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en Us Girls Betwe BY H. F. C. I am going to take the liberty of asking all the readers just to spend a few moments with me, talking over a problem of mutual interest. ~ First of all, might I ask whether you have been in a telephone ex- change and seen the girls working at the switchboards? If you have, so much the better, if not let us talk simply about it, because telephone service is rendered by girls with the use of all kinds of very delicate ap- paratus. Some six years ago telephone oper- ators, these girls, had been receiving about $45 a month, $9 or $10 a week, as a matter of fact, out of which they ~ could pay their way.and buy their clothes, see nickel shows and enjoy life. Everything in the ordinary run of life was more or less cheap and wages paid were suitable at that time. Is there any girl that can live and pay her way and have what she ought to have, as you and I, as fathers of a family, want to see her, on $45 a month? It is nonsense, of course. All those operators, those girls, now need $70 or $80 a month to get along with, and that isn't so very much as things go now. The extra $30 or $40 a month for each girl doesn't drop from the clouds and it must come from the subscribers, whom these girls are serving. Very well, so far alright. - Now about six years ago the tele- phone exchange, fairly large size, could be run on, say in round figures, just for example, $10,000 a month, so the Telephone company needed at least this $10,000 and a little bit more, say about $100, that is about the ratio, for interest on borrowed pub- lic money. But we need not think much about the other $100, it is so small, in fact, IT doubt: if it costs one-tenth of a cent a call for inter- est and dividends, so that this amount won't ruin anybody. The main problem is that the girls and the other workers in the tele- phone industry have got to live the same as anybody else. The majority of the people living in this town know these employes or some one connected with them, at least, they are somebody's brothers and sisters. These girls want ta render service, they want to be paid a proper wage, they want encouragement to give their townspeople telephone service. There is only one way to make all ends meet, and that is for the com- munity to pay a little increase in the cost of service for their own bene- fit. The cost of an average business and 24 hours a day, is about $5. can't hire a man to clean windows during one day for the price. In fact, when you simmer it down, it is only about 3 nickels a day. Not enough to buy a loaf of bread. A few cents a day contributed by all the subscribers would adjust ti. matter, Telephone operators have got to wear boots and shoes and some sort of covering and as they earn the n ON: inTox CATING a Co ) cational Beverag® ~ oistriBuTo? == = Os you make a call. Keep your Directory near your tele- phone and consult it every time Sometimes a subscriber will guess at a [ON NI money honestly, serving the public, N is it not right in public interest to 'N agree to these few cents increase and keep going? There can be only one answer--Of course. SCOUTMASTERS TO REVIVE 'OLE SWIMMIN' HOLE' DAYS Professor Allan Hoben, formerly of the University of Chicago, will pre- side at the meeting of scoutmasters of the Boy Scouts of America to be held in cohjunction with the north- ern Baptists' convention at Buffalo, June 23 to 29. The scoutmasters, bent on recalling the days of "the "ole swimmin' hole" and such, will follow up their reminiscenses by de- vising measures to "prevent the in- discriminate and unguided activities of youth, which in the present age of city life leads many youths astray." man's telephone today for a whole | months service of 31. days a month! You! a few' telephonenumberrather than take the trouble to hunt for the Telephone Di- rectory, which may have been mislaid. Ifthe guess is wrong a useless connec- tion is established, a third person is inconvenienced, time is lost and the work must be done all over again. The Ready Reference List in the Tele- phone Directory should be corrected each time a new Directory is issued. The use of the Telephone Directory itself is always safer. CHICAGO TELEPHONE COMPANY Beautifully built and remarkably priced, the Velie offiers to-day one of the greatest dol- lar-for-dollar values on the automobile mar- ket. The lines are distinctly different and ap- pealing. There 1s Real Lounging Room in a Velie ---no cramped position to bother you. The motor has speed and power beyond requirement. Ask for a trial trip. WINNETKA CAR SALES Phone Winnetka 1565 723 OAK STREET LLL L727 ZL A Ar da 2d Ed 2d ld du Td dd 2d 2 Zl di ZZ Zizz. 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