The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-02
,,. r. Reincr Appointed After
- !. for Entrance to the Naval
Academy From the
First District.
KENNEDY's WISE PLAN
=. kcokuk Young Man Won Place
IN His own Merits by Consist
tent Record for Scholar
ship and Manliness.

Eeokuk boy has been appointed
.,,ornate to the naval academy at
,nu,nolis. AS such things go, this
r;vos him at least even chances OF
socomipg a naval officer, for at least
s,lf Of the principals fail to pass
,be severe physical and mental exam
,uotian REQUIRED before entrance into
the naval academy
lawrence Frederick Reiner will not
81, in either examination, if he comes
near making good his past record.
u. has been the star football player OF
tbo Keokuk high school team, lives
On farm in the summers lately, is an
oil around athlete. and one of the
finest specimens Of physical manhood
IN tho Y M. C. A. gym classes.
Aso. he is one of the best students
mo Keokuk high school ever had,
Standing very high j his studies
throughout his school course. He
viii graduate from the high school i'll
lime lust in time to be ready for the
examination for Annapolis.
He was born in Keokuk nineteen
wears ago the son of the late Law
renee R. Reiner and belongs to the
old Keokuk family of that name who
have been prominent in Keokuk af-
| fairs for two generations. Since his
mother married again, he has been
living near Vincennes, in the school
vacation
Kennedys Careful Choice.
Congressman C. A. Kennedy made
this appointment along excellent lines
Of choice. Having determined to APP
point Karl D. Melcher of Mt. Pleas
ant as principal, he made the wise
| decision that keokuk deserved the
appointment of alternate.
Having been good school teacher
Congressman Kennedy knows as well
as everybody else who is informed
that one of the poorest possible ways
| Of Selling up a youth IS to give hin
written scholastic examination-anc
a competitive examination is about as
unjust thing as can be invented u
| tell which youth is the best.
Congressman Kennedy knew bet
| ter way than that. He made careful
very thorough. keen and discrlminat
tive enquiries Of some of the schoo
authorities about recent graduates -.nt
present pupils of the keokuk higl
school. The only limitation he made
was lack of wealth. He said he die
not care about the politics or relig
ion or social standing of the boy. bu
he must be one who could not afft RI
10 get a university education by him
self-he must be an ambitious you'll
Worrying because he does not ha"'
enough money to 60 through frs
class college
How Reiner Won It.
A rather long and very c.reful silt
ing process without anybody knowing
ANYTHING about it--resulted in th
choice of Lawrence r. Reiner as tn
all round star Keokuk high schoo
man Of recent years.
In this way Young Reiner won hi
appointment himself. by his own char
acter and record in and out of schoo'
oit he was amazed when he was In
formed that he had been chosen t
oe alternate appointee to the Annal
oils naval academy.
ne had been worrying because h
ma not have money enough to go t
rilheeton, some preliminary pumpin
VI MN disclosed, and had thus uncon
scously qualified in that way also.
while the method of choosing al
ElVihtees by Congressman Kennedy |
sumewhat unusual-being equally re
moved from the lodging and unjus
ae.nod or competitive examination
sna the other equally bad method {
mahlhs political plums of these al
,.O'n'ments-everybody who knows no,
" PICK out good young men will al
p'dad the action in this case of Cor
s'essman Kennedy.
Former kcokuk Cadets.
Aeokuk has given the country Lie,
WI, saant J. G. Townsend. recently ma,
Nc, nsa and OF high standing with his s,
s 49, Officers, in the present gener;
,, AN Lawrence r, Reiner is the sam
mn sau 81 nigh minded, brainy, ambition,
T spuiar Young man that Lieutenar
,s .ansehd was when appointed to Al
sn =, islce Bell was in the navy AGA,
H.. s awhile, but resigned to com
ne 70 enter the Insurance work.
y the way, Hugh II. Craig MISE