1150 
September 18, 1915, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
Enclosed please find check for renew¬ 
al of subscription. I did not know we 
were in arrears. We do not expect to 
give up your paper. We take six or 
more agricultural publications, and we 
cull them out now and then, but we nev¬ 
er think of cutting The R. N.-Y. out. 
If I tell you the strongest reason we 
have for sticking to you it is our admir¬ 
ation and obligation to you for the way 
you combat the scoundrels who prey 
upon the vulnerable. My first real ex¬ 
perience with your steadfastness and de¬ 
termination for a square deal came oyer 
that “Master Workman” gasoline engine 
I bought from the Temple Pump Co. 
There is not a shadow of a doubt in my 
mind if it had not been for you I would 
have lost the $317 I had in it,, and got 
out. About all the other publications 
make the claim to do as you do—-namely, 
to make those whom they advertise come 
up with a square deal with their sub¬ 
scribers. I do not know whether they 
do it or not. I do not say they don’t— 
but I could not say they do —but this I 
can say: If they do they keep it the quiet¬ 
est of anything I ever knew. Not one 
of them has ever got it before my eyes 
that he had done anything to down a 
scoundrel who preyed upon one of his 
subscribers, or gave the balance of his 
readers a warning to be on the lookout 
for Mr. So-and-So with his slick swind¬ 
ling game of some kind or other. I some¬ 
times think if they ever handle one of 
these slickers it is done in a way to do 
his rascality the least harm possible, and 
so quietly, and in such secrecy that the 
right hand of neither party knoweth what 
the left of the other hath done. So far as 
I can judge by anything that has come in 
my experience or observation you and 
The R. N.-Y. are the only people I have 
dealt with as a subscriber who have ever 
exposed a faker. Others may have, but 
so far as my observation goes in this 
line, if they have they have hid their 
light under a bushel, or a dollar, or some¬ 
thing else that kept it from being seen. 
Long live the management of The R. 
N.-Y. and the paper. 
Virginia. w. D. davenport, m. d. 
When this complaint first reached us 
we were publishing the Temple Pump 
Company advertising. The correspond¬ 
ence showed clearly enough that the com¬ 
pany was not inclined to live up to the 
definite promises made before the sale of 
the engine. We were obliged to discon¬ 
tinue the advertisement and promised 
an editorial discussion of the case before 
the adjustment was made. Relying on 
the assurances of a member of the firm, 
we then consented to renew the adver¬ 
tisement and the size of the advertise¬ 
ment was doubled. I think the doctor 
was disappointed at our leniency, and 
felt no confidence in the company; but 
we preferred to err on the side of char¬ 
ity. It was not long, however, until we 
received another complaint, and this the 
company refused to adjust, and told us 
frankly in so many words that at the 
time of increasing the advertisement, 
they expected they had purchased im¬ 
munity from us from any further com¬ 
plaint. That was a new angle of the 
subject to us. The advertisement went 
out quick, never to return; and after ex¬ 
hausting efforts to adjust the new com¬ 
plaint, we published the whole story. 
The company thought to nullify the effect 
by publishing full-page advertisements in 
another farm paper in our territory. The 
result was disastrous. Several new com¬ 
plaints came in; and finally the com¬ 
pany settled all of them and promised 
prompt adjustment of any complaints 
that might come later. This agreement 
has been kept except in one case where 
another publication carrying the adver¬ 
tisement was involved. The other pa¬ 
per justified the company in its position, 
and while it was similar to the others 
we did not feel that we could pursue the 
case under the circumstances. 
For the most part I do not think all 
the farm papers intend to abandon their 
readers to dishonest advertisers. There 
are exceptions, but for the most part the 
farm papers now exclude fake advertis¬ 
ing. It is in the twilight eases that they 
mostly err; and I believe that is largely 
because the publishers are not and 
never have been real farmers. They 
come from city and counting house, 
and their sympathies are with their 
early associates. Never having known 
the real trials of the farm, they 
cannot think and feel and sympathize 
with the farmer. I once heard the pub¬ 
lisher of a farm paper say that if he 
had his way he would stand workmen 
who rebelled against abuses, against a 
brick wall and shoot them. He was 
born with a silver spoon in his mouth 
the; rural, new-yorkbr 
and reared on the city sidewalk. The 
man who would shoot working men can¬ 
not think and feel with men who work 
the farms. Many farm publishers are 
kindly genial men; but they cannot love 
the goddess they have never had an op¬ 
portunity to know. 
I am one of your family and would as 
soon think of farming without a plow as 
to get along without your paper, espe¬ 
cially the Publisher’s Desk, and would 
like to become a member of your Anti- 
Fake Society. Now I am after a little 
legal advice which I hope you will answer 
if it is not asking too much. F. A. 
Pennsylvania. 
We welcome this subscriber to the 
membership of the Anti-Fake Club. The 
Club is growing. The members are par¬ 
ticularly active in ferreting out the fraud¬ 
ulent advertising and advising us of it for 
the benefit of others. This is good work. 
They are also very active in protesting to 
publishers against the deceptive advertis¬ 
ing appearing in their columns. This we 
believe is the most effective work. If car¬ 
ried out vigorously it will do more to dis¬ 
courage the acceptance of fake advertis¬ 
ing than any other course. It is the peo¬ 
ple of the country who are approached 
for money to finance the fraudulent 
schemes of get-rich-quick promoters. If 
these same people refuse to receive a pub¬ 
lication containing the fake advertising, 
the promoters will be unable to follow up 
their practices, lacking mediums in which 
to exploit them. Use the Anti-Fake Club 
stamps freely. We will send 25 as a trial 
to anyone sending a two-cent stamp for 
postage. 
Will you kindly give me information re¬ 
garding the enclosed, as I am an investor? 
I am a little suspicious of it. H. J. 
New York. 
The Imperial Tunnelling Machine Com¬ 
pany of New' York is offering stock in its 
Temple tunnelling machine. Great claims 
are made for the merits of the machine, 
which may or may not prove true. At 
any rate if the invention has the practical 
value they state, there would be no need 
of going to small investors—practical men 
experienced in machinery would be only 
too glad to finance such a proposition. 
I enclose papers relating to my claim 
against the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad 
Company. I shipped this package to a 
firm in Minneapolis, but it was delivered 
to another firm, and name changed on de¬ 
livery receipt. I will thank you to see 
what you can do in collecting same. 
Ohio. M. E. D. 
For one reason or another the railroad 
declined this claim from April 21, 1913, 
to August 10, 1915. They claimed good 
delivery w'hen the record was clear that 
the goods had been delivered to the w'rong 
party. The original papers were filed 
with the railroad in accordance with their 
request. They were lost, and the claim 
w'as then declined because the papers were 
not forthcoming. We refused to accept 
any excuse and have finally received the 
$ 6 . 
On March 6, 1913, my son shipped 12 
dozen eggs to Philadelphia, w'hich were 
never delivered. Claim w'as made for $5, 
the value as noted on the Adams Express 
Company receipt, but as yet have failed 
to receive payment. Knowing you col¬ 
lect these claims when possible I am send¬ 
ing it to you to see what can be done. 
Pennsylvania w. K. d. 
July 13th, 1913, Adams Express Com¬ 
pany advisel “there should be no delay be¬ 
yond the usual time for investigation.” 
We wrote continually without further ad¬ 
vice until June, 1914, the express com¬ 
pany asked with whom settlement should 
be made. Later in the month they asked 
shipper to settle for $2.70. He referred 
the letter to us, and we refused to make 
any compromise. A second time the ship¬ 
per w'as approached to accept $2.70, but 
we insisted upon the full value. In Feb¬ 
ruary, 1915, the express company asked 
for duplicate papers, saying the file had 
been lost, but they would reciprocate by 
closing the claim out without any further 
delay. June 23, 1915—two years, three 
months and 17 days after the shipment 
was made—remittance for the full 
amount with express charges reached us. 
We do not often give so full a report 
on any express claim, but the record made 
does not do Adams Express Company any 
credit. The Interstate Commerce Com¬ 
mission should insist upon prompt atten¬ 
tion to claims. We expect investigations 
will take some time, but we contend that 
three letters in two years do not indicate 
vigorous action. J. J. u. 
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I MFG. CO. 
I 265 First Ave. 
8 columlus, o. , 
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Briggs Ave.. FAIRFIELD, IOWA 
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