Arizona republican., 1919-11-16
ANSWER TO QUESTION OFTEN ASKED CAN BE
 FOUND HERE IN CITY

Out in the world thousands of miles from Phoenix, from New York to Sid ney, from Hong Kong to London. yes even from pole to pole the question is often asked Why do it's employees stand by the Standard Oil company with a grim determination which even armies cannot instill in their mem" Thousands of times even millions Of times that question is asked. Query the employe he shrugs his shoulders, smiles and admits that they do it, but can give no definite answer
 If he does that he proves that he is not observing. If an employe of that company in Phoenix cannot answer the question. there is every reason to be- lleve that he Is working with his eyes shut, for the answer is in this city, in concrete form and perfectly plain to be seen.
 It is not that the pay is better than in any other line of endeavor It is not that there are any great special privileges. It is not that there is a great honor attached, and it is not be- cause they are working for a principle I iit NllOlC elltSM CT lies III the enNITOn- ment which surrounds every employe and the treatment which is constantly extended him, to make him know he is something more than a piece of ma- chinery. He is a human being en- ployed by great company o do one hundred per cent of the labor allotted him, and 1t is that companys constant aim and ambition to surround him with tools and environment which will enable him to acquire an efficiency which returns the company many times the value invested
 The Phoenix plant of the Standard Oil will answer any question ever | asked. A visit to the plant is like awak- ening from a long series of hay con captions of the workings of that com pany. It is a revelation. and at the same time a perfect barometer of the growth of Arizona. As the state has grown and expanded so has the insti- | tuition maintained in Arizona in- creased.
 Without 6 doubt the local plant of the company is the most complete in- dustrial organization in the southwest | In the office alone are employed Sf people. In long low room, amply ventilated, well lighted and sanitary and clean to the last degree that num- Der of people every day handle the
 immense business details contracted in Arizona and northern Mexico. fol ! this is the home office for that dis | trict.
 Twenty four sub stations are con- i trolled from the Phoenix office eacf one employing from three to twelve people. One hundred and fifty people
 work every day at the home office here under the best conditions it i: possible to arrange.
 Six years ago the plant of tho Standard Oil company in Phoenix could hardly be found. If an airplan' had flown over the city to find the fin stitution, it would have undoubtedly been impossible. Today the same air plane could find it in a few seconds for it looms up on the sky line of tn, western part of the city as the larges industrial unit in that section.
 Today there is a plant out ther,
 beside the Santa Fe track whicl houses one of the completest machin, shops in the southwest, a change room and shower baths for employees. cafeteria where lunch is served,
 steam heating system which warm
 every building on the five acre tract a cooling system for the summer. warehouse as large as any in the state
 great tanks containing several month supply of oil and gas for this vicinity pumping system which is the acm
 of perfection and system, varnisl
 room, equipped as none other in thi
 district is, a wood working shop wher
 auto bodies are made for any make o
 machine, a blacksmith shop where an
 kind of iron work can be accomplished
 a painting shop where every machin
 belonging to the company in the stat
 is kept looking as new as it did whe
 it came out of the factory, a tenni
 court, but last but not least by an.
 means the big office building whicl
 houses a postofffce. telegraph office and a great system of accountant
 who handle an enormous amount o business.
 At the head of this institution V. A. Van Valer, district sales man
 ager, who has been in charge of tn plants destinies since May. MT. Va Valer served in the army both in tn United States and France as executiv officer in charge of airplane lubrica tion and fuels. He was at the hea of this branch of the air service. The day. of the horse-drawn vehicl is doomed according to Mir. Van Vale The few remaining horses owned b the company in this state will be re tired as soon as trucks can be as sembled here to take their place.