Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 50, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 July 1928 — Page 9

JULY 19, 1928.

What Indianapolis needs is MORE

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REALLY, there isn’t any better town anykjwhere than Indianapolis. The old bus is made of wonderful materials. Her workmanship is strictly first-class in every respect. We have world’s of power under the hood. With just a few minor adjustments, we could go out right now and pass practically everything on the road. But nothing much is going to happen till we get rid of the knock. ♦ ♦ ♦ 4 Drain all the bile and small town jealousy out of the tank and substitute a pure solution of good, old-fashioned decency of feeling toward one another —and right away we’ll notice all the difference in the world. Right away our power will pick up. We’ll get all-’round smoother operation. And what, in the past, have been insurmountable hills will iron right out for us into flat speedway. Indianapolis will start to get somewhere —if we get rid of the knock. ♦ ♦ ♦ Let’s sit down here for a moment and add up a few things: What have we got here? What are our assets? What are our liabilities? Is Indianapolis IN THE BLACK? Are we SPIRITUALLY SOLVENT? i ♦ ♦ ♦ i Well —to start with, Indianapolis is not a LOPSIDED TOWN. We don’t depend on any one thing in particular. We’re not municipal MONOMANIACS on the subject of automobiles, balloon tires, swiss cheese or pocket cameras. We’re what you might call an ALL-’ROUND, SYM-

Knock! Knock! Knock! Chatter! Squeak! Knock!" You can’t get anywhere in Indianapolis!” "So and So’s on his last legs!” "It serves him right!” "He got all his money from his wife, anyhow!” "They’re ruining Washington Street!’” "Our banks are no good!” "It’s a one-horse town!” "Look at the fay-walkers!” "Merciful goodness,if I were only back in dear old Osh Kosh!” And so it has gone on for years and years till now the whole town rises up and, as one man, demands that ♦ we quit knocking Indianapolis.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

METRICALLY DEVELOPED ClTY—championship caliber in a lot of different ways. And that’s ASSET number one. ♦ ♦ ♦ Next comes the LIVABILITY of the place. No stuffy subways, no lurching elevateds, no bonebreaking traffic jams, no mad scrambles, and none of that terrible nerve strain and agony that makes people in the big centers rat-eyed and trembly. People in Indianapolis live, for the most part, calm, well-ordered, relaxed lives. They have big yards, fluffy trees, plenty of leg-room, flowers, birds, rabbits, squirrels and normal human beings RIGHT DOWN TOWN. People from Chicago and New York and Detroit come here and gasp: "Oh, how I’d love to live in this town!’ —and yet WE OURSELVES go right on knocking Indianapolis! ♦ ♦ ♦ # A Chicago or a New York man is dumbfounded when you tell him that you get out to your golf course from your house in fifteen minutes. Playing golf, with him, is a grinding, all-day ordealcalling for just about as much advance preparation as Byrd’s South Pole Expedition or tuning a car for a 500-mile race. ♦ ♦ ♦ And man! How they do stare at you when you go down the street waving right and left, “Hello, Charley! Hello, Bill! Hello, Elmer!’’ They don’t know anything about this constant friendship stuff in the big centers. You can’t have your BUDDIES in those ELEPHANTITIS TOWNS. You lose practically all your human contacts. All you do is just LABOR. You don’t LIVE. People

LIVE in INDIANAPOLIS. So put that down as ASSET NUMBER TWO. Now how about ARTISTIC ENVIRONMENT? We, here in Indianapolis, know the true meaning of living RIGHT INSIDE a maze of BEAUTIFUL THlNGS—architecture of purest type, parks WITHIN READY REACH of all the PEOPLE, plazas, statued fountains, monuments of transcendant dignity, mirrored bridges across lazy streams, homes, homes, beautiful homes on every hand, practically all owned by the people inside them. Granted you get all that sort of thing in the BIG towns —but you don’t get them ALTOGETHER. Even Paris doesn’t give you its art in such a convenient, get-at-able package. Almost anywhere else you have to PLAN ALL-DAY EXCURSIONS to see these things—and you have to see them ONE AT A TIME. Indianapolis has assembled all her art and all her beauty into a narrow, convenient radius —you can see it all on ONE GALLON OF GASOLINE. So credit accessible beauty and charm to Indianapolis. ♦ ♦ - People who have formed the habit of living under Indianapolis conditions get restless when you move them about. The old town keeps calling them back, and sooner or later they usually do come back to us. All that it takes to make life worth while, Indianapolis gives us heaped up and running over — as does no other city. So let’s learn to appreciate our home and quit kicking. What Indianapolis needs —absolutely ALL that Indianapolis needs —is just more ANTI-KNOCK.

*—offered in the interest of a better Indianapolis 1 by SILVER FLASH OF INDIANAPOLIS*

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