New Britain herald., 1921-04-14

made his home since. Tn n talk which followed the EeetinE of friends, pr. Davis stated that the world of today Is in two moods, one of bewilderment and the other of rebellion. To st1ngihen his argument he said in paf. "In 1sis tho old world left hs and the new world began We must admit that the late war has changed conditions considerably. The actual fighting by the soldiers. the airplanes. going over the top. the cry of vic tory,' have all been heard and seen and are now over but the actual war is stiii on in regard to the Industrial and social conditions of the commun- ities throughout this country.
 The heart of the problem in each community Is to find other objectives equally as high, as worthy and as magnificent to take the place of the military and to mobilize everyone to the achievement of other ideal ends. There arc four great things that need to bo done in order to accomplish this. One ia to better the generation of to- day to make things sn life much bet ter again for tho coming generation. By the building of many more and the aid of all schools this can be done.
 As a second point in this argument want to bring out the real meaning of the word 'neighbors.' We should have neigh borlyism' and break down the barriers of race and creed. We all know that this cannot be helped. It Is true that in every town various groups of one nationality will build up a section and ofttimes keep away from the others. This should not be and I urge everyone here as Rotar ian to be nsighboriy with all the peo- pie. For the third point. bring out strongly the economic problem and as the fourth and last. that of interna- tional relationship and although we do not havo to adhere to~the League of Nations we should not give up the idea of stopping future wars after what our boys have gone through and fought for" -f
 MT. Davis talk was applauded loud Iy and if time had permitted he would have been forced to continue his speech for a much longer period. Leon Sprague then called upon Post master William r. Delaney who gave a talk on Postal Conditions in New Britain -. .s---~=--.--aas.-
 Postmaster Delaney gave many in- terestrng statistics in his talk relative to the work of the New Britain post office. In part he said: n will go back to a little bit of history and state that the frst post ofhce was in a coffee house in Boston and that Benjamin Franklin was the first post master general. In the olden days 1t cost Ave cents an ounce to deliver a letter and 1t also took one months time in making the trip from New York 10 Philadelphia .....a -
 "Gcttinr into New Britain. I would like to state that local conditions are not SO bad considering the problem which is confronting me in not having enough room at the present building to show the business has grown since the building was built tn 1910. 1t will be seen that in that year $1o4,ooo worth of business was transacted. In 1918. si4s,oo0, and at the close of 1920. sie2,ooo. There are at pres ent 72 men employed in the whole postal department for New Britain. Twelve new clerks have been secured in the past five years and every one Of them are forced 10 work in tight corners and are badly hampered for lack of room. -.a-. .e /
 "over so.eee letters a day pass through this office and an innovation is that of working nights to accom- modate the public. If we did not work nights the mall could not be handled as satisfactorily as 1t is.
 Public should Be Informed.
 "There are several things that the public should be informed upon, the first of which is correct addresses. The clerks oftentimes must. throw aside a letter improperly addressed and of course that makes a delay in its delivery. Another factor is that fl you have not got a mall box or a slot Tn the door please answer the ring when the mail man leaves his packase. If you do not. he has to whit and this results in his