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lb* RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 11, 1922 
■ I PUBLISHER’S DESK j 
Alfred E. Lindsay of New York has 
just been indicted and arrested on a 
charge of fraud. lie got himself intro¬ 
duced to some women with personal bank 
accounts. He told these women that he 
and George F. Baker, Thomas Lamont, 
James A. Stillman and other prominent 
Wall Street financiers were members of 
ft domino club where they passed leisure 
hours in a friendly game, and talked big 
finance. In short, they had decided to 
form a pool and make everyone rich who 
was permitted to get into it. Of course 
Mr. Lindsay’s new friends were permitted 
to come in. They passed over about a 
million dollars, and never got any of it 
back. They never will. Mr. Lindsay 
lived like a prince in a city suburb, and 
some of the victims are penniless. It is 
true that city people are sometimes mis¬ 
led by slick-tongued schemers; but any 
country faker would know better than to 
approach country women with the Lind¬ 
say tale. For the real thing in idiotic 
gullibility go to the city woman with a 
bank account and a social ambition. 
T am enclosing herewith some litera¬ 
ture a friend of mine has received from 
tile American School of Aviation. 3001 
Michigan Avenue. Chicago. What infor¬ 
mation can you give me regarding the 
reliability and standing of this school? 
Would you advise anyone interested in 
aviation to take their course of instruc¬ 
tion or go to Chicago and take up studies 
with them there? Can you recommend a 
better school of aviation to attend or 
take up a correspondence course with? 
Massachusetts. l. i.. 
Our readers know that we take little 
stock in correspondence courses as a 
whole, but we think the limit of credulity 
has been reached when anyone expects 
to learn aviation by correspondence. It 
might be said to he the safest way to 
study the subject from the viewpoint that 
the student’s neck would be in no danger 
by such long distance acquaintance with 
the flying machine! The memory courses, 
efficiency courses, etc., have now been put 
in the background. We often wonder if 
these correspondence course promoters 
take themselves seriously, or are they 
laughing in their sleeves at the expense of 
their victims? 
Will you inform me as to the Central 
Copper Company of Arizona, Inc.? I 
am a bit sceptical about investing money 
in the company, and therefore come to 
you for advice first. I am sending you 
some of their literature under separate 
cover, so you can see for yourself. 
New Jersey. ,\. i,. 
We have many inquiries about the 
Central Copper Company stock, which 
indicates that the promoters are working 
country districts hard. Subscribers are 
solicited to buy 134 shares at 75 cents 
per share. The order blank states: “No 
order accepted for more than $100.” This 
is good confidence dope. We should not 
like to offer the promoters cash for a 
thousand shares, notwithstanding the 
above claim. The subscriber might well 
he sceptical about investing in this stock, 
which is an undesirable speculation, and 
might be classed as a gamble. The old- 
established copper concerns have ceased 
production, and some have paid no divi¬ 
dends during the past year. The pros¬ 
pects for the Central Copper Company, 
which is selling stock to the public in 
$100 parcels to finance its operations, 
cannot be said to be brilliant. The logic 
of the situation is that if the company 
had good prospects it would not be 
obliged to sell stock in this way. Those 
who want to speculate in copper stocks 
will find plenty of opportunity to do so 
in the stocks of the established concerns 
which upon the return of better condi¬ 
tions in the trade will be in position to 
take advantage of them—provided better 
conditions do return. 
Can you tell me anything as to the 
reliability of the Good Wear Cloth Co.. 
Asbury, Park. N. J., who advertise work 
at home, making ladies’ gloves, and a 
book on glove manufacturing, the price 
of which is said to be $3.50? Are they 
a large company? My father has been a 
subscriber to The R. N.-Y. for a long 
time, and thinks much of the paper, 
Michigan. m. e. b. 
The Good Wear Cloth Company has no 
established financial responsibility that 
we can find—and the proposition has the 
“earmarks" of a deceptive work at home 
scheme. The houses that really want 
women to do work at home for them do 
not exact advance remittance for the 
goods on which the work is to be per¬ 
formed. If there he any legitimate home 
work offered on any other basis we shall 
be glad to know of it. 
I am coming to you with a protest on 
the firm of Albert llerskovits & Son. 
44-50 West 28th street. New York. You 
have been carrying their advertisement. 
T have just received returns from ship- 
rnenl of fur sent them. Their grading is 
the worst I have ever received in 20 years 
of handling and shipping to a good many 
different firms; also requested shipment 
held separate, but. they refused to do that, 
as they advertise. Their price list and 
promises are very nicely got up, I guess 
to catch suckers. Allowing their grading 
on skunk, the price other firms are pay¬ 
ing would make about $10 difference, and 
other things according. I should have 
received around $75, but only gor $59. 
I have been interested in reading your 
columns, and your stand iu such matters. 
Would you take up the matter of this 
shipment, and see if you can get anv ad¬ 
justment? I would have been glad to 
have the fur hack, but that seems out of 
question. G. E. c. 
New York. 
Albert llerskovits & Son is a house of 
high financial responsibility, but we have 
a number of complaints from shippers of 
the same nature as the above. There is 
always room for a difference of opinion 
as to the value of raw furs, but when a 
shipper requests that the goods be “held 
separate.” the receiver is responsible for 
the shipper's valuation when the instruc¬ 
tions are not complied with. There is 
nothing on the return or grading sheet to 
indicate that the furs were held separate, 
while the firm states in a letter to us 
that they wore so held from December 6 
to December 13. On the latter date 
Llerskovits & Son received a protest on 
the grading of G. E. C’.’s furs through 
The R. N.-Y. The methods employed 
by this firm appear to be. similar to those 
of the large St. Louis houses which Pub¬ 
lisher's Desk has frequently warned ship¬ 
pers about. We are informed that some 
St. Louis graders have been employed by 
llerskovits & Son. which may account 
for the complaints from shippers. We 
hoid llerskovits & Son responsible for 
the shipper’s valuation, as his instructions 
to ‘‘hold separate” were not complied 
with. 
I thought, that the limit had been 
reached as far as fakes in the poultry 
industry were concerned, but just lake a 
look at enclosed clipping from a sample 
copy of the Poultry Tribune, ITow does 
the Puls-11 art Company explain the per¬ 
fect hatches obtained from the turtle’s 
eggs on a sunny beach, far removed from 
the pulsations of the mother turtle’s 
heart? t. o. b. 
New York. 
The advertisement describes a device, 
“Puls-llart,” for which, it is claimed, 
when placed in an incubator duplicates 
the heartbeats of the hen. The theory 
advanced is that this is all that is lacking 
in artificial incubation to duplicate the 
hatches produced by the hen. We do not 
know whether there is anything in the 
theory or not. but we doubt it. The cir¬ 
culars and advertising sound to us like 
”bunk," which has been very well de¬ 
scribed as "starting out with a recitation 
of well-known fact, and winding up with 
a lot of most wonderful fiction." The de¬ 
finition fits the literature of the company 
promoting this “Puls-IIart” idea very 
well. 
Enclosed find literature of Fnited Buy¬ 
ers’ Association. Holland, Mich., sent me 
a short time ago. Do you know anything 
about this association? Will you advise 
me about it? G. u. w. 
Kansas. 
The association asks $2 for member¬ 
ship for a period of one year, and the 
“membership” entitles the holder to buy 
groceries at wholesale prices, resulting 
in a big saving. We have no informa¬ 
tion as to the quality of the groceries fur¬ 
nished members by the association, but 
the scheme is an old one, and such 
schemes in the past have always resulted 
in a fizzle. Bidwell of the International 
Automobile Association (?), Buffalo, N. 
Y., employed the same scheme in the sale 
of automobile accessories. There is no 
way of determining in advance whether 
the goods furnished by this Buyers’ Asso¬ 
ciation are of the quality sold by grocery 
concerns at a similar price; but, in our 
opinion, based on experience of the past, 
the legitimate mail-order houses will fur¬ 
nish an equal grade of goods at. on the 
whole, more advantageous prices. 
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