Arizona republican., 1917-11-04

tected.
 There is also the medical department where nine physicians and 26 assist ants and other attendants to the mum Der of 33, give treatment to about l,ooo cases, surgical and medical, daily in the factory hospital and the five first ald stations. The factory hospital is con- sidered one of the most perfectly equipped hospitals in the country.
 It was on January 12, 1914, that the Ford Motor company put its plan of profit sharing and it's new method oi dealing with it's men into operation. A few days before it had made the an nouncement which had startled the world with fits magnitude and origin ality The scheme was as simple as It was sensational. Ten million dollars was to he set aside for the first year, and the minimum income, wages and profits, was to be five dollars day.
 Three years of successful operation of the plan have brought attention anew to Ford methods. The many dire prophecies and criticisms have fallen before the proof of practical experience What men criticised was not what the Ford Motor company was doing, but what critics thought it was doing. Thousands of manufacturers and busi-
  world to see for themselves, and have gone home to do something more for their own men.
 The Ford profit-sharing grew out of the discovery that most men could not live properly on the wages they were receiving. Other men have made the same discovery, but said they couldn't help it. The Ford Motor company made the discovery and tried to help it: first, by giving to men a share Of profits; second by teaching them to use these profits to build homes and to be- come self reliant and Independent. This was the firm purpose and it has been the great result of the Ford plan-to change life from barren struggle for existence to life of progress and hap piness. The best proof of this purpose is that the men receiving the smallest wages are given the largest share of the profits. Their labor is just as neces saly as the higher paid labor and usu- ally more difficult and disasreeable, and the welfare of industry as well as the welfare of the individual and of the state is served in this way.
 This Ford profit sharing sprang from a genuine concern for men. It is MT. Ford's idea that what men need most IS an opportunity to provide for their present and future needs through work,
 The second part of the Ford idea is that an employer has not performed his whole duty to his men simply in putting money into their hands. Money, ac- cordng to Mir. Ford must be followed by the willing gift of self in a personal interest and concern in the lives of men.
 The aim of the Ford plan is to pat
 
 hands to enable them to provide for themselves whatever things are nec- essary to their happiness and progress and when necessary, to teach them how 70 do ito build the man of and through himself.
 Just a word about methods and re- suits.
 Contrary to usual expectations, the absence of rules and arbitrary require ments is noticeable The one binding rule is that every man shall receive in dividual consideration and he judged by his merits. There is no single thing that the Ford man must have or must do to get profits. The advisors make careful examinations report the facts and make recommendations. com mittee passes on the report for the pur- pose of approving or disapproving, con ferring with the man personally il every case of doubt or disapproval.
 The only rules governing profit sharing are these standards for quail fication. The following become eligi- ole for q share in the profits after si1 | months in the employ of the company |. "1. Every employe 21 years of age who leads a clean and constructive life and is of proven thrifty habits. A mar ried man must be living with and talk ing good care. of his family.
 "2. Any empioye under 21 years o1 age who lives with and is the sole sur .viving support of a mother, or next o kin, and leads clean and constructive | life"
 When the profit sharing was started in 1914, two hundred men were taker 1 from the factory and set to work, tt | determine what men met the qualifi cations and could be expected to mal' | good use of the profits They were no sociologists. They were Ford men | When their work was completed it Wa: 1 found that about seventy out of ever, | hundred had been approved. Thes' | began to receive the profits at once.
 Then began the real work of educat | ing the others so that they, too, coult 1 qualify for their share of profits. Th' aim of Mir Ford has been from the frs | to make every man in the factor, | qualify for profits. At first, only 70 pc 1 cent qualified. Now, after three years 1 9912 per cent of every hundred mel eligible are receiving profits. This i what advisors are for
 1 The share of profits given to em- ployes is distinct from the wages. It i, paid regularly with the wages in tht 1 pimontnly envelope. But the payment
 is at all times optional with the com pany. The latest figures show that aI average of only one in two hundred i. deliberately disqualified for falling short of the standards, and of thu number, nearly all correct the faults and begin receiving profits again be- fore they reach the limit of six month: which men are allowed to remain q, non profit -sharers. Ali profits with 1 held from men go into a charity fun, and are distributed by a committee 1 The company does not profit by with 1 holding profits from it's men. Do not wait till toniorrow-phon, tl4 A ryst..