The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-02-19

creating this opportunity. At augers
we'll for the future of our city when
our oldest and most substantial COM
mercial organization expresses SUCH
an interest in Indianapolis by calling
together this representative body.
Spirit of Mutually
we are here, not in spirit of
criticism or of rivalry, but in a great.
new spirit of civic mutually.
The New Million Population Club,
while of necessity and rightfully an
independent enterprise, is wholly
sympathetic with and friendly to
the Indianapolis Chamber Of Com
merce. We have no grievance
against the Chamber of Commerce.
On quite the contrary most of our
executive committeeman are mem
bers of the Chamber of Commerce,
and to criticise you would he to
criticise ourselves.
The fact remains, however, that
pletely new type of single-minded-
ness-a new devotion and cOncentra-
ton on the one big problem of get
| ting new factories here.
No organization Of long standing,
not even the indianapolis Chamber
Of Commerce itself, can meet this
requirement.
To meet this requirement, the
| Chamber of Commerce would have
to completely reorganize itself along
different lines-and you can't teach
an old dog new tricks.
The New Million Population Club;
the new industrial sales manager;
this new 100000 budget for adver-
Using to the world the truth about
indianapolis; this whole new in
dustrial movement is incomprehensi-
BILE to the indianapolis of yesterday,
and I can scarcely hope that the
Chamber of Commerce could at this
time take official cognizance of our
program or give it executive sup
port.
Except in the matter Of size alone,
a city is precisely like any other big
corporation. It has it's ups and
downs, its joys and it's sorrows, its
periods of prosperity and of depres-
sion, its problem of internal morale,
and of public appreciation, its ami
mosities, its jealousies, it's wrangles,
it's obstructionists, its knockers and
it's friendships that never die.
COW that thara SC No i,,h Jif
ference between a city and any other
big corporation. Precisely the same
things which make a business sue
cessful will make a city successful.
And precisely the same things that
throw factory into bankruptcy will ;,
in time, make any city on earth
commercially and morally insolvent.
No business in all the history of
the world ever grew to great accom-
plishment without the help of wide
awake and competent sales depart
ment.
Needs Sales Department
Indianapolis has never had a sales
department. We have had a good
product. We have had internal or
ganization. We have always had an
abundance of working capital. We
have had everything that goes to the
making of a great business or
great city except sales department.
And when l tell you that the only
function-the only ambition-of the
Million Population Club is merely to
supply Indianapolis with q sales de-
partment, I have, in a word, eX-
planned the whole plan.
Indianapolis, after a long, painful
inactivity, is about to leap forward,
and heaven help anybody who gets
in the way of that leap.
The men behind this Greater Indi-
annapolis movement have so Interior
motives. They have risen completely
above all selfishness. They have
cast aside all class considerations of
every kind and all prejudices. They
seek no political preferment. For
themselves they ask nothing what
ever except the simple privilege of
doing something for Indianapolis.
Except for others they want moth
in. They are doing this because
they love Indianapolis.
They are right at heart. and unloss
we can reverse all human experience
and overcome right, then the only
sound policy is to stir ourselves out
of our long sleep and to join in this
leap.
Times Cbapup