Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 25, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 June 1920 — Page 7

MARION, IND. and proud of it—

“The Town With a Tone ’

A Page of Pep Particularly Pertaining to MARION, IND. Population, 23,747. Watch Us Grow! Bank Deposits, $10,000,000.00. We All Have Money! Home of the Indiana Truck. We Havs The Pull! One of the Largest Flashlight Factories in the World. We Light The Way! Marion Is primarily a hustling city of diversified manufacturing, and a center of distribution for the world. Marion has a spirit that is fresh and aggressive. Its growth is continuous and persistent In Marion the average man realizes the difference between living and existing. That’s why manufacturers find labor conditions here better than elsewhere. Eighty-seven industries are located in Marion. Six of them are branches of big American firms. They selected Marlon because of its superior living conditions, shipping facilities and cheap electric power.

The World Takes What MARION MAKES!

Gather ’round, folks. We want to talk. We have a few things to say about this five square miles of God’s own Indiana—known as Marion. This is a town of comfortable size—nearly twenty-five thousand folks. Os course, we could take on a few more thousands and not be uncomfortable. If you don’t know about the six hundred things we make here, go back and begin over. But—that’s not all. Our other leading industries are automobile tires, springs, forgings and railway equipment. Besides these, we make your carpet sweepers, your milk bottle caps, your lamp globes, and hundreds of other every day necessities.

The MARION ASSOCIATION of COMMERCE RICHARD G. BRUSCH Secretary This Advertisement Written by MOSS & NAYLOR Advertising Agency—Marion, Indiana.

INDIANA DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9, 1920.

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The annual value of Marion’s manufactured products is Forty Million dollars. Oh, we’ve got a mighty good town! We don’t want to enter the hundred yard dash, but we’ll be there at the finish of the marathon. Nobody here is so damnably rich, but we are happy and are not poor. We rank 80% in home owenership and have a lower average death rate than any other town our size. in the state. We lead the world in patriotic and welfare work. We have no slums, _ huts, hovels. Marion is a beautiful city—a town with a tone, a city with a soul. We attempted, not long ago, to define a good town. Here is the result: A good town is not necessarily a big town.

“ The City With a Soul ”

A good town is not necessarily one so “live” that the police can’t keep up with it. A good town is not necessarily just any town but your own town. A good town is one in which industry and trade are the tools of life, and not the reverse; in which reciprocity of interest is practiced in business and in social contact; in which morality, education and culture are atmospheric; and in which children sleep in homes, drink pure water and do not play in cesspools, or in the paths of thundering trucks. A good town is one in which civic facilities keep pace with civic needs. A good town is one in which there is an ever even distribution (not a per capita possession) of an abundance of things fundamentally worth having. A good town is—Marion, Indiana. For specific information about Marion write Richard G. Brusch, Secretary of the Association of Commerce and tell him that you saw this ad.

MARION, IND. and proud of it Its motor trucks encircle the earth — Its flashlights brighten the dark corners of the remotest parts of the globe— Its electric stoves cook the food for every people of every land— Its shoes are worn wherever the American flag is known— Its castings, forgings, grates, glass products, stoves and ranges, gloves, mattresses, paper and corrugated boxes, writing papers and tablets, automobile parts and many other products, including the Rutenber motor, are world famed. It’s a good place in which to live and do business — You’ve heard of Marion— You should know more about it — The Marion Association of Commerce will tell you.