New Britain herald., 1924-03-14
MAKE s GAIN IN
 L. OF [. CAMP PAIGN
E. ]. Porter Leads Team Cap
 tains, Reporting With l5O

Workers in the Chamber of com- merce drive for new members Nport- ed @ new members up 10 last eve . ming with q number of team mem,pcrs ! not reporting at banquet held at the Hotel BuTritt.
 The reports of team captains were as follows: F.. l. Porter, 15; P. F. King, ?; A. A. MLls. 10; Steve Robb. Ap- ". C. Hungerfprd, [; Peter Crona, s3; A. $ Jourdan. $; F. Q. RackIiffe, ..b; Max Unkelbach, ;; C. l.. Sheldon,
 o.
 The speaker al the banquet Was {, Colvin E. Brown, chief of the organi- ] tation service bureau of the United States Chamber of Commerce, who came from New Mexico to New Brit ain in response to an urgent invitation ] to be here. F. W. Christ, toastmaster announced that the Chamber of Com merce had been trying for three years
 to get Mr. Brown.
 What has made our nation great
 has been the businessmen throwing
 themselves heart and soul into the : building of the bigger business Of service to the public" said Mir. ! Brown.
 He told about the growth and de
 velopment of New England and said the first settlers came here and found 1, themselves on sandy barren shore, ]. with hardwood forests in back of them and the open sea in front. They cut down the forests. made ships, fill
 ed them with food fish and sold them 10 the islanders in the ocean. From
 this point and showing the same in- . dustry they developed the great in- dustrial plants of which New England now boasts. He said he never had ; been in New Britain before but that : such names as Russell X; Erwin, Stan , ley Rule and Level, P. & r. Corbin
 Ianders, Frary X Clark and others ! had been familiar to him all his life
 and he had come into contact with them all over the country.
 He told of how a man at Quincy . Mass, built the first railroad. Tho road was three miles long, of wooden rails on granite ties and the cars were pulled by horses. People came
 for miles around to see the railroad . and a similar road with wooden rails and horse drawn cars was built by the E. X 0. company over the Ale. ghanies.
 i, The speaker traced the progress ot railroad building, the taking over ot surplus traffic problem by the mo- , tor trucks, the development of agri-
 culture and the problems of farm
 loans, credits and markets and Of the
 h.. ....1 "The United States produces 43 per
 cent Of all the coal in the world and ; consumes i2 per cent of it." he said. ; Tt produces 5i per cent of all the iron in the world and consumes B . per cent: il produces 64 per cent of ] all the steel in the world and con
 sumrs 5I per cent; it produces ia per cent Of all the copper In the
 world and consumes fl per cent: il produces Gi per cent Of all the oil ], in the world and consumes 72 per s cent. importing the difference from ] Mexico; it produces 60 per cent of all the cotton in the world and consumes i, 37: it produces 52 per cent Of all the lumber and consumes 5l; if produces 4l per cent Of all the shoes in the world and feet of American people ] are clothed in g per cent Of them; of print paper 43 per cent is made in
 the United states and seven per cent . is imported from Canada. this conn i try manufactures e2 per cent of all the automobiles in the world and H0
 per cent of them are sold in this . country"
 He spoke on inc yalne of solving
 national problcms locally first and
 said. 'Tho nation is but the sum to.