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WHE RURAb NEW-YORKER 
June 17, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
During June this department received 
74 doubtful accounts for collection, 
amounting to $2810.60. It collected 59 
accounts amounting to $999.23. The in¬ 
quiries for ratings were 157 for the 
month. For the most part the com¬ 
plaints came for small amounts. They 
are not always sent for the amount in¬ 
volved, but because people do not like 
to submit quietly to imposition and 
robbery. 
What can you tell us about the responsi¬ 
bility of E. Iloch & Co., formerly of 43 
Jay Street, but now 150 Iteade Street, New 
York City ? They are soliciting consign¬ 
ments of eggs and poultry. Neighbors have 
made shipments that have not been beard 
from, and inquiries produce no reply. 
New York. G. E, s. 
We are receiving other complaints 
from this source. Our information is 
that they have only desk room, and may 
be here to-day and away to-morrow. 
If they have responsibility, financially, 
we have not discovered it. 
I contracted with A. Wipper, proprietor 
of the Cincinnati Milk Company, for de¬ 
livery of milk to him, for which he was to 
pay every two weeks, but was to allow him 
live days’ grace to collect his accounts. His 
account would run away over $100 in two 
weeks as I was shipping him 30 to 40 gal¬ 
lons a day at 22 cents per gallon. He kept 
paid up for awhile, but finally began to fall 
behind and I stopped shipping milk to him. 
lie owes me $170. I learn that he owes 
others. He is the worst pill I ever got hold 
of. ' J. a s. 
Ohio. 
It seems that Mr. Wipper mixed up 
this contract between himself person¬ 
ally and an incorporated company', which 
is now in a receiver’s hands, and he 
wants creditors to take stock in his com¬ 
pany for their claims. He has made 
fair promises for the adjustment of the 
claims and continued shipment, but 
seems to have no intention of keeping 
the promises.. We do not see that the 
creditors have any redress for the old 
accounts; and any one who would again 
ship him milk on credit would deserve 
the losses that the situation abundantly 
promises. 
We have received from the Temple Pump 
Company a check for $332 iu full for en¬ 
gine. We wish to thank you for your kind 
attention in this matter. You will please 
send us your bill for your trouble and we 
will send check for same. We will do our 
best to get all the subscribers to your 
paper that we can. w. l. 
Vermont. 
We have no bill to render for this or 
any service like it. If this service is 
appreciated by any farmer we will be 
glad to have him express it in the 
sending of subscriptions for neighbors. 
I have set my heart on trying out the 
experiment of publishing a farm paper 
solely on service to the farmer, without 
should see that their agents do as they 
promised. This is not a question of the 
value of the machine. It is a question 
of the guarantee of the company’s agent. 
If the machine was satisfactory to every 
other man in the world, this customer 
would still be entitled to the return of 
his money under his contract. The ma¬ 
chine may or may not be right; but Mr. 
Stiles certainly is not right; and his 
company should be responsible for his 
breach of contract. 
There is a young man canvassing this 
vicinity for the Chicago Portrait Co., Chi¬ 
cago, Ill. He carries samples of work done 
and solicits orders for enlarging photographs 
under some professedly new process in imi¬ 
tation of oil paintings. Of course bis sam¬ 
ples look all right. lie offers to make con¬ 
tracts in duplicate to deliver the pictures, 
subject to approval, no money until then, 
but binds the purchaser to take a suitable 
frame at a reasonable price not stipulated 
in the contract. Please tell us what you 
think or know of this firm and their meth¬ 
ods of doing business. h. c. 
Ohio. 
We know nothing about this house in 
particular; but we do know other con¬ 
cerns have been doing a fake business 
along this line for years. If they bind 
you to take the frame at their own 
price, you are pretty sure to take the 
picture also. We have had lots of 
trouble in the past with these houses. 
They get pictures that people do not 
want to lose and then refuse to return 
them. Other times they charge out¬ 
rageous prices for the frames. From 
past experience we would be suspicious 
of any such scheme. 
Your letter of May 2 informing me I was 
to receive my claim ($5.76) through our 
agent was duly and gladly received, and 
now I make haste to say the agent paid me 
to-day. I am so glad you succeeded where 
I had failed. Very, very many thanks to 
you and much prosperity to your valuable 
paper. I certainly do appreciate your ser¬ 
vices and was so glad to get it. Thousands 
of thanks. r. k.c. 
Delaware. 
This was a difficult claim. The ex¬ 
press company arbitrarily denied respon¬ 
sibility and it was only by perseverence 
that we got them to give it the consid¬ 
eration we felt it merited. Our sub¬ 
scriber was in the habit of sending 
peaches in the evening for sale at Johns¬ 
town the next morning, but this par¬ 
ticular shipment was not delivered until 
late the following day and the com¬ 
mission house refused them, advising 
the shipper to file claim against the 
express company, who declined to con¬ 
sider it, claiming a few hours delay 
would make no material difference, and 
stating that the peaches were over-ripe 
when shipped. He referred the matter 
to us and the company made the same 
statement, which we refuted by affida¬ 
vits which proved the quality of the 
peaches, and showed that because of 
the delay they could not compete with 
those delivered promptly and in better 
condition and that they would have 
brought a higher price because of their 
prime quality The delay was not long 
enough to spoil the peaches, but it was 
long enough to cause depreciation in 
value, for which the express company 
was responsible. 
consideration of any other interest, and 
I am going to test it to the limit. It is 
going to take some time before farmers 
appreciate the importance of such a ser¬ 
vice, partially because at best the service 
must be imperfect, and again because 
the necessity of the service arises from 
want of information required in order 
to appreciate it. But when it begins to 
be appreciated the subscription part of 
the business will take care of itself. 
In August, 1910, I bought a Peerless 
steam washer from D. II. Stiles, agent of 
the company. Garnet, Kansas, under a eon 
tract in writing by which he guaranteed 
that the machine would “do all that is 
claimed for it and be satisfactory or money 
refunded.” It is not satisfactory and I 
have not been able to induce Mr. Stiles to 
live up to his contract. He and the com¬ 
pany are at Garnet, Kans. I cannot afford 
to go there to enforce my claim for so small 
an amount, and I send it to you to see if 
you can make Mr. Stiles do as he agreed. 
Missouri. I. a. h. 
We have been no more successful in 
holding D. IT. Stiles to his agreement 
than the complainant. He flatly re¬ 
pudiates his written agreement, and tells 
his customer plainly that he will do 
nothing about it. He guaranteed this 
machine “to be satisfactory or money 
refunded.” When asked to make good, 
he writes long letters telling how good 
the machine is, and finally refuses to 
do as he agreed in writing. It is said 
that the Peerless Steam Washer Co. is 
a partnership of W. C. Camp, Coving¬ 
ton, Ky., and C. E. Bean, Garnet, Kans., 
both of whom are responsible and well 
known in their communities. If so, they 
In your issue of April 29, you give the 
address of a charity for women iu “Pub¬ 
lisher’s Desk.” Do you know of any such 
place for me? It would seem that there 
might be such a place, a mission or settle¬ 
ment. A man somewhat disabled but reli¬ 
able and willing could always be of use, 
and find a good place on a farm. Almost 
any kind of a boy could find a place, and 
often a good home. On many farms if help 
is hired it must be at a moderate wage, 
for the farmer cannot receive 35 cents of 
the consumer’s dollar, and pay wages in 
proportion to the consumers’ receipts. The 
It. N.-Y does many very worthy things; 
if it can aid some of the city's surplus 
to find work aud wages on farms to their 
mutual benefit, it will not be the least of 
their accomplishments. You have written 
of men willing and desirous to give their 
blood to be infused into another person 
because they were out of work and needed 
the money. Would they not go on to farms 
to work? I would like one at least and 
might place more. Your answer will be 
much appreciated. g a. p. 
Massachusetts. 
This friend gives us a bard task. 
There are agencies and organizations in 
the city who would send to the farmers 
such help as they have, but the farmer 
would be obliged to advance the rail¬ 
road fare, and take his chances I have 
had a little 'experience in advancing 
these expenses myself and usually got a 
squeezed lemon. During the past 10 
years I have had some connection with 
city charity work, but seldom find a 
man in need who is willing to go to a 
farm, and it is rarer still that one of 
them knows anything whatever about 
farm work. Brother Barnabas is teach¬ 
ing boys to do farm work at his Lincoln 
School at Somers, N. Y. Men might 
be prepared for the work in the same 
way, but it would, of course, entail con¬ 
siderable expense. There is some talk 
that the State will establish a farm for 
vagrants or tramps, but it remains to 
be seen whether the experiment would 
develop any real farm help. We be¬ 
lieve that industrial training schools in 
connection with practical farm, work 
will yet prepare boys for farm work, 
but from our present experience we 
would not care to take the responsi¬ 
bility of sending such raw male mate- 
terial as we find in the city to the 
country in the name of farm help. We 
know there is a large portion of charity 
and forbearance within the four walls 
of our farm homes, but we doubt if 
there is grace outside of the houses to 
endure the moral strain of a city dere¬ 
lict. 
The Post Office Department has now 
complied with an order to print the 
record of the hearing on April 15, 1911, 
given Herbert Myrick on the application 
for second class mail privileges for the 
Orange Judd Northwest Farmstead. 
Those who read the interview given the 
city papers after the hearing will find 
new light in this report. If you want it, 
write the P. O. Dept., Washington, D. 
C., for Document No. 32. The question 
at issue as we understand it was one of 
legitimate subscriptions. Mr. Myrick 
made application for 73,000 subscrip¬ 
tions. From the investigation of the 
Department it seemed that 32,000 of 
these were not subscribers under the 
rules applied to all publications. The 
question at issue, as Third Assistant 
Postmaster-General Britt repeatedly ex¬ 
plained, was the legitimacy of these 32,- 
000 alleged subscriptions, but we search 
the record in vain for a single word to 
show any reason whatever for calling 
them subscriptions. Mr. Myrick seemed 
to confine himself to the contention that 
his paper was not designed “primarily 
for advertising purposes” and seemed to 
think that sufficient. Under his con¬ 
tention, if a paper contained useful in¬ 
formation and advocated measures to 
the interest of its readers, then the De¬ 
partment should not reject “free circula¬ 
tion,’’ as the law requires. On Mr. 
Myrick’s contention, a publisher with 
41,000 legitimate circulation, could sell 
advertising space on a basis of 100,000; 
and, if the paper passed muster as a 
farm paper, he could mail 73,000 copies 
or any number up to 100,000 or more to 
names secured through banks or other 
interests, and the Government would be 
obliged to deliver them at the rate of 
one cent a pound, though the law says 
“free circulation” cannot be mailed at 
this rate. The report directly charges 
Mr. Myrick with making false statements 
to the Department and of omitting in¬ 
formation due the Department, and of 
destroying evidence of the illegality of 
subscriptions for which application had 
been made. Indirectly it accuses him of 
deliberately cheating advertisers. Mr. 
Myrick sold advertising space on the 
basis of 100,000 circulation. If not defi¬ 
nitely stated, it was implied that this 
was genuine circulation. No advertiser 
would knowingly buy. the space at the 
rate on “free circulation.” But the De¬ 
partment rules that there was a genuine 
circulation of only 41,135, and Mr. My¬ 
rick admits in the record that the cir¬ 
culation at that time was only about 
75,000, which included the 32,469 subse¬ 
quently rejected by the Department. 
Moreover, a large proportion of the le¬ 
gitimate subscriptionswere transferred 
from other Myrick publications, in which 
many of the advertisers had already 
bought space and were entitled under 
their contract to the full service. As 
it stands, advertisers are pretty sure to 
demand redress in the shape of a com¬ 
mensurate rebate, and a full explana¬ 
tion of the matter might clear the at¬ 
mosphere, otherwise advertisers will 
naturally wonder if similar conditions 
prevail with the other Myrick publica¬ 
tions. 
The matter is of interest to legitimate 
publishers and their subscribers because 
the publishers need to know just what 
rules will be applied to all, and it is im¬ 
portant to those who .willingly obey die 
law, that those who strive to avoid it 
will be brought under its provisions. It 
is important to the legitimate subscriber 
because the flooding of the mail with 
“free circulation” will result in an in¬ 
crease of postage rates which he must 
ultimately pay. It is important to him 
in another way in knowing that he is 
not being educated and instructed for 
the benefit of the bankers or other in¬ 
terests which send his name for the 
paper. It is important to the advertiser 
because he is willing to pay for legi¬ 
timate circulation only. He relies to 
some extent on the postal regulations 
and he does not like to feel that his 
Government has helped bunco him. 
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