Norwich bulletin., 1919-05-14
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 feet whenever and wherever possible. In the absence of C. F. Risendorf. the chairman of the rooms committee, President Foss spoke upon the situa- ton which has recently arisen in re- gard to the rooms and building which is at present used by the chamber of commerce for their headquarters and meetings. Briefly it is this: The rooms are rented from month to owners of the building, Louis Belan- ger and A. l.. Gelinas. The. latter have recently received two tempting offers for the sale of the building. The prospective buyers will not consider leasing the present roomsf to the chamber of commerce, they desiring to use the rooms for other purposes, should they acquire the building. The price asked for the building was con- sidered excessive and too high by the rooms committee. An effort had beed made by them to get the price low cred and as there is no other build- ing or suitable rooms for the cham
 Der in the city, President Foss urged that stock company be formed of members of the chamber of commerce and that they buy the building, every member being urged to take ore or more shares of the stock at par value of $25 a share. The price asked for the building is $35,e00.
 Remarks on the matter were made by W. c. Morris and George r. Taylor, the former urging most strongly the purchase of the building, the latter making a motion that President Foss appoint a committee of five to meet | the present owners of the building and obtain their lowest price; also to endeavor to raise stock subscriptions for S10000 among the members, which amount will be necessary to purchase | the building plus the mortgage on the same. The motion was adopted. The | committee is to make it's report at the | next meeting.
 President F'oss appointed the fol- lowing men to serve on the commit tee: c. F. Risedorf. J. E. Brick, r. E. | Larrabee, G. F. Taylor and G. E. Hin man. This ended the business of the
 meeting and President Foss then in
 troduced Hon. George E. Chandler of Rocky Hill. who addressed the meet ing on the subject of Americaniza- ton. Mir Chandler as a speaker is exceptionally capable and interesting and he held the close attention of his audience during his talk which last ed over an hour. He spoke in part as follows:
 The basis of a successful educa- | tion of the subject of Americaniza-
 ton in any city is the right mental attitude of those who undertake to teach il. The people of this country
 cannot Americanize any group of
 aliens until we understand them and
 until we know and realize just what these groups can bring to this coun- ltry; for after all we are getting a l great deal from them as not one
 group comes here without right de- gree of civilization. The reason they
 cannot transmit it to 1s is simply be- cause they cannot speak the English language. The first principle of | tAmericanization is in giving some h thing from the heart to these aliens
 While we welcome every race realiz- ing what they bring. we also have the right to a recognition by every alien
 of a contract between himself and
 America, the minute. he enters this
 country. There must be no fifty-ffty
 in the matter nor no turning back
 The speaker went on to say that the
 man who will come to this country
 and enjoy its privileges and does not become full fedged 100 per cent
 American, in his heart and soul, is al
 ingrate and a dishonest man. The speaker quoted Bishop Milan as giving tlt OlLc DCSt Ol IONdlIy when he recently said Loyalty tS America is absolutely identical witt
 loyalty to ones God" and Mir. Chan.
 dler further said that he deplored tho present internationalism method o Americanization which is being uset in some sections. Americanizati tior must, be carried on through schools The fundamental of all basic Ameri- canzation is in the English languagt
 and that we. people of the United States have the right to demand tha all boys and girls in our schools bt taught the mother tongue of America and mo other tongue" The speaker at this point referred to the occur. rences in some schools in the wes where American children were whip ped because they would not talk o, study German, all of which was Ger man propaganda carried out by tn. German-Amcrican alliance existing q the time. The speaker thought 1t wa. a pretty raw thing and caused mos Ipeople who knew of it to see red.
 and continued saying that the bes
 thing we could teach the newcomer tt
 this country is to look for a job an(
 then a savings bank. Mir. Chandle
 brought his talk to close with a fev
 remarks on the value of the chambe OI commerce. Dotn local, state and na tionalwise. He spoke of the reorgan
 iSation of the Connecticut Stat
 Chamber of Commerce and of it
 planning and trying to accomplish fo
 the state the same things which ar
 accomplished by the National Cham
 Der of Commerce of the United States
 which recently held meeting in St . Louis, which the speaker attended
 The state chamber of commerce aim ] to protect the future business inter . ests of the state. At the close of hi
 address, Mir. Chandler was warmly ap
 plauded and given a rising vote c
 thanks by those present
 Charles K. Hitchcock, chairman c
 the Liberty loan committee of Colum
 bia, wishes it stated that the state ment which appeared in Mondays is
 sue of The Bulletin Columbia expect