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RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 21, 1917. 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
Carl F. Geyer, president of the Double 
Service Tire and Kubber Company, 
Aki’on. Ohio. was. on March 27th, con¬ 
victed of u.sing the mails to defraud by 
Federal jury at Cleveland. Ohio, and sen¬ 
tenced to serve twenty-one months in the 
Atlanta Federal penitentiary by Judge 
John M. Killitts. 
Mark B. Miller, head of the Piqua Tire 
and Rubber (’ompany, Piqua, Ohio, and 
hjrinerly vice-president of the Double Ser¬ 
vice Tire and Rubber C'oinpany, was con¬ 
victed on the same charge and sentenced 
to 15 months’ imprisonment.—Bulletin 
National Vigilance Committee Advertis¬ 
ing Clubs of the World. 
The automobile tire trade seems to 
have more than its share of crooks. The 
Vigilance Committee is doing an excellent 
work in the interest of the public as well 
as the legitimate automobile tire trade, by 
bringing these scoundrels to justiej. 
More power to the able counsel, Richard 
H. Bee, who directs the.se activities. 
I enclose an advertisement of the Na¬ 
tional Rubber Company of New York, 
located at Philadelphia. Would you look 
it over and give me your opinion Avhether 
it would he wise to invest in it? Sev¬ 
eral of my friends have l>een talking to 
me about taking stock in it, as we all own 
automobiles. We would like to know 
whether it would be a safe investment. 
Pennsylvania. E. G. w. 
The subscriber refers to the National 
Rubber Co. as located at Philadelphia, 
but the factory and home ofBce of the 
concern is located at Pottstown, Pa. The 
enclosed four-page advertisement appeared 
in a publication of the cheap mail-order 
class, and contains the photographs of the 
officers and directors, including Pre.sident 
J. G. Feist, representing that the officers 
and directors have made the making and 
selling of tires their life w'ork. Our re¬ 
ports show to the contrary that J. G. 
Feist was previously located at Harris¬ 
burg, where he was engaged as a pro¬ 
moter in investment securities, devoting 
his time principally to promoting and sell¬ 
ing stock in a quarry enterprise. The 
National Rubber Co. is incorporated in 
the State of Delaware for .$2,,500.000. It 
appears a separate organization, the Na¬ 
tional Rubber Realty Co., a Pennsylvania 
corporation, with an authorized capital of 
$5,000, own the real estate and buildings 
where the National Rubber Co. operate 
and manufacture tires. The officers of the 
two companies seem to be identical. The 
T’nion Rond & Mortgage Co., of Potts¬ 
town, Pa., was also organized by J. G. 
Feist, which is said for the purpose of 
acting as trustee for the bond issue of the 
National Rubber Co. The National Rub¬ 
ber Co. of New York appears to be an¬ 
other Delaware organization with a capi¬ 
tal of $5,000,000, under Avhich company it 
is proposed to operate a chain of service 
stations and sell the National Rubber Co. 
tires. From the above record it would 
appear that Mr. J. G. Feist is very much 
of an organizer and promoter, and we 
find nothing in the reports to indicate 
that previous to his organization of the 
National Rubber Co. he had any expe¬ 
rience wdth the manufacturing of auto¬ 
mobile tires or other rubber products. In 
common with all investment literature 
the advertisement which E. G. W. sends 
us is fairly teeming with the wonderful 
opportunity for profits and represents 
that this “chain of tire service station.s 
should become a veidtable gold mine for 
every stockholder who becomes interested 
in this company now.” These prospects 
are quite in contrast with some of the re¬ 
ports we have seen from the Large and 
w’ell-established automobile tire manufac¬ 
turers complaining that their profits dur¬ 
ing the past year have been greatly re¬ 
duced because of the strenuous competi¬ 
tion in the tire trade. The prospects for 
profits that are dangled before the eyes 
of the prospective investor by these pro¬ 
moters are very alluring indeed to those 
who have had no experience to teach 
them that promoters’ prospects are 
seldom realized. In our estimation 
it will be the part of wisdom for 
our subscribers to allow J. G. Feist, who 
seems to be the moving spirit of all these 
pi-omotions, to finance his own schemes. 
I am enclosing herewith a clipping 
from the Chicago Tribune of ilarch 24th, 
announcing the disappearance of our 
friend, Willis Ellsworth Wright, of the 
American Band Credit Company (for¬ 
merly the American Banking Credit Com¬ 
pany) of Chicago. Y'ou will doubtless be 
somewhat surprised to know TiieR. N.-Y. 
was responsible for the saving of a good 
many of my neighbors' dollars; its spirit 
is contagious, and the result was that the 
roof was pulled off this chap locally. 
'Threats and vilification followed, but the 
game was flushed, and the bag spoiled. 
The item of as.sets as given is doubtless 
exaggerated as Wright had everything in 
his own hands and is .said to have spent 
between $“>0,000 and .$40,0(K) of the com¬ 
pany's money on private ventures. The 
sad part of the deal is that one of our 
reputable citizens acted as agent for the 
concern and induced a number of his 
neighbors to invest, the result is. he is all 
broken up over the affair, although he 
himself was thoroughly honest and in¬ 
vested his own money in the concern, and 
stands to lose about $1,-500. G. A. L. 
Our subscribers may recall this Amer¬ 
ican Band Credit scheme which was ex¬ 
posed in The R. N.-Y. some two years 
ago. The scheme promoted under this 
name by Willis Ellsworth Wright, was 
to promise farmers and others that they 
could borrow money at 4 per cent, in 
consideration of a contract entered into 
by which the prospective borrower was 
required to pay a certain amount at 
stated periods before the loan would be 
made. The newspaper clipping enclosed 
by “G. A. B.“ shows that the concern is 
now in bankruptcy and Willis Ellsworth 
Wright is missing. It seems that nearly 
2.50 people Avere defrauded by Mr. Wright 
on this scheme. We are glad to know 
that The R. N.-Y. at least saved a num¬ 
ber of “G. A. B.’s’’ neighbors from put¬ 
ting their hard-earned savings in this 
scheme of high finance. There could be 
no other logical result from such an un¬ 
sound financial plan, and it is unfoj’- 
tunate that conscientious people can be 
so blindfolded by promoters of the Wright 
type as to lure their friends into such a 
palpable financial trap . 
I am inclosing some clippings from the 
Philadelphia Norih American in regard 
to the IVIcAlester Real Estate Car that is 
now in our town. When I first saw the 
large advertisement in our local paper I 
cut out two clippings from The R. N.-Y. 
and sent them at once to the editor. I 
Avill enclose his letter, too. Note the dif¬ 
ference in sentiments of the two papers. 
My efforts may be of no avail, but it goes 
to show that careful reading of The R. 
N.-Y. will put you on your guard a good 
many times. J. E. G. 
New .Jersey. 
Agents of the reformed McAlester Real 
Estate Exchange, traveling about the 
country in the Oklahoma “booster car" to 
get customers for Indian lands in the 
AYest, will have plenty of entertainment 
in this city next week if Fred 1‘hillips, 
car manager, makes good his promise to 
move the car to Philadelphia. 
Two of the men arrested in .July, Ifil.'l, 
the la.st time the car was here, will be 
called for trial on charges that they sold 
land by misrepresentation. They are ac¬ 
cused of telling customers here th.nt the 
purchase of a lot in McAlester City en¬ 
titled them to first choice of land in the 
Choctaw Indian reservation, soon to be 
opened up by the Government for settle¬ 
ment by the white man. 
Purchasers were informed when they 
wrote to officials of the Department of 
the Interior at IMcAlester that the Gov¬ 
ernment made no reservations of land for 
the occupants of the booster car or their 
associates, or anyone else. Warrants 
then were sworn out by some of the men 
who had been induced to buy land. 
The car is being operated on a very dif¬ 
ferent system. It no longer has land for 
sale. In fact, it isn’t sent out to sell 
land, according to the circulars, but “more 
to advertise,’’ and to induce investors to 
buy Government land through the services 
of the McAlester Real E.state Exchange, 
—Philadelphia North American. 
The above item throws further light on 
the operations of the McAlester Real Es¬ 
tate Exchange. No doubt the salesmen 
have learned the danger of making any 
definite statement to the effect that the 
concern has any connection Avith the Gov¬ 
ernment. The adA'ertising car and litei’- 
ature does lead the public to this conclu¬ 
sion, whether designedly so or not. Sub¬ 
scribers having this understanding haA’^e 
written us in the matter. It Avould cei*- 
tainly be easy for the McAlester Real Es¬ 
tate Exchange to correct this erroneous 
impression if they Avere so inclined. It is 
our uudei’standing that this real estate 
agency on wheels merely sells a .service 
for $75. In consideration of this amount 
the agency will act for the individual in 
the purchase of land that may be sold by 
the Government. If there be any riches 
to be acquired from these lands the ques¬ 
tion arises Avhy doesn’t the McAlester 
Real Estate Agency purchase the land 
for their own benefit? We have yet to 
hear of any investor becoming rich 
tlu’ough the McAlester service. 
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