New Britain herald., 1918-02-28
Would B0Vll
 duCtion in Retail Stores Service

Hartford, Feb. 2S.--Governor Mar-zp ens Fl. Holcomb, in a statement is sued today, urges the adoption dhroughout Connecticut of the Com- nuercial Economy recommendations which go to the people of this state from the Council of National Defense through the Connecticut State Council Gf Defense.
 Governor Holcomb's statement fol Bows:
 ITO the people of the State of Con- nccticut:
 "Dcmocracv is on trial in tho world today. America is the Mother S~uuntry of modern republics. As We led tho way to freedom, so let Us nayaa the way to efficiency. If d self governed people does it's work in a alip~shod way, DO ground work of hsgh principle may save IL Tn tile sAssrce struggle for political existence .-EJitherto our country has been notorious in the family of nations for a4s wastefulness. We have been the worlds great producer ana the worlds great spendthrft-
 "One of our forms of extravaganza and a peculiarly selfish and in onlant one-tsas been the absurd null +t.,!ication of deliveries of merchant dlsA by retail merchants. In the ia.;tuage of the trade, service has de- yrIoped into superservice. This abuse can be stopped by cooperation hctween the two parties interested, the dealer and the purchaser.
 aI submit to the consideration of our people those simple and self levi dent truths.
 "Iirst, that the man power Of thls countrv will be strained to the utter
 5lo; rhn a n- clusion It is stealing from ciViliza- ton at this hour to waste the ser vices of a man. Shipbuilding, muni- Hion plants, farms, railroad companies, armies and navies are all clamorinG flor men.
 Second. the man power of the na- hion must be reinforced by diversion and substitution. Thousands of men may be taken from the retail estab- G1ishmentss of Connecticut without ap- rprecfable .diminution of efficiency.
 ~,Tnird, at the request of the Ma rtionas Council of Defense, the State A~oasncil of Defense, through it's com uryiEtee on commercial economy, pro moses, ,yto reduce this waste of mar Fpowers and equipment by (a) by re uAx1cfing deliveries to one per day lssysr a given route; (b) by eliminat ksxres Aypecial deliveries; (c) by organ kixasion of cooperative deliveries; Cd. EEoy eliminating return or c. o. D Erasrchases; and te) by requesting The purchasing public to carry 1t own parcels, provided the purchase <aoes mot use a private automobile t' sgo' and get the parcel.
 "I therefore call upon the retal merchants of this state to put into LefFect, at the earliest possible date bthe substance of the foregoing rec Noxnrn endations, by means of friend bIy cooperation and the sinking O. trade rivalry. call upon the retai cxsssrchasers. of the state (especially the women, who in other lines o war work are serving their countr, uso ioyally and effectively) to assis Hise dealers|in carrying out this need .ed reform. Finally, in this and il seynery other way l call upon all tht ,ueopIe of this ancient commonwealth sso save and serve increasingly, to th end that personal and political free dnwu under orderly self government ,-wtrich here had it's birth under written constitution, shall Vndicat is4s right and ability to eXist.'
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