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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 22, 1924 
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. 
Come along. We will have a dinner 
for you any time you wish to come, only 
let us know so as to be sure we will be 
home, and it will not cost you anything, 
for the paper is worth the dinner besides 
the dollar. N. N. 
Pennsylvania. 
We said we would like to make a per¬ 
sonal call on all our good friends and 
take a homey farm dinner with them, 
and on estimating the time we discov¬ 
ered it would take about COO years to 
make the rounds. This good friend 
comes back with a spirit of generosity 
and compliment that inspires one to ac¬ 
cept the hospitality. 
Wilbur W. Chambers, Deputy Attor¬ 
ney General, who has been investigat¬ 
ing the Tomadelli Electronic Corpora¬ 
tion, with offices in the Knickerbocker 
Building, for some months past, served 
an order to show cause on Saturday. It 
is returnable in Special Term, Part I of 
the Supreme Court. Justice Wagner is 
to be asked on Wednesday to issue an 
injunction against further sales. 
Tomadelli came here in 1920, the At¬ 
torney General’s papers say, and or¬ 
ganized the Tomadelli Electronic Cor¬ 
poration. In consideration of the as¬ 
signment of his invention the corporation 
voted him all of the $1,000,000 par value 
of voting stock and $100,000 of the non¬ 
voting shares.—Daily papers. 
The It. N.-Y. has had several in¬ 
quiries about the above mysterious lamp 
or “bottled sunshine.” The proposition 
has all the earmarks of a get-rich-quick 
stock-selling scheme, and the Attorney 
General’s office does well to throw a legal 
searchlight upon the alleged invention. 
In August I answered an advertise¬ 
ment of the Owl Tire Company, 1738 
West Lake St., Chicago, Ill., for auto 
tires and tubes for $14.87. guaranteed 
satisfactory or money refunded. I vised 
one tire on my car, ran it about 10 miles, 
and it all went spongy and was no good. 
I returned all to the company, hut can¬ 
not get any settlement; have written to 
them several times, but get no answer. 
Is there anything you can do to make 
this firm live up to their guarantee? 
New' Jersey. A - z - 
To date this concern has taken the 
meanest attitude for business transac¬ 
tions by refusing to answer letters for the 
adjustment due the subscriber. It con¬ 
tinues to confirm our warning to buy the 
standard products of reliable houses. 
In regard to the Federal Adding Ma¬ 
chine Corp., 251 Fourth Ave., New York, 
which you informed me some time ago 
was a fraud, I would like to know if 
there is any chance of your collecting any 
money from them. I have 100 shares at 
$5 per share, and if you think there is 
any chance of getting any part of the 
money I would be very thankful. 
New Jersey. w - s * 
The Federal Adding Machines, Inc., 
33 E. 21st St., New York, write us as 
follows: 
As W. S.’s name does not appear as a 
stockholder of this corporation, we pre¬ 
sume that the stock he holds is that of the 
now defunct “Federal Adding Machine 
Corporation.” That stock is absolutely 
worthless today and the receiver has now 
long been discharged. The sale of assets 
of the defunct company did not bring 
sufficient cash to pay even the creditors 
of the old company, thereby wiping out 
completely the old stockholders. 
It is easy to fall into the allurements 
of stock promoters, but once in the hope 
of getting out is small. All the investor 
has for his share is the experience. 
I am sending you some papers in re¬ 
gard to an egg deal, and would be pleased 
if vou would try to get some settlement 
for' me. On Dee. 18, shipped one case 
eggs, hennery whites, to Litvin & 
Schnapp, 169 Reade St., New York. Dec. 
31 received returns. You will notice they 
state these eggs were held. The facts are. 
every egg in shipment was laid after 11 
o’cloek Dec. 18. On Dec. 27, shipped 
two cases. Jan. 26, after writing them 
twice, received check of $19.77, which 
was protested and returned to me. I 
wrote them Feb. 11 in regard to same, 
but have heard nothing. These eggs were 
strictly fresh and of good grade; accord¬ 
ing to’ market quotations and also prices 
received by neighbors they should have 
sold for from 50 to 55c per^dozen. which 
would amount to around $47. I have re¬ 
ceived $9.88, which leaves me practically 
$37 to $38, plus $1.40 protest fees, due 
yet. Upon receipt of first check, wrote 
them, asking for an adjustment on first 
case, as I considered they had swindled 
me. You will notice their return on en¬ 
velope is Starr Egg Co., Inc., 169 Reade 
St.; billhead Litvin & Schnapp; billhead 
with communication, Litvin & _ Schor; 
also first check was signed Litvin & 
Schor. Second check, you see, is Crown 
Egg Co., so it seems they have at least, 
four different names under which they 
transact business. If you can do nothing 
more, please advertise them, so others 
may not get stung as I did. A. C. b. 
New York. 
This is exactly what we are going to do 
in behalf of our subscribers. The true 
facts are that they have solicited egg 
shipments from the farmers under the 
four names listed above. They have 
failed to make returns in some cases, is¬ 
sued protested checks in others, and when 
they did really make returns it was for 
the huge sum of 35 cents per dozen. No 
satisfaction can be obtained from them. 
Do you wonder why we implore our read¬ 
ers to investigate first by writing us for 
the responsible houses, before falling for 
the gold-brick prices of these irrespon¬ 
sible firms? 
Could you advise me about the Chau¬ 
tauqua School of Nursing? I am unable 
to leave home to take training in a hos¬ 
pital, but have spare time to study at 
home. They claim that nurses graduated 
from their school are able to work with 
the best of hospital graduates and that 
doctors highly recommend the school. My 
home doctor has advised the course for 
me, as I am now a practical nurse, study¬ 
ing text books at home. In order to take 
the Chautauqua course I would have to 
borrow money, so thought I would first 
get the advice from a true and trusted 
friend, The R. N.-Y., whose word is law 
in our home. R. B. c. 
New York. 
We have consulted an authority and he 
replies as follows: 
You ask, “How would a student rank 
with the regular hospital graduates.” 
The answer to that is they don’t rank. 
Graduates of this school cannot prac¬ 
tice as registered, trained, graduate, or 
certified nurses. Any young woman who 
wants to become a nurse should qualify 
for the profession of nursing by taking a 
course in a nurse-training school regis¬ 
tered by the Board of Regents. For ad¬ 
mission to such registered nurse-training 
school they need only to have completed 
one year of high school or its equivalent. 
You know that I am particularly in¬ 
terested in our country girls who want to 
become nurses, for they are the ones that 
bring to the hospital a broader outlook 
than the young women who have lived in 
the cities all their lives, and have had 
no opportunity to come in contact with 
the soil and with rural life. The country 
girl brings a freshness and joyfulness of 
outlook that many a city girl does not 
possess, and I hope that you will use 
your influence to have all the girls in the 
country who want to become nurses to be 
thoroughly trained in hospital training, 
because if they go back into the country 
they can then competently care for our 
country folks, who you and I know, need 
the best nursing service that can be ren¬ 
dered. AUGUSTUS S. DOWNING. 
University of the State of New York. 
How is this for sucker stuff? I never 
heard of Emory J. Sweeney, Kansas City, 
Mo., until I got this imitation letter. 
New York. C. B. B. 
Following is the offer in the Sweeney 
letter referred to : “Here is your chance; 
about two years ago I sold a $250 life 
scholarship to a boy; he paid me $55 on 
it. Since then he struck it rich and said 
for me to let some other fellow who need- 
it have it. I pick you. Here is what I 
will do ; let you have this scholarship for 
$195,” etc. All of which might well be 
described as pure “bunkum.” Just a pre¬ 
tense to lure the prospect to believe he is 
being offered a bargain. Some of the au¬ 
tomobile schools contend that it is neces¬ 
sary to resort to such deceptions to secure 
students. Such practices will not be 
countenanced by The Rural New- 
Yorker, and the advertising of concerns 
resorting to such methods is not accepted. 
An old colored janitor’s employer asked 
why he was sporting around in his Sun¬ 
day clothes when it wasn’t a holiday. 
“Well, you see, boss,” he replied.* “I’m 
celebratin’ my golden wedding.” “But 
isn’t your wife celebrating it with you?” 
“Oh, Mandy! She ain’t got nothin’ to 
do with it. She’s jes’ my third wife.”— 
Boston Transcript. 
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