Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 88, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 August 1922 — Page 8

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BUYERS' WEEK WILL ATTRACT ireims Thousands Expected to View Wholesale Merchants’ Exposition. KAHLO / EXPLAINS PLANS Chairman of Arrangements Committee Sees Resultant Benefits. Arrangements are being perfected rapidly for Buyers’ week, to be held by Indianapolis wholesaler* Aug. 28 to Sept. 2, when thousands of retailers from over the Indianapolis wholesale trade territory are expected to come Into the city. Buyers’ week Is being arranged by a committee of the Chamber of Commerce, composed of Harry C. Kahlo. Havers & Geddes Company; Claude H. Crowder, Crowder, Crowder-Cooper Shoe Company; Ferd L. Hollweg, Mutual China Company; A. G. Ruddell, Central Rubber and Supply Company; A. Kiefer Mayer, Kiefer-Stewart Company, and Earl L. Ferguson, secretary of the wholesale trade division of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce. This committee is a sub-com-mittee of the wholesale trade committee of the chamber. It has been working on plans for several weeks. Firms Co-operating The wholesale firms who are rspre- ' eented In the Buyers’ week enterprise are as follows: American Appliance Company, Carttnhour-Bowman Company, Central Rubber and Supply Company, Central Wall Paper and Paint Company, Crescent Paper Company Crowder-Cooper Shoe Company, E. C. Dolmetsch Company, Eastern Rock Island Plow Company, Efroyro6on & Wolf, Hamilton, Harris & Cos., Havens & Geddes Company, Hlbben, Hollweg & Cos., W. J. Holliday & Cos., Indianapolis Saddlery Company, Kiefer-Stewart Company. Kipp Brothers Company, Kothe-Wells-Bauer Company, C. W. Lefler Hat Company, Lewis Meier & Cos., Mooney-Mueller-Ward Company, Mutual China Company, Schnull & Cos.. Standard Metal Company, Tanner & Cos., United States Rubber Company, Van Camp Hardware end Iron Company, Varney Eleo- 1 trical Supply Company and Allen A_ Wilkinson Lumber Company. * It has been explained by Mr. Kahlo ; that Buyers’ week is a great mer-; chandising exposition, staged for the purpose of acquainting retailers with the quality of merchandise that has made Indianapolis goods bought and respected over half a continent. It is not only to bring these buyers in here and to give them some real bargains to start off the fall business, but it is to acquaint them personally with the character and reputation of the wholesale firms which have made Indianapolis famous as a center of distribution for North America. Displays of new and seasonable' merchandise of every kind by every j one of the firms cooperating with ! Buyers* week would be a feature, but i according to Mr. Kahlo these displays j of merchandise will not be all that j will attract the buyers. Buyers’ week will be a gold mine of new money-makfng merchandising j ideas. The various wholesale houses j are planning many educational stunts j for the dealers. Avery large Invitation showing scenes about Indianapolis and giving details of the Buyers’ week program is being sent to the retailers by the j various houses this week. The invitation to the retailers to come to thfe Buyers’ week reads as follows: “All Indianapolis, and the Indianapolis wholesale firms listed in this j circular especially, will welcome you during Buyers’ week, Aug. 28 to Sppt. 2. Come to Indianapolis and be Ensured of a Hoosier welcome and -an Intensely Interesting and profitable trip. Displays Planned “Special displays of new and seasonable merchandise have been arranged by the Indianapolis wholesale firms listed herein. You will find in these displays some wonderfully attractive merchandising and new. live, money-making merchandising ideas. Your trip will be an Inspiration and It will pay you In dollars and cents t(* come. "Situated tn the center of population ardrthe center of industry of the Nation, Indianapolis is the natural wholesale distributing point for a veritable commercial empire. The growth of Indianapolis wholesale business has kept pace with its opportunities. Today Indianapolis wholesale firms and Indianapolis merchants are known wherever good merchandise is sold. "More than the profits ard the dollars and cents value of your trip to Indianapolis during Buyers' week, you will have a good time. Indianapolis, famous as a convention city, will show you a good time. Indianapolis knows how. Theaters, parks, clubs, golf, baseball, "feood hotels, boulevards, places to dine —everything that goes with - a big, hospitable, metropolitan city is here. “Make your plans to come to Indianapolis. It will pay you." INCREASE POSTOFFICES Thirty-Five New First-Class Stations Are Opened. WASHINGTON—To the beginning of the present fiscal year the Postoffice Department had added thirtyfive new first-class poetoffices to Its list, bringing the total number of first class offices to 834, acoording to First Assistant Postmaster General Bartlett. This has resulted in an increase In the pay roll of $112,000, the new firstclass postmasters each receiving a salary of *8,300 a year, Bartlett said. NAP PROVES EXPENSIVE Watch, Chain and SB9 Gone After Sleep on Beach. TOLEDO, Ohio—-Joseph Sousa, succumbing to cool Lake Erie breezes at Toledo Beach, peacefully went to sleep playing a bassoon solo of "Stars and. Stripes.” He snored away his gold watch and chain and $39. police reports show.

FINANCIAL ROW RIVALS THAT OF WALL STREET

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Indianapolis has a real financial district. Market St. from Delaware St. to Monument circle has become the Wall St. of the city. It is almost completely lined with financial institutions. In the foreground of the picture is shown a part of the city market. It is also one of the unique features of Indianapolis.

MIAPQLIS IS CITY IF HOMES. STATISTICS SHOW National Advantages Offered Here Make Ideal Place to Build Lifetime Fireside. When a city has good schools, extensive parks, numerous libraries, cheap car fare, low rates for gas and electricity as compared with other cities of Its Bize, and opportunity for expansion unhampered by any natural or artificial barriers, that city is a logical site for home building. And

Church Building Program for Year Costs Nearly $1,000,000

By THE VISITOR Indianapolis—the City of Churches. That characterization of JncTanapolls has become more convincing this year, as approximately $1,000,000 has been expended or provided in the way of new church buildings, according to Dr. Charles H. Winders, executive secretary of the Church Federation of Indianapolis. Along with the remarkable growth in new church structures. Dr. Winders states: "The last year has been a most remarkable year In church progress in this city. I do not think there has ever been a year in which so many people were added to the church, nor do I believe that the church was ever in a more healthy state than at the present. There are approximately 250 churches In the city and over 200 of these are Protestant churches. According to Dr. W'inders the Protestant churches have a membership of something over 70,000. He states there are twenty-one Catholic churches, with a membership of 20,000. The Sunday school enrollment In the Protesta-.t churches Is estimated at 60,000. One of the largest church building undertakings Is that of the Tabernacle Presbyterian church at Thirty-Fourth St. and Central Ave. The first unit, the church proper, will probably be completed by Thanksgiving Day. The other units will consist of a chapel and a large community house and modern Sunday school plant. “The smaller churches are doing an Squally heroio work in the building of plants adequate for their purposes.” Dr. Winders states. "Evary denomination is expanding and constructing new buildings and in all of these an effort is being made to take care of all of the needs of the individual and the community. “Community buildings are becoming quite the fashion in practioally all churches,” Mr. Winders contends. The growth of the community church idea in Indianapolis is one of the outstanding features of the year. The Englewood Christian Church is building anew community house which also will contain its religious chapel. The Fountain Street M. E. Church ‘ congregation soon will start active work on building anew structure. The East Tenth Street M. E. Church, of which the Rev. G. S. Hennlnger is pastor. Is contemplating making an extensive real estate purchase near the church for the purpose of erecting a modern community house. The Columbia Place Christian Church haa opened a modem community house and recreational center and when this is completed it will meet the social needs of the entire community.

MARKET ST. LOO ICING WEST FROM DELAWARE ST.

because all of these things are true of Indtanapolcs, each day finds more people who have chosen it as the most desirable place to build their future homes. Indianapolis has always had the reputation of being a “city of homes.” According to figures of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce. 65 ped cent of, Indianapolis families own their homes, and present indications are that the percentage will be substantially increased by new homes which are building In all parts of the city. It Is only necessary to ride through the residential sections to discover new homes going up on almost every lot that stood vacant during the uncertain days of the war and the period of depression which followed It, while in outlying districts hitherto undeveloped additions are going up in new homes. “Homes are going up in all parts of the city,” declared Henley C. Hottel, executive secretary of the Real

DR. CHARLES H. WINDERS

Dr. Charles H. Winders, executive secretary of the Indianapolis Church Federation, who finds that the church in Indianapolis is In “a more healthy state than it has been for years.”

The Cathollo churches of the city are making great advanoes in ereoting modern educational plants with new church buildings and homes for the Sisters who teach in the schools. The Christian Science Church haa experienced splendid growth In the last year, anew church being added In Irvington. The growth of the Protestant Sunday Schools of the city from the standpoint of holding and increasing the interest of men is one of the biggest accomplishments of the year, church workers point out. Prominent business men, doctors, lawyers, judges, men who work in factories and stores, in fact, men from all walks of life "rub elbows” In the men's Bible classes of the city on Sunday. A study of the Sunday school situation reveals the faot that more adults are attending Sunday sohool than ever in the history of the city. The Cadle Tabernacle vdth its program of Sunday sermons and sacred song recitals by the big Gipsy Smith choir has stimulated and increased the church-going attitude of men and women of the city.

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Estate Board. "And the larger part of these are being sold from the bluo print, so great is the demand for them. Every indication points to the continuance of this building activity for several years to come—at leas* ten years, acoording to the statistics of Roger Babson, an authority on economic conditions. We have to build homes to take care of our rapidly Increasing population, and every Indication points out that wo are on the stride to 600,000 In 1930." WOMEITSCLUBS PLAT 111 FAIT 111 CITYWELFAIE Politically, Socially and Intellectually, Gentler Set Will Influence. ay vutorsiA rrtrr In direct contrast to former years when a woman's organization amounted to nothing more than a sewing circle or a scandal social, is the important part which women's clubs play in the clvlo welfare of a city today. It is not hard to recognise the influence which such organizations as the Woman’s Department Club, the Indianapolis League of Women Voters, the Indianapolis Local Council of Women and others have in the affairs of the city. Political, social and intellectual clubs all have their deft* nite alms these days and publish the most admirable of year books setting forth these goals. There are forty-six clubs in Indianapolis which are members of the Indiana Federation of Clubs, totaling last year a number of 3,228 members. Os these, 1,000 belong to the Woman’s Department Club, which is by far the largest woman’s club in the Stato. Mrs. Felix T. McWhirter is president of the club, which has its headquarters at 1700 N. Meridian St. Boasts 800 Members The second largest woman’s club in Indianapolis Is the Indianapolis League of Women Voters, which •'oasts 800 members, and next Is the Council of Jewish Women, with Mrs. Nathan Kahn at its head. There are so many clubs, with such a variety of mlssions.rthat It is hard to do justice to any of them, and in addition to those affiliated with the federation, there are many independent organizations. Among those which aim toward olvio betterment are the Indianapolis Indorsers of Photoplays, the Publio Health Nursing Association, the Sunnyslde Guild and the Woman’s Rotary. Some of the outstanding clubs in the intellectual improvement line are the Aftermath, Expression, Fortnightly Study, Home Economics, Monday, New Century, Woman’s Research and Woman’s Press Clubs. Response Pronounced The constant call to club women of Indianapolis has been, "Do your civic duties Intelligently,” and the response to this call is becoming dally more pronounced. • Library Is Largt Two hundred and fifty thousand volumes are contained in the Indianapolis Publio Library, erected at a cost of $510,000. Has Six Auditoriums Six public auditoriums with a seating capacity of 30,000 help to bring Indianapolis reputation of the leading com ention city of the country.

WAR MEMORIAL WILL HIE WITH FAMOUS SHAFT Proposed Plaza Bids Fair to Surpass Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument. PLANS NOW UNDER WAY City and County Spend More Than $3,000,000 on Purchase of Land. For the last thirty years, hardly a visitor has come to Indianapolis who did not go away with a vivid impression of the Soldiers and Sailors’ Monument —a nationally known feature of Indjanapolls. Its location, in the heart of the business district,’has made its accessible to even the most hurried sightseer, and its fame, and that of the city it typifies, ia countrywide. Before another decade has passed, however, Indianapolis will have another memorial • equally as accessible to visitors, built for the same purpose—to honor its soldier dead—that bids fair to surpass in fame the famous landmark. It will be known as the War Memorial Plaza.

Five Blocks in Length Already the architectural plans are under way for the Memorial building, five blocks in the heart of Indianapolis have been purchased and work ia expected to begin with the course of the year. The ground, which extends from New York St. on the south to St. Clair St. on the north, includes three blocks which were owned by the State —the block comprising University Park and the blocks occupied by the blind institute and St. Clair Park. These the State furnished toward the five-block unit. The remaining two blocks were purchased by the city and county at a total cost, according to the estimate of Dr. T. Victor Keene of more than $3,000,000. Use Present Structures The plan is to use the two most artistic of the city’s buildings—the Federal building and the Riley l.brary —as the end units of the plaza. Between these buildings, extending from Meridian Bt. to Pennsylvania St., will be a parkway, Including the now existing University park and St. Clair park. In the center of which the war memorial building will rise. The building will cost, Dr. ICoene estimates, about two and a half millions. It will harmonize in its construction. with the library and Federal building, and its purpose will be fourfold. It will serve os headquarters for various patrlotio organizations, including the State Historical Society and the American Legion. It will contain a hall suitable for conventions and other large gatherings. It will

Community Chest Co-ordinates All City’s Charity Organizations Under One Head

To organize charity so that it reaches Its greatest efficiency, to support and co-ordinate publio health agencies and to encourage tlona that develop character —these are the purposes of the Indianapolis Community Chest, according to Homer W. Boret, its executive secretary. "The community chest does not, as many people seem to think, limit its activities to the support of merely charitable organizations. Its purpose ia to aid all activities for the public good that are not self-supporting—or-ganizations which have, before the community chest took ohargS, conducted yearly campaigns or “drives” to raise funds for their work. The exact amount which twentyfive separate agencies in as many drives collected in 1917 was $115,137.

INDIANAPOLIS IS CENTER OF RAIL TRAFFIC

Indianapolis Is on® ©f the foremost railroad centers *nd the leading lnterurban center of the country. The above map shows the network of rsSlroads and lnterurWm lines radiating into the city.

WOMEN PROMINENT IN CIVIC LIFE

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furnish space for a State museum and State library, now inadequately housed in the Satehouse, and will 6erve as a housing place for the relics and library of the World War. The two churches which occupy the block north of Vermont St. will be left standing for at least twenty-five years, according to present plans, but all other buildings in the five blocks will be leveled "to.make way," according to Dr. Keene, “for a magnificent civio center, of which Indianapolis should justly be proud.”

MANY DAYLIGHT HOURS Humidity in Indianapolis Ix>wer Titan on Pacific Coast. As much as sixteen hours of outdoor work can be done in Indianapolis without the aid of. artificial light The humidity of Indianapolis averages lower than that of California coastal cities during the months between April and October, inclusive. i Railway System Great Indianapolis has a great advantage in the system of steam and electric lines radiating from it. Two million prospective buyers live within two hours’ ride of the city and 16,000,000 -esido within an overnight trip.

as compared to $338,492 which they are receiving from the community chest. "That, however, does not represent the total of our collections and disbursements for this year, as we now have thirty-nine agencies participating in the $447,820 was collected last Decembor." Borst said. New Method Is Improvement •Figures like those ought to prove that a community chest is an Improvement over the old methods of collecting and distributing charity from a financial standpoint. It has interested a greater number of people in social work. Whereas before there were about 3,000 people who made a practice of giving to charity, now there ore 16,000 contributors. “Finally, it means increased useful-

Mrs. Felix T. McWhirter (above), president of the Woman’s Department Club, and Mrs. Albert T. Fleming, president of the Indianapolis League j of Women Voters, two of the leaders | who have placed Indianapolis in the ! lead in woman’s club work.

j noas in the organizations themselves, | for those which formerly have over- ] lapped and henoe duplicated work in soma instances, while limiting their opportunities in others, have been ; Joined Into one organization with the : comb.nod resources of several, as has been done in the case of the Mother’s Aid, Children’s -Aid and Charity Orj ganizatlon which were combined to ! form the Family Welfare Society. Increase Health Service "Next year we hope to work out a plan for increasing the efficiency and service of the health agencies—not by domg away with any organization but by co ordinating their work so that each will serve In its own field without overlapping the work of the other. The Red Cross, which has not hither to Joined us, will do so next year."

AUG. 22, 1922

EBB TIDE PASSED, flllTD TIME SEES 9REATPROSFECTS Indianapolis Makers and Dealers More Optimistic Now Than in Many Months. STAFFS BEING REMADE Popular Priced Car Features Comeback After Period of Depression. The automotive industry of Indianapolis ha3 passed the ebb-tide and la sailing toward recovery of such constructive nature and unlimited possibilities that Indianapolis manufacturers and dealers are more optimistlo today than at any other time in the past two years. The acute business depression which visited local plants during the slump in 1921, laying several Idle ar.d making itself felt in all, is rapidly clearing away and resumption of activities is beginning on & new scale. August is the month in which most plants reorganize their staffs, checking up their inventories and taking account of the facts at hand that will be the basis of their business guidance for the future year. New models are being turned over by the engfi noering departments for official O. K. before the purchasing agent calls hla staff together to let the yearly conj tracts. Season of Getting Ready. Schedules and budgets are being formulated—and in many cases discarded and replaoed as rapidly as formulated —for a beginning of operations. New stock is to be received, service parts are to be turned over to the service departments and new costa, both material and labor, are to be reckoned with before the sales manager blazes forth Into print with ! the announcement that the company's i most signal achievement is to be I placed on the market In a few days. A canvass of the wholesale and retail automobile section along Meridian St. and Capitol Ave. discloses that dealers have experienced their best sales year since the aftor-war boom jof 1919-20. Prospects have been more plentiful and buying has been greater, a fact that is probably partly induced | by the modem funding or financing methods offered by private companies or corporations, representing the automobile concerns. Come-Back Noted The popular-priced car that was struck the hardest blow in the depression, due to the fact that those who buy in that class are salaried men whose salaries wore reduced or eliminated in the after-war housecleaning in Industry, is steadily regaining its own. The salaried man seems to be creeping back to his pre-war etatus and to be investing in cars. Meanwhile the high-priced as well as the low-priced cars are keeping pace. Expansions in the industry as well as improvements in the buildings and salesrooms so frequently made during the war boom are not to be found, retrenchment having taken place. A search of Marion County records with the State automobile licensing department at the Statehouse reveals the fact that this county possesses 43,066 pessenger cars and 8.837 motor trucks. The State boasts 354.002 passenger cars and 47,700 motor trucks. Twelve and one-half per cent of the ! automobiles of the State ore driven |by Marion County owners, and approximately fifteen per cent of the i trucks are owned by Marion County i residents. In view of these figures little quesj tion of importance of the city of In- ! dianapolis to the automotive Indus- ! try as a whole, ensues. It takes its place among the consumers and is taking, and will maintain, its place among the manufacturers, as one of the industry’s oenters. Right Place to Manufacture As J. J. Cole, president of the Cole Motor Car Company, said a few months ago, "It is easier to build an automobile in Indianapolis than in any other city in the United States, because of the city’s unequalled transportation facilities” Automobile parts are not made In any one city or commonwealth, but are manufactured in practically every Eastern and Middlewestern State, a fact that attaches great importance to the matter of transportation. Indianapolis is the greatest traction and inland railroad | center in the world and no industrial I vein of the whole Nation but is tapped by the fabrication of railways that pass through the city. Schwab Shows Confidence Charles M. Schwab, steel magnate of the East, displayed his confidence in the city of Indianapolis and local business men when he recently purchased the controlling stock of the Stutz Motor Car Company. Mr. Schwab came to Indianapolis, inspected the plant and conferred with the company’s officials and returned to New York with a smile. That smile Is registering on the boards of every stock exchange brokerage house today and is being reflected by an increase In the company’s stock value, an almost indisputable barometer ar 3 forecast of operations yet unannounced. If the automobiles of Marlon County, fully ninety per cent of which be- 1 long in the corporate limits of Indianapolis, were of an average length of ten feet and were placed end-to-end, they would reach a distance of seven-ty-nine apd one-half miles, or if it were possible to drive them twelve abreast, would reach from the Circle j along Meridian St to the Canal Btvd. It is estimated that the trucks with their tonnage capacities could carry the Indiana State Capitol building away in one load. If the structure could be reduced to convenient morsels. Local Race Greatest; The Indianapolis Motor Speedway is the scene annually of the greatest automobile classic of the world, tie 500mile race. Many revolutionary idea3 that have done muoh to advance the automobile industry were first tried and tested on the local track.