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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. 
The agents of the Farmers’ Standard 
Carbide Company of Plattsburg, N. Y., 
have been working in this section for a 
week or more, selling stock at $10 per 
share, not less than five nor more than 
10 shares to one person. Seeing your ar¬ 
ticle in Publisher’s Desk a short time ago. 
I took the paper and confronted them 
with it; had quite a spirited argument, 
with the outcome that they sold no stock 
in this town. But Mr. Kramer, or Cramer 
of Syracuse, N. \\, and Mr. Crandall, of I 
don't know where (but he has sold light¬ 
ning rods through here), the agents, put 
up a strong argument, and accused The 
R. N.-Y. of a good deal that I could not 
believe; so I am writing you for infor¬ 
mation. To give you an idea of what 
they are throwing at you, they claim that 
your subscribers are leaving you after 
they had seen your article and had inves¬ 
tigated their company. They had copies 
of the Syracuse Post-Standard carrying 
large articles of their plant, and said Mr. 
Stromblad’s letter asking for advertising 
space was a frame-up by you (and you 
were bought by the Union Carbide Com¬ 
pany) to hurt them. They are selling the 
carbide for $8 per 100 lbs.; have delivered 
some at Jackson and Gellatt, Pa., them¬ 
selves. by auto. They claim the plant at 
Plattsburgh is putting out 10 tons of car¬ 
bide a day, and that the company was 
making $17 profit per ton, selling it at 
$60 per ton. I believe they claim to pay 
7 per cent on the stock. Mr. Kramer 
claimed you were practically giving sub¬ 
scriptions away; that he could get The 
R. N.-Y. for 20c a year, and that you 
were crooks and were simply working for 
The R. N.-Y. and trying to ptill the wool 
over the farmers’ eyes. 
I would state that I am an uninterested 
party (as I do not use carbide), just try¬ 
ing to help others. It does not seem as 
if people would bite on this just now. so 
soon after Mr. Bomberger had cleaned out 
$3,000 from this section. H. B. n. 
Pennsylvania. 
“No rogue e’er felt the halter draw with 
good opinion of the law,” is sufficient re¬ 
ply to the above accusations—and no pro¬ 
moter of a questionable or swindling stock 
scheme has yet approved of The Rural 
New-Yorker’s policy in telling our read¬ 
ers the truth about it as we see it. We 
expect abuse and accusations of selfish 
purposes from promoters whose game we 
block in giving our readers advice about 
it. Swindlers in the past have said harsh¬ 
er things about us than these stock sales¬ 
men in the above report. A crooked raw 
fur dealer a few years ago went so far as 
to call the editor of The R. N.-Y. a “vile 
thing,” and we consider that epithet one 
of the highest compliments ever paid us. 
E. G. Lewis, Pandolfo, the promoter of 
the Pan Motor Company swindle, the 
promoters of hog ranch schemes, etc., will 
all subscribe to the sentiments of these 
stock-selling pirates, and many of them 
would denounce us in even stronger terms. 
But. to take up the definite charges. The 
Rural New-Yorker has never in its 
whole history had such a satisfactory sub¬ 
scription season as during the present 
Winter—no record of anyone stopping his 
subscription because of our telling the 
truth about the Standard Carbide Com¬ 
pany scheme. To the shame of the Post- 
Standard, Syracuse. N. Y., perhaps it is 
true that this publication has lent its in¬ 
fluence to the stock-selling scheme—either 
unwittingly, without knowing the nature 
of it, or indifferent to it so long as the 
publisher received his price for the space. 
Many of the daily papers, and especially 
those in second-rate cities, have little re¬ 
gard for the honesty or truth of the ad¬ 
vertising they print. As to asking for ad¬ 
vertising space in The R. N.-Y. by Mr. 
Stromblad being a “frame-up,” we print 
his letter in full: 
Plattsburgh, N. Y., 
Nov. 25th, 1019. 
The Rural New-Yorker, 
333 W. 30th Street, 
New York City, N. Y. 
Gentlemen : We are starting an adver¬ 
tising campaign and we are anxious for 
same to reach the rural section. We un¬ 
derstand that you have a very large circu¬ 
lation among the farmers. We are manu¬ 
facturing a very high grade of calcium 
carbide and we positively guarantee the 
gas yield to be above 4% cu. ft. per lb. 
We are now advertising quite exten¬ 
sively in papers that are supposed to 
reach into the country, but we believe we 
could obtain better results in marketing 
our product in a paper that has ex¬ 
clusive circulation among the farmers. 
Consequently we would like to have you 
<Pk RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 24, 1920 
A furrier was selling a coat to a wom¬ 
an customer. “Yes, ma’am,” he said. “I 
guarantee this to be genuine skunk fur 
that will wear for years.” “But suppose 
I get it wet in the rain.” asked the wom¬ 
an ; “what effect will the water have on 
it? Won’t it spoil?” “Madam,” answered 
the furrier, “I have only one answer: 
Did you ever hear of a skunk carrying an 
umbrella?”—New York Globe. 
quote us prices on a full page ad. to be 
run approximately six weeks. Also please 
advise what circulation your paper has. 
Yours very truly, 
THE FARMERS’ STAN HARD CARBIDE CO.. INC. 
By G. A. Stromblad (President). 
Plattsburgh, N. Y. 
If there is any “frame-up” about it. it 
was an attempt to “frame up” The R. 
N.-Y'. Such an amount of advertising as 
suggested, which would amount to more 
than $4,000, would certainly be tempting 
to a publication with only selfish interests 
to serve. The Union Carbide Company 
is capable of taking care of itself. It has 
never attempted to purchase the influence 
of The R. N.-Y, in any way. We do not 
know the cost of manufacturing carbide, 
but in view of the other false statements 
made by the spell-binding stock salesmen, 
there is no reason why they should be be¬ 
lieved in this respect. We still maintain 
that any carbide that the concern may be 
manufacturing is only incidental to the 
stock-selling scheme, and is being used as 
“sucker bait” to sell stock. This form of 
bait is as old as the game of selling worth¬ 
less stock itself. 
The Farmers’ Consumers’ Carbide Co., 
Syracuse, N. Y., has been trying to sell me 
stock at $10 per share, agreeing to sell 
carbide at about $2.60 per cwt. to share¬ 
holders only. The agent claimed it cost 
only $12 per ton to manufacture carbide. 
If such is the case, there must be some 
profiteering somewhere. Will you state 
through The R. N.-Y. if this concern is 
reliable and if it is a good thing for 
farmers to go into? w. E. s. 
Pennsylvania. 
We are informed that the promoters of 
Farmers’ Consumers’ Carbide Co., Syra¬ 
cuse, N. Y., were previously stock sales¬ 
men for Farmers’ Standard Carbide Co. 
They found the stock-selling game under 
Stromblad so fruitful that two or more 
of the salesmen got together and formed 
a brand-new stock-selling scheme all their 
own. Their claims and plans are identi¬ 
cal. Evidently New York has been 
“milked” dry and Pennsylvania is now 
being canvassed by an army of stock-sell¬ 
ing sharks. Those who are taken in by 
these sharks certainly cannot censure The 
R. N.-Y". for failing to warn them. 
Could you assist me in collecting a 
claim against the Vermont Maple Sugar 
& Syrup Co., Washington Market, Vesey 
Street. New York City? I make my liv¬ 
ing with bee-keeping, and sent to the 
above firm on their order 480 lbs. clover 
honey in pails at 22c per lb. The honey 
was sent in October, and they acknowl¬ 
edged receipt of same and promised to 
send check in payment on Nov. 25. Up 
to date the check has not been received, 
and I have written them three times, but 
can get no answer from them. The 
amount due me is $105.60. The general 
selling agent of the concern is H. W. 
Whiting. Fulton and Washington Streets. 
New York City. I read iu The R. N.-Y. 
that you help subscribers to get such 
claims, and ask you to help me get this 
money. j. h. 
New York. 
This is the third claim against the 
Vermont Maple Sugar & Syrup Co. that 
has been placed iu our hands for collec¬ 
tion within a few months. Pressure from 
the Washington Market Association com¬ 
pelled the proprietor. H. W. Whiting, to 
settle one claim, but the others remain 
unpaid up to this time. The Washington 
Market Association only desires honest 
merchants to occupy space iu the market, 
and the prospect of being thrown out was 
the influence which forced settlement in 
the one case. Perhaps the same influence 
will eventually secure the money due the 
other two shippers. Our records show 
that Whiting beat a shipper out of his 
shipment of produce years ago. So far 
as we can discover he has no responsi¬ 
bility, and the only basis on which ship¬ 
ments should be made him is cash in ad¬ 
vance. We desire to acknowledge the 
high standards maintained by the Wash¬ 
ington Market Association and the co¬ 
operation and service rendered in connec¬ 
tion with these claims. Whiting’s ten¬ 
ancy. however, is no credit to the associa¬ 
tion. 
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