Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-22

7 SPENT so many happy
days with the workers
in the Wilson e Co.
plant, Chicago, that | find
myself t h in k in g about
them very Often-even to
the point Of waking up at
3 o'clock in the morning,Nas
| did just now, and re-
called what a worker said
to me one day after | 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."
| said to myself. | am going to
get up and go to my den, where
| have written most of these
letters to you, and iot down a
few thoughts about this remark
of the smiling workmen, and
these are the things | .iotted
down:
If $4,000 workers smile only
once an hour eight hours a day,
they smile 100000 smiles in a
working day. If each smile aver
ages three inches (and | think
this is the average distance between
the corners of the mouth when it is
engaged in smiling), they smile 6O0,-
900 inches of smiles in day, or
hearty 10 miles Of smiles.
Then the thought occurred to me
that you and | ought to feel mighty
good to know that Wilson d Co.
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 cat 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 a smile is token
of contentment. and confidence, and
faith, and integrity-four elements
that Won and I 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
ers in the Wilson e. Co. organization
is prompted by desire to put then
hna,s. their soul, and their intelll-
cence into their work.
Tho hest illustration can give you
is TO print here some excerpts from
a recent talk (informaD made by MI
Wilson to the foremen and workers
in his Chicago plant on April I'd last;
81 wish it were possible for me to
find the time to meet and confer
with YOU men oftener. we nave
now come to the time when we arc
through with the stress OF war l
snnreciate the strain under which
vol men worked and want now 10
acknowledge my gratitude to you
because YOU made it possible toi
tbis Company to accomplish what
if has during the past three years
"Thc standing of this Company
through YOUR efforts, has been eic-
,ated far and beyond what 1t was
thrcc wears ago, and ] know ina,
,,,hat we have accomplished could
uot have been accomplished except
through YOU, your cooperation anu
those of our workers who WORKED
under your direction.
"You know that we are trying lC
run this business on a falt aho
soiare plan-square to the con,
sinner, square to the producer, ana
square to the employee.
"It is very important that we stano
an this platform or principle, or we
viii oo backwards and that we can
not afford to do ever; we want tm'
consumer of our productSRto appre
ciate always our statemet IN pup,
lie print to the effect thV are
engaged in producing the 1000
nreducts that can possibly man
ufactured. W
"Our success depends ubBn yol
and the others working under you
and unless each man takes it upor
himself him and makes it his own busi
ness to support the principles uporI
which we stand we cannot succeed
"Tbe future of this Company de
pends upon our mutual integrity
and our mutual loyalty. We mus
watch everything to see that all W.
do is carefully done, and we mus
treat fairly and squarely the peo
ple we come in contact with in ou
own organization, as well as witt
the people we come in contact will
! o,,teida ~ ON. organization.