1150 
Vhe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 5, 1915 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
The Fourth Liberty Loan of $6,000.- 
000,000 has now been formally announced. 
The interest rate will be 4^ per cent, 
the same as on the previous loan. The 
now bonds will be dated October 24 and 
interest wall be paid .semi-annually on 
April 15 and Oct. 15 until maturity. The 
regulations surrounding the .sale of the 
fourth issue of Liberty Bonds provide 
that subscriptions must be paid in five 
installments as follow's: 
“Payments are to be made, 10 per cent 
upon application, 20 per cent November 
21, 20 per cent December 19, 20 per cent 
January -3 and the remaining 30 per 
cent January 30. This means that the 
entire fourth loan issue is to be paid in 
within four months and a few days and 
the way cleared for another bond issue 
in the late Winter or early Spring. Fifty 
per cent of the total amount of subscrip¬ 
tions must be paid in January following 
the Chri.stmas holiday.s.” 
It is authoritatively stated that twenty 
million citizens invested in the previous 
loans. If an equal number subscribes to 
the fourth loan it would mean an average 
of only $.300 per person. 
Some who subscribed before may not be 
in i^osition to buy any of the forthcoming 
issue, but if everyone takes as many of the 
bonds as their finances will permit the 
issue will undoubtedly be over-subscribed. 
Tlie arguments as to why every American 
should invest every penny possible in 
the.se bonds have been pretty w'ell ex¬ 
hausted ; but at this time, when the for¬ 
tunes of w'ar are all in favor of our coun¬ 
try and its Allies, there is every reason 
for optimism. In France, in Palestine 
and the Balkans, the Allied armies are 
advancing steadily, giving promise of 
early victory over the enemy. The least 
that those of us disqualified for bearing 
arms can do is to put our shoulders to 
the wlieel and get behind the Liberty 
loans with every dollar we can scrape to¬ 
gether. A secondai’y consideration is that 
these bonds are the safest investment in 
the world today. Every mail brings us 
inquiries about one wildcat investment 
scheme or another. To all w^ho are 
solicited to invest in any promotion at 
the present time we say pass it up and 
Buy Liberty Bonds! 
The Philadelphia North American re¬ 
ports the explosion of the Eagle Macomber 
Rotary Motor Co., Sandusky, O., stock 
selling scheme. This was a three million 
dollar organization and the names of some 
very substantial business men of Sandusky 
w^ere exploited to sell the stock in the 
earlier stages of its career. The news¬ 
paper reports states that $1,000,000 of 
stock had been sold. How many deluded 
investors this amount of money repre¬ 
sents we do not know'. Here is a million 
dollars that might have been invested in 
Liberty Bonds to the satisfaction of 
everyone except the stock promoters. 
Publisher’s Desk advised its readers the 
nature of the proposition July 28, 1917, 
so that we feel confident none of our peo¬ 
ple are among the victims. 
Is the stock of the Chief Consolidated 
Mining Co., Lock Box 22, Houghton, 
Mich., of any value or not? Do not know 
where their mine is, but they get their 
mail at above address. s. c. n. 
Pennsylvania. 
We can find no evidence of value for 
the stock in question, and from what we 
know of mining stocks that are offered to 
country people we edvise S. G. H. to 
pass up all stock-selling schemes and put 
all his savings in the fourth issue of 
Liberty Bonds. 
I am enclosing the petition of Geo. A. 
Morris, asking that he be discharged from 
all debts. I cannot see Avhy I should 
excuse him, as the money is hard-earned 
for me. It certainly cost money to feed 
hens and some w'ork to gather, clean, 
pack, take to the train and receive no pay. 
I hope you can get the money due me 
some time from him. Probably, if he 
gets out of bankruptcy, he will buy more 
eggs. Do the best you can for me. 
New' York. W'. j. ii. 
Over a year ago. Geo. A. Morris. 185 
Duane St., New' York, sent this sub¬ 
scriber two checks for $20.50, which were 
protested at the bank for lack of funds. 
Mr. Morris promised to redeem them pei'- 
sonally, but neglected to do so. He paid 
no attention to our requests, and our 
representative W'as unable to locate him. 
We w'ore then advised that Morris had 
moved and left no address. He was ad¬ 
judged bankrupt in the city of Provi¬ 
dence, K. I., a year ago, and now' has his 
discharge from the court and is sending 
petitions to creditors with advice. There 
is no reason why he should be excused 
from his debts, but we assume shippers 
will have to credit their loss to experience. 
We would advise against shipping to him 
until he has established a rating. 
I shipped a .30-dozen case of eggs to 
C. L. Morris, 538 Warren 8t., Brooklyn, 
N. Y., Aug. 1. He sent out a letter the 
first part of July desiring a trial ship¬ 
ment. A neighbor sent some cases, get¬ 
ting unusually good returns befote I sent 
this one. He sent five cases about the 
time I did, and in two w'eeks heard from 
four of them. I have written twice with¬ 
out getting any reply. i. M. n. 
New York. 
Several shippers report the same ex¬ 
perience with C. L. Morris. Morris prom¬ 
ised 5c premium over market quotations 
from .Inly to January, and 2c from .Tanti- 
ary to July; also agreed to pay for all 
breakage. In this case “unusually good 
returns” resulted in unusually large loss. 
The experience shows the necessity of ex¬ 
treme caution in dealing w'ith this class 
of dealers, and the wksdom of ascertaining 
their rating. 
The Financial World, New York, re¬ 
cords the demise of the “Dan Patch” 
Electric R. R., which was promoted some 
years ago by the late M. W, Savage of 
Minneapolis. As usual the public w'as to 
be let in on the ground floor of this rail¬ 
road enterprise, which was to become one 
of the biggest dividend payers in the land. 
The road has now been purchased at fore¬ 
closure sale by the Minneapolis, North- 
field & Southern Railway, and the stock¬ 
holders who got in on the ground floor 
have dropped into the sub-cellar. From 
an investment standpoint they are wiser 
but sadder men and women. The R. 
N.-Y. readers had timely warning and w'e 
are only reviewing the case now because 
equally alluring schemes for which invest¬ 
ment is sought are coustautly being pre¬ 
sented to the public, and especially farm- 
mers, who are supposed to be rolling in 
money. 
T am enclosing a circular which you 
will understand after reading. Can you 
find out anything in regard to this? I 
have no money to burn, but thought I 
would hold on if there was any cliance 
of coming out on the right side. E. w. 
Massachusetts. 
The circular letter enclosed is signed by 
Gaylord Wiltshire, asking his dupes who 
invested in Wiltshire Bishop Creek Mine 
to pay an assessment with the hope that 
something may be recovered from the 
original investment. This is a standard 
bait of get-rich-quiek promoters. It is 
only throwing good money after bad to 
pay assessments on stock that never was 
anything but sucker bait. Wiltshire at 
one time published a “fake” publication 
in New York, through which he was able 
to reach a large number of people with 
his mining scheme. 
I went to the express office as you di¬ 
rected and got my $5 for butter lost Oc¬ 
tober last, I did not receive any notice 
from the express office. I thank j'ou very 
much and would not begrudge paying yoii 
for your trouble. Certainly The R. n!-Y. 
is the farmer’s paper. The Publisher’s 
Desk is doing a great work. The markets 
are a great help; as we read your paper 
in our own house it is better than a visit 
for a week in the city markets. In fact, 
the more of your paper I read the better 
I like it. Every farmer in the United 
States should have your paper. They do 
not know what they are missing, j. n. 
Pennsylvania. 
We appreciate the above kind remarks. 
No doubt, as J. H. suggests, our readers 
would be doubled if all farmers knew the 
real, conscientious service the paper is 
rendering. Our list has grown to its pres¬ 
ent proportions mainly through the dis¬ 
position of old subscribers to tell their 
friends of the valuable features of the 
paper. The more readers we have, the 
greater our power for good. If we had a 
million readers at our back, the crooks 
would find it much harder sledding. 
II I I 
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