Judge, 1916-02-05 · page 21 of 28
Judge — February 5, 1916 — page 21: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily **advertising content**, not satire. The page features a Bell System advertisement celebrating telephone workers as an organized "army" of 160,000 employees—operators, linemen, clerks, installers—coordinating to handle ten billion messages yearly. The accompanying photographs show workers at different roles: an operator, installer, lineman, and clerk, emphasizing the system's complexity and teamwork. The article emphasizes Bell's employment practices: workers are "specially fitted for his position," workrooms are "healthful and attractive," and the company offers "good wages, an opportunity for advancement and prompt recognition of merit" plus pensions and insurance benefits. This appears designed to attract quality employees and reassure the public of the system's reliability and worker welfare—framed in the language of military organization, popular during the WWI era when this likely appeared.
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