The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-11-08

low adds to the nervousness. In
cases Of this kind, the Welfare Work
is extended to the point of providing
means enabling the employee to re-
lieve the situation at home, and this
removal of the n of worry logic
ally results in a more satisfactory at
tention to the affairs of the store.
That is one phase of Ben Green
hut's Welfare Work. Its influence on
the success of the establishment is
not slight. Then he has provided rest
rooms, recreation rooms, a restaur-
a branch of the New York Public Lii
brary, and many other co~nveniences
for the army of men and women who
fly his banner. Then there is the En-
ployees' Association, whose beneficial
work is inestimable. Persons in ILL
ness are paid half salary, and given
free medical attention. Those who
are, simply run down. and have no
specific ailment are sent off to the
farm and allowed to rest until their
condition is satisfactory.
Most attractive of all the features
arranged by the busy, kindly brain OF
this young worker for his helpers Is
the summer cottage at Long Branch.
Here, for a week in the hot weather,
all women employees who have been
for a year with the firm are privileged
to spend a vacation, and along this
line, Mr.. Greenhut stands the pioneer.
Not one penny of the Associations
funds is used at the cottage, the en-
tire expense being borne by the firm.
However, the cottage is run absolute
ly by the Association members them
selves, and the only thing Mr.. Green
hut has to do with it is to pay the bill.
From the time a girl leaves the store
on Saturday Afternoon until she re-
turns the following week, she is not
under a particle of expense. Her
transportation is provided, and she is
personally conducted and properly
c~haperoned. More comfortable quar-
tiers it would be hard to find. All the
rooms are light and airy, we'll and
neatly furnished, and supplied with
single beds. The cottage accommo-
dates ffty-fve girls each week, and
is run by a corps of servants, so there
is nothing for the vacationists to do
but enjoy themselves with sea-bath-
ing, trolley rides, clam bakes, sailing
parties, theatricals, coaching and the
like. The grounds are large and fitted
up with hammocks under the shade
trees, swings, tennis courts, croquet
and the like. There r even bicycles
for such as care to ride them.
Just as Ben Greenhut elected to
lead the useful life, when he might
as we'll have chosen the idler's path,
so does he appreciate the simple life
in his out-of-oface hours. rather than
the social whirl where his great
wealth and talent might easily carry
him. He vas married when he was
only twenty-one, and he has three
children, Clara, aged fourteen; Rose,
six, and Joseph I'd, aged 4, the name
sake Of his grandfather. His chief
hobbies are his work and his wife
and his children. AS for Mrs. Green
hut, her husbands tastes are her
tastes. Her home and her family
make up for her the happy life. and
when she adds to this an active in
terest in Mr.. Greenhut's plans for the
lettering of conditions among women
workers., the lady is perfectly con-
tent.
And Greenhut himself is no less
happy. For he has risen above the
dull commonplace Of the rich mans
son. He has got out in the broad
field of life and worked with his two
hands. And he has set others to
thinking. He has done more to dis
courage class hatred than any man
of his years in a like position. A
little more time, a little more en-
phasizing Of the Greenhut system,
and the capital VS.. labor controversy
will crumble and be no more, for the
interests of the two are identical,
and Ben J. Greenhut. has proved IT
Human Life.
WILL LOCATE PEOPLE