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Show I FORAU'TRIJCK AIDS I IN MOTOR CRISIS Ingenous Contrivanre which Converts i Light Cars Into Tractor, 1'i.imis 7 e Big Things for Farmer. Through its now tractor ' recently pl 1 upon the market, the Smith ' Motor Truck Corporation is doing its 1 share to aid the nation in properly & preparing for a long, vigorous war. 3 fAff macmne whch is an attach 2 melBT that can be fitted to Fords, or; I other similar makes of machinery, is l adaptable either to small or large farms, and enables farm owners to j accomplish for more than is possible 1 by the old horse drawn implements. 1 By attaching the tractor to the plow, cultivator or other machinery, the farmer is able to cover his acres much quicker and to dispense with I men and animals. In so doing, he re leases his former hired help into other lines of industry, and thus aid's in the increasing of the nation's production. By cutting down his working hours, the farmer who owns a tractor should be able to aid his neighbor who is plowing or harrowing. Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, Carl Vrooman, has issued a nationwide nation-wide appeal to tractor owners, asking them to make their outfits to work from dawn utitil dark; if necessary, to make them work at night, if there are enough to fill the shift. "Don't let one acre, which otherwise other-wise might be planted," go untitled, is Vrooman's injunction. "Help your neighbors and do your part in the strengthening of the lines of the allies al-lies in Europe." Smith Form-a-Tractor owners have a real mission to perform and from all accounts, are performing it. In the early stages of the Verdun siege when the Germans had taken the communication lines of the French under fire, defenders of the fortress would have been unable to hold out had it not been for the fact that motor mo-tor trucks were pressed into service, and forming an endless chain of communications com-munications with the food and munition muni-tion depots in the rear, they enabled the French to sustain life until the final victory. Now that the United States has entered en-tered the struggle the question arises: "What could we have done under the same circumstances?" Fortunately bur superiority in motorizing mo-torizing equipment is tremendous. There are about 500,000 motor trucks used in the United States and America. Truck manufacturers are turning them out at the rate of 5,-000 5,-000 a month. Should this number prove insufficient insuffici-ent every pleasure car in the United States could be turned into a first class serviceable one ton truck within a very short time by the use of Smith Form-a-Trucks and an unlimited number num-ber of trucks could be furnished. The Smith Truck Corporation has just completed its new factory at Clearing, Illinois. Its output has been increased until it is now more than '200 attachments a day and in case of emergency, this production coul easily be increased. There are several million pleasure cars in the United States and should it be necessary, every one of them could be turned into a Smith Form-a-Truck. |