The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-16

strong presentation Of what can be &C
complished with push and energy and
while not exactly model to follow
after, Iowa. could well AFFORD to have
Wallingford In every community.
This man. compelled yiliage moss
backs to dig up many thousand dollars
and invest them In home enterprises.
The most trivial ventures came out
with flying colors and the little vii
lage sprang to city Of seventy-fve
thousand people in two yeara time.
Some of the Waterloo people who wit
messed the production are inclined to
the opinion that the play had its birth
from the inception of the Waterloo in
terurban street car line. The name OF
Waterloo is not mentioned but those
of Cedar Rapids and Des Moines are
and the train is taken from this VII
lage at four forty, the old and for
many years the time OF leaving this
city on the Rock Island for Cedar
Rapids, and that is where Mailing.
ford went to dispose of his million
dollar street car line. The story is not
important, but stirring up the animals.
securing their cash and working the
money day and night Is.
"Iowa's greatest asset is its young
men. What are we doing for them?
In a vast majority of cases, we are
allowing the boy to go away from the
birth place, the good ones. The poor
ones cannot raise the price. Consult
the records of the state university, the
normal college. and the college at
Ames and there learn In this record
book OF the whereabouts of major
ity of the prominent students. Iowa
gineering department at the state
university, one of the professors In a
public lecture stated recently that
! nine out of ten of the bright gradu-
ates in the department found employ
ment, excellent positions, out of Iowa,
and that the demand abroad was
greater than the supply If this Iowa
product is good for the upbuilding OF
another state, why not for Iowa?
Think for a moment of the bright boys
of your acquaintance Are they not
we'll located In Chicago, the east or
the far west? Is Iowa not losing in
population and real asset by this
move? A recent illustration of this
! character is the removal of Secretary
! Simpson of the state agricultural O.
ciety to Minnesota. His services were
| in big demand and the salary offered
! was two thousand more than he re-
| ceived in Iowa, with house rent free,
/ IDENTIFY knew the worth of an Iowa boy.
Iowa does not advertise. 1t is
| afraid to see its name in print and like
the merchant in the same capacity, it
is losing its business or population
The states that are growing, increas
/ ing the customers or population, are
the ones that are advertising. They
Il operate successful publicity bureaus
ard Oklahoma and Texas are illus
j trations OF what can be accomplished
i by the use of printers ink.
4 Iowa should develop and utilize
what God has SO graciously bestowed
upon her. Her citizens should stor
CIodhiuSy nave ldltH III tuelr Own
;. employ the boy at home, divide up tht
farm in ten acre pieces and encourage
more farmers rather than the op
posite course. Patronize home indus
| tries. shun mail order houses, sub
s scribe literally to everything tina
VIII produce and expand at home ant
j the problem of building up Iowa ant
! increasing its population is solved"