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The  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
December  22,  192.5 
PUBLISHER’S  DESK 
We  have  substantially  the  same  ap¬ 
peal  to  our  friends  at  this  time  every 
year.  We  are  always  anxious  to  start 
off  the  New  Year  with  a  large  mail  of  re¬ 
newed  subscriptions.  It  is  an  encourage¬ 
ment  and  inspiration  for  the  whole  force 
from  editor  and  publisher  who  have  been 
as  one  through  30-odd  years,  to  the  office 
boy.  January  2  will  be  the  first  mail  re¬ 
ceived  for  the  New  Year.  The  sooner  the 
renewal  of  subscription  is  received,  the 
easier  it  will  be  for  us  to  keep  the  rec¬ 
ords  straight,  but  if  it  is  not  in  before, 
we  shall  appreciate  the  good  spirit  of 
our  friends  in  helping  increase  the  rec¬ 
ord  for  the  first  mail  in  1924. 
In  the  meantime  we  send  to  one  and 
all,  our  best  wishes  for  Christmas. 
Would  you  give  some  information  in 
regard  to  the  Empire  Fertilizer  Corpora¬ 
tion  of  Oneida,  N.  Y.?  Their  representa¬ 
tive  has  called  on  me  and  explained  that 
if  I  would  deposit  $10  at  the  present  time 
he  could  save  me  considerable  money  on 
my  next  Spring’s  fertilizer.  I  did  not 
make  the  deposit,  and  wished  to  inquire 
if  you  have  ever  heard  of  them,  and  if 
they  are  a  responsible  corporation.  The 
agent  told  me  they  were  smell,  but  that 
their  credit  was  Al,  and  advised  that  I 
look  them  up  in  Dun  and  Bradstreet  be¬ 
fore  making  any  deposit.  G.  E.  G. 
New  York. 
We  have  printed  several  items  on  the 
Empire  Fertilizer  Corporation,  Oneida, 
N.  Y.,  since  the  organization  of  the  con¬ 
cern,  which  seems  to  be  patterned  after 
the  United  Lime  and  Fertilizer  Com¬ 
pany,  Syracuse,  N.  Y.  In  the  case  of 
the  United  Lime  and  Fertilizer  Company, 
the  scheme  was  to  sell  $50  of  stock  to 
farmers  on  the  promise  that  a  branch 
would  be  built  in  the  locality.  Stock¬ 
holders  were  to  have  the  privilege  of  buy¬ 
ing  fertilizer  and  lime  at  a  discount  from 
the  market  price.  The  branch  houses 
promised  were  never  built,  and  many 
farmers  ordering  fertilizer  could  not  get 
the  goods.  The  Empire  Fertilizer  Cor¬ 
poration  sells  a  membership  scheme  in¬ 
stead  of  stock,  and  we  assume  the  “$10 
deposit”  referred  to  in  the  above  letter  is 
in  payment  for  the  membership.  If  any¬ 
one  ever  bought  stock  or  a  membership 
in  any  organization  with  the  expectation 
of  thereby  being  able  to  buy  goods  of  the 
concern  at  less  than  the  market  price, 
and  did  not  meet  with  disappointment, 
we  have  yet  to  hear  of  it.  It  is  prepos¬ 
terous  to  suppose  that  a  comparatively 
new  organization  can  sell  farmers  an 
equal  grade  of  fertilizers  at  a  less  price 
than  the  established  houses  in  the  trade. 
It  might  be  done  for  a  short  time  only, 
to  sell  the  stock  or  the  membership.  In 
other  words,  provision  to  sell  goods  to 
the  members  at  a  discount  is  just  “sucker 
bait.”  The  suggestion  of  the  agent  to 
look  up  the  standing  of  the  firm  in  Dun’s 
and  Bx-adstreet’s  is  “confidence  dope.” 
Bradstreet’s  commercial  agency  book  does 
not  list  Empire  Fertilizer  Corporation  at 
all.  Fui’thermore,  this  commercial 
agency  offers  no  estimate  of  its  financial 
responsibility.  These  facts  are  signi¬ 
ficant.  Originally  the  names  of  sev¬ 
eral  prominent  men  in  Oneida  were  used 
in  the  literature  of  the  corporation  as  on 
the  advisoi’y  board.  As  soon  as  the  gen¬ 
tlemen  became  aware  of  the  manner  their 
names  were  being  used  they  demanded 
the  use  of  their  names  be  discontinued. 
Arthur  Fine,  sales  manager,  was  foi-ixi- 
erly  of  the  firm  of  Goi-don,  Fine  &  Co., 
stockbrokers,  who  at  one  time  was  en¬ 
joined  in  selling  stock  of  the  Farmers’ 
Standard  Carbide  Co. 
I  am  enclosing  a  letter  that  I  got  from 
the  Bush  Motor  Company,  Chicago,  Ill. 
Do  you  think  that  this  is  a  good  offer  or 
only  a  fake  scheme?  If  it  is  good  please 
return  the  application.  I.  F.  c. 
New  York. 
The  scheme  of  the  Bush  Motor  Co. 
was  explained  in  these  columns  several 
years  age.  We  had  not  heard  of  it  for 
some  years  back,  but  it  seems  to  be  com¬ 
ing  to  life  again.  The  object  of  the 
Bush  Motor  Co.  is  to  sell  a  “scholarship” 
or  a  course  of  correspondence  instruc¬ 
tions  in  operating  and  selling  automo¬ 
biles.  The  bait  is  an  agency  to  sell 
Bush  cars.  No  matter  how  experienced 
an  automobile  man  you  may  be.  you 
cannot  get  the  agency  until  you  sub¬ 
scribe  for  this  course  of  instructions.  As 
a  matter  of  fact  all  there  is  to  the  Bush 
Motor  Co.  is  J.  H.  Bush,  who  prepares 
and  sells  this  course  of  instructions.  He 
talks  about  Bush  cars  as  though  he  op- 
exated  an  automobile  manufacturing  es¬ 
tablishment.  We  understand  he  has  an 
arrangement  with  some  automobile  fac¬ 
tory  to  put  his  name  on  cars  if  he  or  his 
agents  should  sell  any.  But  essentially 
it  is  an  easy-money  scheme  to  sell  some 
literatux-e  on  the  automobile  subject 
known  in  the  vernacular  of  the  trade  as 
“dope.” 
A  year  and  a  day  in  prison  was  the 
sentence  imposed  in  U.  S.  Court  by  Fed¬ 
eral  Judge  Bindley  on  W.  L.  Needham, 
manager  of  the  Musician  Self-maker 
Company,  in  whose  trial  the  government 
submitted  2,220  exhibits  of  verses  which 
ambitious  novice  poets  and  writers  sent 
him  in  the  belief  they,  would  be  set .  to 
music.  Needham  was  convicted  of  using 
the  mails  to  defraud.  He  also  was  fined 
$2,000.  Many  of  the  'writers  of  lyrics 
came  from  their  homes  in  distant  States 
to  testify  of  how  they  had  sent  Need¬ 
ham  fees  of  from  $2  or  $3  to  $35.  “You 
were  a  petty  parasite  on  the  community, 
getting  money  from  trusting  people — a 
high  school  boy,  a  woman  with  a  baby 
in  her  arms,  and  a  woman  63  years  old,” 
said  the  judge  in  passing  sentence. 
The  above  news  item  is  sent  out  by 
Music  Industries  Chamber  of  Commerce. 
The  import  states  this  class  of  shai’ks  has 
been  pretty  effectively  stamped  out  in  Chi¬ 
cago,  while  he  is  still  rampant  in  New 
York  and  other  cities.  A  similar  swindle 
is  employed  to  secure  fees  from  story 
writei’s  and  moving  picture  plays. 
Can  you  tell  me  anything  about  Alois 
P.  Swoboda.  21  West  44th  St.,  New  York 
City?  He  is  offering  a  course  in  evolu¬ 
tion  on  money-back  guarantee,  but  wanrs 
money  in  advance,  and  claims  to  return 
it  if  not  satisfied.  Do  you  know  if  he  is 
reliable  or  not?  w.  J.  E. 
New  York. 
Can  you  tell  me  if  the  Lionel  Strong- 
fort  Physical  Culture  Correspondence 
School,  Newark,  N.  .T.,  is  reliable? 
Massachusetts.  c.  J.  s. 
Swoboda  and  Strongfort  ai-e  two  of  a 
kind.  These  physical  culture  courses  are 
easy-money  schemes  with  just  enough  vir¬ 
tue  to  them  that  it  is  difficult  to  class 
them  as  frauds.  Swoboda  calls  his  course 
“Conscious  Evolution,”  whatever  that 
may  mean.  Anything  that  will  induce 
some  people  to  take  exercise  is  beneficial, 
while,  on  the  other  hand,  any  form  of 
exercise  might  prove  injurious  to  others. 
As  a  rule,  farmers  get  enough  exercise 
without  paying  artists  for  the  privilege, 
or  for  suggestions  as  to  the  proper  form 
of  exei'cise  to  take. 
Can  you  give  me  i-eliable  information 
regarding  the  consolidation  of  Northway 
Motors  Corporation  of  Natick,  Mass., 
with  the  Bessemer  Motors  Company?  I 
invested  $150  in  the  Northway  company 
in  1918,  10  shares  of  preferred,  at  $10, 
and  five  shares  of  common  at  $10,  from 
which  I  have  received  nothing.  The 
Northway  started  in  deep  and  is  now  at 
a  standstill,  in  need  of  funds,  and  if 
$200,000  can  be  put  into  the  Bessemer 
company  they  are  to  consolidate  into 
what  will  be  called  the  Amalgamated 
Motors  Corporation.’  The  stockholders 
of  Northway  are  obliged  to  pay  a  certain 
amount  for  the  exchange  of  stocks,  which 
means  $26.25  for  my  exchange  for  2  3/5 
shares  of  preferred  and  10  of  common  at 
8  per  cent.  Would  you  consider  this  ad¬ 
visable?  c.  L.  M. 
Massachusetts. 
We  have  advised  the  above  subscriber 
not  to  risk  more  money  in  an  endeavor 
to  save  what  is  apparently  lost.  The  suc¬ 
cess  of  the  American  Motors  Corporation, 
in  which  Northway  Motors  and  Bessemer 
Motors  are  amalgamated,  is  as  much  of 
a  speculation  ?l.s  was  the  Northway  Mo¬ 
tors  at  the  start,  to  say  the  least.  At¬ 
tempts  to  reorganize  a  failure,  and  par¬ 
ticularly  when  the  stock  has  been  ex¬ 
ploited  in  the  way  Northway  Motors 
stock  and  the  American  Motors  have  been, 
usually  results  in  further  loss.  The  old 
adage,  “Don’t  throw  good  money  after 
bad”  applies  to  this  case. 
A  report  comes  to  us  from  Pennsyl¬ 
vania  that  one  Geo.  B.  Ostrander  has 
been  operating  as  a  real  estate  agent  and 
receiving  a  substantial  deposit  on  the 
sale  of  a  farm,  skipped  town  just  pre¬ 
vious  to  the  date  set  for  closing  the  title. 
Ostander  failed  to  turn  the  money  over 
to  the  farm  owner,  and  it  is  a  nice  legal 
question  whether  buyer  or  seller  must 
stand  the  loss.  This  is  not  the  W.  M. 
Ostx-ander  whom  The  R.  N.-Y.  has  ex¬ 
posed  so  many  times  but  he  would  seem 
to  be  of  the  same  breed  of  real  estate 
sharks.  If  any  x’eader  has  any  informa¬ 
tion  as  to  the  whereabouts  of  Geo.  B. 
Ostrander  we  should  be  glad  to  have  the 
information. 
When  you  write  advertisers  mention 
quick  reply  and  a  “square  deal.” 
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