Show EST 1ST MOTORS MADE BY SATISFIED WORKMEN 4 Reo eo Improves Circumstances of Workmen to Raise x It I Products' Products Quality r. r s t f i Hire litre high cla class s men If It you OU want I quality work Is IN the axiom laid down by J bY bj General Manager Richard H H. H Scott Scotti i 3 r for tor the tho conducting of oC Reo facto factory f gilts affairs I Wo We believe bellevo that the class clas of ot workmen work work- f I men we employ nan has almost t us itS much to to 00 0 with the quality quam of ot the flea Ileo prod- prod net art as ns the tho class of or materials that enter into into our automobiles 1 and motor trucks S says S 'S Mr ScottA Scott A largo large pe percentage of ot workmen n I employed d In factories nowadays are what might be termed floaters These men seem to have no definite purpose In life Uto but are tr obsessed with Ith the thc wan wan- They keep changing from place to place always sure nuro In Rood good ool time of oC Homo somo kind of ot a n. Job That's one way to get set experience of ot course but we find such Buch men do not make do- do or dependable workmen Neither do 10 wo caro care to employ men from other factories First h because URe wo we 1 do not want to deprive our competitors competitors competitors com com- of ot the men they have huc trained and nd second lI because wo find that thal men trained from the ground up to the Reo way of ot doing things are arc Infinitely superior Wo prefer to take tako young younS' fellows right off oft the tho farm Cann when wo can get ct them put them In nt at the tIlt bottom and show them that nothing nothing- save their own shortcomings stands between them and the top We Ye tako taka great pains to c educate such men to our ways way and n ns as they become proficient thc they are arc promoted Be- Be causo of oC tho the constant and antI steady growth of ot thi jko factories there thero ore are alwn always positions opening up for foremen fore foremen fore fore- men OIn superintendents and managers of ot departments MAKES HASTE SLOWLY If It wo we were to hire lure men from other factories whore where the they do du things differently differ- differ r we wc would not be able to obtain that uniformity of ot workmanship that exactness E or that quality In iti the tho product product product prod prod- for tor which the Reo Beo lino lire Is famous In the tho Reo plants we do du not a ask k so much for speed n ns nH for accuracy On that account we do Ito not try to speed etl up our men or 11 our machines to the hl highest notch V We strive c to obtain that route that tc of efficiency by br the surer roll route not having to retrace e our steps I 1 have o been a manufacturer all any my life lire and I have hate studied carefully all the different methods by which FO so 0 called experts achieve what they the call cuB I efficiency and UK us a matter of fact fact I have found there is more waste in speed than n In ht anything else l PAY BETTER WAGES I Io Wo o o pay lay Reo Itco workmen more than the wa wage Q demanded h by the floater type I of or laborer but w we find we get Jet the difference In and in t the h quality of the finished product Perhaps our OUI system our system our way of or holding on to good men and anti promoting ing log them whenever ol opportunity arises is Is the tiro reason on wh why a large Jarge percentage percenta e eat of at our oUS' men are arc married have ha families and are arc permanent citizens of or Lansing Wo v c were astonished ourselves CH to to find recently on making a canvass can that nearly 60 to I per cr cent of or the population tion of oC Lansing u a city of ot people pen peo pIe ph derive their sustenance directly or Indirectly from the tho Reo Rr-o pa pay roll Every l manufacturer knows the thc su superiority superiority su- su of oC marri married d men Inen over single ones one the ones the tho very t fact that thc they have h hornet homes with homo home interests and antI are arc settled makes them better hetter men mein mentally mentally men men- tally taUr as well wen as physically When a a man owns his own home homo heis he heis heis is anxious to hold on 1 to his Job and of or course he Is anxious for advance advance- m ment nt Wo We c find the wife Is a very Im Important Important important Im- Im factor In this mutter matter of oC ad all all- Invariably IrI she he encourages und and urges tho thu husband to get et along for tho the children childrens sake I alon-I Owing to the fact that Ileo workmen workmen work work- men hn have steady work the lie year ear around and kno know w their Jobs ure are secure work work-I most of rr them are aro able ablo to to own their own oven homes I WORRY NO INCENTIVE The Tho old ld theory that a man never ne did his best befit unless he was always ays in terror of his hia job Is 15 an nn exploded theory Such a man manIs Is is worried mentally and arid becomes physically unfit to do his best We have ha found foun that the very fact that Reo workmen do not worry orr about their Jobs jobs tho tho fact that thc they know they can lo lose c them only by flagrant violation of Important rules rulos or by liy downright shirking shirking makes makes tho thu men I bettor better tt r as aN a whole r- r Wo devote a n. great deal leal of at thought I COLORS COLORS ON DANGER NGER POSTS HAVE MEANING I I The color of oC f the s rims ti igns ns put up by hy the California State Stat Automobile as association ocia- ocia I tion mar marking nJ roads and dan danger et places places' might be lie considered a mere detail the yellow lIow background with blue lettering not conveying con any particular mt message This IH is not th the ca case w. w The combination of colors color used being that determined upon b by the Southern Pacific Railroad company as aM most visible day and night This conclusion heln being made mad after a II series of eXIl experiments extend extending ing over a allu lout period of It time and involving the expenditure of or much money The Thc automobilist who will take occasion occasion occa occa- sion to notice ti signs ns put jut up If h by th the nu- nu au automobile automobile association will find that these signs stand out lut more conspicuously ly than any other combination c of colors also to 10 the development tle o of young youn single men coon Largely cly for fOI their thell amusement amusement amuse amuse- m ment nl mu and n mental In improvement we wo have built hunt tho the bl big Reo Itco club where themen tho the thomen men ma may avail themselves of oC various Kinds hinds of health healthful CuI recreation recreation bowfin bowling n billiards cards card etc etc- whilo while In n the big big- auditorium wo we have o frequent organ re recitals recitals re- re band hand concerts concert lectures movies etc etc Wo Vo find our own movies are arc most valuable In teaching men In the arious various various vari vari- ous departments how we do things In other departments of the 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