The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-28

NlCVilullN PdlulCu, tOUllOTldDle houses, electric lighted, screened from flies and insects and the best of pure spring water by hydrants at their doors. Yet not sat- 1sfied with this as a stepping stone he laid out for his people q beautiful park of 20 acres covered with grass and shade trees lighted the grounds with hundreds of incandescent lamps, hydrants of run ring water dotted here and there, with fountains playing, built a most unique handstand equipped the park with mod frn iron settees, swings, merry-go go-rounds ball park and tennis court, showers and swimming pools in fact, a breathing space that any small municipality might be more than proud of-and this to the writer's surprise, was the first step for efficiency.
 4 lot of an acre was pointed out the other day to the writer on which shortly a modern Young Mems Christian asso- citation building, fashioned after some of the Carolina institutions at a cost of $l0.000 or $12,000 is to be erected thus avoiding sectarian insistence as the au- ditorium will be open to all denomina- tions and creeds. Visit this mill village and you will see happiness and content ment on every face and thrift in every household
 In speaking with employees we are told they get the highest wages of any place in Alabama; that the mill encourages them to save, paying them per cent on savings; that some of the families have been in the village six to eight years and have saved money enough to buy fafms in Calhoun county of 40 to 80 acres but these farms they rent, preferring to live in comfortable homes and continue to work in the mill.
 Outside of working hours and on holi- days play and recreation is encouraged a big barbecue always celebrates the Glorious Fourth with patriotic pyrotech- nics and jollification-and Christmas turkey or ham goes to every family as "a remembrance. So much for the vil- lage.
 Still looking to the human factor Mir Greenleaf at the very beginning installed an automatic humidifying process throughout the entire mills, thus purify ing the air and facilitating the working of the yarns. Enter the mill. You see cheerful, alert, active workers, discipline is easily kept the man fits silly to the job, he is interested. he is happy. for he is healthy. Records of efficiency are no trouble to keep and the rewards are cheerfully paid. Another step-are all the machines in proper sequence? Does every machine pay a net profit? How is material for manufacture and the ma tefial to manufacturer supplied? Is it properly bought? Over supplied? Is it free of graft? Is all waste of purchase, of manufacture, of sales, accounted for properly? These interrogations will give you a little idea of what MT. Greenleaf has met and worked out in his manage ment by having kept in mind that com rlete efficiency is only obtained by a division of the spells.
 After going through these mills and visiting the operative in their homes we are tempted to say that happiness is not that phantom of which we hear so much and see so little; whose promises are constantly given and constantly broken; goddess in pursuit a cloud in pos sess.on but when supported by health and contentment reality.
 Jacksonville is situated in one of the finest farming sections in Alabama. The soil surveys of Calhoun county show that everything can be grown in the Alexander valley that lies just south of the town; in the QuataQuilla and Choc- oolccco valleys, lying just beyond the hills to the east. This section has been known and appreciated for years by all of the eastern mills as growing the fa-