New Britain herald., 1926-09-15
BUSINESS OUTLOOK
 IN COUNTRY BRIGHT.
Increase in Employment Of Skilled Mechanics Forecast

Hartford county's captains of in- dustry accompanied by many busi- ness men, comprising a gathering of over POO, enjoyed a sheep roast at Lake Compounce this afternoon. It was the annual outing of the Manu- lecturers and Employers assocl- ations and was one of the most successful held In recent years. Din- ner was served at 1 o'clock after which game. of skill were partici- pated in by the younger element
 Charles B. Cook, chairman of the entertainment committee. presided over the after dinner exercises, and Smiths singing orchestra enlivened the feast hour with catchy music and popular songs.
 Thomas J. Kelley gave a brief re- port on business conditions. He said the industrial outlook was most en- courag ging for factories indicating steady and remunerative employ nent for the 56,000 men and wom- en employed, building was active and merchandising reflected the general prosperity of industry. He predicted steady additions of skill ed mechanics to the working forces of Hartford county plants from now on.
 pr. Willard Scott of Brookline made the after dinner address, which was a sort of literary moslac, sparkling with epigrams and pleced together after no accepted pattern save the speakers own free Will. He was introduced by Chairman Cook as mental cocktail" His tonic was "Todays Trend of Ideals" He described the settled" period as one in which people were eml- nently worthy, respectable and or derly in all their ways, when changes were infrequent and inconsiderable, and were usually deprecated as dls- auietins, if not actually alarming. An idea of life as in any good sense q sporting proposition was unthlnk- able. The heavy hand of foreordl- nation and finallty was on people, s minds and habits. Sports of any sort were summed, or were indulged under social penalties, and any an nouncement that human living was in itself a game Of great merit and possibilities would have been swift ly and soundly denounced.
 From this staid and secure atti- tude towards life, he said, people have now passed to one descrlbable by nothing less than the word "unsettled,' adding: "The recent world war has broken up the last entrenchments of conventionallty and repose, and we find ourselves both hurried and hurled into swirl of conditions unprecedented ln our American history" Without at- tempting to define these rapid changes, or even 10 account for them. Dr. Scott brought message of comfort and cheer by his vie" of pr snt day duty-that of a play or in q vast world game, in which the race is neither umpire nor scorer, but in which every one IS
 called to the bat to make the best batting average he can. He paid a high tribute to the manner In which the whole nation took up the challenge of war, and to the sports manlikc qualities called into play by that nerilous event. He urged that "our attitude now towards the press
 ing problems of peace be on tns
 same high level of moral chlvalry.
 Those who served on the enter tainment committee with Chairman Cook were Carlisle H. Baldwin, Ne"
 Britain; Fuller F. Barnes, Bristol' and James l.. Goodwin and J. II. k. Davis, Hartford.