The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-31
IBy q. Walter B.rr.l

ny q. Walter s.rrl
Once upon time man inherited Farm
which did not cost him Cent Tt was about the
Best farm in the whole Country and said to be
the Largest farm in the World. Everybody that
Knew about it enWed him-some of them en-
We'd him so Much that they said Mean things
about him.
Ina few Years the man was Living in the
same old Pitiable way to which he was accus-
toned before he Inherited the farm. He seemed
to think that big Farm of the finest Soil, to-
gether with the Sunshine and Rain that God
sent ought to make him Rich without Work He
had Large Family of children, some of whom
were Fine boys and girls and some of whom
were Not. One or two Of the children especially
were continually Stirring up all sorts of
Trouble. One of them thought the Father
did not give him enough Money to spend;
another one made a lot of real Trouble because
the father would not Allow him to plant GER
tain field in potatoes when the father had Ar
rangementS already made for sowing that same
Field in wheat.
The farmer went to the Limit in trying to
Satisfy his large family Of Children but one son
constantly made Gaps in the Fence through
which the Stock got into the Fields of Grain,
and finally set fire to the Barn while exercising
his Inalienable Right to carry Lantern at night
! and while doing his full Duty bedding down the
Horses in the stable The real cause Of the
trouble was the fact that the Bottom of the Ian
tern was insecure and fell out, and that the
Stable had been built at very considerable Elk
pense in way to preclude any combustible
bedding
So the man finally Surrendered the farm to
his Creditors and moved out to the mountains
of the West leaving his family to Starve on the
farm that was once such magnificent Inherit
ance to him.
MORAL-Don't shoe at the Goose setting
on the Golden Eggs.
I have become much interested during the
last year in rather careful study OF Newton
and DeS MONIES, two entirely dlHefent Clues
in the state of Iowa.
Newton is about the size that Keokuk was
twenty years ago, and has been built up IN the
last twenty years out in the middle OF the iowa
prairies with one real railroad and two or three
other railroads passing through it. The }loglcal
come the commercial center Of very line farm
ing section. But Newton had other IDEAS. IL
was not satisfied with being the county town OF
one of the finest agricultural counties II! iowa.
It knew it had that for certainty and sort
Of foundation for other things. So Newton ue-
termined to be manufacturing CITY.
Today it is one of the most intensely manu-
featuring cities in the middle west. 1t has
large number of factories, and halt cozen or
more of them export their products all over tne
world and do a business running into millions.
1t does not possess very good transpofCaCloli
facilities, adjacent coal, cheap power, navlg-
able water nor anything else that the Wllter 1li
economies lists as causes of industrial growth
II does possess most remarkable spirit
prevalent throughout it's citizenshp-the splrlt
of doing things for itself, by itself, ana alto-
gether. ,nu
There is no room here to go into details.
Suffice it to say that when Newton man Nun
real brains and executive ability proJects Pla 4
to manufacture something it only requires aoou'