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Show By EDWARD EMERINE WNU Features 'TpHE first settlers in Ohio, remem-bcring remem-bcring the nation which had materially ma-terially assisted the cause of the American Revolution, named their settlement Marietta, in honor of Queen Marie Antoinette of France. That was in 1786, during the stirring stir-ring years of expansion and growth following the birth of the new republic. repub-lic. It was a group of New Engenders, Eng-enders, led by Manasseh Cutler and Gen. Rufus Putnam, that founded the frontier town at the confluence of the Ohio and Muskingum rivers. The story of Ohio might be told in the study of names. The word Ohio, from the Indian, means "lieautiful River," but the names of Ohio's sons are known around the world. Seven United States 1'rcsidenls were born in that state: Grant, Garfield, Hayes, Benjamin Harrison, McKinlcy, Taft and Harding. Hard-ing. Howard Chandler Christy, the artist, was born in Morgan county. Buckeye stale authors, teachers, lawyers and doctors are known around the world. Thomas A. Edison and Orville and Wilbur Wright are examples of Ohio names in invention. Cithers now household words include Van Sweringen, Goodrich, Firestone, Sei-berling, Sei-berling, Willys, Proctor, Gamble, : ' ; tt , y? , i t i i 5 offer communication with Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania and the Mississippi basin. The manufacture of iron and steel and their products constitutes the most important industry in Ohio and entitles the state to a place only below be-low Pennsylvania. It includes the work of the blast furnaces, rolling mills and steel plants. Pig iron production pro-duction in Ohio represents approximately approxi-mately one-fourth of the nation's total. World Rubber Capital. Akron is the rubber manufacturing manufactur-ing center of the world. Cleveland and Cincinnati are the centers of the state's clothing industry. East Liverpool Liv-erpool has one of the world's most extensive pottery works and together togeth-er with other nearby towns produces about half of the nation's pottery. Ohio ranks first in the production of tires and tubes, machine tools, stoves, ranges, furnaces, electrical appliances, printing and publishing of periodicals, soap, matches, pottery pot-tery and porcelain ware, pumps and pumping equipment, coffins and steam shovels. The state ranks second in the production pro-duction of motor vehicles, bodies Faint Creek Gorge Kroger, Olds, Patterson and Kettering. Ketter-ing. The list is too long to publish here. Rich In Resources. There are many empires in the state of Ohio, for it is rich in its natural resources as well as in men. The farmer's Ohio is 22 million acres of agriculture. The business made from ocean to ocean by English Eng-lish kings to various colonies along the Atlantic seaboard. After the settlement of Marietta, a considerable migration from Virginia Vir-ginia was directed to the southern part of Ohio. A great impetus was given to settlement when Gen. Anthony An-thony Wayne defeated the Indians of the Northwest in the Battle of Fallen Timbers near the Maumee river. By an act of congress of April 30, 1802, the territory was authorized author-ized to draft a constitution; and on February 19, 1803, Ohio was declared de-clared a state. Edward Tiffin was elected the first governor. Chillicothe became the first capital and Lancaster, Newark and Zanesville each shared the honor of being the seat of state government before it was permanently perma-nently located in Columbus in 1816. Mysterious Mounds. Even back in prehistoric days, men must have found Ohio a good land in which to live. The Mound Builders, whose origin is as mysterious mys-terious as their destiny, devoted an estimated 100,000 man-years of labor la-bor to the building of 10,000 mounds and earthworks. These village sites, fortifications and burial places remain re-main in Ohio as the record of these ancient people. Intermingled in the fabric of Ohio's history and romantic heritage heri-tage are the French explorers, Jesuit priests, British officers, French traders and Colonial frontiersmen. George Rogers Clark, "Mad" Anthony An-thony Wayne, Ebenezer Zane and "Johnny Appleseed" march across its pages of history, for Ohio was once the wild frontier, the uncon-quered uncon-quered Northwest. Ohio's governor was born in Cleveland in 1895, the son of Slovenian Slo-venian parents. On Cleveland's sandlots he became a star third i - - - " Boat on the Muskingum River. t , "r i t 4 l j l jf j FRANK J. LATJSCHE Governor baseman, and was playing professional profes-sional ball for Duluth when World War I broke out. He served as a second lieutenant, and when the war was over, studied law. He served as a judge in Cleveland and was elected mayor of his home town in 1941 and 1943. In 1944 he was elected governor of Ohio. and parts; blast furnace products, iron and steel; generating, distribution distribu-tion and industrial apparatus; and machine shop products. Ohio ranks high in meat packing, bread and baked goods, eggs and poultry, dairy products, hogs, sheep, cattle, wheat, corn, oats, soy beans, hay, apples, grapes, peaches, potatoes, pota-toes, sugar beets and vegetables. Ohio grows more vegetables under glass than any other state in the Union. A Leader in Manufactures. Ohio is also in the top ten states in the production of paper, chemicals, chem-icals, paints and varnishes, men's clothing, footwear, rolling mill products, prod-ucts, petroleum refining, stamped and pressed metal products, hardwoods, hard-woods, limestone, dolomite, clay, sandstone and gravel. As a part of the vast region west of the Alleghenies, what is now Ohio was once claimed by France. It also formed part of the grant man's Ohio is the fourth wealthiest state in the Union. The manufacturer's manufac-turer's Ohio is the factories, the mines, the products shipped around the world. The homemaker's Ohio ' is blessed with an abundance of human hu-man and material resources for wholesome, happy living for typical v Americans, urban or rural. The vacationist's va-cationist's Ohio provides parks, game preserves, smooth highways. 110 lakes, many rivers, good flsn-ing, flsn-ing, deer and small game, rugged hill country, archaeological relics such as Indian mounds, and caves, geological formations, etc. Ohio is largely a manufacturing state, deserving this industrial prominence mainly because of its natural resources. The advantages afforded for transportation by water wa-ter as well as by rail cannot be overestimated. Lake Erie and the New York state barge canal make a direct outlet to the Atlantic, while the Ohio and the Muskingum rivers r- ' I L ' : J. loric interest are the George Rogers Rog-ers Clark park, containing the site of the battle of Piqua and birthplace birth-place of the Indian chief, Tecum-seh; Tecum-seh; the house in which Ulysses S. Grant was born in Point Pleasant, and Thomas A. Edison's birthplace in Milan. Hockey county contain; more places of scenic interest than any other in the state. Rock House, Ash Cave, Cedar Falls, Conkle's Hollow, Old Man's Cave and the Natural Bridge at Rockbridge arc in this one county. OHIO'S MEMORIAL MARKERS Landmarks of Ohio's early day's have been carefully preserved or restored. The pageant of history with all its romantic characters is recalled in the state's 46 memorial markers. The bronze statue of Gen. Georga A. Custer, who died in the Battle of Little Big Horn in 187C, is at New ; Rumley, norlh of Cadiz, and marks the birthplace of the famous Civil war general, i Other points of scenic and his- |