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TH K RURAIi NKW-YORKECR 
May 8, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
I'tease enroll m<- as a member of your 
AnthFake Club. I enclose a dollar for 
the purposes of the <‘lub and shall be 
glad year by year to add the same amount 
to my subscription to the paper itself. 
More than that, if you become involved 
in any extraordinary expense in your at¬ 
tempts to stamp out the vampires which 
bloat themselves upon public credulity, I 
will cheerfully add any sum that I can 
possibly afford. c. J. S. 
Massachusetts. 
I am interested in your Anti-Fake 
Club and wish to offer a suggestion ; that 
you have a stamp printed about the size 
of a postage stainp, to be used by the 
members to paste on their correspondence 
to advertisers. This would help the mem¬ 
bers to get a square deal from fakers 
and would also help the people who ad¬ 
vertise in The It. N.-Y. to know where 
their correspondents saw their advertise¬ 
ment. c. J. C. 
New Jersey. 
This is a good suggestion, and we shall 
try it out. The funds of the Anti-Fake 
Club are rather limited, and it would be 
impossible to furnish the stamp from 
them, but we have a design made and 
will furnish pasters to the members at 
the actual cost of production. 
The following design is suggested: 
RURAL NEW-YORKER 
ANTI-FAKE CLUB 
I do not patronize 
publications 
carrying deceptive 
advertising 
These can be supplied at five cents per 
hundred. Contributions to the expenses 
nf the Club thus far are as follows: 
The Rural New-Yorker . $25.00 
Dr. Ira TJlman . 5.00 
Mr. Chas. J. Sniffen . 1.00 
Last Autumn, I was advised to write 
Lee Todd of the Southern Intelligence 
Office, 215 North 6th Street. Richmond, 
Ya., as he could furnish good help. He 
promised to send a' good servant if I 
would send $17 to defray travelling ex¬ 
penses. I sent the check in December, 
1913. It vas received and cashed, and 
promises were made from time to time, 
but no help appeared. I was obliged to 
get other help, and in February wrote 
Mr. Todd to that effect, asking for a 
return of my money, but failed to hear 
from him. Will you kindly look up the 
case and see what can be done? It may 
be a good lesson for other "readers. 
New York. ' • N. w. 
This is the fourth year we have had a 
complaint against Mr. Todd. All have 
been to the same effect—servants have 
not been sent and the advance remittance 
for expenses has not been returned. Mr. 
Todd writes us rather contemptuously, 
referring us to his lawyers, and advises 
that it is time we stop writing to him. 
We realize the futility of attempting to 
get redress for complainants but our peo¬ 
ple are entitled to the history for their 
own protection. They will want to look 
elsewhere for their help. There is no 
License Bureau in Richmond, such as 
we have in New York, and the Commis¬ 
sioner issuing licenses has no jurisdiction 
over the holders. Our law is more effect¬ 
ive, for the license would be revoked upon 
a report of a similar transaction if it 
were not remedied immediately. This is 
evidently a case for the Post Office au¬ 
thorities. 
I received a circular on a post card 
from the American Tire & Rubber Co., 
1775 Broadway, N. Y. C., of big reduc¬ 
tion in prices of tires for automobiles, ab¬ 
solutely new and standard makes. On 
March, 27, 1915, I sent an order to the 
American Tire & Rubber Co. with the 
required advance remittance and stated 
“Please ship one Firestone, non-skid tire, 
size 30x3%, guaranteed for 3.500 miles 
by express c.o.d.” 1 wanted to examine 
it upon arrival but the express agent said 
I could not before paying the $10 collect 
on it and express charges, so thinking 
everything would be all right I paid for 
it, brought it home and it was not a Fire¬ 
stone make at all, but a tire that had 
the name of it all scratched off and had 
a flaw in that will wear the inner tube 
out quickly if used. It was not what I 
sent for at all. It is what I call a sec¬ 
ond tire, so 1 sat down and wrote to the 
company and told them the circumstances. 
New Jersey. E. w. 
We took this matter up in behalf of the 
subscriber with the American Tire & 
Rubber Co. and at first the company took 
tho position that so long as they sent this 
subscriber a tire that was guaranteed for 
3,500 miles he had no cause for complaint 
even though the Firestone tire as ordered 
was not received. Finally the company 
agreed to accept the return of the tire 
and refund the money paid, provided it 
was returned by “E. W.” charges pre¬ 
paid. We see no reason why the custom¬ 
er should be out the charges both ways 
when the American Tire & Rubber Co. 
made a quotation on a Firestone tire, the 
quotation was accepted and the company 
failed to send the tire specified. The 
further contention of the subscriber that 
the tire was not a perfect one is an ad¬ 
ditional reason why the carrying charges 
should be paid by the house selling the 
tire. “E. W.” has his choice of getting 
what service he can out of the tire, or 
returning it, prepaying the express 
charges and taking chances on getting 
his money refunded. We are giving this 
brief history of the transaction for the 
guidance of other automobile tire buyers. 
The record of Publisher’s Desk Depart¬ 
ment for the year 1914 shows that we 
have collected some 800 claims, amount¬ 
ing to $19,665.50; of this amount 
$3,206.10 was from transportation com¬ 
panies alone. We received 1015 miscel¬ 
laneous claims and 600 express claims for 
collection. We have answered 2.390 in¬ 
quiries for ratings and reliability of 
houses. The correspondence involved the 
writing and mailing of nearly 25,000 let¬ 
ters. Some 30 transportation claims have 
been unadjustible for various reasons, and 
we have been unsucessful in 200 of the 
miscellaneous claims; some being uncol¬ 
lectible; some concerns being out of busi¬ 
ness; and some of the disputes were of 
such a nature no adjustment could be 
reached. Following is the account since 
we began to keep a record of the work : 
1910— 400 claims collected... 
1911— 539 
1912— 558 
1913— 743 “ “ 
1914— 800 
$9,065.45 
12.110.63 
10.926.51 
10.112.91 
19.665.50 
The thing that is important about this 
work is that country people, because of 
their position, are unable to protect them¬ 
selves or to get redress in such cases. 
While this condition exists our boasted 
civilization and means of justice are not 
what they ought to be. Here is more 
than sixty thousand dollars, the greac 
part of which would probably never be 
collected through ordinary means, and if 
we add the accounts that we failed to 
collect, it would greatly exceed one hun¬ 
dred thousand dollars. 
There are yet publishers who scoff at 
this kind of work on the part of a publi¬ 
cation, and when it affected one of his 
pet crooks adversely, a distinguished 
member of Congress strongly intimated 
that he regarded it as a species of black¬ 
mail. Of course, there is no semblance 
of blackmail about it. If there were it 
would not last a month. A blackmailer 
threatens to publish information, true or 
false, about the person approached, un¬ 
less money is paid him to suppress the 
attack. The R. N.-Y. is in some sense 
a cooperative institution. Some 170,000 
farmers support it for the purpose of 
getting individual information and for the 
further purpose of having a defender, 
whenever and wherever their collective 
and just interests require a champion. 
When a man or a concern seeking their 
trade individually, defaults on one or 
abuses his trust, the others are clearly 
entitled to the facts as a guide to their 
future action. In other words, we believe 
that the strength and power given to a 
farm paper by its subscribers collectively, 
should be used for their individual and 
united interests. The fact that no charge 
is ever made for this service, and that 
the paper defends any suit that grows 
out of it at its own expense, is sufficient 
answer to any charge of selfish or unfair 
motive. 
In a prosperous rural community the 
village doctor was also superintendent of 
the Sunday School. Incidentally In- 
taught a class of small boys. “Willie,” 
impressively remarked the doctor one 
Sunday afternoon to a bright-faced 
youngster, “can you tell me what we 
must do in order to get to heaven?” 
“Yes, sir,” was the prompt response of 
William, “we must die.” “That is very 
true,” said the doctor encouragingly, “but 
can’t you tell me what we must do be¬ 
fore we die?” “Yes. sir.” was the start¬ 
ling repoinder of little Willie, “we must 
get sick and send for you.”—Philadelphia 
Telegraph. 
Good concrete—and that means concrete made 
with the highest quality of Portland Cement— 
grows harder and stronger every year. 
In building of concrete you cannot afford to 
use inferior materials. “ Many brands of Portland 
Cement are on the market,” says the U. S. Govern¬ 
ment in Bulletin No. 481, “from which the farmer 
should select a make guaranteed by the local 
dealer to meet the standard specifications for ce¬ 
ment of the United States Government.” 
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THE GUARANTEED 
PORTLAND 
CEMENT 
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ALPHA goes further and is more economical 
than ordinary Portland Cements because every 
ounce is live, active and full of binding power. 
Every hour, day and night, it is inspected by 
chemists. Don’t ask for just “Portland” Cement; 
specify ALPHA and be sure. 
Ask the ALPHA Dealer 
in your community for the valuable free book, 
“ALPHA Cement—How to Use It”. It tells and 
shows how to make scores of improvements. If you 
don’t know the ALPHA dealer,write us,mentioning 
what you are planning to build. Address Dept. R . 
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General Offices: Easfon* Pa. 
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12 H-P. 197.00 
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Jacobson engines, »®» for illustrated 
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MFG. 
CO. 
Dept. 
Warren, Pa., U. S. A. 
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Handy 
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LEVIN PRUNER 
T HE best Primer. Cuts fl inch 
dry branch. Quick, clean, 
easy cut. We will send it post¬ 
paid for one new yearly subscrip¬ 
tion at $1, or for club of 10 ten- 
week trials at 10 cents each. 
These articles are not given with a sub¬ 
scription to The Rural New-Yorker, but 
are given to the agent as a reward, in 
place of cash, for extending the subscrip¬ 
tion list of The Rural New-Yorker. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
333 WEST 30th ST., NEW YORK. 
When you write advertisers mention The R. N.-Y. and you’ll get a quick repl 
and a “square deal.” See guarantee editorial page. 
