William H. Kirwan

“ It is un-American to sit still while someone robs you, and it is also un-American for any one to permit it. The writer’s aim and ambition in this life is to so corral these unreliable wireless concerns and so instruct all of our wireless men that their wonderful claims for their apparatus will be accepted, if at all, with a grain of salt.
Every magazine devoted to the art of wireless telegraphy should be more than willing to assist the amateurs in this respect. ”

“ The writer has no axes to grind, as he is in a position to be bit occasionally and not feel it, but some of the smaller brothers, to whom a dollar represents weeks of saving, would probably not feel so well about the matter. The writer has been working along these lines for years and believes now that he has enough evidence in hand to convince the most skeptical that the sole aim of some of these wireless concerns is to unload a great amount of worthless wireless hardware or junk on the unsuspecting amateur. ”

“ In nearly all our largest cities, those who contemplate self-destruction are arrested until they can prove that they have changed their minds. More plainly, those of us who cannot protect ourselves are protected by law.
This same argument should hold good in the wireless field and every wireless man should be protected from the consequences of a rash act. All of us have been very badly deceived at some time or other in the various products manufactured by various wireless concerns and advertised as reliable wireless goods. ”