Radio Broadcast (May 1927-Apr 1928)

RADIO BROADCAST ADVERTISER 267 // all the Radio sets I've "fooled" with in my time were piled on top of each other, they'd reach about halfway to Mars. The trouble with me was that I thought I knew so much about Radio that I really didn't know the first thing. I thought Radio was a plaything — that was all 1 could see in it for me. I Thought Radio Was a Plaything But Now My Eyes Are Opened, And Vm Making Over $100 a Week! $50 a week! Man alive, just one year ago a salary that big would have been the height of my ambition. Twelve months ago I was scrimping along on starvation wages, just barely making both ends meet. It was the same old story — a little job, a salary just as small as the job — while I myself had been dragging along in the rut so long I couldn't see over the sides. If you'd told me a year ago that in twelve months' time I would be making $100 and more every week in the Radio business — ■ whew! I know I'd have thought you were crazy. But that's the sort of money I'm pulling down right now — and in the future I expect even more. Why only today — But I'm getting ahead of my story. I was hard up a year ago because I was kidding myself, that's all — not because I had to be. I could have been holding then the same sort of job I'm holding now, if I'd only been wise to myself. If you've fooled around with Radio, but never thought of it as a serious business, maybe you're in just the same boat I was. If so, you'll want to read how my eyes were opened for me. When broadcasting first became the rage, several years ago, I first began my dabbing with the new art of Radio. I was "nuts" about the subject, like many thousands of other fellows all over the country. And no wonder! There's a fascination — something that grabs hold of a fellow — about twirling a little knob and suddenly listening to a voice speaking a thousand miles away! Twirling it a little more and listening to the mysterious dots and dashes of steamers far at sea. Even today I get a thrill from this strange force. In those days, many times I stayed up almost the whole night trying for DX. Many times I missed supper because I couldn't be dragged away from the latest circuit I was trying out. I never seemed to get very far with it, though. I used to read the Radio magazines and occasionally a Radio book, but I never understood the subject very clearly, and lots of things I didn't see through at all. So, up to a year ago, I was just a dabbler — I thought Radio was a plaything. I never realized what an enormous, fast growing industry Radio had come to be— employing thousands and thousands of trained men. I usually stayed home in the evenings after work, because I didn't make enough money to go out very much. And generally during the evening I'd tinker a little with Radio — a set of my own or some friend's. I even made a little spare change this way, which helped a lot, but I didn't know enough to go very far with such work. And as for the idea that a splendid Radio job might be mine, if I made a little effort to prepare for it — such an idea never entered my mind. When a friend suggested it to me one year ago, I laughed at him. "You're kidding me," I said. "I'm not," he replied. "Take a look at this ad." He pointed to a page ad in a magazine, an advertisement I'd seen many times but just passed up without thinking, never dreaming it applied to me. This time I read the ad carefully. It told of many big opportunities for trained men to succeed in the great new Radio field. With the advertisement was a coupon offering a big free book full of information. I sent the coupon in, and in a few days received a handsome 64page book, printed in two colors, telling all about the opportunities in the Radio field and how a man can prepare quickly and easily at home to take advantage of these opportunities. Well, it was a revelation to me. I read the book carefully, and when I finished it I made my decision. What's happened in the twelve months since that day, as I've already told you, seems almost like a dream to me now. For ten of those twelve months, I've had a Radio business of my own. At first, of course, I started it as a little proposition on the side, under the guidance of the National Radio Institute, the outfit that gave me my Radio training. It wasn't long before I was getting so much to do in the Radio line that I quit my measly little clerical job, and devoted my full time to my Radio business. Since that time I've gone right on up, always under the watchful guidance of my friends at the National Radio Institute. They would have given me just as much help, too, if I had wanted to follow some other line of Radio besides building my own retail business — such as broadcasting, manufacturing, experimenting, sea operating, or any one of the score of lines they prepare you for. And to think that until that day I sent for their eye-opening book, I'd been wailing "I never had a chance!" Now I'm making, as I told you before, over $100 a week. And I know the future holds even more, for Radio is one of the most progressive, fastest-growing businesses in the world today. And it's work that I like — work a man can get interested in. Here's a real tip. You may not be as bad off as I was. But think it over — are you satisfied? Are you making enough money, at work that you like? Would you sign a contract to stay where you are now for the next ten years — making the same money? If not, you'd better be doing something about it instead of drifting. This new Radio game is a live-wire field of golden rewards. The work, in any of the 20 different lines of Radio, is fascinating, absorbing, well paid. The National Radio Institute — oldest and largest Radio homestudy school in the world — will train you inexpensively in your own home to know Radio from A to Z and to increase your earnings in the Radio field. Take another tip — No matter what your plans are, no matter how much or how little you know about Radio — clip the coupon below and look their free book over. It is filled with interesting facts, figures, and photos, and the information it will give you is worth a few minutes of anybody's time. You will place yourself under no obligation — the book is free, and is gladly sent to anyone who wants to know about Radio. Just address J. E. Smith, President, National Radio Institute, Dept 2O, Washington, D. C. J. E. SMITH, President, National Radio Institute, Dept. 20, Washington, D. C. Dear Mr. Smith: Please send me your 64-page free book, printed in two colors, giving all information about the opportunities in Radio and how I can learn quickly and easily at home to take advantage of them. I understand this request places me under no obligation, and that no salesman will call on me. Name Address' Town State Occupation