Norwich bulletin., 1922-08-17
ADELARp MORN SPEAKER
I AT ROTARY LUNCHEON

Adelard Morin. member of the firm of Plaut-Cadden Co.,, had charge of the monday luncheon of the Norwich Ro- tary club on Wednesday, and gave a
 very interesting talk on his business. MT. Morin's talk was considerably bright ed by short references to his early con-
 nection with the firm as a piano sales
 man and as a political speaker. Mir. Mo rin said in part:
 It is indeed very agreeable privilege to be able to address you today and. after reading Joe Weymouth's notice l stating that I was going to talk on Piano Manufacturing, I was at a loss to know I just where Joe had gathered his infor- nation, for it was my real intention to | talk of my business, as many of the mem 1 bers of the club have been doing from week to week and if I were to talk of | piano manufacturing I would be signing I the 50 other lines we deal in. and I would
 be talking of but a portion of my busi-
 ness. Then, again I had in mind talking relative to the detail of the lines of busi-
 ness that I am interested in and, upon
 Investigating, I find that there are actu- | ally 51 different varieties of meCchandise
 so that if I took the necessary time to l give each subject sufficient attention It would require the 51 luncheons of the year, allowing only one for the other
 members. and that would be very unfair
 and enough to ruin the splendid attend ance record the club has been making.
 l had an object lesson relative to pub J lie speaking years ago The incident I
 am about to relate dates back to the first
 Roosevelt campaign. At that time I as- l pired to public speaking. and the state
 republican committee very kindly assign
 ed to me various places where I was to
 speak in the interest of the party I | found out afterwards that they chose me because speakers who could address an
 audience in French were scarce and in
 demand. Some kind friend of mine load
 ed me on to the state central committee,
 and l at once qualified as French political l speaker and that was only possible be-
 cause the committee was in no position
 to judge as to my ability since none of
 them spoke French. It so occurred that
 one of the first assignments given to me
 was in a small town few miles from
 Norwich. I was called up about o'clock in the afternoon and told that I was tc
 go to this town and fill in because tn, speaker of the evening was to be late The rally was called for o'clock and f was to talk until s.15, or one hour and , 5 quarter. about the issues of the campaigi , "a subect that I knew absolutely noth - ing about-and I went to perform m, duty. The local committee had beel f successful in gathering quite a respect . able sized audience for this rally and
 started in to do my share and talk t 7 l them until the speaker of the eveninI :. arrived. l went on very nicely for abou t a half hour when suddenly at the rear o I the hall fellow got up took of hi coat and commenced to applaud for all h l. was worth. The fellow next to him pulle e him down, saying "Sit down. Bill, yo ,. don't understand French" The fellow T who was an Englishman. replied "No, e don't, but the fellows working hard"
 was very fortunate that the real speake arrived soon after that. for I really be
 lieve that if had continued for anothe , half hour there would have been no au H dienee to address The following Sunda t night, the night before election, I ha j. been assigned to New Britain, and ther g I spoke for about 12 minutes I reall l. got generous applause from the entiI Il audience, and commenced to think ths l was good but fellow come to n le after, in confidence. and told me that u e. applause was not because I was zoe T. but because didn't speak long, so a V going to try to be brief and my talk 'o going to be about my experience in u
 retail of merchandise.
 :. In the ordinary course of merchal s- dising teday-in my estimation the 10 are three requirements absolutely nece m sary. First, to conduct a business su
 cessfully, 1t is essential to have suitah H. quarters; second one must be thoroug " ly in touch with every element of i ht business. and, third. a mercantile instit m tion, to be successful. must be a succes .ir ful public servant Therefore. the slogi
 of the Rotary elub-@He profits most VI te serves best'-is the best one that c e. possibly be adopted by any mercant
 eoncern, if success is desired
 Cadden company which firm I am
 present identified and associated vii
 MT. Plaut came to me and said that 'N thought I would make good in the pia lg business. I said: "Fordie. if go into s. piano business I want to know abe at pianos, and the first condition I must in, sist upon is that I find out" After co
 sulting further with Mir Plaut, I ; he ranged to go to the piano factories wh; nd the pianos and player pianos we S. on were built and there I learned about A technical, intricate and component pa se- that make a good piano There I learr IT, the method of manufacturing and DIS quality Of material required for a s, za- eessful instrument the time AAcessaFy
 | the proper treatment of the. various q