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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
What do you know about the American 
School of Correspondence, Chicago, 111.? 
They offer me a free scholarship. f. m. 
Connecticut. 
Look out for the trick in any free 
proposition. All such offers are decep¬ 
tive. The free scholarship would no 
doubt bring them ample profits before 
you got through paying for the blanks, 
books and supplies that would be con¬ 
sidered necessary for the work. 
It is reported that the Van Nostrand 
Magazine has suspended publication and 
gone out of existence after losing for its 
publishers nearly a half million dollars. 
The fakers who try to sell you stock 
and notes of their tottering publishing 
companies, will not remind you of this 
and similar failures, though to do so 
would be more pertinent than the com¬ 
parisons they invariably try to make 
with a few of the conspicuous success¬ 
ful publications. 
Three years ago I invested in a share 
of the Obispo Rubber stock of Mexico, of 
the Republic Development Co., 90 Wall 
Street, New York. The shares wore to be 
$900 per share, payable $5 per month. 
After paying in $130 I found that they 
were not keeping their part of the contract, 
so quit paying. Is there any way of getting 
back what I have paid in? l have read 
of your help to others in your paper. Any 
advice or help you can render to me will 
be greatly appreciated. E. M. 
Ohio. 
Absolutely nothing can be done in 
such a case. Such companies are organ¬ 
ized for the sole purpose of getting 
money out of inexperienced investors. 
They never let any of it get back. The 
money was lost the moment it left your 
hands. 
The Globe Association sent their check of 
$7.50 which was the amount I deposited 
for the outfit. This check was signed by 
The American Home Supply Co., but as 
near as I can find out, the Globe Associa¬ 
tion and the American Home Supply Co., are 
the same concern. Some of my letters were 
addressed to one, and some to the other. 
1 sent to the American Home Supply Co. 
for a catalogue, and when it arrived, the 
Globe Association’s name was on the cover. 
Ohio. H. s. B. 
After their first refusal, we are glad 
you got your money. Some of our other 
people are j r et waiting for theirs. We 
think the two concerns are the same. 
Anyway they work the same schemes, 
and seem tarred by the same stick. But 
we will give them credit for any money 
they return at our request, even if they 
first refused to return it at the request 
of the sender. 
I saw an advertisement of Dr. F. W. 
Parkliurst, Boston, Mass, in the Ohio Farmer 
to write him about rheumatism or kidney 
trouble. He said he had nothing to sell, 
and nothing in it for him. I enclose his 
reply and also a letter from Dr. M. E. 
Stephenson. I tried the treatment for a 
month, and got no relief. I think Parkhurst 
and Stephenson work together and divide the 
spoil. I should like to know what you 
think. a. t. 
Ohio. 
Why certainly, they work together and 
divide the profit. It is a fake on the 
face of it. Dr. Parkhurst would have 
you believe that he pays for advertise¬ 
ments and writes letters for the good of 
’humanity, and to help along in the de¬ 
ception the papers publish his paid ad¬ 
vertisement in reading type as if pub¬ 
lished for your benefit solely. The whole 
scheme is a fake from beginning to end, 
and you do well to follow the game no 
further. 
What do you know about the Union 
Irrigation Co., Opelousas, La.? “ 
Pennsylvania. w. R. k. 
This company was organized in 1908— 
with authorized capital of $1,600,000. 
They have some property in Louisiana, 
but the men active in it are said to reside 
at Lancaster, Pa. It is reported that the 
company lost some money two years ago 
through mismanagement of some of its 
irrigation canal work. This work is 
now said to be in better hands. They are 
reported to be meeting obligations, but 
refuse to make any statement of its 
financial affairs. From this unwilling¬ 
ness to make a financial statement and 
the further fact that the company is a 
borrower and anxious to market its se¬ 
curities, it may safely be inferred that 
a statement of assets and liabilities would 
not reveal as good a state of affairs as 
the officers could wish. We find nothing 
to encourage a farmer to invest in its 
securities. 
You good people who have been anx¬ 
ious to invest your money in “guaran¬ 
teed gold bonds” of real estate compan¬ 
ies, please read the following: 
The McLaughlin Real Estate Co., of 
Brooklyn, N. Y. which is one of the largest 
in the city went into the hands of a receiver 
recently. The indebtedness on bonds and 
mortgages is $1,300,000 on which the inter¬ 
est charges are $65,000 annually, and 
$25,000 of this is overdue and "unpaid. 
The property will now probably be sold to 
satisfy these mortgages, and Interest and 
foreclosure expenses. Besides these first 
mortgages, the company has sold the 
“guaranteed gold bonds’’ or debentures to 
some 800 investors, most of whom are 
people of limited means, and to whom the 
loss will be a severe hardship. These 
800 small investors can get nothing until 
the mortgages and interest and foreclosure 
expenses are paid. 
We want you to get the difference be¬ 
tween a bond issued to secure the pay¬ 
ment of a mortgage on real estate and 
a bond issued without mortgage by the 
company which holds the real estate. 
The mortgage is a lien on the land. The 
bond is simply a note of the company. 
The scheme is worked in this way: A 
company is organized with authority to 
issue stock and deal in real estate. The 
property bought is first plastered with 
mortgages for all the money that it is 
possible to raise on it. An appraisal of 
its value is then made, the company 
usually putting any value on it that will 
best suit their purpose. The difference 
between the sum of the mortgages and 
this appraisal is the equity, so-called. 
If the property be purchased for $100,- 
000, and mortgaged for $90,000 and ap¬ 
praised for $140,000, the book equity 
would be $50,000. Then the company 
issues and sells guaranteed gold bonds 
to any amount less than $50,000. If they 
sell these gold bonds for $40,000, you 
can see that they have $30,000 left, after 
paying the $10,000 on the first purchase. 
With this $30,000 they can go on buying 
more property, with more mortgages; 
and they can issue more of the 
guaranteed gold bonds, or notes. 
There is practically no limit to the 
amount of these bonds that may 
be issued provided the appraisal of 
the land is kept up so that the company 
may appear solvent on the book records. 
Of course, the property cannot be sold 
for the appraisal. Interest must be paid, 
officers of the company must have sal¬ 
aries. Contracts for improvements are 
often made at high prices to the promo¬ 
ters, or their dummies. Finally, as in 
the above case, the scheme is worked 
to its limit,- and the crash comes. The* 
property is sold to pay the mortgages. 
The expenses take up the rest; and the 
small investor finds his gold bonds are 
guaranteed by a company which has no 
means of making good, and the invest¬ 
ment is a total loss. 
Why do I give so much space to this 
subject? Why repeat it so often? Sim¬ 
ply because many companies have been 
working the scheme; and wage earners, 
and other frugal people have been actu¬ 
ally putting millions of hard-earned 
money into them. Some of it may be re¬ 
turned; much of it will be lost, and all 
of it is in danger. At best you furnish 
capital without adequate security for 
these people to speculate or gamble with, 
and encourage them to take risks with 
other people’s money. 
It came. It was seen. It conquered. I 
had not seen a copy of* The It. N.-Y. since 
I was a boy. I am back on the old farm, 
and. of course went to the local poultry 
show. There a man offered the paper 10 
weeks for 10 cents. I declined the offer, 
but accepted a copy of the paper; took it 
home, read it, went back the next day, 
hunted up the man and gave him the io 
cents and my name. The 10 weeks are 
nearly at an end and 1 am enclosing a 
dollar for a year. I must have it. 
New Hampshire. w. h. h. 
The above is given by way of encour¬ 
agement for you to send those 10-week 
subscriptions. The experiment costs your 
neighbor only 10 cents. We probably 
have 60,000 names now on our list that 
began in that way. If you find the paper 
is trying to help and protect farm in¬ 
terests, then it is to your interest and to 
the interest of your neighbors that they 
know the paper. There are conquests 
yet to be made in every neighborhood. 
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