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Vht RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 3, 1920 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
Many old friends are good enough to 
write that a subscription to The Rural 
New Yorker is the best bargain they got 
during the year. A few comparisons may 
serve to justify their judgment. 
When the present management came 
to the paper, the price was $2 a year; and 
the annual volume was S48 pages. The 
price was long since reduced to $1 and 
ten years ago the yearly volume had in¬ 
creased to 1120 pages. In 191S it was 
1444 pages. The 1919 volume just closed 
reached a total of 1904 pages, or consid¬ 
erably more than double the original vol¬ 
ume. 
During the last two years paper has 
more than doubled in price. Postage 
rates have increased in nearly like pro¬ 
portions, and mechanical help and other 
supplies have increased from two to three 
times the previous cost. Our volume of 
business has, however, increased and a 
large percentage of our subscribers renew 
from year to year with little or no ex¬ 
pense to us. In addition they interest 
themselves in sending new subscriptions 
from the best class of farmers like them¬ 
selves. All this, with our exceptional fa¬ 
cilities, and our own buildings and equip¬ 
ment, make it possible for us to increase 
the size of the paper and improve its 
quality and yet maintain the old price 
of a dollar a year. We expect to make 
the 1920 volume the biggest and best of 
all. 
Sometimes Publisher's Desk is criti¬ 
cised on the ground that we caution our 
people against bad investments, but do 
not tell the people what would be good 
investments. Sometimes our friends ask 
why we do not recommend good things 
for investment. It may interest many to 
know why we do not respond to this ap¬ 
peal, and insert the advertisements of 
responsible brokerage houses. We could 
probably carry $15,000 worth of such ad¬ 
vertising annually. We do not do it be¬ 
cause we do not dare. Even the good 
houses do not guarantee the investments, 
and a bond or stock that is perfectly good 
at one time may lose half its value within 
a few months’ time. Besides, a house 
may advertise a good investment and 
when it gets an inquiry it may urge the 
purchase of something else in which it 
makes a better profit or in which the 
house may be interested, and this other 
security may be a bad investment. Our 
friends might rely on the representations 
of the house because of the advertisement 
and lose their money. It would have no 
means of protecting them. 
We do not recommend particular paper 
investments even when we think them 
good, because we are never sure. No 
one is, except some one on the inside of 
a particular company, who has all the 
information. If anyone were wise enough 
to know in advance when stocks would 
rise or fall, he could soon become very 
rich. Many companies are organized for 
the purpose of manufacturing securities, 
and while they may look good and pay 
dividends for a time, they are dangerous 
investments for men who work for their 
money. We can tell the present standing 
of a security at any time; but we do not 
know what will happen to it later on. 
We are glad to give the information, but 
the investor must then decide for himself 
whether to buy or not. Some who are 
in the game make money in stocks, but 
usually someone else loses when the oper- 
rator makes. It is hard to beat a man at 
his own game. 
The best investment for a farmer is a 
home security that he knows something 
about. The man who carries a mortgage 
on his home or farm and looks for an in¬ 
vestment elsewhere is not prudent. The 
higher the rate of interest or profit, the 
greater the risk, and the man who earns 
his money on a farm cannot afford to 
gamble. There is no better investment 
than a payment on the mortgage or other 
indebtedness, if one exists. 
Samuel C. Pandolfo, whose conviction 
of fraudulent use of the mails in connec¬ 
tion with the stock-selling scheme of Pan 
Motor Co., St. Cloud, Minn., was sen¬ 
tenced by Judge Landis to 10 years in 
prison and to pay a fine of $4,000. In 
passing sentence Judge Landis took oc¬ 
casion to score the State of Delaware for 
its loose corporation laws and at the 
same time paid his compliments to the 
newspapers that lend their influence to 
such schemes to swindle the public. Re¬ 
garding the tendency of fake concerns to 
incorporate under Delaware laws, Judge 
Landis is quoted as saying: 
If my court had jurisdiction over a 
sovereign State, I would call a special 
Grand Jury to investigate the State of 
Delaware. The State permits non-resi¬ 
dents to obtain charters with ease, so that 
it may have money in its treasury with 
which to pay its good officers. 
If they were not creatures of political 
preferment and the dollar sign was not 
their goal at all times, we would accom¬ 
plish much in the cleaning up of these 
fake concerns, which are a menace to the 
respectability of this wonderful country of 
ours. 
I want to thank you for the part you 
have taken in having my claim settled 
with the-. They have remitted 
the amount in full. H. K. 
Pennsylvania. 
I received a check a short time ago 
from the-settling my account 
with them for the Aug. 11 order. Please 
accept my thanks for your kindness in 
collecting this for me. S. L. H. 
We have many letters similar to the 
above, thanking us for a little service per¬ 
formed. Business conditions are unusual 
at the present time, which causes com¬ 
plaint about many of the best and most 
honorable business houses. Shortage in 
many lines of goods, poor transportation 
facilities and difficulty in getting efficient 
help is responsible for many unsatisfac¬ 
tory transactions. When the disposition 
of the business house is right, as in the 
above two cases, adjustments are made as 
promptly as possible. We are always 
glad to intercede in behalf of farmers on 
any unsatisfactory transaction with a 
house or corporation doing business with 
the public in general. We can not under¬ 
take the local claims and The R. N.-Y. 
has no influence with private individuals 
who do no general business. 
I bought a sow pig from an advertise¬ 
ment in The R. N.-Y. of William A. 
Hawley, Danbury, Conn., and it was 
shipped to me on or about June 27, 1919. 
I bought it with the understanding that 
it was a registered pig, as he told me it 
was in different communications I had 
from him, which I now have on file; but 
I have never received the papers. I have 
written him twice about it, but have re¬ 
ceived no reply. Will you see if you can 
do anything for me towards getting the 
papers? H. T. A. 
Massachusetts. 
Mr. Hawley at first contended that the 
trouble was due to the inefficiency of the 
Registry Association. The secretary in¬ 
dignantly denied this, and it is now two 
months since we have heard from Mr. 
Hawley in the matter. He will not be 
permitted to advertise in The R. N.-Y. 
in the future. 
Would you give information as to the 
value and security of the Angola Tire and 
Rubber Company, Inc., stock? They have 
a factory at Buffalo. Their agent has 
been here several times trying to get us 
to buy stock, four shares for $100. pay¬ 
able at $10 down and 10 per cent each 
month until paid. By buying that 
amount we are allowed 40 per cent and 
5 per cent off on tires, also a big dis¬ 
count on accessories. We have two cars 
and a truck on our farm, and very likely 
will have another in the Spring. If this 
proposition is good, we would Eke to take 
stock, but would like your opinion first. 
New York. it. v. 
The promoters of the Angola Tire and 
Rubber Company is the same A. C. Bid- 
well who pleaded guilty to the charge of 
fraudulent use of the mails in connection 
with the old International Automobile 
League and International Automobile 
Company schemes. Bidwell seems to be 
playing essentially the same game again, 
but perhaps carefully avoiding the fea¬ 
tures of his previous operations, w’hieh 
left him subject to prosecution. We have 
repeatedly advised our readers with regard 
to the recent operations of Bidwell under 
the name of Angola Tire and Rubber 
Company, but numerous inquiries indicate 
that further warning is necessary. We 
also invite the attention of the National 
Vigilance Committee of the Advertising 
Clubs of the World, which was respon¬ 
sible for Bidwell’s previous troubles, to 
his present operations. 
All letters to Publisher’s Desk depart¬ 
ment must be signed with writer’s full 
hame and address given. Many inquiries 
are answered by mail instead of printing 
inquiry and answer, hence unsigned let¬ 
ters receive no consideration. 
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