Life — August 17, 1922 — page 3: what you’re looking at

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Easy Way to An Remove Dandruff | If you want plenty of thick, beautiful, glossy hair, do by all means get rid | of daadru , for it will starve your hair and ruin it if you don’t. | The best way to get rid of dandruff is to dissolve it. To do this, just apply a little Liquid Arvon at night before retiring; use enough to moisten the scalp, and rub it in the finger tips. ing, most, if not all, of your 1 be gone, and three or four ions should completely re- n and trace of it. You will find, too, that all itching of the scalp will stop, and your hair will look and feel a hundred times better. You can get Liquid Arvon at any drug store. A four- ounce bottle is usually all that is needed. more move ever The R. L. Watkins Co., Cleveland, Ohlo. The Ize Have It N an age in which we specialize— or are lost—the following should be noted: When business is sick and in need of a remedy, we normalize. If there are wounded veterans to be cared for, we hospitalize. When a worthy cause needs to have new life put into it, we revitalize. If we have goods to sell, we mer- chandize. Furthermore— Government bureaucracies are never broken up. They are decen- tralized. Large institutions no longer divide their labors. They. are de- partmentalized. New York is not misgoverned, only Hylanized. And as for our own precious selves, we have given up indulging in periodic moments of soul-searching reflection. We yo and get ourselves psycho- analyzed. Not even the spirits of the departed can escape. No longer do they ap- pear. They materialize. Truly, the ize seem to have it, here and hereafter. Continuous music. Bub- bling gayety; sparklin, life. Cool, refreshin; 8: on the 19th floor o X . The BILTMORE aes: | 2400 telephone wires in a cable little larger than a man's wrist Science keeps down costs When the Bell System in- stalled its first successful tele- phone cable, fifty wires was the largest number that could be operated in a single cable without “‘cross-talk”’ and other interference. Today it would require 48 cables of the orig- inal type to accommodate the number of wires often op- erated in one cable. Without this improvement in cable, the construction of new underground and aerial lines would have cost the Bell System upwards of a hundred million dollars more than has actually been spent. In addi- tion, the cost of maintenance would have been greater by eighteen million dollars a year. These economies in the Bell System mean a saving in telephone rates to each in- dividual subscriber. Inall branches of telephone practice science has similarly contributed to economy. Even in such a comparatively small item as switchboard cords, im- provements have reduced the cost of renewal by four mil- lion dollars a year. Every new telephone added to the Bell System increases the usefulness of all telephones, but this multiplication tends like- wise to increase the complica- tions and the expense of ser- vice. The scientists of the Bell System, to offset this tendency, are constantly called upon to develop new devices which simplify complications and keep down costs. By virtue of a united system the benefits of these improve- ments are shared by all sub- scribers—and the nation is provided with the best and cheapest telephone service in the world. * BELL SYSTEM® AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY AND ASSOCIATED COMPANIES One Policy, One System, Universal Service, and all directed toward Better Service Essentially the Same HEN I began to sell goods in this territory you paid a dollar a day for a room and couldn’t get the window up; now a bell boy raises the window and you pay six dollars. “Across the street there is the Hotel New Trianon. Pretty good for a town of ten thousand. It used to be the Smith House. Outside they had a row of hickory chairs where the drummers could sit and smoke in the evening. Now the house detective looks hurt if you sit down in the lobby. “I remember when they put the first elevator in the Smith House. People were afraid to ride down. Now the elevator men won't let them ride down. “But fundamentally the New Trianon isn’t different from the Smith House. The secret process of making'a hotel bed that was invented fifty years ago M. is still in use.” comicbooks.com