The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-12-29

nine for the men and five for the
Women-in widely separated sections
of the factory. Each employee is
allowed twenty minutes of the COM
pany's time for bathing per week,
during the winter, and forty minutes
during the summer; and this time al
lowance for bathing costs the company.
on an average, about seventy-fve dol
lars ($75.0O per month.
A factory physician is provided by
the company and rest room for the
women employees who may be taken
i'll is fitted up with comfortable couches
and chairs, medicines and restoratlves.
A mutual benefit relief association
comprising membership of more than
1900 employees, pays $500 funeral
benefits and $500 weekly benefits for
sickness, for members of the first class,
with the dues at ten cents per week,
while members of the second class,
with weekly dues at five cents, receive
$500 funeral benefits and $3.50 week.
ly sick benefits.
An aid society, contributed to by
company and employees, is maintained
and exemplifies the real brotherhood of
man; no cold cruel charity is dispensed
but assistance is cheerfully rendered
by those of the industrial family on
duty, to those in need. An ambulance
hospital corps, maintained by the COM
pany, has been instructed in first aids
to the injured and is able to care for
any minor injury.
There is no limit to the features
maintained by this company. A Do
mestic Economy Dept. teaches the
children cooking, housekeeping, and
kitchen gardening. Sewing classes
and the Women's Guild meet in the
National Cash Register Extension
House, which is in charge of a COM
mittee and resident matron. And here,
also, meets the Women's Century Club,
the Boys Club and the Girls Club.
Calisthenics, supper, and later, some
form of entertainment such as stere-
opticon lectures, songs or music, is in
variably preceded by the regular
business meeting under strict parlia-
mentary rules.
The ground, seeds and implements
are furnished gratis by the company
for one hundred gardens, cared for by
sons of employees, and 5000 in prizes
are awarded annually for the best gar
den, while the products remain the
sole property of the boys.
The Outdoor Art Association is an
organization of women, housewives, of
South Park and its meetings are held
under the patronage of this company.
The object is to promnlgate the cuIti-
vation of flowers and shrubbery and
improve the neighborhood mentally,
morally and physically. The results
are abundant and may be noted in the
beautiful homes abounding. One
street, bounded by the modest homes
of employees, has been so beautifed by
vines and shrubbery, hedges and
flowers, that the eminent landscape
architect, John Olmsted, has pro-
nounced it ''the most beautiful street
in the world, size and cost of buildings
considered" And this is industrial
betterment in the truest sense.
President Eliot, of Harvard Univer-
sity-the one individual of modern
times who has possessed the moral
courage to speak words of wholesome
truth to the laboring man-must have
had in mind some such concern when,
in recent article, he said: "We find,
then, that the intelligent employer will
best promote his own interests by so
conducting his industry that the
people who work in it can win natural
and wholesome satisfaction in their
daily toll. He will, therefore, take
every precaution against overwork,
and for the preservation of the health
and strength of his employees. He
will try to diminish monotony and
anxious stress, to secure liberty for
the individual workman, and incite
him to personal growth and progress,
and to promote throughout his estab-
lishment, harmonious cooperation,
competitive achievement, the exercise
of skill and judgment, and the intro
duction of novelty and variety" And I
respectfully submit that President
Eliot is right.
A. KsAR BEN