Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-22

American history, June 17th. William | Howard Taft presided and men of all | shades of belief and political afhlia- | tions participated in the discussion These men were not visionaries or ex- tremists, but desirous of formulating | plan which visionaries and extremists could support. The result called to its support leading Quakers; Cathonc oar- dinals, Episcopal bishops, leading Jews, college presidents, political lead- CTS and hard-headed and successful business men.
 The final speaker of the evening was Rev. W. A. Keefe of P1ainfield- Rev. Father Keefe said:
 Zeal for a patriotic development of every best department of American welfare has always marked the won- derful achievements of the sons of Habits" It marked the journeys, en- nobled the purposes and strengthened the hearts of Hooker and Winthrop and Davenport and Fitch and the other pioneers who laid the corner stone of Connecticut progress at Weathersfield and Windsor and New Haven and Norwich.
 Patriotic progress inspired sons of Connecticut to write the first state constitution in the U. s. A. and made Hartford's Charter Oak an everlast- ing reminder that our state led the way to the Declaration of American Independence.
 The American patriotism that hung the signal lantern in the tower of Bos- toms Old North church and sent Paul Revere dashing through every Middle sex village and form rousing the heroes of Lexington and Concord to
 their duty, lighted the sentry fires on the hills of old Windham and New London ard all the other counties of Connecticut and made our own Israel Putnam and his Connecticut warriors | heroes at Bunker Hill. Love of Amer | ica made our Nathan Hale regret that he had but one life to give for his l country.
 Our Connecticut Products. Think of how many times We use | the products of Connecticut forms and | factoriesh every day. An alarm clock Thomaston rouses us in the morning. | From a bed made in Derby and SUD-
 piled with Hartford Springs and 1 Wlndham sheets and pillow cases we jump out on a carpet made in Thomp- | Sonville in room heated by a Nor | wien Page boiler and equipped with | electric fixtures from the brass fac | tories of the Naugatuck valley. We | turn the key in a lock made in New | Britain, Stamford or Terryville and values and faucets from Bridgeport | Middletown, Waterbury and Hartford, | soap from Glastonbury we put on a | union suit from the same town,
 Star shirt from Norwalk or Bridgeport | and coat, vest and trousers made of | cloth from Windham woolen mills, ! sewed with Willimantic thread and 1 Torrington needles on machines from | Wheeler & Wilson's great factorits. Your wife darns garments of silk | from the Cheney mills of Manchester
 or Hemminway's of Watertown with hooks and pins and buttons from Wa | terbury and Torrington, while the | cook prepares your breakfast on a
 Norwich-made Richmond range, you | read about the battles being fought | in Europe with guns and ammunition l from Colts of Hartford, Hopkins & | Allen of Norwich, Union Metallic of | Bridgeport or Winchester of New Ha- 1 ven. you pour cold water from a Nor | wich Thermos bottle into a cut glass
 goblet from Meriden and with silver
 ware from Rogers factories of Meri- den, Waliingford and Waterbury eat America's best apples from Windham or peaches from Glastonbury, eggs | and milk and butter and fancy vege- | of Connecticut.
 After breakfast you enjoy a Con- l necticUt wrapper grown and made somewhere between Hartford and
 bury hat and your Naugatuck rub
 bers and get into Bridgeport Loco mobile. You drive through busy | streets macadamized with Connecti- cut trap rock to your office built of l Connecticut made brisk or stone. | All day long a Waterman pen, made in Seymour or an Underwood type
 writer, made in Hartford. writes your | letters and figures your accounts your life, your wife, your auto, your against all sorts of dangers by Hart ford Insurance companies. Naugatuck Diamond ginger ale is your favorite drink and graphophone from Bridge port or a piano from New Haven de- light your recreation hours and when your life work Is over a New Haven
 church organ accompanies the funeral music.
 A graduate of Yale Medical school attends you in your sickness, a Yale
 lawyer makes and breaks your will
 and a graduate of some Connecticut
 school officiates at your burial ser vices.
 There is much that is inspiring in all these reflections, my friends, with
 the energy and thrift that enabled l Connecticut business men of other
 days to make our industries factors in human progress we must use and
 develop our present opportunities.
 Encourage Scientific Study of Soil. In the soil of Connecticut we are told by those who know lies one o1
 our great opportunities. Your great
 organization of eastern Connecticut
 business men should do all in your
 power to encourage scientific study of soil conditions, economies and va riety of production and improved
 methods of selling and distribution
 How often and with how much enthu-
 siasm have we cooperated with Storrs
 college in this matter? How Hlach interest are we arousing in the work
 of our granges and agricultural so-
 cieties. If Hood Valley of Oregon
 can afford to make apples profitable
 by modern fertilization, spraying
 packing and marketing why can't we
 in Windham. The best soil and mar
 kets and distributing facilities are here at our very door. Put the Con- necticut genius into it's development I see a wonderful field for your or
 ganization in the proper development of eastern Connecticut as a summer
 vacation ground.
 Like the patriots of olden days let