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Tbt RURAL NEW-YORKER 
December 17, 1921 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
The December renewals are coming in 
very promptly, as we requested. This is 
going to be helpful and beneficial in many 
ways. We hope to have it continued 
during the month, as it is so well begun 
We cannot reply to each subscriber per¬ 
sonally, but we take this means of ex¬ 
pressing thanks to all. 
As a reader for two years. I must say 
The Rukai. New-Yorker is the straight- 
est and most unselfish paper I have yet 
known. I am now reading one daily and 
four weekly papers, but for principle and 
honesty The Rural stands alone. If all 
other publishers followed your example 
there would be fewer profiteers and 
crooked advertisers. It is like a father 
to a large ‘..mily seeking advice in trou¬ 
ble and information in progress. You 
surely have some readers. I canvassed 
live neighbors before I got one without 
it. He will be my new subscriber. I 
found all the old readers with my senti¬ 
ment. I wish you and all fellow readers 
a Merry Christmas. e. e. 
Cattaraugus Co., N. Y. 
This was our first 1921 Christmas 
greeting, and we think our friends will 
excuse our vanity in printing it, espe¬ 
cially as the message is for all. Do not 
think, however, that such generous 
tributes to the paper swell any heads in 
the office. No one knows better than our¬ 
selves how far we fall short of the ideals 
our friend' - picture for us. Our pride in 
it is that they recognize and appreciate 
our purpose, even if we do not always 
make good on the performance. The 
message carries our good wishes, too, to 
all readers, including the new friend ( as 
well as E. E. himself. 
What does The R. N.-Y. think of the 
“picture puzzles” so prominent now in 
publications and in mail circulars? I 
had just remarked: “You will not see 
any in The Rural.” when a nearby 
neighbor came and said : “I bet you will 
not see them in The Rural.” The local 
papers here in Western New York carry 
the fakes under a very thin disguise. We 
also see the puzzle picture advertisement 
in some of the periodicals that make 
claims to respectability. The Rural 
sets the pa for sincerity. w. d. 
New York. 
The “puzzle picture” is intended to 
make one think he is going to get some¬ 
thing for nothing. That is the bait of 
practically all swindles, petty and other¬ 
wise. We never use the language that 
would even tend to express just what we 
think of them and of the respectable pub¬ 
lishers who for a small share of the plun¬ 
der become accomplices in the petty de¬ 
ceit. 
company has encountered difficulties in 
the way of production of trucks and trac¬ 
tors, and that neither vehicle has been 
produced to any great extent. Apparently 
the reputation of Dr. C. 1*. Steinmetz, 
chief consulting engineer of the General 
Electric Company at Schenectady, N. Y., 
is being exploited in the sale of stock, 
which has not sold as readily as antici¬ 
pated. We understand Dr. Steinmetz 
transferred his patent to the company in 
return for stock and a seat on the board 
of directors. In the present state of de¬ 
velopment of the company, the stock can 
only be considered in the light of a pure 
speculation, and the manner in which the 
stock is being promoted does not impress 
the experienced investors favorably. 
A friend of mine, a boy of 17. desiring 
to learn something of electricity, agreed 
to take a correspondence course with L. 
Gooke of Chicago. Both he and his 
mother were required to sign an agree¬ 
ment to take the full course. The boy 
sent $5. which was the required first pay¬ 
ment. lie then received two lessons, after 
which he decided he did not want any 
more. He did not write or send any more 
money to L. Cooke. Then L. Cooke sent 
him letters, telling him how foolish ho 
was not to continue the course. The boy 
did not answer. Then E. Cooke assumed 
a menacing attitude, threatening him and 
his mother with lawsuit. Thev paid no 
attention to him. The boy did not re¬ 
ceive more than two lessons. Now they 
are notified that the case is in the hands 
of the International Association, and un¬ 
less immediate payment is made the case 
will bo taken to court. The family homo 
is jointly in the names of the mother and 
father. 
New York. 
We 
H. P. 
We have aan.v inquiries from readers 
regarding the Auto Knitter Hosiery Com¬ 
pany, Buffalo. N. 1".. and we have print¬ 
ed a number of reports from users of the 
machine, or those who have tried to use 
it, for the guidance of our subscribers. 
Those interested in the company think 
us unfair in our criticisms of the sales 
plan of the concern, and of the machine. 
In answer to an inquiry from a sub¬ 
scriber, the Prairie Fanner. Chicago, pub¬ 
lishes the following advice: 
The operations of the Auto Knitter 
Hosiery Company are open to severe 
criticism. It refuses to settle many hon¬ 
est claims, and its interest in a customer 
seems to cease when it has his money. 
Many readers report, great difficulty in 
getting the e mpan.v to live up to its 
agreement, \,e would not advise you to 
have anything to do with a concern with 
this sort of reputation. 
The women's magazines carry glowing 
and alluring advertisements of this com¬ 
pany, setting forth the easy money that 
women can make knitting socks with the 
machine, but our reports have all been 
failure to operate the machine success¬ 
fully, except one woman, who says after 
persevering for six months she was able 
to operate the knitter successfully, and 
has in the meantime knitted 3.000 pairs 
of socks. 
Enclosed you will find some of Stein¬ 
metz Electric Motor Car Corporation lit¬ 
erature, asking us to buy stock in this 
corporation. We know better than to 
bite, since we read Publisher’s Desk in 
The R. N.-Y.; it. certainly is a fine paper. 
Would you find out about this and give 
your answer in Publisher’s Desk? j. n. 
New York. 
The Steinmetz Electric Motor Corpora¬ 
tion of Baltimore, Md., was organized to 
exploit a new type of electric industrial 
automotive truck for indoor transporta¬ 
tion as well as a light-weight electric de¬ 
livery car. Our reports indicate that the 
doubt if we can do anything t.) 
save this good woman from annoyance. 
Since she signed the contract and is re¬ 
sponsible. L. Cooke of Chicago, Ill., will 
annoy her to the limit to collect the fee. 
whether the boy got any benefit or not. 
He may bring suit, and he may pursue a 
suit to trial; but we doubt it. Usually 
these correspondence school promoters 
rely on their power to frighten people 
into making settlements rather than to 
go into court and face a jury on their 
record. With all the facts before it, we 
do not believe a jury could be selected 
that would give them a judgment in this 
case or another of similar nature. We 
doubt very much if Mr. Cooke will try. 
When he has exhausted his own persua¬ 
sions and threats, he will try the Inter¬ 
national Association, or an attorney, 
which is probably an agency of his own, 
created and maintained for the purpose. 
He will probably go to the extent of send¬ 
ing a summons ; but it would be unusual 
if he proceeded to open court with his 
complaint, and we would expect him to 
get soundly licked if he did. We always 
hold an honest contract as a thing sacred, 
but we have no respect for these cor¬ 
respondence school contracts.- Our in¬ 
formation indicates that they are often 
procured by misrepresentation, and when 
so. we believe the victim is not only justi¬ 
fied in repudiating them, but that it is a 
duty to do so. We regret that we have 
no means of protecting this good friend 
from annoyance. The only safety is to 
refuse to sign the contracts. 
•Tune 15. 1920. I bought two shares of 
the Globe Finance Corporation of New 
York, whose address is Guarantv Build¬ 
ing. 522 Fifth Ave., Suite 324, at $150 a 
share, from George »S. Anderson, branch 
manager, who at that time had an office 
in Amsterdam. Mr. Anderson promised 
me that the corporation paid a dividend 
of 7 per cent, payable four times a year, 
and would get the first on or about Sep¬ 
tember 15, 1920. He also promised that 
I could get my money back at any time 
that I asked for it. T T p to date I have 
not received any dividend from them, and 
have asked them to give me my money 
back, which they refuse to do, saying it 
would impair its capital. I am inclosing 
the only two letters I have received from 
them, although I have written them sev¬ 
eral times. e. K. 
New York. 
Two things that those solicited to buy 
stock should understand are, that divi¬ 
dends cannot he paid unless earned, and 
the promises of the stock salesman to pay 
a certain rate of dividend isn’t worth a 
pinch of snuff. The second fact is that 
when stock is purchased, the buyer of ir 
then becomes a partner in the business, 
and those in control of the company are 
under no obligation to buy the stock back, 
and rarely do so. Representations by the 
salesman that the purchaser can get his 
money back any time he wants it are vir¬ 
tually getting money under false pre¬ 
tenses. 
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Take out your watch and time the pulsations of a 
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barn, no matter if there are a dozen, is running at 
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of a clock. This insures your cows being milked in 
exactly the same way from day to day or year to year, 
and is one of the reasons why cows do so well with 
the De Laval Milker. 
Try this test on any milker and you will understand 
just one of many reasons why the De Laval is “The 
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