The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-30

makes it very difficult to get them to
do more than sit still and not rock
the boat until the tornado passes.
Notwithstanding this condition OF
things, Keo!luk has gained number
of manufacturing plants OF the very
highest Importance and OF very con-
siderable size, the investments run
ming into the millions. IL she can
do this under present war conditions,
she seems destined to win easily after
things settle down to normal again.
Not Hot Air But Forces.
Some people still think that sue
cessful farming consists in planting
potatoes and fence posts in the dark
of the moon, in planting and shocR-
ing corn year after year, and IN
trusting to luck for the returns from
the farm.
Also, some people think that build
ing up a city consists in hunting UP
some manufacturer suffering from
Indigestion, persuading him with Oil
stock arguments or substantial BON
uses, and locating him on tract OF
land within the city limits.
Some people are wrong IN both IN
stances. The farmer who plants by
the phases of the moon in the patent
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tend a. college of agriculture and farm
scientifically; they seemingly waste
some time making the farm soil right,
but in ten years they have an income
larger than the superstttious father
ever dreamed of earning. The gllbly
talking persuader has been super
seeded as a town booster by the train
ed economist with a big card index
full Of facts and figures, and head
full of the science and art Of succeed
ing in manufacturing.
The Expert From Keokuk Welcomed.
Keokuk is upbuilding by the only
real method of placing layer after
LAYER upon a solid foundation.
The man from Keokuk VINO ap-
breaches a manufacturer knows as
much as the manufacturer himself
about that business-and sometimes
a good deal more than the owner OF
the business.
The man from Keokuk sets down
in one column costs of doing business
elsewhere. market conditions every
where, facilities for raw fateriols and
TRANSFORMATION costs there, cost or
living and living conditions in that
othtr city. and a thousand and one
other items Then in another column
he sets down all these items as they
obtain in Keokuk He adds both
| columns and shows a decided advant-
age In manufacturing in Keokuk.
The manufacturer prospect under
! the old methods generally doubted
and discounted the alleged facts
about the candidate city. Under the
new method he generally is surprised
| tn discover how much he is losing
| in his own business on account OF
| things he never suspected. He is
| glad to get facts and advice from the
| EXPERT from Keokuk who gives free
1y-because generally the more facts
| shown the more attractive is keokuh
as a place to manufacture.
Laying the Corner Stone of Success.
/ It must be admitted that Keokuk
has the edge on other places in this
modern and successful game Of bring
| ing in manufacturing, and her success
can hardly be duplicated by towns
and cities not in the power zone or
the great Keokuk waterpower.
Like other towns, Keokuk has her
association of business men devoted
to upbuilding the town in every way.
Here. its name is the Industrial as
sociation, and it is of high quality
and big business management. 1t
would succeed like many others, AZ
! left to itself and its own resources.
1t has done much and is constantly
! doing more. without It conditions