New Britain herald., 1925-07-06
MASS. GOVERNOR ID DELIVER SPEECH
Shippers Advisory Board Will
 Be Organized

Boston, July s--Ciov. Alvin I. Fuller Of Massachusetts will deliver the address of welcome at the meet. ing to be held at the Copley- Plaza hotel in Boston at 10 a, m. (daylight saving time) Tuesday, July 7th. al which time the New England Ship pers Regional Advisory board will be finally organized.
 The program for the organization meeting, which will be public, was formally announced today by the car service division of the American Railway association which. on behalf of the shippers and the railroads throughout New England has been in general charge of the plans,
 William F. Garcelon of the Ark wright club Tn Boston will preside as temporary chairman. Among the speakers will be Percy R, Todd. preside of the Bangor & Aroostook railroad of Bangor, Maine, who will discuss "The Advisory Boards from the Viewpoint of the Railway Exc cutives." NJ. J. Gormley of Wash ington, r. C. chairman of the car service division of the Am erican Railway association will discuss "The Relationship of the Advisory Boards to the Work of the Car Serv- ice Division" while Donald D. Conn, manager of the public relations sec tion, car service division, American Railway association, will speak on the subject "The Advisory Boards" W. J. L. Banham of New York, will extend the greetings of the Atlantic States Advisory board, of which he Is general chairman to the New Eng land board.
 Following the addresses, the sub ject of ratifying the work of the or ganization committee, which met on June for the purpose of formu- lating plans for the New England Shippers Regional Advisory board will be considered.
 At the meeting in Boston tomor. row. the selection of a chairman and other officers of the board will be made and in addition the members of the various commodity commit tees of the New England board will be named.
 The New England board will be the 11th shippers regional advisory board that has been organized throughout the United States, the entire country being covered by these boards with the exception of the so-called Pittsburgh, Pennsyl- vania district and the Pacific north west.
 The purpose of the shippers re- gional advisory boards IS to cooper ate with individual carriers and the railroads as a whole through the car service division for improvement in transportation and the promotion of the economic welfare of each dts~ trict. These boards now have to- tai membership of more than 1000 representatives of agriculture and industry.
 The regional boards are com posed entirely of representatives of the shipping and consuming public and the financial interests of each dis trict. They are built up by the for nation on the part of the public Of so-called "commodity committees, sufficient in number 10 cover ade- ouately the majority of the produc- tion, receipts and shipping in each territory. Each commodity commit tee selects It's chairman and vice. chairman, and these two officers automatically become members ot the regional advisory board, which expresses the interrelated and com mon interests of the relationships of all commodities to transportation. The organization, however, is diVorc- ed from the railroads in that the railroads have no vote In its deliber- ations. The board is free 10 take any action it sees fit in the interest of the public whom they serve. The movement is strictly cooperative. and the decisions of the board and its functions in general are predi-' cated upon the related facts of any given situation.