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the RURAL NEW-YORKER 
July 19, 1924 
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, hence unsigned let¬ 
ters receive no consideration. 
June 18, 1924, Tourists’ Association of 
America, Inc., Rochester, N. Y., filed a 
voluntary petition in bankruptcy with the 
clerk of the United States District Court 
of Western New York at Buffalo. Fol¬ 
lowing is the schedule: Total liabilities, 
$8,331.54; total assets, none. 
The above records the end of another 
easy-money scheme which R. N.-Y. read¬ 
ers were warned against in the early 
months of 1923. The scheme consisted of 
getting out a directory of farmers and 
others along the State roads willing to ac¬ 
commodate 'tourists, furnishing signs, etc. 
All there was to the alleged association 
was two young men who conceived the 
plan as an easy way of getting money. 
Those who contributed to the scheme 
were merely out the $10 charged for list¬ 
ing. 
I regret to inform you that by the 
unanimous consent of the stockholders 
and directors of this corporation, this 
corporation is being dissolved. 
The corporation has been compelled to 
take this step because of a number of 
different factors beyond its control. Prin¬ 
cipally, it was due to the fact that a very 
large number of its subscribers for its 
certificate failed to support the company 
in paying their respective indebtedness 
to it. ' Secondly, it was compelled by the 
fact that the volume of business done 
with its certificate holders was not suffi¬ 
cient to overcome overhead costs. 
The result of that has been that upon 
the final audit made by the certified ac¬ 
countant for this company, it appeared 
that while this corporation had about 
$15,000 assets in uncollected notes and 
accounts receivable, and owed very little 
its liquid assets were nil, and it was ap¬ 
parent that it was impossible to continue 
doing business. M. isaacson, 
Trustee for the Equitable 
Wholesale Corporation. 
122 Fifth Ave., New York City. 
The above notice sent to certificate 
holders is the death knell of the Equita¬ 
ble Wholesale Corporation scheme, which 
was exposed in these columns several 
month sago. The plan was to sell store- 
keepers a certificate for $100, entitling 
them to buy goods through the Equitable 
Corporation. It was the old “member¬ 
ship” easy money scheme, and naturally 
when the storekeepers who were inveigled 
into the scheme discovered they had been 
stung they refused to have anything more 
to do with the proposition, as stated in 
the trustee’s report. 
The United State Civil Service Com¬ 
mission and the National Vigilance Com¬ 
mittee of the Associated Advertising 
Clubs of the World today issued a joint 
warning against misleading advertising 
of many so-called civil service coaching- 
schools. The following points are em¬ 
phasized : 
1. No “school” of this kind has any 
connection whatever with the Civil Ser¬ 
vice Commission or with any other 
branch of the government. 
2. No school can give advance infor¬ 
mation regarding examination questions. 
3. No school can furnish, civil service 
information of value which cannot be ob¬ 
tained without cost from the Civil Service 
Commission at Washington or its repre¬ 
sentative at the post office or custom 
house in any of approximately 3,500 
cities. 
4. No school can “guarantee” appoint¬ 
ment in the classified civil service. Ap¬ 
pointment can be secured _ only through 
open competitive examination under the 
civil service rules. No school can cause a 
competitor to be certified for appointment 
out of the regular order, as determined by 
his examination rating. 
The Civil Service Commission states 
that large numbers of applications for ex¬ 
amination received at its office indicate 
that many civil service schools accept as 
clients and take money from practically 
illiterate -persons who could not possibly 
pass any kind of examination. 
E. I. McKinley, Deputy Labor Com¬ 
missioner of Arkansas, it is said in the 
joint warning, recently has investigated 
correspondence schools of this class, and 
authorizes the statement that he has con¬ 
cluded that the majority of them come as 
near being “fakes” as the postal laws per¬ 
mit. The “schools” that Mr. McKinley 
condemns are the ones that offer to qual¬ 
ify persons for civil service positions or 
make a professional man of a laborer in 
a few weeks. Mr. McKinley says that 
schools which prepare for civil service ex¬ 
aminations rank second to “detective 
schools” in number. 
The National Vigilance Committee 
further points out that much of this so- 
called civil service school advertising is 
carried in the “help wanted” columns of 
daily papers, and of periodicals of every 
description. This only adds to the decep¬ 
tion. The third paragraph of this report 
confirms what The R. N.-Y. has con¬ 
tended all along, that these schools can 
furnish no information that will enable 
the student to pass a civil service exam¬ 
ination that cannot be secured from the 
Civil Service Commission without cost. 
There is at least one periodical that does 
not accept this class of advertising in its 
‘help wanted” column—nor for any other 
column. 
The following report from Pennsyl¬ 
vania, showing how farmers were swin¬ 
dled out of the present season’s wool crop 
may save sheep breeders in other sections 
from a similar fate: 
A number of farmers residing in the 
vicinity of Tryonville, who raise sheep, 
were victimized of their year’s shearings 
of wool last week by a clever stranger 
v r ho visited that section and purchased 
the wool, left checks in payment, which 
have proven worthless, and the swindler 
is not likely soon to be caught. 
The man, who gave the name of George 
Meyer and said he was from Erie, called 
upon the farmers several days in advance 
of the time he came after the wool. He 
was accompanied by a large truck and 
driver, and practically all wool contracted 
for was packed on the truck and taken 
away. Checks, drawn on the Marine Na¬ 
tional Bank at Erie and signed George 
Meyer, were given in payment for the 
wool. 
It developed on Saturday, however, 
that no person by the name of George 
Meyer had money on deposit at the Ma¬ 
rine National Bank in Erie, and investi¬ 
gation proved that the stranger had 
hauled the wool to Corry, where he dis¬ 
posed of it and then disappeared. 
As a speculative investment, Avhat 
would you advise about the Burnham 
Chemical Company, 138 N. Center 8t., 
Reno, Nev.? They have a lease from the 
government for 2.280 acres of Searles 
Lake, in California, which has deposits of 
borax and potash; also patents—Burn¬ 
ham process—for removing same. G. S. 
New York. 
We have previously referred to this 
Burnham Chemical Company project. We 
do not consider it even a “speculative in¬ 
vestment” or a gamble. In a “gamble” 
you have a chance in winning, but our 
records here show 7 that there is not a gam¬ 
bler’s chance in winning out in projects 
of this kind. If there were such a 
chance the rural public would not be in¬ 
vited to put their money into the enter¬ 
prise. 
I shipped Simon I. Jacobs, 289 Green¬ 
wich St., New York City, one case eggs; 
received in payment the inclosed check. 
It came back the first time marked “Not 
enough funds.” I put it through again; 
it was returned marked “Account closed.” 
I also wrote Mr. Jacobs I was putting 
his check through the second time. I re¬ 
ceived no answer to same. Will you see 
if same can be collected? H. M. 
New 7 York. 
A personal investigation discloses the 
fact that Jacobs disappeared from his 
store in the market some three weeks ago, 
owing considerable money, both in the 
market and also to his shippers, lie left 
no trace whatever of his whereabouts. 
Operating on a shoestring, as it w 7 ere, 
w 7 ith alluring market prices as his bait, 
he beguiled the farmers into placing their 
eggs in his care for his own w 7 ell-being, 
as subsequent events show 7 quite clearly 
the impossibility of obtaining any settle¬ 
ment for the claims which we have on 
file. These losses will continue to be 
carried by the farmers unless they take 
heed of our constant warning to restrict 
all their shipments to responsible houses 
only. 
One day last week a man from the Chi¬ 
cago Portrait Co. called at my home and 
wanted us to let him take a picture and 
have it painted, but my wife told him 
that w 7 e didn't do business with com¬ 
panies that did not advertise in The R, 
N.-Y. He went on talking about your 
paper, and he was show r n the Publisher’s 
Desk, and lucky as it was he found the 
name of his company there. He went out 
the door faster than he came in, turned 
his car around and left this place. If 
everybody did the same thing they would 
not lose their money so easy. I would 
not be without The R. N.-Y. if it cost $5 
per year; it is the one and the only paper 
for me. Again I want to thank you and 
The R. N.-Y. for wdiat you have done for 
me. G. A. B. 
Connecticut. 
The above letter needs no comments, 
but we are glad to see that the Chicago 
Portrait Company did not get another 
victim. 
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