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The  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
April  7,  1923 
PUBLISHER’S  DESK 
I 
I  have  three  good  reasons  for  renewing : 
1.  I  find  it  the  best  farm  paper. 
2.  It  is  my  best  advertising  medium. 
3.  I  have  never  “got  stung”  by  its  ad¬ 
vertisers. 
Best  Christmas  wishes  and  the  biggest 
year  in  your  history  for  1923.  s.  o.  b. 
Vermont. 
The  reasons  are  good  enough  to  con¬ 
vince  us  that  our  good  friend  belongs  to 
the  life  membership  club.  The  good  wishes 
are  reciprocated. 
Dr.  F.  A.  Cook,  F.  &  M.  Bank  Bldg., 
Fort  Worth,  Tex.: 
My  Dear  Sir :  Yours  of  the  5th  inst. 
received,  and  I  was  very  much  surprised 
that  you  should  reply  to  my  letter  when 
there  was  no  need  for  so  doing. 
I  still  hold  that  you  and  those  with 
you  are  representing  a  “wildcat”  scheme. 
On  the  face  of  your  coupon  one  sees 
speculation,  and  not  investment,  for 
when  one  places  money  with  another  in 
hopes  that  he  will  receive  hundreds  per 
cents  he  is  gambling  in  the  worst  way. 
I  am  a  civil  engineer,,  and  I  know  from 
experience  that  one  may  find  gold,  oil  or 
something  else  on  one  side  of  a  fence,  but 
on  the  other  side  nothing  can  be  found, 
so  just  because  the  Texas  Company  hit 
it  off  is  no  reason  for  referring  to  them 
in  order  to  put  your  junk  over.  Here’s 
hoping  you  do  win,  doctor,  at  least  for 
the  suckers  who  have  taken  your  bait  in 
hopes  of  getting  back  money  spent  on 
their  original  worthless  shares.  I  do  not 
own  any  shares  in  your  outfit,  nor  do  I 
propose  to  buy  any,  for  what  money  I 
have  is  invested,  not  speculated,  in  bonds 
and  such  securities  that  are  earning  a 
safe  interest,  and  I  do  not  have  to  be¬ 
lieve  and  hope  for  returns ;  I  know  I 
will  receive  a  certain  return.  So,  Dr. 
Cook,  insofar  as  I  am  concerned  you 
might  better  dangle  your  hook  in  another 
pond,  and  you  may  be  assured  that  if  I 
am  asked  by  others,  at  any  time,  regard¬ 
ing  what  I  think  of  your  outfit  I  shall  do 
so,  for  your  literature  and  the  wording 
of  same  would  lead  any  cool-headed  per¬ 
son  to  the  same  conclusion  herein  ex¬ 
pressed.  One  who  was  a  fraud  re  the 
discovery  of  the  North  Pole  might  well 
employ  the  same  tactics  in  oil. 
Trusting  that  you  will  make  good  for 
the  sake  of  the  poor  suckers  you  have 
taken  in,  I  am,  yours  truly,  c.  g.  d. 
New  York. 
The  above  letter  to  Dr.  Cook  is  so 
sound  in  logic  and  common  sense  that  it 
scarcely  needs  comment.  We  have  pre¬ 
viously  referred  to  the  “reloading” 
scheme  of  Dr.  Cook  under  the  name  of 
Petroleum  Producers’  Association,  Fort 
Worth,  Texas.  Associated  with  Cook  in 
*  this  scheme  is  the  notorious  S.  E.  J.  Cox 
— 'but  hardly  more  notorious  than  Dr. 
Cook. 
Enclosed  find  circular.  I  am  no  in¬ 
vestor  in  stocks  and  bonds,  but  would 
like  your  opinion  on  this  in  Publisher’s 
Desk  for  the  benefit  of  others  if  you 
see  fit.  G.  E.  s. 
Pennsylvania. 
Accompanying  the  above. is  a  proposi¬ 
tion  of  Universal  Royalty  Company. 
Fort  Worth,  Texas,  the  hatching  ground 
of  hundreds  of  oil  schemes.  Hughes  & 
Co.,  100  Broadway,  New  York  City,  is 
promoter  of  the  enterprise.  “Royalty 
shares”  is  the  popular  form  of  floating 
oil  schemes  of  late.  The  investor  is  told 
that  in  buying  these  royalty  shares  he 
is  not  speculating.  That  sounds  good, 
but  if  he  loses  his  money,  as  he  is  pretty 
sure  to  in  these  Texas  oil  schemes, 
whether  it  is  called  royalty  shares  or 
just  plain  oil  stocks,  doesn’t  matter 
much. 
I  send  a  bunch  of  trash  literature  that 
has  been  sent  me  at  different  times  from 
the  Melodv  Publishing  Corporation,  Buf¬ 
falo,  N.  Y.  Do  not  return  it  to  me,  for 
I  have  no  use  for  it.  I  wrote  one  song 
for  them  that  they  arranged  the  music 
for  and  completed  the  song.  They  sent- 
me  50  copies  of  the  song,  but  have  never 
sent  one  cent  of  royalty,  and  they  agreed 
to  pay  me  5  cents  a  copy  on  all  songs  sold, 
and  remit  it  promptly  every  three  months. 
It  has  been  six  months  now  since  I  re¬ 
ceived  the  50  copies,  and  they  were  three 
months  late  in  arriving.  I  have  written 
them  once  about  the  conditions,  and  they 
do  not  reply.  You  can  try  to  collect  my 
royalty.  M.  S. 
Pennsylvania. 
There  is  probably  no  royalty  due.  If 
any  copies  have  been  sold,  there  is  no 
way  of  proving  it.  All  this  class  of  music 
publishing  houses  count  on  is  the  fee  for 
publishing  the  song.  An  exorbitant  price 
is  paid  for  this  service,  and  where  the 
deception  comes  in  is  that  this  class  of 
music  houses  leads  the  writer  to  believe 
that  a  small  "fortune  is  in  sight  in  royal¬ 
ties  from  the  sale  of  the  song  after  it  is 
published.  Regardless  of  the  merits  or 
demerits  of  the  production,  the  same 
\  j » <*  r.o  A  -  -*-• 
hopes  are  held  out  to  the  writer  in  order 
to  secure  the  fee  for  setting  to  music  and 
publishing  it. 
As  I  understand  the  workings  of  the 
within  circular  of  Windswept  Farms, 
Henderson,  N.  Y.,  you  buy  a  pair  of 
foxes  and  pay  $3,000  for  them.  They 
keep  and  care  for  the  foxes  for  a  certain 
amount  per  year,  and  you  have  the  in¬ 
crease  and  the  fur  sold.  They  will  not 
let  you  have  the  foxes.  What  is  your 
idea  of  it  as  a  safe  investment? 
Ohio.  w.  b.  s. 
This  plan  is  very  similar  to  the  hog 
ranch  scheme  that  was  so  popular  some 
four  or  five  years  ago.  We  never  heard 
of  anyone  who  put  any  money  in  a 
scheme  of  this  kind  who  did  not  lose  it, 
and  we  should  expect  no  other  result 
from  those  taking  part  in  this  fox-farm¬ 
ing  scheme. 
Edward  McIntyre  of  Franklin,  who 
some  years  ago  listed  his  farm  for  sale 
with  the  D.  B.  Cornell  agency,  was  re¬ 
cently  sued  by  Cornell  for  alleged  failure 
to  fulfill  the  agreements  of  the  contract. 
The  suit  was  brought  in  Rensselaer 
County,  but  Judge  L.  F.  Raymond,  who 
represented  Mr.  McIntyre,  succeeded  in 
having  the  place  of  trial  changed  to  Dela¬ 
ware  County,  and  it  was  on  the  calendar 
for  trial  at  the  present  term  of  court. 
Before  the  case  was  called  an  offer  on  the 
part  of  Cornell  to  accept  $25  in  settlement 
was  refused.  When  it  was  time  to  try 
the  case  Cornell  failed  to  appear  and  Mr. 
McIntyre  was  given  a  judgment  of  $65 
against  him  to  cover  the  costs. — Oneonta 
(N.  Y.)  Star. 
As  usual,  Cornell  refuses  to  go  into 
court  on  his  hold-up  scheme  when  the 
farm  owner  puts  up  a  fight.  He  is  now 
threatening  farmers  to  bring  suit  against 
them  in  the  State  of  Florida  on  the  same 
scheme.  If  judgments  are  secured  because 
of  the  defendant  failing  to  appear,  which 
he  cannot  afford  to  do,  we  advise  farmers 
to  resist  payment  of  the  judgment.  We 
are  reluctant  to  believe  that  a  judgment, 
if  secured  in  this  way,  would  stand  in 
New  York  State  courts.  And  we  are  not 
yet  willing  to  believe  that  Florida  courts 
would  give  a  judgment  in  such  cases. 
We  doubt  if  the  $65  costs  in  the  above 
case  can  be  collected  from  Cornell. 
I  received  the  inclosed  from  the  Empire 
Fertilizer  Corporation,  Oneida,  N.  Y. 
The  advertisement  was  in  the  Syracuse 
(N.  Y. )  Post  Standard.  Please  note  the 
advisory  board.  Could  it  be  possible  that 
those  men  could  be  taken  in  by  a  fraud? 
Of  course,  I  assumed  that  they  are  what 
they  are  described  as  being.  After  having 
read  of  cases  of  fraud  along  similar  lines 
in  The  R.  N.-Y.,  I  am  a  bit  in  doubt  of 
this,  in  spite  of  the  advisory  board. 
New  York.  s.  «r.  G. 
The  advertisement  of  Empire  Fertilizer 
Corporation,  Oneida,  N.  lr.,  gives  the 
names  of  the  mayor  and  four  other  promi¬ 
nent  citizens  as  “advisory  board.”  Twb 
of  these  gentlemen  write  us  that  the  con¬ 
cern  was  never  authorized  to  use  their 
names,  and  the  mayor  writes  that  when 
he  discovered  the  stock-selling  game  em¬ 
ployed,  he  revoked  the  permission.  It  is 
our  understanding  that  Archie  Fine  is  in 
some  way  interested  in  the  promotion  of 
this  stock-selling  scheme.  It  will  be  re¬ 
membered  that  Mr.  Fine  was  a  member  of 
the  stock  brokerage  firm  which  sold  a 
block  of  stock  of  the  Farmers’  Standard 
Carbide  Company  before  Samuel  Null 
took  charge  of  the  destinies  of  this  con¬ 
cern.  We  now  have  a  trio  of  get-rich- 
quick  schemes  in  New  York  State  prey¬ 
ing  on  the  gullibility  of  farmers — the 
United  Fertilizer  &  Lime  Company,  or¬ 
ganized  and  conducted  by  George  A. 
Stromblad,  the  Farmers’  Standard  Car¬ 
bide  Company  of  Plattsburg,  N.  Y.,  also 
organized  by  Stromblad,  and  now  con¬ 
ducted  by  Samuel  Null,  and  the  Empire 
Fertilizer  Company,  Oneida,  N.  Y..  ap¬ 
parently  oiganized  by  Archie  Fine,  who 
was  at  one  time  broker  for  Stromblad. 
A  good  selection  to  leave  alone. 
Walter  Brothers,  Powhattan  Point,  O., 
sent  us  an  advertisement  for  turkey  eggs 
last  season.  The  firm  has  not  paid  the 
bill,  the  amount  of  which  is  of  no  con¬ 
sequence.  But  now  one  of  the  brothers, 
Lawrence  N.  Walter,  Bealsville,  O., 
sends  advertisement  again,  asking  credit 
and  giving  references.  The  point  is  we 
would  not  recommend  dealings  of  any 
kind  with  individuals  who  do  not  pay 
their  honest  obligations,  and  we  resent 
the  trick  by  which  Walter  Brothers 
sought  to  again  secure  space  in  The  R, 
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