Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-06-12
AID CLUB WORK
EFFECTIVE in
STOPPING FAKES
Viuhance Committee Makes
Report and Points Out Field
For Operation


made Tuesday to the Ad club by the
vigilance committee and was u1ani-
mOusly adopted:
Honolulu. June S, l914
MIR. w. r. harrington.
President AID Club.
Honolulu. T. H.
Dear Sir.-Your Vigilance Commit
teen on advertising, consisting of Gen.
J. H. Soper. chairman; A. l.. Mackaye,
secretary, and Nelson B. Lansing.
I takes pleasures in hereby submitting
to the Ad club through. you its re-
port of the work your committee has
accomplished since its appointment
last February.
In conjunction with the advertising
committees of the Chamber of Com
merce and Merchants Association
your committee has taken an active
part in the endorsement of nine adver'
Using projects for Honolulu during
the past four months. and has refused
to endorse four such propositions
brought before your committee. In
enc case a project was first turned
down, but later endorsed by the Joint
I committees, owing to developments
which made of the scheme a Derlna-
nentt and certain advertising medium.
[ Your committee has made several
investigations into advertising FRO
jects. especially regarding a number
Of stock.selling schemes sprung Upon
an unsuspecting territory. and in this
latter case your committee would like
to call the attention of the members
. h. A al, ~ 10 slxyk n O cfNNK.
selling campaign started in Honolulu
bv the HadIey Advertising Agency,
. of Oakland. Cal, in which measiey
! 40 per cent profit was promised In.
| vestors, Such stock-selling PROPOSE:
tons have more than once victimi1ed
, citizens of this territory who failed
to investigate until after investment
and 1t is safe to say that approximate
tR, hundreds OF thousands of dollars
have been lost to local and legitimate
investments as well as the added pros
sperity of Honolulu and Hawaii nei in
CONSEQUENCE. ...,-ss.<fa ~
| Such stock-selling fakes as occa-
sionaIly appear in local papers can
be severely dealt with under the
federal laws and anyone who may be
lured into parting with his money
Through one of the flamboyant a5ver.
tisements whose investment is a loss
lean prosecute the advertiser II 1t can
be proved that the advertising medi-
!. um has been sent through the mails. !
.One such stock selling scheme vas
taken up with William Woodhead of
San Francisco president OF the Assoz
ciated Advertising clubs or America,
and later by the chairman of your COM
mittee with Mr.. Eberhard Of San
Francisco, who recently appeared be-
fore this club. and he promised to
take the matter up personally With
the San Francisco Advertising Vigi.
lance Committee. =. .-.:..
I'm the last issue of Everybody's
Magazine the statement is made that
money enough has been secured from
/ the people of the Unified States in enc
year through fake Advertising schemes
to pay for the building of the, Panama
canal-approximately $400,000.000
/ Accompanying this report is an
!, exceedingly interesting recapitulation
of the annual report Of the postofftce
= department, through Its chief inspector
= and which YOUR committee believes
accentuates the absolute need of strict
, vigilance by every commercial eJm-
4 munity in, the country over fraudu-
1 lent advertising schemes. -.
j In \ conclusion your committee
T. would recommend that the merchants
r. and advertisers Of Honolulu cooper
ate. more heartily with the new adj
vertiSing committee, of the Chamber
| nf Cnnmnrnn Of unrnl,,I,, hn
un its decisions as to advertising me
diums irrespective of individual pref
ference.
Your committee also wishes to
voice its appreciation of the energetic
cooperation and courtesy of the nom
bers Of the committees of the Cham.
Der Of Commerce and Merchants AS.
ISOLATION.
! Respectfully.
"JNO. H. SOPER, Chairman,
"A. L. MACKAYE, Secretary. .
Postoffiee Report on Fraud
The post office report says:
w.. There were 304 persons convicted
during the fiscal year ended June 80
/ 1913. charged with using the mails in
furtherance of schemes to defraud
and it is estimated that the loss OF
money to the public through the swim.
ding operations of those convicted
was approximately $11,967 1O6.
The amount of money obtained by
individuals arrested last year on the
charge of using the mails for fraudu
lent purposes is estimated at approx
mately 41,906,795, making a total Of