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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
August 30, 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. 
At the ninth annual convention of the 
International Baby Chick Association, 
which was held in Chicago August 5 to 9, 
the convention adopted a resolution au¬ 
thorizing the officers of the association to 
take definite steps and co-operate with 
agricultural and poultry publications to 
eliminate unjust, dishonest, misleading 
advertising. The baby chick business is 
a great and growing industry, and noth¬ 
ing could be of greater value to the in¬ 
dustry and the poultry public generally 
than the above resolution. The “gyps” 
of the trade can 'be driven to cov¬ 
er if the officers take the respon¬ 
sibility placed upon them seriously. 
There were during the past season dozens 
if not hundreds of individuals advertising 
baby chicks in the public press who op¬ 
erated no hatchery; they are dealers kit¬ 
ing orders received to some hatchery to be 
filled. This advertising is clearly mis¬ 
leading, if indeed it is not securing orders 
and money under 'false pretenses. In 
many cases pressure, not co-operation, will 
foe required to rid the columns of the 
farm and poultry press of this class of 
“gyp” baby chick advertising. Publisher’s 
Desk will watch the activities of the of¬ 
ficers of the association with interest and 
lend them every assistance and support 
possible. 
I got an oil burner from the Nu-Fire 
Company, 88 Chardon St., Boston, Mass., 
on May 15, which I paid $20 for, with 
the option of returning in 30 days if it 
was not satisfactory. I tried it out for 
about two weeks and it was not worth 
the room it took up. It was very smoky, 
and filled the house with soot, and used 
about a gallon of oil every two hours. 
They reckoned it would cost 2c per hour 
to burn it on kerosene. The agreement 
was that if I returned the burner I was 
to lose $3 for their trouble of sending 
and packing same, so I want $17 from 
them. Will you see what you can do for 
me? F. P. E. 
Pennsylvania. 
The Nu-Fire Company guarantee reads, 
“After 30 days’ trial, should the customer 
find the burner not as represented we will 
refund your money.” As we understand, 
the firm’s refusal to refund the customer’s 
money is that he did not use it the full 
30 days. If he had used or kept it a 
minute longer than the 30 days, then 
there would 'be another excuse for not mak¬ 
ing the refund. In view of the purchaser’s 
experience with the 'burner, can he be 
blamed for not continuing the experiment 
for two weeks longer? Apparently the 
firm is disposed to take advantage of 
every technicality when asked to make 
good the 30-day guarantee. 
I take pleasure in writing you that I 
have now received a check from Steber 
Machine Company, Utica, N. Y., refund¬ 
ing the balance of the purchase price of 
the knitting machine. Thank you for 
your interest in my behalf. c. w. S. 
New Jersey. 
This subscriber’s letter of complaint 
appeared in August 16 issue of The B. 
N.-Y. We desire to give the Steber Ma¬ 
chine Company credit for having now 
made full refund to the customer. 
On seeing an advertisement in the Rut¬ 
land Evening Express from the Ricca 
Company, 1658 Broadway, New York 
City, wanting someone to address circu¬ 
lars, spare time, and as I wished to earn 
a little money after my housekeeping is 
done each day, I answered the advertise¬ 
ment. I am sending you their reply. Do 
you know the firm, and would you con¬ 
sider it worth doing? MRS. M. c. 
Maine. 
The Ricca Company promises to pay 
5c, or $5 per 100, for addressing circu¬ 
lars. Anyone could get rich addressing 
circulars at that rate. Rut the applicant 
Jfor work must send $2 for supplies. 
After the $2 is in possession of the Ricca 
Company the proposition will essentially 
change. It is too 'palpable a fake scheme 
to give serious consideration. And yet 
there are hundreds of these work-at-home 
schemes pilfering the small savings of 
credulous women. 
If it gave you as much pleasure to send 
me this check as it did for me to receive 
it, you must have been very much pleased 
indeed. In my lO^year subscription this 
is the first time I have applied to you for 
help, though I always had the satisfaction 
of knowing the help was there should I 
need it. Thank you. w. s. 
Florida. 
It certainly gave us pleasure to be able 
to make the collection from the Pennsyl¬ 
vania Railroad Company. It only amount¬ 
ed to $13.30, but it was rightfully due. 
The shipment went out on Feb. 6, 1922, 
and was offered for delivery Oct. 14, at 
which time it was in bad condition and 
refused. The railroad company put ship¬ 
ment in storage and wanted excess stor¬ 
age charges in addition to the loss of the 
amount paid for the material. The com¬ 
pany finally 'sold it for more than the 
storage and declined to make adjustment, 
claiming that the damages could not have 
been iso great. We showed them their 
error and finally succeeded in getting the 
settlement. 
You will find enclosed a card of As¬ 
sociated Automobile Owners Association, 
Reading, Pa., which was given to me 
last evening by a man who has a gas fill¬ 
ing station and grocery located on a 
prominent highway. He said “the fel¬ 
low who left these cards wants to ‘put 
our place on the map.’ ” What do you 
know about this if anything? Would 
you as an auto owner join this associa¬ 
tion, and if so what good would it do 
you, and if I join and pay him $15 for 
a sign and maps, what good will it do 
me? w. D. 
New York. 
We have had several inquiries about 
the above alleged association. We don’t 
know that a membership in this asso¬ 
ciation or the signs would do anyone 
any good. We suspect the “association” 
is a myth, but it is a means to easy 
money for the individual or individuals 
responsible for the scheme. The proposi¬ 
tion seems similar to the Tourists’ Asso¬ 
ciation, Rochester, N. Y., which flour¬ 
ished for a time and passed away after 
relieving a great many country people of 
a $10 fee. The farmers who are investing 
$15 in propositions of this kind must 
have more money than farmers generally 
are reputed to be making this season. 
Would you give information regarding 
the Continental Automobile Accident 
Corporation. 1775 Broadway, New York? 
An agent for said companv was through 
the country insuring people with auto¬ 
mobiles. I took out the insurance for 
$1,000. He said I could pay $5 down 
and $5 a month, and would receive my 
policy the following Friday. A week 
later another man came around with the 
policy, saying I did not get it until I 
paid $44 in full, which is the amount 
for two years, as they were having a 
campaign and one paid the $44 for two 
years, which was the price of one before 
campaign. Could you let me know by 
return mail if this is a reliable company ? 
New York. g. l. b. 
We find no record of the Continental 
Automobile Accident Corporation in 
Bradstreets. The agents are undoubted¬ 
ly selling a “service contract” and not an 
insurance policy. We have warned our 
readers against these contracts repeatedly 
for the past two years. Such contracts 
have little value for the automobile 
owner, and when sold as “insurance poli¬ 
cies” are clearly fraudulent. 
Ohas. Ponzi of Boston has served his 
sentence as a result of his 'get-rich- 
quick scheme by which he swindled about 
10,000 dupes out of something like $2,- 
000,000 in 1920. Ponzi claimed he could 
double investors’ money in 90 days 
through a secret system of dealing in 
foreign postage. His scheme was essen¬ 
tially that of the notorious 520 per cent 
Miller all over again. He dealt in no 
foreign postage stamps, as pretended, but 
did return the big profits to just enough 
of the original investors to bring floods 
of money from residents of Boston and 
elsewhere. Now that Ponzi has paid the 
penalty for his misdeeds, has he learned 
the lesson that “honesty is the beet pol¬ 
icy,” or will he hatch up some other 
scheme to fool the public? The history 
of all sharks of this sort points to the 
latter conclusion. We will give Ponzi the 
benefit of the doubt. At the same time 
we would advise scrutinizing very closely 
any proposition Ponzi may be connected 
with in the future before parting com¬ 
pany with money to go into the project. 
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^Which 
Fire Pot 
Would 
Give Up 
the Most 
Heat? 
The Sloping 
Pot Lined 
With Ashes 
or 
The Straight- 
Sided Pot 
With Clean 
Sides ? 
The Common Sloping-Sided 
Pot—lined with ashes. 
The Hood Straight-Sided 
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HOOD FURNACES 
Hood Furnaces have straight-sided fire pots 
with cast fins. Grate is larger than bottom of 
fire pot, so that fire remains clean and no ashes 
stick to side of fire pot. 
A certain size Hood Are pot has 17t£ square feet 
of hot heating surface as compared with 7 square 
feet of much cooler heating surface possessed by 
the ordinary sloping-sided fire pot of correspond¬ 
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This is one of the reasons why a Hood Furnace 
will give you greater heating 
comfort from less coal and with 
less fire tending. Write for 
special bulletin and name of 
Hood dealer near you. 
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Dept. C Corning, N. Y. 
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701 Union Trust Bldg. 
Pittsburgh, Pa. 
Ianter^S 
We think they are the best lan¬ 
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like the solid dome, rain- and 
^ dirt-proof; the big brass 
Sol oil filler; the short globe; 
theextrastrongconstruo 
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IH There’s an Embury for 
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ill ORDER FROM YOUR DEALER 
" If he has none in stock, we 
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> Warsaw Dept. 18 New York 
Name 
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( INCORPORATED) 
Business Founded 1852 
Harrisburg 
ress. 
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Tractor. 
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