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7bt RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 23, 1924 
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PUBLISHER’S DESK 
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ment must be signed with writer’s full 
name and address given. Many inquiries 
are answered by mail instead of printing 
inquiry and answer, lienee unsigned let¬ 
ters receive no consideration. 
I ask your opinion in regard to the 
stock selling scheme of American Busi¬ 
ness Builders, 1133 Broadway, New York. 
They are headed by one Wesley W. Per¬ 
rin as president, and associated with him 
are Walter Ostrander and Seth _ Moyle. 
Selling mail order courses is their busi¬ 
ness and probably you know something 
about them. I would appreciate your 
opinion. T. b. A. 
New Y’ork. 
According to our information Wesley 
W. Perrin was the moving spirit of the 
Independent Corporation, at one time a 
respectable and influential publication. 
Under Mr. Perrin’s direction the com¬ 
pany made a specialty of advertising and 
selling correspondence courses such as 
“Roth’s Memory Course,” “Efficiency 
Courses,” etc. These easy-money schemes 
have been pretty well worked out as far 
as the public is concerned and now it ap¬ 
pears that Mr. Perrin has joined forces 
with W. M. Ostrander and his “Simplex 
System” in forming the American Busi¬ 
ness Builders, for stock selling purposes. 
This project has no connection with the 
ill-fated ,Tas. W. Elliott “Business Build¬ 
ers,” which toppled around the ears of 
its author about a year ago, but the two 
organizations are formed for the same 
purpose of catching suckers. Ostrander, 
besides earning the reputation of the 
worst shark that ever operated a fake 
real estate game, is an old hand at stock 
promotion of get-ricli-quick enterprises. 
He swindled numerous people on the 
Dunlap Carpet Co. stock of Philadelphia, 
Magic Curler Co., and the W. M. Os¬ 
trander real estate enterprise. If anyone 
who invested in any of Ostrander’s pro¬ 
motions ever saw a cent of the money so 
invested again, we have tailed to hear of 
it—but some of them were played for 
suckers the second time by trading their 
stock in for lots which Ostrander pro¬ 
moted and were swindled a second time. 
This is what the present-day promoter 
calls “reloading.” We do not know Seth 
Moyle, but he is in bad company. Anyone 
turning any money over to these pirates 
had better kiss it good-by before parting 
with it. 
Will you print these two letters in 
your paper, so no one else will be as 
foolish as I was? It may be the means 
of saving some one $2. I saw this adver¬ 
tisement in the Hudson Daily Star: 
“Wanted—Ladies to earn $15 per week 
at home addressing music. Write for 
particulars to The Keen Music Co., 
Bridgeport, Conn.” I did so. and the 
two letters will tell their own story. 
New York. MRS. G. J. 
This “work at home scheme” turns out 
to be one of selling sheet music. This 
woman received 16 pieces of music, the 
character of which is not stated. She is 
instructed to mail this music out 10 
names of people interested in music on 
approval, and request that the receiver 
send 25c for it. A more contemptible, 
fraudulent scheme cannot well be con¬ 
ceived. The woman is simply out the $2. 
This is what usually happens when one 
takes up work-at-home offers. The 
country is flooded with this class of petty 
swindlers during the Winter months. 
Seventeen men, convicted in the United 
States District Court of using the mails 
to defraud in connection with the sale of 
stock in the Glass Casket company, were 
sentenced yesterday by Judge Learned 
Hand. All except one of the convicted 
men were either officers or salesmen of 
the Crager System, Inc., a stock promo¬ 
tion house with offices at 142 West 
42nd Street. 
'Samuel Safer, principal stockholder of 
the Crager System. Inc., received a sen¬ 
tence of two and a half years in the Fed¬ 
eral Penitentiary at Atlanta; Samuel 
Rosenblatt, a Chicago attorney, who was 
a member of the concern and acted as 
its legal adviser, was sentenced to eigh¬ 
teen months; Benjamin Crager. presi¬ 
dent of the company, who pleaded guilty 
and testified for the government, got six 
months in the Essex County Penitentiary 
in Newark. His father. Henry Crager. 
an officer of the company, received only 
one dav in the Tombs. Harry A. Side- 
man. another officer of the company, re¬ 
ceived a sentence of a year and a day in 
the Atlanta prison. J. E. Dorn, a broker 
of 2 Rector St., who received the original 
contract for the sale of glass casket stock 
and turned it over to the Crager firm i 
on a 10 per cent commission basis, was 
sentenced to one year and a day in the 
Atlanta prison. 
Others sentenced to a year and a day 
in Atlanta were Alfred Franzbleau. J. B. 
Block, Herman Lieber, A. L. Goulson 
and David Palter. The remaining de¬ 
fendants sentenced to the Essex County 
jail were Robert M. Wallach and Harry 
Kahn, nine months each; Louis Cohen, 
six months; George O. Kaplan, four 
months; Raymond Wilson and Joseph 
Shaw, three months each.—New York 
Herald. 
This is the third glass casket company 
that has been formed and come to an un¬ 
happy end. We have warned against in¬ 
vestment in this stock many times. 
Inclosed please find $1 for. one year’s i 
subscription for The R. N.-Y. for a ■ 
friend. Name and address inclosed. She 
was visiting me and your paper came | 
that day and I told her what a good farm j 
paper it was, and how she could depend 
on ali the advertisements she read in the 
paper. So she wants to have the paper 
sent to her. I told her I am not on the 
farm any more, but I will continue to 
subscribe for your paper. MRS. E. G. s. 
New York. 
We are frequently asked how it is that 
we can go on publishing such a paper at 
such a low subscription price and im¬ 
proving it when papers generally use 
cheaper material and less of it, and some¬ 
times increase the price to two or three 
times the pre-war standard. Qne of the 
best reasons is found in instances like the 
above. Our old friends take so much 
pains in one way or another to introduce 
the paper to their friends and neighbors 
that we escape much of the circulation 
expense that other publishers have to 
meet. The prompt renewal of old sub¬ 
scriptions is a similar cause. All of this 
helps more in a business way than the 
average reader can well realize, but the 
best part of it all is that it is not done 
from the business or financial viewpoint 
at all. or at most seldom. It comes 
through a spirit of friendship and reci¬ 
procity. and is especially prized for that 
reason. 
Fully expecting to receive my incu¬ 
bators before March 1, I ordered 1200 
hatching eggs from Mr. R. C. Blodgett, 
Bristol, Vt. The incubators did not ar¬ 
rive so I wrote to Mr. Blodgett and 
explained the situation to him and asked 
him to cancel my order for eggs, sub¬ 
stituting for that order an order for 1.000 
S. C. R. I. Reds at twenty-five cent* 
apiece. He agreed to let me have 1.000 
day-old chicks for $225 and promised de- 
liverv on April 1. It was not until May 
1, and after considerable correspondence 
that I finally got any chickens and then 
only 400. iii a few da.vs l got 200 more 
and in 10 days time 395 more. These 
chickens were placed in sanitary quarters 
and well cared for, but within twenty- 
four hours they started to die. A few the 
first day. more the next and so on until 
the death rate reached fifty or sixty a 
day. I examined a number of these 
chickens and found unmistakable signs 
of bacillary vehite diarrhoea, but to 
confirm my diagnosis, I sent a number ol 
dead chicks to the experiment station at 
Massachusetts Agricultural College. They 
sent back a report of bacillary white 
diarrhoea in each specimen, also pneu¬ 
monia. caused by the toxic lesions of 
bacillary white diarrhoea. l. h. c. 
Massachusetts. 
Mr. Blodgett claims that his hens were 
tested in 1918 and 1919 by the State 
Laboratory of Hygiene, and having kept 
the same strain, bringing in no outside 
blood, his stock could not have been 
affected with bacillary white diar¬ 
rhoea. The diagnosis by the Massachu¬ 
setts Agricultural College, showing to the 
contrary, must be considered conclusive. 
From confidential sources we are advis'd 
that Mr. Blodgett secures a large por¬ 
tion of the stock he sells from other 
poultrymen in the vicinity an ' represents 
all of it as from his tested stock. Buy¬ 
ing and selling poultry is legitimate 
enough, but. the stock should not be sold 
as from his tested stock. In view of die 
conclusive evidence from the Massachu¬ 
setts Agricultural College that the chicks 
were affected with white diarrhoea, we 
should not care to consider Mr. Blodgett’s 
advertising for The R. N.-Y in the future. 
We prefer to give our subscribers the 
benefit of the doubt. 
Bystander : “I observe that you treat 
that gentleman very respectfully.” Ga- 
rageman: “Yes. he’s one of our early 
settlers.” Bystander: “Early settler? 
Why, lie’s not more than forty years ot 
age.” Garageman : “That may be true 
but he pays his bills on the first of 
every month.”—Motor Age. 
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