DON'T YOU BELIEVE 'EM

NZ Truth, Issue 1175, 7 June 1928, Page 8

DON'T YOU BELIEVE 'EM

Wonderful Tales of Radio Magic Well Put Over '

(From "N.Z. Truth's" Special Wellington Representative.)

After to-day We must cease handing America the pleasant palm for slick salesmanship. There ac troo super-smart Alices m Wellington selling what they have the unbounded optimism to name "The radio reception clarifier," who should immediately book the top floor of the T. & G. building on Lambion Quay, to accommodate the slow-witted Americans who sell real estate m the environs of Hollywood; , ■

TN comparison,; those real-estate men

At last, though, > it arrives,

are as dead as" Queen Anrie — and if

.they cannot come over here for tuition, they have the 'satisfaction of knowing that- it may be done by. correspondence. -'•'.'

Truth" went along to pay . their respects to '■';' the two unscientific si.dven- | . turers who conceiv- . . .' ed the hoax; ho one was at home

A Touching Plea

presses a strident yoea! dislike, to the weird- noises which have rent the ether.

. Before hiding:. your burning hea,d beneaththe tablecloth, you : nuii" the radio reception contraption through -the win r dow-ari.4 then, having placed the gas tube firmly: between your 'teeth, you turn on the .tap! „: : ' . ■ ' " '■ , Radio technicians'- m the. city told: '"i'ruth" that there' was no imerit /in | the device; that it had been tested in' the hope that, maybe, the originators of the, hoax really had ( stum bled across the solution to. a very perplexing question. .'■■■ . '. „■ ;- ■.'•■■.:. •/''■■/•. .-. ■■'■' ■■..'•■ Moreover, ''Truth" representatives fully investigated this alleged clarifier arid, tested the receptive, qualities of a five-valve sot undes 1 . vtu-ying 1 , wavelengths ;and. conditions. \ . • , : .' 'But the result was just the . .same. / , . • „ ■■„.■ ; ; ■ . ' ' '• ' • ' hn America, . at the .present time, one of the largest radio corporations is offering a . substantial' sum .for the patent rights of a static-eliminator which will prqv.e effective and be commercially sound; as an. investment. In. fact, tliis and 1 similar offers have beeil standing for some years without result. ■;''. ■ '. ' ' ." „; . The technical adviser to-!: : a- certain .firm of radio engineers told "Truth" thiit— sp,ve as a remarkably soimdiny'eßtment for the promoters — this alleged clarifier -was absolutely worthless. And we believe what lie says! At the very outside,. the whole device could; be made for eighteen Hence and; what amazes us is that Up till now the firm has garnered, thousands of shekels „from, from as many fools who'- 1 put their. -siriipley. trust m- what the.sales-^ m^n told them. : ' .■ . • '-. But . we had' forgotten! The birth--rate of thesV -people is one a second, isn't'it?:^:;,. :..; ' \ .-•■ ' , ' „'./