Norwich bulletin., 1920-09-15

l. Inlnk, reel and live for Norwich, be-. cause Norwich is you said David c. Addie, former assistant secretary of the chamber of commerce of Minneapolis, in an address before an audience of 175 | at the smoker held Tuesday evening at the Thayer building under the auspices of the chamber of commerce, and The American City Bureau which has come to Norwich to reorganize the local cham Der.
 The evenings programme was. open ed with sing" led by Edwin Hill, general secretary of the local Young Mems Christian Association Keep the Home Fires Burning, Smiles, Till We Meet Again and one or two other selec- | tions were sung with will to the ac- compartment of piano and then Charles F. Wells. president of the cham 1 Der of commerce, took charge of the meeting as chairman.
 MT. Wells told of the chambers de- cision, after careful consideration, to
 bring The American City Bureau to I tion. They are here, now, said MT.
 Wells. Our excuse, he said, is that they are going to give Norwich a chamber
 of commerce that Norwich will be proud of
 Explains the CGmpaiEn.
 Chairman Wells then introduced as the first speaker of the evening, Robert
 A. Crosby of the American City Bureau,
 who is manager for the local campaign.
 MT. Crosby made 3 very interesting
 ten minute address in which he outlined
 the plans and programme which The
 American City Bureau is to carry out in
 Norwich The successful chamber of
 commerce. he said, depends first on a
 working membership and secondly on ar
 adequate income. The day has gone by
 when serious minded men are going tc hal xuifb In,
 tions. Your working membership come:
 through the maintenance of a demo cratic organization.
 MT. Crosby went on to tell of the re } cent resignation of the entire board o officers of the chamber. After the mem
 bership campaign each member. he said will receive a ballot. containing th' . name of every member in the chamber He will be asked to vote for twelve o more of the members, depending on thu
 size of the board of directors. The bal lots will then be mailed to the chambe } headquarters. From these ballots som r twenty names, those receiving th
 greatest number of votes. will be pick ed. These names will be Incorporates on another ballot which will be sent t g each member and the members will b asked to make their final selec a)n o & the men to serve on their board. s Mir. Crosby outlined other plans whic will be carried out and in concluding hi r talk said The American City Bureau hs ! come to Norwich to reorganize tn
 chamber of commerce. We know We ca
 deliver the goods
 Results in Waterbury.
 Thomas F Moore. secretary of tn
 chamber of commerce of Waterbury h was the next speaker. MT. Moore spok 0 on Progress in Waterbury He opene }, his talk by telling of the re-organiza Ii ton of the Waterbury Chamber in 1s1 T by The American City Bureau. ater = bury, he said. is an industrial city wit S 100, 900 population and the foreign popu 2 lation is possibly so per cent. One 0 e the first things that Waterbury under f took was the Identification of, the city T During the first year they distribute If free 10000 shrubs. 5000 trees gras = seed, etc. and during the second yea d distributed free a like amount of shrubs
 trees. etc. In every. section of the cit e one can now find 2 little patch of greer e a tree or shrub in front of the house! e The Waterbury chamber has conducte e very successful housing campa ig '. whereby many were induced to build. ?. Other accomplishments of the Water 'f bury chamber can be summed up as fo J. lows: Secured a modern sewage disposs B system. comfort station which is ahou ' to be built, a wholesale public marke Q where over S2,0UU-GOO worth or I2rl
 products changed hands last year an 1T even greater amount this year; COT d ducted a cost of living survey in ls1 E conducted a. most successful clean u IS campaign through the schools, etc, an re many other projects.
 r How They Do It in Massachusett d was the topic of the interesting addre!
 delivered by Lee H Brow. secretary to the chamber of commerce of Westfiel d Mass In defining the chamber of con as merce, MT. Brow said "The chamber on commerce is an organized expression .s the people in the interests. of the cor he munity." In closing MT. Brow sai'
 Aside from the church, I don't belle tn any organization can accomplish he much for the community as a mode
 chamber of commerce
 Hon. Abe J. David, vice president
 the Peoples National Bank of Eliza bel II, \. l.. and president of the Elizabe ed Chamber of Commerce. was next int on duced by Mir. Wells MT. David V ,n- passing through Norwich Tuesday mol he ing and called on Secretary Crandall. ay decided to stay in Norwich over nie sid and kindly consented to speak briefly at the gathering Tuesday evening. at Mir David said that when The Anne CT can City Bureau went into Elizabeth ck organize the chamber there they hy creased the membership from 200 to 3 re- He said The American City Bureau V
 the best investment the city of Eli ey beth ever made There are men " 1es will say that ss in dues is enough a o.