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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park, Washington, D. C. · Aug 22, 1912

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 89, No. 34.

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Note and Comment

By Editor

Get-Rich-Quick Advertisements

THAT the various schemes for rapidly amassing wealth and robbing the unsophisticated of their hard-earned money are not methods of the past is apparent from a recent statement of the Postmaster-General. More than one thousand persons and companies were charged during the past year with using the United States mails to defraud. Of these, four hundred fifty-two were convicted and sentenced, while five hundred seventy-one are still awaiting trial. But before the government could secure the arrest of these swindlers, more than one hundred twenty million dollars had been filched from unwary persons. Knowledge of these facts will not deter thousands of others who are easily persuaded, from becoming a prey to such fraudulent schemes in the future.