Show 1 r- r TIMELY TOPICS r 1 SUCKER LISTS Hundreds or thousands of citizens s In Ontario recently received a circular letter from the United States State Inform Inform- ing them that their names and addresses had been en obtained from sucker lists They are not suckers They have not been bitten by fakers and confidence games Yet their names are on these commonly l ted lists that sell at 5 or 10 per thousand names The compilers of ot th the sucker lists get lists of ot shareholders shareholders share share- holders In good companies as well as questionable ones Even Victory bond lond holders would be on these lists i If It the names were obtainable as they sometimes are The lists have a value because It shows that these citizens have money to invest In securities or are are In the habit of ot I Investing They are the prospects on which the fakers takers es e expect to fatten I Recently the holders of ot stock In s several everal good paying dividend-paying companies have received c circulars attempting to tomake make It appear that these holders w ws were ere entitled by some sort of ot official arrangement to s special subscription rights In some flotation These Thes w were ere deliberate attempts to use the Uie respected name of ot ofa a a. aa solid soUd company as a bait to Inveigle shareholders Into a promotion promotion perhaps perhaps to sell their theil good stock In exchange ex ex- c cb change hange for tor the gamble This type of swindle ought to b be e brought within the penalty of ot the law It ought to b be e a a. penitentiary offense for tor any promoter to attempt t to o deceive prospects by any such euch cunning game The persons who receive promotion circulars from t this his or that source advertising some new venture they h ht have ave n not rit t previously known about may rest assured t their heir names are on a sucker list list That very fact tact s so should hould warn them to shun the offerings A good deal o of ot f stoc stock promotion Is done by mall mail that dare not see t the he light of ot day In the newspapers where the police pollee can watch for fraudulent statements If It everyone Is fully tully I Informed about the sucker list gamo game there will be fewer swindles Toronto Mall and Empire |