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March 8, I91t 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
If “L. J.”, Connecticut, will repeat his 
inquiry and sign his full name and ad¬ 
dress ihe will receive the information de¬ 
sired. We cannot answer inquiries by 
mail unless name and address is giyen 
and we will not through these columns. 
We thought we were familiar with all 
the crooked real estate schemes before, 
but Walter F. Thorpe, of Syracuse, N. Y., 
has sprung a new one. The scheme is 
revealed by the Syracuse papers as fol¬ 
lows : 
D. S. Gardner, an aged farmer of 
Skaneateles, is the complainant against 
Thorpe. An advertisement in a Skan¬ 
eateles paper led the farmer to apply to 
Thorpe for a position as a real estate 
agent. Gardner alleges that Thorpe de¬ 
manded .$25 as a condition of obtaining 
employment, and when the money was 
furnished Thorpe unfolded his scheme. 
The farmer was to act as agent for 
Thorpe, but he would need an automobile 
to get around to see the real estate cus¬ 
tomers, which were supposed to be as 
thick as blackberries in Summer. 
Before he could obtain the automobile 
he would have to put up .$1,000 for a 
car Thorpe had for sale. Gardner gave 
Thorpe a check for $1,000 and entered 
upon his new duties. But he claims he 
never saw the automobile. 
This automobile scheme is going Os¬ 
trander and Cornell one better. Thorpe 
is an old offender. He was fined $500 
only last May for using the mails in 
connection with a fraudulent scheme. 
On April 1. 1018, I broke my spraj 
pump. I ordered the parts at once 
through Delp & Son, of Trenton, from 
the makers, and paid the list price, of 
which I enclose the receipt. Since then 
I have waited in vain. I have seen Help 
& repeatedly without satisfaction. 
The lack of these parts handicapped me 
greatly all through the spraying season 
and there is another coming. What I 
want is the parts, not my money back. 
Can you help me? E. b. 
New Jersey. 
The above statement of the efforts of 
this New Jersey farmer to secure repair 
parts for his spray pump, hardly needs 
comment. We hold the receipt of J. A. 
Delp & Son, Trenton, N. ,T., for $34.50 
paid by R. B. for the repair parts on 
April 1. 1918. All the efforts of the sub¬ 
scriber, the manufacturer of the pump 
and our own to induce Delp & Son to 
order the repair parts for the customer, 
have been in vain. E. B. has now sent 
a duplicate order to the manufacturer 
of the pump. We are publishing this 
record of the transaction purely for the 
purpose of saving other New Jersey sub¬ 
scribers from meeting with a similar ex¬ 
perience at the hands of Delp & Son. 
Since the above was put in type E. B. 
reports he has received check refunding 
his money after nearly a year. 
I am writing you for a little help in 
getting a settlement with the United Food 
& Fur Association. 364 West 48th St., 
New York. East November I sent them 
$10 for five eavies. one male and four 
females. I received them December 2; one 
was dead, another died inside of three 
hours, and two more died within a week, 
so I have one good one and the only one 
that was bright and lively when they 
came. They guaranteed the stock to be 
in perfect health and to reach me in good 
condition. I got the express agent to 
acknowledge two dead on express receipt. 
I wrote the Association about it. have 
sent express receipt and asked them to 
send me four more eavies, or I would 
return the one I have left, and they re¬ 
fund my money, but have got little satis¬ 
faction so far. Will you write them and 
ask them what they intend to do? 
B. S. G. 
Our letter in the subscriber’s behalf 
brings response to the effect that the 
manager is in the South and the com¬ 
plaint will have attention when he re¬ 
turns. The United Food & Fur Associa¬ 
tion has been referred to in Publisher’s 
Desk before and the record in this case 
warrants our previous w r ord of caution. 
October 21, 1918, I sent an order to 
the Union Tire Co., 210 Wood St., Pitts¬ 
burg, Pa., for one 30x3 and one 30x3% 
tires. They were to be slightly used 
tires, according to their advertisement. 
But when they came they were nearly 
worn out. So I sent them back. The 
price of 30x3 tire was $6.04, and the x>rice 
of 30x3% was $7.45. I was to send them 
25 per cent of the amount, or $3.66, and 
they sent tires by parcel post C. O. D. 
I did not keep them, but returned them 
after examination, but have not got 
money back They said they would not 
send back any money, but would send 
goods, so I sent for goods to the amount 
The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
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of $3.66, allowing for postage. They will 
not answer my letters, though I have 
w r ritten twice for them to send goods or 
money. F. s. P. 
Pennsylvania. 
This is the class of “gyp” houses that 
we have repeatedly warned our subscrib¬ 
ers against. Anyone buying used tires 
can expect no other result than to lose 
the money. 
The Auto Knitter Hosiery Co., Inc., 
of Buffalo, N. Y., sell a knitter at $50 
and offer to buy the knit goods of me at 
$1.50 per dozen. Are they reliable? 
Michigan. g. w. d. 
We have many inquiries about this 
proposition. The offer to buy the knit 
goods is the bait which brings the $50 
for the knitter. If the knitted goods are 
not perfect the concern has good grounds 
for not buying them as agreed. Some of 
our subscribers found it impossible to do 
satisfactory work with the machine, and 
there you are! You have the machine 
and the company has the $50. 
Here is a chance to get rich. What ' 
do you know about it or what do you | 
think about it? w. A. M. 
New York. 
This easy road to wealth comes from 
Great Southern Producing and Refining 
Co.. Indianapolis, Ind. The company 
alleges that it. has discovered a process to 
make gasoline at six cents per gallon. All 
we know is that if this were true the 
concern could not find a printing press 
that could turn out the stock as fast as 
it would be taken up by the men exper¬ 
ienced in the oil industry. 
A rat one time said to a mouse: “I 
have some cheese here that I do not need 
—step right in and help yourself.” Said 
the mouse: “I’m caught.” Said the rat: 
“You mustn’t blame me; I let you in on 
the ground floor.” I am wondering 
whether these nicely put invitations are 
ground floor propositions. c. s. A. 
New Hampshire. 
The above remarks are brought out by 
an invitation to secure an ownership in 
the American Motors Corporation, New 
York. It is alleged that only seven resi¬ 
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From the special types, developed to meet special plowing 
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not to bend or break. All parts, origi¬ 
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true to pattern design. Whenever a 
part becomes worn after long service, 
a new Syracuse part will fit perfectly, 
just as the original part fitted. 
Remember, there is a Syracuse 
Plow for every plowing condition on 
Eastern farms. Your John Deere 
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dents of New Hampshire a rip to have the 
privilege of acquiring such ownerships. 
Of course the recipients of these invita¬ 
tions are expected to feel all puffed tip 
over such a distinction. C. 8. A. seems 
lacking in appreciation of such honors. 
The little rat and mouse story might well 
be applied to all the investment proposi¬ 
tions in which country people are solicited 
to invest. 
Will you advise me as to the reliability 
of the Railway Educational Association, 
227 Monroe Street. Brooklyn, N. Y.? 
They claim to teach the correct way to 
fire locomotives, the signals, etc., by mail, 
and ti* secure the pupil a position as fire¬ 
man on railroad. If. L. E. 
Illinois. 
Our records show that the proprietor 
of the Railway Educational Association 
was prosecuted for fraudulent use of the 
mails some years ago. No doubt the 
literature is now kept within the bounds 
which pass the postoffice inspection; but 
the scheme is essentially the same. Ex¬ 
perience is an essential to railroad work, 
and it is only a waste of money to pay 
for mail instructions with the promise to 
secure position as “sucker 'bait.” 
The International Dry Milk Corpora- J 
tion, promoted by Ella Rawles Reader 
of New York, is in trouble, according to i 
reports from Daretown, New Jersey, 
where the concern attempted to put up 
a plant, aud to finance it largely by sub¬ 
scriptions to the stock of the corporation 
by farmers of the neighborhood. The 
removable chattels of the plant were re- | 
cently sold to satisfy a judgment re¬ 
ceived by a Philadelphia business house. 
The plant is under mortgage and subject 
to mechanical liens, as well as suits filed 
for building supplies furnished. The 
chances for stockholders ever receiving 
anything seem decidedly remote. The 
experience again emphasizes the embar¬ 
rassments to farmers in their marketing 
problems and the caution that they can¬ 
not hope to overcome the difficulty 
through corporate enterprises proposed by 
outside promoters. Guided by a member 
with business experience and an honest 
record farmers may safely undertake the 
building and operation of creameries for 
themselves, but when the work is done 
by promoters for promoters the man who 
puts up the cash usually has an invest¬ 
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