The Cordova daily times., 1920-06-17

5uIldInas-Why and How the HoosleF the World War Men.
 appreciative of her heroes. In proof of this, witness the soldiers and sail ors' monument which was erected thirty years ago, costing then over $500, ,OOO-a monument almost 300 feet Tn height-and the patriotic manner in which Indiana's sons have answered the call in all previous wars.
 "All were surprised to learn that Indianapolis has the most complete electric traction terminal building in the world, where more than 10000 passengers each day arrive and depart on about 800 high-speed electric inter urban cars. The fact that we built the first union railway station in the world also appealed to many.
 "We 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 Tarkington, Meredith Nicholson and other literary men of national note.
 "We explained that in addition to our unusual location and railroad facil- ities, the city was we'll equipped with many first-class hotels, large auditori- ums for conventions and everything Ry, hn 1R x&I o3o ture houses that delegates to a con- vention might require, theaters and 60 motion picture houses.
 'The many buildings of interest were also described-a post office oc- cupying a city block and costing more than half million dollars; a central library, erected at a cost of more than a half million dollars, with fourteen branches and thirty-fve other distrib- uting agencies; state capitol occupy ing two city blocks; 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 308,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 1.394,4 hogs, 268,428 cattle and calves, and 15,903 sheep were killed. They were interested to know that more than 3,3OO0OO head of live stock were received at Indi- annapolis stock yards the year before
 ITO the same men we told that G. 72S,75O bushels of wheat and 21, ,566, 300 bushels of corn were handled by local dealers, and total of 46,00O,O0O bush els of grain handled in elevators hay ing combined capacity of 2,4S0,OOO bushels.
 None of the college men seemed to know that Butler college at Indi- annapolis was the first college in the country to receive women on eoual Iootlng With men. And in the same way we had marshalled facts to inter- est men of every occupation and in- terest.
 T venture there was not delega- tfon at the convention so we'll in- formed on what their city had to offer Certain men were assigned to work with the delegations from the different states. We took with us a motion pic ture film showing the city, but had not an opportunity to use it.
 "But, as I said before, I believe the fact that we landed the c. H. 0. of the legion was due solely to superior saiesmanship."