26 HOME AND FLOWERS 



The class of workmen now here are clean, 

 temperate and industrious. In fact we will 

 not keep any other in our employ. Work is 

 many times wearisome and monotonous, and 

 the more brightness and beauty that is 

 thrown around the worker the better spirit 

 he can put into his work." 



❖ ❖ si< 



The refining influences exerted by the 

 "tasteful surroundings which have char- 

 acterized the works of the Dayton (Ohio) 

 Last Works, have always made it possible," 

 says President John McGregor, 



"for us to get the best men as our workers. 

 We have made it quite a study to know what 

 opinion our workmen had of the" efforts we 

 were making to have our shop attractive, 

 and find that they have a very high opinion 

 of it, and that they are willing to join us in 

 any effort to take care of our place and pre- 

 vent anyone from abusing his privileges." 



❖ * Hs 



The managers of the Eagle and Phenix 



Mills, manufacturers of cotton and woolen 



goods, at Columbus, Georgia, have always 



believed in attractive homes for employees. 



They have established and sustain a work- 



ingman's club. Mr. G. Gunby Jordan, 



president of the company, says: 



"Clean, attractive and beautiful sur- 

 roundings influence myself and all employes 

 beneficially, because anything which tends 

 to contentment, peace of mind, and creates 

 a love for the beautiful, has a salutary effect 

 on mankind, and this effect is as valuable 

 in business as in home life. Nothing can be 

 more potent to create the above than es- 

 thetic surroundings." 



Mr. Jordan is enthusiastic over the 



"vista opened up by Home and Flowers/' 



and he says : 



"It is a pleasant sign of the times that, in 

 our busy American life, more thought is 

 being given to make home attractive and 

 beautiful. A home is the exponent of hap- 

 piness. A city of homes made beautiful is 

 the city ideal. Create a love for the home 

 beautiful, wreathe it with flowers of hap- 

 piness, then contentment and the highest 

 forms of patriotism are developed." 



Secretary E. M. Downie, of the Key- 

 stone Driller Company, manufacturers of 

 rock drilling machinery, at Beaver Falls, 

 Pennsylvania, believes in the improvement 

 idea. He says: 



"If you could induce new factories to pro- 

 vide for a garden or small park in connec- 

 tion with their plant, with a summer pavil- 

 ion where workmen could eat their noon 

 lunch and rest, it would be a fine thing for 

 humanity." 



The efforts of Mr. J. Horace McFarland,. 

 of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in the direc- 

 tion of general town improvement are well 

 known. From his artistic "Mount Pleas- 

 ant Printery" he writes : 



"I believe there is a very great business 

 value in having esthetic surroundings to a 

 business plant. This value is inward and 

 outward both, and, if properly backed up, 

 means better and more business. . . . 

 The Mount Pleasant Press is rather unique 

 for a print shop, in being surrounded by 

 trees on its own lawn, with an open-air 

 space on all sides. I have found that the 

 maintenance of these pleasing conditions ia 

 of decided commercial value. ... I feel 

 that work conditions will some day come to 

 be measured by the character of their sur- 

 roundings with relation to the efficiency of 

 the work." 



The cashier of the Bank of Anderson 

 (South Carolina) thinks that, while there 

 may be no "absolutely direct benefit from 

 attractive surroundings, . . . offices 

 and shops with attractive surroundings 

 do draw business.^' Mr. Charles E. Per- 

 vear, of the American Hair Cloth Com- 

 pany, at Pawtucket, Ehode Island, believes 

 that "nothing could possibly improve a 

 community more" than attractive factories 

 and shops. The grounds of the Goodell 

 Company, manufacturers of cutlery, at 

 Antrim, New Hampshire, are kept in or- 

 ler by a landscape gardener, who devotes 

 \\\ his time to them. "We are convinced," 

 sprites Mr. S. A. Southard, the advertising 

 nanager, "that its influence is beneficial 



to town and factories." 



❖ ❖ ❖ 



General Manager E. G. Beatty, of the 

 Inland Steel Company, Chicago, Illinois, 

 is "entirely sure that there is always more 

 gain in having attractive surroundings 

 than would be lost by the cost of repairing 

 and maintaining proper conditions." 

 President William L. Davis, of the Acmt 

 White Lead and Color Works, at Detroit, 

 Michigan, "can intelligently state, with 

 authority based on experience, that there 

 is a business value in agreeable and pleas- 

 ant surroundings in the case of a business 

 plant." The California Barrel Company, 

 at San Francisco, California, says, "most 

 deeidedl}^, yes," to our questions. Mr. 

 William M, Pratt, treasurer of the Good- 



