Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 150, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 September 1926 — Page 11

Hr. 29, 1926

eAnd begin by trying your hand Qut on the new Chamber of Commerce.-If you don’t like the Chamher of Commerce, come on in and HELP FIX IT. If you don’t like the way it does things, come on in and “DO ’EM DIFFERENT.”

elf you want to kick, kick from, the INSIDE and kick intelligently. The original kicker had long ears and a whisk broom tail; and the UNTHINKING might get you catalogued wrong—if you insist on kicking as a profession.

£]T The new Chamber of Commerce is the new spirit of Indianapolis manifested in immutable stone and iron. It is going to be here long after its critics are gone and forgotten.

It is going to be the WORKSHOP □J of men with whdm Indianapolis is

in fact FIRST; men who are willing to GIVE THEIR BLOOD to OUR HOME TOWN.

POLAR ICE & FUEL CO., Inc.

|| What do you want here —an honest-to-God town or a □J DORMITORY! Do you want this place to be a suburb of Crown Hill'; or a big prosperous industrial center, capable of buying and of paying for the things that make life worth while —beautiful streets, beautiful homes, well equipped and conducted schools, smoke consumers that work and smoke inspectors that inspect and make their orders STICK? Write your own ticket. The making of Indianapolis is all IN YOUR HANDS. Remember one thing, though —“there is no excellency without great labor/’ Quit talking and nagging and finding fault—pull off your coat and GO TO WORK.

This advertisement dedicated to the entire Citizenship of Indianapolis by

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

•DEFINITE OBJECTIVES “INDIANAPOLIS FIRST” - 1. To awaken and make permanent a BET--0 TEH Business and Civic Spirit centering In our NEW Chamber of Commerce. 2. To Increase the value of Our NEW Chamof Commerce by adding new members and new Income to permit the develop✓ment of the present work on problems of: Civie Affairs Foreign Trade Conventions Wholesale Trad* Education Retail Trade Fire Prevention Insurance Freight and Traffic Fine Arts >. To develop work of securing new Industries and conserving and developing the present Industries of Indianapolis • through the employment of an experienced Industrial Sales Engineer backed by an organization to permit the proper research work and adequate financing of projects for the development of Industrial Indianapolis. 4. To perfect a plan for advertising adequately the Advantages of Indianapolis and building good will for our city, not only to the outside world, but to our own citizens. >v 6. To promote a spirit of courtesy and welcome to visitors and new citizens of Indianapolis. 6. To make the path easier In the future for any movement which will result in the development of a BETTER Indianapolis * through an organization big enough and broad enough to realize that our city Is always changing—always developing—always in the making—animated with a - wonderful spirit of co-operative enterprise—dynamic with opportunities for everyone.

dIT This new Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce is W. not asking for help; but for the privilege of GIVM ING HEI r . ; , If you can’t keep up with it, you can at least keep out of its way.

The question now before the house is—are YOU there? All Indianapolis will soon know.

OHere is the nucleus of the town tha* is to be—the first, tangible evidence that after all there is something to all this Greater Indianapolis talk beyond just mere wind.

|T[T The new Chamber of Commerce is ’ THERE—there on Meridian Street —there to STAY PUT —there to give help—there to boost and to work and to systematically supply the onethingthat Indianapolis has always lacked; namely— ORGANIZED MAN POWER.

KIEFER-STEWART CO.

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