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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
December 10, 1922 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
j 
All letters to Publisher's Desk depart¬ 
ment must be sigued with writer's full 
name and address given. Many inquiries 
arc answered by mail instead of printing 
inquiry and answer, hence unsigned let¬ 
ters receive no consideration. 
I. Rankowilz. '>2(5 East 157th Street. 
New York City, and I. Tiger of the same 
address have been buying milk for some 
time from an Op-State farm-owned plant. 
We have an unpaid bill against Ranko- 
wirz for $8,758, and another against 
Tiger for $7,143.35. The amounts are 
not disputed, but both refuse to pay. 
alleging reasons for which we can find no 
justification. They have the power to 
keep farmers out of money thar justly 
belongs to them, and money that should 
have been paid weekly, as they originally 
promised to do. No matter how trivial 
the excuse, they cau force a suit for the 
collectiou and cause annoyance, incon¬ 
venience auri loss to producers. Neither 
of them has complied with the law to 
file bonds with the Commissioner of 
Agriculture. The information is pub- 
lished for the benefit of milk producers. 
The experience would suggest cash trans¬ 
actions or sufficient bonds to cover ship¬ 
ments to these milk dealers. 
New ILayex. November 8.—When ap¬ 
praisers in the estate of Adeline R. Rich¬ 
ardson, who died reputedly wealthy at 
the age of S3 years, handed in their re¬ 
port to the probate court here, it was re¬ 
vealed that iter fortune of close to $50,000 
had dwindled to nothing, having been in¬ 
vested in wildcat stocks. Officials will 
endeavor to locate E. (1. Lewis, formerly 
of this city, now believed to be in Los 
Angeles. California, who is said to have 
been her financial agent and to have in¬ 
vested her money for her. When a safe 
deposit vault in a local bank was opened 
it was fouud to be crammed full of a 
variety of stocks ranging from gold, cop¬ 
per and oil stocks to automobile, rubber 
and development stocks of little value.— 
Local Paper. » 
We have never been able to feel any¬ 
thing but sympathy for people of moder¬ 
ate means who lose their money through 
fraudulent schemes, but some of (he vic¬ 
tims of E. G. Lewis probably tested our 
cense of compassion more than any 
others. Most of the crooks have' apolo¬ 
gists and defenders. These are often re¬ 
spectable people who seem to think that 
if the rogue is permitted to continue his 
schemes they will in some way get their 
motley back. Of course this is a hope¬ 
less delusion. The money is lost the 
moment the schemer gets his lingers on 
it. but the victim keeps up his own cour¬ 
age by support of the crook and abuse of 
anyone who takes the mask off his face. 
Publisher's Desk induced E. G. Lewis to 
return about $5,000 to some of his poor 
victims some years hack, because he 
hoped in that way to go free from criti¬ 
cism. but the complaints came so fast he 
stopped. It was the only money we ever 
knew of to be returned to his victims. 
Little good it will do the officials to locate 
him. If they are gullible or avaricious 
they had better go forewarned that lie 
does not yet induce them to make an in¬ 
vestment in his present get-ricb schemes. 
“Beware of a certain woman who is 
canvassing the Eastern States at the 
present moment representing herself to 
be a special agent of the Larkin Com¬ 
pany. offering a special sale <>f sugar at 
4c per Hu. Collecting money in advance, 
and then disappearing. She may he in 
your territory at the present time, so we 
urge you. upon receipt of this notice, to 
advise neighbors, friends and Larkin cus¬ 
tomers to beware of this swindler.” 
TIip above is ail extract from a notice 
published by Larkin & Go., Buffalo, N. 
Y. We are printing it for the benefit of 
our readers should the lady (?) happen 
to be working in any community where 
The R. N.-Y. circulates. 
I am writing to I ell you how very 
grateful I am to you. My advertisement 
was only published in your paper one 
week, and I received letters from many 
different States, and in a short time my 
farm was sold. I can recommend Tiie 
R. N.-Y. to anyone as a friend to the 
farmer or business man. 
New York. albekt it. mayxe. 
“Subscribers’ Exchange” is becoming 
almost as popular as “Publisher’s Desk” 
and “Hope Farm Notes.’’ We have al¬ 
ways felt that there are great possibil¬ 
ities in it. Some 210,000 farm families 
have many things to sell, and among 
them are families who are constantly buy¬ 
ing every kind of goods that are pro¬ 
duced. The middleman's share both jvays 
is heavy. lienee it seems that our people 
ought to be able to trade direct between 
themselves, with profit to all. Our peo¬ 
ple seem to take a very large range of 
products. We recently had a report of 
the sale of a pair of Belgian mares 
for $1,000. At the same lime another 
subscriber sold out her entire stock of 
canary birds. Now comes our apprecia¬ 
tive friend with a report on the sale of 
his farm. We believe this exchange ser¬ 
vice can be greatly increased with a sub¬ 
stantial saving to both buyers and sellers. 
Following charges that sales of unap¬ 
proved stocks in Detroit, Battle Creek 
and Flint had been made l\v its agents, 
the brokerage license permitting the L. 
R. Steel Service Corporation to do busi¬ 
ness in Michigan was suspended by the 
State Securities Commission. 
The concern was reported to have dealt 
in the securities of tiie Charles Weegh- 
man corporation, a string restaurant 
proposition, and the Realty Development 
Corporation, neither of which is on the 
approved list of the State Commission. 
Ilalf a dozen sales of realty development 
corporation stock were listed, involving 
only about $7,500. 
Officers of the Steel Corporation will 
be asked to appear in Lansing at a hear¬ 
ing to show cause why the suspension of 
their license should not he made perma¬ 
nent,—Lansing, Midi.. Nov. 22. 
The State of Michigan appears to be 
looking after the interests of its citizens 
in the matter of the character of the in¬ 
vestments presented to them. 
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Let us know what you think of the 
“Home Builder’s Club." Batavia. Ill., cir¬ 
cular letter of which I am inclosing. I 
am a widow, have to take care of myself, 
and have no money to throw away. 
New York. e. e. g. 
The “Home Building Club" might be 
explained as a subscription scheme of a 
publication called // ojtscholrl Journal. 
To become a member of the “club” you 
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Publications securing circulation in this 
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I saw a picture puzzle of Delon Pen 
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and replied to it. just for something to 
do. I sent in a list of words beginning 
with the letter “C.” and these letters are 
what I got. Do you think it worth while 
to send in $5? I wanted to send rhe 
money, hut my mother said “I tell you 
it's a foolish tiling to do. Just ask Tiie 
R. N.-Y. and see for yourself.” A. s. 
New Jersey. 
Your mother’s advice is good. It is 
just a scheme to sell fountain pens at $5 
each. If the pens were worth the price 
it should not be necessary to adopt such 
a scheme to sell them. There may be 
exceptions, but the puzzle schemes are 
usually employed to sell inferior goods 
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llie concern unworthy of patronage at 
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Find inclosed a package directed to me 
from United Buyers’ Association, Grand 
Rapids. Mich., which is about as bald a 
fraud and hold attempt to catch the un¬ 
wary as I have seen. In order that any 
of your readers thar may have been ap¬ 
proached by this movement may he 
warned and saved from this in cestment, I 
refer it to you for exposure. I have been 
a render of The R. N.-Y. too long to he 
caught with such stuff, but there might lie 
some that have not graduated from your 
school. If you think it proper to expose 
this—what 1 think fraud -I shall feel 
very much obliged to you. W. F. B. 
Pennsylvania. 
The membership scheme of United 
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exposed in The R. N.-Y.. but for the 
beuefit of new renders we publish the 
above letter, with the sentiments of which 
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