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Jht RURAL NEW-YORKER 
June 3, 1922 
The Zip Prod nets Company, 313 Con¬ 
vent Avenue, New York City, seems to 
he ;i registered trade title and not an in 
lorpopited company. William .T. Bergen 
registered the title. He formerly con¬ 
ducted (lie Bergen Food Company, which 
lias been discontinued. Previous to this 
he was a salesman of food products. The 
above address is a private house, which 
lie gives as his headquarters. The busi¬ 
ness is manufacturing and selling stock 
and poultry conditioner, which seems to 
be manufactured at Tiffin. <9. lie de¬ 
clines to give any financial statement, 
and no outside estimate of bis worth has 
been obtained. One of our subscribers 
gave notes for a bill of the conditioner, 
lie afterwards canceled the order: but 
the notes promptly turned up in other 
hands. We are receiving complaints from 
other States in reference to notes. These 
reports would indicate that it would bo 
prudent to refuse to sign any papers 
submitted by these agents. 
In August. 1020. R. C. A\ hitebead, 
representing .Tames Tozzi & Co., produce 
commission merchants. 173 West Street. 
New York, bought 30 barrels_of potatoes 
from me. and agreed to pay $5 per barrel, 
delivered at the local shipping point. 1 
received a return of S3 a 'barrel, with 
$38.85 charges, leaving only $09.15. in¬ 
stead of $180, the price I sold them for. 
Can you collect the difference? W. H. 
Virginia. 
James Tozzi & Co. refuse to adjust 
this claim on the ground that Whitehead 
had no authority to buy the potatoes, and 
that his authority was limited to solicit¬ 
ing shipments to be sold on commission. 
Whitehead also now denies that lie 
bought the potatoes. Against both these 
claims is a written statement given at 
the time by Whitehead in bis own band- 
writing. It reads: "August 3. 1921. re¬ 
ceived from Wm. Ilann. 3G bbls. Irish 
potatoes at $5 (five dollars) a bbh. de¬ 
livered to Munden Station. I represent 
James Tozzi & Co., and they agree to 
this price. (Signed) 
“ROBERT C. WHITEHEAD.” 
•In addition this, the agent confirmed 
bis authority by presenting a telegram 
which read: “R. C. Whitehead, Munden. 
Ya. Telegram received. Will take car 
good number ones at your price. (Signed l 
James Tozzi & Co.” 
On examination it appears that the 
month was erased from the date line; but 
it shows that Whitehead did have author¬ 
ity to buy potatoes, that the telegram 
was used to induce this shipment, and 
was deception and fraud if not author¬ 
ized in this case, whether the agent had 
authority to buy this particular shipment 
nr not. The evidence shows he did buy it, 
and a sensitive regard for reputations 
would result in a full settlement for the 
shipment. We believe the balance could 
be collected through the courts, but the 
amount would hardly justify the expense 
of a suit in New York to a Virginia 
farmer. Even on a commission sale some 
explanation is due for a $3 sale in New 
York when local prices are $5 and bet¬ 
tor. Our antiquated system of food dis¬ 
tribution is the most outrageous that 
could be devised. We are spending mil¬ 
lions of city. State and national money 
in an alleged effort to protect the farmer, 
but the system is robbing nun with im¬ 
punity just the same, because it is a 
partnership of middlemen and politicians, 
who work their own purposes through 
the combination. 
The enclosed circular of the Frank P. 
Cleveland’s Oklahoma oil field tract is a 
new one. E. o. 
New York. 
Our good friend is in error. This is 
not brand new. Its head was up once or 
twice before, and we have bad at least 
two shots at it ; but the oversight may 
justify a third. One tiling about the 
scheme is that it is so transparent. Few 
should get caught. Mr. Cleveland wants 
to sell lots in an alleged oil field at •$<><> 
each. 1ml you send $5.35 extra to pay 
for deed, etc*. If our friend would send 
names and addresses of 20 or more men 
capable of paying the price, he can get a 
lot free, but he would also pay the $5.35. 
We used to have Fong Island land 
schemes 30 years ago, when tin* remit¬ 
tance for deeds was only $2.50, and all 
lots free. Mr. Cleveland has a record in 
other fields, and it does not inspire con¬ 
fidence. 
I enclose $1 for my renewal for an¬ 
other year. I have taken your paper j 
continuously since May. 1893. a period 
of 29 rears. During all of these years I 
have noted with a feeling of pride the 
growth of your paper, materially, and 
certainly in usefulness. You give us a 
clean moral journal which has been an 
inspiration to me many times in the dark 
hours. My prayer is that you may long 
be spared to continue your good work. 
Michigan. A. w. s. 
We have a feeling of pride, too, in the 
confidence of such good friends. If they 
find inspiration in the paper, we. too. get 
encouragement from them that lights up 
the dark Imurs and helps us over the 
rough places. Rarely any of us give in 
excess of what is returned to us. 
I ordered from Joseph Werner. Hart¬ 
ford. Conn., some bags T saw advertised 
in the Di.ric Miller. It read like this: 
"New burlap bags for 3)4 cents apiece.” j 
Did not mention quantity. 1 bad another 
letter from him. saying lie would send 
100 bags, and 1 sent $7 to him. Please 
advise me what I can do: $7 is all I sent 
him, but I would like to have something j 
for it or the money back. G. E. A. 
Virginia. 
Our investigation shows that Mr. Wer¬ 
ner moved from Hartford to Baltimore. 
Mil., but left there without giving any 
forwarding address. The Postoffice De¬ 
partment ought , to prosecute him for 
fraudulent use of the mails, and we are 
sending them tho facts for that purpose. 
After receiving the subscriber's remit¬ 
tance. Mr. Werner claimed he could not 
send so small a quantity of bags, but 
when refund of remittance was demanded, 
be ignored the request. 
I enclose herewith circular, etc., scut 
out by Story & Co. of New York, together 
with correspondence thereon, which are 
self-explanatory. This firm is clever, and 
keeps within the law. They have sold 
many foreign bonds, particularly City of 
Warsaw. Poland, bonds, handled by a so- 
called syndicate, of which Story & Co. 
were members. These bonds have been 
sold by them at $19.85 per 10,000 Polish 
marks. As the Polish mark is (and has 
been for six months past) worth about 
one-thirtieth of a cent, a 10,000 murk 
bond is worth, in our money, about $3. 
This is based upon the bond selling at pur 
in Warsaw, which it is not. but at a dis¬ 
count. so probablv about $2.25 or $2.50 
Why are skyscraper 
skeletons fiery red? 
O NE day there is a towering framework of steel 
beams, looming black and gaunt against the sky. 
A few days later the same steel skeleton is a flare 
of brilliant orange-red. 
Along the railroad, flashes of the same vivid hue 
greet your eye—here a bridge, there a tank; every 
piece of exposed iron or steel construction puts on, 
now and then, its coat of red. 
Only one 200th of an inch thick, this flaming coat, 
yet it is an armor that wards off decay and destruction. 
*%’ 1 ! 
The very words “iron” and “steel” are synonymous 
with strength and permanence; nevertheless these 
structural materials, when unprotected, fall an easy 
prey to nature’s destructive forces. Let iron or steel 
remain exposed one day to the air, and rust begins. 
Rust is decay—and decay is ruin. 
would be the value of one of these bonds 
today in our currency. With a selling 
price of $19.85 they would produce a 
handsome profit, and Story claims to have 
sold many thousands. Their circular pre- j 
dieted a profit of about $2,390 on a $19.85 
investment. w. n. g, 
Connecticut. 
The above letter corresponds with our 
own views of the Polish marks and other 
foreign money promoted by Story & Co. 
They are little more than a gamble. 
Story & Co. are now promoting the stock 
of Ainbro Stores and Garage Corpora¬ 
tion. which, from the prospectus, is in the 
formation state. The plan proposed is to 
erect a large building for the storage of 
motor trucks, with offices and stores. 
The promise of eight per cent dividend 
on the stock is “counting the chickens be¬ 
fore they are hatched." to say the least. 
We unhesitatingly advise our people to 
have nothing to do with such promotions 
or the brokerage houses promoting them. 
Why do you object to publishing securi¬ 
ties as an investment, for farmers? j. c. 
Pennsylvania. 
Because the business for the most part 
is speculative and uncertain, and those 
publishers wlm have fairly stable business 
do not sell certificates to their subscrib¬ 
ers. Those who have ever resorted to this 
expediency have been financially weak, 
and the certificates do not measure up 
to a safe investment. If an investment 
promises more than the normal rate of 
interest, or if you cannot sell it to a third 
party for what it cost you, leave it alone. 
You cannot fully appreciate the regard 
the farm people have for ynnr valued 
paper, standing up for us as you do on 
all occasions. We have a hard time to 
raise the dollar bill, with the speculators 
and auto thieves, or bogs, as you call 
them, to contend with, but do not over 
stop my paper. I will get the dollar 
some way, if l have to steal an auto tire. 
Ne w York. E. x. c. 
We hope this good friend will always 
have tin* dollar, and many more for other 
uses. Of course, he lias no serious de¬ 
signs on auto tires, but if be could man¬ 
age to strip a wheel while the owner is 
stealing from the orchard, he might at 
least force payment for the fruit. , 
The orange-red armor that prevents rust and decay 
is red-lead, an oxide of lead, which, when mixed with 
pure linseed oil, makes a paint impervious to the 
attacks of the weather. 
Here is one way in which lead enters into the daily 
life of civilized man. There are hundreds of other 
ways. Do you know that electric-light bulbs contain 
lead as an element in the glass? Do you know that 
there is lead in the hard rubber of fountain pens? 
Do you know that cans for meats, fish, fruits, vege¬ 
tables, as well as those containing oils and other 
products, are sealed with solder that contains lead? 
V V H 
There are hundreds of other important uses of lead. And of 
them all, the most important is the use of lead in good paint. 
Through all time, men have found no paint that so thoroughly 
protects metal as does red-lead paint, no paint that so thoroughly 
protects wood as does white-lead paint. 
People are coming to realize today as never before that poorly 
painted surfaces decay, well-painted surfaces endure. Millions 
of dollars in property values are being conserved yearly by a 
general heeding of the maxim, “Save the surface and you save all. 
National Lead Company makes red-lead of the highest qual¬ 
ity. This product is mixed with pure linseed oil, to give it paint 
consistency, and is sold as 
Dutch Boy Red-Lead 
Write to our nearest branch office, address Department G, 
for a free copy of our "Wonder Book of Lead," which interest¬ 
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