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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
September 20, 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. 
If the other publishers, and in fact 
the different associations, would make the 
campaign against dishonest advertisers 
that The R. N.-Y. has, there would be 
very little of such going on. You peo¬ 
ple are to be highly complimented on 
your good work. F. G. s. 
Massachusetts. 
The above complimentary remarks 
from an advertiser of many years in the 
farm press is most gratifying. It is 
hardly necessary to say that the adver¬ 
tiser in question maintains the highest 
standard in his own advertising, and 
his business ethics are above criticism. 
Is the company advertising the Do-It- 
All tractors reliable? I cut this adver¬ 
tisement from another agricultural paper 
which guarantees its advertisers, but I 
couldn’t make up my mind to send so 
much money without getting your opinion 
on its reliability. L. it. 
New Jersey. 
This refers to a “job lot” of Do-It-All 
tractors purchased by a mail order house, 
and offered for sale for about one-third 
of the original price. Do-It-All tractors 
never gave satisfaction, and the concern 
that advertised and sold them here in 
New York went bankrupt in consequence. 
The mail house is entirely responsible, 
but because of the low price of the trac¬ 
tor it did not wish to guarantee satis¬ 
faction to our subscribers. The adver¬ 
tising was refused by The R. N.-Y. and 
it was then sent to the other publication. 
I am at a loss to know how to thank 
you for all you have done for me. I do 
know that I would never have got a cent 
from the Gearhart Knitting Machine 
Company., Clearfield, Pa., if it had not 
been for your untiring efforts in keeping 
after them. I hope you will publish my 
experience with this company in your 
paper, as a warning to others. Should 
you be able to get the balance, $17.61, 
for me, I shall be delighted, but. I feel 
lucky to have got as much as I did. 
Massachusetts. M. p. w. 
This subscriber received check for 
$47.39 as a refund on the machine for 
which she paid $65. The firm made the 
following explanation accompanying the 
cheek: 
This machine is not the model we are 
now manufacturing, therefore it is not of 
full value to us. We are paying you the 
highest possible price for this machine, 
deducting for our expense. 
The R. N.-Y. made demand in the sub¬ 
scriber’s behalf that the balance of the pur¬ 
chase price, $17.61, be refunded, but our 
letter has been ignored by the Gearhart 
Knitting Machine Company. 
The Apple Company, Cleveland, O. 
Gentlemen : I was more than surprised 
to receive your letter of the 16th, saying 
your Mr. Alpern stated your terms for 
selling as 1 per cent down and 9 per cent 
when sold. This is not true, as there 
was nothing said about terms. I am on 
to your methods now, and you must think 
I am an awful rube to fall for this old 
Ostrander stuff, which has been exposed 
so many times. There is a high-grade 
periodical of wide circulation in the East 
that exposes such people as you, and I 
think I will send on your letter to them. 
H. N. F. 
The Apple Company, Cleveland, O., ap¬ 
pear to be real estate brokers, and are 
employing the New York State Farm 
Sales Company scheme of 1 per cent list¬ 
ing fee and 9 per cent when property is 
sold. As reported a few weeks ago, the 
State Tax Department withdrew the 
license of this Utica fraud. This easy- 
money scheme is really an improvement 
on Ostrander’s plan. The New York 
State Farm Sales Company never made 
a sale of the more than 200 properties 
listed, and we know of no real estate 
agents employing the advance fee scheme 
that ever made any honest effort to sell 
the property listed. 
What is your opinion as to the invest¬ 
ment value of Ford Motor Company of 
Canada, Dtd., bankers’ shares, offered by 
W. C. Montan.ve & Co.. 15 Broad St., 
New York City? Presumably all owners 
of Ford motor cars are receiving the 
same privilege granted in the certificate 
inclosed. j. S. K. 
New York. 
The recent offering of so-called bank¬ 
ers’ shares of the Ford Motor Company 
of Canada, Ltd., does not represent any 
financing by the company, merely being 
an arrangement whereby a broker has ac¬ 
quired some of the stock against which 
certificates have been issued representing 
a fractional interest therein, 100 certifi¬ 
cates being issued against each share de¬ 
posited. The offering of the so-called 
bankers’ shares at $6 is the equivalent 
of $600 per share for the stock. The com¬ 
pany is controlled by the Ford interests, 
although some of the stock is on the mar¬ 
ket, being traded in on the Detroit Ex¬ 
change, where current quotation is ap¬ 
proximately 450. One interested might 
better buy the actual stock, particularly 
as it can be bought upon a better basis 
than the so-called bankers’ shares. 
Washington, Sept. 4. — Postmaster 
General New today announced a fraud 
order against the Bristol Photoplay Stu¬ 
dios and Vernon Hoagland. scenario edi¬ 
tor, of New York. 
The fraud order against the Bristol 
Photoplay Studios is a sequel to crim¬ 
inal proceedings instituted in the Fed¬ 
eral Courts here last April, when Post 
Office inspectors visited the offices at 
500 Fifth Avenue and arrested several 
officers and directors. 
It was charged that they advertised 
extensively in the small towns of the 
Middle West and collected from writers 
fees of $52,000 in one year. Of this 
$51,000 went in salaries and rent. — 
Daily Paper. 
The action as outlined in the above 
item will no doubt put a stop to this 
particular easy-mone.v scheme, but we are 
using this case only to warn our readers 
against all these schemes to get money 
from song writers, story writers, or 
photoplay writers. The investigation of 
the Post Office Department reveals that 
the Bristol Photoplay Studios had not 
marketed a single play. Like the farm 
agents who solicits advance fees on one 
pretext or another, this fee is all the 
pirates are after, and they make no 
honest effort to render any equivalent 
at all. 
On January 2, 1924, I sent $65 to the 
Gearhart Knitting Machine Company of 
Clearfield. Pa., for a machine and stand. 
After four weeks I received it. I was to 
keep it 28 days, and if not satisfactory I 
could return it, and they promised to 
teach me to use it. I have all their let¬ 
ters, all saying “We are always at your 
service.” I was ill when the machine ar¬ 
rived, and it was nearly three weeks be¬ 
fore I could take it out of the box. I 
had trouble, and wrote them. They wait¬ 
ed several weeks before answering. No 
matter what I did, the machine would not 
work satisfactorily. I wrote them nearly 
seven weeks ago, and received no answer 
at all, and two weeks ago I wrote again. 
On May 17 I received the inclosed cir¬ 
cular of a knitting contest. My first 
thought was to place the matter before 
the Postal Department for using the mails 
to defraud people, but seeing what you 
have done for others I decided to write 
you, and hope you can help me. I do not 
feel able to lose the money. L. w. 
Connecticut. 
The above complaint was received in 
May, and we have been in correspondence 
with Gearhart Knitting Machine Company 
in the meantime, endeavoring to secure 
refund of the $65 paid for the machine. 
On August 8 the Gearhart Knitting Ma¬ 
chine Company wrote: “We have ar¬ 
ranged to settle the complaint through 
the publisher of the magazine from which 
she purchased the Gearhart knitter.” On 
the same day the company wrote the sub¬ 
scriber, saying an instructor was being 
asked to call on her, and sent another 
supply of yarn for trial. Up to this 
writing the instructor failed to call on 
the subscriber. A pretty game of 
stalling! We have many time ex¬ 
pressed our estimate of alt this class of 
work-at-home schemes. Such schemes 
serve for a time to get easy money from 
the poor and deserving women, and inci¬ 
dentally advertising patronage for pub¬ 
lications that are none too zealous of 
their readers’ interests. But such easy- 
money schemes cannot last. Two out of 
five of the knitting machine schemes are 
already in financial difficulties, and an¬ 
other with the postal authorities. No 
business not founded on an honest service 
to the public can be permanent. 
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