Judge — February 7, 1925 — page 23: what you’re looking at

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Unpublished Interviews The Plumber's Helper rounp the Plumber’s Helper com- fortably ensconced in an arm. chair on the second floor of the - fitters’ Literary Society. Always a diffident person, T shyly approached this resplendent px Just then he lk “Glad to. see you.” heh eted me, “Have acigar. What can Ddo their essential tool ically putting on the “Aly that’s a sad st swered as a tear dropped on his im- maculate shirt bosom. ‘The first union plumber was Lemuel Hedges, who took out his union card in Lone don back in King Arthur's time. Just as soon as Lem started his first union job, a suit of armor fell on his head, causing contusion of the brain and Gi T later complete loss of memory, | ] h “Lem soon discovered that his un ive us e ep ones fortunate ally a bless- | ing in disguise quit Following the war, when business and social life surged job seven or eight tin vito go | again into normal channels, there came the cry from homes, } his castle for tools, thereby hospitals, schools, mills, offices—"“Give us telephones.” No creasing his earnings. one in the telephone company will ever forget those days. The Medieval Plumber's Local | D : : a Ty octors, nurses ys | vi " Number Three soon recognized: the and those who were sick had to be given agoudl crank on the hean telephones first. New buildings, delayed by war emergency, at day on, every plumber, | had to be constructed, switchboards built and installed, cables upon receiving his union card, is hit made and laid, lines run and telephones attached. | a resounding whack on the left The telephone shortage is never far away. If for a few years il or pal " sledge the telephone company was unable to build ahead, if it results, but financial independence neglected to push into the markets for capital and materials in asmuredl. Tell your rvaiers: that for the future’s need, there would be a recurrence of the dearth > or premeditation of telephones. No one could dread that eventuality so much imple plumber as the 350,000 telephone workers. Bell System engineers measure and forecast the growth of T gasped, turning a | communities; cables, conduits, switchboards and_ buildings rreen as T dashed for the are planned and developed years ahead of the need, that Tin going to have some- facilities may be provided in advance of telephone want. p me on the bean and then Population or business requirements added to a community join the union.” must find the telephone ready, waiting. Arthur I. Lippmann pMOrN there is no mal body The Intruder | S the dim half-light of the luxurious living-room he crouched before a | dark bulk. Carefully, with experi- | eneed fingers, he groped for the right combination. Slowly his long. thin | | hands ran over the dial, past fifty- | eight, fifty-nine to sixty. He drew a long breath. He crouched lower. Nota sound could be heard. uddenly the door behind him was da beautiful wor | lights, confronting | » in the come With a low snarl of constemation he turned half about and growled. AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY AND ASSOCIATED COMPANIES BELL SYSTEM One Policy, One System, Universal Service opened wide 4 switched on the crouchir or goodness sake, Mary, why did you disturb me just as 1 was tuning in Kansas City? Go back to bed!” a | Pendleton’s wife never could learn how to turn her car around without smash- | ing something, so he designed and built for her the “Siamese Twin” of “Two-ine One” car, comicbooks.com