Judge — January 2, 1909 — page 11: what you’re looking at

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THE MOTOR WORLD Seen Through the Goggles of our Contemporaries. A PUNCTURAL VISITOR. Farlie—Father, I have discovered HEAVY LOSS. Though when an auto's wrecked | A person must expect iderable costly damage, still pms most awful tough When there is not enough Of salvage for the undertaker’s bill. -Indianapolix } why Santa Claus is depicted as driving reindeer.’ my son too wise to take —Jackson- OBTAINE HOW THE PERFECT CHAUFFEUR MIGHT BE He should submit to. phrenologice to show that the speed= not over-developed. After spending five 3. al examin: craving bump 1. He should have had 2 » unblemished reputa- years at a chauffeurs’ tion at school. college-~ e measured 5. on the “ Bertillon"* system, course, the medical and photographed for iden- tification purposes. He should be potest as regards phy: examination would be ve 6. Then, if he can convince the police authorities of his dex- on his agreeing to terity in dodging obstacles london Punch HIS COMPANY. foun Astorbilt isn’t at } PREMATURE BALDNESS | is most surely prevented by the | Walters “why, I don’t know."” Williams "Oh, he isn't. Why, this} morning I saw him riding in his auto- mobile with a policeman."’—Somerville nal. maintenance of adequate nutrition of the scalp. PACKER’S TAR SOAP —through its special ingredients— offers the surest medium for the pro- motion of normal circulation of the scalp. Applied with proper ma- nipulation it aids—never supersedes —Nature. Our helpful booklet, "The Value of | Systematic Shampooing,* tells you how and why. Sent free on request. The Packer Mfg. Co., 81 Fulton St., New York. EXPERIENCES COMPARED. “LT drove my car into t night and found J has Seeond drove mine a broken h ditto nothing. and found i had nell Widow. FINANCE. 'y, but I'don’t know automo- \ “have some mor whether to buy a home or an bile." Thave it! Buy the home and mort-, Rage it to get the machine. Then you will have both."”—St. Louis Post-Di patch, On November 3 the universal usefulness of the Bell System was shown as never before. It was an inti- mate, integral par: of the election machinery. Trinity Steeple chimed midnight the by the time ol. And Bell Service had reliably informed farmers and house- holders throughout the nation that Mr. Taft was elected. returns telephoned by seven o'clock from election dist election district. in Erie County, New York, indicated by a rule the politicians follow that ‘Taft had carried the State of New York. By eight o'clock the crowds in front of the newspaper offices knew By eleven the approximate size of the majority in Ohio was known, An the newspaper office of the single city of Philadelphia, between 200 and 300 Bell telephone operators. were announcing th bulletins to every subscriber who “rang up."* In thousands of newspaper offices over the country, tens of thousands of operators were doing the same thi In what other country could it have hap- pened ? Comparison is futile, Yet as a telephone achievement it only marks the passing point of progress reached by a service which set out in ‘the beginning to occupy the avhole field of telep my. ‘The apparatus, the operators, the lines— the whole equipment of the service simply measured up to the busiest hour capacity of the Bell Compa But it is an object lesson to those who are really interested in the development of the telephone to its point of greatest public utility. It emphasizes the value of federation in national telephone work—the necessity of co-operation, of a common investment which provides an equipment, on a business basis, capable of carrying the country’s tele- phone traffic at the busiest hour of the busiest day % jis cardinal principle which guided the original Bell “Telepho e Company remains the guiding influence in the affairs of the associated ell Companies. There is an investment in the equipment of these companies to-day of about $60,000,000, “The wonderful development which has resulted from this unexampled investment, which is being increased at the rate of over $50,000,000 a year, has given America the leadership of the world, ‘The press of other countries hold up the Bell ‘Telephone System as an example of what the telephone systems in their own countries might become under proper man- agement, ‘The press of Paris has been agitated for some months over a “telephone cr rice, which is conducted by the Post Office Department. After much debate a programme has been announced, calling for five new telephone exchanges in Paris to cost $6,000,000, and cable work estimated at another $6,000,000, @ period of four years being allowed for the execution of this avork. An English telephone expert examined the working of the Bell ‘Telephone System dur- ing the present year, as compared with the system of England, “1 venture to say, London ‘Times of A “he wrote in The August 12, 1908, ‘that e out of one hundred business men in Great Britain would gladly pay treice the rates they now pay for trunk tele phone calls if they could be assured of a service approaching the efficiency of the American servic Every subscriber to the Bell service be- comes.a member of a great, national t/e phone federation whose watchword is prompiness; a brotherhood of quick com munication which is the life of “American civilization. American Telephone & Telegraph Company Cons rth, 1a, by Judge Co. RECIPE. 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