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the RURAL NEW-YORKER 
September 27, 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. 
Please read the inclosed letter from 
Authors’ and Typists’ Service Bureau, 
Newark, N. J., and will you tell me if 
this offer is all right? I would like type- 
ing to do at home, as I have a typewriter, 
and cannot leave home to get work. 
Pennsylvania. E. L. 
The alleged bureau asks $3 for instruc¬ 
tions, and then your fortune is pictured 
as easily made. It is another of the con¬ 
temptible easy-money work-at-home 
schemes. If sufficient number of typists 
can be induced to send $3 to the pro¬ 
moters there will be no need of these gen¬ 
tlemen applying themselves to legitimate 
enterprises. 
I would like your opinion of a certain 
medicine known as “Viavi.” According 
to the maker’s pamphlet this is a vege¬ 
table compound highly concentrated. 
Their theory is as follows: If a steady 
supply of rich pure blood is sent to the 
ailing part of the body, it will kill disease 
and build up the tissues so that a nor¬ 
mal condition is restored. They do not 
claim any healing powers for their medi¬ 
cine, which comes in various forms. I 
listened to their agent, and according to 
her there is nothing practically it will 
not do. It will cure the most advanced 
and serious cases of cancer, diabetes, 
constipation, nervousness, etc., without 
end. A friend of mine is being urged to 
take the treatment to ward off what may 
be a case of appendicitis. I told her not 
to take it, and advised her to consult her 
doctor. The price varies from .$100 to 
$175 and up, I presume. The high price, 
according to the agent, is because of the 
fact that some vegetable has to be im¬ 
ported from Holland. Of course, the 
agent’s talk sets at naught the medical 
profession, and is contemptuous of 
science and learning. Doctors are brand¬ 
ed as ignorant and charlatans preying on 
the people for their money. w. s. 
Pennsylvania. 
If there is any possibility of any of 
our friends being induced to part with 
$100 or more for “Viavi” treatment, it 
will be 10 cents well invested to send it 
to the American Medical Association, 535 
North Dearborn St., Chicago, Ill., for 
the pamphlet upon “Viavi,” published by 
this association. “The Great American 
Fraud,” by Samuel Hopkins Adams, also 
published by this association at the same 
price is sufficiently interesting and val¬ 
uable to justify the sending of an addi¬ 
tional dime in stamps. As to our opinion 
of “Viavi,” for which you ask, it is that 
this “treatment,” in all of its variations, 
is one of the moot skillfully conceived and 
successfully carried out fraudulent 
schemes for getting money from the sick 
and distressed that has ever been pro¬ 
moted in this, or any other, country. 
There is an art in medical quackery, as 
in other things, and the promoters of this 
bit of it have certainly approached near 
to perfection in their methods. 
Cancer may be eradicated in a large 
proportion of cases, if removed sufficient¬ 
ly early. If allowed to remain too long, 
a large proportion of cases become hope¬ 
less. What language can express the 
atrocity of those who cajole sufferers 
from this, or equally serious diseases, in¬ 
to postponing the necessary measures for 
their cure until hope is gone, and for no 
other reason than that they, the patent 
nostrum faker, may become wealthy? 
We have a number of claims on file 
against the Oliver Oil-Gas Burner ( o., 
St. Louis, Mo., from those who have pur¬ 
chased the oil burners under the guar¬ 
antee of satisfaction or money back. The 
burners did not prove satisfactory in 
many cases, and the records show the 
concern employed the “tiring out” pro¬ 
cess by correspondence instead of cheer¬ 
fully making refund under the guaran¬ 
tee. Now we are advised the business 
has been placed in receivership, and the 
only prospect of adjustment is to file 
claims with the receiver, Mr. Orville 
Livingston, secretary of the St. Louis 
Association of Credit Men, 510 Locust 
St., St. Louis, Mo. All claims should be 
sworn to before a notary. 
The collapse of this company is a 
logical outcome of the deceptive man¬ 
ner in which the business was conducted 
with special reference to the firm’s 
“guarantee.” Not all business conducted 
on a strictly honorable and ethical plane, 
is successful, but a mail-order business 
that is conducted on any other than a 
fair and square basis has little prospect 
of success for any length of time. Such 
a business can only grow through satis¬ 
fied customers. The record of this con¬ 
cern justifies The It. N.-Y. in its refusal 
of the advertising. 
Will you give information as to success 
of patrons, financial standing and your 
opinion as to value of course of instruc¬ 
tion and help offered by Fireside Indus¬ 
tries, Adrian, Mich., branches New York 
City, Chicago, Paris? Extract from let¬ 
ter : “Your success will be guaranteed. 
We need these new members to help sup¬ 
ply the great demand. We are reducing 
the membership charge next 20 days 
only. Save $10.50.” Total cost ordi¬ 
nary $50. B. M. D. 
Maryland. 
The Fireside Industries propose to 
teach decoration and marketing of art 
novelties and hold out the allurement 
that $3 to $5 per day can be easily made 
at home in this line and upwards of $5,- 
000 per year by opening an “art and 
gift shop.” The membership fee, accord¬ 
ing to the latest received, is $37.56, re¬ 
duced for a short time only from $50. 
The proposition contains all the standard 
varieties of bait commonly used by cor¬ 
respondence school and work-at-home 
schemes. The prospect of easy money is 
dangled before the eyes of the applicant, 
but he or she must contribute a certain 
amount to gain the opportunity. The 
amount to be paid by the applicant is 
definite and certain. The opportunity to 
get back even the amount invested is 
very uncertain. Again we advise our 
readers to look with suspicion on any 
“work-at-home” proposition requiring 
money to be advanced by the applicant, 
on whatever pretext. 
While The R. N.-Y. is an eastern pa¬ 
per, published for eastern farmers, I have 
never found any other paper that com¬ 
pared in any way with its pages for 
real agricultural news and discussions. 
“Publisher’s Desk,” “Hope Farm Notes,” 
and “The Pastoral Parson” were alone 
worth many times the price of the paper. 
Iowa. A. E. B. 
This comes from an agricultural stu¬ 
dent and teacher who is now about to go 
on a farm and take up practical work. 
Our pride has always been in publish¬ 
ing a paper that would help the plain 
working farmer even if his educational 
opportunities had been limited; but the 
reeult. is that the agricultural student 
and high-class farmer find that what 
helps the plain.farmer helps them also. 
The truth is we had a suspicion from 
the first that this would be true, but 
it is pleasant to have frequent assur¬ 
ances of it. 
David II. Gardiner, 358 Walnut St., 
Buffalo, N. Y., was sentenced to 90 
days in the Erie County jail by Judge 
Keeler following his plea of guilty to a 
charge of fraudulent advertising brought 
against him as a result of an investiga¬ 
tion and complaint by the Buffalo Better 
Business Commission. Gardiner on Au¬ 
gust 14, inserted an advertisement in a 
local paper under the name of Washing¬ 
ton Valley Coal Company, offering hard 
coal for two hours only the following 
day at $10 a ton. The advertisement was 
called to the attention of the Better Busi¬ 
ness Commission as soon as the newspa¬ 
pers were on the street, and investigation 
showed that Gardiner did not have the 
merchandise he advertised. As whole¬ 
sale price of coal is more than $10 a ton, 
it was obvious that it could not be sold 
i*etail at this price. 
This would seem to be the first con¬ 
viction and prison sentence for violation 
of the New York State advertising law. 
The prompt action of the Buffalo Better 
Business Bureau no doubt saved resi¬ 
dents of that city a good many thousands 
of dollars. The scheme of Gardiner evi¬ 
dently was to get deposits on orders for 
coal at the low price and then skip. 
Mrs. .Tones, down in Maine, was much 
perturbed by a missive she received from 
her sister in Boston. “Jacob.” said she 
to her husband, as she read. “I call this 
downright cruel.” “What’s the matter?” 
asked Jacob. “Why. in this letter Mary 
tells me she gels help in raisin’ her chil¬ 
dren from a mother’s club. I do believe 
in a slipper sometimes, an’ a good birchin’ 
doesn’t do a child any harm, but I never 
used any club on my offspring!”—Chi¬ 
cago Journal. 
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