Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-01-28


October II, 1903, at the postohlce'
tumwa. Iowa. under the Act OF SoAi-
gress Of March 8, 1873.
Foreign representatives: Cone, LOT
enzen & Woodman, Mallers bui1ims.
Chicago; 225 Fifth Ave, E Citv Mo.
City: Gumbel Bldg. Kansas Ci'S' N"o.
IOWA NEEDS ADVERTISING.
The state legislature is asked In
bill now before it, to appropriate the
sum of $125,OOO for an Iowa build
ing" and exhibit at the Panama
Pacific exposition which is to be held
in San Francisco commencing next
month and lasting very nearly through
out the remainder Of the year. Mil
lions of people will attend the fair and
Iowa needs the advertising. 1t is hard
ly possible that a question Will De
raised at the passage OF the Dill ior
it's advisability is common knowledge.
Good business sense demands that
Iowa show at this exposition that 1t Is
right up at the top of the list OF good
states-despite the blow dealt 1t by
the 1910 federal census report which
showed slight loss of population,
Just how a statewide feeling favor
able to the erection of an Iowa build
inc and the exhibition of Iowa pro-
ducts at the Panama-Pacific exposition,
came about is worth recounting. Two
years ago, the public generally was
so little interested in the matter that
the legislature and the Iowa people
let the matter of making an approprla-
ton for such purposes, go practically
bv default. Shortly afterward dele
cation of Waterloo men returned from
a visit to San Francisco and they
were filled with enthusiasm at the big
things the exposition company ana
various states and nations were dong
at the exposition grounds. with the
we'll known Waterloo booster spirit,
thew determined to have their town
represented at the fair and $35,OOO was
raised with that intention. Then
came a splash of cold water on their
plan for the exposition company ad-
vised them that no individual cities
would be permitted to be represented
only nations and states. 1t was then
that the Waterloo boosters conceived
the idea of broadening out their pro-
ject into an Iowa building ana an
iowa exhibit and influential men In
various parts of the state were com
municated with. Newspaper readers
VIII recall Tic CdupuA6A SAA"e '~A~AA
teer boosters for the project made and
thew win recall that the public took
very kindly to the plan and assured
its being made success PROVIDED
the legislature would cooperate.
And that is what the legislature is
being asked to do now. Iowa is pre-
pared to 20 to the exposition with al
exhibit that will compare favorably
with the very best there. Iowa can
show agricultural products such as no
other state or nation in the world can
surpass. Iowa can show horses and
mules that the biggest breeders would
he clad to get hold of especially In
view of the European demands grow
ing out of. the war. And no state or
nation will be able to exhibit better
grade of hogs and cattle and chickens
than will be found in the Iowa contr1-
button to the wonders of the fair. Its
DISPLAY of manufactured products will
show goods of the highest quality.
Iowa's exhibit will not be found want
ing in any particular and 1t will be
source of pride to IOwans who see 1t
and a source of wonder to those who
are not Iowans. 1t will mean the open
ing of the eyes of the world to the ad-
yantages that Iowa possesses and the
desirability of living in this state and
investing money here.
In addition to what it already has,
Iowa can point to what it Is going to
have in the future. Its numerous
streams are nearly all capable Of pro-
ducing water power and the tendency
to make use of this possibility be-
comes more pronounced every day.
Education along lines Of intensified
farming is sweeping the state and land
that is now producing $40 to $50 an
acre will soon be producing two 'or
three times as much. And the beauty
of it is that the land will need very
little "coaxing" to get these results for
Iowa land is as fertile as any In the
world.
Iowas present is such that the coun-
trv ought to know about 1t and Iowa's
future ia so bright that 1t ought to be
painted in glowing colors so high in
the sky that all the world will see and
understand what is doing here.
Iowa owes it to itself to convince the
world that the loss of population be-
tween the years 1900 and 1910 was not
an indication that this state is In any
sense a dead one, or that 1t Is discour-
aged at it's showing, or that 1t Is any
thing but proud of itself and it's posi-
bilities. To neglect to take its proper
place at the big fair this year would be
tacitly construed by outsiders as an
admission that something is. wrong
and that this state is not the big,
prosperous, growing state that it is,
with more and better farm products
every year, with more people and with
more factories in it than ever before
and above all--with more money and
more opportunities.
SOUTH is CHANGING.
The announcement that President
Wilson is sending Secretary Redtield