Clean careful workers--an editorial

Here and there is to be found a firm of plumbers, painters, decorators, wall paperers, which makes a serious effort to lighten the burden which its invasion of a private dwelling necessarily entails. We hear of a plumber, for example, who picks and pays men whom he can trust to make honest use of their time and have a due regard to the cleanliness and comfort of the houses in which they work. This plumber is fairly overrun with business. Decorators have arisen in the past two or three years who strive to push their work through with as little delay as possible and to employ workers who are respectfully mindful of the wishes of the householder. There are painters who succeed in retaining men whose presence in and about a house is not an occasion of disgust and fear.
One can hardly expect the man who paints one's house to be a university graduate, or the journeyman plumber to wear the graces of a Chesterfield, but we are beginning to witness a demonstration of the power and money values of cleanliness and deceny in the workers