1470 
Iht RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
November 22, 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. 
In one morning’s mail we have in¬ 
quiries from subscribers about the relia¬ 
bility and honesty of the offers of work 
at home by the following: 
Rica Company, 1658 Broadway, New 
York City. 
Lesley Jones, Olney, Ill. 
Nile Art Company, Ft. Wayne, Ind. 
West Angus Show Card Service, Tor¬ 
onto, Can. 
American Show Card System, Toronto, 
Can. 
Ella Agency, New York City. 
Home Industries Company, Inc., 
Bloomfield, ,N. J. 
All easy-money fake schemes to get 
money (from women on false pretenses. 
If there are any meaner petty swindles 
than this class of work-at-home schemes 
we do not know of them. They are de¬ 
signed to take money from women to 
whom the loss of even a small amount 
means depriving themselves and their 
families of food to sustain life. 
Weinberger Bros, never made good for 
that case of eggs, men I first started 
to ship to them the checks came all right, 
and they even paid me from two to five 
cents more than market quotations; then 
after I shipped several cases the checks 
came very irregularly. 'Our local express- 
man informed me when I asked him for a 
duplicate bill of lading that other parties 
had the same trouble. Go ahead and 
give them publicity. The R. N.-Y. is the 
best farm paper in all the U. S. A. Long 
may it live and prosper. F. w. 
New Jersey. 
This reference is to a shipment of a case 
of eggs for which shipper has not received 
payment. Weinberger Brothers of 389 
Watkins St., Brooklyn, N. Y., claim it 
never reached them. The railroad traced 
the shipment and showed delivery to 
Weinberger Brothers, signed for by D. 
Tanzer. Weinberger Brothers claim there 
is no such party in their employ using 
this signature, but as the railroad deliv¬ 
ered four other cases on this same signa¬ 
ture which Weinberger acknowledges re¬ 
ceiving, it is safe to assume that the en¬ 
tire shipment was delivered. 
On September 16 I sent Park’s Floral 
Magazine, Lapark, Pa.. $2.80 for bulbs 
which were advertised in their magazine. 
Not hearing from them, have written 
them two letters in regard to the order, 
and have heard nothing from them, ex¬ 
cept a magazine came for November 
marked “Sample Copy.” The check was 
returned, so we knew they received the 
money. The order was sent in my name; 
however, my husband sent the check to 
pay for same, as you will see. Several 
neighbors sent with me. and each were to 
receive the magazine with order, and have 
not received it. It is getting late and has 
kept us from ordering elsewhere. Any¬ 
thing that you can do in regard to this 
matter will be greatly appreciated by one 
of your readers. mbs. w. a. f. 
New York. 
We have many such complaints from 
our readers regarding orders sent to 
Park’s Floral Magazine and Lapark Seed 
and riant Company, Lapark, Pa. We 
have spent a great deal of time in bring¬ 
ing about adjustments for our readers 
during the past year. The manager now 
resents our interference in behalf of sub¬ 
scribers and none too politely asks us to 
mind our own business and says he is 
capable of handling his. He overlooks 
the fact that the affairs of its subscribers 
are the business of The R. N.-Y. Our ad¬ 
vice to the subscriber is to make com¬ 
plaint to the Post Office Department, al¬ 
leging fraudulent use of the mails. 
A fraud order closing the mails to the 
New York Melody Corporation, Broad¬ 
way Composing Studios and World Mu¬ 
sic Corporation of New York City, was 
issued by the Post Office Department on 
October 30, following a hearing held in 
the office of the Solicitor General in 
Washington on September 19, when 
charges were presented by Inspector R. 
P. Allen of the New York Post Office. 
The principals of the above firms, Albion 
•S. Keller and Geo. Graff, Jr., are already 
under indictment in Federal Court for 
using the mails to defraud, but until now 
the song sharps have continued to oper¬ 
ate. Their activities are now stopped by 
the fraud order. 
This is the second group to be stopped 
within the month, the other being in St. 
Louis, operating under the names of the 
New Era Music Company and Music 
Sales Company, both owned by R. A. 
Bell. 
The New r York case is the first decisive 
victory against the song sharks in their 
greatest center of operations, since the 
campaign of exposure was undertaken by 
the Music Industries Chamber of Com¬ 
merce two years ago. The Chicago situ¬ 
ation was cleared up earlier this year by 
the energetic investigation of Inspector 
Ii. N. Davis, who was successful in secur¬ 
ing’ sentences of fines and imprisonment 
for all the important song sharks there 
by Federal Court action. The St. Louis 
case disposed of the chief offender out¬ 
side of New York and Chicago, and ex¬ 
cept for a few’ small operators the re¬ 
maining song sharks are operating from 
New York. These are under investiga¬ 
tion by Inspector Allen, who is giving all 
the attention he can to the activities ex¬ 
posed by the Better Business Bureau of 
the Chamber of Commerce on behalf of 
the legitimate music publishing business. 
The reputation of Geo. Graff, Jr., as a 
song w’riter was used to promote the 
scheme of the Broadway Composing 
Studios, and later the New’ York Melody 
Corporation, to take money from unsus¬ 
pecting amateurs. About 6.000 of these 
amateur song writers paid money for the 
Graff “music,” in amounts ranging from 
$30 to $96. If the larger amount could 
not be secured, a systematic follow-up of¬ 
fered the “services” until the price got 
as low’ as $30. None of the songs was 
ever successful, it w r as admitted to the 
Post Office authorities. 
The above is an extract from a bulletin 
issued by the Music Industries Chamber 
of Commerce. This class of song sharks 
has been swindling amateur writers for 
many years. The Post Office Department 
is always vigilant in running down frauds 
of this sort when proper evidence can be 
secured. The song sharks are in the same 
class as the literary sharks, who lead am¬ 
ateur waiters to believe that a market 
will be found for their writings. Writers 
of songs and fiction should be on their 
guard with reference to such easy-money 
schemes. 
I am sending you some literature from 
the United States National Building and 
Loan Association, Philadelphia, Pa. Will 
you tell me if they are reliable, and would 
you advise investing any money with 
them? s. w. E. 
New York. 
We do not advise investment in these 
so-called national building and loan as¬ 
sociations. The local building and loan 
associations are under the supervision of 
the banking department of the various 
States, and it is rarely that any loss oc¬ 
curs through their operations. The rec¬ 
ord of the institutions operating on a 
wider scale and not under State super¬ 
vision is not reassuring. 
In several circulars Knight & Bost- 
wick, Newark, N. Y., use The R. N.-Y. 
as reference, and on this account I placed 
confidence in the firm. H. H. H. 
Ohio. 
What this subscriber considers a “ref¬ 
erence” is really only a quotation from 
The R. N.-Y., as follows: “Better plant 
one good tree than tw r o poor ones at the 
same price.” Perhaps the purpose of 
Knight & Bostwiek in quoting this state¬ 
ment was to convey the impression that 
the Ohio subscriber received. The R. 
N.-Y. has many times emphasized the im¬ 
portance of buying high quality trees, and 
only from houses whose reputation and 
standing are a guarantee that the trees 
will prove true to name when they come 
into bearing. This firm quotes The R. 
N.-Y. to convey the impression that their 
trees are the kind that fruit growers 
should plant. It is certainly unfair for 
Knight & Bostw’ick to quote The R. 
N.-Y. in this way. It is not such a firm 
as we would recommend, and we believe 
as good trees as this firm sells through 
the agency system can be bought from 
nursery growers direct at one-half the 
prices charged by the agents of Knight 
& Bostwiek. 
I sent the commission man. Karl Katz, 
of 328 North Front St., Philadelphia, Pa., 
a bag of produce and he sent me a check 
for $5.17. The check was protested and 
I have been unable to get my money. 
Can you get it for me? N. J. 
Karl Katz cannot be located by the 
Post Office Department and it is evident 
that he received goods with no intention 
of paying for same. We do not think 
that readers will want to ship to him on 
this record. 
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