Evening journal., 1919-04-25
DEAR FOLKS

T Spent so many happy days
with the workers in the Viii
son & Co. plant, Chicago,
that ! 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 worker said
TO me one day after I had COM
mented on the habit of the work
ers 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 I
have written most of these letters
to you, and jot down 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 work
ing day. If each smile aver
ages three inches (and think
this Is the average distance between
the corners of the mouth when 1t is
engaged in smiling. they smile, 6OO.-
900 inches OF smiles in a day, or nearly
10 miles Of smiles.
Then the thought occurred to me that
you and / ought TO feel mighty good to
know that Wilson & Co. food products,
which come to our table, are better
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 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 a token Of
and confidence, and faith,
md integrity-four elements that you
md welcome in the production OF the
'oods we eat.
Vow let me tell you why it is that
'verything that is done by the workers
n the Wilson Il Co. organization is
prompted by a desire to put their heart 4
heir soul. and their intelligence into ]
heir work.
The best illustration | can give Won Is /
o print here some excerpts from a re- /
ent TAX (informal) made by Mr.. VIII
on to the foremen and workers in his
,hicago plant on April 2d last:
I wish IL were possible for me 10 find
he time 10 meft and confer with Won
nen oftener. We have now come TO
he time when we are through with the
tress of war. l appreciate the strain
lnder which you men worked and want
low TO acknowledge my gratitude 10
.ou because you made Il possible for
his' Company TO accomplish what il
las during the past three years.
The standing OF this Company.
Trough your efforts, has been elevated
ar and beyond what il was three years
90, and ! know that what we have ac-
could not have been accom-
lished except through you, your CO.
peration and those of our workers
Tho worked under your direction.
You know that we are trying 10 run !
MS business on fair and square plan ,
square 20 the consumer, square TO ,
ie producer, and square 10 the en-
lOyee. ,
It is very important that we stand e
a this platform or principle, or we r
i'll 90 backwards and that we cannot :
ford TO do ever. We want the con- q
inner OF our products TO appreciate !
ways our statements in public print :
the effect that we are engaged in ;,
the best food products that =
m possibly be manufactured.
bur success depends upon you and !,
e others working under you, and un- -
IS each man takes II upon himself n
ID makes il his own business 20 sup \,
'rt the principles upon which we n
and we cannot succeed. -
The future Of this Company depends -
ION our mutual integrity and our mu- ~ -
al loyalty. We must watch every =
ing TO see that all we do is carefully !,
ne, and we must treat fairly and =.
uarely the people we come in contact .
th in our own organization, as well
with the people we come in contact
th outside Of our organization.