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P UBLISHER’S DESK 
The organization committee of proposed 
club to curb dishonest advertising sug¬ 
gested the following declaration for mem¬ 
bership : 
The name of the organization shall be 
the Anti-Fake Club. 
The purpose <>f the organization shall 
be to protect the mutual interests of its 
members; to discourage deception and 
fraud and to promote honest legitimate 
business. 
The officers <>f the organization shall 
be a president, a secretary and a treas¬ 
urer. 
The president shall preside at all meet¬ 
ings. and direct the activities of the or¬ 
ganization. 
The secretary shall keep a record of 
all meetings, and a rosrer of all members, 
and an alphabetical list of all concerns, 
whose transactions with members have 
justified complaint. 
The treasurer shall receive all monies 
contributed to bear the expense of the 
work of the organization, and pay the 
same out on the order of the president 
or secretary. 
Officers will hold office until their suc¬ 
cessors are elected, but any officers may 
he replaced at any time by the election of 
a successor by a majority vote of the 
members. 
Any person may become a member by 
expressing a willingness to perform the 
duties imposed on members by this con¬ 
stitution. 
The duties of members shall be to re¬ 
port to the secretary any case of deception 
or fraud of a general character that comes 
to his or her attention: to refuse to 
encourage or patronize any scheme that 
promises quick riches at unusual profits; 
to protest to publishers against the pub¬ 
lication of fake or fraudulent advert’S- 
ing; and if the publisher persists to re¬ 
fuse to allow the publication to come into 
the home. 
There will be no fee for membership, 
but members writing for information by 
mail will enclose a stamp for return 
postage; and voluntary contributions in 
any sum will be accepted to defray actual 
expenses. 
A report of the transactions and re¬ 
ceipts and expenses will be made annually 
by the secretary and treasurer. 
Charter members may send vote for 
officers to Tiie Rural New-Yorker, and 
the result of the vote will be reported 
in the first issue of March. In the mean¬ 
time suggestions for changes in the above 
constitution will be welcomed. 
I am writing to you for information 
concerning the reliability of the Na¬ 
tional Mercantile Company. Ltd.. 475 
Winch Building. Vancouver, B. C. It 
is a national loan, savings, investment, 
and protection society. I saw this ad¬ 
vertisement in the Woman’s National 
Weekly, of St. Louis. l. t. 
Pennsylvania. 
This concern was referred to in Pub¬ 
lisher’s Desk some months ago, when we 
pointed out its similarity to the Stand¬ 
ard Home and Empire Realty and Mort¬ 
gage Company of Alabama. The moving 
spirit in this National Mercantile Com¬ 
pany is Geo. E. Stillings, to whom we 
have referred in connection with his 
other schemes many times in the past, 
lie has now been indicted by the Federal 
Government in Seattle, and his opera¬ 
tions in Canada have been curtailed by 
that Government. We had presented the 
scheme to the Banking Department of 
this State, and hardly think it will gain 
a foothold here. The offer to loan large 
sums at a low rate of interest, on the 
payment of small monthly installments, 
is about worn out. The intimation is that 
the loan will be made within a few’ 
months, while in reality you are placed 
on a waiting list, and your turn may not 
be reached in a dozen years if at all. We 
hope none of our readers are on their 
list. Stillings is reported to have gath¬ 
ered in some millions on this scheme. It 
is deplorable that there is no way to 
reach those swindles before they attain 
such proportions. However, the papers 
can do much to curtail the business by 
refusing to print such misleading and 
malicious advertising. We are not sur¬ 
prised that the St. Louis paper carried it. 
On June 24 I sent an order to the De 
Graff Poultry Farm. Amsterdam. N. A’., 
for 50 Rhode Island baby chicks, with 
check for $12.50 which wi.s accepted 
and cashed by Mr. De Graff, who also 
sent me an acknowledgment of same 
wherein he would notify me when he 
could make shipment. T then let the 
matter rest for eight weeks, when I wrote 
him in regard to the order, to which I 
received no reply. T.ate I wrote Mr. De 
Graff stating that he must either fill the 
order within three weeks or I would can¬ 
cel same and ask that he return the 
money paid. I got no reply. Later I 
sent him a registered letter which he re¬ 
ceived and still remained silent. I then 
sent him a sight draft for $12.50, which 
he refused to pay, and told the bank he 
would w’rite. As yet I have not got a 
line of explanation from him. Whatever 
you can do will be appreciated. 
Illinois. d. b. jic F. 
The record since the receipt of the 
above letter on Nov. 2” last is as follows: 
We wrote Mr. I)e Graff promptly, ask¬ 
ing him to favor us with a certified check 
or postoffice money order in the subscrib¬ 
er’s favor, refunding the money sent him. 
No reply. Wrote again Dec. 1!). Then 
several letters were exchanged, evidently 
for the purpose of delay. In one of these 
letters Mr. De Graff referred to The It. 
N.-Y. as a “butter-in,” which is perhaps 
his way of expressing the idea that the 
transaction is none of our business. Fin¬ 
ally on Jan. 25. or seven months after re¬ 
ceiving the money, Mr. De Graff writes 
the inquirer an insulting letter enclos¬ 
ing his check for the $12.50. Does this 
settle the case? Not yet! The check 
went to protest, as we have known others 
of Mr. De Graff’s checks to do. The 
protest fees of $1.30 are added to the 
amount the subscriber sent for the chicks. 
Mr. De Graff makes large pretensions as 
a breeder of It. I. Reds, and rather glor¬ 
ies in the fact that the American Poul¬ 
try Association refuses to allow him the 
privilege of exhibiting his birds at any 
show held under the auspices of the as¬ 
sociation—no doubt for good and suffi¬ 
cient reasons. Dawley might take credit 
to himself on the score that the Ameri¬ 
can Jersey Cattle Club gently removed him 
as a member of the club. We have not ex¬ 
hausted all our resources yet to induce 
Mr. De Graff to disgorge the $12.50 plus 
the protest fees, but are giving the his¬ 
tory of the case up to this point for the 
guidance of our readers. The final re¬ 
sult will be reported in this column later 
Oil. 
I am enclosing 
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tested ? 
If so. 
with what 
results 
it. 
J. L. 
Del; 
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The 
prospects ; 
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n.v was 
incorporated under the laws of the State 
of Delaware for $225,000, $150,000 com¬ 
mon and $75,000 preferred. The pre¬ 
ferred stock is guaranteed 7*^. but we 
find no one of financial responsibility 
guaranteeing the guaranteed 7 r / r . 
Another important omission is that 
we find no reference to any assets which 
the company may have—it is therefore 
fair to assume it has none. Fruit growers 
are asked to put up their hard-earned sav¬ 
ing for nothing more tangible than “pros¬ 
pects.” We know nothing of the product 
“Borogcn” but fruit growers will be slow 
to take it up until its merits have been 
tested by tin* various experiment stations. 
Regardless of whether the product will 
do what is claimed for it or otherwise, 
our advice to these solicited to buy stock 
is to let these promoters finance their 
own hazards. 
Here is the fellow we have long been 
looking for—$!>.2(l worth of good things 
for $2, or $15.30 worth for $3. and still 
better $25.40 worth for $4. and a nice 
lo‘ of pedigreed strawberries besides. 
What better thing do you want? Give 
him a boost in the “Publisher's Desk” 
column. n. j. 
Missouri. 
The above refers to a circular, enclosed 
with the Missouri subscriber’s letter, of 
Pedigreed Nursery Co., St. Louis, Mo. 
The “Monarch Pedigreed Everbearing Tree 
raspberry” is described and illustrated as 
something marvellous, but we do not find 
it listed by any of the nursery houses 
that have earned a reputation for relia¬ 
bility. Nurserymen making claims of 
“pedigreed” trees or plants leave them¬ 
selves open to suspicion of insincerity to 
say the least. The ridiculous offers of $24 
worth of stock for $4 is only outdoing 
the offers so often found in the advertis¬ 
ing columns of publications making 
claims of censoring advertising accepted. 
Whether the offer is $24 worth of seeds 
or plants for $4 or $1 worth for 75 cents 
the deception is only a matter of degree. 
The worth of trees, plants, or other mer¬ 
chandise is a matter of opinion or specu¬ 
lation and we have barred all such offers 
from the columns of The R. N.-l\ The 
best houses never resort to such means of 
deluding the public that an unusual bar¬ 
gain is being offered. 
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