The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-08-11

spirited citizens which will make
known to a skeptical world the unpar-
alleled virtue, beauty, comfort, and
righteousness of this much-maligned
metropolis.
The campaign will be directed par
ticularly at strangers, since it would
be superfluous to attempt to thrust
this information upon persons already
acquainted with the city. Also it
might start an embarrassing argu-
ment. The object is to carry the truth
to those unfortunate people dwelling
in pathetic remoteness from New
York, who have come to entertain a
wrong opinion of its character. There
to be a somewhat general be-
lief, for instance, that New York is a
fine place for gunner but not for Wis
itors: that it has a blighting effect up
on infants and hat it is unsympathet-
ic toward the thrifty.
New York has been entertaining
about 120, 000, 900 visitors every year,
according to statistics gathered by
the Merchants association. In 1921,
the number rose to 1873, S97,9S1, which
is more than the population of the
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whole population of the nation could
have come to this city, and a third
of it made a second visit. A third of
it could have, but did it? The good
citizens of Manhattan are beginning
to fear that second visits from strang-
ers are on the decline. Certainly, a
large number of those who came in
1921. so far, not returned in 1922, and,
furthermore, they have taken great
pains to state their eason to their
friends and acquaintance back home.
These reasons are usually anything
but complimentary to New York.
To Extend Glad Hand
To All Visitors
Consequently, the business men of
the city, and especially those of the
Hotel association, which comprise ia
Of the largest hostelries, held a con-
sultation not long ago and decided
that drastic measures would have to
be taken to make people like New
York and want to return. All agreed
that the town would have TO drop its
mantle of indifference. Newcomers
should be given a cordial welcome and
made to feel at home, they declared,
while the recent shower of blots on
the city's %escutcheon would have to
be erased by skillful publicity.
The first to respond to the demand
for facts to be presented in defense OF
New York was DR.. Royal S. Copeland,
health commissioner, who has already
/ proved a sturdy champion of the city
| as a health resort. He promptly pro
duced from his coat pocket the fol-
lowing Copeland questionable which is
| soon to be broadcasted throughout the
country:
DO you realize that the infant
death rate in New York is lower than
it is in any other great city in the
world?
DO you know that the death rate ir
New York City is the lowest. of any
great city in the world?
do you know that New York has
the purest water. the purest and besr
milk, the best guarded food supplies
of any city in the world?
do you know that every food hand
Ter in New York City is examined b!
the Board of Health to make sure tina
he is free from disease?
do you know that when a visito
comes here he is better guarded, a.
regards his health and safety, than il
any other place? No matter where h,
comes from, he is better off here thai
he is at home"
At least, if this last is not quit
true now, it is going to be. The hote