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October 27. 11>I7 
RLTRAL. NEW-YORKER 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
Last Winter, when some of the daily- 
papers were carrying big advertisements 
of the stock-selling scheme of Emerson 
Motor Car Co., we warned our readers 
repeatedly against putting their savings 
into such a frothy proposition. It is due 
to the daily press to say that a number 
of the New York City papers refused to 
accept the business. The promoters were 
eventually indicted on charge of fraud. 
The victims are now endeavoring to re¬ 
organize the company so as to save some 
part of their investment. The “Financial 
M’Tr>r]d’’ has this to say of the reorganiza¬ 
tion plans: 
Stockholders of the Emerson Motors 
Company have approved a plan of re¬ 
organization whereby the capital of the 
company is scaled down to one-third, 
and they receive an equivalent amount 
of stock of the neT\' company for the 
old. Stockholders entertain a hope that 
on a smaller capitalization, and the com¬ 
pany rid of such men as Nicholas F. 
Wilson, Willis George Emerson, and 
Robert Craig Hupp, it might be able to 
become a real automobile company, but 
there is vei-y little promise of such a 
miracle occuring. The motor field is al- 
erady overcrowded, and the stronger 
companies, unimpaired by any motor stock 
scandal themselves, are having difficulty 
in making both ends meet. 
Please inform me if Wtm. T. Love, 
Lomax, Ill., is responsible, and if the 
Oklahoma Oil Company stock of which 
Mr. Love is promoting is a safe invest¬ 
ment. o. A. L. 
New York. 
f^ome few years ago Sir. Love promised 
to make everyone rich who would send 
him ,$10 as an investment in the town 
of Ixunax, Ill. Now Mr. Love claims to 
have “struck oil” in Oklahoma and wants 
the public to share his good fortune in 
the new interprise. lie “expects” to pay 
24 to r>0% dividends the first year! Our 
advice to those who want ever to see 
their money again is to have nothing 
to do with these get-rich-quick proposi¬ 
tions. Country people have an excellent 
opportunity now to inv'ost their money 
where it will be as safe as anything can 
be, and where it will earn a fair rate of 
interest—we refer to the Liberty Bonds, 
We will adjust this matter with Mrs. 
personally, but we do not care to 
per pound is made up on the other goods. 
Regardless of the standing of the house 
such an advertisement would not be per¬ 
mitted in The R. N.-Y”, and we could not 
advise any reader to patronize a house 
resorting to .such cheap schemes to sell 
goods, 
I am writing to ask you -what you 
know about the American Automobile 
Association, Inc, of Michigan, .308-.309 
Hammond Building, Detroit, Mich. As I 
understand it for $47 I become a charter 
member and my dues are paid for two 
years. I am insured against everything 
except fire. I get a discount on tires, 
work, repairs, gasoline and oil. If I 
buy a new machine I get a 7% discount on 
everything except a Ford; on them they 
can only get $20 off. They sell your old 
machine for you at a good price and if 
anything happens to it they give you al¬ 
most full value, almost what you paid 
for it. They furnish you with a steel 
plate for the front of the machine 
stamped “Wm. ,1. Burns, Detective As¬ 
sociation,” or something to that effect. 
We have not received ours yet, as we 
have not paid up in full. I wanted to 
know a little more about them first. It 
really sounds too good to be true but of 
course they have your money to work on. 
Michigan. j. f. r. 
We have no information on file re¬ 
garding the above mentioned association 
but the subscriber’s report of the benefits 
to members sounds very similar to the 
promises made by the International Auto¬ 
mobile League, Buffalo, N. Y. The sim¬ 
ilarity in the names of the concerns also 
suggests that the old Buffalo scheme is 
being revived in Detroit. 'S^'e do not be¬ 
lieve in these membership schemes on 
principle, and in practice they have always 
eventually proved a delusion and a snare 
to the members. If any such membership 
has prove<l successful and satisfactory 
after a period of years we should be glad 
to receive the evidence of it and give due 
credit. They are in the same class as the 
stock-selling schemes in which the in¬ 
vestor is supposed to be able to buy goods 
at wholesale or at a discount because of 
the investment. The goods can be pur¬ 
chased in the open market at the same 
or lower price and the investor usually 
loses the money put in the stocks besides. 
for collection, inasmuch as Mr. Frankel 
did not respond to our rerjuests for settle¬ 
ment. The report is that he is no longer 
located at the Tremont Avenue address 
and no one there knows anything of his 
present whereabouts. Mail addressed to 
him is not returned, and it is evident he 
is in the class that solicits shipments and 
has no intent'on of paying for same. It 
is well to make a note of his name and 
drop his literature into the fire. 
repeat our experience of having you butt 
into our affairs as you have done in the 
past. Y'our publicatlion of a libelous 
statement some time back automatically 
severed our relationship with you, as you 
could well understand if you did not have 
such an exalted opinion of your own 
virtue, and the other fellow’s rights do 
not seem to appeal to you in the least. 
We are always willing to deal with our 
customers directly, and have not had a 
single complaint from anyone out.side of 
your subscriber.s, although we have ad¬ 
vertised in 40 paper.s. n. w. conn. mur. 
Eastern Shoi-e Nurseries & Fruit Farm, 
Denton, Md. 
The above letter is written to xis in 
respon.se to several letters demanding 
settlement with our subscriber, who sent 
him an order for baby chicks last Spring, 
and which he failed to fill. On July 17 
Mr. Cobb wrote the subscriber in question, 
promising to make refund o'f the money 
sent for the chicks, but had failed to make 
good his promise up to Oct. 8. Mr. 
Cobb’s dealings with our subscribers dur¬ 
ing the past season have been very unsati.s- 
factory, and no doubt the alleged libelous 
statement which Mr. Cobb refers to was the 
publication of the experience of some of 
our subscribers in dealing with him. 
This experience was published for the 
guidence of other subscribers, and not 
with any intention of injuring Mr. Cobb. 
We believe our people are entitled to 
information of this kind. 
Inclosed please find advertisement of 
Moileyworth AVholesale Groceries, Chica¬ 
go, Ill. Are they reliable, or is this a 
scheme to catch suckers? c. G. c. 
New Y’ork. 
This is one of the “catchy” advertise¬ 
ments wdth display heading offeidng sugar 
at 4 cents a pound. This of course at¬ 
tracts attention ; but when you come to 
I'ead further you find only 5 lbs. can be 
purchased at this price, and you must 
order other groceries to the amount of 
$2.79 to get the sugar. The firm has 
apparently no financial responsibility, 
and we are unable to understand how 
such a concern can sell staple groceries 
at such bargain prices as the advertise¬ 
ment promises. It is fair to assume that 
the loss on the 5 lbs. of sugar at 4 cents 
The States of North and South Caro¬ 
lina, as well as Georgia, have a law that 
compels the carriers to adjust transporta¬ 
tion claims in 30 to GO days, and renders 
them liable to a fine for their failure to 
do so, and a s’lnilar law in the State of 
New York would be of incalculable bene¬ 
fit to both shippers and receivers alike. 
New York. r. j. l. 
This is another opportunity for using 
a postage stamp to good advantage. The 
legislators at Albany would do well to 
spend some of their time considering the 
pa.ssage of such a law in tliis State, and 
we would suggest that shippers write 
their Assemblymen and Itepresentatives 
to co-operate in this diik'ction. ^Vhen the 
majority of our Legislature is composed 
of farmers it will then be possible to 
secure just legislation such as has been 
enacted in the Southern States referred 
to. 
I enclose circular of Deming Live 
Stock Co., Chicap, Ill. Many of my 
friends are enthusiastic over it, and I aiii 
appealing to you for advice. To me it 
looks too good to be true. 
Massachusetts. w. ir. w. 
This is a similar scheme to all those 
we have commented on in the Publisher’s 
Desk department. Anyone who invests 
his money in a proposition of this kind 
would better kiss it goodby when he 
turns it over to these promoters, because 
he is never likely to see a cent of it 
again. Those who have any money to in¬ 
vest at the present time will do well to 
purchase Liberty Bonds. Their money 
will be safe in these bonds if there is any 
safety anywhere, and the investor will 
be helidug his government in a critical 
time, instead of contributing to the easy 
living of these get-rich-quick promoters 
generally. 
Can you collect the price of one crate 
of eggs from Jos. Frankel, of the Bronx 
Egg Case Co., SOI Tremont Ave., Bronx, 
New York, N. Y".? Previous to shipping 
him the eggs I had purchased two ship¬ 
ments of egg cases from him, one of 200 
cases, the other a carload of about 800. 
On the strength of his satisfactory deal¬ 
ings on the egg cases I responded to his 
request for a case of eggs and shipped 
him th’rty dozen hennery white on June 
21, 1917, valued at $12. He has not 
acknowledged receipt of same nor replied 
to any of my communications to him. 
New York. n. ,x. r- 
We gave this account to our attornev 
Non-roosting Pullets; Feeding Questions 
1, I have about one hundred White 
Wyandotte pullets four months old, and 
but about one-quarter of them go to roo.st 
at night. Should they not all be roosting? 
The remainder huddle on the floor. The 
cockerels have already begun to crow. 2. 
Regarding grit, the birds have free range 
in a woods on sandy soil. Should they 
not be able to pick up all the sharp grit 
they require? They have before them in 
hoppers a manufactured grit which is 
cd,aimed to make unnecessary any other 
grit, oyster shell, charcoal or meat scrap. 
Does such .a claim seem to you to be pos- 
.sible? .3. They have before them all the 
time, in separate hoppers, the following: 
In one, equal parts wheat, oats and 
cracked corn; and in the other, equal 
parts Stock feed and wheat bran, with 
a very little salt added. This latter is 
the growing feed. Would it Ire well to 
add a little fine chai’coal? Do you think 
meat scraps are necessary, considering 
the manufactured grit and the free range? 
4. Will Alfalfa meal take the place of 
cut clover in a dry mash formula requir¬ 
ing the latter? a. l . t. 
New Y'ork. 
I. These chicks should be roosting and 
the placing of the perches very low, only 
six inches above the floor and pushing 
them in the place where the birds huddle 
will often start them roosting. 2. Birds 
ranging on a sandy soil do not need com¬ 
mercial grit, but never for a moment be¬ 
lieve the “grit” will take the place of good 
beef scraps in any ration. 3. The mefit 
scrap should be added to the mash ration 
and it would improve the ration to add 
wheat middlings so it would be equal 
parts bran, middlings, stock feed and 
beef scrap. Charcoal is not necessary 
where stock is on free range. 4. Alfalfa, 
meal is good, and will take the place of 
clover and I think is better than clover. 
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