Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-17

to build immediately. Every house
 built relieves the situation so much.
 The really important accomplish
 ment of the committee is in obtaining
 the following proposition from the
 manager of one of our strong growing
 industries: "In order to encourage
 home building in our town, for every
 dollar expended in building houses
 within two miles of our factory, either
 ty individuals or by corporations, we
 will put up q li' amount in making
 homes f-~ our operatives" While he
 a. fiji st United the amount to 40 or 50
 thousand dollars. he has since said for
 the present we will put no limit to the
 amount Ne will spend This challenge
 is thrcwn out and it is for us to meet
 it.
 Rev. Joseph H. Selden, acting in the capacity of toastmaster, in a short address, spoke feelingly of the loss to the chamber in the death of Frank J. King, a modest man, but one who gave all that was best in him to | the chamber and to the city. In re- | ferring to the present president 1 Charles F. Wells, Mir. Selden said
 that the chamber was now under the | guidance Of a man who in his opin- | ion was one of the best men that the l chamber has ever had at the helm l Mir. Wells is a man thoroughly alive 1 to the needs of Norwich and man i who takes dead earnest interest in 1 everything that can in any way bene- l fit this city.
 Speaking of the activities of the ! chamber of commerce MT. Seiden
 mentioned the new city health pro- 1 gramme and stated that the local
 chamber had heartily endorsed the
 movement as one that would be of great benefit to Norwich and that the 1 chamber had appointed a health com
 mittee that would cooperate in ev- l cry way to bring about better condi- | t1ons To bring about better health 1 conditions we must have more houses | to relieve the congestion in the city 1 It is the function of the chamber of 1 commerce to get behind this move ment as outlined by MT Palmer and 1 in this way further the health of i the city. MT. Selden then introduced 1 George B. Chandler of Hartford who i spoke upon the topic of Team Work | In Connecticut Business.
 Mir. ChandIers Address. MT. Chandler, who is secretary of l the state chamber of commerce and who is always an eloquent speaker. handled his subject in glowing style l and said in part:
 The unsettled conditions of the
 country and the unrest have for a long time occupied the attention of the American public and many solu- | tions of the situations have been of fered but in my opinion one of the best is found in Premier CIemen- ceau's statement to the French peo-
 ple when he said, GO Back to Work!'
 Some time ago the state chamber or commerce was asked for a survey
 or Connecticut resources and we found that these could be divided in- to five groups. The first is the dis trIbuting group or the commercial group. In this branch $250, 000. O09 is invested. The second is the manu- featuring group and here three quarters of billion dollars is in- vested The third is the financial
 group which includes insurance com panies and banking institutions and in this group s1,29o 0o0, 900 is invest ed. The fourth group is the public utilities, trelleys, railroads and other l means of transportation that are so necessary to the welfare of the states industry. Over $500, 100000 is in vested in this group. The fifth and | last group is the agricultural which includes farms and farm labor here over s160, ,000, 900. This is in a gen eral way the grouping of Connecti- cuts resources.
 When tfre state chamber of com i meree was reconstructed a meeting 1 was held in New Haven and the 1 chamber was divided into depart-