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I don't think people realize the cleaning-up movement that began in the factories between 1900 and 1910 - just to keep clean and improve the sanitary conditions - which came from the fact that a better kind of people had moved in to run the factories. As soon as you start cleaning up then you do a lot of things that you see as you go along - seeing fire hazards or accident hazards. I once said, and I don't know whether it's true and should think it out before I announce it as a principle, that the second generation of factory owners had begun to appear on the scene. Boys whose fathers had started the factories and operated them had grown up, gone to school, gone to college, gotten an education, heard about economics, sociology, philosophy, as well as some scientific management subjects. When they came back to conduct the factory, they were shocked at this dirt, filth and mass. They were surprised that it was such a messy place. Yet, this was where father had made his money. They were supposed to come into the firm and their interest in the place was often just to get it cleaned up. They would say, “Why can't we clean it up, Pa, to make it look better?” The idea that factories didn't have to be dumps was just beginning to dawn.

You also must not overlook the great influence that there was in the State of New York quite early in a compulsory