The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-06-26
FORDSON PROFITS
MYSTERY HERE,
SAYS AYDEloTTE
Defense Council Head Thinks
Maker Surely Gains,

y Seven carloads Of FordSon tractors
tontaining forty-ninc oi the machines
have been shipped to Oklahoma points
hnd the payment for the implements has
been guaranteed Henry Ford & Son by
hhe councils of defense in the counties
Sn which the tractors have been CON
tigned, according to NJ Aydelolc,
chairman OF the state council of de
Tense.
a Aydelotte was asked this morning 4
De believed that Ford, by requesting
ktate councils Of defense and othef pa
jsriotic bodies to supervise the dlstrI-
button of the tractors is making big
profits from the sale of the machines
The chairman asserted that tho trac-
for costs $3.50 ( o. B. Dearborn
Mich, and that he had always under
stood Ford TO be too good a business
bnan not to make a profit
Doesn't Know Profit
4 Just what profit Ford is making Ay-
lheotte declared he did not know lie
asserted that in none Of the correspond
snce which has passed between the
Oklahoma council OF defense and tie
bord representatives has there been
anything said relative to a profit al,
yhc factory
! Concerning tha protests being made
hn Ford distributing his tractors
ihrough the aid OF various war bodies,
Aydelotte declared that ii the farmers
of Oklahoma desired any make OF trac-
sor other than the Ford machine that
De fat Il the duty OF the state council
80 assist the farmers IN getting the ma
shines In letters sent 10 the county
councils Of defense hy the state coun-
til concerning the distribution OF the
tractors in Oklahoma, the councils
Merc advised that the state council wa,
Not acting as an agent for tAc Ford,on
sractor nor did 1t desire 20 create any
klemand for the machine Aydolottc
taid He added that in letters 10 the
yuuncilS the state organization advised
Ahat the state council simply desired
10 aid farmers in getting their orders
Through in case they wished tho trac-
tors.
withheld ShnmentS.
According 10 Nydclotc, when the
Ford people first wrote the state coun-
all they advised that farmers IN Okmulr
see county desired tractors but the fac
aory did not desire TO shin them unless
heads OF agricultural schools, county
councils or the state council OF defense
approved the order The Fcrd factory
tlesired the state council to- buy the
iractors and distribute them where
needed. Aydalo,tc declared that the
ttate council was further advised that
the Ford people would not ship tractors
into the state unless the state council
or others in authority would guarantee
= ahat tho tractors would be kept in con
slant operation
Farmers Ask for 500.
, Aydelotte da,larcd that the Ford pee
pie had sold 4OO of the machines tc
ihe secretary of state of Michigan and
had shipped hundreds of the machines
into Canada Chester Westiall, assist
ant secretary Of the state council, de
clared that so many Oklahoma farmers
had applied through the state council
for Fordson tractors that il would take
lSOO of the machines to supply the
present demand
Z According TO the state council, OF the
sever carloads WHICH are ON their way
10 Oklahoma, one car is consigned to
Alva, two to two Cherokee, one to
Inid one to Perry one. to Tulsa and
one to Kingfisher
Z Aydelottc declared that the Ford ron
resentatives had been advised by the
county councils in the localities where
these machines, are consigned that
banks in the towns are 10 guarantee
the payment for the tractors