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