Putnam patriot., 1908-09-04
(. E. CHANDELIERS ADDRESS.


 1 met your president in the train Il few days ago, and he asked me few questions, and then asked me to give you the answers.
 Now, just word at the start about organization names. New Haven has long had a Chamber of Commerce and
 now has also Business Men sAssoeia-
 lion: Most Connecticut cities have either Boards of Trade or Business Mems Associations or both. While some of these organizations may be
 broader in their scope than others, the differences, so far as | know are small, and they are all patriotic associations designed to further the besr interests of their respective localities.
 The State Board Is composed of dele. gates from local boards, including the New Haven Chamber Of Commerce and some Business Mems Associations. The StaIe Business Mems Association k composed of the local associations, and 1t also invites Boards of Trade to join 1t.
 As my personal experience k limited to the Norwich Baard of Trade, sh all use the name Board ef IT. de in my talk.
 | read with interest the address of your President at the first meeting af- ter his election. i thought il covered the ground very fully. In il every thing was said that neededsto be said i, and il was we'll said.
 You all remember that when the late conner at a meeting asked if everything had been said and done, the old lady replied that everything hnd been said, but nothing had been done. Now, all l am to do is to give you my opinion of what patriotic local organization should do and how they should do IL. The object of a Board of Trade and Business Mems Association Is the fur thering of the best interests of the com munity. These few words mean a great deal: The best interests of the community.
 HOW eAN THEY Do rHIS3
 l. By encouraging manufacturing industries new and old. The greater part of the money that comes into your town from elsewhere comes from the safe of manufactured goods. The main stream of incoming money is the pay roll, and the money comes From the great trade centers. IL finds it's way back largely through your merchants III iAfAdllEE i0I Iifht1t AAaAAAN-% AtAttt tfft essential 10 your eomf3tt and happi- ness. While this money k coming and going il helps support ali classes The getting in of good new industries IS one Of the most important duties Of the or-
 ganization amt the most ditilealt. The work must be attempted with the greatest care. IL is better ta turn down TWO good industries than 10 harnor and I. .l fIAfiA NKAYk
 be well done lby the organization as q
 N hole, but can best be done by judi eiogs committee who can thoroughly investigate ali applicants and do all they can to aid those that are desirable. What is good industry? A good industry k one that k run by man oI men who know how Of course il must make goods that are in demand, il must have capital, bu. the men who
 run il are the main thing. Capital and
 d patent won't do you any good with. out the brains of the peculiar quality
 necessary to buy material at the low est market price, make the goods al the least cost ,foresee the kind and style of goods that will be in demand and then keep the goods sold al price yielding d good profit including depre-
 citation and renewal Of plant. If youI 1 Board can bring one new man 10 Put
 nam each year such as the men who are now conducting your successful in-
 dustries, II will fully justify It's exist.
 ence. Every business and professional man in Putnam can afford due ol ! five dollars or ten dollars for every | man of that kind brought here. be- ! Iieve this work should be done without publicity. If the committee find 2 1 good thing, the less said the better til | the matter k settled. If they turn | down an appiieas1t because they doubl 1 the capacity of the man or tor othel | reasons, there is no need Of handicap ping the man by puofisAiBg their orin' 1 lou Of him. The com mitiee may bt 1 mistaken.
 Next to means for increasing thu amount of money corning Into town l comes the Improvement of he iaetiiiisf 1 furnished b9 transportation and pub ! iie service corporations N here tae~s I are faulty, much good can te done b5 \ q judieioas committee and aisu nJcA | harm can bs done by wholesale denun eiation oi Inc agents of these corpora ti0ns.
 i S. Advertising Ihe town in various 1 ways is a useful w8rk especially apPfo | priaie for Board ol Tfade, and righl here 1 wi~h to say a fes words about 1 the pres. As an employee who f'S lieves il to ie his duty te iei his nunaet ou- employers tell their own tales, have formed habit Of walking on ths i other side of the street when see n re i porter. There are things the BeNspa pers should leave unsaid. Ii some ons