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The  RURAL.  NEW-YORKER 
September  1,  1923 
PUBLISHER’S  DESK 
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ment  must  be  signed  with  writer’s  full 
name  and  address  given.  Many  inquiries 
are  answered  by  mail  instead  of  printing 
inquiry  and  answ'er,  hence  unsigned  let¬ 
ters  receive  no  consideration. 
B.  W.  Mu  1  ford.  West  Palm  Beach, 
Fla.,  sent  The  R.  N.-Y.  an  advertisement 
for  a  five-acre  farm  on  July  17.  His 
letter  was  written  on  plain  paper  and 
everything  indicated  the  farm  was  owned 
■by  him  individually.  A  subscriber  an¬ 
swering  the  advertisement  sends  us  the 
literature  from  Salerno  Development  Co. 
of  Florida  showing  that  the  advertise¬ 
ment  was  inserted  in  the  interest  of  the 
development  company.  It  shows  the 
lengths  to  which  land  sharks  will  go  to 
get  an  advertisement  in  The  R.  N.-Y.  in 
disguise.  No  advertisements  of  land  de¬ 
velopments  are  accepted  under  any  cir¬ 
cumstances,  and  the  Salerno  Develop¬ 
ment  Co.,  by  practicing  this  deception 
has  demonstrated  how  desperate  it  must 
be  to  catch  Northern  capital  on  its 
scheme. 
About  May  1  I  shipped  to  Harry  Walt- 
zer,  728  East  180th  Street,  Bronx,  N.  Y. 
business  address,  and  1595  Bathgate  Ave¬ 
nue,  Bronx,  N.  Y.,  .residential  address,  five 
cases  of  eggs,  amounting  to  $72.  I  have 
written  him  many  times  for  return  or 
an  answer  of  any  kind  from  him.  AVould 
you  try  to  collect  this  debt  'for  me?  He 
has  a  partner,  Jacob  Millman,  1557  Ful¬ 
ton  Avenue,  Bronx,  N.  Y.  J.  E. 
New  York. 
During  the  past  two  months  Mr.  Walt- 
zer  has  made  repeated  promises  to  settle 
■with  this  shipper,  making  up  the  pre¬ 
tense  that  he  preferred  sending  the  re¬ 
mittance  direct  to  the  shipper.  The  store 
at  72S  East  180th  Street  is  now  closed. 
The  partner  is  now  doing  business  across 
the  street  and  we  are  unable  to  deter¬ 
mine  whether  or  not  Waltzer  is  still  in 
the  business  conducted  'by  Jacob  Mill- 
man.  At  any  rate  no  one  should  be  in¬ 
duced  to  make  further  shipments  to  Walt¬ 
zer  except  on  cash  in  advance  basis — or 
to  any  other  individual  or  house,  for  that 
matter,  unless  the  receiver  can  show  a 
substantial  financial  responsibility. 
I  have  been  a  subscriber  to  The  R. 
N.-Y.  for  the  last  10  years,  also  have 
renewed  for  five  years.  Now  I  want  to 
ask  a  favor.  I  sent  on  April  11,  1923, 
500  feed  bags,  freight  prepaid,  in  five 
bundles,  to  the  Mohawk  Bag  and  Bur¬ 
lap  Co.,  22S  Whitesboro  St.,  Utica,  N. 
Y.  I  have  written  three  times,  have  not 
received  a  reply.  Could  you  collect  for 
the  bags?  F.  L.  D. 
New  York. 
We  are  unable  to  get  any  response 
from  Mohawk  Bag  and  Burlap  Co. 
either.  The  conclusion  is  that  the  com¬ 
pany  is  a  good  one  for  farmers  to  keep 
clear  of  when  they  have  bags  to  sell. 
I  purchased  a  stump  puller  and  equip¬ 
ment  from  one  of  your  advertisers,  the 
A.  ,T.  Kirstin  Co.,  Escanaba,  Mich.,  on 
a  30-day  trial,  money-back  guarantee.  It 
was  a  second-hand  outfit  for  $98  and 
guaranteed  to  be  latest  type  and  good  as 
new  ;  cables  guaranteed  or  they  would  be 
replaced.  The  outfit  did  not  come  up  to 
the  guarantee,  and  after  giving  it  a  trial  I 
returned  it  as  unsatisfactory.  The  cables 
wore  badly  rusted  and  I  understood 
from  A.  J.  Kirstin’s  letters  that  he  would 
replace  the  cables  with  new  ones,  but 
he  says  he  meant  to  replace  them  with 
other  used  cables.  The  puller,  itself,  was 
a  very  old  type  without  the  essential 
reverse  as  found  in  the  latest  type. 
Therefore  I  returned  the  outfit  and  asked 
him  to  refund  the  $98.  The  puller  I 
purchased  on  December  4,  and  it  arrived 
February  28,  which  was  too  late  to  do 
my  pulling.  I  was  figuring  on  buying 
a  brand-new  outfit  from  Mr.  Kirstin  this 
Fall,  and  wrote  him  accordingly  when  I 
asked  him  to  refund  the  $98.  I  wrote 
him  on  April  2,  and  again  on  May  5, 
each  time  asking  him  to  refund  the  money 
but  he  has  not  answered  either  letter.  I 
am  writing  this  letter  to  you  askinv  if 
you  will  please  collect  the  money  for  me. 
Pennsylvania.  r.  M.  R. 
The  subscriber  is  mistaken  in  saying 
that  A.  J.  Kirstin  Co.  is  one  of  The  R. 
N.-Y.’s  advertisers.  The  record  of  the 
firm  is  such  that  its  advertising  is  re¬ 
fused. 
Here  is  the  guarantee  under  which  the 
purchase  was  made : 
“Here  is  my  30-day  free  trial  offer  to 
you.  For  30  days  after  your  Kirstin  ar¬ 
rives  at  your  station  it’s  only  on  ap¬ 
proval.  Try  it — test  it  out — on  your 
own  stumps  and  every  way  possible.  If 
it  is  not  satisfactory,  if  it  won’t  do  your 
iwork,  notify  us  and  we  will  give  you  in¬ 
structions  to  return  at  our  expense.  We 
j>osi  lively  guarantee  to  return  every 
penny  of  your  money  after  receipt  of 
puller  in  good  condition.  You  see  I  want 
you  to  satisfy  yourself  in  every  way  that 
the  Kirstin  is  all  I  claim.” 
Kirstin  Company  assured  the  pur¬ 
chaser  that  the  guarantee  applied  to  the 
used  machine  the  same  as  to  a  new  one. 
In  the  meantime  Kirstin  &  Co.,  have 
adopted  a  new  form  of  guarantee  which 
does  not  provide  for  refunding  the  pur¬ 
chase  price  in  any  event.  It  might  be 
called  a  “camouflage  guarantee.”  But 
R.  M.  R.  claims  he  saw  or  heard  of  no 
other  guarantee  than  the  one  above 
quoted  at  the  time  he  made  the  purchase. 
Our  efforts  to  show  the  A.  J.  Kirstin  Co. 
the  reasonableness  of  the  customer’s  de¬ 
mands  for  the  return  of  his  money  have 
been  in  vain.  This  is  consistent  with 
the  policy  of  the  company  in  the  past. 
Its  record  is  one  of  trickery  and  deceit 
practiced  in  the  sale  of  the  stump  pull¬ 
ers,  and  a  deliberate  plan  to  repudiate 
its  obligation  in  the  “guarantee”  under 
which  the  stump  pullers  are  sold. 
On  March  27,  1923,  I  mailed  a  post 
office  order  to  the  International  Consoli¬ 
dated  Record  Association,  Inc.,  809 
Maple  Ave.,  Elmira,  N.  Y.,  the  fee  for 
the  registry  of  a  purebred  ram,  and 
hearing  nothing  fx-om  them,  wrote  them 
in  June,  but  got  no  reply.  They  have 
registered  stock  for  me  for  several  years 
to  my  satisfaction.  I  don’t  know  any¬ 
thing  about  the  association,  but  have 
heard  of  them  for  20  years  past  in  dif¬ 
ferent  towns  in  New  York,  namely,  Him- 
rod  and  Penn  Yan.  I  am  inclosing  a 
card  from  postmaster  at  Elmira  which 
shows  that  they  received  the  order.  I 
am  anxious  to  find  out  more  about  this 
matter,  as  the  registry  of  the  ram  is 
valuable  to  me.  Will  you  investigate 
this  association  and  advise  me  what  you 
learn  about  them?  a.  d.  b. 
Maine. 
This  'Consolidated  Record  Association 
of  Elmira,  N.  Y.,  is  a  project  of  one 
Herbert  A.  Jones.  Our  two  letters  in 
behalf  of  the  inquirer  have  'been  ignored. 
We  do  not  regard  the  registry  certificate 
in  this  association  as  of  great  value,  be¬ 
cause  only  a  limited  number  of  breedex-s 
recognize  the  association.  There  is,  how¬ 
ever,  no  excuse  for  the  association  ig¬ 
noring  those  who  are  desirous  of  having 
animals  registered  with  it. 
A  representative  of  Knickerbocker 
Merchandising  Co.  of  122-124  East  25th 
St.,  New  lrork  City,  has  been  around  the 
country  trying  to  induce  merchants  to 
buy  a  so-called  membership  certificate, 
value  $300.  A  friend  of  mine  bought  one, 
paid  $60  cash  and  balance  to  be  paid  in 
monthly  installments,  believing  by  so  do¬ 
ing  he  could,  according  to  the  agent’s 
promise,  buy  merchandise  he  needed  any¬ 
where  from  5  to  10  per  cent  cheaper  than 
he  could  buying  through  wholesale 
houses.  s.  b. 
New  Yoi-k. 
We  can  find  no  record  of  the  so-called 
Knickerbocker  Merchandising  Co.  in¬ 
dicating  that  it  has  any  responsibility  or 
that  it  can  make  good  its  claim  to  fur¬ 
nish  merchandise  at  a  discount  from  reg¬ 
ular  wholesalers’  prices.  Our  experience 
has  been  that  these  membership  schemes 
prove  <a  hoax  and  merely  an  easy-money 
scheme  for  the  promoter  of  it.  We 
should  have  to  be  “shown”  before  obligat¬ 
ing  ourselves  for  $300  for  such  a  mem¬ 
bership. 
I  like  your  good  plain  talk  on  the 
school  question,  and  also  on  the  dairy 
problems.  I  hesitated  about  taking  your 
paper  when  your  man  came  around,  but 
I  am  glad  I  took  it.  j.  c.  E. 
New  York. 
Plain  talk  is  suited  to  discussions 
which  have  no  purpose  of  concealment 
and  which  are  intended  only  for  the  wel¬ 
fare  of  the  farm.  Complicated  language 
is  suited  to  those  who  have  something  to 
conceal.  No  one  takes  any  chance  in  tak¬ 
ing  this  paper  from  a  subscription  solic¬ 
itor.  If  the  paper  should  not  prove  satis¬ 
factory,  the  dollar  would  'be  returned  on 
application.  We  often  have  correspond¬ 
ence  like  this,  thanking  agents  and  neigh¬ 
bors  for  persuading  farmers  to  subscribe 
for  the  paper.  It  is  simply  a  recogni¬ 
tion  of  our  efforts  to  give  the  (best  service 
possible. 
Judge  Ben  B.  Lindsey  was  lunching 
one  very  hot  day  when  a  politician 
paused  beside  his  table.  “Judge,”  said 
lie.  “I  see  you’re  drinking  coffee.  That’s 
a  heating  drink.  Did  you  ever  try  gin 
and  ginger  ale?”  “No,”  said  the  judge 
smiling,  “but  I  have  tried  several  fellows 
who  did.” — 'Credit  Lost. 
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