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The  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
December  1,  1923 
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name  and  address  given.  Many  inquiries 
are  answered  by  mail  instead  of  printing 
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ters  receive  no  consideration. 
Publisher’s  Desk  saved  our  doctor  about 
.$90  on  a  chicken  deal  through  our  sub¬ 
scription.  Now  the  doctor  wants  the 
paper  himself.  Inclosed  find  $1  for  his 
subscription.  I  would  not  wish  to  do 
without  The  R.  N.-Y.  e.  j.  m. 
We  hope  the  doctor  will  live  long 
enough  to  pay  that  $90  out  in  annual 
dollar  subscriptions  to  The  R.  N.-Y.  as 
an  active  chicken  breeder,  and  then  some 
years  longer  for  good  measure  and  good 
luck. 
Find  enclosed  letter  which  my  wife  re¬ 
ceived  recently.  While  I  am  not  falling 
for  this  scheme  it  does  not  look  very 
good  to  me,  and  your  advice  on  it  may 
prove  a  blessing  to  some  poor  sucker.  I 
have  been  reading  your  paper  for  two 
years  or  more,  and  know'  it  is  the  best 
ever.  J. 
New  Jersey. 
This  subscriber’s  wife  has  been  se¬ 
lected  to  receive  a  building  lot  at 
Brown’s  Mills  in  the  Pines,  N.  J.  The 
conditions  the  letter  states  will  be  ex¬ 
plained  w'hen  the  recipient  calls  at  the 
office  of  the  Brown’s  Mills  Band  Co.  It’s 
the  same  old  game  of  leading  the  pros¬ 
pective  victim  to  believe  that  a  lot  is  to 
be  given  away ;  but  we  have  yet  to  learn 
of  anyone  getting  a  lot  anywhere  with¬ 
out  paying  more  than  it  was  worth.  Some¬ 
times  the  payment  is  in  the  form  of  a  fee 
“for  the  deed”  and  again  one  lot  is  given 
the  prospect  if  he  buys  another — and  he 
pays  more  for  the  one  than  both  are 
worth.  The  Better  Business  Bureau, 
Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  recently  issued  a  bulletin 
exposing  this  old  fraud. 
You  may  find  the  enclosed  letter  of  in¬ 
terest.  Along  with  my  letter  to  Chief 
McDermott  I  sent  a  leaf  taken  from 
The  R.  N.-Y.  of  March  31,  which  con¬ 
tained  a  letter  from  a  lady  whose  experi¬ 
ence  with  “The  Famous  Woman’s  Home 
Journal,”  East  Liverpool,  Ohio,  exactly 
duplicated  my  own.  I  wished  to  do  my 
little  bit  towards  trying  to  expose  such 
a  contemptible  gang  of  crooks.  D.  s. 
Massachusetts. 
The  above  letter  refers  to  our  exposure 
of  a  gang  of  swindling  subscription 
agents  taking  subscriptions  for  a  publi¬ 
cation  that  had  no  existence,  the  fakers 
making  the  plea  for  sympathy  that  they 
were  “working  their  way  through  col¬ 
lege.”  The  following  letter  from  the  Chief 
of  Police  of  East  Liverpool  shows  how 
the  game  was  worked  ! 
I  have  received  at  least  one  thousand 
letters  of  a  similar  nature  to  yours,  also 
the  post  office  here  has  received  two 
trunk  loads  of  the  same  kind  of  letters. 
The  Post  Office  Department  has  had 
men  working  on  this  publishing  concern, 
but  has  been  unable  to  accuse  any  per¬ 
son  in  the  city  of  having  any  connection 
with  it  or  of  receiving  any  mail  ad¬ 
dressed  to  it.  These  men  who  are  operat¬ 
ing  are  a  bunch  of  petty  swindlers;  they 
go  to  a  printer  and  have  these  receipt 
books  made  with  the  name  of  the  TFo- 
man’s  Home  Journal,  and  when  the  sub¬ 
scriptions  are  secured,  they  just  pocket 
the  money  and  move  to  another  town. 
Our  reports  show  they  have  worked  in 
New  York,  Ohio,  Pennsylvania,  West 
Virginia  and  Illinois.  After  reading  this 
letter’,  you  are  at  liberty  to  mail  it  to 
The  Rural  New-Yorker  for  publica¬ 
tion.  HUGH  J.  MC  DERMOTT, 
East  Liverpool,  O.  Chief  of  Police. 
About  a  month  ago  a  patron  of  this 
bank  applied  for  a  loan  of  $300,  stating 
that  her  daughter,  who  is  teaching  school, 
had  entered  into  a  contract  with  the 
Anthony  Wayne  Institute,  of  Indiana 
(presumably  Fort  Wayne.  Indiana),  for 
a  course  of  instruction  by  mail,  stating 
that  the  institution  guaranteed  her  daugh¬ 
ter  a  position  at  a  salary  of  not  less  than 
$1,800  per  year  just  as  soon  as  her  daugh¬ 
ter’s  school  closed.  Having  little  con¬ 
fidence  in  the  value  of  instructing  by  mail, 
and  having  less  confidence  in  an  institu¬ 
tion  that  guarantees  a  salary  of  $1,800 
to  one  so  young  and  inexperienced,  I  de¬ 
clined  to  make  the  loan. 
The  mother  came  again  today,  and  with 
tears  in  her  eyes  pleaded  with  me  to  make 
the  loan,  statiug  that  her  daughter  had 
written  that  the  representative  of  the  in¬ 
stitution  threatened  to  lock  her  up  if  she 
did-  not  pay  the  $300  by  the  15th  of  this 
month.  The  mother  states  that  her 
daughter  is  in  a  state  of  nervous  collapse. 
I  am  a  subscriber  to  The  R.  N.-Y.  and 
read  with  much  interest,  Publisher’s  Desk. 
It  occurs  to  me  that  I  have  read  of  this 
identical  institution  in  those- columns.  If 
you  have  any  information  regarding  this 
institution  as  to  their  mode  of  doing  busi¬ 
ness,  I  shall  be  graceful  if  you  will  pass 
it  along  to  m.e ;  and  I  shall,  also,  ap¬ 
preciate  an  expression  from  you  as  to 
what  I  had  best  advise  the  young  lady  to 
do  in  this  matter.  I  'enclose  copy  of  a 
letter  I  have  written  her.  T.  w.  w. 
Virginia. 
It  is  the  common  practice  of  the  agent 
of  Anthony  Wayne  Institute  to  take  ad¬ 
vantage  of  young  school-teachers  and 
talk  them  into  signing  for  a  correspon¬ 
dence  -course  without  the  knowledge  or 
consent  of  their  parents.  Sometimes  the 
girls  are  under  age.  Then  the  young 
girls  are  frightened  into  raising  the 
money  by  some  means  to  escape  the 
threats..  This  is  the  first  case  we  have 
heard  about  where  the  victim  was  threat¬ 
ened  to  be  put  in  jail.  We  doubt  if  any 
concern  securing  the  subscription  of  a 
young  girl  for  a  course  by  such  mis¬ 
representation  would  dare  go  into  court 
to  collect  under  the  contract.  The  bank¬ 
er’s  advice  to  the  patron  wras  sound  and 
good.  But  it  is  easy  to  picture  the  state 
of  mind  of  the  girl  and  her  mother,  who 
are  evidently  not  familiar  with  the  meth¬ 
ods  of  this  class  of  pirates,  and  do  not 
know7  that  such  threats  are  all  a  bluff. 
No  one  can  be  sent  to  jail  in  this  country 
for  a  debt  or  civil  default. 
One  of  our  church  societies,  in  its  ef¬ 
forts  to  raise  money  for  its  work,  recently 
gave  a  moving  picture  of  the  processes  in 
a  modern  jam  and  jelly  factory.  The 
company  providing  this  moving  picture, 
De  Laney  Products  Company,  New  York, 
paid  the  church  society  a  small  sum  for 
advertising  the  entertainment  and  making 
all  arrangements,  the>  audience  contribut¬ 
ing  to  a  collection.  Each  person  in  the 
audience  was  asked  to  sign  a  small  slip 
with  name  and  address  when  the  enter¬ 
tainment  w'as  over,  receiving  as  a  souvenir 
a  little  trial  jar  of  preserves.  All  the 
persons  who  gave  their  names  in  this 
manner  were  visited  later  by  stock  sales¬ 
men,  who  tried  to?  sell  stock  of  this  com¬ 
pany.  They  represented  that  the  business 
was  enormously  profitable,  but  that  they 
desired  to  hold  the  good  will  of  consumers 
by  giving  them  a  share  of  the  profits.  Do 
you  think  it  wise  for  women  to  invest  in 
this  stock?  E.  B. 
New  Jersey. 
The  De  Laney  Products  Co.  is  a  con¬ 
solidation  of  Paul  De  Laney  Co.  and 
three  other  food  packing  concerns,  which 
W’as  organized  under  the  laws  of  Dela¬ 
ware  in  1922.  While  the  organization  is 
quite  a  substantial  one,  the  future  of  the 
enterprise  is  a  matter  of  conjecture,  and 
-wre  W’ould  not  consider  such  an  invest¬ 
ment,  suitable  for  a  woman,  or  a  man 
either,  who  is  not  prepared  to  take  a 
risk  with  his  savings.  This  method  of 
securing  the  names  of  church  members 
to  be  visited  by  stock  salesmen  is  subject 
to  criticism,  to  say  the  least.  The  man¬ 
agement  of  church  societies  permitting 
such  use  to  be  made  of  an  entertainment 
should  realize  their  responsibility  in  sub¬ 
jecting  the  members  to  the  annoyance 
and  possible  loss.  We  assume  no  mem¬ 
ber  of  the  church  society  knew’  the  pur¬ 
pose  of  De  Laney  Products  Co.  until 
afterw’ards. 
Washington,  Nov.  18. — A  nationwide 
investigation  of  companies  said  to  have 
swindled  large  amounts  from  inventors 
and  the  public,  under  the  guise  of  selling 
patents,  is  planned  by  the  Postoffice  De¬ 
partment,  according  to  the  League  of 
American  Inventors. 
“The  process  by  which  these  companies 
operate.”  said  Alexander  J.  Wedderburn, 
Jr.,  founder  of  the  league,  here  today, 
“is  to  send  out  a  circular  letter  to  the 
inventor  indicating  to  him  that  a  quick 
sale  of  his  invention  can  be  made  through 
the  promotion  company,  who  agrees  to 
make  the  sale  on  a  commission  basis. 
This  letter  is  followed  bv  a  series  of 
‘come-on’  letters,  each  of  which  is  de¬ 
signed  to  impress  the  victim  with  the 
idea  that  the  sale  is  consummated  but 
that  a  ‘prospectus’  is  necessary.  The  in 
ventor  must  pay  for  the  prospectus.  This 
starts  a  series  of  fees  w’hieh.  in  the  end, 
often  run  into  hundreds  and  sometimes 
thousands  of  dollars. 
“There  are  a  number  of  these  so-called 
patent  sales  and  promotion  companies 
w’ho  are  using  the  mails  to  defraud  the 
public  and  the  inventor.” 
This  easy-money  scheme  employed  by 
fake  patent  brokers  has  been  exposed  in 
Publisher’s  Desk  department  a  number  of 
times.  The  methods  employed  by  patent 
brokers  are  identical  with  the  “advance 
fee”  scheme  in  connection  with  the  pre 
tended  sale  of  farm  property,  the  “song 
waiters”  and  “short  story”  writers  fakes. 
All  are  easy  money  schemes.  The  fakers 
get  money  on  the  pretense  of  performing 
a  service  which  they  have  no  intention  of 
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