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•Uhe RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
February 2, 1918 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
PublislK‘i'’s Desk is r<‘fei\inf' a great 
many complaints because of delay in de¬ 
livery of goods or maeliiiiery oialered. 
Everyone realizes that the transi)ortation 
facilities are very much crippled by the 
demands of the (iovernnnuit for shi|»- 
ment of war material. The situation is 
further aggravated by the unusually cold 
weather and unprecedented amount of 
snowfall. ^Ve must all be patient under 
the circumstances. It is our war, and 
every individual must realize that .some 
of its burdens fall ui)on him. There is 
just one way that farmers can relieve 
themselves from disappointments over 
delayed shipments —order early. If you 
need seed, fertilizer or machinery for 
Spring planting in April, do not delay a 
minute, but order now. In many in¬ 
stances you will be unable to secure your 
needs at all if you wait, and often de¬ 
lays in delivery are equally serious. Again 
we say—fair Avarniug—order early ! 
F. B. Mills, Rose Hill, N. Y., is at it 
again—his recent advertisement contains 
an illustration of his “Gigantic Won¬ 
der” beanstalk resembling a maple tree 
hung all over with bean pods. Mr. Mills 
recommends planting one bean in a hill; 
and says the oyie bean will produce 1.200 
beaus. Nothing very remarkable about 
that, but we doubt if one beau in a hill 
will appeal favorably to practical growers. 
Of course Mr. Mills has to make some 
sensational claims, but as compared with 
his past performances, this 'beau adver¬ 
tisement is modest and tame. 
Can you give me any information in 
regard to the inclosed literature of Burn 
Oil Device Co., Peoria, Ill., describing a 
device to burn oil instead of gasoline in 
Ford cars? I want to know whether this 
is a good thing or a fake. Any in¬ 
formation will be gladly received, as I 
know what comes from you is reliable, 
as I have seen several fakes exposed. 
New York. A. x. 
This device is being S(dd through 
agents. Our report from Peoria. Ill., i^ 
in effect that not a single Ford <'ar in 
that city is equii)ped with the device. 
We do not know what results the device 
may have produccal in other itlaces. It 
may do all that is claimed for it. but <iur 
advice to those aiiproached on the sub¬ 
ject would 'be to insist that its i)ractica- 
bility b(' demonsti'ated to their satisfac¬ 
tion before i)Ui'chasing. If it were prac¬ 
tical to us(' k(u-osen(‘ in a Ford motor 
we are inclined to the opinion that Mr. 
Ford himself would have discovered the 
fact. 
In December 1.5th issue of The Rukai, 
New-Yoricer ire made reference to tin* 
Pan Motor Company of St, Cloud. Minn., 
as “an investment scheme Avith nothing 
tangible behind it.” The Pan Motor Co. 
tak<‘S ('xception to this statement as un¬ 
warranted on the grounds that the com¬ 
pany has g(X)d and tangible assets. We 
have asked the firm to furnish us with a 
statement of assets and liabilities, and in 
justice to the company we desire to print 
the following extract from a letter i-e- 
ceived from the president of the concern 
of Jan. 12 date: 
“Our books have been in process of 
being audited for several weeks by an 
outside auditing company, and for that 
rea'sou our bookkeepers have not, as yet. 
obtained trial balance as of the close of 
business December 31. 1017. This state¬ 
ment will be completed within two or 
three days, however, and we shall be 
more than pleased to send you this state¬ 
ment, properly sworn to. Our net assets 
at the present time are approximately 
one million dollars. When I s.ay net as¬ 
sets, I mean assets in excess of all liabil¬ 
ities except the capital stock account.” 
It does not appear from the above 
statement how much of the five millions of 
stock authorized by the company has 
been sold, and from the literature of the 
concern automobiles are not as yet being 
manufactured and sold in any quantities, 
so that it is fair to assume that the al¬ 
leged tangible assets are the proceeds of 
the stock sales. Aside from the direct 
advertising to .sell stock, we understand 
that the firm has quite a large number 
of salesmen in various cities soliciting 
stock subscriptions. The circular of the 
company booming this stock called “Pan 
Siftings” is a'bout the breeziest piece of 
literature we have encountered since the 
Elbert-Duryea tractor proposition of Chi¬ 
cago, which was discussed in these 
columns about a year ago. The circular 
contains a photograph of the president 
of the company, Samuel C. Paudolfo, de- 
.■<crihing him as a “big. broad, fearle.ss 
and tyi)ical American business man who 
lias a reputation for doing big things in 
a big way, and doing them successfully.” 
The information comes to uis from a re- 
Iial)le source that IMr. Paudolfo at one 
time was engaged in the insurance busi¬ 
ness, and has been connected with various 
other promotion enterprises, some of 
which at least have not been unqualifiedly 
a success. The principal banks and other 
prominent business men in St. Cloud seem 
to have lent their names at least to the 
development of this enterprise, but as 
far as we can see, the Pan Motor Co. 
proposition is little different fi’om a dozen 
or more previous efforts by other pro¬ 
moters to finance an automobile industry 
by selling stock to the public. Assuming 
that the promoters are entirely sincere 
and honorable in the undertaking, the 
history of such concerns is not reassur¬ 
ing. In this connection it might not be 
amiss to remind our readers .of the other 
promotions along this line. Among those 
previously referred to in Publishers’ 
I>esk are: 
Emerson Motor Car Co,, New York. 
American Motor Corporation, New 
York. 
Kf'iit Motor Co., New Jersey. 
Drexel Motor Corporation, Chicago. 
Bour Davis Motor Car Co., Detroit. 
^^'oods Mobilette, Chicago. 
Elbert-Duryea, Chicago. 
Ford Tractor Co., Minneapolis, etc. 
A number of the above promotions 
have gone out of existence because of 
indictments by the Federal Government 
brought against the promoters, and we 
have failed to learn of any of these con¬ 
cerns or any other automobile company 
financerl in-this way that has ever earned 
and paid the stockholders a dividend. If 
there be any, we should welcome the 
information so as to give the promoter 
eredit. In view of the present conditions 
in the automobile trade, we should re¬ 
gard it as an uphill road for any new 
concern to gain a foothold at this time 
unless well financed and the car had ex¬ 
ceptional features to commend it to the 
public. Certainly the stock of Pan Motor 
Com|)any, which is depending upon the 
proceeds of stock sales to finance the 
miterprise. must be regarded in the light 
of a speculation. Stock in companies 
making some of the best known cars 
and paying regular dividends is quoted 
below jiar. 
I took shares in the paper first started 
by E. G. Ijewis, formerly of St. Louis, but 
now of Atascadero, Cal. It was later 
changed to the Woman’s Magazine and is 
now suspended, as all his ventures have 
sooner or later. I gave him at least 
.>200. I have asked him for it a number 
of tunes. _ He always says he cannot pay 
iiow but intends to do so some day. but 
he branches out in some new enterprise 
every little while and gets thousands of 
dollai’s from just such dupes as I have 
been I wish you could do something to 
make him ashamed of himself I am not 
well and past 68 years old and need the 
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