Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-08-15
PLANES TO DROP
PAPER BONES IN
CITIES OF STATE
Courier Autos Also TO Be Used
in Announcing Industrial
Exposition.

Exposition.
Announced ahead by airplane from
which paper bombs win be dropped a
squad of fifty courier automobiles VIII
leave the Indianapolis Chamber OF Com
merce Sept. l, 20 cover routes that Will
take in practically every city. town and
hamlet In Indiana, carrying from the
Chamber Of Commerce and from the mayor
of indianapolis an Official invitation
to ia emayor, the Commercial Club and
the people Of each town to come to the
Indianapolis Industrial Exposition TO be
held at the State Playground in the
manufactures building, Oct. 10 to Is.
The detailed plans for the routes are
now being worked out. The airplanes
are to drop paper bomb over each town
just before the courier car comes in
Special committees are being selected
this week by John B. Reynolds. general
secretary Of the Chamber OF Commerce
0. 3. lies, chairman OF the manufsctuF-
ers committee, and c. B. Wsuin, the d.
rector OF the exposition, to handle the
details Of carrying the official welcome
to the exposition to the people OF Indiana
DIPLOMATIC DAY1
EVENT or EXPOSITION.
simultaneously with this announce
ment comes another that the Chamber Of
Commerce has decided to have a "Diplo-
matte Day at the exposition to which
the attaches OF the legations of foreign
countries viii be brought to indianapolis
on a special train from Washington.
Immediate action is being taken to
make Diplomatic Day" one of the big
gest IN Indianapolis Industrial history
.t- A~F
cally assures the presence Of Herbert
Hoover, secretary Of commerce, as tbs
Official representative OF the United
States Government, in indianapolis or
Tuesday Of exposition week. Personal in.
vitations viii be extended to foreign coun
/ tries 10 send commerce attaches of the
/ Washington Legations here. 4 committee
Of manufacturers viii be appointed with
in the next few days by Mr.. Reynolds and
Mr.. lies to go to Washington and to ar
range for the invitations through the Sec
Rotary of States department.
Expert managers and represen t2tiveS OF
/ indianapolis manufacturers with offices il
New York City, Philadelphia. Boston and
other Eastern se9board cities viii be
/ brought 10 indianapolis through the CO.
operation Of the manufacturers commit
[ tee, which includes heads of many Of the
largest industries In the city. An effort
/ will also be made to bring for that day
/ the representatives and brokers Of large
South American buyers who make their
headquarters in New York City.
The Indianapolis industrial exposition
as planned by the manufacturers commit
tee undoubtedly Will be more interesting
to the people Of Indianapolis and the
Middle West than one along the lines OF
the pageant in Chicago, according to Mr.
Wallin. The Chicago show was not lin
tied to manufacturers. Any one with any
kind Of business from any place was al
lowed to exhibit. The Indianapolis expo
sltion Will be limited to only the manu-
facturers here In the city. Il wiz be
novel in that it win undoubtedly be the
most complete exhibit Of all the products
made IN one city gotten together.
Following his trip Mr.. Wallin points
out that since more than two million
/ people have passed through the turn
/ stiles Of the Chicago pageant that the es-
timates of 10000 attendance at he In
/ dmnaoplis industrial exposition are very
conservative indeed.
Some interesting figures on costs OF
operation were brought back to the COM
mittee by Mr.. Wallin. A space in the
Industrial Exposition costing $50 with
which the exhibitor is given $50 worth
of tickets would have cost $500 in the
Chicago pageant without any accompany
ing tickets. Space In the Chicago pageant
costs, therefore, fifty times as much as
space In the Indianapolis exposition. Fig
ured on an attendance of 100000 at In
dianapolis In place of the two million
at Chicago, the Indianapolis manu6 ct
urer is getting just Eve times as much
| for his money in INDIANAPOLIS as he did
in Chicago.
IMPROVEMENT IN
ARRANGEMENTS
Mr.. Wallin also points out that deco
rations, booths and aisle arrangements
will be handled much better in the in
dustrial exposition. More actual ma
chinery in operation will be shown.
A quota Of $1,000 square feet of ex-
hibit space was set for the sales force Of
the Chamber committee which has been
increased to fifteen starting tomorrow.
With practically half of the entire $4,000
square feet disposed Of drive is being
made to close the sale of space before
the first Of the month.
at is absolutely necessary that al
least six weeks intervene between the
closing of the sales book and the open
ing of the exposition" said Mr.. Reynolds
at has been hard to make indianapolis
manufacturers realize that there is q
monumental amount Of work that must
be done in preparation and cannot be
done until the plan committee has be-
fore 1t the actual space applications from
every exhibitor. Booths must be built
Decorations must be made. Signs must
be painted. The thousand and one ques-
tions as to grouping and fitting more
than four hundred exhibitors in one
building takes time"
"There are at least applications for
10000 square feet of exhibit space that
| is being held back merely through negH-
gence in sending the applications in.
There are a number Of exhibitors as the
furniture manufacturers, the engraving
industry, the printers, the lumber indus
tries, and the ice manufacturers, where
grouped exhibits are being made which
are practically closed, but which must be
pushed over.
Manufacturers should realize that the
chamber is operating the exposition on
a non profit basis. A selling expense that
was not anticipated is being encountered
because we are having to send statesmen
out to bring in the applications which
win eventually come IN unsolicited, but
which we must have in within the next
two weeks