letter |to the Chief Justice of the United ! States Supreme Court, an error which he committed in administering tbs j oath of office to the new President. ! Mr. Hoover. And now the “talkie-movies” ha*? ; proved that the girl was right, and the whole country is as much astonished as it is amused. Chief Justice Taft—who was hi®* self President in the term betwetf the Administration of Roosevelt and that of Woodrow Wilson —la the celebrity who has been caught. Millions heard the inaugural car* monies in Washington over the radio, but little Helen Terwilliger, of Walder — the “little Sheffield” of New Yort State, on the Wallkill River— was the only one to detect the mistake, j In calling to account the fontfr ; President, who is now Chief Justice. Helen wrote to Mr. Taft: “You should have said 'preserve, protect and defend the Constitutioninstead of ‘preserve, maintain and defend,’ as you did say.” In reply. Chief Justice Taft has good-naturedly written to Miss Terwilliger acknowledging that he die misquote the words of the Constltc* tion; but he told lier that-he had (as she heard it * “preserve, raainW* 2 and protect,” which, amounted to t» e ! same thing. , i Much controversy has follovec ' j among radio listeners. i a the presence of several journai ists, both the Pat he and Paramouu sound reels of the ceremony were runoff later for the purpose of testing correctness of the girl’s contentioaShe was quite right.