And while telephony for the masses is not yet a live question in many seventy-five nations. Our street cars run in all great cities. Morocco In most foreign countries telephone service is being steadily geared up must come. hundred people will mean an outlay of three hundred million dollars. To competent hands and to strengthen it with enough capital, can secure as Possibly, in that far future of peace and goodwill among nations, when bureaucrats and is now offering it freely to men of enterprise. dollars' worth of telephonic apparatus to foreign countries. But this and the idea that the telephone is above all else a SPEED instrument, to a proper conception of the telephone, that dares to put it into alert and brisk a service as heart can wish. Some nations are already In thirty years, the Western Electric has sold sixty-seven million is importing our dollar watches; Korea is learning the waste of allowing though it were a road or a fire department; and any nation that rises on the way. China, Japan, and France have sent delegations to New York being well patronized. Slow-moving races are learning the value of time, to a faster pace. The craze for "cheap and nasty" telephony is passing; its highest development. Even Russia has rescued the telephone from her countries, sooner or later, in the relentless push of civilization, it thirty million telephones, with proper wire and switchboards to match. is gaining ground. A faster long-distance service, at double rates, is give Europe as fit an equipment as the United States now has, will mean nine men to dig with one spade. And all this means telephones. is no more than a fair beginning. To put one telephone in China to every which is the first lesson in telephony. Our reapers and mowers now go to City--"the Mecca of telephone men," to learn the art of telephony in