Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-08-08
CALL ISSUED FOR MEETING OF
IOWA FEDERATED COMMERCIAL
CLUBS At DIES MONIES.
TAKE STEPS TOWARD
INCREASING POPULATION
United Effort Will Be Made to Bring
People to Iowa to Mako Their Flu
ture Homes-Misration to Western
and Northern States is Too
Great.

Des Moines, Aug. s.-The official call
for the meeting Of the Iowa Federated
Commercial Clubs in Des Moines. Aug.
80, at which time the organization will
be perfected, has been issued. The
business session will be held at 10
cation in the state has been invited to
send representatives. The Greater Des
Moines committee, the Commercial
Club and the East Des Moines Com
mercial League Join in the invitation.
The need of coordinate effort be-
tween Iowa booster clubs TO boost Iowa
as state is ably pointed out in the
official call. which follows:
The greatest single movement that
has come out Of Iowa in twenty years
is the effort to bring together the com
mercial organizations in Iowa towns
and cities for a statewide booster
campaign. During the better part OF
the last quarter century Iowa has been
the recruiting ground for all the
states and territories west of the Mis-
souri, river In single year, it Is al
legged upon good authority, over S4.-
100000 was taken from one Iowa City
and put into Wild lands somewhere be-
You'd the horizon. The federal census
of 1900 showed the startling fact that
Iowa loses one-third Of her native born
children, while the old New England
states loses but one-sixth.
Why should people leave Iowa in
twice as great numbers as they do the
rocky hilIsiaes Of Vermont?
II Iowa cities are to enjoy a healthy
growth the state as whole must grow
with them. Neither retail nor whole
sale centers can thrive with dimin-
ishing state population. These facts
are so obvious that it is amazing to
know that the people of Iowa have walt
ed 80 long before awakening to their
dangers. During the past three years
several abortive efforts have been made
to bring together representatives OF
Iowa towns and cities in a commercial
congress. Until this year there has
never been sufficient interest among
the people OF Iowa to bring them to-
gether There is such an interest now,
and as result a meeting has been
called Tor Aug. 80 in Des Moines.
Every town boosting organization In
Iowa should be represented. We ought
to devise plans to encourage the
gro with of the state. Iowa gets today
only a small fraction OF 1 per cent OF
the Immigration to the United States
she ought to have proportion COM
mensurate with her wealth and area.
This drift Of manufacturing industries
from New York and Pennsylvania Is
being caught in the cities OF Minnesota
and Missouri much more than dn Iowa.
We should tell the men who control
them that Iowa is the greatest market
in the world for their product.
The advertising done by Des Moines
is bringing replies from many people
whose experience and training does not
fit them for a large city-this material
should be made available for small
towns. Intensive agriculture in Iowa
has a future so great that the widest
Imagination fails to measure it-the
towns of Iowa should unite in making
known to farmers the possibility OF n
return from the soil which would
Justify $500 an acre land
These are only specific suggestions
that indicate the need of CO. ordinate
effort between Iowa booster clubs. We
can do for Iowa what has been done