Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-24
TAFT ADVOCATES VACATIONS
Says All Hard Working Men and
Women Need to Recuperste.
SPEAKS ON VILLAGE GREEN
Talks Pleasantly to Bar HarbOF CiSl-
zens on LeavinE--C1aims that
severe winters Are the
Heat.

BAR HARBOR, Ne, July 2S.-President
Taft brought his stay in Bar Harbor TO
close this afternoon. He left as q member
OF a merry coaching party headed for Seal
Harbor, eleven miles away
The Mayflower steamed around to Seal
Harbor to meet the president. The yacht
afterward went to Northeast Harbor and
anchored there for the night with the presi-
Dental party on board Tomorrow morn
ing It will steam across Frenchman's Bay
to the Mount Desert ferry, where Mr.. Taft
will take special train to Bangor. After
visiting that city for two hours and maxi
ing a speech, he will proceed by special
train to Ellsworth, the home Of Senator
Eugene Hale, to be the latters guest until
Sunday afternoon. Mr.. Tai; will also make
little speech at Ellsworth.
The president left everybody in Bar Har-
Dor happy. He met the townspeople today
on the village green and made a little
speech TO them. He spoke OF the value OF
vacations and won much applause by say
ing that two weeks no longer sufficed for
summer rest, but sixty days seemed the
proper time in which to recuperate from
the nerve-exhausting work of the winter,
The president congratulated the people OF
Bar Harbor upon living in such delight
| ful climate. He said the summer air was
| like champagne In a prohibition state"
and that the severe winters tended to
| build up a sturdy and never surrenderlng
race.
off for Seal HarbOr.
As soon as the president finished his
speech he mounted the coach which waA
fooled by Philip Livingston Of New York
and with a flourish of trdmpets was away
for Seal Harbor. Arriving there he and his
party were entertained at luncheon by Mrs
Mark Hanna Tonight the party was enter
tanned at lunch by Mrs Charlemagne
Tower at her place two miles from the
harbor
Mr.. Taft is adhering strictly to his de-
termination to keep away from politics
on this trip. There was not a suggestion
of politics in his speech today.
He said in part:
I'm behalf of Mrs Taft and the party whC
have accompanied me here 1 wish to re-
turn a grateful Acknowledgement for your
very cordial reception. The presence of the
national colors and the flags on the various
buildings here indicate to me what know
that this reception is for the president Of
your country, and that it is more for tn,
office than for the person who for the time
being occupies It. Nevertheless the person
who occupies the office enjoys the reception
all the same. One Of the things which
forces itself upon the minds Of one VISITING
such a country as this is the fact that thu
American people have learned a good dea
in the last generation.
I'm my fathers time he thought, although
a hard working lawyer. that two weeks wa
ample vacation time during the entire yea
and when l came to the bar he suggested
that IL stayed at home during the summe
months L would make good deal NOR
money than IL l went away.
Can Exhaust strength.
But the American people have found on
there is such thing as exhausting tn
capital OF ones health and constitution an
that two or three months vacation after tn
hard and nervous strain to which one /
subjected during the autumn and sprin
are necessary in order to enable one I
continue his work the next year with tina
e energy and effectiveness which 1t ought [
have.
'Mr. Justice Strong of the supreme bench
who lived to be SO or 80, told me that 1t wa
a part OF his life to take sixty days eac
year out in the woods away from tn
! people, exercising and living in the ope
air and to that he attributed his long lif,
And so the American people have com
to the conclusion that the women and Chi
I dren especially ought to have a change c
air where they can expand their lungs an
; get exercise In the Open The men go whe
they can"