The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-17
KEOKUK ELECTRIC
/. COMPANY TO ASSIST
Movement to Plaoe College Under
graduates In Electrical Field
In Practical Employment
N 0uMmeA
TWO ARE COMING HERE
state Unlversity to Place Many STU
dents In Public Utility Cor
poratIons Through
out State.
TWO ARE COMING HERE

The Keokuk Electric company,
along with other Iowa electric cor
porations il this year going to assist
the University of Iowa and state col
lege in preparing It's electrical stu.
dents for their life work.
The state colleges each year places
undergraduates of their electrical de-
partments and some graduates, but
especially the former, in summer posi-
lions, wherever obtainable, with cor
porations such as the Keokuk Elec-
trio company, that practical knowledge
in the electrical field may be secured
along with theoretical and expert
mental knowledge gained III the class
rooms.
This year large number Of under
graduates and graduates from the
state university will be employed
throughout Iowa, and the Keokuk
Electric company has agreed to md
places here for two. R. G. Giese, a
Junior in the electrical department at
the state university Is already here
and his summer vacation will be
spent with the Keokuk Electric COM
pany. Albert Volkner, graduate OF
this year will be here in few days
to take up position
At the start these young men Will
have no set employment. Rather they
win be given q number OF dineernt
| tasks, all In the electric field. start
| ing off with the reading OF meters.
J. P. Ingle, manager Of the keo-
kuk Electric company is in sympath. :
with the movement to help educate
the college students In the electrical
| lines with practical knowledge. The
electrical concerns Of Iowa will in
| the future have to draw from the col
lege graduates for their men and this
| is a plan to help educate them for tina
positions they are to hold in the
future.
H. G.. Blackwell, general manager
Of the Davenport Gas & Electric Light
company and also chairman OF the
public relations committee OF the Ma
tional Electric Light association, has
Interested himself in the work OF
placing college undergraduates n
positions in the state. In recent let
/! ter to Mr.. Ingle he states the propo
sition as follows:
Several thousand young men are
putting In a large amount Of time
! each year at the colleges and un1ver
stiles in the state of Iowa. These
men are endeavoring to secure an
education. and the matter of proper
education to our young men is now
one of the most important factors en-.
tering into the development and pros
perity of the public utility. 1t Is true
| that these young men gain tremen-
dous amount Of knowledge during
their several years Of schooling, but
| 1t Is absolutely up to the public ut1lt-
ties of the state Of Iowa to do the1f
| part toward the proper education OF
these young men and to see that they
! are taught facts regarding the public
utilities Of the state, which they can
not be taught at school.
at is through these young men who
are now at school, that we, repre-
senting the public utilities, will get
our bumps and our boosts, and. If for
no other reason than selfish one
we could take it upon ourselves as
public utilities to give so ne of these
young men employment during the
summer and permanent employment
after they have graduated, it would
no doubt result in their telling their
friends and relations and fellow citt-
zens what they have learned through
their employment with public utilities.
and it is through these men that we
can show the general public that what
the public utilities are asking for is
nothing more than good living.
This is not humanitarian PROPOSE
ton in any way. 1t Is serious on ,
and an educational problem and
please consider 1t So"