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Tht RURAL NEW-YORKER 
July 22,. 1922 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
All letters to Publisher's Desk depart¬ 
ment must be signed with writer’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. 
Inclosed you will find $5 for my re¬ 
newal : also a few new subscribers. I 
told them what good things were to be 
gotteu by reading Ibe paper. When the 
boat comes in and I don't get my copy I 
find out who does get it. so please send it 
to tln> following names. n, T. 
Honolulu. II. T. 
It is pleasant to know that, we have 
friends in our much favored island in the 
Pacific Ocean. 
IMease discontinue my subscription to 
your paper, I advise you this with re- 
gret. for I have heard Mr. t’ollingwood 
talk many times, and admire him and 
the paper for many years. Rut you dis¬ 
appointed me in the complaint I submit¬ 
ted to you. In so far as I can judge, you 
permitted the offender to depart in peace 
under circumstances that I should have 
thought would certainly provoke you to 
at least reprove him. The loss of my 
subscription will doubtless mean little to 
you. but it is all I can do. a. 
Massachusetts, 
When we pledged ourselves nearly 40 
years ago to try the experiment of run¬ 
ning a farm paper exclusively for the 
farmer, we did not anticipate the ob¬ 
stacles that farmers themselves sometimes 
opposed to the work. 
In this case we believe the subscriber 
had a legitimate complaint. We sympa¬ 
thized with him, and spent much time 
and correspondence in trying to effect an 
adjustment. The offender was none too 
courteous. TIis conduct was intended to 
provoke rebuke, if one were moved by 
feelings; but while we had strong sus¬ 
picions, and some facts against him, the 
evidence was not conclusive. The sub¬ 
scriber suffered, but there was the possi¬ 
bility that the other man was not to 
blame. We had no other record against 
him. We had to give him the benefit of 
the doubt against a good friend, and we 
lost the friend. 
Our one great concern in this work is 
to avoid an injustice to anyone. Our 
policy has always been to let a thousand 
rogues go free rather than cast suspic¬ 
ion on an honest man. The work could 
not he successful on any other policy. 
Publicity is a cruel weapon and. once 
used, can never be recalled, and no pub¬ 
lisher would be tolerated or justified in 
criticisms based on suspicions or pre¬ 
judices. President Harding recently made 
use of a couplet by 'Will Carleton that 
forcibly expressed this sentiment. ft 
runs: 
“Boys flying kites haul in their white¬ 
winged birds, 
But you can’t do that way when you’re 
flying words: 
Thoughts unexpressed may sometimes 
fall hack dead. 
But God himself can’t kill ’em. once 
they’re said.” 
1 advertised a farm for sale, and am 
enclosing literature received from the 
National Farm Products Corporation. 
Syracuse, N. Y. This looks like a new 
one in sucker bait. Send the descrip¬ 
tion of your farm, aud they buy it. with 
stock. We put a lot of faith in The It. 
N.-Y.. and any article not advertised 
there is investigated pretty carefully be¬ 
fore we send any money away for it. 
New York, v. w. E. 
The National Farm Products Corpora¬ 
tion seems to be a combination of the 
chain store idea, with a chain of farms. 
It does not appear that the project is in 
operation as yet. but our advice to those 
who may be approached to sell their 
farms to the corporation is to get real 
money before transferring the title, in¬ 
stead of stock. 
Four years ago I sent a remittance of 
$200 as a deposit on a New York State 
farm as the. result of correspondence, with 
a real estate agent. Later on 1 visited 
the place and found that the farm had 
been grossly misrepresented in many par¬ 
ticulars. The agent claimed that the mis¬ 
representations were due to errors of sten¬ 
ography, and offered to include a couple 
of pigs that were not included in the 
original correspondence. We had signed 
no contract with the agent, and because 
of the misrepresentation we did not want 
the farm and bought another. This an¬ 
gered the agent, and lie threatened t<> 
make trouble, and as he is a man of some 
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it’s just because it costs more than tak¬ 
ing a girl to church.”—Philadelphia 
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