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<P* RURAL NEW-YORKER 
November 20, 1010 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
All letters to Publisher’s Desk depart¬ 
ment must be signed with writer’s full 
name and address given. Many inquiries 
are answered by mail instead of printing 
inquiry and answer, hence unsigned let¬ 
ters receive no consideration. 
Country people who have been tempted 
to invest their savings in Long Island 
suburban lots as a means of making for¬ 
tunes similar to Astor and Vanderbilt 
millions may get an inkling of the other 
side of the prospect from the notice of 
sale of 500.000 boom lots in Suffolk 
County last week for taxes. Some one 
made first payment on all these lots. If 
the payment average only $100 a lot the 
total would be $50,000,000. We have 
been thirty-odd years advising country 
people to resist the allurements of this 
system of swindling. 
The Federal Trade Commission has 
estimated that $500,000,000 of worth¬ 
less certificates have been sold in a 
year to small investors. These securi¬ 
ties are promoted by publishers of 
papers having “commercial.” “financial,” 
“banker” and “Wall Street” titles. Such 
papers have little or no genuine circula¬ 
tion. Some of them do not have even 
second-class postal privileges. They pay 
fourth-class postage rates. They write 
up a boom for the “fake securities,” and 
the promoter buys up thousands of the 
papers to send to selected lists of in¬ 
vestors. To complete the deceit the 
papers insert advertisements of well- 
known firms and banks to give the sheets 
the appearance of responsible publica¬ 
tions. Having the appearance of a regu¬ 
lar publication the inexperienced investor 
believes what is printed, takes a chance 
and loses his money. 
During the trial of a notorious swindle 
case in Chicago recently, the publishers 
of two such financial fake papers con¬ 
fessed under oath to the deceit they prac¬ 
ticed on the public. Judge Landis held 
one of those under $10,000 bail for the 
Grand Jury on the charge of using the 
mails to defraud ; and the other escaped 
only by promising to discontinue the con¬ 
spiracy to deceive small investors. 
We have had some of this kind of 
journalism in the agricultural press, with 
the additional odium by the farm editors 
of promoting their own worthless certif¬ 
icates. Most of them however have gone 
the inevitable way. A partial restitution 
has been made in some isolated instances, 
which was a virtual confession of guilt, 
but many of the fancy certificates yet 
decorate pigeonholes or dark receptacles 
in farm homes. Not a few farm men and 
women, who in the middle life saved for 
the rainy day, trusted the fruit of their 
abstinence to the editor-promoter and 
ending their days in privation and want, 
passed to the great beyond leaving the 
fancy but worthless certificates as an 
evidence of folly and misplaced trust. 
We commend Judge Landis for his 
stern and merited treatment of the ac¬ 
complice of swindlers, but we particularly 
wish to caution our friends against too 
much trust in the printed word until they 
know the man behind the type. 
Will you please explain this fetter of 
Sweeney Automobile and Tractor School, 
Kansas City, Mo? Our boy received this 
letter last week. lie had never written 
to this party, and never thought anything 
about going out there to school. I said 
it was somebody looking for easy money 
again. I may be wrong, but I would like 
to know. J. H. P. 
Pennsylvania. 
In the circular letter enclosed Mr. E. 
J. Sweeney indulges in considerable inno¬ 
cent “guff” intended to flatter the X'eceipi- 
ent with the ultimate object of course 
of securing his remittance for a scholar¬ 
ship in the school. Mr. Sweeney repre¬ 
sents the price of a life scholarship $175, 
but he knows the individual receiving his 
letter expects to pay only $150 for his 
tuition (he doesn’t explain how he 
knows this), and therefore encloses a 
check for $25 drawn on the cashier of the 
school to apply on the tuition or scholor- 
ship. We have had no unfavorable re¬ 
ports on this school, and aside from this 
camouflage check we regard the school 
with favor. This manner of reducing the 
price of tuition does not appeal to us as 
good business ethics and it causes sus¬ 
picion that the school may not be more 
clean-cut and aboveboard in other 
respects than in the method the school 
adopts in making inducements to secure 
students. There is nothing wrong about 
sending checks of this kind to prospective 
students, but it is a reflection on the in¬ 
telligence of the recipient to expect that 
he take out a scholarship in the school be¬ 
cause of this “bait.” 
About June 9 I received a letter and 
price list from the Atlas Tire Co., 1777 
Broadway, New York, stating terms and 
giving a guarantee of 4,000 miles. I or¬ 
dered one, 34x4, two per cent off for cash. 
I sent them check for $15.04, and when 
they got good and ready they sent an 
old patehed-up tire. It ran 297 miles, 
and went all to pieces. I sent it back, 
asked them to replace it with a good tire 
or^refund my money. The answer was: 
“$7 more and we will send another tire.” 
I cannot trust them the second time. The 
first joke was a good one on me, but will 
not stand for the second trial. What do 
you think of the deal? c. J. G. 
New York. 
The only comment we care to make on 
the above is that the letter describes a 
typical “gyp” transaction with a notorious 
gyp tire concern. 
As regards W. A.’s inquiry for infor¬ 
mation about the National Fancy Goods 
Co., the original proprietress has already 
been arrested by the Federal Government 
and I believe is awaiting trial. A new 
concern is running the business on a dif¬ 
ferent footing, and I think they are try¬ 
ing to adjust the debts of the old company 
on some basis. One of my nieces is won¬ 
dering how much, if any, of $3.50 she 
will ever see again. n. c. w. 
Virginia. 
We are very glad the Postoffice Depart¬ 
ment has put a stop to the practices of 
the old owners of this company, and if 
the new proprietors clean the slate it 
would be good business in the end. If 
a house of this kind does not have an 
established rating it is not wise to enter 
into negotiations with it. 
In your issue of Oct. IS last there 
appeared a letter from one of your sub¬ 
scribers who complained that a nursery 
firm he named had not carried out its 
contract with him. 
May I say that the policy of The 
Rural New-Yorker is a welcome de¬ 
parture from the loose and indefinite way 
some publications have of putting out 
statements that tend to reflect on the 
whole nursery industry? You apparently 
insist upon definite complaints and you 
publish the names of firms complained 
of; those firms are thereby given oppor¬ 
tunity to reply to or take action against 
you if they prefer. You name names and 
they have their recourse. And nobody 
can object to that. Vague, indefinite and 
general statements are harmful, because 
they cannot be answered. Unfortunately, 
there are still quite a good many firms 
whose, methods are bad and who bring 
suspicion on the trade as a whole. Your 
policy of calling them by name cannot 
fail to be approved by all responsible 
firms. 
I do not know the firm referred to in 
the letter mentioned, nor am I acquainted 
with the circumstances except as written 
you. My purpose is to let you know that 
they are not members of this association 
and to ask your co-operation in the mat¬ 
ter of complaints, in referring them to 
the chairman of our Vigilance Committee 
for action after impartial investigation. 
JOHN WATSON. 
American Ass’n of Nurserymen. 
We are very glad to have this acknowl¬ 
edgement of the service of the legitimate 
nursery trade. Our interest is first to 
protect the tree buying public. As stated, 
we not only have complaints of unques¬ 
tioned merit before publishing anything 
derogatory about the firm, but before do¬ 
ing so the nursery house complained about 
is given full opportunity to explain the 
complaint or adjust it as the facts may 
warrant. It is a healthful sign that the 
Nurserymen’s Association propose investi¬ 
gating complaints against its members. If 
these investigations are conducted with a 
sympathy and understanding of the 
growers’ viewpoint and in recognition of 
his rights it will do much to promote a 
degree of confidence in the members of 
the association which cannot fail to re¬ 
sult in a large volume of trade. The 
chairman of the Vigilance Committee is 
Mr. Paul C. Lindley, Pomona, N. C. 
“Among the possessions of every poor 
man in this region can be found at least 
one worthless dog,” severely said the spec¬ 
tacled tourist. “There hain’t no such 
thing as a worthless dog, Podner!” re¬ 
turned Gap Johnson of Rumpus Ridge, 
Ark. “And no man that owns a good dog 
is plumb poor.”—Kansas City Star. 
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