Norwich bulletin., 1921-02-03
COLD-FACTS TALK AT ROTARY NEE TING

have our business enterprises flourish. The highest ability in the state will consider the problem and try to ar rive. at some solution.
 The matter Of taxation will be taken up. The State Chamber of Commerce has been investiga ting this problem for many months aIsd it IS doubtful if this problem can be adjusted at the pres ent time. It has been recommended as sound business to issue bonds on the state until conditions are more set tied and system of stable taxation can be instituted.
 General welfare is another thing that is being considered by those versed in the conditions in the state. The prob lem of teachers salaries is beinb con sidered and a survey of playgrounds
 Tn the state is being made.
 The waterpower problem is being considered and a survey is being made. Connecticut is getting raw material 1 from Pennsylvania. and the west and
 then shipping the finished product | back by the same route. In order to , compete with the west Connecticut | must make use of every available ! horse power in the state. The water power in the state, is running to waste 1 and there is much that could be har-
 messed.
 The merchantile business is also be- ing considered in osIr program and a bill that originated with the Norwich | Chamber of Commerce is elg put 1 through regarding habitual L.ll-beat-
 CTS. The action of the bill is consid =
 cred very drastic. The licensing of | itinerant vendors is another thing that demands attention if home merchants
 are to be protected.
 Last June l was in Paris at the or
 ganization meeting of the Internation- 8l Chamber of Commerce, said Mr
 Chandler, and I studied the movement
 in several of the European countries
 1 can say that America has the bes
 business organization in the world
 We should always keep it the best The chamber of commerce, while i ] has grown to international propor' . tions, is fundamentally a local interest It is founded on the community basis
 The State Chamber never asks a ma to unite with it's body if it detract from his interest in the local organ } ization. The laws governing bushes ? come from the state and these law 7 are from the communities.
 2 We first have the local chamber o commerce, then the state body owe Q which is that great body the Nation . al Chamber of Commerce, and then tn International Chamber of Commerce. e The Chamber of Commerce is a busi ness force and now it can help i
 building up the business conditions c the state. Connecticut is facing stron t competition from the west. We mus '. all get together and work for the wei f fare of Connecticut and if we don e the industrial supremacy of Cohnecti e cut will be taken away.
 y MT. Chandler was heartily applaud s ed at the conclusion of his talk an Il he with the Lotus Male Quartette an e the members of the State Chamber
 Commerce were given rising vote = appreciation. At this meeting the ne e song books were used for the fir, = time. The books are attractively mad e and contain 52 songs, rotary songs an }, popular old melodies. Joseph N. Wey d mouth was the chairman of the con 5. mittee that arranged the book. e The meeting closed with the singin d of the Star Spangled Banner.