Norwich bulletin., 1922-04-06
GRE. SUPERINTENDENT TAGGOT SPEAKS
 ID NORWICH ROTAR|ANS ON SERVICE

that service cannot be worth very much because it is given away and that. there fore all service ought to be given away. , Why, you actually tip the waiter and the bell boy and the janitor and the nat girl and the porter as if somebody was not paying them to serve you There was a time that all that a lawyer or a doctor got was tip. They had to charge that because they found out that some of us would take their services for nothing and most of us would tip them less than the service was worth Even now we seem to think the preacher should serve almost without pav. We get the idea that service, like saliva tion, ought 10 be free.
 Service Must Be Paid For.
 If you are selling service though, if that is the only way you make your liv- lng-you can't possibly render any more service than the return you get ena- bles you to perform You can't sell unlimited service for limited pay This is where part of our troubles come. We don't give service away. We sell it. That's all we've got and ali we sell and the return we get for it measures our ability to serve. Directly or indirect ly we serve every home, hotel, rest l aurant store, factory, oEfice, hospital, church, newspaper and individual in the territory covered by our distribution systems. But it's energy only that we furnish and work only that we do whether this energy be supplied in the i form of heat. light or power. You eat the food cooked with gas, but you don't i see the money in the gas plant. the gas ] distribution system, or the toll or the labor of the employees whose work to- | gether with the money invested. is nec- essary to produce the heat at the burn l CT in your home that cooks the food you eat. You cannot see the electric | current in the light you read by. You don't visualize the power house and the machinery and the men whose work Is necessary in order that you may have light. You throw the switch in the fac | tory and the motor operates the machin- 1 cry You don't seem to realize that the power is furnished by the department You bought the motor, you threw the | switch and you seem almost to feel that that pays for the power.
 There is no service sold equally use | ful to the service that a public utility
 sells and there Is no service sold or | given away, on the adequacy and reH- | ability of which the comfort and con- venience and growth and prosperity of a city and all the people in 1t so largely
 depend.
 At the business session F. Russell l Smith, chairman of the entertainment committee made a report of progress
 on the Ladies' Night which is to be held on Tuesday April 25th Owing to
 the increase in membership of the club and the large number from New London and Willimantic and to the limited space in the Wauregan din
 ing room it has been decided to limit the sale of tickets to two to each mem
 Der thus making it strictly a Rotary
 affair.
 The matter of traffic regulations in
 Norwich was brought up but the clut
 voted to take no action on it and
 there was no discussion of the regu-
 lations. Nathan A. Gibbs told briefly
 of his visit to the New York and At
 lantic City Rotary clubs.
 Alex McNicol was the song leader
 and there were, several selections b!
 Joseph c. Worth, Louis R. Porteous
 Dr. John s. Blackmar and Dr. R. R
 Agnew. The meeting closed with the
 singing of the Star SpangIed Banner