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September 29,1917 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
RURAL NEW-YORKER 
It is rarely that any sub- 
Please advise me if R. Walpert, 1145 
Lafayette Ave., Brooklyn, and J. Stein, 
175 Chambers St., are reliable parties for 
egg shipments, 0 . M. L. 
New York, 
Neither of these parties has any es¬ 
tablished financial rating that would 
warrant a poultryman in sending eggs or 
other produce to them on a credit basis. 
Only cash transactions are advised in 
cases where the receiver of the goods can¬ 
not show substantial financial respon¬ 
sibility. 
On .July 0 I sent the Metropolitan Egg 
Case Co., 59 East 118th St., New York, 
a cheek for $2.90 for 25 cases and extra 
filllers. They have never sent the cases, 
but they had check cashed at once. I 
have written them twice asking them to 
return the $2.00, as they failed to send 
cases. They do not answer at all. Can 
you do anything for me in the matter? 
New York. j. m. c. 
We have had numerous complaints 
from subscribers who have sent orders 
to the Metropolitan Egg Case Co. We 
have been unable to get any satisfaction 
for these subscribers and we are publish¬ 
ing J. M. C.’s experience in order to save 
others from similar annoyance and loss. 
I am enclosing a clipping from one of 
our daily paper.? concerning the “Emer¬ 
son” bubble. I thought that this clipping ' 
might help the “Publisher’s Desk." 
New Jersey, j. E. o. 
The above letter refers to the promoter 
of the Emerson Motor Car stock-selling 
scheme. It appears that Emerson now 
has organized on paper a company w’hich 
proposes making aeroplane engdn^s and 
field giins for the government. On this 
basis Mr. Emerson makes an afl5davit 
with view to securing exemption from war 
duty for one Harry Tucker whom he al¬ 
leges is essential to carrying on the work 
of his company. If the company or fac¬ 
tory for manufacturing the guns or en¬ 
gines exists outside of Mr. Emerson's 
imagination, he has kept the fact a deep 
secret. Emerson and the other promoters 
of the automobile stock-selling scheme are 
under indictment in the Federal Court. 
ourselves, 
scriber has endeavored to take advantage 
of another through “Subscribers’ Ex¬ 
change” department. This department 
is conducted for the accommodation of 
subscribers, and we will not permit those 
W'ho do not deal fairly to use it. 
I inclo.se two samples of bucket-shop 
.advertising with which I have been del¬ 
uged lately. Some of the advertisements 
weigh almost four ounces. This, in my 
opinion, is a great waste of paper, print¬ 
ing and postal facilities at a time when 
evei’y loyal man and farmer is economiz¬ 
ing to the full extent of his ability. In¬ 
stead of wasting, w’e are trying to speed 
up production. Now here is a bunch of 
shai’jiers who are combing the whole 
country over for suckers to take their 
money, which should be better used in 
Liberty bonds or buying more fertilizer or 
farm machinery, etc. I have not the 
least idea where this gang got my name 
and address; but if they have mine they 
have the addresses of thousands of other 
farmers and will send their nefarious lit¬ 
erature to them. E. c. s. 
New Hampshire. 
This particular “bunch” is a company 
in Chicago selling “oil and coal lands,” 
or stocks in oil c<^panies. One particu¬ 
lar offer is as follows : 
We have for sale: 
10 shs. Woman’s Federal Oil at $8.50 
per share. 
50 shs. Woman’s Federal Oil at 8.25 
per share. 
100 shs. Woman’s Federal Oil at 8.00 
per share. 
The above lots of stock look exceed¬ 
ingly cheap and if you are interested in 
buying, kindly communicate with us at 
once. 
They do look “exceedingly cheap”—too 
cheap to be good. Just now every man 
with a chance game or a “sure thing” is 
running hot foot after the farmer. The 
daily papers have spread the report that 
$2 wheat will make all farmers rich, and 
the old farm wallet has become a shining 
mark and looks good to every “financier." 
This bunch of oil strikers and hundreds 
like them will continue to flourish so 
long as they can find people who expect 
to get something for nothing. Some of 
the people they run in are victims who 
are entitled to sympathy. Others, we re¬ 
gret to say, are mere petty gamblers 
who ought to know better and have been 
repeatedly w’arned. Cupidity makes some 
I want to expose through your columns these people smart, and they take a 
the Ever-Ready Karbo iron sent out by 
the American Sad Iron & Mfg. Co., 
Cleveland, O. A good many people in this 
community bought these irons, which burn 
carbon, from an agent, paying a deposit 
on order and receiving enclosed receipt, 
irons being delivered in a month. The 
difficulty is they do not retain heat. One 
can iron an article and if one waits a 
chance on these stocks as they would at 
a gambling table. No reader of The 
R. N.-Y. can ever say he has not been 
fully w’amed about these! stocks and 
bonds. It has sometimes been urged that 
there was no safe investment for small 
savings. The Liberty bonds now offered 
by the Government are absolutely safe, 
half hour can iron another, provided ar- ^^d there are a dozen good reasons why 
tide is small and not very damp. I wrote - . o 
to the company and asked for information 
on the way to keep .irons hot, but did not 
receive any reply. I hope perhaps some 
of your readers may see this and save 
themselves $.3.75, the price I paid for a 
$0 iron, which is not worth six cents. 
New York. MBS. R. n. 
Our letters in behalf of the above sub¬ 
scriber addressed to the American Sad 
Iron & Mfg. Co. have brought forth no 
response. The experience related is the 
common one where the self-heating irons 
are purchased from smooth-tongued 
agents roaming around the country. It 
seems that most of the self-heating irons 
sold by these travelling agents give satis¬ 
faction just long enough to fool the 
prospect and make the sale, but have no 
practical value except as scrap iron. 
I am in receipt of your check of $5 
to reimburse me for the money I lost 
through a deal wdth Frank M. Ebert of 
Tamaqua, Pa. Please accept my thanks. 
I had not asked or expected you to make 
up the loss to me, only collect it if you 
could, I am grateful for the money," as 
I need it badly. j. L. r. 
Vermont. 
We have made refund to the subscriber 
on account of the above transaction un¬ 
der our “Square Deal” guarantee of ad¬ 
vertisers, Frank M. Ebeit inserted a lit¬ 
tle advertisement an our classified depart¬ 
ment last Spring for an oil stove, rep¬ 
resenting it to be in good condition. “J. 
L. F.” sent an order for the stove, making 
it a condition of the order that be wanted 
a wick stove. When the stove arrived it 
proved to be a wickless stove and “.T. 
L. F.” returned it to Mr, Ebert. Mr. 
they should be bought in place of these 
wildcat stocks. The Government must 
have the money. It is a patriotic duty to 
lend our savings in this way. We shall 
all feel a more personal interest in the 
. Government. Our money wdll be safe, 
and we can staiwe out a lot of these 
bunko games and promoters. 
There are many schemes for obtaining 
addresses. Some papers or other business 
houses make a practice of selling their 
correspondence. You write them about 
some matter and your letter will finally 
be sold to some broker or dealer who 
makes a business of collecting such ad¬ 
dresses. People have often been puz¬ 
zled by receiving a demand for the pay¬ 
ment for goods wdth a slip containing 
their signature. They know this is genu¬ 
ine, and the rascal who sends it claims 
it was signed to an order. What he did 
was to buy one of your old letters and 
cut off your signature. All sorts of 
schemes are resorted to in order to get 
these addresses. The only sure cure is to 
throw the circulars into the fii*e. These 
promoters finally get tired of paying post¬ 
age. 
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333 WEST 30th ST., NEW YORK. 
