Norwich bulletin., 1920-03-04

they will give practical proof that they possess civic pride. Norwich wants more real homes. Norwich wants more factories. You have got to get your homes first; factories will follow.
 The Norwich Chamber of Commerce is squarely back of the present drive of the Building and Loan association bers, the more homes. More homes, more factories. More homes and fac- tories, the quicker Norwich will be- come real city.
 The present officers and directors of the Chamber of Commerce decided at their first meeting to take up one thing at a time and push it to conn pletion, and then take up something else.
 The housing situation naturally comes first. That's wfe.-a the Bni1d ing and Loan fits in. The getting of more factories will undoubtedly have | their attention next. You can't have factories without homes.
 More houses and factories mean re- drlced taxation and increa sed munich pal income. Now let us all pull to- l gether Friday night and show our l selves real men and women. Every .. one benefits.
 Ex.Mayor Urges oo-eperation. ] Hon. T. c. Murphy, former mayor of Norwich, urges citizens to cooperate
 in promoting the growth of tKe Nor 1 wich Building and Loan association. Norwich, Ike every other munici- !! pality, he said Wednesday. has many
 urgent problems to solve. That Is . natural sequence of growth and I progress. But the problem that, to l my mind, exceeds all others in 1mpor-
 tance Is the need of better housing l facilities It, is natural for a city to strive to increase the number and the
 size of it's industrial organizations.
 That means greater prosperity for the
 community. 1t is useless, however. to expect industrial expansion unless we are in a position to furnish comfort able homes to the people already with in our borders. While I recognized this II fact, in a general way, for some years
 past, yet the seriousness of the situa- 1 tion did not impress me until I was forced to give this matter serious con , sideration during my two terms az l mayor. As I became more familiar
 with the housing conditions in Nor , wich, I realized that there vas a cry ing need for some agency that would . make it easier for the earnest home
 seeked to build or buy his or her owY 1 home. That agency exists in the form If the Norwich Building and Loan as 5 seciation. and as 8 member of a spe. cial committee of the Chanber O
 Commerce appointed to consider th' !. best means of improving the housing 2 facilities of the city, after thorougl investigation of this association, ou committee unanimously decided to en 5 dt rse the Norwich Building and Lcai
 association and to promote Tn ever. | way possible it's development To that end, a meeting Is to be he1 [ untfer the auspices of the Chamber Q 2 Commerce in the town han Frfda, ' night at which time men interested i 2 1 the progress of building and loan as 7 sociations in other Connecticut cite Il wifi explain what these organization : have done for their respective com 1 ,n,tnities. The town hall should b
 filled to capacity on that occasion, q
 it is a community enterprise whic
 i.e1e cry citizen with the interests z
 Norwich at heart should enconraE.
 Don't be a slacker-attend the meet in, Friday night.