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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
.7ul£ 15, 1923 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
For the first six mouths of the year 
1922, from January 1 to June 30, the 
average weekly circulation of The Rural 
New-Yorker was 200,500 copies. Nearly 
one-half of this is in New York State. 
The paper practically visits one out of 
every two farm homes in the State. In 
The State of New Jersey, with about 
30,000 farms. Tub R. N.-1 t . has a circu¬ 
lation of 23,000. In all territory adja¬ 
cent to New York the proportion is prac¬ 
tically the same. The present manage¬ 
ment has seen the paper grow from 
wheelbarrow proportions to carload 
shipments. Iu these times, when many 
papers are going out of existence, 
and others changing and cheapening 
to keep going, it: is good to be able 
to keep up the quality and service, 
and to see :tbe circulation grow right 
along through the hard times. The ex¬ 
perience proves clearly enough that farm¬ 
ers appreciate au honest service when 
they get it. In that service we simply 
do our best from week to week. Our 
friends do their part every day in the 
year. 
Au alleged oil stock promotion fraud 
in which the investing public is said to 
have been mulcted of nearly $1,000,009 
was revealed yesterday with the filing iu 
Federal Court of an indictment charging 
the Petroleum Producing and Refining 
Corporation and six individuals connected 
with its financing with using the mails 
to defraud. 
Instead of the usual printed prospectus 
10.090 beautifully engraved “invitations” 
were sent out to the “sucker list." The 
alleged intended victim was “invited to 
inquire how he may participate with a 
number oF other business men in under¬ 
writing the original issue of securities of 
the company." 
The indictment charges that it was 
part of the alleged conspiracy that a large 
proportion of the funds received from the 
sale of bonds should he diverted to the 
use of the individual defendants. Accord¬ 
ing to the report of the postoffiee inspec¬ 
tor who investigated the ease, only “5 per 
cent of the money paid for the securities 
found its way to the treasury, and nearly 
half of this amount was used for expense 
accounts and other overhead charges con¬ 
nected with the financing. 
Of the remaining 65 per cent, the re¬ 
port states, 25 per cent, represented The 
commission of the road salesman. 5 per 
cent was divided between the two sales 
managers. Oeorge <1. Ilynson ami George 
I,. Derr; 10 per cent was paid to Ilynson 
for furnishing the so-called “sucker list.’’ 
and 25 per cent went to William A, Stu¬ 
art, president of the company, in part 
payment for oil leases iu Texas, for which 
he is alleged to have paid approximately 
$4,000. 
In addition, tlie report states that 
Ilynson and Derr received a fixed salary 
from the company of $25,000 a year, 
while Stuart’s compensation was to start 
at $10,000 and go up by rapid stages to 
$20,000. These three are the principal 
individual defendants named in tin- 
charges. Ilynson, according to Mr. Pola- 
koflf. promoted the Pathfinder Motor Com¬ 
pany of America, the George G. Ilynson 
Company, the Cox Automatic Pipe Rend¬ 
ing Company, the All Package Grocery 
Company and other concerns in the 
course of a long career of almost uninter¬ 
rupted failures. 
Another individual defendant is the 
secretary and treasurer of the indicted 
company. Colonel Henry P. Bopo, former 
vice-president of the Carnegie Steel Cor¬ 
poration. 
There was nothing behind the securi¬ 
ties, which formed part of an issue of 
$1.000,000 worth of 7 per cent gold bonds, 
but some shallow wells and pipe lines and 
leases on some 5.000 acres in Texas, 
Oklahoma and Kansas, most of which 
had been obtained by Stuart for $1 an 
acre and a promise ito drill within a 
year.—Local Paper. 
We give this report at some length be¬ 
cause it is a typical case and indicates 
what is generally behind these promotion 
cases. Here was $1,000,000, and more 
to be added if needed, and nothing 
behind it but a lease on wild land. The 
money seems to have been divided up 
between the promoters, and this is the 
rule iu such cases. 
These notes in the Pittsburg Press by 
Arthur Brisbane might afford you an op¬ 
portunity for a little missionary work at 
home. Mr. Brisbane ought to he better 
informed. H. ir. E. 
Pennsylvania. 
The above remarks came in a clipping 
in which Mr. Brisbane commends some 
of the frenzied financing of E. G. Lewis 
on the Pacific coast. He says Mr. 
Lewis got $15,000,000 for laud develop¬ 
ment by advertising in California papers 
and extols the efficiency of advertising as 
a means of material aid and social prog¬ 
ress. Mr. Lewis got $12,000,000 some 
years ago l>y advertising from St. Louis 
for land development and other fakes and 
swindles. The dupes lost every cent of 
it. Now he is using California papers to 
the same purpose. The papers are help¬ 
ing him repeat the St. Louis experience. 
That kind of business does not tend to 
material or social progress. It tends to 
depress both. It is a direct means of 
loss of confidence iu advertising and in 
the papers that publish it. To some ex¬ 
tent it discredits all advertising and all 
publishers. Mr. Brisbane is a brilliant 
editor. He is credited as the highest paid 
editorial writer in this country. But he 
is using his popularity to bad effect in 
booming the E. G. Lewis financial 
schemes. 
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I am glad to renew my subscription to 
your valuable paper. I am glad to add 
iny testimony to the meritorious work 
you are doing and have done in helping 
on the farmers’ interest in (heir pursuit. 
We have got the habit of looking to see 
what The R. N.-Y. has to say about 
questions in farm life. If your editor 
indorses it we feel sure to go ahead. >So 
go on in this good work, and you will 
have the indorsement of your numerous 
readers, who will continue to look to you 
for help. G. F. w. 
Massachusetts. 
While this spirit of our friends Im¬ 
poses a great responsibility, which con¬ 
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business, we must confess that we appre¬ 
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We have but one motive, and that is a 
mir nose to serve the farm interests, to 
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For some years Alois i . owonooa, onti 
of Chicago and Washington, 1>. but 
now of Now York City, bas been selling 
a mail-order “course” in his "System of 
Physiological Exercise.” Naturally, the 
cure aud alleviation of disease is part 
and parcel of the “system," for this may 
always he counted on to widen the appeal 
and to provide the opportunity of using 
the ubiquitous testimonial whose commer¬ 
cial value is as large as its seienlific value 
is small. 
“Conscious Evolution’ is Swohoda s 
shibboleth. Not that it means anything, 
but it sounds rather scientific, and can 
be counted on to impress both the 
thoughtless and that still larger class of 
individuals who merely think they think. 
Swohoda is not the first to appreciate that 
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DIG YOUR cCj* POTATOES 
■Ik/iA JSu. 
WSdOSk WAY 
Vast stretches of undeveloped fertile agricultural 
land of the highest productiveness await the set¬ 
tler in Western Canada. The land possesses the 
same character of soil as that which has produced 
the high quality of cereals that have carried off 
the world's premier honors so many times. 
Native grasses are Rich and Abundant- 
Cattle fattens on them without any grain being fed. 
The place for the man with limited capital to 
overcome difficulties of high priced land or the 
burden of heavy rents is in Western Canada— 
where land is cheap, where a home may be made 
at low cost, and where dairying, mixed farming and 
stock raising are particularly profitable. 
Homestead of 160 acres in the more remote 
districts FREE to settlers. 
For illustrated literature,maps, description of farm 
opportunities in Munitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and 
British Columbia.reduced railway retaa, etc .write to 
O. G. RUTLEDGE 
301 E. Cenosoe Street, Syracuse, N. Y. 
Authorized Agent, Dept, of 
Immigration and Colonizetlon, 
Dominion of Ceneda. 
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Illustrated catalog of Farquhar 
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Presses, etc. Ask for literature. 
The enclosed circular of the Gulf Ooast 
Pecan & Fruit Company, Fort Worth. 
Tex., speaks for itself. I thought perhaps 
you would care to give your opinion to the 
readers of TllE R. N.-Y. One hundred 
dollars invested will not $10,000 and per¬ 
haps $30,000, and I guess they will throw 
iu the Brooklyn bridge for good measure. 
New York. h, Milan. 
The above sarcastic remark is very ap¬ 
propriate. The company claims to own 
1.025 acres of land, on which it proposes 
to grow Winter vegetables, fruits, nuts, 
etc., and figures out profits ton paper) of 
from $1,000 to $-1,000 per acre. The pub¬ 
lic are let iu on the proposition by buy¬ 
ing “participating interests" at $100 each 
and on easy payments. We can find no 
rating for the company in commercial 
agency hooks, and our long experience 
with such development schemes causes us 
to advise our readers to give the propo¬ 
sition u wide berth. 
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