The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-12
GIVING BONUSES,
POOR BUSINESS
Secretary cIum Of Davenport Tells
Manufacturers Just What Hugh
|. Cooper Has Told
keokuk.
BIG DAY AT BURLINGTON
Many Strong Speakers From all over
the State Present at conven-
tion-keokuk Boosting for
1918 Meet.

WIN nearly Two hundred delegates
in attendance, the ninth annual con
vention Of the Iowa Manufacturers
association opened yesterday morning
at the Hotel Burlington in Burling-
ton. The delegations arrived on the
early trains, Davenport, Keokuk,
Sioux City and Des Moines coming in
special coaches and the visitors from
other points in Iowa arriving in small.
er groups
THE one thing which retards Iowa
said President Keys, lis the lack of
knowledge of manufacturing Manufac-
turing in Iowa today is merely an ac-
cident. There are no schools for the
/ training of young men for manufac-
turing. Not one of you here today re-
ceived any special training for the
work you are now in, except possibly
a little apprenticeship in your faith
ers' shops There is not one of You
that can give good reason that you
are making the articles you are. You
merely dropped into the business
You saw a chance to make some mon
ey and you went in.
There are schools which teach the
farmers how to get the best results
from their labor and there should be
similar trade schools. for manufac-
4 turing is one of the most important
J branches to develop in the state and
] next to the farmer it is the most i'm
portant work of the state
: ed the plan of cities offering bonuses
y to manufacturers to loca[e in a town
t This, he said, is one of the greatest
: evils industry has to contend with to
i day. He said that scarcely city ir
the middle west exists but in whicr
y there are monuments to ill-advisee
h bonus giving. Empty buildings whicf
It were built to house subsidize,
e industries which long ago passei
y away. He spoke of this for recently
in Cedar Rapids a plan was adopted
s by which it will be possible to give
4 bonuses.
The Davenport man did not speal
long. but what he said was clever anC
to the point He said that one of thu
l. things he wished this convention
could bring about would be to offer ;
l. prescription how to interest cautious
and sagacious'' capital in Iowa manu-
r featuring. He told of experiences il
Davenport with men who had invest
l. ments in other states and refused t.
assist in building up their own cit.
n and state, although the logical resul
: of investing at home would be to i'm
prove his business by booming hi
e. town, the increasing of pay rolls. b.
spending little on investments a
= home they would increase the profit
of their business SO that if they ha
n foreign investments they could pu
more money in them.
e. Speaking of the decrease in populs
I. ton of Iowa in the past ten year;
of Secretary Clum showed by figure
that the state may have lost in pop,
II lation but that the values have il
creased wonderfully. Farm lands il
creased in ten years 12S per cent
farm improvements, 80 per cent
1T farm machinery investments, So pc
Is cent; wages to farm labor 90 pc
s cent, and aside from this the farme
$ has spent s2S,00O,oOo in automobile
H. in the past ten years. The speake
mentioned that it might pay to b
lie among the last to stay in Iowa, for
wealth increases so and the popul
err ton decreases, that in time thos
IT.. among the last to remain will hay
n it all.
't Mr.. Clum stated that Davenport
to spend $4,000 il the next year
"a advertise Iowa first and Davenpo
ne second. He also mentioned that
e plan to be known as the ''Davenpo
" Plan is being worked out, which wi
ne soon be announced.
Notes of the Meetjpo