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<Ibt RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 2 , 1920 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
The habit has been growing-on''hiW'all 
Summer. But with this habit she is of 
a very doubtful value. Ho says his 
methods will cure any horse of any habit, 
All letters to Publisher’s Desk depart- a pretty big statement. Ilis claims are 
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. 
It is with much interest I read article 
of T. W. L., New York, as I am having 
just such experience with the Evan Uni¬ 
versity of Chicago. Ill., in linger print 
so big as to what he will teach one to do 
that I am very suspicious that he is sell¬ 
ing gold bricks. I have no money I care 
to invest in the latter, and thought that 
possibly you had a line on him and eouid 
help me out. Please accept my thanks 
in advance for any information. F. T. 
New York. 
Some horses can be cured of the kick¬ 
ing habit, and with others once a kicker, 
department. They claim to teach finger always a kicker. The disposition of the 
print by mail for $40. I signed contract 
for same, and had paid about $1G toward 
the $40. Then they sent me the com¬ 
plete course with finger print outfit, and 
after receiving same I found that a man 
had to have a good education ever to get 
through it. and I doubt if he could at 
that, so I sent the complete outfit back. 
Then they wrote for balance due, which 
I would not pay. Then they put it in 
hands of collector. I wrote collector to 
save their postage, besides sending their 
letters back unopened. This happened 
two or three years ago. Now they have 
changed the firm’s name to the University 
of Applied Seieuce. demanding their pay 
of $24 due to the Evan University. I 
have refused to pay. and - they say they 
will put it in hands of their attorney and 
perhaps take the subject up as using the 
mails to defraud. I am not worrying. 
They can get all the publicity when they 
start this. Remember. I was to get the 
lessons only as fast as I proved my worth 
of them, but instead they sent after the 
fourth of fifth lesson the whole batch. I 
suppose so they could claim I was in 
debt to them'. H. w. s. 
New York. 
I have been reading your Publisher’s 
Desk with interest lately, especially the 
letters and comments concerning different 
correspondence schools. I. too. am a 
student of law with*the La Salle Exten¬ 
sion University, but contrary to T. W. L. 
of New York, after almost a year’s study 
of the course, I have no fault to find with 
it. As to the trouble that T. W. L. had 
about paying the course, it would seem 
right that the school should want him to 
give the course a thorough trial before 
lie refused to take it. There is a stand¬ 
ing guarantee on the part of the La Salle 
school as follows: “Upon completion of 
your course, if you should, for any reason, 
feel that you have not received full value 
for the tuition paid. La Salle Extension 
University will refund to you the amount 
of your membership fee.” 
As to the value of the text books that 
T. W. L. said could be bought everywhere 
for $40. they cost over $50,000 to pre¬ 
pare them, and the highest tribute that 
could be paid to their value is the fact 
that nearly 50 colleges, including State 
universities, have used these text b#oks 
either in whole or in part for classroom 
purposes. 
I think that your criticism of corre¬ 
spondence schools applies only to the fly- 
by-night schools that are arising now. 
and that the older schools, such as the 
La Salle. American, etc., are doing fine 
work in educating young men who cannot 
■ attend college. w. A. c. 
We are printing the two letters above 
giving pro and con experience with cor¬ 
respondence schools as we desire to be 
entirely fair to this line of educational 
work as to all others. Much of course 
depends upon the individual as to the 
benefit derived from such courses—the 
individual must have the proper educa¬ 
tional foundation * for the course to be 
taken in order to reap any satisfactory 
results; also he or she must have capa¬ 
city for home study. The correspondence 
school salesmen rarely take the qualifica¬ 
tions into consideration, but sell the 
course to any one whom they can induce 
to sign the “dotted line.” regardless of 
qualifications. Besides, our reports show 
that too much is claimed for the courses 
when being sold, and those having ac¬ 
quired the habit of home study can get 
virtually the same information from other 
text books at only a fraction of the cost. 
Your adverse opinion on the 
Company decided me against investing 
any money in the proposition. Will you 
not kindly give an opinion on the Petti- 
john Pure Products Company of Min¬ 
neapolis? They have a membership office 
at 170 Broadway, New York, and their 
literature should be easily obtainable. 
They have nothing but common stock, 
which they offer at $2 per share, par 
value $1. Will you kindly state whether, 
in your opinion, it is a meritorious propo¬ 
sition? W. H. w. 
New York. 
No, we do not consider the Pettijohn 
Pure Foods Products stock in the light of 
an investment at all. On the contrary, 
we regard it a get-rich-quick scheme. 
Can you give me any information as to 
how reliable Prof. Jesse Beery of Pleas¬ 
ant Hill. Ohio, is? He is a professional 
horse breaker and runs a correspondence 
school at the above place. I have a valu¬ 
able young mare that has got to kicking. 
If she did not kick she is worth $350. 
horse must be taken into consideration in 
applying a remedy. We do not know 
what Prof. Beery’s treatment for the cure 
of the habit might be. but we consider it 
unreasonable to expect any patent remedy 
to correct all eases. We had an exper¬ 
ience with Prof. Beery some years ago 
in which he refused to live up to his 
guarantee to refund the price of his 
course in horsemanship when the pur¬ 
chaser was unable to accomplish the 
claims made. 
You have often had something in your 
columns about D. B. Cornell, the real 
estate agent, of Great Barrington. He 
recently ran for Representative in the 
General Court from this district, and am 
sending a newspaper clipping to show 
the result, together with the platform he 
sent out. which together show how much 
confidence the people around here have 
in him. I might add he lived in West 
Stoekbridge before he came to Great Bar¬ 
rington. Notice the votes he got here! 
Massachusetts. w. w. c. 
The report shows Cornell received 20 
votes out of a total of 59S cast, and in 
the West Stoekbridge district referred to 
—zero. We take it that this is a fair 
estimate of Mr. Cornell’s popularity at 
home, where he is best known. 
What do you know about this? I have 
received four or five letters from Shaw 
Publishing Company. Chicago, before this 
one. To the best of my knowledge. I 
have never signed up for “System on the 
Farm.” although I take paper from office. 
I understand that no paper can collect 
subscription unless on a contract. 
New York. c. C. B. 
The common law is in effect that any¬ 
one accepting goods of any kind and mak¬ 
ing use of them is required to pay for 
them, whether ordered or not. It is a 
practice worthy of contempt for any pub¬ 
lisher to send a publication not ordered 
to anyone and attempt to collect for it. 
No high-class publisher would do it. and 
the threatening letters from collection 
agencies in such cases are for the purpose 
>f frightening country people—a bluff 
It is very rarely that publishers bring 
suit to collect for back subscriptions. 
We blush that any publisher resorts to 
such practices. 
What do you know about the Universal 
Extension School of Columbus. O.? Their 
agent was through here some time ago, 
and sold quite a number of courses, rep¬ 
resenting them to be prepared by pro¬ 
fessors at Cornell University, and also 
that Cornell recommended these courses 
to the farmers. I am sending you a clip¬ 
ping giving what Cornell said about it. 
New York. h. p. 
It appears that the young man selling 
these correspondent school courses had 
been a student at Cornell and secured a 
letter of recommendation of some kind 
from one of the professors. On the 
strength of this he is giving out the im¬ 
pression that Cornell endorses or recom¬ 
mends the course. The Rural New- 
Yorker’s attitude towards all these cor¬ 
respondence school schemes is too well 
known to require repeating. We have no 
knowledge of the Columbus, O., school or 
what the course contains. 
Would be pleased to know what you 
think of the Wait Investment Company, 
Champaign. Ill.? Do you consider them 
reliable and all right? w. J. E. 
New f York. 
Is the Leslie Jones Real Estate Agency 
of Olney. Ill., a reliable agency with 
whom to list a farm? mrs. w. o. 
New York. 
The Wait Investment Company is suc¬ 
cessor to Borah & Borah, Champaign, 
Ill., to which we referred some time back. 
We could not advise a New York man 
to list his property with an Illinois con¬ 
cern, nor could w r e advise anyone to list 
his property with concerns that ask for 
an advance fee. 
This same advice applies to the inquiry 
about the Leslie Jones Agency, Olney, Ill. 
Our experience is that these concerns are 
after the advance fees and no very serious 
attempt is made to sell the property. 
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