The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-08-09
OCAl OFFICERS
ARE MUCH WORRIED.
failure o. Local Employers to Allow
Their Men to Attend the State
Enssmpment is caus-
Ing Worry.
THEY DO NOT REALIZE
Buslness Men, Generally, DO Not Real
lie Importance Of National Guard
and Are Not Enthusi-
astie.

One Of the officers of Company l.
furnishes the following article regard
ing the showing Keokuk will make at
the coming state encampment:
Twelve years ago Keokuk lost her
national guard company after having
been represented in the guard of
Iowa for about fifteen years. Two
years ago an opening in the saith reg
lment was offered to Keokuk. A great
deal of enthusiasm was shown at the
prospect of again having military
organization and after satisfying Ad-
siutant General Logan that company
could be successfully kept up, Com
pany l. was mustered into the SER
vice.
The army of the United States is the
smallest of any country of any i'm
portance in the world and for that
reason if for no other the efficiency of
the national guard is serious CON
sideration to everyone However, be.
sides forming an important reserve
for service in time of war the guard
Is available fer enumerable other
duties At the call of the sheriff or
at the request OF the city the national
guard is available to quell local dis
t,irbance or riots of any character, to
be used as guard at the time of any
great disaster, to form a military
escort for any patriotic occasion and
at all times an incentive to keep up
slowly but surely dying spirit Of
pride and patriotism for the country
and the flag.
Monday Company L will go into
camp with the companies from forty
eight other Iowa cities) representing
the most talked of and generally
thought livest city in the state and
will probably have the smallest turn
out Of any company at the encamp-
ment And this in the face of I'M
questionably a greater effort on the
part Of the local company officers than
has been necessary in any other place.
The local officers have called on or
written to every employer of mem
bers of the company explaining their
desire to see Keokuk decently repre-
sented and have requested every pos
sible concession and consideration on
their part to help send such COM
rany.
The result has been typical CT Keo-
kuk Everyone approved most hearth
" Of the desire to be classed with
the best and nearly everyone was
very sorry that it would be impossible
for them to spare any of their en-
ployes at this time. Any business that
can allow man to lay OF and not
cause little inconvenience and a
little extra work for someone is a
Very poorly organized business 1t is
not to be expected that any firm is car
rylng a lot of dead heads just for the
saSe of having them on the pay roll
but no one could ever conceive of how
whole business could depend on the
presence of one employe. If men were
paid salaries consistent with their
APPARENT value the members of Com
pany L would indeed be very pros
fercus lot Of young men.
The facts of the case are simply
these. For years KeolSuk has been a
back number because ninety per cent
CT the people were so selfish that
their only assistance in making things
go along was to praise to their face
and ridicule to their back the time and
effort that few public spirited ones
nave put in to try to get things go
Ing. When committees were formed
ior some public work there are al
Ways the regular ones who can't pos
slbly leave their business to do this
work. There are always the same
lew public spirited workers who have
plugged along and who have gotten
little thanks for their efforts.
Until there is q unanimous spirit
o. helping each other and working to
make everything in Keokuk the best
REGARDLESS of whether you have q
PERSONAL interest in 1t Or not there
VII be no change Nothing should
90 out of Keolluk representing keo-
kuk today that isn't the best. Com
fany L Is well known throughout the
state and is regarded as one of the
pest drilled and most efficient organ
izatlons in the Iowa guard which is
one of the best il not the best in the