The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-04-23
SPENT so many happy
days with the workers in
the Wilson e. Cn nlanf

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II days with the workers in
the Wilson & Co. plant,
Chicago, that I find myself
thinking about them very often
even to the point Of waking
up at 3 o'clock in the morning,
as / did just now, and recalled
what a worker said to me one
day after I had commented on
the habit of the workers in
smiling at their tasks. This is
what he said:
"OH, THIS IS A SMILE OR
GANTZATTON."
| said to myself, / am going to
get up and go to my den, where
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 / jotted
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
averages three inches land I
think this is the average dis
lance between the corners Of
the mouth when it is engaged in
smiling), they smile 100000
inches of smiles in a day, or
nearly ten miles of smiles.
Then the thought occurred TO me that
You and ought TO feel mighty good
to know that Wilson & Co. food pro-
ducts, which come to our table. are
better products because they are pre-
pared 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 he
fact that it comes TO us accompanied
by the smiles Of the men and women
who prepared 4. for us.
Don't forget mat smfls Is T. token
of contentment, and confidence. and
faith. and integrftY-foor elements
that you and I welcome In the pro-
ducton OF the foods we eat
Now let me tell you why it L. that
everything that IS done by the work
ers in the Wilson Il Co. organization
Is prompted by a desire TO put their
heart. their soul, and their intelligence
into their work
The best Illustration I can gTve you
Is to print here some excerpts from
q recent talk tinfornnai) made by Mr..
Wilson to the foremcn and workers
In his Chicago plant ON April I'd last:
''E wish 1t were possible for me to find
the time to meet and confer with ynu
men oftcner. WE have now coE,e 10
the time when W. nxc through with
the stress Of war. appreciate the
strain under which ron men worked
and want now tn acknowledge my
gratitude to you because you made 1t
possible for THE Company to accom-
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three years.
1.-THE standing of this Company,
through your efforts, has beer eie-
waited far and beyond what 1t was
three years ago. and 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
to the consumer, square
to the producer. and square to the
employee.
at Is very important that we stand
on this platform or principle. or we
viii go backwards. and that we can-
not AFFORD to do ever. We want the
consumer OF our PRODUCTS to appre-
ctate always our statements in pub
lie print to the effect that we are en-
gagged in producing the best food pro-
ducts that can possibly be nanufac- |.
turod.
Our success depends upon you and
the others working under you, and
unless each man takes 1t upon HIM
self and makes 1t his own business TO
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