The sun., 1919-04-23
7 SPENT~so many happy
days with the workers in

SPENI~So many happy
days with the workers in
- the Wilson & Co. plant,
Chicago, that 1 find myself
thinking about them very
often-even to the point of
waking up at 3 o'clock in
the morning, as l did just
now, and recalled 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:
oh, THIS IS A SMILE OR
GANIZATION."
I said to myself, I am going to
get up and go to my den, where
l have written most of these
letters to you, and jot down a
few thoughts about this remark
of the smiling workmen, and
these are the things I jotted
down:
If $4,000 workers smile only
once an hour eight hours day,
they smile 100000 smiles in a
working day. If each smile
averages three inches (and /
think this is the average distance be-
tween the corners of the mouth
when it is engaged in smiling), they
smile 100000 inches of smiles in a
day, or nearly 10 miles of smiles.
Then the thought occurred to me
that you and I 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 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 contentNent, and confidence, and
faith, and integrity-four elements
that you and l welc ONE in the pro-
duction 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. organiza-
ton is prompted by a desire to put
their heart. their soul. and their in
telligence into their work.
The best illustration l can give you
is to print here some excerpts from
a recent talk Gnformal) made by
Mr.. Wilson to the foremen and
workers in his Chicago plant on
April I'D last:
IL 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. I
appreciate the strain under which
you men worked and want now to
acknowledge my gratitude to you
because YOU made it possible for
this Company to accomplish what
it has during the past three years.
THE standing of this Company,
through your efforts, has been sle-
waited far and beyond what it was
three years ago, and l 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
square plAn-squAre to the con-
sumner, square to the producer, and
square to the employee.
at is very important that we stand
on this platform or principle, or we
will 60 backwards and that we can.
not afford to do ever. We want the
consumer of our products to appre.
ciate always our statements in pub.
lie print to the effect that we are
engaged in producing the best food
products that can possibly be manu-
featured.
Our success depends upon you
and the others working under you,
and unless each man takes it upon
himself and makes il his own bust
ness to support the principles upon
which we stand we cannot succeed.
THE future of this Company de-
peuds 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 squarely the PEG.
pie we come in contact with in our
own organization, as well as with
the people we come in contact with
| nuiaids of our oraanizAiion