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Show Timely Warning Is Given To Citizens of "Strange Peddlers" these goods, you will pay well for all you get. The professional swindler finds ways to profit whether business is in a state of . prosperity or depression. Pernicious swindling schemes are thriving on an appeal to unemployed to "earn money at home" by a method me-thod which requires the purchase of a kit, set of samples or some paraphernalia para-phernalia from the swindler whose interest in-terest lies only in selling this equipment equip-ment rather than furnishing employment. employ-ment. There is usually a promise o refund the purchase price of this equipment after a stated amount of orders have been taken but the "employee" "em-ployee" doesn't realize how hollow this promise. is until ho tries to ob-I ob-I tain the refund, which is usually $2 to $5. The answer to which is, don't answer advertisements offering you work at home. They are grafts, pure and simple. Under the caption of "Stranger at Your Door," the Utah Farmer gives some timely and valuable advice on dealing with the outside "peddler pest," and all are admonished to beware be-ware of the "smooth" guys. How the custom ever originated by people buying from the unknown peddler, rather ra-ther than patronize the home-town merchants, has never been solved, but the habit is proving disastrous to two personages the buyer and the merchant mer-chant who plays honest and supports your school, churches, and helps to build your town. Here is how the Utah Farmer characterizes the "stranger at your door": Don't sign a stranger's contract without reading it. If you feel you must give him an order, don't pay money in advance. We find many of our subscribers sign contracts without with-out reading them and regret it afterwards. after-wards. When trouble comes they ask, ;Why did I sign?" The time to find out is before you sign and not after you suffer a loss by reason of your carelessness. Be careful when salesmen sales-men offer you the following: Picture Enlargements Be sure you 'mow whether or not you will be required re-quired to buy a , frame with the picture. pic-ture. Something for Nothing Be suspicious sus-picious of all "free" offers. The phil-anthrophical phil-anthrophical company belongs in the 'rare bird" species. Spectacles The spectacle peddler may call on you any day. We know-hat know-hat he is operating. Our advice is to show him the road. Your eyes are too precious to afford to experiment with. You cannot afford to take the chance in buying from these unscrupulous unscrup-ulous vendors. Gi'ocery Peddlers One concern we particularly have in mind is located :n Kansas City and agents claiming to represent them are the greatest offenders of which this department I has record. They carry the company's ! order blanks, yet the company they j represent assumes no responsibility j n matters of adjustment, advising us that the groceries are bought j lirect by the agent and sold in the same manner. If you pay them in ad-j -ance, you will get nothing in return for your money. If you don't and have the goods come C. O. D., youj nay get the groceries and, judging from reports as to the quality of |