1402 
September 20, 1919 
The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
Chicago, Sept. 7.—A dozen men were 
arrested today by agents of the State 
attorney in connection with a conspiracy 
that is alleged to have had for its purpose 
the flooding of the country with worthless 
securities. The State attorney’s infor¬ 
mation was to the effect that a well- 
. organized band had plotted to dispose of 
valueless securities to the amount of 
$1,000,000, and that the selling campaign 
was started last February. 
Frank H. Elmore, president of the 
Commerce and Savings Bank, admitted 
that his bank had been victimized of 
$30,000 in exchange for the worthless 
paper. 
According to the State attorney, the 
band used the names of the Transit Secur¬ 
ities Company, American Transit Com¬ 
pany and Federal Guarantee Trust Com¬ 
pany. 
When a bank admits it has been fooled 
on fake securities it is small wonder inex¬ 
perienced investors are caught, but it em¬ 
phasizes the necessity of getting accurate 
advice and considering well before mak¬ 
ing investments. 
John A Burns of the Art Craft Service, 
Brooklyn, N. Y., advertised an outfit to 
make “Bozart Bead Portieres” to all 
women who would send $3. The represen¬ 
tation was made that the outfit would he 
given free and the $3 was a deposit. The 
work, it was alleged, would net $12 to 
$15 a week. The work did not material¬ 
ize, and the women lost their $3. A fraud 
order has been recommended. This is on 
the line of work-at-home schemes, and all 
of this type should be avoided. 
We have devoted considerable space in 
the past several years to the hog ranch 
schemes, which have proved such an easy 
means of separating those who know 
nothing of farming and hog breeding, from 
their money. We warned the public with 
reference to the National Hog Raising 
Corporation last Winter. At the time 
one of the officers of the company called 
on us and protested vociferously as to the 
advice we gave our readers. Our pre¬ 
dictions are now realized, as is shown by 
the following story sent out by the Asso¬ 
ciated Advertising Clubs, which is doing 
excellent work in exposing frauds and 
censoring untrue advertising: 
Even the humble hog can become the 
central figure in a stock selling scheme, 
declared Richard IT. Lee. special counsel 
for the Associated Advertising Clubs, who 
is in charge of that organization’s in¬ 
vestigations of the use of advertising in 
promoting fake stock selling schemes. 
The advertising association, he said, 
had recently had occasion to investigate 
several companies which were organized 
for the ostensible purpose of raising hogs, 
and with the high price of pork as a back¬ 
ground, it appears that, they have done 
well in the sale of their stock. The 
average city man, knowing nothing of the 
difficulties of hog raising, is easy prey. 
He thinks of the high price of pork, and 
so long as the promoter can keep the 
investor’s mind on that subject, the trick 
is easy to turn. Mr. Lee spoke especially 
of the National Hog Raising Corporation 
of New York and of Millmont, Pa., which 
organized for $500,000. with Arthur N. 
Smallwood as chief promoter, and of the 
fact the Postoffice Department at Wash¬ 
ington. with which the advertising asso¬ 
ciation works in close harmony, had just 
issued a fraud order. 
The official statement upon which the 
fraud order was issued showed that when 
salaries and rents and other “overhead” 
expenses of the New York office were 
paid there was little money left to feed 
the hogs at Millmont. even though the 
company had but 30 hogs (counting little 
pigs) at the time. The “ranch manager,” 
who was advertised as an expert, but 
whose business had been that of painting 
carriages, except for a time when he 
served as a bartender, wrote the New 
York office that they had been compelled 
to trade one of the hogs to a local feed 
dealer for feed for the rest of the hogs. 
Smallwood was arrested, and while he 
did not. deny evidence presented by the 
Government, he did declare that he had 
been operating with honest intentions, 
though following the arrest he and a stock 
salesman of the company. J. M. Currie, 
proceeded to sell stock, tin 1 firm of ,T. M. 
Currie & Co., Inc., 56 Wall Street, New 
York, being organized as a brokerage 
concern to handle further sales of stock. 
The fraud order, as issued, stands 
against further operations either by the 
National Hog Raising Corporation or by 
J. M. Currie & Co. 
The enclosed communication from 
Gardner Nursery, Osage. Iowa, has been 
handed to me by a neighbor, and which, 
if the statements in same are really cor¬ 
rect, the berry certainly is a wonder. I 
feel that the whole thing looks a trifle 
more or less fishy and that it borders on 
the range of some “get-rich-quick” 
schemes I have known of in the past. 
I have advised caution, and told my neigh¬ 
bor I would communicate with you, as 
perhaps you may know something of the 
exploiting of this wonderful berry and 
this stock jobbing scheme. w. b. b. 
New York. 
In past years we have frequently re¬ 
ferred to the schemes of Gardner Nursery 
to make it appear that a wonderful oppor¬ 
tunity was offered to buy plants and trees 
which when closely analyzed amounted to 
paying a good big price for what often 
turned out to be inferior stock. What 
H. M. Whiting accomplishes by personal 
salesmanship Mr. Gardner seeks to do by 
circular letters. Now Mr. Gardner has 
launched a “Strawberry Shortcake Club.” 
You are invited to join and to set out a 
“rod square bed” of plants at his special 
club terms. He figures it will require nine 
and one-sixth dozen plants, and at his reg¬ 
ular price, $5 per dozen, the price for the 
strawberries would come to $45.88. But 
as a member of the above named club the 
plants will cost you only $10. Isn’t this 
a pretty bit of camouflage? And then if 
you will induce others to join this “Straw¬ 
berry Shortcake Club” you will receive a 
commission of $2 on such members. Like 
Whiting and the seed fakers, Mr. Gardner 
always has new and wonderful varieties 
to offer. We will guarantee that reliable 
growers will duplicate the order proposed 
with the best varieties known to the trade 
at less than half Mr. Gardner’s “Straw¬ 
berry Shortcake Club” price. 
Is the firm of Benedict Lust. N. j_>., \ 
M. D.. president, American Naturopathic 
Association, 110 E. 41st St., N. Y.. per¬ 
fectly reliable, and will they do just as 
they represent? They have two nature 
cure resorts; one is in Butler, N. ,T.. and 
the other is in Tangerine. Florida, where 
people go to get cured of their diseases. 
They claim to cure chronic diseases of 
long standing. Can you tell if they do 
cure and relieve so many people of their 1 
ailments by the natural healing meth¬ 
ods? The treatments consist of sunlight, ! 
air and electric light baths, clay packs, 
diet cures and massage, and other meth¬ 
ods. If so that they do cure so many, 
by which of these methods are they the 
most successful? Their rates with treat¬ 
ment are $135 a month. Also is the firm 
of Bryan Tyler, food specialist. SIS 
Wyandotte Street, Kansas City. Mo., per¬ 
fectly reliable? He claims to cure so 
many diseases by “health food.” that is. 
a macerated wheat, eating a few table- 
spoonsful before each meal. Such as 
rheumatism, constipation and other ail¬ 
ments should be cured by simply eating 
this macreated wheat. Do you know if 
this food is as good as they claim it to 
be? They make the offer that if this 
macreated wheat does not help, then just 
return it and they will refund the money 
paid for same. Do you know if they 
would do just as they agree to do? 
Ohio. c. b. 
We do not know the American Natur¬ 
opathic Association of this city, inquired 
about, but one is always perfectly safe 
in assuming that those who advertise any 
form of medical treatment and make ex¬ 
travagant claims for it are far more in¬ 
terested in securing the money of their 
prospective patients than they are in ful¬ 
filling their promises. Such statements 
as are made by the medical firms you 
mention are those universally used, in 
one form or another, by quacks, and 
stamp those who make them as entirely 
unworthy of confidence. It is very er-v 
to give up money to those who prey upon 
the afflicted, but very difficult to secure 
its return, and he will be well-advised 
who refuses to heed the seductive litera 
ture sent out by such concerns. The pliy 
sician of repute is always conservative in 
his claims as to his ability to effect a cure. 
The “quack” is the reverse, and by these 
signs ye shall know them. 
We have a representative of the Angola 
Tire & Rubber Co., Inc., working in this 
vicinity, selling stock in said company. 
Have you any information in regard to 
their reliability and future prospects for 
a business career? They claim to offer 
nothing but treasury stock for sale, and 
are incorporated under the laws of the 
State of New York. ir. w. s. 
New York. 
Some time ago we made a comparison 
of the Angola Tire & Rubber Co., and 
the Bidwell promotions of the Interna¬ 
tional Automobile League scheme some 
years ago. We did not know at the time 
that the Angola Tire & Rubber Co. was 
being promoted by this same Bidwell, 
who pleaded guilty to fraudulent use of 
the mails in connection with the league 
scheme, but since learn on good authority 
that such is the case. Bidwell’s record 
is enough to condemn any enterprise with 
which he may be connected. The lure of 
easy money, when a get-rich-quick pro¬ 
moter once gets the taste of it, invariably 
follows him to his grave, l 
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