The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-23

SPENT so many happy
 days with the workers in
 A the Wilson & Go. plant,
 Chicago, that 1 find myself thinking about them very often-even to the point of waking up at 3 o'clock in the morning, as l did just now, and recalled what a worker said to me one day after l had commented on the habit of the workers in smiling at their tasks. This is what he said:
 "OH, THIS IS A SMILE OR GANIZATION."
 1 said to myself, l am going to get up and go to my den, where 1 have written most of these letters to you, and jot down a few thoughts about this remark of the smiling workmen, and these are the things 1 jotted down:
 If 25,000 workers smile only once an hour eight hours a day, they smile 100000 smiles in a working day. If each smile averages three inches
 (and l think this is the average dis tance between the corners of the mouth when it is engaged in smil- ing), they smile 600,000 inches of smiles in a day, or nearly 10 miles of smiles.
 Then the thought occurred to me that you and I ought to feel mighty good to know that Wilson & Go. food products, which come to our table, are better products because they are prepared for us under the right kind of conditions.
 Don't you think that we ought to feel the greatest confidence in the food we eat when we think of the fact that it comes to us accompanied by the smiles of the men and women who prepared it for us?
 Don't forget that smile is token of contentment, and confidence, and faith, and integrity-four elements. that you and 1 welcome in the pro- duction of the foods we eat.
 Now let me tell you why it is that everything that is done by the work CTS in the Wilson & Go. organization is prompted by desire to put their heart, their soul, and their intelli- gence into their work
 The best illustration I can give you is to print here some excerpts from a recent talk Gnformal) made by Mir. Wilson to the foremen and workers in his Chicago plant on April 2d last: "I wish it were possible for me to find the time to meet and confer with you men oftener. We have now come to the time when we are through with the stress of war. l ap- preciate the strain under which you men worked and want now to ac- knowledge my gratitude to you be- cause you made it possible for this Company to accomplish what it has during the past three years.
 "The standing of this Company through your efforts, has been ele- vated far and beyond what it was three years ago, and l know that what we have accomplished could not have been accomplished except through you, your cooperation and those of our workers who worked under your direction.
 "You know that we are trying to run this business on fair and square plan-square to the consumer, square to the producer, and square to the employee.
 1t is very important that we stand on this platform or principle, or we will 20 backwards and that we can not afford to do ever. We want the consumer of our products to appre- ciate always our statements in pulp lie print to the effect that we are engaged in producing the best food products that can possibly be manu- factured.
 Our success depends upon you and the others working under you, and unless each man takes it upon him. self and makes it his own business to support the principles upon which we stand we cannot succeed.
 ''The future of this Company de- bends upon our mutual integrity and our mutual loyalty. We must watch everything to see that all we