664 
April 25, 
P UBLISHER’S DESK 
We received the check for $S45.56 last 
evening. God will surely bless you for 
the good work you are doing. Oh, such 
a relief to know we have got our hard- 
earned money back! It will teach us a 
lesson that we shall never forget. Will 
you please send us a bill for your trouble 
and time? God bless you. j. f. 
Massachusetts. 
This good woman and her husband 
took three installment contracts of a 
New York real estate operating company, 
and paid the installments on the first one 
for about three years, on the others 
for shorter periods, until they had paid 
in a total of $845.56. At the time of 
signing the contract with a soliciting 
agent they were told they could withdraw 
at any time and get their money back 
with interest. Recently, when they need¬ 
ed the money, and asked for it, they 
were told their contract entitled them 
to a return of only $699.22. This would 
be $146.30 less than the amount they 
paid in, without any interest at all. 
They were satisfied to get back the actual 
amount they paid in, but this was re¬ 
fused. When we took it up, different 
compromises were offered, which we re¬ 
fused. We believed the courts would 
give the investor a judgment for the full 
amount with interest; hut we like to 
avoid suits if possible and the company 
finally decided to return the full amount 
of payment. 
There is, of course, no bill for our 
services. If we did not have 160.000 
farmers back of us, this company would 
laugh at any demands we might make on 
them. These good people are one of the 
160,000. In using the influence of the 
paper for their just interests we feel The 
R. X.-Y. is simply exercising the rightful 
functions of a farm paper, and yet we do 
not deny an element of personal pleasure 
in the gratitude of these good friends. 
Please read the inclosed clipping from 
T'p-to-Date Farming. I happen to know 
this Everitt, as I was raised near that 
town. I do not think it is time for him 
to turn into an angel yet. In fact he 
makes me tired. Please don’t stop my 
paper. c. n. ii. 
Florida. 
This refers to J. A. Everitt, the In¬ 
dianapolis promoter, seed distributor and 
paper publisher. He has a simple way 
of disposing of any agency that inter¬ 
feres with his promotion schemes. He 
thinks it a crime to publish a paper like 
The R. N.-Y. and is going to dispose of 
its criticisms by asking farmers to “stop 
it.” Mr. Everitt has had some exper¬ 
ience with stop orders. lie published a 
cheap farm paper once of such a nature 
that the Government told him to “stop” 
putting it into the mails, and he “stopped.” 
In the little Pennsylvania town where he 
began his career it is said the farmer’s 
there “stopped” buying common potatoes 
for new seed varieties before Mr.-Everitt 
went to Indianapolis. Some years back 
Mr. Everitt “stopped” encouraging the 
organization of the American Society 
of Equity after the members “stopped” 
contributing a part of their annual dues 
to support his private business. So it 
is seen that Mr. Everitt has had some 
experience with “stop” privileges. He 
now says that the “sincere men” who 
showed him out of the door of the Amer¬ 
ican Society of Equity landed in jail and 
that the society went to “pot.” We ad¬ 
mit the Everitt part of the society went 
to “pot,” but the men who wanted noth¬ 
ing of Everitt or his schemes went ahead 
and organized the society on cooperative 
lines and it is now a strong organization 
free from all taint of Everitt promotion 
schemes. Everitt is now trying to or¬ 
ganize a new society. He admits that he 
is to get 25 cents out of the initiation 
fee paid by farmers on taking member¬ 
ship in this society. We do not need to 
say that The R. N.-Y. is in favor of 
farm organizations by farmers. We have 
never known farmers to be organized by 
outsiders except for selfish purposes. 
When the outside promoter gets a fee, he 
is subject to suspicion and criticism. Be¬ 
fore farmers of the Northwest place too 
much confidence in the Everitt schemes, 
they would better look up his recent rec¬ 
ords in the sale of “Miracle” wheat. Mr. 
Everitt flatters himself. lie says The 
R- N.-Y. is an ardent hater of J. A. 
Everitt. The R. N.-Y. knows Mr. Ever¬ 
itt only by his acts and his record. It 
does not hate him ardently or otherwise. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
The R. N.-Y. does not even hate fakers 
or crooks. It does hate fakes and crook¬ 
edness. 
What do you know about the Dan 
Patch Railroad referred to in the in¬ 
closed letter from M. W. Savage? 
Kentucky. w. x. s. 
To start with we know the letter is 
written and printed in a way to attempt 
to deceive you. The attempt is to make 
you think it is a personal letter written 
you with a pen by Mr. Savage. It is a 
printed process letter and no doubt goes 
to a whole list of possible investors. The 
only thing personal about it is your 
name skillfully written in at the address 
in a shade of ink a trifle lighter than the 
ink used in the printed letter. The pur¬ 
pose of this ingenuous letter is evidently 
to induce you to send $100 for a share 
of stock in the Dan Patch Railroad un¬ 
der the inducement of getting another 
share free. There is a lot of talk in 
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the letter about confidence in Mr. Sav¬ 
age, his big and profitable enterprises, the 
people’s profits, and a lot of similar guff. 
But there is not one definite word that 
would enable you to pass an intelligent 
judgment on the value of the bit of print¬ 
ed paper Mr. Savage wants to send you 
in exchange for your $100. Sup 
pose you had a horse you wanted to sell. 
You fixed up a printed circular to look 
like a private letter and to read like 
one. In the letter you said you had made 
lots of money in different enterprises, 
that you wanted the confidence of the 
person addressed, that the people ought 
to own horses, and that you gave them a 
chance at these profits by offering them 
a horse for $100, and as a bonus you 
would give the buyers free another horse. 
You would be careful not to say what the 
horse cost to raise, or what he weighed, 
or what blemishes he had or what he was 
capable of earning. If one of the per¬ 
sonal-printed, process, private letters fell 
into Mr. Savage’s hands, do you think he 
would send you $100 and ask you to 
send on the horse? Don’t you think he 
would want to.know something about the 
value of the horse itself before he sent 
the check? Our judgment is that you 
ought to know as much about the Dan 
Patch stock before you buy it as Mr. 
Savage would want to know about your 
horse before he sent you a check for it. 
I. \V. Rosenthal, Portland, Oregon, 
advertised “A new Shubert piano, used 
one month, cost $550, will sell for $250.” 
Investigation showed that the piano had 
been used seven years and the original 
price was $350. This evidence was suf¬ 
ficient for conviction. 
^ After a trial of four days, Harry L. 
Franc, manager of the King Furniture 
Company, Trenton, New Jersey, was 
found guilty of violating the advertising 
law by advertising “at $165, pianos equal 
to $350 and $400,” which was alleged to 
be “misleading, untruthful and decep¬ 
tive.” Franc’s counsel prepares to carry 
case to higher court. 
The above is record of two convictions 
in alleged fraudulent piano advertise¬ 
ments. Heretofore it has been difficult to 
get convictions in such cases, but the 
new laws of many States against decep¬ 
tive advertising, together with the grow¬ 
ing public demand for honest advertising, 
seem to make convictions more certain. 
If you mean business in your reply to 
Dr. Ulman on page 246, put me down as 
one subscriber who desires to enlist in 
the movement. I am also heartily in 
favor of the amendments proposed by 
A. F. J. on page 510. I am a regular 
subscriber of six farm papers, and while 
I have satisfied myself that they all try 
to conduct a clean, honest advertising j 
section, The R. N.-Y t . is without doubt 
the most particular and conscientious 1 
along that line, and I am willing to sub¬ 
mit my list to the rules proposed by A. 
F. J., and will gladly assist in trying 
to persuade the publishers to drop any 
advertiser whom you have proven to be 
dishonest. Thanks for your efforts in 
securing fair play for the farmer. 
Michigan. w. ii. A. 
We certainly mean business if enough 
people signify their interest to warrant 
going ahead with an organization. We 
set the minimum limit at 100 volunteers. 
We have had quite a list, but not enough 
yet to meet the requirements, j. j. p. 
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