986 
July 30, 1921 
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. 
June 21 and 24 we shipped 180 dozen 
eggs to vS. Betman & Son of 317 Green¬ 
wich Street, New York, for which he 
had promised to pay, and had paid us 
'before, top market quotation. For these 
two shipments he paid us 34 cents per 
dozen, and market quotations for the days 
on which he received them was 39 cents 
per dozen. We wrote him about it, but 
we have not heard from him. Inclosed 
you will find his bills, also market quo¬ 
tations for the days on which he received 
the eggs. MBS. L. H. 
New Jersey. 
S. Betman & Son reply to our letter in 
the subscriber’s behalf: “We make no 
agreement, but pay what eggs are worth.” 
This firm does business under the title of 
“Receivers and Distributors.” The firm 
therefore is not subject to the commission 
merchants’ law, and the transactions of 
the firm cannot be investigated by the 
Department of Farms and Markets. 
To my surprise I received this morning 
the enclosed check. As I had given the 
amount up for lost and charged it off to 
“experience account,” I now' d sire to 
make the best possible investmen of my 
“Rubai, New-Yohkeb dividend,” and 
will ask you to extend my subscription 
for the umount—$13.51. I still fail to 
see the reason why people find it more 
profitable to be crooked than straight. 
They will take more trouble to make a 
few crooked dollars than to earn twice as 
many straight ones. a. L. j. 
New Jersey. 
We most assuredly appreciate the gen¬ 
erous spirit evidenced by the subscriber 
and have added the amount to our sub¬ 
scription account as suggested. If some 
of the energy expended on fake schemes 
was utilized in legitimate channels not 
only would money be saved, but individ¬ 
uals would serve the community as a 
whole. 
Noting G. E. F.’s remarks, on page 918, 
on Jones of Olney, Ill., I wish to con¬ 
tribute my mite to help the cause along. 
This man is a five-cent fellow of the Os¬ 
trander and Cornell type. It would seem 
to me that his would be a good case for 
the postal authorities to look into. I am 
enclosing correspondence of his and mine, 
which show fraud. j. c. J. 
Pennsylvania. 
“The evil that men do lives after them.” 
This quotation applies with particular 
force to the “advance fee listing scheme” 
inaugurated by W. M. Ostrander some 
20 years ago. Until Ostrander employed 
this easy money scheme it was unheard 
of. Now a dozen or more fakers like Os¬ 
trander have adopted it, and it is impos¬ 
sible to estimate the amount of money 
property owners have been swindled out 
of by it. It is doubtful if the postal au¬ 
thorities can prevent or j ut a stop to this 
form of petty swindling. In order to do 
so the officials would have to be in posi¬ 
tion to prove the “intent to defraud,” 
which would be difficult to do in these 
cases. 
In regard to the Smith Standard Com¬ 
pany, how can you call them a reliable 
concern? Before I ordered these chicks I 
wrote them if they could ship from Phila¬ 
delphia and ship on May 2. The answer 
came back O. K. I mailed check immedi¬ 
ately. Then May 2 passed and they 
wrote me chicks would be shipped May 
10. That date passed and they didn’t 
come. I didn’t want them after it was 
so late, and I wrote them not to ship, but 
return money. I didn’t hear any more of 
them until Monday last the chicks came. 
They were shipped from Cleveland, O. I 
wouldn’t have had them if I had known 
they were to be shipped from Cleveland, 
but I had to receive them, for they had 
my money. The chicks were near starved 
and were cold, and they sent me a breed 
I didn’t order or didn’t want in my yard. 
There were a few dead ones. I shall lose 
the most of them, for they are very deli¬ 
cate and a common bunch of chicks. Now, 
you can call them reliable if you wish. 
That is one advertisement in your paper 
I shall speak against, and you will find 
it will hurt your nice paper to carry such 
an advertisement. You may write* them 
about this shipment if you wish. The 
chicks are here to see—or part of them. 
Maryland. c. o. F. 
TV RURAL NEW.YORKER 
Mr. Reynolds Talks to Readers 
“So you are the man who writes in The 
We are not disposed to argue with the 
Maryland subscriber whose letter is pub¬ 
lished above. We had an unsatisfactory 
experience with the Smith Standard Com¬ 
pany some years ago, but were indued by 
fair promises to accept the advertising 
again this season. When complaints of 
this order began again to come in and the 
Smith Standard Company failed to show 
a proper disposition toward the customer, 
we discontinued it again this season, and 
our action this time is final. We regard 
it an unfair practice for the Smith Stand¬ 
ard Company to advertise the addresses 
of Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Chi¬ 
cago, etc., leading the poultry public to 
believe that hatcheries are established at 
these points, while the only hatchery of 
the firm is located at Cleveland, O. 
Will you let me know whether the Min¬ 
nesota Pen Company, 245 West Fourth 
St., St. Paul, Minn., is a reliable com¬ 
pany? They are offering a prize of $1000 
to the nearest correct answer to a puzzle 
if a $5 pen is purchased. w. w. 
New York. 
We do not know the Minnesota Pen 
Company, but we have no faith in any 
concern, or their products, employing a 
prize puzzle scheme of this sort in order 
to sell a fountain pen. If W. W. wants a 
fountain pen, our advice to him would be 
to buy some standard make and leave puz¬ 
zle schemes alone. 
Can you give me a line on the National 
Home and 'School Association. Inc.? My 
daughter was talked into signing for 
some books, and as something unforeseen 
has happened, desires to cancel, but is 
unable to find out where they are located. 
The receipt bears no address nor a con¬ 
secutive number on their receipt. This 
looked rather queer to me, and I am 
therefore asking your help. So many of 
these “agents” come around that it is 
hard to distinguish good from bad. C. B. 
New York. 
Last year I purchased two tires from 
the Hydro United Co., Philadelphia. One 
of these tires went bad last Fall. I had 
some correspondence with you in regard 
to it at the time. This tire was returned 
to them, and after three weeks’ delay and 
paying express charges, something less 
than $2, the tire was returned to me re¬ 
paired with a new section. More trouble 
of a similar nature has developed on the 
opposite side from this section. The tire 
repair men here tell me that the section 
was not large enough to cover the whole 
trouble that existed at that time. I have 
run this tire approximately 4.000 miles, 
with 6,000 still to go on the guarantee. 
Their guarantee on which these tires are 
sold is an adjustment on a basis of 
10,000-mile service, and not on the basis 
of cobbling them up, and the customer 
stand the transportation charges. One of 
their arguments was when I returned 
this tire to them that I had used a blow¬ 
out patch and aggravated the trouble. 
When anyone has trouble on the road 
they have got to get home if they have to 
use a blow-out patch. Will you take this 
matter up with them and see if they are 
willing to adjust this matter uuder the 
consideration of a new tire? F. s. 
New York. 
The above experience speaks for itself 
and confirms the oft-repeated advice that 
the best tire economy is to buy standard 
makes of reputable manufacturers. 
We have no record of the National 
Home and School Association. Inc. The 
transaction bears all the “earmarks” of a 
book agents’ house. We have found it the 
policy of many concerns sending out 
agents not to have theii address on the 
receipt or literature, so that it is impos¬ 
sible for the victims of the agents to send 
in cancellations of the orders. If coun¬ 
try peojile have been tricked in this way, 
our advice is to refuse to accept the books 
when offered for delivery, and not to be 
frightened or bulldozed into paying for 
them. The only safe plan is to turn a 
deaf ear to all book agents and peddlers 
of this sort. 
Will you note the enclosed circular let¬ 
ter from one E. G. Lewis? Is his scheme 
feasible, and is he reliable? K. T. M. 
Delaware. 
The above inquiry refers to the oil 
scheme of E. G. Lewis of Atascadero, Cal. 
Anyone familiar with Lewis’s record in 
St. Louis would not need to ask about 
his reliability. The court records show 
that he obtained more than ten millions 
of dollars from confiding people while 
operating get-rieh-quiek schemes in St. 
Louis. How many millions of the savings 
of poor people he may get possession of in 
this scheme only the future can determine, 
but we have no more faith in his prom¬ 
ises of great riches for investors now 
than we had in the promises which lured 
the money from kia former dupes. 
R. N.-Y.” That is better than a grip or 
password. It influences a feeling of deep 
friendship and pleasure. I believe I 
could go into many sections and borrow 
$10 of many subscribers. 
Any man who applies himself to one 
line of thought will have a short life, or 
an unhappy old age. Sometimes nervous 
breakdown or insanity comes from set¬ 
ting the mind intensely on one interest 
only. Everyone should have some useful 
excursion for his brain to run to. The 
editor is a 'better farmer while he farms, 
and a better editor while he edits, than if 
he applied closely to but one interest. 
It gets monotonous for a farmer to 
have his thoughts boring away at one 
line continually. We have been putting 
from five to eight loads of hay in daily, 
with the mercury above 90, and it is a 
relief to think some far outside of our 
line fences, and to put the thoughts on 
paper in the evening. Also, the man who 
works strictly for himself and does not 
aim to leave this old earth better than he 
found it is an object of pity. He has no 
real enjoyment. 
From a farm boy toiling on a miserable 
little place, I have chosen themes to think 
on which others neglect, and during lei¬ 
sure have written them. It may have 
lost me money, but from beginning with 
slab and straw sheds, log stables and un¬ 
sightly, inconvenient places, we now have 
two large and two small barns, and it is 
considerable fun to know there are over 
60 tons of beautiful hay in them ajyeady. 
In regard to neglected themes, If 
there are any which have been left to 
themselves more thin the sheep and cloth¬ 
ing industries, we have not thought of 
them. Also, if there are any more nec¬ 
essary for human comfort and profit, we 
fail to see them. Then in return we ex¬ 
pect substantial gain, although it may 
not.come in my time. You see, we are well 
equipped with land, knowledge, breed and 
desire. Then I taught the son from child¬ 
hood and am concerned about his future. 
One becomes like his associates. Sheep 
make one kind and gentle with their com¬ 
plements. courage and bravery, and I no¬ 
tice he has already passed me. lie has 
said to me, “How are you going to get 
your money out of all this travel and 
writing you do for a lot of sheep men?” 
and has been shown that our sheep can 
never do well unless all others in the 
world do, and that I am working with 
others for the welfare of all. 
It is scandalous the way every kind of 
live stock is being sacrificed now and how 
careless the owners are. The worst de¬ 
flation now is the farm animal deflation. 
That means this country is in for an 
alarming shortage, and it means a scram¬ 
ble when times improve. Now is the 
time to hold and invest. It is the 
time also to get ready to have wool to 
sell; yes, right now, when the present is 
deplorable at it can get. 
Two years’ efforts of men like myself 
brought delegates and petitions from be¬ 
tween 5,000,000 and 6.000,000 people of 
all classes to Washington last mouth, de¬ 
manding the truth-in-fabrics law. They 
may get it and they may not, but in the 
latter event we will double or quadruple 
the applicants in a year. Big business 
always sees the signs of the times ahead 
of producers, and is fixing for itself. It 
has loaded up on foreign wool and now is 
scooping millions off the plains and Tex¬ 
as. It has not time to bother with the 
little retail clips of the East. It is fixing 
to make money later, but the year is not 
far distant when it will pay what it costs 
to produce wool and then some, and have 
a hard time getting enough. Now, don’t 
say I did not tell you. w. w. Reynolds. 
Ohio. 
Adoption of Adults 
In a recent issue, in a short article on 
the law of adoption, you state that “we 
know of no provision for adopting a child 
who Ls more than 21 years of age.” May 
I take the liberty of correcting this state- 
men and calling your attention to the do¬ 
mestic relations law, section 110, amend¬ 
ed by the laws of 1920, Chapter 433, to 
read: 
“Adoption is a legal act whereby an 
adult person takes another admit person 
or minor into the relation of child and 
thereby acquires the rights and incurs the 
responsibility of parent in respect to such 
adult or minor.” JOHN c. von glaiin. 
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