The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-04-14
DEAR FOLKS

deep that you have succeeded
don't you like it very, VERY
much when somebody comes
along that you know is an ex-
pert and he tells you that your
work is splendid and he congrat-
yates you?
Is it not just human for all of
us to like to hear praise of our
work?
Well, I saw a very happy
group Of workers assembled in
the CANNED GOODS DE-
PARTMENT Of the Wilson &
Go. plant, Chicago, on Friday,
March 18th.
cali your attention to the fact that
Friday with its six letters carries with
it goo duck so far as the Wilson and Co.
organization is concerned. It fits the
cycle Of Six, which IL such dominant
factor in the business and brings so much
happiness and successes.
In the group Of workers was
Thomas E. Wilson, President of
Wilson & Co., who is as intense
and as enthusiastic as any of the
25, 900 workers in his organiza-
ton. There were also in the
group three vice-presidents of
the company. I mention this to
prove what I have been telling
you, that the Wilson & 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 a basis of equality
in the matter of recognition and
for service well render
ed.
Now I will tell you why they
were SO happy:
ALFRED w. MecANN, THE "A.
NOUS PURE FOOD EXPERT, HAD
TESTING THE WILSON 4 CO. GER
JUST FINISHED ToASTING AND
TITLED BRANDS OF CANNED
AEATs. VEGETABLES AND FRUITS,
AND THEN SAID:
--"l TAKE OFF MY HAT TO THESE II
PURE FOOD PRODUCTS. YOU HAVE
0RnnlICEn VIEW FINE AM II
VERY WONDERFUL LINE, AND
CONGRATULATE YoU."
wouldn't it make you happy il YOU ID
like the Wilson &c Co. workers. had
been working hard to perfect food II
products and felt sure you had sue II
ceeded. to have Mr.. McCann-a man
who knows what pure food is-tell you
that you had achieved wonderful re-
suit?
You bet it would.
Well. the Wilson & Co. workers are
the same kind of human beings rs you
are-so they were made very happy
when Mr.. Mccain, who had selected at
random from the immense stock Of
canned goods-cans of Corn. Peas.
Beans. Asparagus. Meats. Preserves.
etc.1and had them opened up and
then tasted and tested them-gave
them his splendid endorsement.
I 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 l know also that II he had not II
thought they were O. x. in all partic-
ulars. the tender IA million dollars II
cash on the spot would not have made II
him endorse them.
Mr.. Mccain could have been rcih II
by now had he wished to barter mis- ii
he has kept himself clean
and straight-AND POOR, as most
men do who are intent and intense in II
doing things to help and protect HUI
manity.
did not know that Mr.. Mccain was
in Chicago until he walked into the
Wilson e Co. restaurant, which. by
the way, is a big. democratic affair
where officials and workers dine to- II
gether in the same way that members
Of family meet at their own dining
room tables.
He told me he had come to Chicago
to investigate the Wilson e Co. busi-
ness because his interest had been
by reading these letters that I III
am writing to you. At the end of the
day he was good enough to say that he
found everything exactly q 81 have de-
scribed it to you-that Is to say, that (,
there is Heart, Honor and the Square
Deal all throughout the Wilson & Co.
Mr.. Mccain and I once spoke from
the same platform at Sycamore Beach. III
Mass. where intense people gather and ii
discuss the big problems Of the day. I'll
will never forget the great ovation Mr.. III
Mccain received on that occasion. He
is a very dramatic and very intense II
speaker. He had carefully urenared a i