The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-05
DEAR FOLKS

" FRY early in my daily v trips through the Wilson
 & Company plant, Chicago, l
 made 1t a point to find out If the women workers were contented.
 I know by experience that If
 women look cheerful and act
 happily it is a sure sign that all
 is well-that it is a very good reflector of the character and heart of a business.
 I must say I was greatly inn
 pressed, and very much pleased
 as l visited departments in the Wilson & Company plant-par-
 ticularly those departments where women stand alongside
 of the men laborers and do their
 work skillfully and cheerfully.
 These good women themselves
 told me that they like their
 work very much, and they said lit so earnestly and frankly that
 there was no mistaking the
 sincerity of their words.
 I have visited many business insti-
 tutions in my lifetime where many
 women are employed. l am glad to
 say that in great many instances
 these business institutions really de-
 sire to make their women workers happy and comfortable, which is
 greatly to the credit of the men
 who conduct them.
 But practically in every institution I visited there seemed to be some thing lacking-something that re- strained the happy looks vand the laughter I saw and heard in the ranks of the women workers in the Wilson & Company plant. The good will, enthusiasm and the fine spirit they show in their work so unusual in my experience-set me to asking questions. I felt there was some extraordinary condition existing that produced such wave of con- tentment. 9, 4 And soon found out.
 First, I learned that MT. Wilson himself enjoys a splendid reputation among the women workers. They have unbounded faith in him as a man. They appreciate his kindness, sympathy and consideration.
 But Mir Wilson himself cannot do everything. He has to delegate power to others, but, in choosing those. to him, he makes sure to find men and women of character and heart and ability and engaging per- sonality. He found a jewel in a little Bohe- milan young woman-25 years old on whom he placed the responsibility of employing and directing the workers in the plant.
 This young woman, as 1 soon dis covered, is the key that opens the doors to the happy working condi- i tions that prevail. She has won- derful personality; she keeps in daily touch with her army of women workers-nore than HOO of them. She studies their comforts. She loves them and shows that she loves them. They love her and they show that they love her.
 How many women readers of this letter would like to undertake the task of leading over HOO women \ workers and keeping them happy? It is very big undertaking; but this title woman (she's not much bigger than pint of cider) loves the work SO much that she gets the greatest A joy of her life in the doing of it. She does her work because she loves V 70 help others. She feels that she $ in a position where, by kind acts, she can help to brighten the lives of l host of women-workers; that she ,an help to teach them our Ameri- .an customs and our language; that :he can develop in them the love of < he beautiful in their home lives; that } she can make them as proud to live E n America and to become American < citizens as she herself is proud to live a lere and to be a loyal true-blue I American citizen. The devotion of the workers to ka this young Bohemian woman is the Y. most beautiful thing I've seen in my x fife N Her smile and kindly words and deeds K
 just radiate happiness. A There is no finer work in all the world l1
 70 do IH Isn't it great. that in this Chicago or fE over HOO women-workcrs nave found happiness and comfort=- N nave had lots of sunshine let into their If ives--have been led to higher thoughts Tx md ambitions? A And all because THE MAN WHO leads la he institution they work for wants tl o see them get out of life all thH oy possible and. for that reason, chose IS their friend and adviser one of the RI most talented young women in the .ountry-a woman full of heart sym ,athies who just revels in the joy-of ter work.