Life — December 13, 1923 — page 31: what you’re looking at

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Getting the Presidential Message Ready Eminent Personage: “How are tenographers getting along with sage stuff, Bascom?” arly completed, sir. Only 50,000 words more to copy.” " e you got in that declaration urmony between capital and t's all in, and it reads well to both “And the part pointing out how pros- our manufacturers are with prices due to the tariff?” masterpiece that ought to make year’s campaign funds come does the protest against the foolish notion that Congress | do something to put up the price cat strike you?” mply gi especially where you jat Congress cannot advance prices vislation.” {us the recommendation of the cers’ Association that appoint- to the Federal Reserve Board !d not be subject to confirmation he Senate been included?” s there, and an expression of thy for borrowers who have to igh interest rates.” uppose I'll have to say something vor of voting subsidies to steam- ly, and wind up with the igest_ kind of a denunciation of s legislation, That'll get you the 1 consumers’ vote.” The Dinner Hostess Her most telling speeches are: “Good ening, it's so nice to see yo and m so sorry you must be going.” She is full of beaming smiles and cquiescent nods. Although she has been giving dinner parties on an average of three a week vr the last goodness knows how many urs, there is always a confusion mong the guests at being seated. She invariably places her latest ac- quaint 's next to herself. j Every so often she takes her guests ‘Wherever your thought goes your voice may go. You can talk across the continent as if face to face. Your telephone is the latch to open for you any door in the land. There is the web of wires. The many switch- boards. The maze of apparatus. The millions of telephones. All are parts of a country-wide mechanism for far-speaking. The equipment has cost over 2 billion dollars, but more than equipment is needed. There must be the guardians of the wires to keep them vital with speech-carrying electrical currents. There must be those who watch the myriads of tiny switchboard lights and answer your commands. There must be technicians of every sort to construct, repair and operate. A quarter of a million men and women are united to give nation-wide telephone service. With their brains and hands they make the Bell System live. “BELL SYSTEM” %\ AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY AND ASSOCIATED COMPANIES One Policy, One System, Universal Service and all directed toward Better Service “Open Sesame” is out of date The Philosopher utters The Magic Phrase, ‘*SUBSCRIBE TO LIFE” Memo. for Gift List—Subscription—Safe Choice, Ensures A Merry Christmas to All Christmas Offer: Enclosed find Five Dollars (Canadian $5.80, Foreign $6.60). Send Lire for one year to _ With LIFE, 598 Madison Ave., New York Coriavrins Cars to the theatre, the party arriving about the middle of the second act. She is invariably discovering some new kind of mustard, coffee, salad dressing or fortune teller. Her dinners are all strangely alike, and are a constant source of worry to a certain one. That one is the host. The Shark Tom: That fellow is a remarkable poker player. Dick: I’ve had my suspicions, too. comicbooks.com