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B36e RURAL NEW-YORKER 
June 16, 1917. 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
Do you know how I read The R. 
N.-Y.? First I look at the title page, 
then turn the copy once over one page to 
the right, and get the Publisher’s Desk. 
Single pages of Publisher’s Desk are 
worth more than you charge for a year’s 
subscription. We have the- 
here, but they dare not “speak out” 
owing to the class of advertising they 
carry. M. c. 
Ohio. 
Perhaps all do not appreciate what it 
costs us in loss of friends, patronage as 
well as expense in defending libel suits 
in “speaking out,” as we are prone to do. 
It might be said that the friends we lose 
in defending the right and exposing evil 
doers are not worth keeping anyhow and 
yet the bad will of even a dog is some¬ 
times extremely uncomfortable. The lost 
patronage wo do not want, and the expense 
of defending libel suits is worth all it 
costs if we can only save one subscriber 
in a thousand from the clutches of the 
“get-rich-quick” schemer or wolves of 
other kinds parading in sheep’s clothing. 
We shall continue to “speak out” with¬ 
out fear or favor. 
Frederick H. Clarke, president of the 
Kent Moto. Corporation, and his father. 
Dr. Henry F. Clarke, secretary and treas¬ 
urer of the corporation, were arrested yes¬ 
terday in Newark as a result of a stormy 
hearing before Bankruptcy Referee 
Charles M, Mason. The bankruptcy pro¬ 
ceeding was brought to show that the 
corporation, which is incorporated in 
New York, New .Jersey, and Delaware, 
had floated .$2,000,000 worth oi stock 
with practically no assets. The concern 
has a plant in Belleville, N. J. 
The Clarkes were arrested on a war¬ 
rant sworn out by Archibald A. Palmer 
of Mahattan, attorney for the creditors 
of New York and Delaware. Cnited 
States Commissioner John A. Matthews 
held them each in $7,500 bail for exam¬ 
ination. The Clarkes Were charged with 
sending circulars through the mails to 
promote the sale of stock with intent to 
defraud.—Daily Paper. 
Drexel Motor Car Corporation, Seven¬ 
ty-sixth and Wallace streets, Chicago; in¬ 
voluntary petition in bankruptcy filed in 
behalf of Chicago Decorating Leather 
Company, Charles G. Stevens, and the 
Steel Sales Corporation, with claims ag¬ 
gregating $500. Liabilities estimated at 
$150,000 and assets at $100,000.—Daily 
Paper. 
The above items are only straws indi¬ 
cating the direction of the wind with 
reference to automobile, tractor, and 
motor truck enterprises that are appeal¬ 
ing to the public to finance their opera¬ 
tions. Whether the promoters of such 
enterprises have a sincere purpose to es¬ 
tablish a permanent business or merely 
to gather in some easy money from the 
credulous public the result to the in¬ 
vestor is the same. In these critical 
times concerns financed in this way can¬ 
not stand against the houses which are 
already well established with ample cap¬ 
ital at their command. We warned our 
readers against the Chicago proposition 
in Mai’ch 17 issue this year. 
In .January of this year a representa¬ 
tive of the Keystone Circulating Com¬ 
pany, 304 North Broad street, Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa., called on me and took from me 
a .30 weeks’ subscription to “Every Week 
Magazine,” for which I paid their repre¬ 
sentative 55 cents in cash. The maga¬ 
zine came twice since that time. I have 
written the Keystone people three letters, 
attempting to find out why they have not 
fulfilled their contract in accordance with 
receipt held by me, but am unable to get 
any reply thereto. The amount involved 
is not great, but I do not feel like letting 
the matter drop, as there are no doubt 
hundreds of others who have been simi¬ 
larly treated. I will indeed be grateful 
for any suggestion that you may see fit to 
favor me with. C. B. ir. 
Illinois. 
We get no response to our letters in 
this subscriber’s behalf from Keystone 
Circulating Co. of Philadelphia. We 
again warn our people against paying 
money to agents of this concern or of 
other subscription agencies of this class. 
Especially beware of the class of agents 
appealing to S'our sympathies on the 
grounds that he is trying to earn money 
to get an education. 
Will you advise in regard to the relia¬ 
bility of the Peerless Mfg. Co. of Cincin¬ 
nati, Ohio? I purchased two self-heating 
kerosene irons from them in October, 
1916, which were unsatisfactory, not be¬ 
ing safe to use, and would not generate 
the gas, only for a few minutes, by the 
use of alcohol and gasoline. The Peer¬ 
less Mfg. Co. claims that the irons are 
made correctly and should give satisfac¬ 
tory service, but they state that they do 
not accept any goods returned without 
their consent, which -hey have not given. 
The amount paid for the irons was .$7 for 
the two; they have been thoroughly 
tested several times and are absolutely no 
good and very dangerous to use on ac¬ 
count of blazing up around the handle 
when the kerosene tank is hot. The com¬ 
pany has failed to adjust the matter. 
Ohio. s. M. c. 
As the oily-tongued agents for these 
self-heating irons will soon be on the 
roads in large numbers the time is oppor¬ 
tune for publishing the experience of the 
Ohio subscriber. The consensus of 
opinion of our people is that these self¬ 
heating irons are a delusion and a snare. 
If any R. N.-Y'. readers get fooled on 
them this season, this department cannot 
be held responsible for it. 
I ordered a lamp from the Home Sup¬ 
ply Co., Kansas City, Mo,, on 10-day 
trial. The lamp was not suti.sfactory so 
I sent it back and asked for a refund of 
the purchase price, $4, and 50c for 
mantles. I have been unable to get any 
response or refund of the money from the 
company. A. r. b. 
Pennsylvania. 
We have written the Home Supply 
Company three different letters in behalf 
of this subscriber, and our letters are also 
ignored. We are printing this record in 
the case for the benefit of other sub¬ 
scribers. 
I ordered a turkey tom from the Cres¬ 
cent Poultry Farm, Des Moines, Iowa, 
March 30. The post olfiee money order 
was paid April 1. They admit receiving 
same. It is so late I countermanded the 
order May 4. They will not send me my 
$10, as I have asked. Can you get it for 
me? M. I.. 
Pennsylvania. 
Our letter to Crescent Poultry Farm. 
Des Moines, Iowa, in the subscriber’s be¬ 
half, has been ignored. We shall submit 
the evidence in the case to the Post Office 
Department for consideration. 
The enclosed may interest some of The 
R. N.-Y'. family. I think I told you some 
time ago I was asked by some men in this 
town (New Yoi-k City) to head a “hog 
company,” as I had a “hog-breeding repu¬ 
tation.” I never heard from them after I 
outlined my ideas of it. “Pigs is pigs” 
just now. w. A. S. 
The enclosure is literature of another 
hog scheme, which apparently is being pro¬ 
moted by C. W. Jones, Wa.shington Bldg., 
Philadelphia, Pa., the organization to be 
known as “The Suburban Food Produc¬ 
ers’ Association.” It is proposed to lease 
a farm or farms, to begin the hog breed¬ 
ing business, apparently along the same 
lines as the National Hog Co. of Pitts¬ 
burgh, and others which have been dis¬ 
cussed in these columns. The high price 
of pork and other products at the present 
time lends the color of a possible success¬ 
ful enterprise to all these schemes. They 
appeal only to the inexperienced. A hog 
breeder such as W. A. S., of course, 
would not entertain an investment in 
the scheme, or have any connection with 
it for a moment. While this proposition 
is in the embryo stage, and before the 
public is invited to invest in it, we re¬ 
gard as a very good time to issue a warn¬ 
ing to our people. 
Advertisements of the A. A. Berry Seed 
Company, Clarinda, Iowa, appeared in 
farm papers in Minnesota. “We handle 
only the best te.sted recleaned seeds guar¬ 
anteed” was one statement used. W. L. 
Oswald, head of Section of Seed Labora¬ 
tory of the University of Minue.sota, De¬ 
partment of Agriculture, had a number 
of farmers in Minnesota answer this ad¬ 
vertisement and ask for samples. These 
samples were analyzed by the State seed 
laboratory. Of the Alsike and Timothy 
samples received a test showed that 20 
per cent, of it was Alsike and 00 per cent. 
Timothy. The other 20 per cent, con¬ 
sisted of 34 different kinds of weed seeds, 
seven kinds of crop seeds other than Tim¬ 
othy and Alsike and some trash. Among 
the weed seeds ■W'ere such especially obnox¬ 
ious ones, as the seeds of Canada thistle, 
perennial sow thistle and ox-eye daisy. 
A germination test showed that the Al¬ 
sike was 56 per cent, fertile and the Tim¬ 
othy 82 per cent, fertile.—Bulletin Asso¬ 
ciated Advertising Clubs of the World. 
The R. N.-Y. has refused the advertis¬ 
ing of this seed house for several years 
back on account of what we considered 
the deceptive form of the advertising. 
We are not surprised to find that the qual¬ 
ity of the seeds is on a par with the qual¬ 
ity of the advertising appeal. It is only 
logical that a firm which is willing to 
mislead the prospective customer by the 
wording and arrangement of its advertis¬ 
ing, would not be over-scrupulous about 
the quality of its seeds. 
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buy a wagon— Columbus and Weber 
wagons are guaranteed to stand up under 
capacity loads. You don’t have to be a wagon 
expert to buy a Columbus or Weber wagon safely. 
All 3"ou really need to know is the weight of your 
heaviest loads. B ny a wagon marked to carry that 
load and we guarantee safety and satisfaction worth 
more to you than all the talking points of all the 
wagons in the market put together. 
Ask any dealer who carries Columbus or Weber wagons to 
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— the International fifth wheel, the sandboard wear plate, 
link end rods, folding end gate, superior material — more 
features than you will find on any other wagon. All these 
help to give the good service, long life and economy that you 
get with Columbus or Weber wagons. See the wagon or 
write to us before you buy again. 
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