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The  RURAL.  NEW-YORKER 
June  2,  1923 
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. 
Reports  from  New  Jersey  are  to  the 
effect  that  J.  J.  Looker  is  again  at  large, 
soliciting  advance  fees  from  those  having 
farms  for  sale,  on  the  pretext  that  the 
money  will  be  used  to  advertise  the  farms. 
Our  reports  state  that  Looker  represents 
himself  as  acting  for  the  Eastern  Com¬ 
pany,  42  Broadway,  New  York,  and  612 
Chestnut  Street,  Philadelphia.  No  record 
of  any  such  concerns  can  be  found. 
It  will  be  recalled  that  D.  B.  Cornell  & 
Co.  previously  employed  Looker  to  secure 
advance  fees  from  farm  owners  in  con¬ 
nection  with  the  Cornell  nefarious  swin¬ 
dle.  Looker  has  been  exposed  so  many 
times  in  Tiie  Rurai,  New-Yorker  that 
his  very  name  should  be  sufficient  to  pre¬ 
vent  farm  owners  from  getting  caught  in 
his  trap.  Any  farmer  approached  by  him 
on  this  scheme  should  secure  a  warrant 
for  his  arrest  for  perpetrating  a  swindle. 
The  inclosed  prospectus  of  the  National 
Credit  Corporation,  Baltimore,  Md.,  and 
the  statement  that  national  banks  of  this 
country  earn  24  per  cent,  and  in  England 
57  per  cent,  sounds  quite  fishy.  Will  you 
publish  this,  to  warn  other  investors?  I 
have  no  use  for  any  such,  and  admire  your 
fearless  exposure  of  the  crooks  and  frauds 
nowadays.  L. H* 
New  York. 
What  the  banking  institutions  may 
earn  has  no  bearing  on  the  value  of  the 
stock  of  the  National  Credit  Corporation. 
What  does  matter  is  the  earnings  of  the 
National  Credit  Corporation,  and  the  cir¬ 
cular  is  as  silent  as  a  clam  on  this  sub¬ 
ject.  The  company  is  one  of  the  com¬ 
mercial  finance  institutions  organized  in 
1921,  capital  $5,000,000.  Our  informa¬ 
tion  is  that  the  corporation  has  paid  divi¬ 
dends  on  the  stock  issued,  but  no  state¬ 
ment  of  earnings  is  available.  The  stock 
can  only  be  considered  in  the  light  of  a 
speculation,  and  the  record  of  promotions 
in  this  commercial  banking  line  is  not  an 
enviable  one.  The  “invitation”  and  “re¬ 
turn  postal”  requesting  further  informa¬ 
tion  are  not  reassuring. 
Please  tell  me  what  you  think  of  the 
inclosed  matter,  Interblock  Grocery  Cor¬ 
poration,  26  Cortlandt  Street.  New  York 
City.  Is  it  straight,  or  just  a  scheme 
to  get  $35?  The  agent  is  canvassing  this 
section  now.  B.  J.  V. 
New  York. 
The  proposition  is  another  grocery 
store  stock-selling  scheme.  Two  shares 
of  preferred  stock  are  offered  for  $35,  and 
the  inducement  is  held  out  that  investors 
will  receive  such  returns  on  their  invest¬ 
ment  as  will  pay  a  large  percentage  of 
their  grocery  bills.  We  have  no  informa¬ 
tion,  and  there  is  nothing  in  the  circular 
to  show  that  the  two  shares  of  stock  are 
worth  five  cents. 
Is  the  Perfect.  Voice  Institute,  1922 
Sunnyside  Avenue,  Chicago,  Ill.,  a  reli¬ 
able  school?  They  teach  voice  culture  by 
mail,  both  singing  and  speaking.  I  saw 
their  advertisement  in  the  Sunday  School 
Times  and  Physical  Culture.  c.  ii.b. 
Maine. 
This  so-called  “institute,”  proposing  to 
teach  voice  culture  by  mail,  is  taking  a 
pretty  large  contract,  to  say  the  least. 
Our  estimate  would  be  that  the  so-called 
institute  is  a  “perfect”  scheme,  to  get  easy 
money  from  gullible  people. 
I  am  practically  retired  as  a  farmer, 
and  hence  an  agricultural,  paper  is  not  as 
interesting  to  me  as  a  guide  as  formerly, 
but  it  is  worth  more  to  me  than  the  sub¬ 
scription  asked  to  note  in  Publisher’s 
Desk  the  good  and  gratuitous  service  you 
are  doing  for  some  of  your  credulous  sub¬ 
scribers  who  frequently  find  they  are  vic¬ 
tims  of  misplaced  confidence.  .  No  doubt 
.your  labors  and  expense  in  this  direction 
would  be  vastly  lessened  if  readers  fol¬ 
lowed  your  frequent  suggestions  t9  ascer¬ 
tain  something  about  the  financial  and 
credit  rating  of  purchasers  of  farm  pro¬ 
ducts  before  trusting  them  for  a  square 
deal.  H-  w* 
Missouri. 
It  is  always  a  great  pleasure  to  us  to 
know  that  good  friends  who  retire  from 
the  farm  yet  want  The  R.  N.-Y.,  as  a 
link  to  connect  them  with  the  sentiments 
of  the  old  home,  and  to  remind  them  of 
its  cherished  memories.  Speaking  of  mis¬ 
placed  confidence,  it  is  true  that  much  of 
the  work  of  Publisher’s  Desk  would  be 
spared  if  the  proper  precautions  were 
taken  for  self-protection.  'We  keep  re¬ 
peating  these  suggestions  as  a  vital  part 
of  the  success  of  the  work.  The  more 
experience  we  have  in  the  work  and  in 
the  world,  however,  the  more  we  are  in¬ 
clined  to  give  this  good  advice  as  a  sym¬ 
pathetic  caution  and  suggestion  rather 
than  in  any  spirit  of  a  lecture.  While 
almost  exclusively  associated  with  the 
farm  and  farm  people,  and  sharing  the 
disappointments  and  losses  of  misplaced 
confidence,  we  had  the  idea  that  farmers 
were  the  most  gullible  people  on  earth, 
but  experience  in  the  world  since  con¬ 
vinces  us  that  the  farmer  is  a  paragon  of 
wisdom  when  face  to  face  with  get-rich- 
quick  promotion  schemes  as  compared 
with  his  city  cousin.  Few  of  us  escape 
the  effect  of  allurement  and  bad  judg¬ 
ment  some  time  in  our  lives.  It  is  this 
observation  and  occasional  experience 
that  tempers  the  metal  of  our  words  of 
caution  to  the  victim.  We  admit,  how¬ 
ever,  that  we  have  no  tender  feelings  for 
the  faker  or  the  rogue.  Their  purpose 
is  deliberate  and  their  methods  ruthless. 
I  am  enclosing  bill  against  G.  Wm. 
McClunie  of  Hartford.  Conn.,  for  baled 
moss  sent  him.  I  have  tried  to  get  some 
kind  of  a  reply  from  him  as  to  just  what 
he  intends  to  do  about  paying  same,  but 
have  failed  to  get  a  reply.  I  trust  you 
will  be  able  to  shake  him  up. 
New  Jersey.  j.  K.  s.  c. 
Our  subscriber  is  obliged  to  charge  this 
$7.73  up  to  experience,  because  the  at¬ 
torneys  report  that  G.  William  McClunie 
shows  no  disposition  to  pay  his  bills.  We 
refer  to  the  matter  so  that  other  readers 
will  not  suffer  any  similar  loss. 
Enclosed  find  circulars  of  Syracuse 
Poultry  Corporation.  There  was  recently 
a  large  picture  of  a  building  that  was  to 
be  built  by  this  company.  I  think  it  is 
foolish  on ‘the  face  of  it.  Syracuse  is  a 
fine  market  for  poultry,  but  most  farmers 
and  their  wives  raise  and  fatten  their 
own,  and  it  usually  looks  good.  I  am 
afraid  this  is  another  scheme  to  beat 
farmers.  What  do  you  think  of  it?  I 
do  not  think  there  would  be  much  money 
in  it ;  there  is  not  a  gold  mine  in  poultry, 
anyway,  and  the  expenses  would  be  great. 
It  should  be  stopped  at  once.  Some  peo¬ 
ple  like  to  be  fooled,  and  would  put  in 
money  they  can  ill  spare.  They  would 
rather  support  some  sharpers  like  this 
than  pay  to  some  church  or  mission  or 
charity,  where  it  would  do  someone  good. 
New  York.  J.  a.  b. 
This  corporation  proposes  establishing 
a  poultry-feeding  station  ;  it  proposes 
to  buy  poultry  from  farmers,  bring  it  to 
this  feeding  station,  put  on  a  milk  diet 
and  then  market.  The  whole  beautiful 
scheme  is  only  a  prospect  as  yet,  but 
farmers  are  invited  to  invest  in  the  cor¬ 
poration,  capitalized  for  $400,000.  There 
is  nothing  in  the  literature  to  indicate 
that  the  promoters  or  officers  of  the  or¬ 
ganization  have  backed  the  project  with 
a  dollar  of  their  own  money.  Those  who 
nibble  on  such  palpable  bait  must  expect 
to  get  hooked. 
I  have  been  reading  The  R.  N.-Y.  for 
part  of  a  year  and  am  well  pleased  with 
it.  I  shipped  some  eggs  about  a  year  ago 
to  M.  B.  Barber,  Green  Meadow  Farm, 
105  Washington  Street,  Port  Chester.  N. 
Y.  He  failed  to  pay  for  all  of  them. 
Could  you  help  me  out  in  any  way?  He 
still  owes  a  balance  of  $30.  J.  h.  w. 
Pennsylvania. 
We  had  similar  complaints  last  year 
that  Mr.  Barber  was  soliciting  egg  ship¬ 
ments  and  not  paying  for  same.  We 
were  able  to  get  two  small  bills  adjusted, 
but  have  an  account  now  with  our  attor¬ 
ney  which  so  far  he  has  been  unable  to 
collect,  and  has  obtained  a  judgment 
which  has  not  yet  been  paid.  From  this 
Mr.  Barber’s  financial  responsibility 
seems  to  be  worthless,  and  we  think  our 
readers  will  do  well  to  give  him  a  wide 
berth. 
District  Attorney  William  F.  Love, 
who  has  been  giving  considerable  atten¬ 
tion  to  the  affairs  of  the  L.  R.  Steel  Cor¬ 
poration,  issued  a  statement  yesterday 
in  which  he  advised  stockholders  to  re¬ 
frain  for  the  present  from  paying  a  10 
per  cent  assessment  asked  for  by  the 
stockholders’  committee,  which  is  endeav¬ 
oring  to  reconstruct  the  affairs  of  the 
corporation  so  that  it  may  continue  in 
business.  Mr.  Love  states  in  his  letter 
that  he  has  written  to  Attorney  General 
Carl  Sherman  for  further  information, 
which  he  will  make  public. — Buffalo 
Daily. 
This  is  the  invariable  advice  of  The 
R.  N.-Y.  regarding  paying  assessments 
on  stock  holdings  of  defunct  enterprises. 
To  pay  such  assessments  usually  means 
just  that  much  more  lost. 
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