Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1909-11-09
A LESSON FOR
SANTA FE
President Says That Towns
Should Be More
Sanitary.
TAFT IN WILMINGTON TODAY
Made Four Hours Trip on Re-
venue Gutter Up Cape
Fear River.

Wilmington, y. c., Nov. 9.-Only
361 miles from Washington and at the
end of his 10000 mile journey, Presi-
dent Taft today visited in Whining
ton in fulfillment OF the promise made
last spring. He took breakfast at
the home of James Sprunt, the Ger
man consul and British vice consul,
and said to be the greatest single eX-
plorer of cotton in the world. Later
iii the morning, the President boarded
the revenue cutter Seminole for a
four hours trip on the Cape Fear
river to Fort Caswell
Towns Should Be Sanitary.
Augusta, Ga, Nov. 9.-President
Taft yesterday 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 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 this winter capitol and
the goodfellowship extended to his
entcurage were the features of the
day.
In the address~af the fair grounds,
the Presidentsfcuched upon a number
Of matters of national Importance.
The keynote of his address was ma,
tional sanitation, that a national
board of health should accomplish
for the natiCn itself what the nation
had accomplished for others in Cuba
and Panama.
The President also talked ship sub
sidy and suggested that the plar
merited the support of the south
| especially of cotton manufacturing
states like Georgia and Soutn Caro-
lima. Mr.. Taft's speech, in part, fcl
lows:
1T seems to me that the most i'm
portant subject and the most import
ant collection of subjects is that
which relates to the conservation Of
our natural resources. Until we car
secure uniform state cooperation by
state legislation with reference to the
preservation of our forests and the
equalization of the water which falls
, from the clouds and the preservation
of our soil from being washed out t(
sea we shall not be able to carry ou
the program set for US by Theodore
| Roosevelt, which, to every thought
| full man, must commend itself as 0
the highest Importance to the safet!
and preservation of our nation.
Another subject which, under thu
influence of the growing manufactur
| ing interests, brings itself into cnei
mind is the question of our merchan
| marine.
You are manufacturing cottol
goods in Georgia and South CaToini
and you wish a market in which t.
dispose of them. Unless our ccuntr,
exercises more control over lle mel
chant marine in the future than
! does loW, you are going to find your
selves at great disadvantage i
seeking markets of the world in whicl
to dispose of your products.
Another subject that is forgin
ahead and must be considered by tn
national government with a grea
deal more care and with the eXpend
ture of much more money than
has heretofore put into the investigf
ton, is the question of sanitation an
the health of the inhabitants of tn
country. 1t is peculiarly so in tn
south, fer as you reach nearer tn
tropics the danger of the spread an
prevalence of disease is much greateI
I'VE have now various bureaus i
Washington which have function
connected with the suppression {
disease and the study of the differer
diseases but they are scattered an
they need to be united in one burea
which shall direct it's attention to tn
| study of questions of health under a
conditions prevailing in this countr,
so that by the circulation of tn
| knowledge obtained it may enabl
the people to live hygienic lives.
| Now it is true that the health {
the citizens is not directly committe
to the state, but it is also true thu
the question of agriculture is ne
committed by the constitution to tn
state. Nevertheless the agriculture
| department has found much that
can do to assist the agriculture {
che country.
1 Think back two decades, m
friends, and see what enormou
| strides have been made by the prope
treatment of soil in the improvement
of your crops in the market value an
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