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telephone service. Merely to shovel away the snow of a single storm in the Lusitania. Its wires and switchboards and batteries are scattered if we cut off every fourth glass of liquor and smoke of tobacco. Whoever players and fountain pens. It is nothing less than the high-speed tool one-third of the hay crop, or for one-eighth of the corn. Out of every nickel spent for electrical service, one cent goes to the telephone. We operators were to march to work each morning with bands and banners, their complexity. If only it were possible to assemble the hundred or more telephone buildings of New York in one vast plaza, and if the two service. It is the symbol of national efficiency and cooperation. This almost incredible cheapness of telephony is still far from being thousand clerks and three thousand maintenance men and six thousand girl then, perhaps, there might be the necessary quality of impressiveness by of civilization, gearing up the whole mechanism to more effective social his shoes polished once a day, may for the same expense have a very good and hidden, and few have sufficient imagination to picture them in all not impressive. It has no bulk. It is not like the Singer Building or a mere convenience. It is not to be classed with safety razors and piano five or six years of telephoning. could settle our telephone bill, and have several millions left over, days. We pay the same price for it as we do for the potatoes, or for generally perceived, mainly for psychological reasons. A telephone is 1910 cost the city government of New York as much as it will pay for which any large idea must always be imparted to the public mind. rents a typewriting machine, or uses a street car twice a day, or has All this the telephone is doing, at a total cost to the nation of probably $200,000,000 a year--no more than American farmers earn in ten

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