[CW] interesting reading

[Anthony W. DePrato]

found this thought some might like to read it.


QST APRIL 1936

THE REASON WHY
By Hiram Percy Maxim President ARRL
reprinted from QST Sept 1927

Sitting back in the old armchair with the last issue of QST  read from 
cover to cover and with everybody else in the house asleep hours ago, i 
fell to thinking of amateur radio today and amateur  radio of other days. 
As the blue smoke curls slowly upward from the old pipe, vision of early 
ARRL Director's Meetings float before me. I see those old timers grappling 
with the  problems of organization  with QRM, WITH TRUNK- LINE TRAFFIC, AND 
RIVAL AMATEUR LEAGUES. I SEE SINISTER COMMERCIAL AND GOVERNMENT INTERESTS 
AT WORK SEEKING TO EXTERMINATE AMATEUR RADIO. They were dark days , those 
early ones.
Today I see amateur radio an institution  recognized by our American 
government an on the road  to recognition by the other governments of the 
world. I see a fine .LOYAL ARRL membership of  20,000 standing shoulder to 
shoulder and believing in each other and still blazing the way in radio 
communications. I see a rapidly developing world wide amateur radio 
brotherhood taking shape in the form of our IARU.
And as the last embers of the  old pipe turn to grey ash, I ask how it all 
came about: that the ARRL  should have succeeded and all its opponents failed.
The answer is clear. It is because with our opponents there was always some 
kind of a  selfish motive to be served for someone , whereas in our ARRL , 
WE  INSISTED from the  beginning that NO selfish motives for anybody  or 
anything should EVER  prevail. Everything that the ARRL undertakes MUST be 
100% for the General good. That policy  bred LOYALTY and CONFIDENCE. With 
those two things an organization can prosper FOREVER.
SIGNED W1AW.

makes you want to just cry and fight at the same time.
73 Tony wa4jqs


QBE  ZUT  DE WA4JQS

ANTHONY W. (Tony) DePrato WA4JQS EXTRA - HEAVY
Since 1962
CQ DX HALL OF FAME # 35
A1-OP      FISTS  # 10573
South Sandwich Island Dxpedition Group
CALLS HELD:
WA4JQS/ZS1, WA4JQS/KC4, WA4JQS/4K1
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