The Sentinel=record., 1909-11-09
PASSING AIRSHIP CAUSES BREAK IN THE PRESIDENTS SPEECH
 GEoRGlA-cARoLlNA FAIR.
Has the Pleasure of Eating "Pne Bark Stew''--Leaves Florence Enroute for the National
 Capital.

T lOIbuCt, D. C., 4NON. o.--Itdf ms Augusta and two days of welcome rest Eehind him, President Taft started for Washington this afternoon and stopped over here for three hours this evening to receive a welcome in this little community of 10000 population as demonstrative as many he has re- ceiyed in cities of far more pretenti- ous proportions In the throng which lined the streets from the depot to the Central school and which listened to an address by the president, there were more rebel yells than in nearly all 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 Peedee 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 couse in the Florence banquet to- night it proved ito be nothing more or less than delicate fish chowder, highly spiced and stewed over a pine bark fire sufficiently long to get some of the flavor of the pine into the de- coction.
 Before leaving Augusta this even. ing the president assisted in the open. ing of the Georgia-C Carolina Fair. He had the novel experience of having his address interrupted by the pass ing of an airship or dirigible balloon, with it's engines a-whir, immediately ever the grandstand. The president was talking of ship subsidy at the time and after he had paused to look at the receding balloon, he exclaimed:
 "I hesitate to occupy your time in discussing an old method of trans porting goods. when you have before your eyes the newest one invented. and yet, I venture to think it will be some time before that method of transportation will be followed in the matter of cotton bales"
 It had been intended that the presi- dent should stop here only an hour and ten minutes this evening. but the local committee secured a re-arrange. ment of the schedule by which they might hold the chief executive for three times that long and yet deliver him to Wilmington early tomorrow morning. The presidential train ar rived at 1850 and left shortly after II D. m.
 In his speech. delivered in the open air here tonight, President Taft warn. ed the people of the south not to let the prosperity of 15 cent cotton run away with them but to remember to demand in all business affairs the standard of integrity and morality out lined by Theodore Roosevelt.
 At no place in oSuth Carolina, or elsewhere in my travels" said the president, had l more reasons to con- giatulate myself on a cordial recep- ton than here in Florence. 1 am told there is something in the price of cot ton that makes your voices a little louder, your smiles little wider and your contentment little greater, but, my friends, you ought not to be car ried eff your feet by prosperity and fail to call for a maintenance of high standards of business morality and citizenship. The price of liberty is eternal vigilance and say to you tnat the price of eleyating moral standards is eternal vigilance.
 Now, my friends. we are apt to get enthusiastic over 15 cent cotton and the growth of cities and states and all this material prosperity. But hope that In so doing we shall not forget the responsibilities that ought to accompany our material growth. We have been prosperous before: we were excee.linolv rrOsnprofS fin 1qn7