Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 23, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 June 1920 — Page 11

Would A Billion Dollars Be of Interest to

PERHAPS it would, slightly. Even when engrossed in the debates and frolics of the annual convention, Ad Men are likely to pay some attention to a mountain of shekels. A billion dollars was what the South expended last year for automobiles. If the balance of the country should stop buying cars, the factories couldn’t make them fast enough to supply the South. A billion dollars spent in one year for this one item is something of a whisper concerning the status of the South's bank account. What if the Federal Reserve Board in Washington does put the brakes on automobile paper? The South will go on buying and pay cash for them. Everybody in America with something to sell is bound to be interested in the South. Ad Men especially ought to be interested. The gold of the Klondike was pocket change compared to the wealth of our land where Nature created an absolute monopoly on the fleecy staple, with all other crops and oil wells thrown in by way of good measure. •No other section is growing like the South. No other section is producing like the South. No other section is buying and investing like the South. No other section will experience the expansion coming in the South in the next twenty years. Southern people are 100 per cent American. The Nation’s purest Anglo-Saxon stock resides in the South. No Bolshevism, no Anarchism, no Radicalism, no Internationalism, if you please, exists where we live. If planted there by alien agitators, they will not grow. The Southern climate does not suit them. Into the South are pouring new people, new business, new money, like a swelling stream. No such lands, no such climate, no such opportunity, no such freedom from unrest, can be found elsewhere in all the world. . In the heart of the South is its Empire State—the largest east of the Mississippi river—great in

L. N. HUFF PUBLICITY COMMITTEE, ATLANTA AD MEN’S CLUB

INDIANA DAILY TIMES, MONDAY, JUNE 7, 1920,

area—stupendous in production—American to the marrow of its bones —GEORGIA! Already fourth among all the States in agriculGeorgia’s development of the soil has just commenced. Georgia’s cotton is merely one )of her many crops. She raises everything that California and Florida raises—excepting only citrus fruits—and a dozen other crops which they cannot raise. Her farm production would pay the war debt of the United Sthtes in twenty-five years. In the of Georgia stands ATLANTA—- * the Pinnacle City—a thousand feet above the sea— ATLANTA, the gate to the Empire State—the gate to the South. Atlanta is here with a delegation of 100 A<i Men backed by every organized body in their City to invite the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World to meet with her in 1921. We know, of course, that you are coming. Nobody declines an Atlanta invitation—certainly nobody of such‘high intelligence and fine discrimination as the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World. "Would it not he a disastrous commentary upon this organization for the news to go out that they were invited to meet in Atlanta and declined to accept ? We shudder at the thought. Atlanta served notice in New Orleans a year ago that she was coming after the convention of 1921. Any competitors that get mangled here will have nobody but themselves to blame. We hope there’ll be none, as we prefer to handle these matters peaceably and without bloodshed. Atlanta has raised a little starter of $50,000 for entertainment, but that’s a bag of shells. Atlanta hospitality could not be bought for any price. And hospitality is the thing that has made Atlanta famous among conventions. Your Ad Man’s badge will be your ticket of admission to everything Atlanta has in stock.

It will clear the way for you in Atlanta hotels. It will authorize you to ride in anybody’s car anywhere you want to go at any speed. # It will open the doors of Atlanta homes and Atlanta clubs and admit you unreservedly to their hospitality. It will be your badge of introduction to Atlanta girls—the prettiest in the world—a class by themselves for looks and style—everyone a member of the entertainment committee —and everyone a finished entertainer. It will entitle you to full membership in our Temperance L T nion, which has a large and growing membership, with daily meetings of the various circles. Having been a leader in prohibition, Georgia is getting quite accustomed to it. Our belief is that alcohol should be destroyed. We destroy it almost as rapidly as it is produced by our home talent, who have become quite efficient. We would run ahead of them if they did not work while we were asleep. Through her delegation Atlanta sends greetings and salutations to the great convention assembled here. She expects her invitation to be accepted. The hearts and homes and hospitality of her splendid people are waiting to be opened when you arrive. Her celebrated “Atlanta Spirit,” as you will realize when you meet with us in 1921, is an affinity of that spirit which has made the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World the most powerful organized force of modern civilization. I Come to Atlanta campaign headquarters in the Claypool Hotel, where Cousin Fred Houser will make you happy with a smile—the smile that pulverizes competition when Atlanta has to fight to get a convention, which doesn’t happen often. Twelve months hence and you will be with us—testing our promises and finding them as good as government bonds. In the meantime, here’s to INDIANAPOLIS, the greatest city with one exception on the Western Hemisphere.

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