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The  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
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. 
The  item  in  July  28  issue  regarding  a 
stump  puller  ordered  by  a  Florida  sub¬ 
scriber  from  A.  J.  Kirstin  Co.,  Escanaba, 
Mich.,  should  have  reported  that  a  re¬ 
fund  of  $09.45  of  the  purchase  price, 
$92.60,  had  been  made.  The  stump 
puller  did  not  prove  satisfactory  to  the 
purchaser,  and  he  therefore  returned  it 
under  the  terms  of  the  firm’s  guarantee. 
The  railroad  lost  the  shipment  and  it 
took  the  Kirstin  Co.  more  than  two  years 
to  secure  settlement  from  the  railroad. 
It  is  alleged  that  the  railroad  would 
only  consent  to  a  75  per  cent  settlement 
on  the  grounds  that  the  purchaser  had 
used  the  machine  “severely.”  Since  the 
machine  was  apparently  lost,  we  do  not 
see  on  what  basis  this  contention  is  made. 
The  machine  was  necessarily  used  in 
order  to  try  it  out,  and  the  railroad  was 
perhaps  justified  in  refusing  to  settle  at 
the  full  purchase  price.  But  this  fact 
does  not  in  our  opinion  relieve  Kirstin 
company  from  the  responsibility  to  re¬ 
fund  the  full  purchase  price  under  the 
guarantee.  But  the  purpose  of  this  item 
is  to  give  Kirstin  company  credit  for 
refunding  the  amount  which  was  finally 
received  from  the  railroad. 
George  A.  Stromblad,  a  Syracuse  busi¬ 
ness  man,  is  represented  in  a  decision  ‘by 
Justice  Edgecomb  yesterday  as  giving  to 
his  wife  a  sham  bill  of  sale  'for  a  $5,500 
automobile  to  defeat  the  interests  of 
creditors,  later  repudiating  the  document 
by  declaring  he  never  lost  ownership  of 
the  machine  which  was  destroyed  by  fire 
on  an  Adirondack  road  in  the  Fall  of 
1921. — Daily  Paper. 
This  is  the  George  A.  Stromblad  so 
many  times  referred  to  in  The  R.  N.-Y. 
as  organizer  of  the  Farmers  Standard 
Carbide  Co.,  Plattsburg,  N.  Y'.  and  the 
United  Fertilizer  and  Lime  Co.,  Syracuse, 
N.  Y.  We  should  not  expect  a  get- 
rich  stock  promoter  to  have  any  scruples 
about  giving  a  sham  bill  of  sale  on  his 
automobile  in  order  to  defraud  his  credi¬ 
tors.  Wben  the  automobile  was  destroyed 
by  fire  Stromblad  tried  to  repudiate  the 
sale  to  collect  the  insurance.  It  appears 
the  automobile  was  only  partly  paid  for, 
and  the  mortgage  company  under  the  de¬ 
cision  of  the  court  may  collect  the  in¬ 
surance  to  satisfy  the  mortgage. 
In  August  18  issue  you  published  an 
advertisement  for  me  for  my  three  collies, 
and  I  wish  to  thank  you  for  the  result. 
They  were  all  sold  in  a  week’s  time  and 
I  guess  if  I’d  had  a  dozen  I  could  have 
sold  all  of  them.  It  was  $2  well  invested, 
and  when  I  have  anything  to  sell  here¬ 
after  you  will  surely  get  my  ad.  a.  l.  ii. 
Connecticut. 
The  advertisement  columns  of  The  R. 
N.-Y'.  prove  such  a  ready  salesman  for 
so  many  of  our  people  that  it  may  not 
be  amiss  to  publish  the  above  experience. 
The  policy  of  a  “square  deal”  to  all  is 
no  doubt  responsible  for  the  fact  that 
readers  buy  so  confidently  of  the  adver¬ 
tisers  in  the  publication. 
Last  week  the  following  dispatch  was 
sent  out  from  Ilollidaysburg,  Pa. : 
The  Blair  County  Court  today  appoint¬ 
ed  W.  M.  C.  Craine  receiver  of  the  Con¬ 
federated  Home  Abattoirs  Corporation. 
The  receiver  was  appointed  on  a  petition 
by  stockholders  who  alleged  that  the  as¬ 
sets  of  the  corporation  were  squandered 
by  the  officers  and  that  $330,000  was  paid 
out  to  salesmen  for  promoting  sales. 
The  corporation  has  a  meat  packing 
house  in  Altoona,  Pa.,  with  branches  at 
Allentown  and  York,  Pa.,  and  Bridge¬ 
port,  Conn.  It  was  capitalized  at  $5,- 
000.000. 
The  Bureau  of  Securities,  Pennsylva¬ 
nia  State  Department  of  Bankling,  last 
week  ordered  the  abattoirs  corporation  to 
cease  selling  stock  in  Pennsylvania  until 
examination  of  its  affairs  was  completed 
and  until  it  had  become  fully  qualified 
and  registered  under  the  laws  of  this 
State.  The  bureau  said  the  concern, 
whose  headquarters  were  in  New  York, 
had  sold  more  than  $900,000  worth  of 
stock  in  Pennsylvania. 
For  a  year  or  more  we  have  been  advis¬ 
ing  farmers  to  keep  out  of  this  promotion 
scheme.  There  was  nothing  definitely 
known  to  prove  fraud  or  misrepresenta¬ 
tion,  but  the  promotion  was  clearly  a 
scheme  to  make  money  by  the  promoters 
and  '  >t  for  the  stockholders  or  members 
who  put  up  all  the  money.  When  our  an¬ 
alysis  of  the  condition  and  caution  was 
read  or  referred  to  in  promotion  meetings 
The  Rural  New-Yorker  was  round¬ 
ly  berated  by  the  promoters  and  their 
allies  and  dupes.  This  is  the  general  ex¬ 
perience.  We  make  no  complaint.  We 
expect  it.  We  hope  we  merit  the  abuse 
and  hatred  of  promoters  and  schemers  who 
plan  an  exploitation  of  the  ‘farm.  If  it 
didn’t  come  we  would  begin  to  fear  we 
were  not  doing  our  full  duty  to  the  peo¬ 
ple.  We  love  to  serve.  Of  course,  there 
are  always  those  who  listen  to  promises 
of  great  profits  or  other  benefits,  and  are 
led  to  believe  that  we  are  influenced  by 
error  or  sinister  motives.  Unfortunately 
some  well-meaning  people  take  this  view. 
In  such  cases  we  can  only  wait.  We  are 
always  justified  by  time,  for  the  simple 
reason  that  we  have  no  prejudices.  We 
get  the  truth,  and  in  the  light  of  accu¬ 
rate  information  we  try  to  protect  our 
friends.  iWe  are  moved  by  the  above  case 
to  say  this,  not  for  any  justification  or 
glorification  of  our  own  work,  but  in  the 
hope  that  it  may  be  the  means  of  saving 
some  of  our  people  the  loss  of  their  hard- 
earned  savings. 
Enclosed  find  clipping,  from  the  Path¬ 
finder  in  reference  to  foreign  money.  Let 
me  know  your  opinion  of  this  State 
bank,  and  if  it  would  be  all  right  to  in¬ 
vest  $5  with  them.  e.  l.  w. 
New  York. 
The  advertisement  referred  to  invites 
the  readers  to  gamble  in  German  marks 
and  other  foreign  money  of  speculative 
value.  This  is  the  class  of  advertisers 
that  the  Pathfinder  thrives  upon,  and  at 
the  expense  of  its  readers  who  patronize 
its  advertising  patrons.  We  should  like 
to  see  publications  carrying  fake  adver¬ 
tising  barred  from  the  United  States 
mails. 
You  have  the  best  balanced  farm  paper 
in  the  United  States,  and  that  means  in 
the  world!  Enclosed  find  $1  for  re¬ 
newal.  j.  b.  K. 
New  York. 
We  readily  admit  that  we  have  no  dis¬ 
position  to  dispute  this  good  friend.  Ilis 
friendship  may  lead  him  to  extravagance, 
but  as  a  publisher  himself  his  judgment 
ought  to  be  good.  Anyway  we  are  try¬ 
ing  to  do  what  he  says  we  have  accomp¬ 
lished. 
I  have  seen  caution  in  your  paper 
against  your  subscribers  buying  stock  of 
the  Bullet  Proof  and  Non-shatterable 
Glass  Corporation,  and  I  guess  you  are 
giving  them  good  advice.  But  it  seems 
there  are  several  such  concerns,  or  one 
concern  doing  business  under  different 
addresses.  I  am  enclosing  a  clipping 
from  our  local  paper  of  this  date  which 
shows  what  the  agent  of  one  of  the  con¬ 
cerns  is  doing.  Another  one  ■with  offices 
at  25  M  est  43d  St..  New  York,  and  so- 
called  factory  at  47-55  Spring  >St.,  Eliza¬ 
beth,  N.  J.,  succeeded  in  getting  a  few' 
hard-earned  dollars  from  me,  and  wanted 
to  get  more.  The  thing  looked  plausible, 
but  I  decided  before  going  any  deeper  I 
would  take  a  look,  so  w'ent  to  25  West 
43d  Street,  and  found  nice  offices  on 
twenty-second  floor  of  a  large  building 
with  some  20  or  30  stenographers  seem¬ 
ingly  busy  ;  enough  office  force  for  a 
manufacturing  concern  doing  a  million 
dollars  of  business  a  year.  Certainly 
things  looked  fine  in  the  office.  Then  I 
went  over  to  Elizabeth  to  the  factory, 
through  which  I  wras  show'n  by  a  verv 
pleasant  young  man.  I  saw  no  machin¬ 
ery  in  operation,  but  some  half  dozen  ma¬ 
chines  of  various  kinds  idle,  and  saw  but 
one  single  person  besides  the  one  who  was 
showing  me  through  the  factory.  I  de¬ 
cided  to  my  satisfaction  the  thing  is  a 
fake,  and  that  I  would  better  lose  what  I 
have  put  in  than  to  send  some  more  along 
with  it.  Perhaps  your  readers  have  been 
sufficiently  warned,  but  if  not  I  am  send¬ 
ing  this  as  further  proof  that  your  advice 
to  your  readers  is  good.  z.  c.  B. 
Connecticut. 
The  newspaper  report  referred  to  re¬ 
cords  the  arrest  of  Morris  Sedler  of  Bos¬ 
ton  on  the  charge  of  selling  stock  of  the 
Armor  Plate  Non-shatterable  Glass  Cor¬ 
poration  under  false  pretences  and  with¬ 
out  having  secured  a  license.  It  is  al¬ 
leged  that  in  order  to  induce  others  to  in¬ 
vest,  Sedler  claimed  that  Gov.  Templeton 
had  invested  in  a  large  amount  of  the 
stock.  When  the  information  came  to 
the  governor’s  attention  he  immediately 
set  the  w'heels  of  justice  in  motion  to  se¬ 
cure  the  arrest  of  the  sw'indler.  If  more 
officials  took  such  action  against  the  stock 
pirates  the  public  would  be  much  better 
off. 
September  15,  1923 
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LAnterNS 
N  TEXT  time  you  buy  a  lantern 
be  sure  to  look  at  the 
Embury  Supreme,  and  then  com¬ 
pare  it  with  others.  Examine  the 
dome  of  the  Embury  and  you 
will  see  that  there  are  no  holes 
in  it  to  admit  dirt  and  rain 
Notice  the  finger  room  for  turning 
up  the  wick;  the  extra  large 
brass  oil  filler;  the  extra  strong 
construction  throughout.  Then 
you  will  see  the  meaning  of 
Embury  Supreme ;  lanterns  that 
are  built  to  give  you  the  maximum  of  service  and  convenience. 
No.  240  is  of  the  cold  blast  type,  burns  35  hours  and  has  a 
No.  2  C.  B.  globe.  Its  ten  candle  power  improved  burner 
with  1 "  wick  gives  20%  more  light.  It  cannot  blow  out  in 
the  strongest  wind. 
Price  $1§2 
Order  from  your  dealer.  If  he 
has  none  in  stock,  we  will  mail, 
postpaid,  on  receipt  of  price. 
Embury  Manufacturing  Co. 
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