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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 20. 1924 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
This makes the second time that I 
have written about this question, and 
have as yet not seen it in print. If this 
is not printed in the next issue of this 
paper I shall retire from the paper as 
soon as it expires, after being a 24-year 
reader. G. J. K. 
Wayne Co., N. Y. 
If G. J. K. will sign his name to his 
letters he will not have to write The 
R. N.-Y. the second time for informa¬ 
tion. G. J. Iv.’s original letter no doubt 
went into the waste paper basket, the 
receptacle for all unsigned letters. In 
spite of our repeated notice at the head 
of this department one or more letters 
are received each day without the signa¬ 
ture of the writer. 
I enclose $1 for the paper, which please 
pass on. I take several farm papers, but 
your paper seems in a class by itself be¬ 
cause of its freedom from fake advertis¬ 
ers. The people can never realize how 
much you have saved them by refusing 
such advertising. A neighbor of mine 
thought he could not afford to subscribe 
for The R. N.-Y., and yet if he had taken 
the paper he would have saved enough 
money to pay the subscription for 75 
years! For that is just what it cost him 
in answering a fake advertisement that 
had appeared in another farm paper, and 
the same had been shown up several times 
in vour Publisher’s Desk columns. 
m. w. 
Benjamin Feigenbaum, formerly of 156 
Reade St., and now of 43 Jay St., New 
York City, was brought to trial on April 
3, following the indictment which was 
rendered against him in 1921. Only one 
witness was called in the trial, and 
Feigenbaum held a consultation with his 
council and then immediately pleaded 
guilty for filing fraudulent claims for 
broken eggs sent through the mails and 
was fined $1,000 and continues on in 
business as before. The successful climax 
of this case is due to the efforts of In¬ 
spector Kenyon of the Post Office Depart¬ 
ment, who has been relentlessly pursuing 
Feigenbaum on account of his business 
tactics. We are sure that none of our 
readers will forget themselves to the ex¬ 
tent of sending him egg shipments. 
Being a subscriber to your paper I 
wish to ask if it is possible to enforce 
the enclosed contract with H. B. Sey¬ 
mour who sold us stock of the Hudson 
Tire and Rubber Co., Yonkers. N. Y., and 
if vou could help me collect it. Both 
Mr! S. and I gave them 30 days notice 
in writing and have receipt back that 
said letter was received, but we never 
heard from Seymour. I have written 
since but have heard nothing. Please ad¬ 
vise me what to do. I am sending a copy 
of the contract. Y. S. 
Long Island. 
The contract was dated January 10, 
1922, and provided for the repurchase of 
the stock purchased by this subscriber 
and his neighbor in one year from the 
date of contract on 30 days’ notice at $15 
per share. The contract itself does not 
make the Hudson Tire and Rubber Corp. 
a party to it. Mr. Seymour gives 
his address in Yonkers, the same 
as the company, which would indicate 
that he represented the company in the 
sale of the stock. Seymour entirely 
ignores the contract and the Hudson Tire 
and Rubber Co. disclaims any responsi¬ 
bility or knowledge of the transaction. 
The case clearly indicates the unwisdom 
of relying upon such contracts in the 
purchase of stock. It has been our ex¬ 
perience that salesmen making such an 
agreement show no disposition to live up 
to it. 
Could you collect a debt for me against 
F. B. Alexander Corp., 334 Fifth Ave., 
New York City. He is in company with 
the First Mortgage Bond Corporation of 
America, 711-720 City Bank Building. 
Syracuse, N. Y. Mr. Alexander came 
here to my home October 3. 1922. and 
sold me bonds and stocks of the First 
Mortgage Bond Corporation of America. 
Syracuse. N. Y. to the amount of $3,200, 
for which I have a written agreement 
and have paid in full. He has not sent 
bonds vet. The first of April he sent me 
his check for $13.77, that being the 
amount of interest due me. I have not 
had anv interest but that once. $13.(7. 
and I should have had interest the first 
of July and the first of October, but he 
does not send it, and he does not send niy 
bonds due me as he agreed to do. I know 
that he never intends to pay it if he cau 
<r t 1-id of it, but I do not see how he can 
get rid of paying it. Now I wish if there 
was any way that you could get my 
money back for nie you would do it. It 
seems as if he had broken his contract 
now and as if he could be made to pay 
the money back. I would rather have my 
money back than to have the bonds. If 
I could get it. He owes me $3,200 and 
interest on it from the first of last April, 
1923. till now'. I wish you would w r rite 
and tell me what you think about it, and 
if you think you could collect it for me. 
New York.' t. p. 
The First Mortgage Bond Corp., Syra¬ 
cuse. alleges it gave an option agreement 
of sale to F. B. Alexander Corporation, 
but delivery of the bonds was not to be 
made until the Alexander Corp. made 
payment for them. The announcement of 
the First Mortgage Bond Corp. February 
15, 1922 date, specified a sale of $200,- 
000 of these bonds to the Alexander Corp. 
without limitations. It appears that the 
F. B. Alexander Corp. has in the mean¬ 
time discontinued business and the con¬ 
cern has been liquidated by the treasurer, 
David W. Roth. Some securities were 
apparently turned over to Ray B. 
Smith, president of the First Mortgage 
Bond Corp. by the Alexander Corp. for 
the purpose of insuring delivery of the 
bonds to T. P. and others, but the securi¬ 
ties in question have not been realized on. 
and therefore the subscriber has nothing 
to show for his money. In paying the 
interest on the bonds not in its posses¬ 
sion, there is a question of the criminal 
code being violated by the Alexander 
Corp. or some of its officers. We have 
exhausted our efforts to secure the bonds 
or the refund of the investment to this 
farmer without avail. The record of the 
transaction may serve to keep other sub¬ 
scribers out of such entanglements. 
I notice a statement regarding the 
Standard Food and Fur Association 
which is all true. Can you tell me any¬ 
thing regarding S. Betman & Son, 317 
Greenwich St., New r York City? I sent 
them two shipments of rabbits last week, 
and their returns are about 15 cents be¬ 
low the market price; their claim is that 
they are not in the poultry and rabbit 
district, and being also new in the busi¬ 
ness of selling rabbits they are not able 
to get the full market price. g. h. s. 
Maine. 
In behalf of our subscriber we present¬ 
ed the claim to Betman following the let¬ 
ter which he wrote to the shipper, stat¬ 
ing the sale was made at 27 cents per 
pound, but that he was willing to pay the 
four cents difference, amounting to $3.6S, 
and let matters rest there. Since then 
he has reversed this decision and settle¬ 
ment has not been made. Complaints of 
this character, dealing with low returns 
under market prices started way back in 
1915. when they were located at 188 
Duane St., and have continued up to the 
present time. On July 13, 1917, an in¬ 
voluntary petition in bankruptcy was 
filed against Samuel Betman and Her¬ 
man Betman, doing business as S. Bet¬ 
man & Son. Settlement was made to the 
creditors at that time of 15 per cent on 
the dollar. Experience has shown that 
it is physically impossible to obtain a 
further adjustment once settlement is 
made to the shipper, since it would tend 
to show that the initial return was 
wrong. This article is written expressly 
for the benefit of all our readers who are 
looking for the legitimate returns which 
are due them according to the market 
prices. 
Will you give me some information 
about the North American Accident In¬ 
surance Company, 209 S. La Salle St., 
Chicago, Ill. They have been sending 
me a good bit of literature on these poli¬ 
cies, and I was just wondering whether 
or not it was a reliable company to in¬ 
vest in. R- R- 
Maryland. 
The policies issued by the North 
American Accident Insurance Co., Chi¬ 
cago, are what is known as “limited” 
policies, and are not considered desirable 
in insurance circles from the standpoint 
of the insured. Many people taking out 
these policies do not understand their 
limitations until an accident happens, or 
sickness overtakes them. It is the poli¬ 
cies of this concern which are used by 
some publications as premiums with sub¬ 
scriptions, which indicates the real 
character of the policies. 
Maude : “Was it a case of love at first 
sight?” Claude: “No, second sight. When 
he saw her first he didn’t know that she 
owned a couple of apartment houses.”— 
New York Bun. 
How State Groups of Farmers are 
Helping the Work of Electrification 
Why are many farms along the Pacific Coast and in the North¬ 
west electrified but many more in other parts unelectrified? Local 
conditions furnish the answer. 
Nature made irrigation a necessity on many western farms, and 
irrigation-water can be pumped electrically at a rate which makes 
its use profitable to the farmer. 
Population plus use makes electrification possible. Existent and potential possi¬ 
bilities for growth and use make electrification possible. As we know more about 
the possible farm uses of electricity we shall have more farm electrical devices. 
Electrical engineers alone cannot solve this problem. Agricultural engineers alone 
cannot solve it. There must be a thorough, co-operative study. Such a study is now 
being made by a National Committee of experts. They have organized state groups of 
farmers to whom electricity is experimentally supplied. These farmers, guided by their 
state agricultural colleges and by farm-paper editors, keep accurate production costs 
and compare them with those of the past 
This work is fast revealing so many new, profitable ways of utilizing electricity that 
thousands of farms will be electrified sooner than farmers realize. Farms already elec¬ 
trified will make even greater use of electric power; others will install electric labor- 
saving devices in the manner that actual tests have proved to be profitable. 
The National Committee in charge 
of the work is composed of econo¬ 
mists and engineers representing 
the American Farm Bureau Federa¬ 
tion, the Departments of Agricult¬ 
ure,the Interior and Commerce, the 
Power Farming Association of 
America, the American Society of 
Agricultural Engineers and the 
National Electric Light Association. 
A booklet has been published by 
the Committee. It will be sent on 
request free of charge. Read it and 
pass it on to your neighbor. Write 
for it either to Dr. E. A. White. 
American Farm Bureau Federa¬ 
tion, 58 E. Washington Street. 
Chicago, Ill., or to the National 
Electric Light Association, at 29 
West 39th Street, New York City 
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