Show W 3 N filling insulin vials books chemicals and other products of indianapolis 1 prepared by national geographic society washington D service ROM atop a high building F FROM you see glittering indianapolis spread over the prairie who viewed babylon from his flat roofed palace would enjoy the picture here with all its temples shrines monuments and tree lined avenues here are restful parks and floral displays quite as satisfying to many as were the hanging hang oring gardens by the euphrates and here is a war memorial as impressive as any temple raised by babylonians no one great city however dominates indiana chicago pulls at it on the north cincinnati and louisville on the south yet indianapolis its capital and nearly its geographic center is the seat of hoosier power in 1820 a small spot was cleared of forest here and the capital later moved from corydon in the south one wagon two weeks on the wilderness trails hauled all the young states papers furniture books and money from the streams men seined heined fish in such quantities that wagon loads were fed to hogs settlers increased the national road came through from the east driving west toward the missouri westbound west bound movers multiplied some days saw hundreds pass in covered wagons freighters stage coaches often with women or girls driving the teams while men and boys herded other animals after the wagons crossroads for highways today indianapolis stands a typical well balanced midwestern city intersected by four national highways used by three fourths of all transcontinental motorists high above the city rises americas largest neon aviation beacon usually visible from 75 miles away about the city runs the first belt line railway built in america and the seven acre union station w with ith i elevated tracks accommodates 4 40 0 trains at once every 24 hours 82 mails by air rail and truck reach the city and it averages a convention conventi orf a day five days out of every week the year round one auditorium seats what a change since henry ward beecher preached here in his small church I 1 and edited his farm paper I 1 get up early any morning and you see some trucks coming into town from all directions hauling hogs cattle calves and sheep to the largest stockyards stock yards e last east of chicago among world grain grai n markets the one here ranks sixth and as a cash mart it leads in the united states some factories make many things from insulin and inner tubes automobiles and canned food to birdcages bird cages and popcorn machines one shop can make bicycle tires every day another makes chains chains that went with admiral byrd to the antarctic chains for the first wright plane tor for the dirigibles macon and shenandoah for battleship hoists and elevators chains for 40 foreign countries doorbell ringers all over the na tion sell silk hosiery made here while another product is advertised by a singing barber who fills the air wi with th saponaceous rhapsody armored cars for the shah of iran trucks to haul pipes that carry oil from to the mediterranean hams and bacon for the worlds breakfast they originate here center tor for literature if wastebaskets gave up their dead what a place a great publishing house in indianapolis would be to trace In dianas literary career it has bought and published many a manuscript which brought fame to a hitherto unknown writer not only hoosiers Hoo but writers from all over the union have been launched by this house long ago it started mary roberts rinehart whose first work the circular staircase other houses had ignored lately it published li hed oil for the lamps of china alich which brought fame to alice tisdale hobart look over its lists old and new and you are astonished at the millions of books issued from this midwestern plant charles majors when knighthood was in flower sold more copies than did uncle toms cabin this firm putting on what james whitcomb riley called its literary overalls published every book the famous hoosier poet ever wrote and all without ever a written contract it introduced harold macgrath to the world with the puppet crown and meredith nicholson with the main chance and the house of a thousand candles other titles are remindful of dayt days gone by here brand whitlock brought the thirteenth district emerson hough his mississippi bubble anna katharine green the filigree ball george randolph chester young wallingford zona gale romance island george ade the slim princess earl derr biggers seven keys to baldpate ring lardner Gul libles travels and irving pa bacheller cheller the light in the clearing because of its early conspicuous success with fiction fiction especially is associated in many minds with the he publishers but its contribution in in other lines aside from its law and educational publications shows scores of titles on subjects from backward children to the chinese too many to list here great chemical laboratory carved on the stone front of a great laboratory at indianapolis are the same chemical symbols used by ancient al chemists who took them from the chaldean who thought the earths metals were related to the planets planet sl I 1 hence such old planetary names for drugs as lunar caustic austic c and saturnine poison yet look into this plant and see what incredible strides chemists have made since the dim distant age of alchemy quackery and philosophers stones in this temple of scientific research and in the giant production plant attached to it where machines roll pills a day and grind tons of strange things from dandelions to bovine stomachs and livers you meet a thinking brigade briga de of chemists pharmacists bacteria and medical investigators representing the best scientific brains of many lands from england to china how to turn new ideas theories and discoveries about medicine into practical use is the business of this vast industry it worked with the toronto insulin cammi committee atee and with the harvard pernicious anemia committee to put their drugs quickly into doctors hands here is not only pure research in many things from toad poisons poison S to chinese herbs but such mass pro problems as packing millions of doses of ground liver in capsules instead of vials in plain english here in indiana is an astonishing example of how highly organized efficient business takes up where science leaves off jenner learned long ago how to vaccinate against smallpox but it takes huge capital and infinite skill to make enough vaccine and supply it fresh to the whole world but for such mass production of drugs d r bugs chemicals and medicines we could not check or control infectious disease and epidemics despite the great discoveries of koch pasteur lister sir ronald ross dinn von wassermann and ehrlich |