Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-17

the promotion of selfish advantage, but organization for the promotion of thinking on public questions. We need not fear the Bolshevism of Rus sia. for a thinking man never joins a mob to kill or destroy his own or his neighbor's property. We are a think ing people, and as soon as we begin to think about making our cities better with the same earnestness that VIC apply though to business, conditions will improve. We arc not q vicious or bad people, we are not selfish as SelhShneSS has been eXemplihed in
 Germany; we have just simply neg lected to give public affairs that
 amount of thought that good govern | ment and a happy people requires. i i The business of the modern cham
 ber of commerce is to make the peo- ! pie think. A leadership must be pro- vided that will make people think |
 congtructively, rather than destruc-
 lively. We must make d man think
 about saving money and buying ai 1 home Of his own. rather than think | /! ing about causing a revolution and 1 then running the chance of grabbing | someone else's home in the scramble. Moreover we must make it possible for the man not only to think os buy ing q home. but to actually buy and pay for one: and without at the same time paying an eXtortionate profit to
 a parasitical speculator. ti
 In other words, we need no longer a chamber of commerce. but cham
 Der of citizenship-an organization Of
 men and women who expect to give
 service rather than to receive it. TO
 the prospective member, we must net
 say Let us help you make money,
 but You come and help Is make hap piness for the people of f-NorWich--!le]p us make the money you have earned : here buy days and nights of living : really worth While" Happiness is the greatest boon that
 can come to man. Beside it. niure
 wealth or power or privilege pale into insignificance. And the city that : makes its people happy need. never \ fear poverty or revolution.
 , The chamber of commerce goes into r business to make people happy. And . as it is a thinking organization, 1t g does not attempt to make them happy e by the mere singing of songs and pro- e state of mind resting upon satisfac- f tion with things as they are and as
 l they promise to be in the future. t To be happy. man must be able g to work and earn a decent living for t himself and family. So the chamber
 of commerce must begin with the y problem of employment. of developing . JIG IoCdi lIiuuSLIItS Ol-lilt CllS anu Ol
 securing others that are needed to T prevent idleness.
 Q After he gets a job. man looks = around for a place to live. The chain- e, Der of commerce, therefore, must solve d the housing problem-must enable the Il worker not merely to find a roof, but e a home where happiness can blossom J. and thrive.
 Il After the home. is the question ot
 fnnd Tho 2 rr1b her of v~.1e .e must see that the food supply is ade- st quate, that it is sold at a reasonable ,e price, and that it's purity is properly y safeguarded.
 - Next comes health. Happiness fee: S, from the home where sickness abides S, The chamber of commerce must safe l. guard the people against impure mill
 and food; must see that there is d proper sewer system: that garbage i T. hygienically disposed of; and tha Id every child receives that medical car ar that determines whether it is to be 1t come in maturity weakling or a TO en bust specimen of humanity.
 ot Education is another foundatio
 stone of happiness. The chamber c IL commerce must constantly strive [ S. improve the educational system; es De taolish night schools; vocations n. classes fer foreigners; manual train
 
 IL must feel that his city is giving hi SC children an education that will IT. them for life as well as other chiIdre GU are equipped.
 Tn Recreation is the voice of happines e, Children cannot be happy unless the mt can play; and the better they pla an the more beautiful their surrounding ur U at play. the higher will be their idea 9.o of citizenship and of ethics. Adul e. also must have recreation, for withol ld it life pals no matter how high u N- wages nor how kind the boss. ny Beauty is the hand maiden of har
 piness. In ten years Pericles mad we Athens such beautiful city that i ss, fame is still the magnet that drav he millions in gold from tourists. Beat of tify Norwich and you increase Il ow soul power-the efficiency of evel ity citizen and of all who come here. Id, Finally, the future. What wortl at while citizen can be happy if his fl Urn ture or that of his children is darl | a What will Norwich be in 1925? Does TOT hold a future for you and for your SC we for your neighbor and his sons? m your boy is red blooded. he has h or eye on the future. He can't be hap ot in Norwich if there is no future ., sight and if he leaves for congest, ny Boston or New York. where there the less pure air and where sympathy al or fellowship are Of exceeding slo : growth, he will not be happy nor " sue you.
 ldy So, gentlemen, chamber of con lhe merce is a business proposition. our that it will pay very high dividen ceS for the amount of money, time and c fort invested in it. But it will n ish pay if you approach it from 8 mate les ial standpoint-if you join it eXpec lo ing to receive service instead of gi us ing service. $
 md James q Hammond secrA+ary, fy' the New London Chamber of Con III merce, told of the work that u ip- American City Bureau was doing Ing New London. He said that no prai w was too high for their work For
 long time l have preached the brot ar erhQod spirit in New London, said \ i've Hammond, and people there put I ;.i 9ur down as a nut. I am 100 per eel m m'I nut on this subject and l was tickl nee to death when the bureau came the at and talked the same kind of do ave about brotherhood. It took the Anne W4o- W ioan City bureau to get under | iIt- thick skin of some of those dear (
 craDs Ill the Whaling city, bless tn, cen souls, and make them come out of tn, oilc shells We have now a membersh tie of 600 and still going. 40 of these a !!s' women. are Rev. C. H. Ricketts who was to ha thu given brief talk on the thrift star We campaign in progress was. unable -eSt be present and J. o. Stutsnan of | ] Community Club gave an interest," m the and forceful talk on the subject eC At 6 subsequent meeting of the ma ,,,i+I, 5irac+ors uo,r,- ssa,,.o,, C,I
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