Telephone* without a Svntchboard would be like automobile* witheut “gas." They would look all right but they would never very far. The first switchboard was ‘ as simple as a wheelbarrow.” However, as the use of the telephone cascaded, the early types proved inadequate and for a time six operators were required to complete some calls in the larger offices. Step by step die genius of the inventor and the skiil pf the engineer overcame these difficulties. Service is the* first requirement of a Bel! System switchboard. It must be a means for establishing quick and accurate connection not alone between subscribers in the CMnmunity but to any other telephone in the

A second requirement is ecomomy. As a part of the Bell System we are associated with a quarter of a million men and women who with us are striving for improvements in rise service and for newer, better and more economical equipment and practices. It is due to the combined efforts of this great organizati an that our country has the cheapest and best telephocc set vice in rise world.

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What the wise widow Isamed from the foolish one’s plan of investment Upon the death cf her husband, Mrs. W. decided to msunge her own 'property, which consisted chiefly of securities. Her own judgment, pins the advice of friends, shaped her investment policy. Thesw- friends were well meaning, oat inexperienced. So wss she. Both were swayed by high interest rates rather than by regard for safety. The inevitable happened—the principal depreciated and a handsome income dwindled to a mere pittance. Two years later, Mrm. C. sister of the woman above, found herself s widow. But prontic^ by the former’s experience, she placed her securities in our bands under s SAFEKEEPING ACCOUNT. We advised her to sell some of these securities and invest in others of s more conservative nature. We collect her income, placing same tc ha crecit We file her income tax returns and do sundry other work, besides counseling her from tune to time upon those matters that have to do with the ever-changing condition of investments. All this is at small cost, too, for the service of s SAFEKEEPING ACCOUNT is but s small fraction of the income collected Free booklet upon request.

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