The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-06-24

Soiutely 10 the idea that personal con-
! tact is the way to make sales.
To-day We are engaged as other
speakers will tell you IN an attempt
to sell keokuk first at its own and
secondly to outside interests. If a
prospect shows up it won't do to mere.
ly send him printed memorandum OF
how many churches and how many
schools we have in keokuk and how
wide the streets are and how beauti-
ful the river, but We will have to send
a man or men cooked and primed
with the kind OF information that that
man is most deeply interested in, part
of the money which we hope to get
fand which we feel sure We will get,
will be used for that purpose, but it
will be used with the utmost judgment
and discernm ent.
Conventions Help.
Every day in the year in some
place or another conventions are being
held, conventions of business inter
ests, OF religious bodies, fraternal
orders and a thousand others. All
of these bringing men together. These
men come and they go away If dur
ing the time they are here they are
properly treated the advantages
which we have here are properly pre-
scented before them, we cannot tell
when the seed may fall on ground
when some man impressed by keokuk
and the spirit of her people may bring
to us either direct or indirectly bust
ness institution of one kind or an
other that may mean great dead for
the natural advancement of keokuk.
Under the new plan OF organiza-
ton we expect to have a. convention
bureau who will look after these
things and this will very neatly and
appropriately dove tail in with the
handling of traffic for which when
the right man has been located we ex-
pect to provide.
One has only to go out on Main
street during the business hours o.
any day or in the evening and look
at the license tags on the automobiles
and if he has an Imagination at all he
can build up wonderful possibilities of
the good that will come to- Keokuk
through good roads leading into here.
Thanks to the very efficient work
of our board Of supervisors, the chair.
ers for Keokuk, the roads in the i'm
mediate territory in Iowa are in very
good condition but by word Of en-
couragement here and little expense
there what is already good can be
made better and that will be G,
the motives Of this new organization
Long Pull and Steady.
Finally the money expended will
be used for reorganization OF the
association in itself. Today and for
too many years past we have had the
association but We have starved it to
death, no not to- death, but Just a lit
tie worse than death; we have given
it lingering, painful existence.
at seems to me about the only
good service that the Industrial asso-
citation has served for most Of us over
the last few years has been some
thing to crab at and cirticise adverse
ly, but we hope that there is an end
to that now and that every man and
woman will go out of this theater re-
solved to uphold the hands Of the In
dustrial association, to- criticise them
if they must but in friendly way.
a long pull, and a strong pull and
pull together we can do what we have
set out to do-put Keokuk ahead"
~ Adotph BoIdt Speaks.
Oratory is not the thing to build
cities with, Adolph Boldt, Of the
United States Chamber of Commerce,
declared in his talk. 1t is well to
have such meetings, but after them
we have the practical end to take up.
Remember, he said, that the steam
that blows the whistle does not turn
a wheel.
Natural advantages alone do not
make city, he said. There are no
rubber forests around Akron, Ohio,
or mahogany forests around Grand
Rapids, Mich. Why should Battle
Creek be the breakfast food center
of the country and Detroit and To-
ledo, rather than Chicago and New
York the automobile manufacturing
centers
1T is the civic spirit of the people
that builds cities. That is the reason
why some grow and others do not.
No city is greater than it's citizen
ship"
Mr. Boldt then spoke Of the enter
prise of Houston in getting the
bayou there developed, and Of Fort
Worth in grabbing the packing in
dustries away from sister city. He
told of the similarity Of conditions in
Orange and Beaumont, and yet Beau
mont went ahead.
People must spend their own
money to build cities" he said. He
then outlined a few Of the channels
into which the $4,000 which is to
be raised might be turned. He sug-
gested that the association should
have asked twice this amount. by
all means have traffic bureau. In
dustries ask first, when considering
locations. what are the rates on raw
materials and finished products?
Mad nr,A Nrr