1000 ways to make 1000 Dollars.

1000 ways to make 1000 Dollars.
1000 ways to make 1000 Dollars.
There's good market for sports pictures guess I'm lucky replied Aaron Rubino San Mateo California junior college frosh when asked how he had succeeded so well with the sidelines to his pre medical course a smiling black-haired giant of nineteen Roop as he is known takes pictures with a Graflex plate camera pictures that cell photography always interested him but it became his hobby in 1935 when he was given a photo finishing outfit he went to football games and snapped highlight plays one Saturday on the field he asked a photographer for help in getting a picture the man was a star cameraman for the San Francisco Chronicle he not only gave the advice but told rube to come to the office anytime he needed information group did a friendship developed and today that newspaperman is a friend of the Rubino family the boy spent every spare moment taking and developing pictures he was getting orders he specialized in athletic subjects because he was so keen about sports one day he showed some pictures to the sports editor of The Chronicle who accepted them and offered to buy others as good group submitted them by the Dozen gaining the liking of the editorial staff by his perseverance and enthusiasm he was given the use of the darkroom and the benefit of expert advice at first he supplied his own films and paid his way to photographed events many times wasted effort when his photos didn't sell but today he rarely has a failure in the newspaper gives him assignments and pays for films in addition to pictures used he has a press patch gets free passes to all athletic events and knows practically every newspaperman in town being with the staff but not of it is an advantage he points out the freelance can sell prints and retain his negative something a staff photographer cannot do Rupe sells to the United Press Associated Press wide world and other good markets here are his suggestions to prospective freelance cameraman always be on time he learned this win after watching a school fire from 12 until 3 in the morning he rushed home to develop his pictures and got them to the Chronicle by 4 o'clock only to be told too late we've gone to press don't be afraid to talk to people he often hitchhikes the 19 miles home from college because he likes to contact people in his head lifts in everything from a Ford to a Packard it's a swell way to learn human nature he declares be resourceful resourcefulness brought him his biggest thrill in a scoop at college one morning he heard that a red demonstration was to be staged on the campus at high noon what a chance for pictures but alas his camera was at home attending morning classes he wrestled with the problem of getting those pictures and when the demonstration came off there was rube in the thick of it clicking away he had borrowed the school camera he recorded the wild scene with eggs and tomatoes by the bushel flying through the air hitting policemen and college dignitaries who were trying to quell the disorder group was the only photographer present and the writers tried to smash him in his camera but he got away and rushed down to the Chronicle office other newspapers tried to buy his pictures but he wouldn't sell in The Chronicle was the only paper carrying photographs to accompany the big headline story said Roop I just fought my way through the mob guess it was luck look sounds more like pluck five dollars a day stenciling house numbers and curbstones back in 1937 it looked as if two students Ralph and George at Northwestern University Evanston Illinois would be unable to return for their fourth year unless some unknown source of revenue could be tapped in as they agreed the sooner the better it was Ralph who gossip bright idea for making money one evening calling on his latest big moment two people in the car stopped in front of the house and inquired whether it was such an such a number after he had directed them he realized that you simply could not see the house number from the that night when he got back to the room he shared with George they've put their heads together and after some plain and fancy figuring found they could make a tidy sum of money by painting house numbers on the curb stones in front of the houses of efforts to me ins with the set of marking stencils each boy took one side of the street in front of a house one of the boys would brush a square of white paint on the curb and then ring the doorbell when the householder appeared the white space was pointed out and he was asked if he wouldn't like to see his house number painted in black on the white space it is surprising how many were actually eager to have the job done in fact about 3/4 of the householders of Evanston have House members painted on their curbstones before the boys had finished the white spaces were painted first along the street and then the boys came back and stenciled the black numbers thus allow and a white paint to dry a charge of 25 cents was made for any combination of numbers and the first warning in four hours they completed 22 orders each making a total of five dollars and fifty cents for the mornings work apiece Saturday and as many hours before and after and manage these two enterprising businessmen worked at their jobs before long they found that they had about exhausted the market in Evanston they then moved on to the section just south of Evanston which is Chicago proper and worked that territory when that was worked out they moved on to other suburbs north and numbered the residents as R alpha term did during the spring vacation they finished the sections north and west of Evanston and when the summer vacation came around they decided to take their paint and brushes in number the natives along the route to Ralph's home where George was spending the summer in the farm sections along the way they painted rural mailboxes with aluminum paint and stenciled the name post office RFD root and box number for this work the charge of 50 cents was made during the summer they worked the territory in and around Ralph's hometown of 150 thousand people in the fall term saw them with more money to finish their fourth year's tuition students earn money as proxy parents about two years ago Miss G Allison Raymond a graduate of Bryn Mawr found it impossible to locate anything other than a temporary job after weeks of unsuccessful scouting she realized that she would have to make her own job making a job is of course much more difficult than finding one however miss Raymond's special aptitude for organization has enabled her to make an unusual success in and out of the ordinary enterprise she calls proxy parents proxy parents provides employment for young students who find it necessary to make money during odd hours these proxy parents are on call anytime during the day and evening for instance if mrs. Jones little daughter is coming home from school or Kemp and the mother cannot meet the train she calls proxy parents and a student is called to take over the job of seeing that Priscilla reaches home safely or if a mother has a convalescent child and wants someone to amuse him read to him or play games with him she calls proxy parents besides meeting trains amusing convalescent children in their homes or in hospitals proxy parents will take charge of play hours during rainy days take children singly or in groups to museums the moving pictures beaches playgrounds parks or other specified places students are also on call for an hour or two to stay with a child while the mother shops or they will take charge of a child during the evenings when the parents are away a clever girl whose course of study is not too heavy could develop such an enterprise during her third and fourth college years with the idea of continuing it after graduation a card file of students names free hours and special abilities and a list of families in town having children form the basis for a proxy parent business you.