Judge — September 1935 — page 25: what you’re looking at

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Collecting the War Debts By Elwood Ullman P to now, the Government hasn't U done much in the way of collecting the war debts, and Ih. plan which should prodt ea practical results. My idea is to forego this diplomacy stuff ind be businesslike. In reminding the nations about their debts, we ought to send out bills instead f polite notes. Thirty days before the s fall due, each country receive a bill something like this: should UNITED STATES OF AMERICA September 15, 1935, In account with MORAVIA Amt. Credit Installment on war debt BAL. DUE ‘ This bill becomes delinquent if not paid by the fifteenth of the following month. If check is sent by mail, detach lower stub and enclose with your remit- A return envelope is enclosed for your convenience. /mportant: Have we your correct address? In event of ‘are demanded by con ductor and communicate with General Passenger Agent controversy, pay Tf th to go é dunning letters. gnore this bill, we will have er them with 2 Thus: Dear Moravia: October 15, 1935. We have not received the remittance for the installment on your war debt in amount of $87,129,563.02, as per state- ment rendered you September — 15. Doubtless the matter has been over- looked, and we take this opportunity to draw your attention to the oversight. Kindly let us have a settlement at your earliest. convenience, and oblige, Yours very truly, United States. Dede Moravia? November 2, 1935. On October 15, we wrote you concern- ing your debt installment for $87,129,- $63.02, which should have been paid on that date. Not only have you failed to remit, but we have received no acknowl- edgment of our letter. This account is way t due, and as we are about to close our books, we must ask you to let us have a settlement by return mail. Note that all countries which have their checks in the mail by midnight of November 10 will receive free, with our compliments, a beautiful premium—their choice of a nickel-plated electric toaster or a Frankie Frisch bat. Yours very truly, United States. November 15, 1935. Dear Moravia: You have caused us considerable in- convenience by failing to pay your Dill for $87.1 now 30 days past due. We have written you repeatedly about this matter and do not propose to keep it up in Unless a set- tlement is received within ten days of is date (November 15) we shall be compelled to take steps. Yours very truly, United States. Cablegrain—Colle November 26, 1935 BILL IS PAID IN 24 WILL CUT OFF 1 U.S.A November 29, 1935 Dear Moravia: You owe us $87,129,563.02. We our money and we want it now nal) United States December 15, 1935. Dear Moravia: We have not received the remittance for the in ment on your war debt in amount of 29,563.02, as per state- ment rendered you October 15. Doubt- less the matter has been overlooked, and we take this opportunity to draw your attention to the oversight. Kindly let us have settlement at your earliest . and oblige. convenien Yours very truly, United States. You may note some similarity hetween this last letter and Number 1. As a matter of f they're identical. You see. the idea is to start all over again with Number 1 and keep repeating the series until they finally get good and sick of it and pay up. Solution of Puzzle No, 339 HAVE BROUGHT MANY IMPROVE- MENTS IN TELEPHONE SERVICE IN THE early days of the telephone, practically all wires were carried over- head on poles or on house-tops. If the old system were in use to- day the streets of our larger cities would scarcely have room enough for their canopy of wires. Traffic would be impeded, telephone service sub- jected to the whims of nature. Better ways had to be found and the Bell System found those ways. As many as 1800 pairs of wires are now carried in a cable no larger than | a baseball bat. Ninety-four per cent of the Bell System’s 80,000,000 miles of wire is in cable; sixty-five per cent of it is beneath the ground, The present generation does not remember the old days of the tele- phone. Service is now so efficient that you accept it as a matter of course. Yet it would be far different today if it were not for the Bell System plan of centralized research, manufac- ture and administration — with local- ized operation. | BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM comicbooks.com