The Coolidge examiner., 1938-01-13
Filling InsUln Walls
Books. Chemicals dnd Other
Products Of Indidnupolis
Filling InsuIin Walls.


Washington. D. C.-wNU Service.
FROM atop a high build
ing you see glittering In
dianapolis spread over
the prairie. Nebuchadnezzar,
who viewed Babylon from his
f1at-roofed palace, would en-
JOY the picture here, with all
it's temples, shrines, monu-
ments, and tree-lined ave-
nues. Here are restful parks
and floral displays, quite as
satisfying to many as were
the hanging gardens of the
Euphrates; and here is a war
memorial as impressive as
any temple raised by Baby
lonians.
No one great city. however. dom
mates Indiana; Chicago pulls at it
on the north, Cincinnati and Louis
vile on the south. Yet Indianapolis,
its capital and nearly its geographic
center, is the seat Of Hoosier power.
In 1920 a small spot was cleared
of forest here, and the capital later
moved from Corydon, in the south.
One wagon, two weeks on the will
derness trails, hauled all the young
states papers, furniture, books, and
money. From the streams men
seined fish in such quantities that
wagonloads were fed to hogs.
Settlers increased; the national
road came through from the East,
driving west toward the Missouri.
West-bound movers" multiplied.
Some days saw hundreds pass in
covered wagons, freighters, stage
coaches, often with women or girls
driving the teams while men and
boys herded other animals after the
wagons.
Crossroads for Highways.
Today Indianapolis stands, typi-
cal, well-balanced midwestern city,
intersected by four national high
ways used by three-fourths of all
transcontinental motorists.
High above the city rises Ameri-
cas- largest neon aviation beacon,
usually visible from rs miles away.
About the city runs the first belt
line railway built in America, and
the seven-acre Union station with
elevated tracks accommodates 40
trains at once. Every "a hours, 81
mails-by air. rail, and truck
reach the city; and it averages a
convention a day-five days out Of
every week the year round. One
auditorium seats 10000. What a
change since Henry Ward Beecher
preached here in his small church.
and edited his farm paper!
Get up early, any morning, and
you see some 500 trucks coming into
town from all directions, hauling
hogs, cattle, calves, and sheep to
the largest stockyards east of Chi
cago. Among world grain markets
the one here ranks sixth, and as
cash mart it leads in the United
States.
Some $40 factories make many
things, from insulin and inner tubes,
automobiles and canned food, to
birdcages and popcorn machines.
One shop can make $500 bicycle
tires every day. Another makes
chains-chains that went with Ad-
miral Byrd to the Antarctic; chains
for the first Wright plane; for the
dirigibles Macon and Shenandoah;
for battleship hoiSts and elevators;
chains for 40 foreign countries.
Doorbell ringers all over the ma
ton sell silk hosiery made here,
while another product is advertised
by singing barber who fills the
air with saponaceous rhapsody.
Armored cars for the shah of
Iran; trucks to haul pipes that car
ry oil from Mosul to the Mediter-
ranean; hams and bacon for the
worlds breakfast - they originate
here.
Center for Literature.
If wastebaskets gave up their
dead, what a place a great publish
ing house in Indianapolis would be
to trace Indiana's literary career!
It has bought and published many
manuscript which brought fame to
hitherto unknown writer. Not only
Hoosiers, but writer's from all over
the Union have been launched by
this house. Long ago it started Mary
Roberts Rinehart, whose first work,
1.-The Circular Staircase" other
houses had ignored. Lately it pub
ished "Oil for the Lamps of China"
which brought fame to Alice Tis-
dale Hobart.
Look over its lists, old and new,
and you are astonished at the mil
lions of books issued from this mid
western plant. Charles Majors
when Knighthood Was in Flower"