Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-09
Just One Of the People
At Atlanta, Georgia.
Plays Golf, Opens Fair, Meets
"Ty' Cobb and Makes Speech
Touches on National Sanitation
Law and the Ship Subsidy.

Augusta, Maj Joseph b. Cumming,
defeating him up and to go: opened
the Georgia Carolina Interstate fair,
rode over the streets of Augusta amid
the cheers of his fellow citizens" and
left inc city at p NJ. for Florence,
s. c.
The call upon him at the golf links
on his invitation of '"ry' Cobb, the
baseball player. the extreme cordiality
of the reception of the President in his
winter capital" and the good fellow
ship shown tn his encourage were TN"
features OF the day.
| In his address at the fair grounds
the President touched upon a number
of matters of national Importance. The
keynote of his address was nationa.
sanitation. that a national board OF
health should accomplish for the ma
| ton what the nation has accomplished
| for others in Cuba, Panama and other
places. This is the first time in the
South that the President has address
! ed himself to this subject. He also took
occasion to talk ship subsidy and to
suggest that the legislation merited
the support of the South. especially
cotton manufacturing communities
! like Georgia and South Carolina. II
part he said after declaring that
there is a lady in Washington that
am very anxious to see and nothing
could restrain the haste with which l
would go back to the capital city eX-
cepl the pleasure OF meeting my Wl1'
ard her friends in Augusta:
1T seems to me that the most I'M
| 10 T.
ant collection of subjects is that which
relates TO the conservation OF our nat
ural resources Unless we can secure
| uniform state operation. uniform
state legislation with reference to the
preservation of our forests and the
| equalization of the water which fall.
from the clouds. and the preservation
of our soil from being washed out t'
| SEA we shall not be able to carry on.
the program set for us by Theodor,
Roosevelt and which to every thought
! FIJI man must commend itself as the
greatest importance to the safety an'
preservation of our nation.
"Another subject which under tn,
| influence of the growing manufacture
ing interests, brings itself into onef
mind, even though it may suggest the
subject of partisan difference, is the
question of our merchant marine. IN
less our country exercises more con
troll over the mercantile marine, fur
| thei. than il now does, you are goins
| to find yourselves at a great diSad
vantage in seeking markets Ct the
| world in which to dispose of your pro
ducts.
| "Anothcr subject that must be con-
! sidered by tn" national government
with more care and with the cxpendi-
turc of much more money than it ha:
heretofore nut into the investigation
is the question of sanitation and the
| health OF the inhabitants of this coun'
try 1t is peculiarly 50 in the South.
| I'VE have now various bureaus II
! Washington which have functions con
| nected with the Suppre 5siOn of disease
anu the study of the different diseases
| out they are scattered and they neet
to be united. Now, it is true that tn
| nc altl3 OF tie citizcrs is directly com
| nitted TO the state, bu. it is also tru
| that the question of agriculture is com
| mittcd by the Constitution to the state
| Nevertheless the agriculture depart
| meat has found much that with tn
means at it's hands it can do to assis
| the agriculture of the country.
Think back two decades, my friends
and Src VIVA. enormous strides have
been male by the proper treatment
he soil. in tn: Improvement Of You
crops in the market value. and tn
production of those products and in tn
entire change Of the character of you
agriculture from haphazard waste
full industry to one in which the scien
tific knowledge is of the gre" test i'm
portance.
Thus, too, with respect to santa
ton. 1t is necessary that the town.
and states devote their attention ant
their money to making better bodies o.
th"ir citizens as well as better minds
ana If the national government witt
its resources can follow out lines OF
investigation that shall show the prop
er treatment to be followed. it is well
that they should take that step.
Il expect to recommend to Congress
that there be union of all the expert
mental departments of the government
for the discovery of lines of health and
the study Of diseases.
Nov with respect 20 the Southland,
my reception has been fraught with
sweet qualification to me because ]
nave felt that the people of the South
We're glad TO see me and were glad tC
show me by their reception that they
will Join me in what l said when ]
promised in my administration to make
completely forgotten all sectional lines
and everything that would tend to sep
arate us. not to forget our cherished
traditions. not to forget the heroes of
our particular section in that awful
struggle that we call the Civil War in
the North and you call the war be-
tween the states. nor to abate one bit
Of our pride that has now become the
common heritage of all Americans but
to rejoice that while those grave times
showed the character Of heroes and the
character of American -sacrifce. to
rejoice that it is now in the past and
thc future before us with nothing but
harmony and love between all our neo-
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