Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 84, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 August 1921 — Page 3

Has the Tide of Business Turned? Richard Spillane FOREMOST BUSINESS ANALYST OF TODAY To PLUMB the WELL of BUSINESS

During a Tour from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from Canada to the Gulf

Mr. Spillane Begins His Trip Saturday It Will Cover the Following Centers:

NEW YORK CITY ST. LOUIS ALBUQUERQUE CHARLESTON NAUGATUCK VALLEY, CONN. JOPLIN EL PASO SAVANNAH FALL RIVER KANSAS CITY OKLAHOMA CITY JACKSONVILLE BOSTON OMAHA FORT WORTH PIEDMONT DIST. BUFFALO CHEYENNE DALLAS NORFOLK CLEVELAND DENVER LITTLE ROCK RICHMOND TOLEDO SALT LAKE CITY MEMPHIS WHEELING DETROIT !£ () KANE NEW ORLEANS CINCINNATI CHICAGO PORT \\n MOBILE PITTSBURGH MILWAUKEE s FRANCISCO BIRMINGHAM BALTIMORE ST. PAUL LOS ANGELES CHATTANOOGA VANCOUVER MINNEAPOLIS PRESCOTT ATLANTA WINNIPEG

SCOPE OF THE SERIES It Will Supply That News Most Eagerly Awaited Today

During the vitally important tour Mr. Spillane will present absolutely accurate pictures of business conditions in every section of America, and in the most important centers of Canada. His investigations will embrace Manufacturing, Agriculture, Finance, Transportation and Merchandising. He will discover what economies and what changes have been wrought in ea<”h of these regional districts by the drastic upheaval which America has recently undergone. He will study Labor, the Housing Problem, HydroElectric Developments, Road Building and Shipping Prospects (coastwise and international; —in fact, every

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condition which in the major sense now affects America’s business prosperity. He will ascertain whether some of our foremost business observers are correct in their belief that the turning point in the tide of business has now been reached —whether, from drastic liquidation, business is now starting upward. This information will be of the. utmost importance not only to America, but to the world at large—for America is Ihe axis upon which the business world revolves, industrially, financially and sentimentally. Mr. Spillane’s letters will present that news which every reader —buyer or seller, producer or consumer, employer or employe, husband or wife, rich man or poor man —most eagerly awaits today.

RICHARD SPILLANE Mr. Spillane, for three years Editor of the Business Section of the PHILADELPHIA PUBLIC LEDGER, has a wider personal acquaintance with industrial leaders, bankers, shipping men, railroad men, large merchants and labor leaders than probably any other newspaper man living. For years he has gone where big men meet and where big things happen. And captains of industry gladly talk to him because they know that the facts and ideas entrusted to him will be accurately and forcefully presented in a style so clear that the public at large will read and understand them. Os the eleven men chosen to represent the great departments of endeavor in the Foreign Trade Council of the United States. Mr. Spillane was selected as the spokesman for the American Press. He is also vice president and associate editor of the international publication, “Commerce and Finance.” Before his appointment as Editor of the PHILADELPHIA PUBLIC LEDGER'S Business Section he for two years contributed business editorials to 345 daily newspapers with an aggregate circulation of 4,800,000; and for five years he wrote for twenty-eight of the leading Sunday newspapers of America a continuous series of full-page articles entitled “Romances of the Business World.” He knows America thoroughly. For eight years he traveled as a practical railroader. He has been also an active business man. Some of the largest banking interests of America have employed him as an expert analyst of industrial and railroad properties.