The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1910-11-17
MANY DISCUSSIONS
Second Session of State ExeCu.
tiYeS. to Be Held In KentuCky.
Will Debate Matters
of Moment.
By JAMES A. EDGERTON,
NHE house of governors is abou.
to hold another meeting. It

to hold another meeting. It
will convene at the state
capital, Frankfort, Ky, on
Tuesday, Nov. 20, at 2 D. M, and
Will hold one Session there. Early on
the morning of Nov. 80 it will proceed
by train to Louisville, where the remain
ing sessions, beginning on the morn
ing of Nov. 80 and ending on the even
ing of Saturday, Dec. 3, will be held
IN large room or the Hotel Seelbach.
Invitations to this conference have
been extended 1T only to the gov.
errors Of the various states, but to
the governors eloct.
This will be the first conference of
state executives held outside of Wash
1ngton. 1t meets in Kentucky in hon.
or of Governor Augustus e. Wilson.
chairman of the executive committee.
and hence virtual head Of the body.
1t is designed to hold future meetings
at other state capitals, taking them in
rotation, somewhat as the old fash
Toned country scnoolteacher boarded
around or the circuit courts Travelled
IRON one county seat to another Thus
the house of governors will be a pro-
gressive body, at least in the sense that
a certain kind of euchre is called pro.
gressive.
Governors Elect to Attend,
There are forty-six governors of
states and in the neighborhood Of
twenty governors elect who do not now
mold the office, making possible MEM
bership of more than sixty. Nearly all
have indicated their intention to be
present. 1t will be mighty gathering,
not SO much for numbers as for the
oVerpoWering greatness there assem-
bled A governor is a big noise in this
land of the free. Then think of the
crash of sound when sixty of them are
gathered together!
To entertain all that congregated i'm
portance will strain even the hospitali-
ties Of Kentucky. Probably if the Blue
Grass State had her way the confer
ence would be one round of banuuets.
balls, junkets and receptions. 1t would
be a gala day for the Kentucky colo
nels, and Henry Watterson would be
In his element. But I am informed on
the very best of authority that this is
to be a meeting for business and not
for festivities
Perhaps the honorable governors will
not froWn on all the hospitalities ex-
tended them, but for the most part they
Will forswear the allurements Of Ken
lucky bellies, evade the enticements of
the celebrated mint julep and devote
themselves sternly to reading and lis
Itening to long winded papers by their
own members. If the governor of
North Carolina and the governor of
South Carolina are both present there
will be occasion to repeat the remark
that made them famous
IT the coming conference carries out
this program Of renuncia ton it will
confound the Washington Post, which
once remarked that the house of gov
ernors could do little harm, since it's
functions would be largely social I
have it on the best of authority-the
same authority as before, by the way
that the activities of the house of gov
errors will be anything but academic
and social. The authority is William
George Jordan, the man who first sug-
gested the body and who is its present
secretary
Scorns the Presidency.
, Jordan has said that he would rath-
er have his present Office than that of
president of the United States And
it must be admitted that in it he has
an opportunity for service such as
falls to the lot of few men, He was
born in New York in 1864 and was
educated in the College of the City of
New York. At the age of twenty he
was editor of Book Chat and later of
Current Literature. He then delivered
lectures Oh a new system of educa-
ton, which he called mental training
by analysis, law and analogy" He
became managing editor of the Ladies'
Home Journal in 1897 and a year later
was made editor of the Saturday
Evening Post. For six years he was
editor and vice president of the Cont
mental Publishing company and for
another year was editor of the Search
light.
In 1907 Jordan issued his pamphlet
in advocacy of the formation Of the
house Of governors, and it Immediately
attracted attention and commentator
throughout the land. One copy was sent
to President Roosevelt, who soon after
called a conference Of governors on
the subject Of conservation. Two such
meetings were held at the White
House during Roosevelts term, and at
the last committee of governors was
formed to call another conference,
which met in Washington last Janu-
airy. To this Jordan was invited as
guest and soon after was elected Sec
rotary.
Responsibility Is Great.
In his new Office it will be Jordan's
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