The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1913-08-03
ALSO GENERAL MANAGER OF MU.
TUAL LIGHT AND WATER
COMPANY.
BULLETIN TO HIS EMPLOYEES
We Are the Operating Forces Of a
Public Service Corporation and Mus,
Give Satisfactory Competent serv.
ice We Owe the Community"

A de Sola Mendes, the new general
manager of the Mutual Light and Wa.
ter Company took charge ON last FRI
day, his first office act being the is
sue OF Sulletin to employees, whicn
will be read with interest as showing
Mr.. Mendes' policy not only to EN-.
ployees, but to the community.
MF. Mendes is now familiarizing
himself with the affairs of both com.
panies and has several plans in view
for the betterment of the service AN,
nouncement of which made in the near
future.
The bulletin to employees follows:
General Managers Bulletin No. 1.
August /, 1913.
To all Employees;
Having under the direction OF the
president and the Board oe Directors
of this property, taken charge of the
management, ii Is my desire, to CON
vey to you some of the policies, whic'i
| consider necessary to the successful
management of the property, the car
rying out of which, will require tho
cooperation of each and every one
of you.
You are the operating force OF {; p;.b-
lEc service corporation, with us lies the
choice, whether we are to, give the
competent satisfactory service, which
we owe legally and morally to the
community in which event the success
of the company, with its corresponding
effect on the welfare of each individual
employed by it, is assured, or we
for brief while can furnish, incom-
petent and unsatisfactory service, with
the result that tho prosperity Of the
company, and the welfare of its en-
ployees, whether under the heat OF
adverse public opinion, against which
no iGdiYiC nj and much less cor
poration, made up of indiyiduc )
can stand.
We are in position to exercise q
powerful effect on the welfare of our
community and the building up of
our city by the impression we make
city, who sees something of our serv-
ice, and hears more from our fellow
citizens, the public, a favorable impress
sion, helps to add him to our popula-
capital he controls, which adds to
support many more citizens.
/ believe you will all agree with me
that from all points of view, it is de-
ice possible. TO do this successfully
there are three points thai IN st Ge
faithfully guarded by the conduct OF
each OF us-coHtcsy, discipline aad
loyalty.
Courtesy towards the public and
each other, courtesy like smile, Gre
ates its own influence. How much
l,leasanter it is to so through the
days work with { smile cid good
wishes from everyone with whom you
come in contact, than with clamor
Of offending dignity and a desire for
revenge following us. II you can make
enough people desire most anything
in this world, they can accomplish It,
and your probably careless and unin-
territorial lack OF courtesy may reflect
itself, in the denial Of fayors we badly
need Damage suits, which but for the
resentment for which you are RESPONSE
Bile, would never have materialized,
in prejudiced yerdicts against the
company, and in requirements Of the
authorities, which work hardship on
us. Toward your fellow employee,
discourtesy arouses Hike dlscourtesy on
his part, and desire for revenge from
you both and the service to greater
extent suffers.
Discipline is the habits of conduct
which make things go smoothly fer us
all, as well as the service. The be
ginning Of discipline is the obediance
and. respect for the man under whose
direct orders you are placed That
man is SO placed because his view2
are broader Or his experience greater
| than your own, you may doubt the cor
rectness of his judgment, as against
your own, but you must admit yor
would not qualify as an impartia
Judge Of the question. You owe hin
the obediance and respect that yor
demand OF the men under your orders
or who will some day be under youl
'nrders. There is no profit in tryine