New Britain herald., 1924-02-26

knowniin relation to other bodies.
 The speaker also dwelt on vibra : tions. He stated that everything
 comes to us by vibrations. In
 speaking of light vibrations he said
 that all these vibrations are between
 red and violet. Lower than red and
 higher than violet we cannot see.
 Men are equipped to see a few octaves
 of light vibrations. He brought for
 ward the question of races on other
 planets who may be equipped for sec ing and feeling vibrations that the
 people on the earth cannot conceive.
 Secretary Pays Report
 The report for tie year of Secre- tary William E. Fay was as follows:
 'Tonight's annual business marks
 the close of sixtaen successive years in the Commonwealth clubs activities. The present secretary has served in that office continuously since May 2, 1916, and since he has attended every meeting of the club since that date, as we'll as every meeting of the execu- tive committee. he naturally takes a deep interest in the affairs and well fare of the club and for that reason he hopes that the following recom- mendations will not be considered as presumptious.
 The first recommendation of the secretary Is that the members of the Commonwealth club, and especially the new executive committe to be elected tonight, coming very serious ly the question of revising its pro- gram for the coming year that the club will get back to it's original pur- pose of providing an open forum where subjects may be discussed which have a vital bearing on the common good of our cosmopolitan city So many of you have been members of the Commonwealth club since its inception that need not re- mind you of the purposes for which this organization was established, but perhaps I may recall to your minds report which President Bassette made at the meeting December 1e, 1916, in which he made a partial list of some of the activities the club had engaged in since Its foundation. He enumerated the following: l, anti tuberculosis york; 2, playgrounds, outside and in; 3. city planning; 4. home culture; 5, restatement of democracy; 6, trade schools; [, juve- nile schools; S. public utilities com mission; 9 internationalism; 10, bill- board reform; II. penolegy; 12, child welfare; 13, conseration; 14, suf- frage; l5, commission government and city manager plan; 16, city prob- lems and economies; l7, city housing; IS, clean food: le, bird conservation; 20. natnralization; 21, world federa- ton and peace; 22. local history; 2S, local charities.
 Some of the movements formerly discussed by the club you will note have made great progress and some Of the questions at least partially answered, some problems partly solved. But we are still living in a great. busy, cosmopolitan city What can we do for its common good? Surely something more than meet three times year, enjoying nice supper and listening to an entertain ing lecturer. For several years our civic committee has been as dead as Moriey's ghost. And we all have sense enough to realize that the Com monwealth club will live only as it serves.
 ''The second recommendation the secretary feels 1t his duty 10 offer you is this: That you take immedi- ate action to restore the treasury of this club 10 a position where there will be ample funds to carry out its program. The pitiful little dollar Dill which we have been paying each year has been stretched so that Christopher Columbus who stands on It's left, cannot possibly sec that on the right side is the word One Would any Of you oppose increasing your dues. at least by the amount which the dollar of 1907 has to become the dollar of is247 And would not some of you wives take as much pleasure in pay Ing your own dues independently of your husbands dues as you do in oting the democratic. ticket while youf husbands vote the republican? Of course some Of you do and some of you don't. Money tslks, but it has strange lapses into silence.
 Tn case these two recommends. ions should be acted upoa favorably oy the club tho secretary would then 1 present this third recommendation | hat immediate steps be taken by the commonwealth club and its executive l Al once enter upon a | greatly enlarged program. This would contemplate increasing the 1 as fast as practicable up Q at least five hundred; making plans Or more frequent meetings at which | he attendance would be at least | loubled and the general adoption of ! policy more aggressive than the | ,resent more definitely practical and [ necessary more sdventursome. Al pig banquet in the new Eiihu Bur | it hotel, with the best program ever arranged in New Britain, meetings | Fith 800 to 1000 present: big gather ngs of people who do not neces- arily think at ali alike. a cosmopoli- i an membership eager 10 discuss and ! earn things which would tend toward l hat ultimate goal for the common | rood of our cormopolitan cIty'