1274 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 24, 
P UBLISHER’S DESK 
W HAT do you think of the Franklin 
Park Corporation, circulars of 
which I enclose? It does not ap¬ 
peal to me but I would be glad to have 
your estimate of it. A. G. F. 
Virginia. 
The literature accompanying this in¬ 
quiry seems to indicate that the Frank¬ 
lin Park Corporation is located at 
Washington, D. C., and that they want 
to organize a branch office in Virginia. 
They want a manager for the local Park 
Corporation who will invest from .$4,000 
to $7,000 in the business, and they say 
appropriation of half the investment will 
be made for his salary and expenses. 
They claim the opportunity is presented 
for making $4,000 to $10,000 per annum. 
The inducement for the manager to put 
up cash in advance, and the fixing of his 
salary is significant, though there is 
nothing very new about it. We have 
seen a good many schemes in the past 
started on just this basis, but if a man 
wants to pay himself a salary of $2,000 
out of his own pocket, we see no very 
good reason why he should put up 
$4,000 to somebody else for the privilege. 
Our opinion is that he can make better 
use of his money. 
I think I am eligible to membership 
in the Anti-Fake Club, as I have already 
turned down several papers on account 
of their advs. and have reported several 
cases of faking that have come to my no¬ 
tice. At a local fair recently there were 
numerous glib-tongued agents who want¬ 
ed to send papers free of charge for one 
year to introduce the paper. All they 
asked was that you pay the postage, 
which probably amounted to their regu¬ 
lar subscription. I examined the wares 
of two of these agents and showed them 
advs. that “queered” the paper for me. 
One fellow was a bit angry and wanted 
to know what influence I would have. 
He said it would amount to about as 
much as the Prohibitionists. He didn’t 
seem to realize that if every one did his 
duty it would not take long to right any 
wrong. But where most everyone fig¬ 
ures that his influence does not amount 
to much and he may as well take the 
course of least resistance the wrong is 
sure to prevail. One drop of water in a 
place does not amount to much but when 
enough of them get together and move in 
the same direction, their power is prac¬ 
tically unlimited. l. e. g. 
Vermont. 
The above letter we think good enough 
to print in full. If we all did our part 
to produce conditions as we would like 
to have them, there would be no doubt 
of the result. And what a beautiful 
world we would have to live in. The 
gathering members of this Anti-Fake 
Club seem determined to do their part 
all right. 
We are enclosing bill against the 
Southern Express Company for one case 
of eggs shipped to a New York house 
on Sept. 20. 1912. The case of eggs 
was so badly damaged it was refused. 
We made claim against the express com¬ 
pany, and received several letters from 
them. One letter in reply said the claim 
would be adjusted soon. The next let¬ 
ter stated they had lost the papers. We 
had given it up for lost, but seeing the 
work you are doing for others, we 
thought we would get you to try it. 
Virginia. w. w. 
We took this up promptly. On Sep¬ 
tember 20. 1914, we received advice that 
this claim was settled on that day—just 
two years from date of shipment. If 
this claim had not been entered promptly 
we would not have been able to help in 
the adjustment, as tin transportation 
companies are holding very strictly to 
the four-months limitation, end it will 
be well for shippers to bear this in mind. 
I enclose a letter from the Victor Razor 
Co., 412 Drexel Bank Bldg., Chicago. 
A year or so ago I received a razor from 
them, which I returned, but they sent 
me another, or it may have been the 
same one, and I returned that. Now I 
have the package that they refer to in 
their letter. I have not opened it, but 
I suppose it contains a razor. If I 
thought they would not bother me or 
anyone else with it, I would accommo¬ 
date them once more. I do not want 
the razor. Will you kindly advise me 
what I should do with the razor? 
New Jersey. w. w. 
The New Jersey subscriber is under 
no obligation whatever to return this 
razor. The Victor Razor Co., as is their 
habit, sent the subscriber the razor with¬ 
out his knowledge or consent, and it 
is incumbent tipon them either to come 
and get it, if they want it back, or send 
postage for its return. The only way to 
stop this nefarious manner of doing busi¬ 
ness is to make it unprofitable. Some 
of our subscribers who have received 
razors in this way have sent them bacn 
by express, charges collect. If all who 
are sent razors or other goods in this 
way would take some such action and 
refuse being bluffed into paying for the 
goods under the threat of bringing legal 
action, this class of houses would soon 
go out ' of business or reform their 
methods. In his palmy days, E. G. Lewis 
organized an agency to collect just such 
claims on behalf of his fake advertisers. 
When Secretary Redfield, now of the 
Department of Labor, Washington. D. 
C., had the job of whitewashing Lewis 
through a Congressional committee he 
thought Lewis was doing a meritorious 
service to these victims of what were 
called systematic robberies. The rob¬ 
bers in their estimation were the people 
who refused to pay for razors and other 
worthless junk. 
Do you consider Phelps building cer¬ 
tificates a safe investment of the Farm 
and Home Publishing Company? 
Pennsylvania. w. m. t. 
Some years back Herbert Myrick, the 
controlling spirit in the above concern, 
put up a building in Springfield, Mass., 
for his publishing business. At the same 
time he advertised and sold so-called 
building certificates to subscribers of his 
various papers through the country, and 
promised 15 per cent, interest on them 
annually: but it was stipulated that the 
creditor must pay for one of the Myrick 
papers out of the interest. The certifi¬ 
cate seemed to read plainly enough on 
the face of it that the balance would re¬ 
main at compound interest and the 
whole might be withdrawn under certain 
conditions. Later when an effort was 
made by a creditor to withdraw the 
money, Mr. Myrick set up the claim that 
he was not entitled to the extra inter¬ 
est above the price of the paper, if he 
withdrew the money during his lifetime. 
That is you had to die to get it, and a 
veiled paragraph on the back of the cer¬ 
tificate seemed capable of such an inter¬ 
pretation. though it is doubtful if any 
one would discover it on casual reading. 
On withdrawal the creditor was obliged 
to pay for two years in advance for 
the Myrick paper. 
Mr. Myrick’s different papers at the 
time were published by five or more sep¬ 
arate companies. We have nothing to 
show that any of them owned the build¬ 
ing at the time, and certainly four of the 
companies owned no part of it. Yet 
Mi 1 . Myrick issued building certificates in 
the name of the companies having no in¬ 
terest in the building, • nd plainly rep¬ 
resented to the purchasers that the cer¬ 
tificate made them part owners in the 
building. It of course did nothing of the 
kind. Two of the papers which offered 
the certificates have since been sold. 
The papers have been discontinued to 
the certificate holders, and in some cases 
they have appealed to us, and we have 
collected the money for them. If any 
have lost their certificates or neglect go¬ 
ing past the present publishers back to 
Mr. Myrick with a demand for the 
money, they have not been disturbed 
in their modest retirement. The certi¬ 
ficates were nothing but receipts for the 
money, with some confusing details as to 
its return and the disposition of the 
interest. They were a mere evidence of 
indebtedness of the concern that signed 
them. These concerns had no interest 
in the Myrick building or any other 
building and of course no control of it. 
Some of the investors write that they 
thought the building was security for the 
investment. These were deceived. 
The blank application with this in¬ 
quiry indicates that Mr. Myrick simply 
wishes to borrow money from farmers 
at five per cent, interest payable semi¬ 
annually, and the principal returnable 
on 90 days notice after the lapse of a 
stated number of years. We do not 
care to draw any conclusion as to the 
safety of such an investment. We give 
the record and leave every man to draw 
his own conclusion. j. j. d. 
TTncle Zack, the stable man, enjoyed 
local repute as a weather prophet. Miss 
(lassie, coming down early one morning, 
found Zack on the back porch. "Is the 
rain going to last all day, Zack?” she 
asked. “Yessum. Ah reckin it is.” “Why. 
Zack,” Miss Cassie said, “I have always 
heard you say, ‘Rain before seven, clear 
before eleven.’ Isn’t that true?” “Yes- 
sum, it’s striekly true,” Uncle Zack main¬ 
tained stoutly, “jes ’cepting it doan’ apply 
to an all-day rain, ma’am .”—New York 
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