The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-04-24

days with the workers
q 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 I did just now, and re-
called 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:
OOH, THIS IS A SMILE OR
| said to myself, l am going to
get up and 60 to my den, where
| have written most of these
letters to YOU, and jot down a
few thoughts about this re-
mark of the smiling workmen,
and these are the things I
joted 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 (and |
think this Is the average distance
between the corners of the mouth
when it is engaged in smiling) !,
they smile 900, 900 inches of smiles
in a day, or nearly 10 miles of
smiles.
Then the thought occurred to me
that you and l 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 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 1t comes to us accom-
panied by the smiles Of the men
and women who prepared 1t for US?
Don't forget that a smile Is a token
of contentment, and confidence,
and faith, and integrity-four ele-
ments that you and l welcome in
the production Of the foods we eat.
Now, let me tell you why it is that
everything that is done by the
workers In the Wilson & Co. Or
ganization is prompted by a desire
to put their heart, their soul and
their intelligence into their work.
The best illustration / can give you
is to print here some excerpts from
a recent talk (informal) made by
Mr.. Wilson to the foremen and
workers in his Chicago plant on
April I'd last:
II 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
the strain under which
you men worked and want now to
acknowledge my gratitude to you
because you made 1t possible for
this Company to accomplish
1t has during the past three years.
THE standing Of this Cmpany,
through your efforts, has been cle-
waited far and beyond what II 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 a fair and
plan-square to the con-
sumner, square to. the producer, and
to the employee.
st Is very important that we stand
on this platform Or principle, or we
go backward, and that we can
not afford to do ever. We want the
consumer of our products to appre-
always our statements in pub.
lie print, to the effect that we are
engaged in producing the best food
products that can possibly be man
ufactured.
''Our success depends upon o
and the Others working under YOU.
and unless each man takes it upon
himself and makes 1t his own bust.
to support the principles upon
which we stand we cannot succeed,
THE future Of this Company lie.
ponds upon our mutual integrity
and u mutual loyalty. We must
watch everything to see that all we
is carefully done, and we must
fairly and squarely the peo-
pie we come in contact with in orr
own organization, as well as with
the people we come In contact with
OF u organization.