THE OKFUSKEE COUNTY NEWS
TRACTOR TALK
Facts of Interest to the Motor World From Speeches
- Made at the 'Big Feed ” in Chicago
U S TANKS EN ROUTE
If our factories live up to
schedule we will have more tanks
by the end of the year than Eng
land and France have built since
the beginning of the war 4
We now are sending overseas
airplanes which today are bet
ter than any which ever have
flown before
There is not another engine in
the world which is able to de
velop 400 hp and yet weigh only
875 lbs (as our Liberty aviation
engine does)
Within the sixty days ship-
ments of trucks and trailers to
the ordnance department of our
armies in the field will reach a
steady flow of about 2000 a
week
Nearly 9000 tractors of the
caterpillar type are in the course
of construction at several differ-
ent factories These range from
30 to 120 hp They have been
developed to such an extent that
there is very little they will not
do in the way of surmounting
obstacles steep grades and heavy
going This is due in part to
their being of the articulated
track-laying type
Caterpillar)) weighing nearly t
18 tons exert no more pressure
on the ground per square inch
than does a man’s foot in walk-
ing— W G Wall and C F Ket-
tering
Had $500000 a year been spent for
the last few years in experimenting
with fuels in a well directed way there
would have been no fuel problem to-
day — motor cars saved Paris saved
Verdun and tanks cut through the
German lines at Cambrai The horse
is the most inefficient source of power
we have
These three disconnected statements
are used to open this article because
they each epitomize in a sentence one
of the vital questions of direct interest
to motorists which formed a subject
of consideration by those practical
dreamers of motordom the auto-
motive engineers The average motor-
ist if he thinks of the Society of Au-
tomotive Engineers at all thinks of it
as a body of designers whose delibera-
tions are confined to abstruse discus-
sions of proper analysis of steels or
the size pf a keyway But it is to this
society and to the men who comprise
it that credit must be given for most
of the achievements of motor cars
planes and tanks in the present war
and what is still less widely known
the production of the U-boat chasers
which have been chiefly instrumental
in suppressing the submarine menace
also is their work
Tractors Concern All
All of us who look to the farm as
the original source of our food sup-
plies — and that includes all of us — are
concerned intimately with the phase
of that work of the society which
formed the chief subject of the meet-
ing of the engineers at Chicago Fri-
day With our government and its
people looking to the farms of Amer-
ica to supply not only ourselves our
boys at the front but our allies with
THE TRACTOR AND FARM
High Spots From the Tractor
Meeting by the Various
Speakers of the Day
— —
The - average ( tractor needs
more traction tocthe amount of
power furnished
It takes practically the same
power to pull two plows at 3 m
p h as it does to pull three plows
2 m p h
The more plows to distribute
the weight over the less the
weight for each plow It takes
an initial weight of 1500 to 2000
lbs to pull one 14-inch plow and
500 to 1000 lbs more to pull two
plows and 300 to 700 lbs to puli'
ences have proved their worth
The modern gasoline tractor is
short-lived because it is built to
a cost price
the third plow
The ideal tractor engine is a
four-cylinder with certain ele-
ments which from past experi-
Real tractor service begins in
the enginering department
Untried devices have no place
on tractors at this critical period
in the history of our country
It is absolutely essential to
stick to the truth — if a tractor
has certain limitations the farm-
er should be told of these other-
wise he is sure to attempt the
35-hp job with a 15-hp tractor
with disastrous results
’
YOUR BATTERY
IS THE LIFE OF YOUR CAR
WE CAN NOW
FURNISH COM-
PLETE BATTERIES
MADE IN
OKEMA U S A
Does it give you a feeling of pride and
satisfaction to know that you live in a
thrifty town? A town where they do
things — where the managers of the busi-
ness institutions are not afraid to back
up their judgment with their money? We
believe you feel this way and are loyal
and seeing the need of such an outfit we
have purchased and installed a
MOTOR GENERATOR
BATTERY OUTFIT
with a capacity for turning out 32 complete batteries at
once We are going to make a specialty of Batteries —
good reliable batteries supplying all the elements
plates terminals acids boxes — in fact everything that
goes into a battery We are just as completely equipped
as any one in the state We are going to merit your bat-
tery work — every bit of it and your batteries from this
on can bear the mark of loyalty — “Made in Okemah
U S A”
THE OKEMAH GARAGE
foodstuffs every effort must be made
to make the production from each
acre as great as possible
To assist in this was the reason 1 jr
the Chicago meeting of the engineers
who confined their whole attention
'during the day to the problem of agri-
1 cultural tractors Not 5 per cent of
the demand for tractors has been
filled which means that not 5 per cent
of the farms where tractors would
' work an improvement are working at
greatest efficiency The tractor is in
its infancy and we know so little of
the tractor and so little of the prob-
lem which confronts the manufacturer
and the user of tractors that the value
of the meeting was doubly great in
that its whole idea was to outline the
future development as the industry
shapes itself and becomes more ma-
ture The president of the Society C F
Kettering sensed the opinion of those
who studied the problem in that the
tractor question as it stands today
is only 50 per cent engineering the
other 50 per cent being psychology
Unless the tractor company studies
the psychology of the farmer along
with the engineering problems of the
tractor itself it will fail
The questions taken up by the en-
gineers were of most practical interest
to prospective tractor users The four
angles considered were tractor ser-
vice tractor design tractor engine
and tractor transmission
It was at the war dinner in the
evening that the other phases of the
motor’s relation to the war were pre-
sented so interestingly Aside from
the important statements which head
this article and which gave some new
facts as to what the American motor
industry is doing in the production of
airplanes tanks and ordnance trac-
tors the fuel question was presented
in a new light by President Kettering
“Of all the problems with which we
have to contend today” said Ketter-
ing “the fuel problem is the biggest
There is nothing moved on this earth
except by the sun’s energy This has
been stored up in all forms in the
earth and we have used it lavishly
Have we overdrawn our account? To-
day there is arising a question Can
we go ahead? Must we curtail? It is
the greatest question which confronts
us and yet we are not giving it proper
consideration We must be so organ-
ized that we can run this winter on
last winter’s sunshine” I
WARNING AGAINST SCHEME
TO SWINDLE FARMERS
Another scheme for swindling the
farmers of the United States has been
discovered by the Federal Farm Loan
Board A man advertising himself as
an authorized organizer of national
farm-loan act it is necessary for fair-
advertising matter emblazoned with
the national flag stating that he will
organize such associations at $500
each and will teach others the trick
for a certain sum of money His ad-
vertisements have reached farmers
and business men over a large part of
the United States He -claims to be
so busy organizing national farm-loan
associations that he needs help but
will take time to teach others for a
monetary consideration
All such representations are fraudu-
lent' In order to borrow under the
farm-loa nact it is necessary for far-
mers to organize cooperative national
farm-loan associations in their local
communities It is a violation of a
ruling of the Federal Farm Loan
Board published more than a year
ago for a national farm-loan asso-
ciation or a joint-stock land bank to
spend any money for promotion pur-
poses Associations thus organized
will not be chartered by the Federal
Farm Loan Board Farmers are
warned therefore against anyone ask-
ing a fee for his proffered services in
connection with applying for a loan
under the Federal farm-loan act
SHIPYARD WORK GREAT
NATIONAL NEED
The Okemah Garage is putting in a
motor generator set for charging bat-
teries which will have a capacity of
32 batteries at a time
There is just one way to get out of
this war that is to win it Every time
you invest in a War Savings Stamp
you hasten peace
Learn the W S S Table:
One quarter makes one Thrift
Stamp
Sixteen Thrift Stamps plus a few
cents makes one W S S
One W S S makes $5 in 1923
Oklahoma City Okla Feb 20 —
Honor fair wages and comfortable
living are the inducements provided
by the government for the patriots
who will aid the country in winning
the war by building ships with which
to carry men ammunition and pro-
visions to the battlefields of Europe
i That Oklahoma will meet her quota
is not doubted by H C Tyrrell of
Tulsa state director of the U S Pub-
lic Service Reserve under whose di-
rections it is hoped 3000 mechanics
and workmen in Oklahoma will enroll
for service In order to give the men
a clearer understanding of the situ-
ation the time allowed for enrollment
has been extended to February 23
War workers all over the state have-
been active in this work which is con-
sidered the gravest duty of American
citizenship at this time The Okla-
homa State Council of Defense ha
placed its entire organization at the
service of the government to the end
that Oklahoma might maintain its
reputation as a leader of patriotic ac-
tion Four-Minute-Men all over the
state have explained the issue to the
public
The enrollment of this band of pa-
triots is desired between now and
February 23 The government may
not be ready to call them for thirty or
sixty days The men should enroll
now but hold on to their present jobs '
until called Their work is considered
equally as important as the work in
the trenches but they will be better
paid for it and will enjoy all the home
comforts For the most part the
shifts will be of eight hours at the
prevailing high prices for similar ser-
vice at the shipyards
Not only young men but men of ma-
turer judgment and experience are
urged to enroll Their country needs
them
Think what this war means then
act Buy War Savings Stamps
When you have backache the liver
or kidneys are sure to be out of gear
Try Sanol it does wonders for the
liver kidneys and bladder A trial 35
cent botle of Sanol will convince you
Get it at the drug store
The Okemah Garage sold a Dodge
Brothers car to Harry Reynolds Tues-
day This garage also sold a Dodge
to -F T Hartzog this week
POTATO RAISERS BUY
LEADER TRACTOR
1 J T Newberry who attended the
automobile and farm tractor shows at
Kansas City wired the Federal Truck
Company state distributors for Lead-
er tractors that he has just sold a 25-
40 caterpillar tractor to Camp Bro-
thers of Okemah Okla Camp Bro-
thers after examining all the tractors
on exhibition decided that the Leader
was best suited to their needs They 1
are known as the most extensive rais-
ers of potatoes in Oklahoma — Oklahoman
The City Garage sold a Velie road-
ster this week to John Hayden Mr
McKinney went to Oklahoma City
Tuesday to bring back the car
OKLAHOMA TO ENLIST
600000 WAR SAVERS
Muskogee Okla Feb 20— “War
Savings Week” in Oklahoma begins
February 17 and continues until Feb-
ruary 24 The goal of the National
War Savings committee for Okiaho-
ma is (300000 war savers The state
during the year is expected to sub-
scribe $47000000 in Thrift and War
Savings Stumps
The big drive next week is to arouse
interest among all the people spread
propaganda and put the campaign on
a substantial basis Agencies have
been established in every town and
hamlet in the state Merchants every-
where are volunteering to net as
agents and an organization in every
county has been perfected
All the dollars ip the world could
not buy victory Because victory is
not purchasable — it is won Dollars
can work for victory only in so fur as
they are converted into labor and ma-
terials If you buy War Savings and
Thrift Stamps it will be possible for
the government to make that conver-
sion War Savings Stamps save lives anil
pay you 4 per cent interest
Mr D W Moon is no
longer representative
for the Grant-Six in
Okfuskee County This
territory is now open to
A Good Live Agent
and is one of the best propositions to be
had anywhere This being true it will
not be open long- so get busy
Muskogee
I Thrive by Thrift
ings Stamps
Buy War Sav-