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Show Says Will Rodgers BEVERLY HILLS Well all I know is just what I read in the papers pa-pers or what I saw a couple of weeks ago when I was herding Gov nors a r o r. n d. Was you ever chaperone to a troop of Gove-nors? Gove-nors? Well now its a mighty nice pleasant job, especially es-pecially when you got the right bunch of gove-nors, gove-nors, and I had the right bunch. I had about a tional Gov. McNutt of Indiana, who has quite a unique record in achievement achieve-ment and who has been voted more power as Govenor than any other in any state ever had. He is onl; about 43. He has straightened Indiana out, and is about to get some decency in politics in a state tlats been a political po-litical cess pool for the last 15 years or more. Their budget is balanced and no sales tax. Then we had two old rough and tumble western boys, Ben Ross of Idaho, who is a better roper than I am, and he brought us quite a surprise. sur-prise. We dident think there was anybody in Idaho but my old friend Bill Borah. But they sho know they got this Ben Ross. He is an awful fine chap, plain and no frills but genuine. Then Fred Balzar of Nevada, everybody knows Fred as cowpunch-er, cowpunch-er, sheriff, miner, brakeman and a real old he boy. No college degree, but one of the few in the bunch that have been re-elected. Budget balanced, bal-anced, no extra taxes and his flea circus has gone home, (some of em still got theirs on their hands). Then Gov Miller of Montana, dandy little, chap, bej .would sho tell em I a"bout Montana and well he should for.it embraces some of. our most wonderful scenery. ' " ' Noiw'tfe jump clear up to New Hampshire. This Gov Winans is quite a fellow, another type of the rich fellow who really wants to do something worth while for bis Country. A great war record rec-ord and they say a mighty able govenor. I know he is mighty nice and a good speaker One of the hard workers work-ers was ex-Gove-nnr Hardee of a- mm dozen of the pick of the country. I went Ujj with Govenor Rolph of Cal, and Gov Green of Rhode Island, (who was already in our state; and Govenor Balzar of Nevada. Well we were to meet the others at the state line, as they were coming com-ing from their eats. They were to get to the line at 11.30 at night. Well where the railroad crosses the line was down in a canyon quite a ways away from the highway, (away up the side' of the hill)' but they had a trail dug down there.' Well they "had a cannon down in .the canyon, .and it was to. shoot 19 times, tnen" they had to reload In" between be-tween and "tfien th'ey" would "shoot a big roman candle in between the cannon shots and they sounded almost al-most as loud as the caanon. So it looked like they got a 38'gun salute. Green of Rhode Island is very highly educated fellow, studied in Germany and goes there to lecture. He was a govenor before it become fashionable to consult college professors pro-fessors Then too Govenor Cross of Connecticut. Like Green he has a bunch of degrees after his name till it sounds like a radio station. They were a couple of mighty sweet pleasant fellows. Why they were slumming in politics the Lord only knows. Course Rolph is a andj d the best host in the world, and did everything just right. Govenor Pollard of Virginia as president of the Conference, and the finest type of Virginian and no slouch on the degree racket He had about everything you could get in Virginia. Right down South of him aways come South Carolina, Gove-nlr Gove-nlr Blackwood. Good speaker, mighty jovial. He seemed to know .S it was all about Ther . Gc ,veno Park of Missouri, prominent law yer and judge and graduate of M-,i M-,i TTnlversity awful fine fellow. Florida, who is Secretary of the Conferences and has been for years. He was very considerate of California Califor-nia (brought his own grape fruit however). Last but not least comes my old friend Gov White of the great state I of Ohio. He beat my good friend j Dave Ingalls, hut 1 like him, and did j before that We about had him nominated for Vice Pres. But really the high ranking member mem-ber of the Conference was Secretary Secre-tary of War Dern, former Govenor of Utah. He really represented the President. He is a very democratic fellow and being made a member of the Cabinet seems not to have changed him. i I |