Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-25

days with the workers in
the Wilson & Co. plant,
Chicago, that | find myself
thinking about them very
otten-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 | 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 let
tcrs to YOU, and jot down Jew
thoughts about this remark OF
the smiling Workmen. and these
are the things jotted down:
If 25,000 workers smile ONLY
once an hour eight hours a dav..
they smile 100000 smiles in a
working day. If each smile aver
ages three inches (and | think
TINS is the average distance between
the corners of the mouth when it is
engaged in smiling), they smile GOO.-
ooV inches of smiles in day, or
nearly 10 miles of smiles.
Then the thought occurred to me
lhat you and | ought to feel mighty
good to know that Wilson * Co.
food products, which come to our
table, are better products because
they are prepared for us under thd
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 accompa-
MED by the smiles of the men and
women who prepared it for us?
Don't forget that smile is q token
of contentment, and confidence, and
faith, and integrity-four elements
that you and l welcome in the pro-
duct!on 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 & Co. organization
is prompted by a desire to put their
heart, their soul and their intelli-
gence into their work.
The best illustration l can give
you is to print here some excerpts
from n recent talk .Onformal) made
by Mr.. 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 oftencr. We have
now come to the time when we are
through with the stress of war. 1
appreciate the strain under which
acknowledge my gratitude to you
because you made it possible for
this Company to accomplish what
it has during the past three years.
"Thc standing of this Company,
through your efforts, has been Gle
waited far and beyond what it was
three years ago, and / know that
~
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 OH u fair and
square plan-Square to the con-
sumner, square to the producer and
square to the cmploye.
'.It is very important that we stand
OIL this platform or principle, or we
will go backwards, and that we can
not afford TO do ever. We want the
of our products to apprc-
ciate always our statements in pub
lie print to the effect that we arc
engaged In producing the best food
products that can possibly be man.
ufactured.
"Our success depends upon you
and the others working under you,
and unless each man takes il upon
himself and makes ii his own busi-
ness to support the principles upon
which we stand we cannot succeed.
''Thc future of this Company de-
DendS upon our mutual integrity
and our mutual loyalty. We must
watch everything to see that all we
do is carefully done, and we must
treat fairly and squarcly the pco-
pie we come in contact with I'm our
own organization, rs well as with
the people we come In contact with
outside of our organization.