January 11, 1919 
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| PUBLISHER’S DESK 
smart schemes to do an ignorant man or 
a trusting woman out of the little they 
have. 
RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
T 
The following is an extract from the 
report of the National Vigilance Commit¬ 
tee of the Associated Advertising Clubs 
regarding the National Food and Fur 
Association of Milwaukee, Vis.. 
Our vigilance committee in Milwaukee, 
which has unusual facilities for having 
detailed and accurate knowledge of such 
a Milwaukee scheme, reported to us that 
it had known C. H. Rowan, who was at 
the head of this enterprise. . 
Mr. Rowan appears to bear tjf repute 
tion of being a very shrewd man wh 
operates in close co-operation with skilled 
lawyers, and our vigilance committee in 
Milwaukee was informed by the police, 
who know" Rowan, that he through the 
aid of his lawyers, evidently takes the 
necessary precautions to keep within the 
1)0 However,' even if . this and similar 
schemes, such as guinea pigs, rabbits, 
pigeons, etc., are advertised m such.a 
manner that their promoters do keep 
within the postal laws, this alone will not 
be sufficient to satisfy most publishers. 
It is well known that an adveitisei can 
so word his advertising matter so as not 
to violate the law, yet the net lesult ot 
his advertising can be the destruction of 
public confidence in advertising. 
The R. N.-Y. has persistently refused 
the advertiseing of all these pet stock 
schemes. Sometimes we have had only 
our suspicions to guide us, but the ex- 
travagent claims of profits to be made aie 
sufficient to cause distrust. 
I suppose that you have heard that 
Mr S. E. Pandolfo, president, and Mr. 
John Barritt. secretary, of the Pan Motor 
Co, St. Cloud. Minn., were indicted in 
the II. S. Court at Fergus Falls, Minn., 
about Nov. 15, on charges of using the 
mails in furtherance of a scheme to de¬ 
fraud. January 3d has been named as the 
date for a hearing. J - K - 
Minnesota. 
When we expressed our opinion in The 
R, N.-Y. about a year ago regarding this 
stock-selling scheme of Mr. Pandolfo, the 
gentleman threatened to sue us for libel. 
Libel .suit is the club that all promoters 
hold over the heads of publishers who de¬ 
sire to protect their readers from losing 
their hard-earned savings in promotion 
schemes of this kind. The United States 
Government evidently found sufficient 
evidence of fraud in the methods em¬ 
ployed to sell stock to warrant an indict¬ 
ment. Whatever the result of the fur¬ 
ther legal proceedings may be, w r e only 
hope that no readers of The R. N.-Y. 
have ignored our warning. 
Enclosed find some 
agine is “sucker bait. 
“literature” I im- 
These people have 
I wish that vou would investigate and 
show up Thorpe, the Syracuse man who 
was in automobile school and sarage 
“skin game” for several years, and who 
was tried last Spring for fraudulent use 
of the mails in connection with his com. e 
3 Section. Central New York is full 
of his former victims, and he is now do¬ 
ing business under several names, tbo 
principal one being that of “ T be Vestern 
Agenc-v” and listing farms on the cash 
in-advance scheme. He is very 
to keep his own name quiet, as it u ..uo 
well-known to stand publicity. He is 
great on blind ads. similar to the ones 
Inclosed, cut from Syracuse dailies. One 
of his schemes is to appoint local^agents 
to list farms for him, and collect 
from the agents for instructions, bond, 
ttC Hc has not caught me, although it is 
not his fault that he did not do so, as ne 
attempted to get me for the -Vo. 1 oe .. 
lieve him to be one of the smoothest and 
slickest crooks in Centra) New Yoik. i 
am very confident that / every land 
owner in the United States wouid taa; 
Tttf R N.-Y. a large oar of the crooks 
operating on the farmers would have -o 
go out of business. 0 
New York. 
The above report refers to the opera¬ 
tions of Walter F. Thorpe, who was fined 
$500 last May oy Judge Ray under in¬ 
dictment for fraudulent use of the mails. 
Evidently Mr. Thorpe has now adopted 
the listing fee scheme of D. B. Cornell 
& Co., Great Barrington, Mass. One 
faker is never above stealing the scheme 
of another. Judge Ray expressed our 
sentiments, regarding such rascals, when 
in sentencing Thorpe he said: 
You thought vou were safe because you 
were getsmall sums and the persons 
vou deaV. : with would either keep quiet 
from pri<? r - or not want to be subpoenaed 
before 'Grand Jury. In your anxiety to 
make money you say you relied on tbe 
advice of a lawyer. I don’t know who he 
is but I hope someone has given him a 
scolding such as I am giving you. 
sharp practices in dealing. with men 
and women through the United States 
mails must not be tolerated. I have rnoie 
respect for the man who with a heavy 
cudgel holds up someone and demands 
monev than I have for the man who uses 
agine is SUCher mm. 
rented for a few days or weeks a vacant 
store and are showing “shale so rich m 
oil it burns when a match is lighted and 
touched to it. These people are evident¬ 
ly intending to work the East, and n't 
is “bunk” you will probably wish to vain 
against them. 
The above refers to the prospectus aud 
operations of Consumers’ Oil and Shale 
Co. of Arizona. There seems to be no 
question that the shale rock in some of 
the Western States does contain large 
quantities of oil, but our information is 
that no process has yet been devised for 
extracting the oil economically enough to 
compete with the oil secured from wells. 
When the supply of oil from wells is ex¬ 
hausted, or if a more economical means 
of extracting the oil from this shale rock 
is discovered, it is then possible that the 
industry of extracting the oil from shale 
rock can be developed on a profitable 
basis, but, for the present, at least, invest¬ 
ment in anv of these concerns should be 
considered in the light of a speculation. 
If these were any good prospects that 
these companies formed for the pin pose 
of extracting oil from the shale rock were 
to become profitable in the near future, 
it would not be necessary for the promot¬ 
ers to go around giving demonstrations to 
secure investments from inexperienced 
people. There are plenty of practical 
men in the oil business with ample capi- 
tal w 7 ho would be glad to take advantage 
of the oil shale business, if they saw any¬ 
thing in it. 
The inclosed “dope,” I think, will be of 
interest to you and all . the K. w.-x. 
family, and think it should come Biule . 1 
the head of your Dun and Bradstreet 
better known as “Publisher s Desk.. This 
is the second one I have received m two 
davs, and I am sure they need the money 
from the farmers, as the banks would not 
want 2.000 per cent. G - H - 
Pennsylvania. 
The circular inclosed with the sub¬ 
scriber’s letter is an appeal from Mina 
Transfer Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pa., 
for investment in their stock. The idea 
is to run motor trucks between the large 
cities and operate an express business, 
and an instance is cited where 2,000 per 
cent profit was earned in operating a 
motor truck between Philadelphia and 
Washington. The logic of the situation, 
of course, is that if there are any such 
profits to be made, the nvomoters of this 
company should keei such a good thing 
for themselves. There is certainly no 
need to go to country neople for money 
to finance an undertaking that will prove 
such a money-maker as it is represented 
this will Ijecome! The real facts aie that 
these promoters are willing to try the 
fevperinifcnt if inexperienced investors will 
put up the money for them. No man of 
experience would venture a penny on such 
a proposition. From the tone of G. II. R. s 
letter he is no danger of swallowing any 
alluring “sucker bait.” 
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Recently I clipped from a form papoi 
a puzzle, which I solved and returned to 
the Ocean Beach Development Company, 
Baltimore, Md. They wrote and told me 
til fit »SO lTr ing the puzzle entitled me to a 
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