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THIS RURAL NEW-YORKER 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
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J AMES POWERS, of the Tax Adjust¬ 
ment Bureau, (>!) Wall street. New 
York City, was convicted in the United 
States District Court last week T on three 
counts of an indictment, charging the use 
of tiro mails with intent to defraud, lie 
was sentenced to two years’ imprison¬ 
ment in the United States penitentiary at 
Atlanta on each of the two counts.—City 
Paper. 
During the past year we had many in¬ 
quiries about the Tax Adjustment Bu¬ 
reau, particularly from investors in lots 
on Long Island. Powers offered to reg¬ 
ister the lots for $1.50, with a view to 
investigation taxes. In some cases he 
offered an investigation and payment of 
taxes for $3. Our investigation indicates 
that he was performing no service what¬ 
ever, and reports to this effect have been 
published in this department at various 
times. The business was even continued 
during his indictment, and right up to the 
day of his conviction. 
On July 10 I sent Harris W. Jennings, 
Springdale, Conn., six queen bees, valued 
at $5, and can get no reply at all. 
Connecticut. w. k. k. 
We could not get any response from 
Mr. Jennings either in explanation of the 
failure to pay for these bees, or why it 
was not due as stated. The only con¬ 
clusion is that our people will do better 
to reject any orders he may send them. 
I have much pleasure in advising you 
that the check for the heifer killed by the 
Great Northern Railway March 10, has 
been received, thanks to your persistent 
efforts. I realize I would have been 
obliged to put it in the hands of an 
.attorney to get my claim, if it had not 
been for you. You have made a life mem¬ 
ber for your paper, as I can endorse Tiie 
Rural New-Yorker in the stand it takes 
for the public benefit. I thank you sin¬ 
cerely, and if there is any bill due, send 
it along and I will remit. I shall do 
what 1 can to extend The Rural New- 
Yorker. h. h. h. 
Washington. 
There is no bill. We have always be¬ 
lieved that a wrong to one farmer is an 
injury to all farmers; and it follows that 
their protest against a wrong to one is 
properly expressed through their farm pa¬ 
per. Every man’s membership in Tiie 
IL N.-Y. family entitles him to the in¬ 
fluence of all in a just complaint. 
I beg to acknowledge receipt of check 
in payment of damage claim for eggs 
which I gave you ag .inst the Adams Ex¬ 
press Company. I guess the people don't 
want you to expose them. I gave one 
dollar for subscription, and will say that 
your services rendered me have saved me 
ten times the subscription price; in other 
words the paper at $10 per year to a bus¬ 
iness man would be cheap. It surely 
should be in very house, for almost all 
houses have some difficulties, and if The 
Rural New-Yorker can’t eliminate 
trouble, then I don’t know who can. 
New Jersey. s. J. 
This is a sample of enthusiasm. Unfor¬ 
tunately The R. N.-Y. cannot eliminate 
all trouble. Through the influence of its 
readers it can do a little at times. It 
does this by being entirely fair to all 
parties. It never asks of another what 
it would not grant if it were in the other 
fellow’s place. In that way it inspires 
confidence, and then sometimes difficul¬ 
ties disappear. The recognition of this 
spirit of fairness and the evidence of that 
confidence, is one of the joys of life. 
Your article on the Phelps building 
certificates ought to save your readers a 
lot of money. Hereabouts we all laugh 
at the “Great I AM.” F. s. c. 
Massachusetts. 
Coming from a neighbor this is signifi¬ 
cant. You can’t fake all of the people all 
of the time. 
The oxypathor has at last been ad¬ 
judged a fraud by a court of law. The 
Federal court at Rutland, Vermont, found 
the manager of the Oxypathor Company 
of Buffalo, N. Y., guilty of using the mails 
to defraud, and he received a sentence of 
18 months in the Federal prison at At¬ 
lanta, Ga. This scheme seemed to have 
been operated by several companies which 
controlled certain territory. Besides the 
one in Buffalo there was one in New 
York City, which was driven out of bus¬ 
iness some time back by the Vigilance 
Committee of the Advertising Men’s 
League. There was also one in Chicago, 
and another operated at one time from 
some point in Pennsylvania. 
The oxypathor is a small box filled with 
sawdust and some other inert matter. It 
is provided with a cord at each end ; and 
the patient was to attach one string to 
his head and the other to his feet; the 
November 
claims were that this would cause an ex¬ 
tra amount of oxygen to be forced into the 
blood, and that a cure would follow. Doc¬ 
tors and chemists who examined the box 
and analyzed its contents invariably as¬ 
serted that the matter was inert, and 
could have no physical effect whatever on 
the patient. The cost of the instrument 
was $35. They were sometimes sold un¬ 
der guarantee; but we were never able to 
get the cash returned. We exposed it 
several times in the past, but the ad¬ 
vertisements appeared quite regularly in 
papers of high and low degree. 
I was recently a prospective victim of 
the agricultural paper fake. The agent 
produced a 14-karat, self-filling fountain 
pen, which I was to have absolutely free, 
also three farm papers. These I could 
have by paying the postage provided I 
would speak a good word for them with 
my n ighbors. .1 told him at once that I 
had no time or inclination for canvassing 
and furthermore that I had all the farm 
papers I had time to read, including The 
It. N.-Y. The agent at once said that 
The R. N.-Y. was a good paper, but 
that his was equally good. He did 
not press the matter further, and drove 
away. I am wondering if my men¬ 
tion of your paper was the reason for his 
desisting so suddenly in his “philanthrop¬ 
ic” efforts V A. R. R. 
Connecticut. 
Tapers which do not have a legitimate 
subscription list are not entitled to sec- I 
ond-class postage rates. The law is that 
any publisher may mail all the papers he 
pleases provided he attaches a postage I 
stamp, but only papers that have genu- ! 
ine subscribers paid for may be mailed | 
at second-class rates. Tapers that are not 
able to secure a genuine list of paid sub¬ 
scribers sometimes resort to the “free- 
pen” device to secure a list and second- 
class mail privileges; but this does not 
satisfy the law, and if the postal authori¬ 
ties had the record, the papers would not 
be delivered at pound rates. At best it 
is a scheme to beat the Federal govern¬ 
ment on its postal rates. On their own 
representation these publishers must get 
all the cost of publication and profits out 
of the advertisers. It follows that their 
sole obligation is to the advertisers, and 
not to the reader. If there is any dis¬ 
pute between the subscriber and the 
reader the publisher has no choice but to 
take the side of the advertiser. Such 
sheets are advertising circulars and should 
pay the postage rate for that class of 
matter. 
I am almost overwhelmed with in¬ 
quiries from people throughout the 
United States, as a result of the publicity 
wo have gotten in The Rural New- 
Yorker. I had an idea that your pub¬ 
lication covered a good section of the 
extreme Northeast, but letters have 
reached me from the State of Washing¬ 
ton, from Arizona, Virginia, Tennessee, 
and Kansas. That is going some for cir¬ 
culation, and you are to be congratulated. 
Florida. F. m. r. 
This general character of The R. N.- 
Y. circulation suggested the possibilities 
of the Subscribers’ Exchange. We be¬ 
lieve the Subscriber in one section could 
use the surplus of another section with 
great benefit to both. Ultimately this 
will come through local farm organiza¬ 
tions. It. is being done now; but for the 
present one subscriber can deal with good 
advantage with another. 
Dr. Julian T. Thomas, who has been 
under Federal indictment for alleged mis¬ 
use of the mails, failed to put in an ap¬ 
pearance when his case was called in the 
U. S. Court last week, and his bond of 
$5,000 was declared forfeited by Judge 
Foster. In 1010 Mr. Thomas was found 
guilty of violation of the pure food law 
through his operations with a bread made 
of uncooked wheat, which ho said would 
cure indigestion. His present difficulty 
grew out of the Natural Food Company 
operations. He is president of the com¬ 
pany, and it is said his profits were $100 
a day. The company made a biscuit, 
which the doctor said would not only cure 
indigestion, but enable the patient to re¬ 
duce the high cost of living by confining 
him to a sufficient diet of a biscuit, a to¬ 
mato, and an onion. Some time back 
some of our people were attracted by the 
prospectus of the Natural Food Com¬ 
pany. Our judgment was rebuked sev¬ 
eral times because we failed to see the 
prospect of quick riches and sure health, 
that Dr. Thomas had promised. The 
record goes back some four or five years, 
but those who acted on the information 
we had at the time, are not now finan¬ 
cially concerned with Dr. Thomas’ indict¬ 
ment or forfeiture of bail. j. j. n. 
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