Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-15
E. C. CHAMBER FAvoRs
 ECONOMY IN DELIVERY
Resolution Asks Defense Council to Bring Matter to Attention of the GovN-nor.

The Eastern Connecticut Chamber or Commerce at their meeting held in the Wauregan Hotel Thursday after noon went on record as advocating the necessity of the economy in delivery or the standardization of delivery. The Chamber realized that the centraliza- ton of the deliveries would be useless unless every merchant co-operated and all adopted this method. The fol- lowing resolution was drawn up by Alton T. Miner of New London and ". c. Norris of Willimantic and pre- senfed being unanimously adopted by the chamber
 Resolved. That the Eastern Connec- ticut Chamber of Commerce, repre- senting the Chambers of Commerce ot WnEmantic, Danielson, Putnam, Nor wich and New London, at it's regular meeting held at Norwich, February II 1918. request the State Council o1 Defense to cal She attention of the governor of Connecticut to the uNgent necessity of bringing before the peo. pie of the state the programme ot economy as adopted by the Cognmer- cial Economy board and suggQst the advisability of the governor issuing 2 proclamation calling upon the people tC at once put into effect it's recon. mepdations. 9 Previous to the adoption of the res. olution John B. Vaughn, president o the Eastern Connecticut Chamber ot Commerce who presided at the meet ing introduced Alton T. Minor mem Der of the Comm ercial Economy boar: who spoke on the great need of tn, government for all productive power MT. Miner said in part:
 RYrz ~ in the world. And now it is up to u and expense. The government need all the men it can get and it is up t us, as citizens and employers to re lease these men who are not absolutel,
 essential. If we do not do this tn | government will then commandeer tn
 non-essential businesses of the land l We must get out of our extravagan ways or when the war is over bushes
 will be on the rocks.
 One Delivery Day.
 In the country today there are ap proximately 100000 firms doing thei 1 delivering and they employ 100000 men in this work besides horses an
 motor cars. Now. if we could re i duce this system of delivery even 1
 per cent which is small, itG would giv us an army of 100000 men. Now tn
 question arises how can we do this One method is to have only one de
 livery over a given route per day an in places where it is possible three de
 hveries week will do. Of cours
 this may inconvenience the housewif
 who has been in the habit of order
 ing a few articles at a time but
 she will only use a little forethougf this may be overcome. We shoul
 enlist the housewife in this movemen
 This is the duty of every Chamber (
 Commerce in Connecticut.
 Frank M. Foss of Willimantic state
 that while the Chamber of Cornmerc
 had taken up the matter and a con
 mittee had been appointed nothir
 definite had as yet been decided upo by that chamber.
 rC. I. Smith of Norwich told of tt
 curtailing of the deliveries in this cit
 and said that one store had alrea6 2 stopped making but one delivery l, day. He said that this store had 1T l stalled two telephones and that in u morning they were kept busy bl people were becoming accustomed the change. He also spoke of u
 idea of having cooperative deliver } among the merchants the plan ] which is to have one large merchal } do the delivering for a number stores In his locality. MT. Smit . said that several of the ladies' 8, cieties in the city were advocating u market basket plan which has bee
 carried ont in other cities.
 W. c. Norris of WfI1imantic was u next speaker and suggested that u , State Council of Defense issue : proclamation ar bring it to the atte1
 ton of the governor that the cen
 tralization and. curtailment of delive
 ies was a, necessity. He said tn ! while some merchants might be vii { I ing to cooperate in this moveme ,l others unless it was necessity wou ] hot do 50. It was on MT. Norr 8 | suggestion that the resolution VI , drawn up and adopted.
 : Deliveries of Milk.
 Joseph T. Cruttenden spoke of u 2 deliveries of milk in Brockton and | T l policy of having central milk dept He said that the miilzmen were co ering many miles daily that anoth man was covering also.
 James J. Hammond, secretary 2 the New London Chamber of Cor merce told of the situation Tn Ne
 fLondcn regarding the delivery of mi
 \ an edthe matter of having a cooper B tive cEeamery and a central stati : fnv min Ezm-1nfd fhaf this did n