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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 11, 192 
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, lienee unsigned let¬ 
ters receive no consideration. 
As you have in the past rendered us a 
great service we are going to take the 
privilege to ask for another. At the 
Monroe County Fair at Stroudsburg, 
Sept. 1-5, tickets were given away by the 
United Realty Company, 205-207 Easton 
National Bank Building, Easton, Pa., 
saying they were giving a lot away to the 
lucky ones or one. Yesterday I received 
a letter saying I could have a lot if I 
came down. Lot was in Palmer Town¬ 
ship. I went yesterday afternoon to of¬ 
fice and saw lots, took me there in auto, 
a ride out of Wilson Borough, lot 20x115 
ft., and then one cannot build within 
five feet of each end, leaves 10 ft. I 
must pay $49. Value of lot $300. They 
tried to sell me a double lot, one for $49 
(which I won) other for $350 or wanted 
$400. I finally decided to pay them $49 
for one lot, have given check for $25 and 
balance to be paid when deed is delivered. 
After sleeping on it, I consider it a 
fraud. (You cannot build on 10 ft.) Do 
you know anything about them? L. L. L. 
Pennsylvania. 
The statement of the subscriber is all 
we want to know of the United Realty 
Company. This scheme has been em¬ 
ployed by real estate fakers for years, 
and has been exposed in these columns 
many times. We doubt that the lot this 
person purchased for $49 and alleged to 
be worth $300, will sell to anyone fa¬ 
miliar with values in the neighborhood 
at the seemingly low price of $49 with¬ 
out the restrictions. The restrictions 
that the owner cannot build within 5 ft. 
of either side makes the lot valueless for 
building purposes. Some fair officials are 
very lax in allowing sharpers of this 
sort operating on the fair grounds. 
T have been a reader of The R. N.-Y. 
for some time, and have read how you 
have helped others out. so I am writing 
to state to you that I bought an auto 
knitter which, of course, is no good. I 
paid $50 for it. I would like you to get 
my money for me. E. T. V. 
New Jersey. 
The Auto Knitter Hosiery Company, 
Buffalo, N. Y., does not answer our let¬ 
ters in the subscriber’s behalf. Instead 
of the pretty story told in the firm’s ad¬ 
vertisements this woman is out $50, and 
has a machine which she cannot use. 
Windsor, Ontario, Sept. 26.—Wallace 
R. Campbell, vice-president and general 
manager of the Ford Motor Company of 
Canada, Ltd., in a formal statement is¬ 
sued today denied the company had sanc¬ 
tioned a scheme of a New York broker¬ 
age concern which is advising the public 
to buy “American units,” or fractional 
shares, of the concern at $6 a unit. 
After stating that the company did 
not recommend trading in the shares of 
the company, Mr. Campbell’s statement 
said : 
“We do emphatically recommend 
against the purchase of fractional 
shares, for the reason that the price 
quoted is proportionately in excess of the 
market value of full shares, and, in addi¬ 
tion, as this company does not issue its 
shares in any denomination less than one 
share, there is no provision for represen¬ 
tation of these fractional shares in any 
general shareholders’ meeting of this com- 
pany.” 
Mr. Campbell went- on to explain that 
on the 'basis of the market value of a 
full share, about $4.40 or $4.50 would 
be about the value of 1 per cent, of a 
share. The shares have a book value of 
$375. 
The above dispatch comfirms the ad¬ 
vice we printed several weeks ago re¬ 
garding the efforts of W. C. Montanye & 
Co., 15 Broad St., New York City to 
sell the so-called “American units” of the 
Ford Motor Company of Canada at a 
price out of all proportion to the market 
price of the shares. 
I am sending one of the latest notices 
from the Farmers’ Standard Carbide Co., 
Plattsburgh, N. Y. Doesn’t this look as 
if they are trying to get a last bite? 
Some around here have stock which they 
consider lost. Would you advise them 
to make another donation, and send them 
the amount they ask for? It looks as 
though the outfit is in a very bad fix 
financially. E. s. 
New York. 
That the Carbide Company is in bad 
shape financially is freely admitted by the 
protective committee. The appeal for 
more money from stockholders is for the 
purpose of preventing a forced sale of the 
property to satisfy creditors. There is 
a mortgage of $60,000 on the property 
and a floating debt of $20,000, including 
past due taxes. The protective commit¬ 
tee state in the circular that approxi¬ 
mately 50 per cent of the money paid 
into the company by the stockholders went 
into the pockets of the stock salesmen. 
How can any business enterprise hope to 
succeed under such a handicap? We were 
confident of this situation from the man¬ 
ner in which the stock was sold from the 
start, but could not prove it. The com¬ 
mittee rather apologized for retaining 
Samuel Null as president of the company 
on the ground that he is the only man 
connected with the company who is fa¬ 
miliar with the business! In this con¬ 
nection we would suggest that the di¬ 
rectors might secure the services of the 
originator of the get-rich-quick stock 
selling scheme — Mr. George A. Strom- 
blad. 
“Throwing good money after bad” is 
always a risky proposition, and without 
questioning the good intentions and hon¬ 
est purposes of the individuals who form 
this committee, it is particularly so in this 
case. We can see no prospect of re¬ 
establishing an enterprise that has been 
looted for years by two get-rich-quick 
promotion pirates. 
The Liberty Automobile Service 
League, Inc., 1674 Broadway, New York 
City, is selling automobile insurance 
among the farmers. Will you advise me 
whether or not this is a reliable concern, 
or whether this is another case of fraud 
being perpertrated on the farmers? 
SULLIVAN AND ULSTER FARM BUREAU. 
New York. 
Once more we desire to advise the 
farming public that the Liberty Automo¬ 
bile Service League above referred to is 
not selling automobile insurance. The 
agents are selling a “service contract” 
and when sold as “insurance” it is a 
fraud. We have a number of times 
analyzed these “service contracts” and 
can see nothing to them but an easy 
money scheme for the promoters. Lib¬ 
erty Automobile, Service League is not 
listed in Bradstreets, from which it is 
fair to assume the concern has no finan¬ 
cial responsibility. 
When I was a young girl I used to 
hear people say they worked for the 
“pure love of it.” After a while I began 
to think they did not mean what they 
said. I wondered why they took money 
for their work. After I was a few years 
older I saw that the people who said 
they worked for the “pure love of it” 
were more anxious to get the money than 
those who worked for money and never 
pretended to work for anything else. I 
have held to this belief up to within a 
year but I am glad to admit that the 
people who work on The R. N.-Y. come 
nearer to working for the “pure love of 
it” than anyone that I have ever heard 
of in my life before. How you can give 
so much good reading and good advice 
and such a good paper for so little T 
fail to see. but I hope your reward will 
be all that you could wish, for the great 
good you have done and are still doing. 
New Hampshire. I. a. 
To be permanently successful all in¬ 
dustry must support itself, and in our 
modern system money is the instrument 
of exchange. The one great duty of the 
worker, however, is the perfection of his 
art. Money is a necessary means, but 
if it be made the objective at the ex¬ 
pense of the art, no matter how great 
the wealth, the result is failure. The 
worker must live, and money or its equi¬ 
valent is a factor in living, but the real 
joy of service comes only to those who 
love the work. Our good friends are 
prone, however, to overlook their own 
part in the making of this paper. No 
amount of money could make a paper of 
this type. The farmer’s pride and con¬ 
fidence in it, his friendship for it, and 
his co-operation to make it, are all fea¬ 
tures of it. We must all live by our art, 
but in addition the paper is safely finan¬ 
ced for the present and the future, and 
aside from this we do love the work. 
A bright little girl, aged four, and her 
brother, aged six, were spending the night 
with their aunt. When bedtime came the 
aunt asked them how they said their 
prayers. The little girl answered: “Some¬ 
times I say them on muddy’s knees and 
sometimes to the side of the bed.” “And 
how about you, little boy?” asked the 
aunt. “Oh, I don’t need to pray. I sleep 
with daddy.”—Everybody’s Magazine. 
“A railroad man’s 
railroad” 
F ROM the ranks, New York Central men rise by 
merit through positions of greater and greater 
responsibility. 
Ability, industry and character are the sole tests of 
promotion, and they are applied all the way up the 
ladder to the highest executive positions. 
Because of the rigid application of this democratic 
process of selection, the New York Central has built 
up a morale that railroad men throughout the country 
regard as a model. 
New York Central standards of public service have 
been developed on the solid foundation of individual 
opportunity. 
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