Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-11-09
IN
HAPPY MOOD
At AUGUSTA
WINS GOLF GAME AND
OPENS STATE FAIR
Says Nation Should Do For It.
self What it Has Done for Gu
ba and Panama in Santa
ton; Urges Ship Subsidy,

fBy Morning Journal Special Leased wirsl
Augusta. Ga, Nov S,-President
Taft today played at golf with his
host in Augusta, Major Joseph b.
Cumming, defeating him two up and
four to go; opened the Georgia Caro-
| lima interstate fair; rode through the
streets of Augusta amid the cheers OF
his fellow citizens" and left for
| Florence, S. c., at 8 p. m.
A call upon the president at the
golf links. on his invitation, by Ty
Cobb, the baseball player, the extreme
cordiality of the reception of the
president in his winter capitol" and
the goodfelowship extended to his
encourage were the features of the
day
In the address at the fair grounds
the president touched upon number
of matters OF national Importance.
The keynote of his address was ma
tional sanitation, that national
board of health should accomplish
for the nation itself what the nation
had accomplished for others in Cuba
and Panama.
The president also talked ship sub
sidy and suggested that the plan
merited the support of the south
especially of cotton manufacturing
states like Georgia and South Caro-
lima. Mr.. Taft's speech in part fol-
lows;
TT seems to me that the most Inn
portant subject and the most import
ant collection of subjects is that
which relates to the conservation of
our natural resources. Until we can
secure uniform state cooperation by
state legislation with reference to the
preservation of our forests and the
qualization of the water which falls
from the clouds and the preservation
OF our soil from being washed out to
sea we shall not be able to carry out
the program set for us by Theodore
Roosevelt, which, to every thought
ful man, must commend itself as OF
the highest importance to the safety
and preservation of our nation
Another subject which, under the |
influence of the growing manufactur- |
ing interests. brings itself into ones |
mind is the question OF our merchant |
marine
"You are manufacturing cotton |
goods in Georgia and South Carolina |
and you wish n market in which to |
dispose Of them. Unless our coun-
try exercises more control over the |
merchant marine in the future than |
1t does now, you are going to find |
yourselves at great disadvantage |
in seeking markets of the world In |
which to dispose OF your products.
Another subject that is forging |
ahead and must be considered by the |
national governmtnt with great |
deal more care and with the expendi- |
ture of much more money than It |
has heretofore put into the investiga-
tion, 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. |
I'VE have now various bureaus in |
which have functions |
connected with the suppression OF |
disease and the study of the different |
diseases but they are scattered and |
they need to be united in one bureau |
which shall direct its attention to the |
study of questions of health under all |
conditions prevailing in this country, |
so that by the circulation OF the |
knowledge obtained il may enable |
the people to live hygenic lives.
Now it is true that the health OF
the citizens is not directly committed i!
to the state, bu 1t is also true that |
the question of agriculture is not |
ttA.. fn ha
state. Nevertheless the agricultural
department has found much that it
can do to assist the agriculture of
the country.
Think back two decades. my
friends and see what enormous
strides have been made by the proper
treatment of soil i'm the improvement
OF your crops in the market value and
yield OF those products and In the
entire change of character of your
agriculture from a hazard. wasteful
Industry to one in which the scientific |
knowledge is of the greatest inn
portance.
Thus. too, with respect to SANTA
tion, II is necessary that the towns
and states devote their attention and
money to making better bodies OF
their citizens as well as their minds
and IL the national government. with
its resources. can follow out lines OF
that shall show the
proper treatment to be followed. ii
is well that they should take that
step.
Il expect to recommend TO congress
that there be union of all the ex-
perimental departments of the gov
ernment for the discovery of lines OF
health and the study of Diseases
President on for Washington.
Florence, : C. Nov. s.-Leaving
Augusta and two days of welcome