New Britain herald., 1914-04-29
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE..
 According to vote passed at the lnual meeting of the New Britain lsiness Mems association last even it was decided that chamber
 commerce be organized and it was 50 voted to obtain the services of cretary who will have a great deal
 do with developing the work of e association. There were some mplaints received that the manu- cturers had not been as enthusi- tic as regards membership as was
 pected. owing to- pressure of pri-
 te business. But it would seem on e face of 1t as if this would be the Pst for the organization. The manu- cturing establishm ents are our larg- It corporations and were they to be- me members of the proposed asso- ation as corporations the tendency ould be to give the impression that ey controlled it and the result would
 anything but beneficial. It is un- krstood that manufacturers them Ives feel this way about it. They ould probably be willing to join as dwiduals; this would place all on e same footing and the organization ould be the better for it. Whether e present committees are as able to Lrry Non this work as well as ofessional organizer is, in the opin- n of the members, doubtful, not that ley are not doing all they can, but ecause they lack the experience nec
 sary for such work. This lack of hthusiasm may be accounted for by he Mexican trouble and the local po- Eical campaign, which absorbed uch local attention, but now that he has come to an end and the other
 on the way towards settlement ore attention can be given to the namber of commerce proposition nd the enthusiasm may be increased. The question is sometimes asked of hat value such an organization ould be- <.The answer should be ear and decisive. The matter is not
 be viewed from the standpoint of le individual alone. but rather from he broader viewpoint of the city. here are a great many things which eed attention and which can only be roperly treated by some organiza- on which is to make a business of uch< things. There is the housing roblem, which is very important, reight charges, the location of new factories, accommodations for those rho desire to engage in manufactur- 1g on small scale and the need, of hany other things which are desir- ble in order to make the city better nd more beautiful. There are in al- host every community men who give great deal of their time and money b this class of work, while in New kritain there is no force to impress pon the people the importance of aving this work done, no organiza- lon to see that it Is done and have he city and its business interests ob- aif the right kind of benefit. This movement cannot help being, in the Ind, a benefit to the individual as yell as New Britain.
 When a new family comes to town,
 new house is built, a new factory Irected, or there is any desirable hange made from the ordinary meth bd of doing things the community os benefited and the public must learn b look at it in this way. We have been accustomed to take too narrow
 view of some of those things and $ a result we have not prospered as nuch as we might had We given more Btudy to matters which pertain to New Britain as community There a great deal to be done and there 7oe~ not seem to be any means al sand by which those things can be hone as we'll as by a chamber of com nerce They cannot all be done al ,nce either. but we can make a start ind those who are endeavoring to give Impetus to the movement should have .everv possible encouragement.