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THE KUKAb NEW-YORKER 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
Do you know anything about the Minor 
Hen-Sunrise Co. stock being sold by a Chi¬ 
cago brokerage house at 25 cents per share? 
New Jersey. a. g. 
We know enough about it to advise 
you to keep your 25 cents. 
Do you know anything about the Silver 
Star Poultry Farm, Derry Church, Pa. 7 
Maine. H. g. r. 
This is one of the membership fakes. 
You pay $1 for membership; and are 
told you can then sell eight-weeks-old 
chicks for $1. 
We have probably said all that we 
need to say about Florida land schemes, 
but the North Tampa Land Co. send 
out a very alluring letter from Chicago, 
Ill. The proposition is to induce you 
to act as their agent and get up a club 
of five members each to buy five acres 
of Florida land. For your part in get¬ 
ting your neighbors into trouble for 
their benefit you are to have a present 
of 10 acres, and if you sell more, the 
present is to be in proportion. Land in 
this Everglade section has been bought 
for $2 an acre, and the promoters 
usually sell it at $40 to $50 an acre. You 
can figure out the profits of the deal for 
yourself. 
A friend sends us a clipping from a 
local paper which contains a copy of 
this advertisement: 
“Wanted—Men to look after cut-rate 
grocery mail order business in Avoca. All 
business done by mail. Few hours per week 
will earn $25 weekly. An investment of 
$300 required for supplies, part in cash, 
balance can be arranged. Experience un¬ 
necessary. Contract given. Address, Con¬ 
sumers’ Grocery Company, 1039 Granite 
Building, Rochester, N. Y.” 
It seems the local paper refused it; 
but other papers accepted it, and are 
probably yet looking for cash for the 
bill. Later it was announced that the 
concern was a swindle and that the 
promoter had departed. Don’t trust the 
man who comes to you with gifts to be 
delivered later, but who wants a little 
cash in advance. 
What do you know about the Nelson Pub. 
Co., of 31 Milk street, Boston, Mass.? They 
had an agent in this town selling stock. He 
did not want to sell more than $100 worth 
to any one person. He wanted to sell to 
men of small means, as he wanted to give 
the poor man a chance to get rich quick. 
He said he sold 25 shares in our town and 
1 know some people who are buying it. 
Maine. a. s. t. 
Boston has some sad history in the 
way of stock selling publishing con¬ 
cerns. One of the worst schemes we 
have on record rose, flourished and died 
there, and with it died the hopes and 
the faith of men and women who put 
millions of dollars into it. There is 
nothing about this concern that would 
encourage a careful investor to put his 
money into it, and those who take our 
advice will not put their savings into 
any publishing venture that is peddled 
around as an opportunity to get rich 
quick. 
In the Fall of 1910 I wanted seed wheat 
and got samples and prices from G. G. Gris¬ 
wold, Madison, Ohio. Relying on the sam¬ 
ples I sent him an order with a $46 re¬ 
mittance for 26 bushels Gypsy and 20 
Poole. The wheat proved to be one pound 
short in weight and of a different grade 
from the samples. The Gypsy was mixed 
with other varieties and just a little rye. 
The Poole was at least five per cent rye and 
contains several kinds of wheat, both 
bearded and smooth. I at once wrote hin\ 
but could get no reply. H. s. J. 
Ohio. 
We regret to say that Mr. Griswold 
had a little advertisement in The R. 
N.-Y. in 1910 to sell seed wheat under 
the name of Prospect Farm. His treat¬ 
ment of this complaint causes us to re¬ 
gret that it was accepted. It would not 
be again. We learn, too, that other farm 
papers have had complaints from other 
purchasers who could get no satisfac¬ 
tion. Mr. Griswold can get no more 
space in The R. N.-Y. for his seed 
wheat. This is the first case in nearly 
three years where we have stood to 
make good for an advertiser that we 
accepted. 
The Current Literature Publishing Co., 
of New York, propositions inclosed, may 
be all right. I never have bitten on any 
such thing, and as long as their seven per 
cent dividends sounds a warning, don’t 
think I will. C. A. 
New York. 
If this concern knew C. A. as well as 
he is known in The R. N.-Y. office, 
they never would have insulted his in¬ 
telligence and horse sense with a seven 
per cent promotion speculation. We are 
really sorry to see this publishing house 
in this promotion scheme. As we un¬ 
derstand the proposition, they propose 
to organize subsidiary companies in va¬ 
rious sections of the country to sell their 
books and other publications; but why 
a farmer, or anyone else for that mat¬ 
ter, should buy such stock and pay 20 
per cent of a premium on it is more 
than we can figure out. Suppose a 
farmer should organize a company to 
sell his apples, and before the buds 
swell on the trees asked the gentlemen 
behind this company to pay $120 for a 
share of the stock on the strength of 
the profits to be made on selling apples. 
Such a farmer would be lucky if he got 
away without being arrested as a dan¬ 
gerous lunatic. The farmer who put 
his savings into any such stock would 
indeed be a fit subject for a lunatic 
asylum. 
A man came to me last week to ask 
if I would help him get back $2,000 he 
had paid for stock to White & Von 
Glahn of New York City. It was no 
use to deceive him. I made him under¬ 
stand as considerately as I could that 
the task assigned to me was hopeless. 
“Then I was a mere come-on,” was his 
self-accusation. I would only confirm 
his conclusion. 
“My God,” he exclaimed, “that was the 
saving of my lifetime. I entered the New 
York City Fire Department 20 years ago. 
All I had at the time was $20. 1 fought 
fires ever since. I had no opportunity to 
study business or investments. I had little 
to invest. I had both legs broken at a fire 
during the great blizzard in 1888. I raised 
and educated my family, and saved a little. 
Is it possible that the law permits these 
people to rob me of my life savings in this 
way? Why, if I only stole a loaf of bread 
I would be lodged in jail. Why am I not 
protected by the law? 
It was a pitiable case. To say that I 
felt sorry for that man but feebly ex¬ 
presses my feeling. He had no appreci¬ 
ation of his position as a stockholder in 
the company. I explained to him that 
his stock made him a part owner in the 
business, and that he representing that 
fractional part of the company owed 
the creditors of the concern more than 
it was able to pay. He had simply 
bought a part of a business that had 
more liabilities than assets, and the 
creditors must be paid in full before 
he could hope to get anything. Since 
there was probably not enough to pay 
the creditors in full, the stockholders 
or owners of the business could hope 
for nothing. The law cannot prevent 
you from making a bad bargain. If this 
man could prove that he parted with his 
money on false representations and 
fraudulent devices he might, if he could 
get a court and jury to agree with him, 
send the promoters to prison for a few 
months; but one sympathizer with 
crooks on that jury could prevent a 
verdict of guilty, and in no case could 
he get his money back. 
We need laws to prevent swindling 
of this kind. Every concern that offers 
stocks or bonds or certificates of any 
kind to the public, should be obliged to 
file a statement of assets and liabilities 
under oath, representing the value of 
their paper securities, and the statement 
should be audited and the assets ap¬ 
praised by competent authorities. As it 
is now I have never known securities 
of publishing or merchandising or man¬ 
ufacturing houses to be marketed at 
their true value. Many of them, like the 
one under consideration, are absolutely 
worthless, and most of the others are 
speculative gambles. An established 
profitable concern does not appeal to the 
public for capital to operate the busi¬ 
ness. 
This man saved an average of $100 a 
year for 20 years out of his salary. The 
man who got it robbed him just as ef¬ 
fectively as if they had held him up on 
the street and took the money from his 
pocket. The means of this robbery is 
a provision of law. Society ought to 
do something to protect its members 
from such wrongs. 
I found your advice in regard to feeding 
problems to be all right, and produce more 
milk than the way I was feeding. Your 
paper is so different from other farm papers 
and “on the square,” no “yellow guff” 
in it. That’s what I like. It is a com¬ 
fort in this age of “skins” and “grafters” 
to read a paper without doubting what 
we read. p. p. 
Pennsylvania. 
“To read without doubting what we 
read.” 
If the literary artists of the world la¬ 
bored for a century they could not 
write a sentence to please us so much 
as the above simple words of a sincere 
farmer. Years ago we made two rules 
for copy to print in The R. N.-Y: 
1. It must be true. 
2. It must be to the interest or bene¬ 
fit of our subscribers. 
We do not pretend that we have al¬ 
ways judged right, but we know we 
have always meant right in passing on 
these qualifications. Nothing better 
could be said of publisher or editor 
than that they published a paper that, 
one could “read without doubting what 
he read.” j. j. d. 
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