The Washington herald., 1910-07-23
LONGER VACATIONS
NEEDED, SAYS TAFT
President PleaSeS Bar Har-
bOrites by Making Speech.
VITALIZING SUMMER RESORT
VIII Be Guest of Senator Hale To-
night. and VIII Return to Mount
Desert on sunday-Taft Was Guest
at Luncheon Given by Mrs. Mark
Hanna at Seal HarbOr.

Bar Harbor, Ne. July 22-President
Taft practically completed his stay in
Bar Harbor this afternoon when he
drove from the Kebo Valley Club over
to Seal Harbor TO become the luncheon
guest OF Mrs. Mark Hanna. The May
flower weighed anchor out IN the harbor
few minutes after the President LETT
Kebo and slipped out to sea- in the teeth
OF gale that was bowling up the coast.
The Presidential party viii probably
leave Seal Harbor on the yacht to-mor-
row morning for the Mount Desert Ferry
terminus on the mainland. There they
viii board a special train on the Maine
Central. Mrs Taft and the other women
in the party will quit the special at Els
worth, twenty miles inland and viii be
driven to the home OF Senator Hale
The President and possibly some OF
the other men viii go on TO Bangor.
where Mr. Taft VIII make an address
In the early afternoon. The Presidept
viii return to Ellsworth later, and the
whole party viii stay at the Hale home
until Sunday afternoon, when they wHl
come back 10 Mount Desert to board
the yacht for a sail down the coast 10
Isleboro, Roekland. and Casco Bay.
Presides,t Makes speech.
Bar Harborites at noon to-day from the
band stand in the village green. The ar
rangement committee had advertised the
speech in shop windows. and q fairly
large crowd mostly villagers. was in
the little park. although rain had been
threatening all morning. Before the
President got through the rain did come.
but Mrs. Taft. Miss Boardman. Mrs.
Winthrop. and other women on the
stand stuck bravely by and waited until
Mr. Taft wound up his address before
they scooted for their waiting rigs.
The President spoke mainly on the
value of vacations. Three months or al
least two months he thought about right.
He came jogging up to the band stand on
the front seat Of a coach fooled by Philip
Livingston. of New York. He was more
bronzed than ever, and his blue serge
double-breasted coat, with white flannel
trousers and a white cap, made him look
like the commander Of a deep sea goer.
Need Longer Vacations.
"One of the things that forces itself
upon the mind OF one visiting such a
country as this" said the President, "is
the fact that the American people have
learned a good deal in the last generation.
In my fathers time. he thought, although
a hard-working lawyer. that two weeks
was ample vacation time during the en-
tire year. But the American people have
found that there is such a thing as ex-
hausting the capital OF ones health and
constitution. and that two OF three
months vacation after the hard and
nervous strain to which one is subjected
during the autumn and spring are neces-
sary in order to enable one to continue
his work the next year with that energy
and effectiveness it ought TO have"
The President called Bar Harbor "The
most vitalizing summer resort In the
United States" and said that here are
''All the delightful effects of champagne
in a prohibition State. and without the
uncomfortable consequences that follow
the actual enjoyment OF that liquid.
THE winters of Bar Harbor," the Pres
ident said. have made an enduring and
a progressive race.
Certainly" he continued, chose of us
who live IN the West can testify that
every time you make an inquiry as 10
the origin Of a successful man the
chances are quite even that he has come
either from Maine or Vermont"