Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1919-03-06

]. G. JONES
4 highly optimistic outlook for bus
mess in the United States presented
by J. G. Jones, vice pre- sibent Of the
Alexander Hamilton institute Of New
York, the outline Of q plan f,,r a Junior
high school in Norwich presented by
School Superintendent i. ]. Graham,
and brief talEs by Elk Mayor Allyn l..
Brown, local chairman of the u. S.
employment service, ana J y. Suits
man of the war camp community SER
vice, filled the March tnerting of the
Chamber of Commerce full Of inter
est Wednesday evening at the hall of
the Chamber Of Commerce building on
Main street.
An attendance Of cfosa 10 200 made
the meeting the largest attended in
months and practically used up every
chair that could be secured out of
offices in the building and the Nor
wich Commercial school on the floor
above the hall
! A iGlf hour Of social entertainment
preceded the business IN aeting. It be-
San with chorus singing 10y the men
| assembled, i&d by Charles ". Pear
soy with Joseph S. Adams at the pi-
aao, and concluded with clever sleight
! Of hand tricks by Arthur G. Brown,
u L y
| IS O famous Hindu magician
Junior High Scheoi.
| School Superintendent Graham
| opened the speaking part Of The even
| ing with d, brief description Of his at
| tendance at the superintendent con-
| gress last week in Chicago. On the
| way back IA stopped at Rochester,
| where he visited the junior high
! school, which combines vocational and
| academic lines. having 1.500 pupils, 100
teachers. and Offering every kind of
| vocational trG ming for boys and girls.
| superintendent Graham announced
that the Norwich school kCGrd would
| be ready in Two or three weeks to give
| details OF its plan for Il Junior high
school, which would take in the $50
pupils Of She seventh and eighth
grades and the goo pupils of the first
year of the high school He said
| there was u new school building
needed or tn West side ~ cost prob
| ably $4,000. and the school board was
asking the question why not combine
the need of a school building here
with the g0l ernnent's Offer to aid il,
the erection CT a Memorial building
They would be ready II q. few weeks
70 u3ke public annouH> etGGnt of the
plan they had to propose
EX-Nfayor Allyn l.. Brown made Z
brief talk about the Z. s Employment
Service, which he said was paid fol
by the government AMI from wilict
| everyone employing labor can get
some benefit. Because tic II. s. en-.
plQHment SEP ice is cutting into The
profits OF DriEate employment ageneie!
| Mr.. Blown said that thcre was a pro
ma sEarda against the u. 5. service con,
, dCcteQ. by these private agencies. The!
Fare concerned with putting 1 man mt,
! as many different jobs rs hey can
; fot it means fee to thsu4 every time
: while the L. S. service aims to keel
+ q, man on a job once he has kcen plac
. cd there. The local DralSh of tn
= U. S. service has wonderful possibili
e ! ties if the I aople will use it for III
/ whole system can handle a country
= wide exchange of labor. the speak
er invited the Chamber Of CONNIE &C
members to Use the L. S. employment
service.
FL Resolutions on Mr.. Slater.
: LTbert o. johnson present. resoiu
4 tons of regret upon the death Of Wu
: A. Slater. and Of appreciation @
|, | the great service he had been to thi
! | community, which were adopted b
I a rising VOTE in which the men re
manned standing for d minute in mem
OIJ Ol MI. ClGtSI.
f America After the War.
America After the War was tn
: topic which Mr.. Jones spoke uno
u when he had been introduced b
President King.
Whatever is to happen, he said. I
= the business adjustment in foreig
e countries, allied or enemy. there wi
be no doubt about the future of tn
j, United States. Judge Gary and Charli
" Schwab, two Of the big America
! business men, look upon the futur
with optimism. Judge Gary was to
conservative when he said the ccuntr
was in for a period Of prosperity thu
= would last five years.
It'll America really WAS IN the N'Gr sirc
l. the fall CT 1914, when orders began
n pour into this country from the allie
II Existing plants and factories wei
| added TO and new ones constructed
capaGlty for rQluction of war matt
= rktis was bulls and his now can J
, C.ilized for the PRODUCTION of corlmel
eel products.
We must not, however, place tc
much dependence on foreign trad
Where is all this tremendous foreie
trade so much talked of coming from
Surely England and France viii not /
ro customers in any great amount f.
:" American steel and iron. France new
!. was a structural iron country in u
- sense that she needed iron and ste
4 for the building Of her factories al
plants. And even though she shou
start on a period of steel and ire
IS construction, has she not got the irt
er mines OF Aisace? She has now Il
a. wonderful blast furnaces that &c
many built in that province to mai
OF war on the world. France is bett
IN of today economically than she W
30 before the war.
~ Over there the problem IS one of =
| construction. Ours is one of readjus
nd Inent. You talk about going after t
South American trade, when we knt
st we can't do it until We bring ba
It's those men we sent overseas. a
n. pIause.o
H. Just as SOON as peace is signed p
ch viii have a big buying campaign frc
Germany and when Russia is STABILIZE
ue that VIII be a big field.
Whats the matter at home? The
2 never was g. time when the buyi
q power of the people was so gre
N Never were stocks SO depleted a
" never wan the country Oh a sound
ri hasis But there is a psychologist
unrest. We are never TO get back
n the prices Of 1914. but it win take Sc
eral years to squeeze out the war
II cation.
Al We've got enough customers to Ike
every mill in New England and els
where running full time for FIVE yea
il we never sold dollar abroad.
u; AS 70 Russia, Bolshevism is the c
postte Of autocracy but thousa
times worse because it is license r
only salvation for the world is clea