Evening journal., 1919-04-12
DEAR FOLKS:

DEAR FOLKS:
VNIHEN you work hard and
w console mt ious ly to
achieve result and you feel down
deep that you have Succeeded
don't you like it very, VERY
much when somebody comes
along that you know is an expert
and he tells you that your work
is splendid and he congratulates
your
Is it not just human for all OF
us to like to hear praise of our
work?
Well, | saw very happy group
lof workers assembled in the
CANNED GOODS DEPART
MENT of the Wilson & Co. plant,
Chicago, on Friday, March Ia.
I call your attention to the fact that Fri.
day, with its SIX LETTERS carries with
IL good luck so far as the Wilson 4 Co. or
ganization is concerned. It fits the Cycle
Of Six, which is such a dominant factor In
the business and brings so much happiness
and success.
In the group of workers was
Thomas E. Wilson, President of
Wilson & Co., who is as intense
and as enthusiastic as any of the
$4,000 workers in his organiza-
ton. There were also in the
group three Vice-presidents of
the company. mention this to
prove what | have been telling
you, that the Wilson g. Co. or
ganization represents DEMOC-
.RACY OF WORK, which starts
with the head and goes all
through the ranks. One man is
as good as another in this organ
ization; one woman is as good
as another; and both men and
women are on basis of equality
in the matter Of recognition and
reward for service well rem.
cred.
Now l will tell you why they
were so happy:
ALFRED w. MeCANN, THE FAMOUS
PURE FOOD EXPERT HAD JUST FIN
ISHED TASTING AND TESTING THE
WILSON & co. CERTIFIED BRANDS
OF CANNED MEATS, VEGETABLES
AND FRUITS, AND THEN SAID:
81 TAKE OFF MY HAT TO THEsB
PURE FOOD PRODUCTS. YOU HAVE
PRODUCED A VERY FINE AND A VERY
WONDERFUL LINE, AND 1 CONGRAT.
ULATE YOU"
Wouldn't it make you happy II you
like the Wilson & Co. workers, had
been working hard to perfect food
products and felt sure that you had
succeeded, to have Mr.. McCann-a man
who knows what pure food is-tell YOU
that you had achieved a wonderful re-
suit?
You bet it would
Well, the Wilson d Co. workers are
the same kind OF human beings as you
are-so they were made very happy
when Mr.. McCann, who had selected
at random from the immense stocks OF
canned gOOds-cans Of Corn, Peas,
Beans, Asparagus, Meats, Preserves, etc.
and had them opened up and then
tasted and tested them,-gave them his
splendid endorsement.
know Mr.. Mccain personally and
intimately. He is an honest, fearless.
able man. Nobody on earth has ever
yet been able to control his opinions
or his pen. Both are owned by him
self and by nobody else.
! know he meant what he said when
he told those workers that their. Ger
titled foods are o. X. in all particulars.
and I know also that if he had not
thought they were O. X. in all par
ticulars, the tender Of a million dol
lars cash on the spot would not have
made him endorse them.
Mr. Mccain could have been rich by
now had he wished to barter his honor
but he has kept himself clean and
straight-AND POOR, as most men do
who are intent and intense in doing
things TO help and protect Humanity.
did not know that Mr.. McCann was
in Chicago until he walked into the
Wilson & Co. restaurant, which, by
the way. is a big, democratic affair
where officials and workers dine to-
eether in the same way that members
Of a family meet at their own dining
room tables.
He told me he had come TO Chicago
TO investigate the Wilson & Co. busi-
ness because his interest had been
aroused by reading these letters that l
am writing TO you. At the end Of the
day he was good enough to say that
he found everything exactly as I have
described it to yOu-that is TO say,
That there is Heart, Honor, and the
Square Deal all throughout the Wilson
& Co. organization.
Mr. McCann and once spoke from
Tho same platform at Sycamore Beach,