The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-18

We're all of Us boys-or girls some
Of US little older, some of US a ut
tie younger.
And when we can't be boys and
girls, kindly. bene1cient Nature
should pass us along-for the end OF
our usefulness has come, and the end
Of enjoyment, too When we can't be
boy among boys. we hope that our
dear old friend Death will come and
release us from further sojourn here.
1t Is because we are boys and girls
that this is poor day to boost for
Quincy in Quincy newspaper; for,
bless your soull this circus day,
and we are all going to the circus.
The music and the spangles, the gaud-
dy trappings and the horses and the
wagons. the animals and rne crowds
have almost as much fascination for
US now as they did thirty or forty
or fifty years ago. When man or
a woman has lost all interest in the
things that used to arouse enthusiasm
in him or her in childhood's days
tAASh, iAecSu, udS Ac VI Big pdSSSQ III
to the period Of the seer and yellow
leaf.
And 80, we are all going to the cir
Gus today. But We are going to boost
for Quincy little, Just the same.
Reader, do you realize that Major
Hugh L. Cooper is a big man? If
You have seen him and talked with
him you realize 1t. He's big in
body and big in brain. and simple all
the way through, as great men almost
always are. He's simple, modest and
retiring and, In way, self-deprecat-
Ing. Really and truly big men don't
go around with music and banners
proclaiming their greatness.
We don't like to say these compli-
mentary things concerning Major
Cooper, because he will see them and
they will embarrass him. But they
are true all the same. Major Hugh
l.. Cooper Is not an accidental
| though he says he Is. In one sense, we
are all of US accidents, more or less
/ for millions of unwanted children are
I dof1Si gu 1AlO iilc. oul III dAOLlci
sense, none of us are accidents. We
are what our ancestors, our parents,
| our inherited characteristics and our
environment have made us.
In all of Major Cooper's talk, last
night, concerning the work now going
on between Keokuk and Hamilton. did
/ you notice how he kept himself in
the background? 1t was we and
u.s." and our all the way through
the talk 1t was never 81" One
might listen to Cooper for hundred
hours and never get an idea that he
was the whole works. that it was
his brain that conceived that mighty
undertaking, and that he is superin
tending and executing the big work
1t takes a big and modest man to thus
submerge himself in public.
/ Major Cooper made a big, solid
sensible talk at the Hotel Quincy ban
quet last night: and this means thai
his talk was free from frills and IT,
bellows and cheap rhetoric and hot air
After showing US lot of fine stere
opticon pictures of the work now go
ing on between Keokuk and Hamilton
the lights were turned on and he TOLD
US in simple, straightforward, man
Iy way Just what he thought we ough
to do here in Quincy to take advant
age of the great enterprise that II
going forward at our very door.
He told us that we should have tn,
services of high-class, efficient in
dustrial expert; man who viii
thoroughly familiarize himself will
the local conditions; a man who will
be able to determine what sort o
manufactures we should go after 70
Quincy. And after finding out wha
we need here, this man should go on
and hunt UP industrial concerns tina
have good reasons for wishing Il
move. And he says that when we fin,
concern of this kind, the Mississir
pi River Power company will furnisl
+ an expert at It's own expense, an,
have him go with our agent to the In
dustriai concern that wishes to NOV
and talk the power question over wit
! it convincingly and conclusively Ma
J. jor Cooper says that 1t would be mis-
!, take for US to bring a factory her