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November 27, 1915. 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
I jtm a subscriber to your paper, and 
would like to ask your help for the benefit 
of a friend. There is an acetylene com¬ 
pany by the name of the Night Comman¬ 
der Lighting Co., from Jackson, Mich., 
canvassing our neighboring town. Their 
price is .$300 for putting in 22 lights. 
New York. R. E. D. 
Our information is that this firm has 
some financial responsibility. We have 
no information regarding the merits of 
the lighting outfit. Another New York 
State subscriber reports that he was im¬ 
posed upon by an agent of this company 
and was induced to sign a contract for 
one of the machines through misrepresen¬ 
tation of the said agent. In this connec¬ 
tion we desire to warn farmers once more 
that regardless of any representations 
which agents or representatives of houses 
of this kind may make in order to secure 
the signature of the farmer to an order, 
that the firm which the agent represents 
will o'nl.v recognize just what is printed 
on the contract, and it therefore be¬ 
hooves everyone to read carefully every 
word of any contract which they sign 
with agents of this kind and disregard 
any promises or representations which 
may have been made on the side. 
I enclose under separate cover paper 
published in the interest of Lomax promo¬ 
tion. also application card for shares. 
Would like your opinion of the proposi¬ 
tion. W. F. M. 
Pennsylvania. 
The paper referred to is virtually a cir¬ 
cular of the Lomax Investment Company 
of Lomax, Ill., gotten up in newspaper 
form. Lomax is a small town of but a 
few hundred inhabitants at most, on the 
Mississippi River. Wm. J. Love seems 
to be the active spirit in the promotion 
Enterprise, and is booming the town in 
true “get-rich-quick Wallingford” style. 
Incidentally he is appealing to railroad 
employees especially for investments of 
$10 in monthly installments in Lomax In¬ 
vestment Company stock. It is stated in 
this paper, “The New City,” that each 
investor will get $10,240 or more on each 
$10 investment. This beats 520 per cent. 
Miller or the Jared Flagg 1 per cent, a 
week schemes. The Federal authorities 
brought the operations of these gentle¬ 
men to a halt by landing both in the peni¬ 
tentiary. IIow long will the officials tol¬ 
erate this lovely scheme of Wm. J. Love? 
It seems incredible that railroad employ¬ 
ees, who as a rule are sensible, practical 
men, would part with even $10 of their 
savings on a hazy proposition of this 
kind, and yet the literature claims to 
have upwards of 3,000 investors. Of 
course, the promoters do not pretend to 
return the ten* dollars if sent in by a car¬ 
penter or a plumber. It is reported that 
the funds received from investors are 
largely used in paying for advertising, 
and while there has been some money in¬ 
vested in the town in the way of im¬ 
provements practical men regard tiie 
proposition as a visionary scheme and un¬ 
likely to attain even a fraction of the in¬ 
crease in values anticipated. Most of the 
money comes from remote territory. l o¬ 
cal people who are in a position to form 
conservative judgment of the prospects 
are not investing in the proposition. 
Is the Bush Motor Co., Chicago, Ill., a 
reliable firm? They want me to take a 
$30 scholarship on running, care and sell¬ 
ing their cars for $15. They guarantee 
me a diploma. After getting my diploma 
thev will send me a car and I will receive 
$100 for each car I sell or one car for 
selling five cars. c. M. 
New Jersey. 
We do not know that there is any such 
company as Bush Motor Co. We have a 
record of the Bush Motor College, Inc., 
Chicago, the business of which concern 
seems to be to sell a correspondence 
course for $30—if the prospect doesn’t 
bite promptly he is offered the course for 
$15 or less. The advertising of this con¬ 
cern appearing in some farm papers is 
headed “Earn This Magnificent Bush Mo¬ 
tor Car. Get Free. Make $3,000 to 
$5,000 a Year,” and more of this sort of 
guff. The firm gives its address as “Bush 
Building,” and the letter heads show a 
picture of a large building with a photo¬ 
graph of Mr. Bush on it. Mr. Bush, 
however, alleges he had no intention of 
giving the impression that his company 
owns the building or that it manufactures 
THE RURAL 
automobiles. Perish the thought! All 
the information we can gather shows that 
Mr. Bush and the company that bears 
his name are merely vendors of corre¬ 
spondence literature—commonly called 
“dope”—pertaining to automobiles, oper¬ 
ating, repairing and selling. The sugges¬ 
tion of big money to be made by taking 
agency for Bush cars is only “sucker 
bait” to get the remittance for the so- 
called “course.” Mr. Bush maintains 
that a manuacturer is under contract to 
supply him with Bush cars, but it is 
hardly reasonable to suppose that even a 
correspondence course graduate with one 
of the Bush College diplomas under his 
arm could in these days of competition 
sell an unknown car to the public with 
the name of the manufacturer kept a se¬ 
cret. Our reports show that Mr. Bush 
was formerly connected with the Coey 
Motor Company using exactly similar 
methods. 
Having taken your paper for a number 
of years and read how you help people in 
trouble of many kinds, I am going to ask 
you to help me. We have shipped eggs 
several years and never had any refused 
on account of breakage or any trouble of 
any kind, until now, when our commis¬ 
sion man advised us to look to the ex¬ 
press company for the pay for a case of 
eggs which he refused on account of 
breakage. They offered to settle for $5.29. 
We had put the claim in for $0.29. We 
refused to settle for less than that, which 
was the price we had received for the case 
shipped a few days before. They will 
not pay anything unless we come to their 
terms. r. 
New York. 
Two shipments of eggs were badly 
damaged in transit and the commission 
house refused them. The express com¬ 
pany offered to adjust for the-amount 
realized on the shipments. There was no 
reason why the shipper should not have 
the full value for these eggs, and we in¬ 
sisted upon same. We are gratified to 
have check for the exact value, and feel 
the express company has done itself 
credit. The farmers are seriously con¬ 
sidering the advantages of parcel post, 
and this would mean a considerable loss 
of revenue to the express companies, but 
when they show a disposition to adjust 
complaints on their merits, shippers nave 
an added degree of confidence in them, 
and continue to use their services. 
As a subscriber to your very good 
paper, I would be glad if you would 
kindly give me some information by mail 
as soon as you can do so. My son is 
thinking very strongly of attending the 
“Coyne National Trade School,” 39-51 
E. Illinois St., Chicago. What I would 
like to know is this: Are they reliable, 
and do you think their trade studies in 
various lines would be practicable and 
work out in every-day life to the student’s 
best interests? I don’t want the boy to 
go unless he can get lasting and reliable 
benefit for his future work. c. R. 
New York. 
This inquiry came to us some two 
years ago, and our advice was to the 
effect that an apprenticeship served with 
a first-class contractor would give a work¬ 
ing power of far more value than any 
correspondence course. Our counsel is 
justified. Warrants have been issued for 
the arrest of three officials of the so- 
called school on a conspiracy charge. A 
party answered their advertisement offer¬ 
ing a course in moving-picture operating 
for $30, promising position after gradu¬ 
ation. When the student told one of the 
teachers it would be necessary to have 
six months’ operating experience before 
he could take the city examination and 
become a licensed operator, arrangements 
were made to fake up a letter and have 
it mailed from out of town and the license 
was to be procured on this fake letter. 
When this letter was filed with the city 
inspector and investigation proved it to 
be false, the student became disgusted and 
revealed the whole scheme to the city au¬ 
thorities. He felt he owed the protection 
to other young fellows who might be 
tempted to put up the $30 for the course, 
believing they can secure licenses in Chi¬ 
cago. This is the first step in a city¬ 
wide investigation to clear Chicago of 
alleged fake schools for moving-picture 
operators. The Coyne National Trade 
Schools offer to teach a long list of 
trades and secure positions at completion. 
If they resort to methods as outlined 
above, w r e believe our readers will not 
want to lend their influence to continue 
the fraud. Anti-Fake stamps are sug¬ 
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