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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
August 20 , 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. 
A subscriber in Westchester County, 
N. Y., reports advertising wood in Thk 
I t. X.-Y. last Winter. II. B, Mattoon of 
Yard Icy, Pa., answered the advertisement 
and induced the advertiser to ship him 
a carload of wood, valued at $180, on 
credit. Mr. Mattoon failed to pay for 
the wood, and left Yardley, Pa. His 
present address is unknown. If Mr. 
Mattoon should enter into negotiations 
with other farmers for the purchase of 
wood, we would ask that his present ad¬ 
dress be forwarded to Publisher’s Desk 
at once. 
The writer has been very much an¬ 
noyed and I must say very much injured 
in a financial way as well as a personal 
way by the things you have been pub¬ 
lishing about Fishel & Son. poultrymen 
at Hope. Iud. Your leaving off the in¬ 
itials of .T. C. in making your remarks 
in publication about Fishel & Son has 
led people to believe that your com¬ 
plaints were against the writer. 
Hope. Ind. u. R. fishel. 
The complaints and criticism above re¬ 
ferred to apply to J. C. Fishel & Sou, 
Hope. Ind., and have no reflection what¬ 
ever on U. R. Fishel, poultry man of the 
same place, against whom we have never 
had any complaint. 
We are glad to make this statement 
in order to remove any possible misun¬ 
derstanding that our criticism of the 
other concern of the same name reflects 
iu any way on U. R. Fishel. 
Can you give me any information about 
William A. lleacock and the National 
Press Korean. 109 Fordliam Drive. Buf¬ 
falo. X. Y.? lie offers it correspondence 
course in newspaper and short Story writ¬ 
ing for $10, One feature of his course 
is a list of magazines and papers which 
will receive contributions from unknown 
writers. He also promises to tell what 
kind of stories each magazine will accept, 
how to copyright a story, and how to sell 
to the reliable syndicates. E. P, 
Virginia. 
William A. lleacock has a reputation 
as an easy-money artist of many years’ 
standing. Some years ago he proposed 
making others rich by telling them how 
to conduct a mail-order business, and in¬ 
cidentally selling a quantity of goods on 
the side. It apparently never occurs to 
this class of fakers to amass a fortune for 
themselves in the work which they pro¬ 
pose teaching others. These schemes pro¬ 
posing to put people in the way of earn¬ 
ing money are very alluring, but the rule 
is that the only money resulting is made 
by the promoter of the scheme. 
On February 1-8. 1922. I sent an order 
for a radio receiving set to William B. 
Duck Go.. 224-22G Superior street. To¬ 
ledo, Ohio. I became impatient und have 
written to them numerous times, and 
each time they complained of shortage 
of materials and other things; one *f 
them that they had such a rush of orders 
to fill. In the post month 1 have written 
to them twice to caueel the order, but 
have received no answer whatever. I am 
sending to you their acknowledgment n f 
the order, the returned check (cancelled) 
and their last letter to me. Could you 
advise me what to do? A. R. B. 
New York. 
It is now nearly six months since this 
order was sent. We can understand how 
it may be impossible for William B. 
Duck & Co. to fill the order more prompt¬ 
ly. but the firm certainly could answer 
customers’ letters and refund (he money 
to those who are not willing to wait for 
them. Our letters are ignored also. 
The Parenti Stockholders’ Protective 
Committee, when the Hanover Motor Car 
Corporation bought the plant, made a 
proposal to the Hanover Corporation 
that they give one share of their common 
stock for one share of (he Parenti pre¬ 
ferred if the stockholder would buy one 
share of the Hanover 8 per cent pre¬ 
ferred at $10. The Hanover Corporation 
accepted the offer, as it was going to cost 
a good bit to move their plant, and they 
needed the money. Look the matter up 
carefully and see if fhe proposition is of 
worth. c. E. s. 
New York. 
When first the effort was made to sell 
Parenti Motor stock to the public Pub¬ 
lisher’s Desk reviewed the. automobile 
situation, which showed the hopelessness 
of a new concern without capital trying 
to break into the automobile trade ar.d 
advised hundreds of people by mail to 
keep their mouey out of the enterprise. 
In the present proposition of the Han¬ 
over Motor Car Corporation we see only 
an opportunity for the victims of the 
Parenti disaster to throw some more good 
money after the bad. It appears that the 
notorious Mark Harris of Buffalo is pro¬ 
moting the Hanover stock. Ilis record 
would condemn the proposition if nothing 
else. 
I am writing you iu regard to a de¬ 
cision rendered in your paper a few 
months ago, bearing on whether a person 
had a legal right to countermand an order 
for trees after signing contract, contract 
being countermanded three months be¬ 
fore trees were sent, or delivered. 
Will state case briefly, as follows: 
Signed contract with Hoopes Bro. ■& 
Thomas Co., Westchester, Fa., in No¬ 
vember for four pear trees, $9 each; 
found they had charged me three prices. 
Were to deliver April 1; delivered May 5. 
stock nol strictly first class. My position 
is this. I don’t feel that after counter¬ 
manding the order they had any right to 
send trees only at their own risk and ex¬ 
pense. T have not accepted trees. 
New Jersey. c. B. H. 
Culess the order was secured by fraud, 
and this can he substantiated in court, 
we doubt if the fact that C, B. II. sent 
cancellation will relieve him from respon¬ 
sibility. Nursery houses selling through 
agents invariably have a clause in the 
order making it non-can callable. It is 
the custom of other nursery houses to 
accept cancellation if for any reason the 
customer does not waut the stock. The 
fact that the purchaser was charged about 
three prices for these trees does not afford 
legal grounds for the cancellation. 
On March 18, 1922. I ordered, or so it 
was shipped on that date, a Kirs tin one- 
man stump puller: we received it in about 
three weeks. I paid $19.10 down, al¬ 
though I was to have 30 days’ free trial. 
I used the stump puller two weeks and 
broke one pulley and one cable, and be¬ 
sides could only pull about two stumps 
in half a day with two men and the puller. 
I wished to send it hack, and wrote the 
company, A. ,T. Kirstin Co., Fseanaba. 
Mich., telling them to send my money 
and I would ship the stump puller. But 
they refuse to send the money, as they 
claim now they did not agree to send 
money back and accept the returned ma¬ 
chine. Their advertisement in Surnssful 
Fannin!/ says satisfaction guaranteed or 
money refunded. As 1 wrote to thpm at 
once as soon as the stump puller broke that 
I did not want to keep the machine, can 
they make me pay for it if they will not 
take it hack, or send my first payment 
on it? I was. to pay $109.10 for the 
stump puller in three months’ payments, 
but only used it two weeks, and it broke 
the power cable and one of the power 
pulleys. A. J. Kirstin Co. refuse to 
take this one back, but want to exchange 
it for a higher-priced, horse-power ma¬ 
chine; hut the way they have done with 
this first one. I don’t want any of their 
goods at all, D. c. M. 
Ohio. 
The advertisement whlcll D. C. M. an¬ 
swered clearly provides for the return 
of purchase price if the machine fails to 
give satisfaction. The A. J. Kirstin Co., 
Eseanaba, Mich., contend that before the 
order was placed the purchaser was ad¬ 
vised of the following conditions of the 
30-day trial offer: 
If during the 30-day trial you should 
find that the equipment is not best suited 
for your particular needs, just notify us 
and we will send you shipping instruc¬ 
tions so you may return the machine at 
our expense. We will then be glad to 
allow you the full purchase price of your 
machine to apply on new equipment that 
is best adapted for your work. 
A “trial offer" which doesn’t provide 
for return of the purchase price of the 
implement if it. proves unsatisfactory 
isn’t a trial offer at all: it is only a cam¬ 
ouflage trial offer. Several implement 
houses selling by mail are resorting to 
a similar plan, which at the last analysis 
is only sucker bait. The Rural New- 
Yorker has for many years refused the 
A. ,7. Kirstin Co. stump puller advertis¬ 
ing because of the unfair treatment of 
customers. This transaction confirms orur 
previous judgment. 
I received a letter from James Sinclair. 
Drawer B. Ocean Park, Cal., telling me 
he would pay from five cents to $7 for 
insects, and I wish to know if he is a 
reliable man or not. N. F. w. 
Pennsylvania. 
We believe the object of Mr. Sinclair’s 
advertisement is to sell a book, rather 
than collect insects. Butterflies seems to 
he his specialty. Like all of the schemes 
for home work, there is always money 
eomiug to the advertiser first on one pre¬ 
text or another. 
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