The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1914-12-27

L - - 80. SSSoASHS 4QOu ~ an Almost
incredibly small cost. All OF the Hx-
lures are provided by the government
and the employees are organized Tor
the purpose Of purchasing food and
having It cooked An excellent dinner
Is served at noon In these lunch
rooms, consisting of two vegetables.
meat or fish, bread and butter and q
desert for fifteen cents; and extra
dishes upon the bill-of fare are five
and ten cents each. The dining rooms
run the full length OF the top Of the
building and are thronged three times
a day. brilliantly lighted and scrup-
tilousiy clean, with uniformed SER
wants, they present an extremely att
stractive appearance. Each of them
opens upon roof garden, where the
employees spend much Of their spare
time during the summer. There are
Photographs upon these roof gardens
and dancing Is frequently INDUCED in.
(. 1t is a significant fact that Ia the
new Bureau Of Engraving and Print
ing there Is two and one-half times
as much working space as in the old
one, and five times as much space
devoted to the welfare OF the employ
ees. Mr.. Ralph considers that his
locker rooms. shower baths roof gar
dens and dining rooms pay an even
better interest upon the investment
than the modern machinery and other
equipment Of his work rooms.
The Bureau OF Engraving and
Printing is q democracy. You may
see any official In the bureau, and ASH
him any reasonable question without
making an appointment for week
ahead, and then running gauntiet
OF secretaries and office boys. who
seem to suspect that you have a bomb
under your coat. IL you want to
know anything about cooL EZRA i've
lunch rooms for factories, MI. Rabbi
himself will take you upstairs and
show you his. On the was, he will
greet the elevator boy, the cook and
the scullion by their first names. He
will show you the workings of that
lunch room from A to. lizard, and
throw in little lecture on the phil-i
osophy Of welfare work In factor
les.
No one waits very long in the an
te room Of Mr.. Ralph's Office, but a
short sojourn there is decidedly In
teresting, especially during the half
hour at noon when the employees are
free Brawny printers in their shirt
sleeves, girls from the counting room,
grimy apprentices, all manner Of em-
ployees come in and ask IL the di-
rector Is busy, and without ceremony
walk into his Office. 1t is q very evil
ldent fact that Mr.. Ralph has realized
in one of the largest factories in the
country, employing over 1900 men
land women, the personal relationship
between the executive desk and the
workroom which has been cited as the
greatest good OF the era of small fac
tories, and the most valuable thing;
that has been lost by the growth Of
industries.
The proof that all of this attention
to the comfort and well being Of the
employees pays an actual profit to
the government is clearly shown by
the financial record Of the bureau. For
example, the bureau is able to manu-
facture all OF the paper money and
postage stamps from the Philippine
Islands for less than is bid by pri-
vate firms; and at profit to the gov
ernment: and this despite the fact
that employees of the bureau receive
thirty DAYS holiday on pay every year
and other holidays amounting to if
teen days. In other words, although
its employees work only ten and one
half months and are paid for twelve,
the bureau can do. Its work more
cheaply than any other factory al
lowing at most two weeks Of vaca-
ton.
ing and printing. II-How money
and stamps are made.