Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-24

Hand back with contempt any other fig syrup.
 | the inspiration of the timely address which is to be made by the speaker Of the afternoon, may we go out more determined q than before to do our full ! patriotic duty.
 | Mr. Perkins, with a few appropriate 1 words, introduced Benjamin Tinkham
 Marshall, A. M. B. D.. president of the Connecticut College for Women Pres As It Will Apply to the United tSates After the World War, was greeted with applause. He delivered an in- teresting and forceful address, bring 1 ing out many new thoughts of the 1 conditions that will confront the United States at the completion of
 this gigantic struggle. The speaker l paid a high tribute to ex-President l Sykes, saying that he was a man of | great foresight and had seen far into
 the future of the Connecticut College. President Marshall said in part: War is not wholly bad thing. hy-products, not least of which are habits of mind and action induced by wars necessity, and worthy of con- serving when war ie done. There are many such, but American people need tc lay emphasis upon these habits thrift holding within it the idea of
 money saving, personal and domestic economies, all sorts of conservation of material and funds, and especially, as guiding and inspiring thrift, a worthy sense of values. War imposes upon all the habit of industry-this is marked, Cf course, in our mills and factories and manufacturing plants, running so many of them on 24-hour schedules. but 1t also reached to homes and coinmunity organizations, until under the stress Of var, every human per
 son who can create and construct and
 contribute of effort timc and skill,
 fication for the loafer or the stacker
 ir a time of var. The third habit
 which war induces is co-operatio-1-
 this especially should be promoted in
 democracy where individuaIism is easily nt-indiEidualism. than
 which no theory or policy or practice
 is at once so inviting in prospect and
 so sterile in result. Jan Hays phrase
 getting together" St. Paurs phrase
 working togetker" Che consciousness
 of humanity that i've are member one of another in war time produces tre-
 lnendous meaning.
 There are tremendous satisfactions
 and wonderful rewards in co-opera-
 tive enterprise. Witness the pride of
 the lease employe on the Panama
 canal, who affirTns he dug the ditch.' The fourth habit induced by war is a
 spirit of service. Men in uniform are
 said to be of the service, and we have organized soldier of the soil and we might say soldiers of the needle, rot to speak Of numerous organizations headed by the Red Cross, the Y M C. A, war relief and other organizations or disinterestedness which these terri ble days have demanded. Even "big business, so called, has long since adopted for it's philosophy the princi- p1e of service as actively productive, even economically, ot the best results far surpassing the old days of cut throat conpetiIiond and unethical mo- tives. and finally war for all it's ter rible demonstration of the might of force as such and the use of material and the destruction Of property and human bodies and beauty wrought in stone and works of art. the fact re- all this activity the great world united ] againGt the Hun. though using force, 1 is moved by ideals and sentiment and l conviction even by vision. so much so | that all thinking men would state as !! enc voice that the biggest asset in the l cause of the allies is their conviction | and their principle and their passion 1 TOT justice and honor and democracy ! and righteousness and lest these steel | cur arm, our arm is not steel, it is i broken reed.
 Business Meetings United.
 President Marshalrs address con- cluded the afterdinner speaking and i was taken to the parIors oe the hotel for :he business meetings of the two organizations. It was voted 1 10 unite the two meetings and one very helpful meeting was held Rev. Joseph H. Selder brought forth many important facts in his talk on The Benefits to be Derived by Oreaniza-i l -ion. mentioning some of the efficient work of the local chamber of com ! nlerce. |
 Rev Mfr Selden was followed by | John Humphrey of New London, who | ov~Ak. <~f ( rnerce in that city. Mir. Humphrey i the topic. How a Secretary Can Keep the Community Interested i in the Chamber of Commerce.
 Mir. Humphrey spoke as follows:
 Here is the propositions: On one side, or rather outside. is the poor lone i secretary; on the other side. or in fact i covering the whole field, is the com All he has to do is to en- thuse the whole town and keep it en- terprises. Mind you-not in genera or war enterprises, but in specific Chamber of Commerce enter Drfses.
 stunt. I also submit that this is the, average citizens and I may include | chamber members idea of the sec retary's dutIes. I go further and sub ideal of the secretary himself Not. that he should assume that he is the 1 whole thing and attempt to do it al! This is both impossible and wrong in principle. The usefulness and success of the Chamber of Commerce which is his success, depend upon diffused E CO., -operati ticn of numbers and co-ordi- nation of many forces It is his place to organize these forces and keep L them working. Es
 I don't say that he ought to feel L bigger than any man in town. but | ne ought orealize that his work has