Life — January 21, 1915 — page 3: what you’re looking at

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Investigating the Navy G7HILE militarists and politicians and callers of war material have been ¢ our navy down, others have been looking Ht UD, with special at- tention to what it has cost. The fig- ow that for what some of our running ures sh eading experts now characterize as ae we have been spending more than militaristic Germany and mili- D taristic Austria combined. In the last J Gxteen years we have laid out for J faval purposes four hundred million gollars more than Germany. We know there the German Navy is. What is left of it after some good fighting is pottled up at Kiel, and it has been commonly credited with being efficient, an attacking force of which we should be mortally afraid. But where is our navy? Those who claim to know— Y yaliant Republicans helped to puild it and expert naval officers who helped to equip and organize it—tell us it is inadequate and inferior, junk- like and joke-like. So there we are. Let the investiga- tion proceed. But let us commence back a few years and seek to learn how we came to buy a navy without get- who ting it. Mave: What makes Carol so dis- liked? Beatxix: She got the most votes for being popular. THE auttoRe NEW YORK Waseca 's Latest and Most bace © and New York's Centermost i Only hotel occupying an entire city block. — Vanderbilt and Madison Aves., 43d and 44th Sts., adjoin- ing Grand Central Terminal 100 rooms, 950 with bath— Rates from $2.50 per day. Suites from 2 to 15 rooms for permanent occupancy, Large and small ball, banguet and dining salons and suites 2 specially arranged for public or private fe functions. Ze John McE. Bowman Oe a Vice-Pres. 3 y 1G BRAINS IGARS “MADE AT KEY WEST— pRITE MOVING PICTURE PLAYS $50 EACH 1 of spare time. Past experience, literary abaity and COR ¢ WNbENCE COURSES NOT REQUIRED. DETAILS FREE. 7| ATLAS PUBLISHING CO., 485, Cincinnati, Ohio | RRE | United States. | patroling 16,000,000 miles of connect- | ing highways constantly in use. Managing the Business of 8,500,000 Telephones Imagine a manufacturing business | having millions of customers scattered over the country, with millions of ac- counts on its books, most of them less than $30 a year, and including a multitude of 5-cent charges. Consider it as having shops and offices in thousands of cities, and reaching with its output 70,000 places, more than there are post offices in the Think of the task of This gives you a faint idea of the business of managing the Bell System. Not all the 8,500,000 telephones are in use at once, but the manage- ment must have facilities always ad- equate to any demands for instant, direct communication. In so vast an undertaking, every branch of the organization must work in harmony, guided by one policy. The entire plant must be managed in the light of accumulated experience, and with the most careful business judgment. The aim of the Bell System is to make the telephone of the utmost use- fulness. This requires an army of loyal men and women, inspired by a leadership having a high sense of its obligations to the public. Animated by the spirit of service, and unhampered by red tape, the 150,000 Bell employes have the cour- age to do the right thing at the right time upon their own initiative. They work together intelligently as a busi- ness democracy to give the public good service. AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY AND ASSOCIATED COMPANIES One Policy One System A Sign of Prosperity * is on Broad Street, is one of the most indisputable signs of returning prosperity Ts reopening of the Stock Exchange, otherwise known as Wall Street, although it that has yet appeared on our much-disputed horizon. most expensive luxury that we indulge ourselves in. 3 certainly not an unintermittent necessity. magnificently appointed offices and accoutrem es, its contempt for any but the largest winnings, and its consistent been proved operations, its for small servi avoidance of any effort that society can find productive or otherwise advantageous, all make it clear that if we can support Wall Street, we can support anything. with pessimism; let optimism be unconfined. a Universal Service Wall Street is easily the = It isn’t a necessity, That has : As for the sybariticism of its i ‘ive charges s L Down combcbooks.