Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-18
aENoUGh GOOD IOWA CASH GOING
YEARLY INTO CHEAP LANDS
TO BUILD lNTERuRBANs.
GREATER IOWA CLUB
WANTS TO STEM TIDE
Effort Being Made to Form Club and
Raise Funds With Which to Adver-
tise state-secretary Simpson Would
Educate Young Farmers to Stick to
iowa-WaterIoo May Get Factory.
Special to Times-Republican.


Des Moines, June 1S.-The money
that in one year goes from Iowa to
buy Texas land would build an inter-
urban railroad from Des Moines to
Sioux City. That is the claim of the
boosters back of the For a Greater
Iowa" movement.
Fer some time Secretary John G.
Simpson, of the department of asri-
culture, has had in mind that Iowa
must 40 something to stem the tide
and keep her sons at home and get
Immigrants of the best class in. He
said SO in his last annual report and
has talked it to leaders generally.
Young business men of Des Moines
have now taken the matter up and are
endeavoring to secure 100000 members
TO the Greater Iowa Club at 81 mem
Der and they propose to use THE money
in advertising Iowa. The movement
seems to be taking tho it is young yet.
\ far reaching and comprehensive
scheme is in the mind of Secretary
Simpson. Ultimately he would like to
have the legislature provide means and
authority for the department to thor
oughly advertise the state.
The rural population is falling off,"
said Secretary Simpson las shown by
the last census and the growth in the
cities has been barely enough to equal
the loss in the country. There are
several lines on which we must work
to overcome this but advertising is at
the root of and foundation of all of it.
Every state in the union nearly is adj
vertising its resources and Iowa must
do it in self protection. South Caro-
lima has representatives in Europe
looking up the best immigrants.
What we must do here is to pub
lish literature and put it in the hands
of consuls of foreign countries and our
own consuls in foreign countries. We
must ultimately have representatives
at Castle Garden.
There are three lines on which I
would work. l would seek to educate
the farmers and youth of Iowa to re-
main here / would try to induce them
TO stop trying to raise more corn to
feed more hogs to buy more land to
raise more corn, etc. and do more
intensive farming. There are cases all
over Iowa and many more opportuni-
ties to do as those two University
Place gardeners who made $3.50 on a
little patch of onions and $4,000 on
small garden of celery
Next I would seek to induce good
immigrants from other states and for
eign lands, by distributing literature
and other means. Those two lines
should be followed up consistently and
thoroughly"
The young business men of Des
Moines who are back of the Greater
Iowa Club are also boosting the man.
ufacturing end and will seek to bring
as many manufactures to the state as
possible.
1t is probable that the legislature
will one day provide the funds and au-
| thority for carrying on such cam
paign. Kansas and Minnesota and most
tof the other northwestern states are
doing such work now in the hopes of
finding settlers for their unoccupied
lands. The old New England states
have taken up the work as a means
of self protection to prevent being de-
populated and Iowa with a lessening
rural population seems to be in need
of the same line of work.
The session laws of the last ses-
sion of the legislature will be ready for
distribution next week. which is about
two weeks earlier than ever before.
State Architect Liebbc returned to-
day from Glenwood where he oversaw
the beginning of the work of laying
the foundation for the new 100000
wing TO the boys custodial cottage
The State Railroad Commission ha:
approved the interlocking switch a
Dubuque and pronounced it the mos
modern and up to date plant of the
kind in the state. It Is controlled en-.
tirely by electricity including the lights
Waterloo is likely to secure a quar-
ter million dollar automobile manufac
turing plant before the city of De
, Moines awakes to the fact that it i
! likely to lose such. The Mason Auto
. mobile mandatory was reoganize
recently and made into a s250,O00 cor
poration with Senator Maytag, of New
ton, one of the heaviest stockholder
and the manager of the plant. The an
nouncement of the reorganization 11a
no more than been announced in tn
4 papers here before the Waterloo hust