Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-07-23

tics on this trip. There was not a
suggestion of politics in his speech to-
day. in which he said in part:
I'm behalf of Mrs. Taft and the par
ty who have accompanied me here |
wish to return grateful acknoWIedp-
ment for your very cordial reception.
The presence of the national colors and
the flags on the various buildings here
indicate to me what I know, that this
reception is for the President of YOUR
company and that it is for the office
nuch more than for the person who
Tor the time being occupies it. Never
thelesS the person who occupies the
office enjoys the reception all the same.
lone of the things which forces it
self upon the mind Of one visiting
such country as this is the fact that
the American people have learned "a
good deal in the last generation. In
my fathers time he thought although
hard working lawyer, that two weeks
was ample vacation time during the
entire year, and when | came to the
bar he suggested that if | stayed at
home during the summer months [
would make d good deal more money
than if | went away.
But the American people hav"
found out that there is such a thing as
cxhausting the capital of ones health
and constitution and that two or
three months vacation after the hard
and nervous strain to which one is
subjected during the autumn and
spring are necessary in order to en-
able one to continue his work the next
year with that energy and effectiveness
which it ought to have. Mr.. Justice
Strong of the supreme court, who
lived to be SIS or 80, told me that it was
a part of his life to take 60 days each
year out in the woods away from the
people. exercising and living in the
open air and to that he attributed his
long life. And so the American people
have come to the conclusion that the
women and children especially ought
to have d change of air where they can
expand their lungs and get exercise in
the open. The men can go when they
can.
"Under those conditions a place like
this. that represents the most pictur-
esuue. the most vitalizing summer re-
sort in the United States is full of in
tercst.
IN this region where the mountains
come down to the sea and the air from
the mountains mingles with the air
from the sea we have all the delight
full effects of champagne in prohibit
ton state and without the uncom-
Portable consequences that follow the
actual enjoyment Of that liquid.
TT is not surprising that you have
a collection of beautiful places that
have made Bar Harbors known the
world around. Those who have been
brought up in the Mississippi valley
and the limestone regions where the
temperature goes up to 95 and 100
during three months. that the corn
may grow feel that coming to this re
gion adds years to their lives and l
congratulate all who have been
brought up in this country and whose
fortunes have enabled them t" ""'1' =
here. oDu0uN III -
Gust what the winters are neie
do not propose to dwell upon except
to say that | do not doubt that they
have made an enduring and progress
sive race. Certainly those of us In
the West can testify that every time
YOU make an inquiry as to the origin
of a successful man the chances are
quite even that he has come elther
from Maine or Vermont and | donbf
not that among those whose palaual
houses rear themselves among the
trees and in the hills hereabouts are
many who as boys. started without
any opportunity for vacation in the
summer and who have come back to
enjoy the breezes of the county OF
their boyhood.
Il thank you. my friends. for giving
us this reception. The three days we
have passed in Barber will be red let
ter days in my life. Good bye.