The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-09
Taft Boards the Sem
mole for a Trip
Of Four Hours to Fort Caswell
and Return.
EATS PINE BARK STEW
Chief Executive Strikes a New
Dish at Florence.
Warns the People Against Lure
of Is Cent Cotton.


Wilmington, NJ c., Nov. 9.-Only 361
miles from Washington and the end of
his $4,000 mile journey, President Taft
visited in Wilmington today in fulfill
ment of a promise made last spring.
Mr. Taft took breakfast at the home of
James Sprunt, who is the German con-
sui and the British vice consul and is
said to be the greatest single exporter
of cotton in the world.
President Taft later was taken for a
short automobile ride. At ST. Stephens
church he reviewed the negro children.
At 1890 the president boarded the
revenue cutter Seminole for a four
hours trip on Cape Fear river to Fort
Caswell and return.
Confederates Out in Force.
Florence, S. c., Nov. 9.-Leaving
Augusta and two days of welcome rest
behind him, President Taft started for
Washington and stopped here for
three hours to receive a welcome in
this little community of ten thousand
people, as demonstrative as many he
| has received in cities of far more pre-
| tentious proportions.
| In the throng which lined the
streets from the depot to the central
school house and which listened to an
| more confederates than in the rest of
the south put together.
The presidents visit to Florence was
| also marked by his introduction to the
famous pine bark stew" of the Pee
Dee section of South Carolina. The
president had been looking forward to
! this stew with mingled emotions of
| pleasurable anticipation and fear.
| When it appeared as the major course
| in the Florence banquet, it proved to
/ be nothing more or less than a de-
lectable fish chowder. highly spiced
| and stewed over pine bark fire suf-
| ficiently long to get some of the flavor
| of the pine into the decoction. Presi-
dent Taft warned the people not to let
| the prosperity of Is cent cotton run
| away with them but to remember to
demand in all business affairs the
standard of integrity and morality
outlined by Theodore Roosevelt.
1.-The price of liberty is eternal Wig
| ilance,' said Mr.. Taft, .'and I say
to you that the price of elevating
moral standards is eternal vigilance -
Mr.. Taft left here at IL o'clock last
night for Washington.
/ National Board of Health.
| Augusta, Ga, Nov. 9.-That a ma
| tional board of health to accomplish
for the nation itself what the nation
had accomplished for others in Cuba.
Panama and ether places should be
esta blished at once was the keynote of
President Tafts address at the fair
| grounds here. After discussing ship
subsidy and suggesting that the leg
| islation merited the support of the
/ south, President Taft said:
Another subject that is forging
| ahead and must be considered by the
national government with a great deal
more care and with the expenditure
heretofore put into the investigation
is the question of sanitation and the
health of the Inhabitants of the
| country. 1t is peculiarly so in the
south. for as you: reach nearer the
| tropics, the danger of the spread and
prevalence of disease is much greater
! eve now have various bureaus in
| Washington which have functions
connected with the suppression of
diseases and the study of she different
they need to be united in one bureau,
which shall direct its attention just as
the agricultural department attention
to the study of questions of health un-
der all conditions prevailing in this
country so that by the circulation of
the knowledge obtained it may, en-
able the people to live hygienic lives.
Much Can Be Done.
'sNow it is true that the health of
the citizen is not directly committed to
the state, but it is also true that the
question of agriculture is not COM
mitted by the constitution to the
state. Nevertheless. the agricultural
department has found much that,
with the means at it's hands 1T can do
to assist the agriculture of the coun-
try.
friends. and see what enormous
strides have been made by the proper
treatment of the soil. in the improve
ment of your crops in the market
value and the production of these
/ products and in the entire change OF
the character of your agriculture from
a haphazard industry to one in which
the scientific knowledge is OF the
greatest Importance
s.Thus, too, with respect to SANTA
ton. 1t is necessary the towns and
states devote their attention and the1I
money to making better bodies OF
their citizens as well as their mlnos
and if the national government with
IT'S resources, can follow out lines OF
Investigation that shall show the
, nroner treatment to be followed II Is
; we'll that they should take that step
1T expect to recommend TO con-
eress that there be union OF all tne
) Experimental departments OF the gov
ernment for the discovery OF INES VI
J health and the study of disease