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THE MAN OF THE MONTH
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fortable desks, chairs and work tables; good "working conditions"; adequate lighting; Frigidaire-cooled drinking water; a hospital room with nurse on duty and a doctor who is available to all employees three mornings a week — these are usual in thousands of plants. But where else other than Hall Brothers do you find free cold milk or "cokes" served on hot summer afternoons? ... or a "Personal ' Service Department" with a cheerful young woman on duty, ready to ac cept payment for your personal gas, light and 'phone bills? ... or to get >'our auto license plates for you!
In 1942, when pay-as-you-go federal income taxes were first collected, J. C. realized that many employees were going to find it difficult to get "squared away" on last year's taxes while paying the new. Hall Brothers therefore paid to each employee of a \'ear's service or more a full week's salary as an extra bonus — with graduated payments down to !/4 of a week's pay for those who had begun working at Hall's in October, November or December of the previous year. With each check was this fatherly note: "If this check enables you to pay all of your tax at one time, we hope you will do so, since we believe in so doing you will help the government to reduce clerical expense and provide money now for war financing. If all or part of this extra bonus is not I needed to cover your taxes, we urge 1 you to invest it in Defense Bonds or t stamps and thereby aid our govern! ment in the war effort." I Such ideas, of thoughtfulness for j his employees, of helping others, come t to J. C. naturally and instinctively. "i And he got others from visits to plants
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such as the great Hershey chocolate | factory and the model city of Hershey, Pa. — -with its stadium, park, theatre, restaurant, hotel and orphan boys' school — all gifts to the community by the late Milton S. Hershey, founder of the business. And a visit to New ton, Iowa, where J. C. saw what the Maytag Company and the Maytag family do for its employees.
IN 1921, J. C. did a revolutionary ' thing when it was necessary to find a new location for the growing business. Four sites were under consideration— and he asked the employees to ^ vote for their favorite, based upon !' their own personal preference because i of convenience of transportation, dis ^ tance from home, suitability and beau y ty of the site, etc. ^ Fifty-four employees voting, out of ^ a total of 120 at that time, decided in favor of the site J. C. then leased ' in January, 1922— a location on a , wide avenue not more than a quarter || mile from Kansas City's Union Station (where nearly all transit lines in I the city pass), and only two blocks j from the magnificent site of the city's 'jj Liberty Memorial tower with its green-carpeted mall. Few industrial Iplants have a big city park practically ifj at their "front yard"!
Frequent contact by voice, even |^ with such a large organization as the , present body of Hallmark employees, \ is made possible throughout the plant i by use of a company-operated "broad ' casting station" — a public-address sys i tem with loud-speakers in every de { partment, and microphones located where they can be used conveniently by various company officials. At the beginning of each year, J. C. himself