The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-06-26
One Way to Build q Greater Iowa

population in Iowa in the ten. years
down to 1852 instead of ten or
dozen times that much. Professor
Brindley found still further answer to \
the why" of Iowa people when he
discovered that the important gains in
the cities and towns were in those
cities and towns whose industries had
been growing.
The man who reads Professor Brind- !
ley's bulletin cannot help agreeing
with him when he says;
If the experience of the last thirty
years means anything. it would tend
to indicate that, under existing condi-
lions here in Iowa, the problem of an
increasing population is not one pri-
marily OF agricuI ure. When we con-
slider that our increase in population
since 1880 must be explained either by
the coal mining industry or the com
mercial and manufacturing activities
or the towns and cities one is inclin-
ed to accept with grain of salt the
assurance that back to the farm" is
the true method of realizing a Great
er Iowa both in population end in
wealth.
! Prominent agriculturists have long
agreed that population increase must
come through the increase of urban
population, If at all, and that. of course
i means an increase of industrial
Il x,.r ~ I.nc I'D far
sometime by Dean Curtiss in his pub
| lie addresses. In his Cedar Rapids
address quoted above, Dean Curtiss
said, $50 far as agriculture is con-
icerned, we shall probably have rela-
lively fewer citizens engaged in agri-
cultural production ten years from
now. and still fewer twenty years
from now, than we have today" That
is why he contended for education
for greater efficiency in agriculture
and in the industries. alike.
/ The development of industries be-
/ ing so important Professor Brindley
sought to discover by investigation
how they might be developed This
is what he found. after getting to
gether mass of information from all
sources and studying it thoroughly
To build up its industries, Iowa must
establish a system of Industrial edu
cation, which will show Iowa its manu-
featuring opportunities and provide
lit with trained engineers and skilled
|, workmen to make the most of them
1t must enlarge its experimental ant
research work at the engineering ex
pertinent station at Iowa State Col
( lege until it gives the manufacturer;
: of the state the aid they need and can
/ not get elsewhere. Iowa must extent
i the work of technical school at Anne,
z to the factory workers in every cit,
" and town. through short courses, spec
It ial lecturers, correspondence stud
n and otherwise. finally Iowa must Civ
E. state aid to local secondary school
Y to give agricultural instruction
# cannot grow unless 1t can compete.
# This question of education for tn
# industries is not merely matter 0
! promoting larger industries an
n thereby larger population 1t is ais
i question of saving boys for large
q efficiency and usefulness in life an
!, greater happiness. It is biggest as
;, boyhood and manhood question
:. Everywhere boys are dropping on
i of the public schools in such enorn
GUS numbers that far-seeing men ar
alarmed Taking the country as
"a whole. not one boy in ten ever get
= into high school. while not one in hui
e dreds ever gets into college. The O.
y erwhelming mass of boys does not e
6 en- get into the eighth grade.
he In Iowa the situation is not so ser
e Gus as that, but ever In this stat
n which boasts smaller percentage /
ut illiteracy than any Other, there is til
n same tendency for boys to quit scho'
q long before they are ready to go
OF work efficiently. Dean Marste