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January 
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PUBLISHER’S DESK 
Judge Page Morris in Federal Court 
yesterday dismissed for lock of prosecu¬ 
tion the* cases against S. ('. l’andolfo, 
president, and John Barrett, secretary, 
of the Pan Motor Company of St. Cloud, 
Minn., who were indicted recently on 
charges of using the mails to defraud in 
connection with the sale of stock in the 
company.—D a ily Pa per. 
We have referred to the indictment of 
these promoters and desire to give equal 
publicity to the dismissal of the indict¬ 
ments. The dismissal only means that 
sufficient evidence of fraud is not avail¬ 
able to warrant prosecution. World’s 
Work for January gives an interesting 
history of Mr. Pandolfo from the pen of 
Louis Guenther, editor of Financial 
Ferns. We quote from the article as 
follows: 
Just now the automobile field does not 
offer the opportunities for the pirates of 
promotion that it has _ in the past and 
undoubtedly will again in the future. Put 
there is one promoter who seems to be 
doing a thriving business even now sell¬ 
ing a motor stock at twice its par value 
from St. Cloud, Minn. He is S. C. Pan¬ 
dolfo, president of the Pan Motor Com- 
pany. This company, according to its 
literature, “has a better chance to ac- 
complish as much within the next foul- 
teen years as the Ford Company, or any 
other* automobile company, has accomp¬ 
lished within the past fourteen years. 
Then it is pointed out that the net earn¬ 
ings of the Ford Company in one year 
were “equivalent of over $21,400 on each 
$10 originally invested in the Ford stock. 
Is it any wonder that Pandolfo can claim 
more tlian 25,000 stockholders? 
As an antidote to this highly favorable 
propaganda for S. C. Pandolfo, we wish 
to prose/ some of the results of a few 
inquiries made by those who have only 
the interest of investors at heart and who 
believe in truth in advertising. Pandolfo 
came from Texas, where he was in the 
insurance business. He operated a gen¬ 
eral insurance agency at San Antonio 
and in order to extend his business sold 
to agents “trust fund certificates” on 
which he agreed to pay one per cent, a 
month interest. Soon afterward these 
monthly payments ceased and holders of 
these certificates were still waiting for 
their money the last we heard. 1 he C om- 
missioner of Insurance and Banking of 
the State of Texas described this as 
“nothing but a graft proposition from 
start to finish.” The certificates were 
handsomely gotten up, with an artistic 
border and three impressive seals, one 
green, one red, and one gold. Regarding 
them, another State official recently 
wrote: “Like the small boy who spits 
upon the bait to catch the fish, the pro¬ 
moter of this enterprise put plenty of 
decorations upon his documents to catch 
the suckers.” The Commonwealth Trust 
Company of Houston. Tex., the possessor 
of the gold seal, which appeared as guar¬ 
antor on the certificates, was a “fake 
institution. It. has been characterized by 
the banking departments of Texas and 
Oklahoma as the biggest, fraud that was 
over involved in the banking departments 
of those States. In June, 1916, l’an- 
dolfo’s license as a general agent in Texas 
was revoked and In* was informed that 
he would never be licensed to represent 
any insurance company in any capacity 
in the State again. He then started the 
promotion of the Pan Motor Company; 
but Texas by that time had a blue sky 
law, and he decided to move to New Mex¬ 
ico. It was in the Spring of 1917 that he 
transferred his operations to St Cloud. 
Minn. As a possible explanation of this 
promoter’s apparent success at St. Cloud, 
it might be explained that he is generally 
considered to be a hypnotist. 
We are enclosing literature of the Roch¬ 
ester Tire & Rubber Co., of which we 
have bought some stock. Our first pay¬ 
ment was made July 28. Since then we 
have made no payments. Through their 
attorneys we received a letter which we 
are enclosing, and it is apparent that we 
must either pay the balance of our sub¬ 
scription or lose what we have paid in. 
This company bought a plant in Roches¬ 
ter. N. Y., where they intended to manu¬ 
facture tires. In the meantime tires were 
manufactured for them by some outside 
concern. These tires were guaranteed to 
give an actual mileage of 6.000 miles, and 
were to be sold to stockholders at a dis¬ 
count of 40 and 5 per cent from the yel¬ 
low list which we are enclosing. They be¬ 
gan delivering tires the latter part of July. 
We have seen the tires after they have 
had 3,000 or 4.000 miles’ service, and we 
cannot see but what they stand up as 
well as any high-grade tire. Their treas¬ 
urer. Dr. Ernest Ewell, is health phy¬ 
sician for Erie County. New York, and 
is recommended very highly by the Buffalo 
Trust Company. Wish you would advise 
us what you know and what you think of 
this company. s - A - s - 
New York. 
Tt is difficult to advise this subscriber 
what is best to do under circumstances as 
related above. The Rochester Tire & 
Rubber Co., Buffalo, N. Y.. has no estab¬ 
lished financial responsibility, and from 
the statement of 8. A. S. :s not manufac- 
The RURAL NE 
turing tires. The men promoting the en¬ 
terprise may be sincere. If so they are 
badly advised and are in bad company, to 
say the least. We have a record of a 
dozen concerns at least organized on the 
basis of selling stock to the public, hold¬ 
ing out the inducement that stockholders 
could buy tires at a discount. Such in¬ 
ducements have always proved a delusion 
and a snare. It is the same principle on 
which the old International Automobile 
League of Buffalo was organized. The 
League plan was to sell “memberships” 
instead of stock. It will be remembered 
the promoter of this enterprise pleaded 
guilty to the charge of fraudulent use of 
the mails. We certainly would not advise 
the purchase of stock in any concern not 
thoroughly established, and usually it is 
only throwing good money after bad to 
put in more money in the hope of saving 
the original investment. 
As you seem to be headquarters for 
advice of a sound nature and a friend t<1 
all honest working people, I write to you 
to ask what you think of the enclosed 
letter and circular of Service Auto Equip¬ 
ment Co.. Kansas City. Kan. I have re¬ 
ceived letters from this company every 
week or so for several months, and would 
like to know whether or not they are a 
reliable concern. The R. N.-Y. has been 
read in our home since the time when it 
was “Moore's Rural "New-Yorker," at 
which time my father used to write short 
articles for it. It is the one paper I will 
have as long as I can use any. Any 
paper that can stand on its merits as 
does yours deserves every good wish for 
a happy, prosperous New Year. 
Wisconsin. W. F. S. 
The circular solicits orders for auto¬ 
mobile tires, representing the tires to be 
high-class and guaranteed for 6.000 miles 
service. A check for one dollar in W. 
F. S.’s favor is inclosed which will be ac¬ 
cepted in part payment on his order for 
tires. A smart trick which does not 
appeal to us as good business practice. 
Service Auto Equipment Co. has no es¬ 
tablished financial responsibility, and our 
advice to all is to buy only tires of known 
Value. 
Last October John L. Bowers and my¬ 
self gave the Baldwin Poultry Plant, 
Baldwin, L. I., an order each for 10 
Black Minorca pullets, March hatched, 
ready to lay. I corresponded with the 
manager in regard to them, and he said 
they were all he claimed for them. Bui 
on the arrival of the chickens they were 
sick with roup and mongrels of all kinds 
and sizes. One has developed into a cock¬ 
erel, so you can see how near they were 
ready to* lay. I wrote them about it and 
told them I would not accept the birds 
and would have shipped them back, but 
express company would not ship them on 
account of their being sick. I wrote 
them twice, but have not heard a word 
from them. The amount paid by each 
was $15 for 10. Can you help us in any 
way to get some kind of an adjustment? 
I will make an affidavit to this letter, so 
you would have backing in the case. 
New York. j.l. L. 
We have received two previous com¬ 
plaints from those sending orders to Bald¬ 
win Poultry Plant, of- which R. H. 
Rinaldo was the alleged owner. Our in¬ 
vestigations revealed the fact that Mr. 
Rinaldo’s poultry plant consisted of a 
backyard of his house at Baldwin. IVe 
learned on good authority that the high- 
class breeding stock which Mr. Rinaldo 
advertised came from the New York City 
poultry market. His practice was to 
come to the New York market, buy up 
any scrub stock he found there, which 
had been shipped for slaughter, ship the 
birds to Baldwin, sort them out in ac¬ 
cordance with the breeds their feathers 
indicated and then resliip to customers. 
Some of our complainants, however, re¬ 
ceived no stock for the money sent, and 
from the reports coming from Baldwin 
of Mr. Rinaldo’s personal habits we see 
little prospect that they will ever be 
able to secure adjustments. Mr. Rinaldo’s 
whereabouts seem to be a mystery at the 
present time. 
Tobacco was a good crop this season ;■ 
none shipped as yet; potatoes about a 
half crop; corn about a half crop; small 
grain good. Live poultry, 22 to 2_5c; 
eggs. 70c. are shipped from this station. 
Cord wood for extract purposes and burn¬ 
ing, about $6.50 a cord. Like a good 
many other places, the mill man gets rich 
at the expense of the farmer, selling his 
grain to the mill and buying back feed for 
his stock at double the rate. I have no 
stock except poultry, and since my own 
crops came in in September have not 
bought any feed whatever. W. A .R. 
T eh a non Co . Pa. 
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