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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: MARCH 25, 1917.
FIRESTONE STOCK
HELD BYWORKERS
Generous Flan Put Into Effect
by Big Tire Company Ex
ecutive at Akron.
' Capt, Bonavita and "Piccolo," the Bear Which Killed Him
BUTTERMILK FOR
THE FARMERS' HOGS
Water to Be Extracted in
Omaha to Save Freight and
Then Added Later.
GET
ALL PRIVILEGES
IS SHIPPED IN DRY FORM
An .important page oi history in
American business has just been made
by the Firestone Tire and Rubber
company, Akron, 0.
With the winding up of the books
on the plan of stock distribution
inaugurated by H. S. Firestone, pres
ident of the company, the records
show that over 90 per cent of the em
ployes responded heartily to the in
vestment offer made. Out of 12,500
employes, 11,000 are now stockholders
in the company.
This means that they are more
than profit sharers, as that term is
Kcnerally used: The Firestone com
pany has shown its confidence to
the extent that every employe sub
scribing under this plan immediately
becomes a registered stockholder and,
as such, is entitled to all the privileges
of i stockholder: - t
Keen Interest Aroused.
The sweeping acceptance of the
plan by the organization 'has stirred
up the keenest interest among indus
trial experts because of its strikingly
original features.
For example, the stock allotted, ap
proximately $3,000,000 worth, was dis
tributed on the basis of length of
service not on the usual basis of
salary earned. In short, the sweeper
or the shoveler got more than the
high executive if he had served longer,
up to a period of five years. All who
had been employed over five years
were on an equal basis.
This arrangement meant an. adjust:
ment of long-time payments to en
able those making the lowest salaries
to get the maximum amount of stock.
Those who wish, of course, can pay
for the stock immediately, but the
minimum installment necessary on a
thousand-dollar purchase, for in
stance, is only $5.60 per month.
This is apparently the first time
that a plan has been evolved and put
through which in noway discriminates
between classes of employes.
The stock was sold to employes at
$100 per share, while the market price
quotation u $145 per share.
King Eight Foursome
Name is Copyrighted
Detroit, Mich., March 24. Acting
Commissioner of Patents F. W. H.
Clay of the patent office of the De
partment of the Interior has copy
righted for the King Motor Car com
pany of this city the word "Four
some" in connection with a four
passenger motor car. This gives to
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der King the exclusive right to the
use of the word "Foursome" in con
nection with a four-passenger car.
This particular type of motor car
is built exclusively for four persons.
The King Foursome was a sensation
of the automobile shows and is now
being shipped in large numbers from
the King plant It is of the spor'y
type and has ail comforts for the
conveniences of four persons. Long,
low, rakish in appearance, it is of i
distinctly sporty character, but not
extreme.
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CAPT. .BONAVI TA
Captain Jack Bonavita, probably the
best known animal trainer in the
world, is dead, the victim of "Piccolo,"
his trained polar bear. Bonavita died
in a Los Angeles hospital from inju-
Army Finds Motorcycle
Really Indispensable
"The importance the motorcycle
has attained in the army is little real
ized by the general public, whose at
tention has been centered on the de
velopment of machine guns, field ar
tillery and the army's enlistment per
sonnel," said Sam F. Boord of the
Omaha Bicycle company, Indian mo
torcycle distributors.
Nevertheless - the motorcycle,
though heralded by no controversies
and discussions in the public press,
has been coming to the front by leaps
and bounds. Already hundreds of the
machines are in service along the
border, and more are being added
continually. Illustrative of its present
prominence recently sent by an army
officer, stationed on the border, to
the Hendee Manufacturing company, I
Duimers ot Indian motorcycles.
"The letter states in part: 'Our
present company was organized on
May 24, 1916, with a nucleus of two
officers and forty-eight enlisted men,
with twenty-two motorcycles, twelve
being solo machines and ten with
side cars. At present the company
has developed into an organization
of three officers, 100 enlisted men,
3 PICCOLO
rics suffered in a struggle with the
animal, which, becoming enraged, at
tacked him during a performance. Bo
navita had been attacked by animals
many times and was said not to have
an unscarred spot on his body. He
forty-three motorcycles with side
cars, fourteen Indian motorcycle ma
chine guns and three privately owned
solo Indians."
Mr. Boord has closed a contract
to distribute the Smith Flyer, the
juvenile automobile, driven by the
Smith motor wheel.
Missouri River is
Still Rising Near Here
A stage of 11.7 feet was reported
for the Missouri river at Omaha at
7 a. m. Saturday. This was 1.7 feet
higher than at the siine hour Friday.
Most of the rise was recorded Fri
day, and indications are that it will
not go much higher at this time,
Opper Enthusiastic .
Over the Sale of Trucks
J. M. Opper of the Jones Opper
company is one of the most enthusi
astic dealers along the row over the
possibilities for truck sales.
Opper asserts that farmers are fast
outgrowing the fear that bad roails
are death to trucks. "They are no
more death to trucks than they are
to teams. Road conditions are not
so bad in this section . i one would
imagine. You very seldom hear of
lost his right arm after a lion had
so lacerated it with claws and teeth
that amputation was necessary. He
had traveled all over the world and
appeared by royal command at almost
all of the courts of Europe.
roads that can't be used. If it is
necessary to haul a load where the
roads are heavy they manage to do it
without disastrous effects, and a truck
will do it as long as there is a bottom
to the road. As long as a truck can
get purchase it will pull and you
won't find many roads so bad that
there is no bottom."
Buttermilk for the farirurs' hogs,
shipped to his home town in the form
of dry meal, properly and tightly bar
reled, is in prospect for the Nebraska
farmer. The Collis Prooucts com
pany, now building its big plant at the
corner of Ninth and Dodge streets,
for the manufacure pf buttermilk into
meal, plans to develop a farmer trade
for its product.
The manufacture of buttermilk
meal is not entirely a new industry.
Ti.i.i has been done ..r some years.
and the Collis factory is the second
such plant started in Omaha. How
ever, the meal has never been sold
much to the farm trade for hogs. It
has been used in the manufacture of
prepared pancake flour and other
products of this kind.
This new plant in Omaha will not
only manufacture it for human con
sumption in the shape of pancake
lour and in other ways, but will bar
rel It in Rrcdl quduuura iui stvin.
The advantage here is that it can be
shipped in the dry, powdered form,
property barreled, for great distances,
for a little freight charge. When the
farmer gets it he can add five parts
of water, stir it with a stick and have
perfectly good, rich buttermilk in a
moment's notice. Thus the freight
charges are reduced by the extraction
of the water in the factory. The water
can be added later.
Booth Tarkington, Author,
Praises Hudson Super-Six
Booth Tarkington, the famous
"Pcnrod" author, was one of the
first to buy a Hudson Super-Six.
He says he likes it and has voluntarily
written this about the Hudson Super
Six: "The car is altogether satisfactory
and does everything claimed for it.
It rides easily over these rough, rock
ridged Maine roads where 1 am us
ing it. It eats the hills and is a will
ing speeder when called upon. My
driver, a very rochcty mechanic, is
pleased and cheerful. For looks this
car is the best I've had; in fact, I
think it's better for the eye than any
other car out."
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What
keeps
so late?
A. Punctures.
Q. Why blame the tires
when, maybe, it's the
club or the boys?
A. He's not seeking any alibi in this
case it's just rotten tire luck put
ting him in bad.
Q. How can you do away with this tire
luck you mention ?
A. Play a certainty use Lee Puncture
Proof Tires. Of course they're pneu
matic possibly they're a little more
expensive than the ordinary tires but
you're not bothered with the punct
ures of ordinary pneumatic tires
they'll gothe whole journey and more
and let you out of any such rotten tire
luck. If you want to know all about
the Lee line and its SOME line,
believe me call '
POWELL
SUPPLV COMPANY
OMAHA
Phone, Doualat 9H,
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Le
Standard Tire
Give more rlrs comfort
and mileage than evr
before claimed for any
standard make of tires.
Lee Tubes
AlwaysUndareofrer
thickness and rugged
ness. They are extreme
ly supple, tough, resil
ient and long wearing.
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lee Tire & Rubber Co. Corahohodcara.
. -"'-.Z- 5.000 miles tfoaranteejl
MnufKlurmof Rubber CndssimrsW
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To All Car Owners
Don't forget to have
your battery tested
Testing warns you of things you can't
see and might not find out until too late
to prevent trouble.
Testing is free repairs' cost money.
If tou want briarit liVrit-s.
quick starts and lower cost
of electric current, come
in to see us.
And if you do need re
pairs, we have factory
trained battery experts who
can do a good job for you.
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Nebraska Storage Battery Co.
2203 Fmm St Phone Doug. 5102
Two Power Ranges
To Maximize Your Enjoyment
Yet Minimize Your Expense
3 HE PEERLESS Eighty Horsepower Eight is a car of "dual per
sonality." it has two distinct power ranges each highly desirable
for its particular purpose.
You can have tremendous power and abundant speed when and
where you want it, without the excessive cost in operating the
superpowerful car in ordinary driving. These ereat advantages
have never before been offered in combination. They have been available only
in two cars of entirely different and opposite types.
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In ordinary driving you get the velvet
smoothness, the keen flexibility and
the graceful, effortless performance
you would natural
ly expect from a
Peerless.
This is the "loaf
fag" range for your
everyday require
ments and your
motor is operating
on half rations
consuming so little fuel as to put
many lesser powered cars to shame
most sixes, even many fours.
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Loafing
Range
But open the throttle a little wider tol
release the double poppets. I
Now you have a brute of a car of
utterly changed
character.
With the "sport
ing" rangeinaction
she baa the super
power and thun
dering speed to
cope with any
emergency, to contend with any of
the other master cars of the day.
Sporting
Range
A ride at the wheel of a Peerless Eight win show you a wider range of per
formance than you have ever before found in any one car. Let us explain the
double power range to you. We will gladly demonstrate.
W. T. HAUSE AUTO CO.
2509 Leavenworth St., Omaha, Neb. Phone Douglas 376
$e Peerless Moior.CarCo., GevelandO.
eriess
name implies
Hem Pricn List Effective April 9, tBB
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Roadster . .
Spotting Kosdstcr
Coupe .
Sedan .
I .rooming . .
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