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THE KUKAI 
NEW-YOKKEK 
November 20, 1915. 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
Can you give me any information in 
regard to the circular enclosed of the In¬ 
ternational Automobile League of Buf¬ 
falo, N. Y.? The Company seems to be 
getting a lot of memberships in this 
vicinity, but it did not seem to appear to 
me although the company may be reliable. 
Connecticut. w. e. p. 
During the Summer of 1909, I joined 
the International Automobile League of 
Buffalo. The agent of the concern hap¬ 
pened to be a clergyman. He repi’esented 
the advantages of membership in glowing 
terms and allowed me a reduction of $5 
on my year’s membership fee in order to 
get my name on his list, so he said. I 
bought one tire of the concern which was 
not the tire I ordered, and during the 
following Summer, before my year was 
up I purchased while in Buffalo a few 
odds and ends for my car, cost not 
amounting to more than $10. 
After the year was up, I thought my 
membership in this league had expired 
and I did not renew it as I was told by 
the clergyman that I could do each year. 
I had signed my name to the membership 
paper the Summer before. Now it de¬ 
velops that this paper is the basis of a 
claim for $50 against me. The company 
claims that since I have at no time sent 
them my resignation that I am still a 
member in ari'ears and that they purpose 
to collect the yearly dues for the past 
five years, by law if necessary. I have 
still until the 20th of November in which 
to pay the $50 or they claim I will be 
subpoenaed before the U. S. Court at Buf¬ 
falo. G. G. B. 
New Yoi'k. 
The letter of our subscriber, G. G. B., 
is perhaps sufficient i - eply to W. E. P.’s 
inquiry. Our information is that there 
is a clause in the membership contract 
of the International Automobile League 
of Buffalo to the effect that the member 
is required to notify the League 60 days 
previous to the expiration of the contract, 
otherwise the membership is continued ou 
the books of the League. Other sub¬ 
scribers have reported being subject to 
annoyance in the way of threats of law¬ 
suits on account of back dues on the 
membership. On general principles we 
have always advised our people against 
having anything to do with any of these 
membership schemes. We have never yet 
found any of the so-called “cooperative” 
houses able to furnish goods to its mem¬ 
bers at a less cost than the same quality 
could be purchased for in the open mar¬ 
ket. There is no more reason for paying 
one of these leagues $10 for the privilege 
of buying goods of them than there would 
be for your local groceryman or dry goods 
merchant to require you to put up this 
amount of money for the privilege of 
buying at their stores. The scheme is 
wrong in principle and we have yet to 
learn of its working out satisfactorily in 
practice. 
M. Duncan Bowen, president, and J. 
Francis Story, secretary and treasurer 
of the Continental Mortgage & Deposit 
Co.. Baltimore, Md., have been arrested 
by the Federal authorities on the charge 
of fraudulent use of the mails. They 
have been unable to procure bail and 
have been committed. Their proposition 
did not bear investigation, and Mr. 
Bowen’s connection with the American- 
Canadian Secux-ities Co., of Denver, 
which had received unfavorable criticism, 
was an additional incentive to let some 
one else finance their schemes. 
The Consumers’ Butter and Egg Com¬ 
pany started out offering better than 
market price. We warned against ship¬ 
ping to them, but began to hear from 
farmers who had sent eggs and butter and 
could not get checks. The next step was 
a resort to bankruptcy and the promise 
of pro rata cash settlement on outstand¬ 
ing accounts as soon as collected, and 
two-year note for the balance. Next step 
was removal, and no one has been able 
to locate them. Much money was lost by 
farmers, and the only way to prevent a 
repetition is to look up the standing of 
houses, and avoid those offering great ad¬ 
vances on market quotations. 
Robert II. Matthews, of Williamsport, 
Fa., has disappeared. lie is thought to 
be connected with Lane Co., of Ports¬ 
mouth. O. He has been doing a produce 
business, but quantities of butter are held 
at the railroads for him. Matthews had 
been selling butter below ruling prices, 
and it has not developed where he ob¬ 
tained the butter, but a firkin which was 
stolen from a local grocer was traced to 
him. The supposition was that he was 
innocent in the matter, but the turn af- 
fairs are now taking leaves him open to 
suspicion. At any rate, he cannot be 
found in Williamsport, but as there is a 
possibility that he will loom up large in 
some other place, it will be the part of 
wisdom, to avoid trading with him. 
On May 22,1915, I sent to N. A. Miller 
& Co., 215 East Sixth Street, New’ YorU, 
two cases of white eggs. Up to date I 
have not received any payment. I w’rote 
to them, but received no answeic I 
shipped them eggs before and they paid; 
others shipped them eggs and they paid. 
It is possible they did not receive the 
eggs, but I should think they would have 
answered my letter. j. m. c. 
New York. 
Our letters brought no response and we 
found upon further investigation that N. 
A. Miller never had a store at the ad¬ 
dress given. He made arrangements to 
get mail and packages at different places 
in the vicinity, but has not been seen in 
the neighborhood for some time. This is 
evidently another of the fly-by-night 
dealers. Experience teaches that such 
men appear at some other location and 
endeavor to get more shipments and 
again disappear, and repeat this process 
indefinitely. 
Dr. Newo Newi New, posing as Ai’ch- 
bishop of the Newthot Church, and presi¬ 
dent of the Newthot University, was ar¬ 
rested, chai'ged with using the mails to 
defraud. His assistant, Marie Tully 
Graham, was detained as a witness. Dr. 
New charged $100 for a course in a uni¬ 
versity which did not exist, and $5 for a 
diploma and $5 for his bible, “Newthot 
Science.” Dr. New, it is alleged, has op¬ 
erated in all the larger cities of the coun¬ 
try. In the Government’s complaint 
many aliases have been named and his 
true name given as John Fair. New 
schemes to defraud are coming up every 
day, and they are so ingenious it is wise 
to investigate befoi-e putting money into 
them. 
We have frequently warned readers to 
avoid the alluring claims made by Dr. 
Sanche for his appliances. A fraud order 
has now been issued against the Oxydo- 
nor Sales Company of Rochestei', N. Y. 
This appliance has been called Oxypa- 
thor, Oxygenor and Oxybon, and offices 
were located at Chicago, Cleveland, 
Buffalo, Detroit and New York. The 
Ox.vpathor and Oxygenor, or Oxygenator 
were previously barred from the mails, 
but Dr. Hercules Sanche has continued 
to exploit one or another of these devices 
with more or less success. The claim is 
that this fake appliance, costing $25, 
cures disease by supplying oxygen to the 
human body, which is absolutely impos¬ 
sible. The vice-pi’esident of the com¬ 
pany, Alfred C. Garsia, gave credit to 
Dr. Sanche’s invention for mending his 
broken leg. Investigation revealed that 
he had three prominent physicians and 
best care and nursing. Publisher’s Desk 
has been issuing warnings against these 
various fake appliances for the last 10 
years, and our readei’s hardly need the 
advice to pass them by. 
I have to smile when I see the way 
those people came down out of their tree 
when you people jar it. Their two-cent 
investigation is only bluff. I told the 
agent The R. N.-Y. got them going. He 
denied it, of course. He proposed to set¬ 
tle claim for $10. which I accepted, as 
this was nearly the cost of the eggs. 
When I receive a complaint from a cus¬ 
tomer I always adjust same at once, 
either with a duplicate order or money 
back at his pleasure. I have never been 
stung very badly by dealing on the 
square. Accept my sincere thanks; with¬ 
out your aid I do not believe I could 
have obtained 10 cents. E. B. M. 
New Jersey. 
We believe this is the only fair way to 
treat customers, whether the dealer is a 
private individual, a corporation or a 
transportation company. At the same 
time, wliei’e a reasonable doubt exists, we 
believe the customer should give the other 
side the benefit. If dealers would send 
prompt acknowledgment of ordei’s and 
complaints; and customers equally 
prompt replies to inquiries, a better feel¬ 
ing would be engendered and a satisfac¬ 
tory settlement reached. Our desire is 
to help bring this about, and we are al¬ 
ways glad to lend our services to this 
end. We do not want to wave the “big 
stick,” but if it will be effective in get¬ 
ting justice for a subscriber we have the 
will and power to use it. 
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