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C/><?  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
April  S,  1916. 
PUBLISHER’S  DESK 
The  enclosed  literature  comes  to  me 
through  a  neighbor.  You  will  appreciate 
the  advertising  significance  of  the  ques¬ 
tions,  and  if  you  would  print  the  reply  it 
would  serve  as  u  classic  model  for  other 
farmers  who  resent  this  attempt  of  an 
editor  to  invade  their  private  and  home 
affairs,  and  exploit  them  to  draw  adver¬ 
tising  revenue  to  his  paper.  S. 
New  York. 
The  literature  is  from  a  modest  gentle¬ 
man,  who  gives  himself  the  title  of  Doe- 
tor  and  editor.  This  titled  editor  asks 
his  subscriber  about  150  questions  of  a 
purely  personal  nature,  relating  almost 
entirely  to  articles  used  by  women,  or 
goods  used  in  the  home  or  on  the  farm. 
While  these  questions  are  asked  under 
editorial  disguise  the  information  is  clear¬ 
ly  wanted  to  influence  advertisers  to  use. 
the  paper.  As  an  inducement,  to  get  se¬ 
rious  replies  $25  in  prizes  are  offered  for 
complete  and  quick  answers.  The  Doctor- 
editor  would  really  serve  his  own  pur¬ 
pose  better  if  he  frankly  admitted  his  pur¬ 
pose  and  asked  the  information  as  a  bus¬ 
iness  favor.  A  farmer  may  overlook  an 
impudent  question  on  tbc  ground  that  no 
impertinence  was  intended,  but  he  can 
hardly  forgive  a  deliberate  insult  to  his 
intelligence.  Following  is  the  letter 
which  our  friend  calls  a  “classic  model,’* 
but  there  is  no  intimation  that  it  is  of¬ 
fered  in  competition  for  a  prize  : 
Dear  Dr,  - . 
Yours  of  the  10th  enclosing  list  of 
questions  received.  Little  you  recked  that 
in  sending  me  that  list  of  questions  you 
were  getting  in  touch  with  one  whose 
tlii rat  for  knowledge  is  second  only  to 
your  own,  and  one  who  deems  it  but  fair 
and  just  that  the  exchange  of  informa¬ 
tion  should  be  mutual.  Host  assured  that 
the  following  questions  have  not  been 
asked  idly,  but  that  a  full  and  careful 
answer  is  desired  to  each  and  every  one. 
1.  What  college  conferred  upon  you 
the  degree  of  doctor? 
2.  Was  it  acquired  as  the  result  of 
work  accomplished  or  was  if  bought? 
2.  If  bought,  what  did  it  cost  you? 
4.  What  is  your  salary  as  editor  of 
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5.  Have  you  any  other  income?  If 
so.  how  much? 
<».  Are  you  able  to  live  in  the  style  to 
which  you  think  you  belong  and  live  with¬ 
in  your  income? 
7.  Does  your  wife  do  her  own  wash¬ 
ing?  Hand  power  or  machinery? 
8.  Have  you  any  children?  How 
many?  Do  they  go  to  private  or  city 
schools? 
9.  Have  you  an  automobile  or  only  a 
Ford?  If  yon  have  a  car  do  you  have  a 
chauffeur  or  drive  yourself?  If  a  chauf¬ 
feur.  how  much  do  you  pay  him? 
'  10.  Do  you  own  the  house  in  which 
you  live  or  do  you  rent? 
11.  What  kind  of  furniture  do  you 
have?  Louis  Quatorze?  Chippendale? 
Mission?  Willow?  If  other  kind,  please 
so  state. 
12.  If  you  failed  as  an  editor,  what 
line  of  work  would  you  take  up? 
A  feeling  of  sadness  comes  o’er  me 
when  I  think  that  my  subscription  tn 
-  -  is  paid  for  two  years  in 
advance,  and  that  the  only  return  I  can 
get  for  one  dollar  and  thirty-three  and 
one-third  cents  is  the  handling  of  a  paper, 
the  quality  of  which  is  the  poorest  that 
comes  into  my  home,  for  the  next  two 
years. 
Trusting  to  receive  an  early  reply,  I  am 
Yours  for  more  knowledge, 
Goshen,  N.  Y.  C.  B.  C. 
Find  enclosed  advertisement  of  Willis 
B.  Monger,  Kansas  City,  Mo.,  taken  from 
- If  I  am  not  mis¬ 
taken  this  is  the  same  man  that  sent 
agents  through  this  part  of  the  country 
a  year  or  two  ago.  I  was  not  here  at 
the  time,  but  people  I  know  told  me 
about  it.  One  man  went  to  southeast 
Missouri  to  look  at  the  laud.  He  said 
it  was  so  poor  that  the  young  trees  which 
made  tip  the  “orchard"  were  dyiug,  al¬ 
though  Muuger  had  mulched  some  of 
them  in  an  attempt  to  keep  them  alive. 
His  canning  plant  which  was  to  pay 
dividends  to  the  land  purchaser  was  an 
old  shed.  *Of  course  the  scheme  was  to 
sell  the  land  to  the  purchaser  before  he 
saw  it.  One  cripple  from  here  invested 
and  went  down  to  the  land,  expecting 
to  support  himself  in  the  colony  town, 
but  found  the  town  consisted  of  the 
company’s  office  and  hotel.  The  few  peo¬ 
ple  on  the  land  had  invested  all  their 
foiney,  and  only  wanted  to  get  enough  to¬ 
gether  to  get  away.  One  woman  here 
invested  all  her  money  in  the  scheme, 
and  of  course  lost  it  all.  There  were 
other  cases.  If  Muuger’s  statement  about 
the  Blue  Sky  law'  is  correct  what  is  the 
use  of  having  such  a  law?  F.  w. 
Missouri. 
There  never  was  a  law  enacted  that 
some  individuals  did  not  violate  the  spirit 
if  not  the  letter  of  it  with  impunity. 
Land  is  the  most  staple  of  all  invest-  | 
merits,  and  this  is  the  very  reason  why 
promoters  use  it  as  a  basis  for  their  get- 
ricli  schemes.  The  most  worthless  land 
serves  their  purpose,  because  few  go  to 
see  the  land  and  many  of  those  who  do 
are  not  competent  to  judge  of  its  value. 
Florida  has  perhaps  suffered  more  than 
any  other  State  by  the  land  boomer  sell¬ 
ing  worthless  land  to  people  at  a  dis¬ 
tance.  There  are  many  sections  of  Flor¬ 
ida,  where  the  laud  is  ns  good  as  any 
spot  iu  the  whole  country,  with  the  add¬ 
ed  advantage  of  the  delightful  climate. 
But  it  is  the  swamps  an <1  sandhills  that 
the  land  sharks  sell  to  the  unsuspecting. 
The  same  is  true  whether  the  laud 
scheme  emanates  from  Missouri,  Texas 
or  our  own  beautiful  Long  Island  which 
has  been  infested  with  land  schemers  as 
much  as  any  other  section  we  know. 
I  was  in  the  city  around  New  Year’s 
looking  up  one  or  two  additional  cus¬ 
tomers  for  eggs,  and  .Tan.  3  I  contracted 
with  Mr.  T.  1\  Holliday,  who  has  a  little 
butter  and  egg  store  at  493  Tompkins 
Ave.,  Brooklyn,  to  ship  him  a  case  of 
fancy  white  eggs  at  the  market  price. 
There  is  due  me  on  the  crate  $18.50. 
They  agreed  to  pay  express  charges.  If 
this  case  is  one  which  will  command 
your  attention  I  can  assure  you  in  ad¬ 
vance  of  my  gratitude  for  anything  you 
may  be  able  to  do  for  me.  Some  day  I 
hope  to  be  able,  to  let  $13. 50's  go  once  in 
a  while  without  missing  them.  At  pres¬ 
cut  1  am  not  so  fortunately  situated. 
New  York.  \v.  s.  M. 
Mr.  Halliday  must  find  it  profitable  to 
run  his  store  in  this  manner.  He  has 
the  goods  and  the  money.  The  shipper 
has  the  experience.  We  cannot  find  any 
rating  for  him.  and  the  amount  is  too 
small  for  suit,  but  the  transaction  will 
serve  to  emphasize  the  necessity  of  ship¬ 
ping  to  only  those  who  can  furnish  un¬ 
qualified  recoin  men dat  i  ous. 
A  sentence  of  three  months  in  the 
county  jail,  with  a  line  of  $500,  wfts_  im¬ 
posed  yesterday  on  I.iu  wood  Ilaines, 
president  of  l.inwood  Ilaines,  Ltd.,  a  mil¬ 
lion  dollar  mail  order  house  at  Oamcien, 
which  failed  in  1914.  Haines  was  con¬ 
victed  last  week  for  obtaining  money 
under  false  pretenses  by  selling  $100 
worth  of  stock  in  the  mail  order  concern 
to  George  W.  Blatchley.  a  farmer.  Jess 
than  a  month  before  its  failure.  Haines 
will  appeal. 
The  above  clipping  is  from  a  local  pa¬ 
per  at  Freehold,  N.  J.  At  the  time  Mr. 
Haines  was  promoting  this  company  and 
selling  stock  to  farmers  we  publicly  ad¬ 
vised  our  people  against  the  investment, 
and  refused  the  firm's  advertising  of  mer¬ 
chandise  for  the  reason  that  we  would 
not  even  indirectly  be  responsible  for  any 
of  our  people  investing  their  savings  in 
this  stock  promotion  scheme.  Disaster 
usually  follows  in  the  wake  of  all  these 
concerns  selling  stock  to  country  people. 
I  have  bought  on  the  installment  plan  a 
five-acre  farm  of  the  Eubank  Farms  Cmn- 
pauv,  whose  offices  are  in  Pittsburg,  L’a. 
They  agree  to  set  it  out  to  figs  mid  give 
a  very  glowing  account  of  the  returns  they 
will  make  on  the  investment.  I  have 
been  wondering  since  if  T  Would  better 
not  find  out  before  paying  in  very  much 
money  whether  or  not  they  and  the  fig 
proposition  were  all  right.  If  you  could 
give  me  any  information  on  this  it  would 
be  greatly  appreciated.  t>.  o. 
Vermont. 
The  Eubank  Farms  Co.,  of  Pittsburg, 
Pa.,  advertised  to  give  away  five  acres  of 
land  to  anyone  who  will  agree  to  pay  the 
company  $G  a  month  for  planting  the  land 
with  figs  and  caring  for  the  trees  until 
they  come  in  bearing.  The  above  sub¬ 
scriber  who  bit  on  the  alluring  bait,  sends 
us  the  contract  entered  into  with  the  firm 
which  provides  that.  $0  per  month  is  to  be 
paid  for  five  months,  $11  per  month  for 
34  mouths,  and  $10  per  month  for  31 
months — making  a  total  of  $900  the  re¬ 
cipient  of  this  gift  of  five  acres  of  laud  is 
obliged  to  pay  to  the  Eubank  Farms  Co. 
before  the  obligation  is  cancelled.  Pay¬ 
ing  $900  for  five  acres  in  these  install¬ 
ments  is  quite  different  from  the  magnan¬ 
imous  gift  which  the  Eubank  Farms  Co. 
try  to  make  it  appear  to  be  in  their  adver¬ 
tising  proposition.  If  the  land  were  ever 
so  productive  and  tig  raising  ever  so  prof¬ 
itable  we  would  still  advise  our  people 
to  have  nothing  whatever  to  do  with  a 
fake  land  scheme  of  this  kind.  The  only 
ones  who  could  ever  make  any  profit  out 
of  the  fig  business  on  this  basis  are  the 
promoters  of  this  scheme. 
Stagestkuck  Maiden  (after  trying 
her  voice)  :  "Do  you  think  I  can  ever  do 
anything  with  my  voice?”  Stage  Man¬ 
ager:  “Well,  it  may  come  in  handy  iu 
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White  Lead  for  painting 
his  house.  Don’t  be  satis¬ 
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Be  specific. 
Let  us  send  you 
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which  tells  why  Dutch 
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