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OFFICERS' BERTHS
OPEN TORESERYES
Grade of Second Lieutenant
Open to "young Men With
v out Military Experience.'
GOOD CHANCE FOR YOUTH
1 Washington, March 17. The gride
of cond lieutenant in the Officer!
Reserve corps of the army has been
thrown open by Secretary Baker to
men without any military experience
whatever, provided they are physi
cally and mentally adapted to mili
tary life. An urgent plea has been
sent out to men between 21 and 32
yean all over the country to send
in applications for commissions with
assurances that the army will .sup
ply, after enrollment, the military
training necessary to fit them for
Under the national defense act, the
torps should be able to furnish offi
cers for a force of 1,000,000 volunteers
in war time and also serve as a reser
voir from which additional officers
for the regular army could be drawn
U need. Less than 1,000 men have
h-en given reserve commissions in
'!'. line, despite the fact that the law
hat been in operation for more than
eigi'it months. Applications are com
inr in ilowlv and army officers are
using every means in their power to
attract young men to this service as
a pat.-iotic duty.
Then appears to be no lack of men
desiring to serve in the staff corps
reserve, inch as the engineer corps,
the quartermasters' division and the
medical service. Enough commis
sion in these corps have been is
sued to provide the special arms for
Innk for service at the front in
time of war. Army officers believe
the failure to fill up this reserve is
due only to lack of information as to
the requirements, for it is the fight
ing lines that are attractive to young
men in war time.
Good Job Eventually.
Eventually the reserve officers
training-corps, composed of units at
universities, schools and colleges, will
provide more than 6,000 men a year,
it is estimated,' for- reserve commis
sions. The first fruits of M scheme
for educating reserve officers, how
ever, will not come until. 1918 and
then not more than 3,000-junior offi
cer can be expected to be turned into
the reserve. In all probability many
of these will be required for regular
army commissions, reducing the re
serve strength by that much.
The law erescribes that no man
shall be commissioned in the reserve
without having passed examination.
The War department has realized that
lack of previous military experience of
any kind is probably preventing young
men past their college oays irom
making application. For that reason
every .effort has been made to make
it known throughout the country that
military experience is not required.
Men will be commissioned who have
never worn a-uniform or faced a drill
sergeanfc The army will gladly un
dertaka to-furnish -those , who are
otherwise suitable with the necessary
professional tHinlng after "they have
entered the service. '
T!)is applies, however, only to the
grade of second lieutenant. First lieu
tenants, captains and majors must
show previous military experience to
earn their commissions. The heavy
responsibilities for the care of troops
that goes with such grades necessi
tates this restriction.
Helped to Advance.
Applicants for. second, lieutenants'
commissions are being assured that
every onoortiinitv will be given them
after enrollment in that grade to ad
vance themselves to higher rank.
The department has appealed to
young men, who care to offer their
services to apply without delay to the
commander of the military depart
ment in which they live for necessary
niieri and -information. Letters
should be addressed to the Command'
ing General, Eastern Department,
Governors Island. N. Y.: Central De
partment, Chicago, 111.; Southern De
partment, San Antonio, Tex., or West
ern Department.' Ssn Francisco, Cal.
They will receive prompt attention
and arrangements for the examination
of an applicant will be made to suit
Ins convenience as nearly as possible.
To those who receive commissions,
the summer training camps of the
army will be open and they will re
ceive travel allowances and pay that
will more than offest any expense to
which they may be put. Only a sim
ple field uniform is required fof re
serve officers, involving little expense,
and the government assumes this cost
also, eventually,- ,
v In war time reserve officers would
he required to report for duty either
in person or by letter, as be may di
rect, to the commanding general of
the department in which they reside.
They will be assigned to regular or
volunteer regiments, as the occasion
warrants, and when called out. will
receive the. full pay and allowances of
their grade in the regular service.
AMERICA REJECTS
CARRANZA "APPEAL
United States Tells Him It
Cannot Agree to Proposal
for Supplies Embargo.
NOTE FRIENDLY IK TONE
Washington, March 17. The
United States sent to General Car
ranza today, formal notification that
it cannot participate in his proposed
Pan-American concert to cut Off mu
nition and food shipments to the Eu
ropean belligerents, with a view to
forcing peace.
The reolv is understood to point out
that such a move would have no jus
tification in international law. It is
going forward through Ambassador
Fletcher at Mexico City and will not
be made public until delivered.
Officials emphasized tonight that al
though the note refuses flatly to co
operate in General Carranza's plan,
it is -friendly in tone and avoids any
statement which might give offense
to the de facto government. From
this it is inferred that the communi
cation doe not reflect the suspicion
of German influences behind the pro
posal, which has been general among
officials here and was accentuated by
revelation of the effort to align
Mexico with "Germany against, the
United States.
In many quarter here the belief
prevails that a softening of General
Carranza's attitude toward this gov
ernment has followed the withdrawal
of the American troops and the ex
nosure of German intrigue in Mexico.
Editorial comments in Mexican news-
a better teeling towara me unuea
States, and the reception -tendered
Ambassador Fletcher has been grati
fying to officials here.
Hollweg Impelled
To Liberty Plea br
Fall of Nicholas
London, March 17. Reuter's Am
sterdam correspondent telegraphs
that an article in . the Frankfurter
Zeitung appear to confirm to some
degree the impression that the, sud
den appearance of Chancellor von
Bethmann-Hollweg in the Prussian
diet on Wednesday and his speech
advocating the democratization of
Germany were caused by his knowl
edge of events in Petrograd.
The Zeitung draws a parallel be
tween the chancellor's acts and the
revolution in Petrograd, pointing out
BEE: MARCH
that at the same time I the executive
committee of the duma seized tne
reigns of power. Dr. von Bethmann
Hollweg delivered the speech, which,
it says, also disclosed a revolution,
though of quite different kind and em
ploying different means.
The newspaper asserts a democratic
German empire comes, because it
must, : not because the chancellor
avows himself in its favor, but because
his words express the will of an over
whelming majority of the people. '
Amsterdam Via London), March
17; The Rhenische Westfalische
Zeitung publishe the following ex
cerpt from the speech of Deputy
Hoffman in the Prussian diet, which
brought about his expulsion, from the
chamber:
"We shall. refuse to vote for the
budget. Chancellor von Bethmann-
the available coal supply here would
be completely exhausted within one
week.
Holtweg is merely the fig leaf of
military absolutism. Militarism bears
the responsibility for the bloodshed in
Europe, and only when militarism and
despotism are removed will the peo
ple breath freely. "
"The revolution should be a warn
ing to our rulers. The German sub
marine warfare is opposed to the laws
of humanity and international law."
Not Coal Enough for Week
In Bins at Sioux Falls
Sioux Falls. S, D., March 17.-r-In-vestigation
of the effect on Sioux
Falls of the institution of the impend
ing railrnarl fttrilfr. with an ' effective
tie up of all train service, show thatj and was hanging down in the street
Rubin Nearly
Loses Life by;
; : : Electric Sliock
His willingness to assist almost
cost L. R. Rubin's life last night. A
pair of extra heavy cotton mittens
probably was all that saved him.
Rubin, who lives on Fifteenth street,
near Vinton, was riding home on a
street rar. lolin Garstes. motorman.
stopped the car at Nineteenth and
Vinton streets, as an electric arc light
had broken from its sustaining rope
car right-of-way.
Garges was going to get a rope
with which to pull back the arc. But
Rubin, anxious to help, seized an iron
bar used for throwing switches, in
tending to hold the arc back so the
car could pass.
Evidently the iron switch, bar
touched an uncovered part of the elec
trified arc. Rubin regained conscious
ness after electric light employes, who
came to fix the arc, had worked over
him for some time. A current of 5,000
volts is said to have, passed into the i
switch bar. . '
One of Rubin' heavy' mitt was
burned through and a thumb was
burned, but he showed no other ef
fects from the great electric shock,
except the temporary spell of uncon
sciousness. The electric- light men
took him home. , -.-.
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Czar Would Rather
Lose Crown' Than
Give Up Any Power
Paris, March 17. Unanimity char
acterize the Russian revolution, de
clares the Temps, in an editorial,
which says: ; .'"
"The long crisis was due .princi
mllv to the character of the imperial
couple. It is well known that Em
peror Nicholas would have been an
excellent sovereign but that he was,
unfortunately, under different influ
ences, of which the itrongest was
that -of the empress. .He deprived
himself of the aid of the most emi
nent meni . - " ',
, "He did not wish to be dominated.
but he was dominated, by the em
press; who had preference and an
tipathies that can De explained oniy
bv the bad state of her health. Nich
olas habitually acceded to her inspira
tions. It is not very strange that he
has just acceded ,a- last time, pre
ferring to abdicate rawer tnan to re
nounce autocracy as ;, he under
stood it. !..
Contest for Gold Medal
- Promises to Be
The race for the elocution gold
medal, offered Crcignton juniors of
the hieh school, promises to be close.
Francis Gerin. Edward Meherns, Ed-
trar Mullen and Burke Shea, are con
tender, fred schrimpt ana tiaroia
Dorsey will act as alternates,
These men sneak in the third divis
ion public contest in May. They
have not chosen their Subjects yet.
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THAT enormous profits will be paid on this investment, we honestly believe. This is an
opportunity for you to become a sharehol der in one of the. established leaders in a new
American industry that seriously threatens to pay greater profits to stockholders than the
automobile industry has paid., This is an offer of commonstock of The Ford Tractor Com
pany, Inc., at $5.50 per share (par value $10) , an investment which we think will appeal to
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Ford Tractor
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WHAT IT IS AND WHAT IT DOES
THE FORD FARM TRACTOR ia a practical application
. of motor power to the every day work of the farm-.
er. Wherever there la a pull or a nam, or wner
ever power is required to operate belt-driven machinery,, :
the Ford Tuetor will do it j, ; ..
, It capacity is eight horsepower on the drawbar and '
sixteen horsepower on the belt lis weight is approxi- - -mately
4100 lbs., being ample to give it adequate trac- -tion,
and its power i great enough to meet the demand
of the average farm work, while it price, $495, f . o; b.
factory, is within the reach of the average fanner. Low
' price end economy of operation are two important invest- .
ment features remember them. ,
The Ford Farm Tractor give to the farmer a real i
power plant that can be- used en any part of the farm
and moved from place to place under it own, power.
The Ford Tractor pulls plows, discs, harrows, motors,
binders, seeders, manure spreaders, drags, wagon and
mall road graders. It operates ensilage cutter and silo
filler, feed grinders, water pumps, circular saws and
other belt-driven machines used on the farm. Almost '
every farmer who buys a Ford finds some new or .unex-
i pected use to which he can put his tractor in a way that is
: convenient and economical to him. ' , , . N
- The Feral Tractor performs all classes of practical farm
work. It is believed that every farmer farming forty
acres or more can jise this tractor with great economy,
saving horses and saving labor costs, and enabling him to
do his farm work better, quicker and cheaper than he
could do it with bones.
To realize the possibilities of (hi investment, just con
sider that there are 6,000,000 farmers in the United
- States. Think of the possibilities of providing these farm
era with a practical motor-driven power plant especially
designed to lighten their work, to save labor, to save
The Ford Tractor Company of Minneapolis,
Minn., is engagad axcluiivelr in the manufacture orV
THE FORD FARM TRACTOR, and has no con
nection whatever with the Ferd Motor Company
of Detroit, or with any other automobile or tractor
concern of a similar name.
horses, to .save money, to enable them to do their work
better and, above all, to help them do their seasonable
work in season.
The Ford Tractor is not a reconstructed automobile,
rior is it constructed from automobile designs. It ia de.
signed and built distinctively as a farm tractor containing .
' only such principles of construction as are advantageous
for farm tractor work. It is designed for strength, power
and durability the essentials of rough farmywork.
The Ford Tractor is not a new or untried invention.'
The advantage of the Ford Farm Tractor has been prov
en effectively before this offering of stock was made.
About twenty months ago The Ford Tractor Company,
Inc., began putting out these stractors in a commercial '
; way. The first Ford Tractor is still in satisfactory use. . '
Hundreds of Ford Tractors have been distributed ,
throughout thirty-seven states and several foreign coun- .
tries and, as a result of the success of these farm tractors
in general use in the hands of practical farmers, The Ford i
' Tractor Company, Inc., now has in hand orders for thou ..
sands of Ford Tractors, sufficient to keep the factory
working night and day.
The Fairm Tractor Industry
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I HERE ARE 24,000,000 horses and mules busy with
farm work in the United States, it take live acres
of cron to feed each horse. About one-fifth of
tha produce of the American farms i paid to the farm
horse for his work. The average horse works only four
hours per day.;'. t . . ,- .
The farm tractor enable the" farmer to do hi work
"easier, better and do more of it" In the rush season it
can work night and day. It is more powerful than "the
horse, can plow deeper, can work in hot weather as well
as cold, can do practically anything that a horse can do
and many things which a horse cannot do such as driv
ing belt-driven machinery, for example. ? i , '
The farm tractor is an instrument of peace. It is a
facility of the most peaceful of all industries farming. -The
farm tractor industry ia distinctively a peace indus
try, yet the war with ita terrible demands for pien and
horses has made the introduction of the farm tractor even
more an urgent necessity. - . i. j ' , , .. '
England want 2,000 American-made tractors right now
and can't get them. France has appropriated 30,000,
000 francs for farm tractor machinery to rehabilitate the
devastated and neglected fields. Every step made by this
country toward greater military preparedness will hasten
the demand for farm tractors to replace men and horses
called into service, and yet this is fundamentally a peace
industry.
The Automobile, the great trade Journal devoted to
the industry the name of which it bears, says:
"It is estimated that we will ''need in the next few
years nearly 1,000,000 tractors. Various estimates have
been made as to how many tractors' will be needed in
this country. The figure has been placed at 1,500,000,
' but it is just about as sensible to make that estimate-' as
an estimate made ten years ago on the number of auto-
' mobiles that could be sold would have been sensible. ,
There are 6,000,000 farms in the country and naturally
, ovarybody looks forward to the day when every farmer
will have a tractor. We also look forward toS the day -when
some farmers may have two, or perliaps three, .
tractors. The entire possibilities are so great and the
future so uncertain that it is impossible to estimate what
. even the home demand will require. Then there is the
foreign field, which has big things in store. The Amer
ican farms must be poweriied and the farms in foreign
lands will also have to be tractorised."
Commenting on tie great farm tractor demonstrations
that" were held last .fall throughout the west and were
attended by a half million interested American farmers,
The Literary Digest says: ,
"It is believed that these events have brought, the
tractor through the pioneering stage, have established .
the foundations of an industry which will outstrip that
of tha motor car, and have hastened a revolutionary power '
. in the agriculture of the world." -
The Wall Street Journal says "there are in the United .
States alone 2,700,000 farms on which the present models
of tractors can be economically used." Figuring only:;,
one tractor to each of these farms, and disregarding the .
remainder 'of the 6,000,000 farms in this country, this ;:
, would make use for as many farm tractors as there are '
' now automobiles in use in this country. . . . ,
. The farm tractor industry, therefore, promises to .
equal, if not exceed, the profit made by the automobile .
industry and to do it in less time. Automobile profits are
now running at the rate of about $300,000,000 per an- J
num, of which about $75,000,000 per annum is being
' paid in dividends. Probably no other industry has paid,
its stockholders such large profits in dividends. Those ' '
who invested in the early stages of the automobile in- ;
" dustry made tremendous profits, in some instances rang
ing from 100 to 1,000 per annum. You now have an .4
opportunity to get into the farm tractor industry at the
same ideal stage for investment. - . v . , . , "
We are offering you an opportunity to become a share- -holder
in one of the leading established, producing com-
. panies in this new industry, The Ford Tractor Company, .
, Inc., known ithe world over as the manufacturer of the y
famous Ford Tractor. -
Orfif
anization
and Estimate of Profits
THE FORD TRACTOR COMPANY, INC is incorporat
ed under the laws of Delaware, with a capital stock
of $10,000,000, divided into 100,000 shares ot 7
preferred stock and 900,000 shares of common stock.
Each share has a par value of $10 and is fully paid and
non-assessable. The officers and directors are as follows:
W. BAER EWINC, President and General Manager. '
" HON. CHARLES B. ELLIOTT, Vice President, for
marly Supreme Court Justice of the Philippines
under President Taftj also formerly Judge of
the Supreme Court of the State af Minnesota.
M. R. JOHNSTON, Secretary-Treasurer, formerly
, . Cashier of the Diamond Iroa Work, Minneap-
oliS. ; ' ' '
JAS. MEIER, Director, Cashier and Director of the
Merchant and Manufacturers Bank, Mm
, aeapoli. . ' .
' JOHN L. SMITH, Director, President of Ike John L.
Smitk Land Company, Minneapolis. .
R. A. JACOBSON, Director, Railroad Contractor,
. Minneapolis
The Ford Tractor Company, Inc., is equipped with a
complete mechanical, office, advertising and sales organ
ization. The sales organization includes upwards of 200
agents and dealers in various sections of the United
States. These agents keep on hand, or at a neighboring
farm, one or more Ford Tractor which they exhibit or
demonstrate as often as the occasion requires. . i .
This selling, organization is one of the best of its kind
in the country and is s big factor in the future develop
ment of this companyPresent dealers are already sell
ing more Ford Tractors than the company .pan produce, .
and thousands of applications from prospective dealers
and prospective purchasers have flooded the offices of
the company within the past few weeks. . ,
These inquiries have been received from every section
of the United States and from numerous foreign coun
tries. A number of Ford Tractors have already been
shipped to several foreign countries and a contract has
recently been .closed with a representative of a French
concern for aA initial order of fifty Ford Tractors. Every
effort is being made to develop both the export and the .
United States trade with a view to making The Ford
Tractor: Company, Inc., the leading producer of farm
tractors in the world. i '
. The home of the Ford Farm Tractor is in Minneapolis,
Minn., which is the center of the greatest farm'tractor"
development in the world. The Ford now occupies a new
factory building which it holds under" favorable lease,
with provisions for enlarging as fast as required. The .
capacity of the present plant is placed at twenty tractors
per day. Every 'effort is being made to increase the out- "
put to capacity and to increase the capacity as rapidly
as it is possible to secure parts and materials to meet V
the large and growing demand for Ford Tractors,
Official estimates Indicate that on a production of
25,000 tractors per annum, the company should earn a
net profit of $3,000,000 per year. This would mean, an .
earning of approximately 33 on the total issue of '
common stock at ita full par value, To those who buy the
stock under our present offer at $5.50 per share (par
value $10 per share), this would mean a profit on the in
vestment equivalent to approximately 60 per annum.
On the same basis, a production of 100,000 Ford Tractora
would ltiean an earning of over 130 per annum on par,
or approximately 240 on the investment at the present
price of the stock. ,
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Company, Int., by investing in the stock now at
$5.50 per share (par value $10 per share). We
unhesitatingly advise investment in this stock. We en
dorse the company as being worthy of your entire con
fidence, and believe sincerely that this company will
make enormous profits for all who secure their stock at
the present low quotation.
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Based on the results which The Ferd Tractor Company,
Inc., has already accomplished; on the fact that the Ferd
Tractor has been proven in the hands of, hundreds of
farmers; on the fact that the Ford Tractor is known the
world over as the lowest priced tractor for general farm
; use; on the fact that the management is composed of
men of known business ability and integrity who have'
been identified with the farm tractor business since its
early days, and on our knowledge of the tremendous
field which exists for a practical farm tractor of this type,
we advise our clients to go the limit on this stock, be
lieving that it will undoubtedly pay very large profits '
within a short time.
The quotation on this stock will positively advance
very soon. Our offer of stock at $5.50 per ahare is limited
and it is subject to withdrawal without notice. It is ab
solutely necessary, therefore, for you to-a,ct on this offer
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