Arizona republican., 1918-12-25


 The Reuben Auto company is pro shares its profits with it's employees. MT. Reuben takes this view:
 If my business makes money. my employees have helped me make it. It is in large part due to them that the firm clears a profit. Consequently, why should they not share in the prof its made by their work?
 MT. Reuben's plan of profit sharing with those who work for him is simply and briefly this:
 When the profits for the firm for the year are counted up, MT. Reuben first takes out an amount which rep resents a fair rate of interest on the money which he has invested in the company. This amount, generally eight per cent of the total capital in- vested, represents his sole profits for the year.
 The remainder of the years profits are then divided into two parts. The first half of this amount is placed into a sinking fund.- fund which is re- served for the use of the firm. Un- usual demands. which can be not be foreseen in figuring the expenses of the establishment, are paid from this fund. The fund takes care of anything which may arise, such as making good to the manufacturer the price of a car which has been only partly paid for by the buyer, unexpected losses to the company, and the like.
 The other half of the years profits, after Mir. Reuben has taken out his portion and the remainder is divided, goes entirely to the employees of the firm. This amount, it can be readily seen, is as a rule total of 40 per cent of the profits for the year.
 Every member of the Reuben estab- lishment shares in the profits. cer- tain part of the amount is set aside for the service department, and is di- vided equally by the members of this branch of the firm. Another portion is set aside for Mrs. Ashley. The re- mainder goes to the salesmen; the pro- ducers, as Mir Reuben calls them.
 Each salesman gets his share in the profits that go to his department But 10 make the distribution more just, this part is divided not equally, but in the proportion to the work done by each salesman. The man that sells SO cars in the year consequently gets less than the man that sells 90. But they all get their fair share.
 By this means of dividing the profits among his salesmen, MT. Reuben has
 
 their work. He has found the interest provided by the profit sharing plan an invaluable adjunct to his success.
 With every employe of the Reuben Auto company a sharer in it's success and consequently in its possible fail ures-for there have been none of the latter-it si little wonder that each member of the firm has keen and personal interest in it's welfare MT Reuben ascribes in large part his sue cess to his kind and just treatment oi his employees.
 But it is not only because they are sharers in the profits that Mir. Reu- hen's employees take interest in his success. His treatment of them. al- ways courteous and considerate o their welfare and themselves, imme- diately draws strong bonds between them. Whether on or off duty, any one of them is ready to sacrifice his own desires if by so doing he can ait the best interests of the Reuben com. panv or Mir. Reuben himself
 Although the magnificent organiza. ton MT. Reuben has established in hi. firm has proved one of the greates factors in his success, the company. progress may also be traced most di rectly to its first and only bushes. policies, that of honesty and qualit! in business.
 January 30, 1916, a month after tn, founding the Reuben Auto company Mr. Reuben made the following an nouncement in The Republican:
 Confidence being the handmaidei of successful business building, WI start by taking you into our conf dence We tell you what we hope t, accomplish. how we believe we can ac complish it and the factors in its ac complishment." And.
 The policies that will guide thi firm are built on three words-Hon estv in Business. We will suffer n variation from this rule bending al our efforts toward establishing cleane morals in business.
 We wish to establish in the mind or the public respect for ourselves, fo he products we offer. and the house ,-e represent To achieve this end W ulI strive to secure your confidence having secured it we shall treasure ss our most valuable asset. In secur fnp your confidence our4methods sha he above reproach, believing that i husiress there is much more than sal, nrice. exchange, payment. For ther is the sacred faith of man in man. And.
 When to klsSeIS quallty We ad honesty in business; courtesy an service we believe we are startin right.
 Tn the sphere of business no oppor tunity of unrighteous gain can allur us. Neither shall we SOW any seed W would blush to reap.
 That announcement has indee proved the foundation of the Reube Auto company. The sentiments es