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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 4, 1922 
PUBLISHER'S DESK 
All letters to Publisher’s Desk depart¬ 
ment must be signed with winter’s full 
name and address given. Many inquiries 
are answered by mail instead of printing 
inquiry and answer, hence unsigned let¬ 
ters receive no consideration. 
The recent upheaval in the “bucket 
shop” industry in Wall Street as exposed 
in the daily press has created a sensa¬ 
tion. The financial world was not un¬ 
aware of the large number of bucket 
shops in operation, whose business it is 
to “shear the lambs.” One victim of the 
buckeleers writes us he bought shares 
of Baltimore & Ohio stock on the install¬ 
ment plan from one of these institutions, 
which has recently gone bankrupt and 
the proprietor is under criminal indict¬ 
ment. The shark, acting in the guise of 
n broker, simply put the payments into 
his own pocket, and did not purchase the 
stock for the customer. He has no re¬ 
dress unless the swindling bucket shop 
proprietor can be forced by criminal pro¬ 
ceedings to give up his ill-gotten gains. 
The exposures showed the danger of deal¬ 
ing with unknown brokers. As a rule, 
the houses members of the Stock Ex¬ 
change are best, but the exchanges are 
now expelling some members for buek- 
eteering. 
About two weeks ago 1 sent a poem 
that I had. written to the Broadway 
Composing Studios, 14S2 Broadway, New 
York. .lust the other day I received 
word from them saying that they ac¬ 
cepted it. and they feel sure that by hay¬ 
ing some revisions made by their lyric' 
editor and chief composer, George Graff. 
Jr., they can complete the same into a 
song that will meet my entire approval. 
They are willing to undertake this work 
and to guarantee to secure the publica¬ 
tion of the complete song by a New York 
publisher on a royalty basis of not less 
than three cents per copy sold. I am 
enclosing the contract, guarantee, etc. 
As I am only a schoolgirl yet. 1 would 
appreciate your kindness and advice. 
Massachusetts. it. E. o. 
This innocent schoolgirl would be au 
easy victim to the scheme had she failed 
to ask advice. The Broadway Composing 
Studio praised the song, of course, and 
they no doubt send the same form letter 
praising every song submitted, whether 
it has merit or not. The studio, or the 
man back of it, wants the $00 fee for 
revising and setting to music. It would 
he an easy*mutter to arrange with some 
publisher to print some copies, and thus 
comply with the guarantee. The wicked 
part of the scheme is to lead ambitious 
girls to believe that the songs they write 
will find a ready sale with the public in 
order to get the $00 fe<—easy money. 
A few days ago I read an advertise¬ 
ment in the Syracuse Post : Stu»dard for 
women to earn $10 or $15 a week during 
spare time by addressing and mailing 
music circulars, so l answered the ad¬ 
vertisement. and got a reply, which I am 
enclosing. If it is a reliable proposition 
I should he interested in it, but I want 
to be sure before going further, therefore 
I shall be very grateful for your advice 
on the matter as to the honesty of such 
a proposition. MRS. R. c. 
This is another fake scheme—you send 
$2 for a working outfit and the first cir¬ 
cular leads the woman answering the ad¬ 
vertisement to believe that she will be 
paid $10 per 100 for mailing the circu¬ 
lars. After she sends the $2 then she will 
find that her pay will depend upon the 
amount of sales made from the circulars 
mailed by her. A mean “work at home” 
scheme. 
Of interest to farmers generally and of 
particular interest to those who may have 
listed their farms for sale with D. B. 
Cornell, lately of Great Barriugton, 
Mass., but now claiming residence in 
Rensselaer County, X. Y., is the Supreme 
Court suit recently brought by Co roe 11 in 
Rensselaer County against .T. O. Conklin, 
who resides in the town of Oneonta. The 
suit was brought because Conklin sold 
his farm independently after it had been 
listed with the Cornell agency and with¬ 
out paying The withdrawal fee specified 
in the contract. 
Mr. Conklin filed an answer through 
his attorney. George L. Boekes. of this 
city, denying liability for any commission 
to Cornell upon the ground that the Cor¬ 
nell contract was an attempted swindle. 
Attorney Boekes secured an order on 
Saturday from Justice Stale.v, sitting at 
a special term of Supreme Court at 
Albany, changing the place of trial from 
Rensselaer County to Otsego County. 
Cornell, after various vain efforts to com¬ 
promise the case, failed to oppose the 
motion for change of venue. 
The Cornell agency has had many 
farms in this and adjoining counties 
listed for sale, and in several instances 
suits have been brought for collection of 
commissions and have been allowed to go 
by default when the defendants showed a 
disposition to fight the actions.—Oneonta 
Star, 
The above record has been duplicated 
many times in this State. Many farmers 
have been virtually blackmailed into mak¬ 
ing settlement in such cases rather than 
go to the expense and annoyance of a 
lawsuit. Every farmer owes it to the 
community not to be taken advantage of 
in this way. even though a compromise 
settlement might be the cheapest way out 
for an individual. The only way to stop 
such nefarious work is to fight it to a 
finish. We have never known Cornell to 
come into court when the farm owner 
put up a fight. 
On December 5 I sent an order for 25 
laying pullets and a certified check amount¬ 
ing to $93.75 ‘to the Berlins Grand View 
Poultry Farm, Center Hall, Pa. Ten 
days later they sent me a card, saying 
they would send me selected birds in a 
day or two. Instead, they sent them 
December 21, never notifying me when 
shipment had been made, and the birds 
were sick at that, and none laying; they 
are such a poor lot of birds as I have 
never seen in my life. The agreement 
was. should I not be satisfied with the 
pullets, they would return my money. 
New Jersey j. H. 
In acknowledging the order on Decem¬ 
ber 14, the Berlin's Grand View Poul¬ 
try Farm writes the customer as follows: 
Entirely out. of shipping coops. Expect 
supply in tomorrow. Will select choice 
stock. If not O. K., same may he re¬ 
turned after giving us notice and receiv¬ 
ing our consent and shipping orders. 
Notwithstanding the above voluntary 
offer after the order was received, Berlin 
refuses to “consent” to the return of the 
birds on the grounds that the purchaser 
failed to send him statement from the ex¬ 
press agent confirming the conditions and 
return the report to him within 24 hours. 
Mr, Berlin claims the above is a condition 
of his “guarantee.” but it does not form 
a part of the December 14 communica¬ 
tion. Express agents are only supposed 
to make uote of dead birds in shipment, 
and not pass upon physical condition and 
quality of the birds. We have given the 
contentions of both sides of the contro¬ 
versy. The transaction was a result of 
an advertisement in another publication, 
so that The R. N.-Y. has no responsi¬ 
bility in the case, except in the interest of 
fair dealing, and that other readers may 
have the record for their guidance. If 
Mr. Berlin is right in his refusal to take 
the birds hack, we can trust to the Tug¬ 
ged honesty of our readers to so decide 
and continue their patronage. 
Inclosed is a cheek for $1 as subscription 
for a year. Although this is entirely out 
of my liue, I subscribe for the following 
reasons: I find I can carry on a conver¬ 
sation intelligently with any of my farmer 
friends; the editorials are almost an edu¬ 
cation in themselves; the “Hope Farm 
Notes” are worth much more than the 
small price paid. In fact I should rather 
hate to get along withot t Tine R. N.-Y. 
Massachusetts. dr. w. n. 8. 
There is a practical thought iu the 
above letter for professional and business 
men. Aside from the pleasure of knowing 
an industry that keeps one constantly in 
touch with primitive nature, it is of prac¬ 
tical value to one associating with coun¬ 
try people to he able to carry on an intel¬ 
ligent conversation with the mm and 
■women of the farm and farm home. 
I find more satisfaction in The R. N.-Y. 
than in any of the other papers that I 
am reading. Some oil shark has been 
through here, and cleaned up about 
$50,000 from the farmers, and I am sure 
they will lose every dollar. 1 told a few 
of tuy neighbors that if the farmers read 
The R. N.-Y. they would have had their 
money yet. H. i- 
Missouri. 
Certainly, the farmers who take The 
R. N.-Y. for their guide will not put their 
savings into “wildcat" oil propositions. 
And the wildcat variety is the only kind 
that, is sold by agents in country districts. 
Don't buy stocks peddled by oily-tongued 
salesmen. 
The truest test of civilization is not the 
census, nor the size of cities, nor the 
crops; no, but the kind of man the coun¬ 
try turns out.—Emerson. 
What makes cut glass 
so heavy? 
B EAUTIFUL, sparkling like a diamond, cut glass 
is always a joy. But why is it so heavy ? 
None but the informed would ever know. Cut glass 
is more than one-third lead. Thus lead plumbing, 
white-lead paint, and cut glass are in a sense all of 
one family. 
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The lead for cut glass (and for other fine glass, such 
as that for optical use, electric light bulbs, etc.) is first 
changed into lead oxide by burning it in a furnace. 
This oxide is known as red-lead. It is a reddish powder. 
This powder, mixed with silica (fine white sand) and 
potash, becomes clear glass when melted in a furnace. 
At a lower temperature, the molten glass is blown 
into various shapes. 
This is only a minor use of lead in making modern 
life pleasant and comfortable, yet hundreds of tons of 
red-lead are used in this way every year. 
Lead is also an important factor in the manufacture 
of rubber, and this means that there is lead in your 
overshoes, your automobile tires, fountain pen, pipe 
stem, and in dozens of other familiar articles con¬ 
taining rubber. 
Civilization has found almost countless uses for lead, 
during centuries of experiment and progress, but it 
would be hard to find any other that is so important 
as the conversion of pure metallic lead into white-lead 
—the principal factor in good paint. 
People are using paint more intelligently and more 
liberally today than ever before. They are recognizing 
the importance of the advice given in the terse maxim, 
“Save the surface and you save all.” 
The quality of a paint depends on the quantity of 
white-lead it contains. Some paint manufacturers use 
more white-lead, some less, in the paint they make. 
Most painters know that the most durable paint they 
can apply to a building is pure white-lead, thinned 
with pure linseed oil. 
National Lead Company makes white-lead of the 
highest quality, and sells it, mixed with pure linseed 
oil, under the name and trade mark of 
Dutch Boy White-Lead 
Write to our nearest branch office, Department G, 
for a free copy of our “Wonder Book of Lead,” which 
interestingly describes the hundred-and-one ways in 
which lead enters into the daily life of everyone. 
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Some Products Made by National Lead Company 
Dutch Boy White-Lead 
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Flake White 
Dutch Boy Linseed Oil 
Lead Tubing 
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Lead Wire 
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