The Ordway new era., 1920-04-02

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national headquarters already located
here. listing among these the United
Mine Workers of America. Internation-
al brotherhood of Bookbinders. Inter
national Typographical union. Inter
national brotherhood of Transfers and
Chauffeurs. BricSlayers. Masons and
PIasterers' international union. Bar
hers international union. and the In
ternationai brotherhood of Carpenters
and Ioiners. This array of labor Or
ganizations assured the approval Of
the thousands of legion members be
longing to labor organizations.
ave said we could assure all ex-
service men OF most cordial welcome
as Indianapolis had always been most
appreciative of her heroes. In PROOF
of this. witness the soldiers and sail
ors' monument which was erected
thirty years ago. costing then over
S5OO.OOO-a monument almost 800 feet
in helght-and the patriotic manner
In which Indiann's sons have answered
the call In all previous wars.
"All were surprised to learn that
electric traction terminal building In
the world. where more than 2o.OOO
passengers each day arrive and depart
on about 800 hlgh-speed electric Inter
urban cars The fact that we built
the first union railway station In the
world also Appealed to many.
ave found few knew that Indi-
annapolis was the home city of the late
Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks,
the home city OF Vice President Mar
shall. the late James Whitcomb Riley
and the late Benjamin Harrison; of
Booth Huntington. Meredith Nicholson
and other literary men of national
note
ave explained that in addition to
our unusual location and railroad facil-
tiles the city was well equipped with
many first-clnss hotels. large auditori-i
ums for conventions. and everything
In the way of thentfrs and motion pic
ture houses that delegates to a con-
ventIon might require 5 theaters and
60 motion picture houses.
1.-The many buildings Of interest
were also described--a post office oc-
cupying n city block and costing more
than half million dollars; central
library. erected at cost of more than
n half million dollars. with fourteen
branches and thirtv-five other dlstrih-
uting agencies; state capitol occupy
ing two city blocks: n courthouse Of
unusual architectural beauty, and so
on.
"Of course we bored some listeners,
and we had to permit the boosters of
other cities to have their say. but.
nevertheless. we got across the many
advantages offered by this city of
30S,O0O population. We tried to ap-
peal to the particular interest of the
man with whom we were talking.
THUS. we told the men from farm
ing and rural districts that the prin-
cipal Industry from the value of prod
uct is slauGhtering and meat packing.
That last year 1.394.l52 hogs. 26S,42s
cattle and calves. and l5.903 sheep
were killed. They were interested to
know that more than 3,3OO,O00 head
of live stock were received at Indi-
annpolls stock yards the year before
''To the same men we told that g.
72S,T5 bushels of wheat and 1.566.5
bushels of corn were handled by local
dealers, and total of 46.OOO,0OO bush
els of grain handled In elevators hav-
Ing n combined capacity of 2,4S0.OoO
bushels
None of the college men seemed to
know thar Butler college at Indl-
nnapolis wns the first college In the
co-ntry to receive women on equal
footing with men. And In the same
way we had marshalled facts to inter
est men of every occupation and in
terest.
~ venture there was not delega-
tiOn at the convention so well in
formed on what their city had to offer.
Certain men We're assigned to work
with the delegations from the different
states. We took with us motion pic
ture film showing the city. but had
not an opportunity to use 1t.
But. as said before, believe the
fact that we landed the G. H. Q. OF
the legion was due solely to superior
salesmanship."