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THE RHEA-E NEW-YORKER 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
The New York Tribune cmno out re¬ 
cently with a guarantee of their adver¬ 
tisers. This is a step in the right direc¬ 
tion. They are also starting a campaign 
against the patent medicine evil. The 
great majority of the patent medicines 
are believed to be frauds—and danger¬ 
ous and worthless—leading to greater 
evil than the original trouble. The Trib¬ 
une has first turned its attention to the 
so-called “consumption cures.” It is es¬ 
timated that $15,000,000 annually falls 
into the hands of swindlers on these 
fakes alone. The consensus of opinion 
in the medical fraternity is that all pat¬ 
ent medicine venders who offer to cure 
this disease with their nostrums are 
swindlers; that the only known cure is 
rest, fresh air and good food under the 
drection of a competent physician. 
Thomas A. Edison obtained an in¬ 
junction yesterday restraining the Con¬ 
tinental Chemical Company from using 
his name or picture in association with 
a “neuralgia cure” manufactured by the 
company called by them “Edison Poly- 
fornx.” The injunction was granted by 
Judge Rose, in the Federal court. 
The Continental Chemical Company’s 
product according to the inventor, is an 
outgrowth of a compound invented by 
him in 1879. At the time, said Edison, 
he believed this compound would cure 
neuralgia, and the rights were disposed 
of to a man named McMahon. 
McMahon formed a company to handle 
the remedy, but failed. A Maine con¬ 
cern then took over the “cure” and also 
failed. Its successor, the Edison Poly¬ 
form and Manufacturing Company, was 
enjoined in New Jersey from using the 
inventor’s picture. lie has since discov¬ 
ered, Edison asserted yesterday, that the 
compound has no value as a cure.— 
Tribune. 
If a similar action were taken by 
prominent people in similar cases the un¬ 
scrupulous would soon learn they could 
not cloak their fakes with respectable 
endorsements. Mr. Edison would make 
a good member of the Anti-Fake Club. 
I see under the heading of Publisher’s 
Desk of November 28 that W. K. It. is 
another victim of Harris W. Jennings. 
Springdale, Conn. I received an earnest 
quick order for 50 complete Langstroth 
hives. He seemed so honest an sincere 
I trusted him. Well, to this day I have 
not heard from him. What do you think 
can be done? lie is the first man I ever 
dealt with who proved dishonest. I have 
learned my lesson. W. JK. It. is for¬ 
tunate that he lost only $5. H. J. G. 
New York. 
There is nothing can be done except 
perhaps a lawsuit, but the amounts in¬ 
volved are not large enough for that ex¬ 
pense. The attention of the Post Office 
Department should be called to the mat¬ 
ter. 
If we all lived up to the creed of Tiie 
II. N.-Y. there would be no need of jails 
and hardly any for rulers. Let the good 
work continue. S. R. A. 
Delaware. 
That is one of the delicate compliments 
that comes to us at this season. All 
creeds are necessarily better than the 
people who profess them. It is easier to 
create ideals than to practice them; but 
so long as we aim at an ideal, we can¬ 
not go far wrong. 
I come to you for help and advice. I 
sent, on February 1. 1914, to the Schuil- 
ing Rupture Institute, Indianapolis, Ind., 
$0 for one of their rupture locks, under¬ 
standing and believing that I got it on 
20-day free trial as per their advertising 
literature and their guarantee sent me as 
an inducement to order their locks. Feb¬ 
ruary 20 1 wrote them that the lock did 
not hold. In reply they sent the same di¬ 
rections that come with the lock. I fol¬ 
lowed the directions up to the end of the 
20 days, and then wrote them that the 
lock did not hold and I wanted my money, 
as per their agreement. Mr. Schuiling re¬ 
fuses to return it. J. B. 
New York. 
The guarantee issued by the Schuiling 
Rupture Institute, referred to by the 
above subscriber, reads: “If, after the 
expiration of the 20 days, it does not 
come up to our claims, we will refund 
your money and you may return the rup¬ 
ture lock. What can be more fair than 
this. Therefore, you should not delay a 
moment to order the Schuiling rupture 
lock.” 
From the statement of the subscriber, 
he seems to have complied with all the 
conditions of the 20-day free trial offer. 
We have taken this case up with the 
Schuiling Rupture Institute by corre¬ 
spondence, and the proprietor flatly re¬ 
fuses to refund the subscriber’s money. It 
is the contention of Mr. Schuiling that 
(his customer kept the lock beyond the 
20 days’ limit. From our record of the 
correspondence, it would seem that he 
made the demand for his money within 20 
days from the time he received it, and at 
any rate, the literature specifies, after the 
expiration of the 20 days, and not within 
the 20 days’ limit. The subscriber com¬ 
plained that the truss did not hold 20 
days after the date the order was given. 
We entertain our own opinion as to the 
sincerity of the proposition, and we have 
no hesitation in advising patients to con¬ 
sult their local physicians and be govern¬ 
ed by their advice, and above all to avoid 
free offers of every kind. 
Dr. Richard C. Flower, swindler par 
excellence, weak, emaciated and a hope¬ 
less victim of morphine,- was sentenced 
to two years in the penitentiary today 
by Justice Davis in the Criminal Branch 
of the Supreme Court. Justice Davis 
said: 
“Flower, your career as a thief has 
been conspicuous. You have brought 
untold suffering upon many people. I 
am told you are 70 years old and in 
poor health. By pleading guilty you 
have saved the State much expense. But 
the law demands that some punishment 
he inflicted upon you.” 
Flower was arrested in Toronto on 
Oct. 21, after he had been a fugitive 
from justice for 11 years. In 1902 he 
jumped a $23,000 bail bond. He was 
said to have cleaned up $1,000,000 
through his activities as a mining stock 
swindler and lived in luxurious style. 
An attempt was made by his victims 
after his arrest to recover some of their 
money, but Flower laughed at them and 
said iie had spent it all. Not one penny 
was ever recovered.—Exchange. 
This ought to he final with Dr. Flower. 
What a record for a man of 70 years! 
Who will say that his millions and his 
luxury did not come high? The lesson 
to us is not alone the loss of the money 
entrusted to his swindling hands, but the 
degree of responsibility assumed by cre¬ 
dulous victims for the encouragement of 
evil doings. Naturally the victim may 
not regard this responsibility very ser¬ 
iously as it affects the rogue; but there 
can be no question but that either direct¬ 
ly or indirectly others besides the pro¬ 
moter are in some degree responsible for 
the success of swindling schemes. 
Here’s just a small item for your en¬ 
couragement. A year or more ago the 
writer refused to longer receive “Capper’s 
Weekly,” a sheet filled with fake adver¬ 
tisements and owned by the present Gov¬ 
ernor-elect of Kansas. I told him my 
reason, too, in no uncertain language. 
January 1st next, at the expiration of my 
subscriptions to two dailies I intend to 
order both stopped for the same reason, 
and to tell the publishers why. One of 
them is the local daily, but luckily there 
is another one that refuses fake adver¬ 
tisements of almost all kinds, so I will 
be killing two birds with one stone in 
this case. The writer hopes to see our 
Anti-Fake Club big enough some day to 
deal real blows to these silent partners 
of the swindlers. Don’t bother to ack¬ 
nowledge this. It’s simply meant as a 
word of cheer. J. n. T. 
Nebraska. 
This correspondent certainly qualifies 
as a member of the Anti-Fake Club. If 
The R. N.-Y. were influenced by selfish 
motives, it would do nothing to compel 
the clean-up of the advertising columns 
of other publications. As the number 
of clean publications increases, The 
It. N.-Y - . must be less conspicuous in this 
particular than it is now, and has been. 
But the purpose is not and never has 
been a selfish one. As a member of the 
publishing fraternity, it. does a duty to 
the public to protect them from fakes 
and rogues and swindlers: and it also 
recognizes its obligations in its influence 
on other publications. We believe the 
Anti-Fake Club will yet have a member¬ 
ship of a million; and if one-half of 
them do their duty, publishers will soon 
find a way to detect and reject fraudu¬ 
lent advertisements. We hope the Gover¬ 
nor-elect of Kansas will remove the 
cause of complaint. 
Frederick Nugent had a pet society 
called the “Iridescent Order of the Iris.” 
Concentration was the keynote. The first 
act in the concentration was to send $1 
for a lucky stone, which at wholesale 
would be about $5 a gross. For $12.50 
they would receive a course in any one 
of 19 different courses—“How to Be a 
Hypnotist,” “How to Grow Handsome,” 
and “How to Obtain Money For Others 
to Start in Business,” are among the 
courses offered. Even persons as preju¬ 
diced as United States Postal inspec¬ 
tors had to admit that Nugent’s swindle 
was a good one. It is reported there 
were 1,800 customers scattered through¬ 
out the country. Six clerks were help¬ 
ing him when he was arrested for using 
the mails to defraud. Nugent has been 
sentenced to IS months in Atlanta peni¬ 
tentiary. Prof. Frederick, a palmist, and 
Prof. Jean D. Astro, an astrologist, were 
also sent to Atlanta for IS months. J. J. D. 
PASTEURIZING MILK. 
W OULD you give me information 
about the pasteurizing of milk? I 
am a farmer selling milk to the 
city, and would like to know if it would 
be practical for me to buy an outfit and 
cows, and go to selling this kind of milk. 
The city board of health is the only one 
that sells this milk in the city at the 
present. It is sort of charity on their 
part. Are there any farmers doing this 
thing in other cities? I do not know 
what price I could get for this milk ; the 
price the city charges is no higher than 
eight cents a quart. It is not delivered 
at this price. I suppose one trouble 
would be the delivery, as one would have 
to travel all over the city to different 
customers. I think if pasteurized milk 
was offered for sale in the city there 
would be a good sale for it. Are the out¬ 
fits too expensive for an individual to 
use to good advantage. J. n. s. 
New York. 
I do not. of course, know what demand 
there may be for pasteurized milk in the 
city to which you ship, but I think that 
you may. possibly, have a somewhat mis¬ 
taken idea of the nature of this product. 
Pasteurization does not improve clean, 
wholesome milk; in fact, it would injure 
such milk. The object of pasteurization 
is to destroy any harmful germs that 
may have obtained access to milk through 
careless handling of it, and it is a nec¬ 
essary measure when milk is known or 
believed to have been so indifferently 
handled as to make its purity open to 
question. As has been said, however, 
“pure milk is better than purified milk,” 
and it would be better for a milk pro¬ 
ducer who wishes a special trade to pro¬ 
cure such equipment, and exercise such 
care as would give him a reputation for 
dependably pure milk than to attempt to 
establish a trade in milk that concededly 
needed purifying. 
Any process that will raise the tem¬ 
perature of milk to 145 degrees F. and 
maintain it at that temperature for 20 
minutes will pasteurize it (N. Y. State 
Sanitary Code). This may be done on a 
small scale by setting a bottle of milk 
in a vessel of boiling water on the kitchen 
stove or on a commercial scale, by the 
use of elaborate and expensive steam¬ 
heating apparatus. Pasteurization is 
only part of the process, however; after 
this is done, the milk must he rapidly 
cooled to a low temperature and held 
there until used. Pasteurization destroys 
only part of the germs in impure milk— 
the more harmful ones—and those re¬ 
maining will multiply with greater rap¬ 
idity than ever if milk that has once 
been heated is not rapidly cooled. This 
is due to the fact that heating to some 
extent destroys the natural germicidal 
power of raw milk. This latter fact 
makes it imperative that pasteurized milk 
shall be placed and kept in only abso¬ 
lutely clean containers; preferably seal¬ 
ed. The impracticability of getting mar¬ 
ket milk that is absolutely dependable in 
its purity has led cities to adopt pasteur¬ 
ization as a means of making their milk 
safe, and it is not unlikely that in the 
near future some cities will require that 
all milk below the grade of “Certified” 
offered for sale shall have been pastur- 
ized and placed in sterilized and sealed 
containers. M. B. D. 
Pompous Lady : “Must I put this 
stamp on myself?” Postoflice Clerk: 
“Well, you can if you like, but it’s usual 
to put it on the letter.”—London Stand¬ 
ard. 
December 26, 
When you write advertisers mention The 
I t. N.-Y. and you'll get a quick reply and a 
“square deal.” See guarantee editorial page. 
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Men's Sizes, 5 to 13; 
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