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‘Iht RURAL NEW-YORKER 
November 29, 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. 
During a shop talk I happened to 
mention The R. N.-Y. and the man with 
whom I talked said he had not seen a 
R. N.-Y. in 10 years. I suggested that 
if he was anxious to have the paper 
every week for one year just dig down 
for $1 and I would do the rest. lie did. 
Although I do not live by tilling the soil, 
the family and I would feel lost should 
our good friend cease its weekly visits. 
Anyone in any profession, trade or call¬ 
ing who cannot get some good from The 
II. N.-Y. is dead. a. w. o. 
New York. 
Of course our good friend means in¬ 
tellectually sleeping, not physically 
dead. His suggestion for the dollar was, 
however, straight to the point. That is 
the kind of friendship that makes this 
kind of a paper possible. A paper run 
exclusively for its subscribers is not pop¬ 
ular with the classes that like to ex¬ 
ploit the farm. 
A friend of mine handed me a copy of 
your paper September 13, 1924, in which 
there is an article under “Publisher’s 
Desk” in which inquiry is made concern¬ 
ing the Waterproofing Corporation of 
America, located at the Grand Central 
Terminal Building, East 42d St., New 
York City. The letter of your subscriber 
which you published with reference to this 
corporation states the agent misled him 
and through misrepresentation got his 
signature to a contract to take the agency 
for their product, and he states he did not 
order any goods and refused to accept 
same. I want to say that in his letter he 
makes the same statements that I can 
make. Their agent visited me September 
17, and misrepresented their business to 
me. After I had signed the agreement, 
before he gave it to me, he filled in an 
order and handed me the paper folded up, 
just as he was ready to go. When I un¬ 
folded it, I found the order for this roof¬ 
ing compound, which we had not even 
talked of. He also said they had a ware¬ 
house in Dayton, O. The next morning 
I wrote this company a letter, terminat¬ 
ing our agreement, and telling them not 
to.ship any of their products to me; that 
if they did they would not be received, 
and be here at their expense, and subject 
to their order, but October 10 they ship¬ 
ped from Philadelphia, which arrived Oc¬ 
tober 23, and was refused. When the 
bill of lading came I wrote them and told 
them the shipment was here, subject to 
their orders. J. d. 
Ohio. 
We do not wish to reflect on the roof¬ 
ing paint industry as a whole, but this 
line of 'business does seem to have more 
than its share of tricksters. The number 
of reports similar to the above indicates 
a deliberate plan of securing signatures 
to orders by means of deception and sharp 
practice on the part of the agents. We 
approve the action of J. D. in refusing to 
accept the goods. He has no responsibil¬ 
ity in an order secured in the manner de¬ 
scribed. The more farmers allow them¬ 
selves to be imposed upon in this way, the 
more encouragement they give sharpers 
to take advantage of them. 
Fort Wayne, Ind., Nov. 11.—Glen D. 
Fryer, 24, who had been operating the 
Nile Art Company here, was arrested to¬ 
day charged with using the mails to de¬ 
fraud. Since April 1. 1922, he is alleged 
to have done a volume of business in ex¬ 
cess of a half million dollars and earned 
a clear profit of $300,000. 
Fryer, according to postal inspectors, 
has been offering a work-at-home outfit 
for $7.75 and a certain amount of ma¬ 
terial with which the customer was to 
paint lamp shades which were to be re¬ 
purchased by the Nile Art Company, pro¬ 
vided the finished product was up to re¬ 
quired standards. 
In most cases the work was not ac¬ 
cepted. but the customer was encouraged 
by letters to deposit more money for ad¬ 
ditional materials, which in turn were 
only partly accepted after being com¬ 
pleted. 
When his outfits for painting lamp 
shades had proved to have a nation-wide 
popularity, Fryer started the selling of 
outfits for painting pillow cases. Encour¬ 
aged by more success, Fryer recently es¬ 
tablished a concern of a similar nature in 
Lima, O., which he called the Fashion 
Embroideries.—Boston Evening Globe. 
The subscriber sending the newspaper 
item makes the following comments: 
I inclose clipping and feel confident you 
will be interested in view of your repeat¬ 
ed “hands off” of “work at home” 
schemes. The saddest part of all is that 
the losers are those who can ill afford a 
loss, no matter how small, while the man 
who originated and operated the scheme 
can hardly get a sentence stiff enough, 
but he stands to make a good average 
year’s salary and at the same time think 
up something more to try out, his sen¬ 
tence over. You well said this week that 
stock w r ith any claim to decency is not 
roaming among our country folk for buy¬ 
ers. Neither does a bona fide lamp shade 
concern have to resort to the art of the 
inexperienced. H. v. p. 
Massachusetts. 
Last July an agent representing the 
Art Rug Works, Inc., Syracuse, N. Y., 
was through our village taking orders for 
rugs made from old carpets. His samples 
were very well and firmly woven. I asked 
him if the larger rugs would be as well 
woven. He asked me if I thought they 
could do business and not have the larger 
rugs the same. I gave him my all-wool 
ingrain carpets and an order for a 12x12- 
ft. rug. After a long wait my rug came, 
but is very poorly and loosely woven, 
with coarse cotton material woven in. I 
wr< te them I was dissatisfied and wanted 
my money back ($36). I have no reply 
from them. Could you do anything with 
them? s. L. s. 
New York. 
It develops that about six yards of cot¬ 
ton stair carpet was included with the 
shipment of the w T ool ingrain carpet. The 
subscriber contends that this stair carpet 
does not appear in the rug, but other cot¬ 
ton material was used. At any rate, the 
rug is not satisfactory. We have many 
complaints of dissatisfaction from those 
who have dealings with the agents of 
these concerns making rugs out of old 
carpets. These agents bid fair to rival 
the unenviable record of the agents of the 
picture enlargement concerns. 
I inclose letter of Affiliated Finance 
Corporation of New York and would like 
to know if j’ou know anything of these 
people or their proposition. They sent 
one of their agents here, and he told me 
if I wanted to get in on this good thing I 
would have to hurry, because it would all 
be gone in 10 days. F. w. 
New Jersey. 
It is a safe rule never to be rushed into 
an investment. If there is not time for 
thorough investigation, pass the oppor¬ 
tunity by. This “good thing” appears to 
be. a comparatively new concern engaged 
in a general financing business, purchas¬ 
ing commercial paper and notes arising 
from the sale of automobiles on the de¬ 
ferred payment plan. Some companies 
in this line have been conducted profitably 
in recent years, but the field is pretty 
well overcrowded. We should consider it 
reckless for people of ordinary means to 
put their money into such a project until 
the company demonstrated its earning 
power over a series of years. 
Would you help me get the $18 I paid 
for a course with the Franklin Institute, 
Rochester, N. Y. ? The Franklin Insti¬ 
tute guarantees the money paid them if 
anybody is not satisfied with the course. 
I took the examination for railroad mail 
clerk and did not pass, and the next time 
it comes up I will be over age, so I asked 
for the return of the money. They said 
I would be paid if I was entitled to same. 
They claimed that I didn’t 'pay the in¬ 
stallments when due. $9 each in two 
months. The second $9 I paid I was not 
given credit for until I had gone over to 
the bank and found out the check was 
back. They were writing for the money 
every two or three days. I would like 
very much to have you help me get the 
money. I don’t care to lose it if possible 
to get same. C. N. H. 
'New York. 
We didn’t expect the Franklin Insti¬ 
tute to refund the student’s money. The 
concern persists in the claim that C. N. 
H. was delinquent in one of his payments, 
and one of the conditions of the money- 
back offer is that all payments are made 
promptly when due. The subscriber dis¬ 
putes that he was late in his payments. 
I am inclosing a circular of Interna¬ 
tional Heating Company, St. Louis. Mo., 
describing an oil burner. Can you tell me 
if this is all right? 'We would like one of 
these, but do not know of anyone who has 
one in this locality. Perhaps you could 
tell me of a better one. I cannot recol¬ 
lect having seen one of these oil burners 
advertised in The R. N.-Y. H. L. L. 
New York. 
The St. Louis oil burners have not 
proved satisfactory, according to our re¬ 
ports. The “money back guarantee” is 
employed to sell the burners, rather than 
a protection to the purchaser when the 
burner does not prove satisfactory. 
Farmer : “An’ ’ow be Lawyer Barnes 
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He’s lying at death’s door.” Farmer: 
“There’s grit for ’ee—at death’s door 
an’ still lyin’!”—London Humorist. 
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