VOL. XIV 



No. 5 



THE WHITEHOUSECONFERENCE 



Gathering of the Governors in May Most Important Conference 



in Country's History Problems to Be Considered 



---Makeup of the Assembly 



/"Y\ MAY 13, when President Roose- 

 ^^ velt calls to order the opening 

 session of the "Conference of Gov- 

 ernors." a new era in the history of 

 the country will have begun. In the 

 East Room of the White House, at 

 Washington, on that day. will assem- 

 ble the most dignified and the most 

 thoroughly representative gathering 

 of the nation's leading public men 

 ever brought together; and upon the 

 result.- of their deliberations hangs the 

 weighty question of American supre- 

 macy in the fields of manufacture, ag- 

 riculture, mining, lumbering, and the 

 hundreds of kindred industrie- thai 

 are dependent ui>on one or another 

 the various natural resource- of the 

 land. 



It is not putting it too -trongly [< 

 say that never in the country'- hi-t try 

 has so important a convention been 

 held, and that never before have <|ii> 

 tions of ci|ual gravity been <li-cu--ed 

 in any national conference, either ii, 

 the I "nited Stair- or any other country 

 of the world. Questions that vitally 

 allect every individual in the wh 



length and breadth of the land \: M 

 form the basis of the Confcrcn 

 discussion-, and upon the rc.-ults ob- 

 tained will depend, in large measure, 

 the prosperity of the present genera- 

 tion, and in vastly larger nu 

 prosperity and happiness of th< 

 eratii ns t < come. 



Tin- causes that have led to the call- 

 ing of this Conference \,\- I 'rc-idcnt 

 l\oo>evelt are too well known to re- 

 quire repetition. It is sufficient to say 

 that, having become -criously alarmed 

 over the continued destruction of the 

 country's -landing timber, the wa-tc 

 of coal, etc., in mining operations. : 

 annual recurrence of di-a-tron-. Hoods, 

 with their concomitants ..f tremend. 



-truction of property and lo-- of 

 life, and the prcs-ing importance of 

 finding ways t<- prevent such lestruc- 

 tioii. 1' iSS and wa-te. I'rrsidi-ut Iv 

 \-elt ha- called into consultation the 

 Governors of all the Stale-, toget! 

 with thre. 



and representatives of the -ivat na- 

 tional organizations whose continr 

 are and prosperity is iy men- 



