Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-18

is possible that some one in the
world might develop an arm that
would throw a stone a mile and the
gusher might be famous for being
such a poor one, but the Post Of
flee feels it a not translate the ad-
Vertisements in this manner and
takes the position that they mlslead
the public and are intended to mis-
lead.
Evading Fraud Orders
There is a wide variety of fraudu-
lent business done by mail. 1t usu-
ally is shortlived but the old hands
at the business know how to get
around the Government TO a certain
extent. If a fraud order is issued
against George Jones, the man will
start in anew as The George Jones
Company. Another order will be
issued in that name and the next
dodge will be George Jones and
Company. Each time, the Govern
ment must go through the motions.
The address, of course. is changed
each time also.
Some of the postal frauds are very
ingenious. One of the most interest
ing in recent years was a Belgian
hare scheme. A man advertised
widely that he had Belgian hares TO
sell. He offered to sell them at $40
a pair. He would buy oaek their
offspring at 81 apiece, he agreed,
and his literature was calculated 20
hold up to the credulous purchaser
the rosy possibility of making a for
tune out of Belgian hares. The ad-
vertising game impression that the
maj was really in the buying
than the selling business, inasmuch
as he only offered one pair os hares
for sale and at the same time agreed
to buy unlimited numbers of the off
spring.
The scheme was this. The man
started with only a very few hares.
These creatures multiply rapidly. He
would carry out the terms of his
agreement and buy back the l;ttle
Dummies. He then would sell 'hese
at $40 a pair. He increased the
scope of his advertising to keep race
with his receipts of young hares.
Theoretically, he could have started
with only one pair of hares and be-
fore long had many people raising
hares to sell him at 81 apiece so he
could resell them at $40 a pair.
AS a matter of fact a holly con-
tested lawsuit arose over the legal
ity of this business. The man ac-
tually was keeping his promises and
had thousands of people buying at
$40 a pair on the one hand and sell
ing back fresh supplies at 50 a pair
on the other. The business was done
through the mails and the Govern
ment finally put a stop to it. 1t was
clear that ultimately such a business
must collapse with loss to the pub
lie. The man could not forever make
good his agreement to buy all the
hares offered to him. He stopped
business and went to Canada with
many thousands of dollars.
Many fraud orders are issued
against foreigners. 1t is a favorite
stunt of the smart German, French
man or other foreigner to attempt
to exploit the unwary American. AL
kinds of schemes are proposed ano
much money flows to Europe. in re.
Spouse to the alluring proposals
made.
Some perpetrators of mail FRAUD
get Jail sentences; some merely lose
the use of the mails. In recent years
there has been an increasing ten.
dency to send the fraudulent opera
tors to Jail. Some cases are made
difficult by the fact that technically
the swindlers carry out the precise
terms of their agreement. The mos
famous cas- of the kind is that O
the man who advertised widely tina
; he would furnish anyone with /;
beautiful steel engraving of Georg,
Washington for so cents a copy. Thi
looked fair enough and thousand
sent in their money. Each received
in return for his half dollar a tw,
cent stamp. 1t was absolutely truI
that the two cent stamp was a beau
} tiful steel engraving of George Wash
! ington, but the fraud was obvious.