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; it pays to know e select coal that, drive cold away. e you with ecoâ€" statement. of Green hland Park Instiâ€" mance have been t is your hospital ng day â€" early mornings THE VERY LATEST BOBS TR O M higher grade Phone Highland Park 1990 Phones 120â€"121 ‘ AS DEePEeNDaABLé wHo seLls IT OLD ital HOICE ospital you buy if six hundred st in transâ€" utation for arges. HONTAS COALS CoUNTY COoaLs ING MATERIAL privacy in our beauty } answer is yone who cutting herson SHOPPE Phone 65 Facials Scalp Treatment dA 36 €# 5 k Zi, ~The family telephone | in every _ grossâ€"roads hamlet in the country is _ . mow become a possible link with Lonâ€" _ don following successful inauguration .. .of the transatlantic radiophone servâ€" â€" ~THURSDAY, FEBRU The world‘s log of conversations records how one man sui; "can you hear me whistle," and he whistled to the evident enjoyment of someone in London. Another said, "Hello, this is Dover talking. Fine!" and someone replied, "Yes, fine," another was "yesterday we signaled; today we speak; tomorrow we see." Experimental The World, in explanation of printâ€" dng the overheard conversations, says the first day‘s conversations were all experimental. Reporting the converâ€" sations does not become eavesdropâ€" ping, but a record of the successes Instances ‘of the nonprivacy of the service w::k revealed duri{gc the day. The New York World prints verbatim eopies of many conversations picked up by its radioâ€"receiving station, and a wireless amateur in Johannesburg, South Africa, reports he was able to listen in at will. | The possibilities of extention Of| ooo circuits x:::"b:"::t ‘n": the service to inland cities was demâ€" |down. In each of t ci onstrated in a call betweén the New tablished between stBscrib« York World and its Lordon repreâ€" ‘by manual exel in & : sentative during which th: St. Louis district, u is of twen Postâ€"Dispatch listened in through an lays “’e involved. In Case ordinary longâ€"distance cofinection. Inecting circuits, establishe Talk All Day | chine switching systems, as The service officially ‘opened at| 146 relays are utilized. _ 8:‘4 in the morning w’th foml | In a city of up'?‘rd’ of ceremonies and continued until 6:30 ‘habitants, served by a o‘clock at night. During that period| switchboard of 10,000â€"lines financial transactions involving more| there are over 160,000 of than $6,000,000 were completed, news | tact points in a telephone of dispatches were received, personal|‘pre about half as big as th matters discussed and advertisements a pin and weigh from five taken. I han $ T aeven m .. enrel s MR 2 More than 40 couvemgbm marked the opening of the New Yorkâ€"London service at an estimated to the subscribers of $12,000, l::::ding to the Christian Science Monitor. No g;e?terl :;Mi 1' difficulties would nvoly n exl’ondin‘ the service to other cities, officials of the American Telephone & Telegraph company, said, than would be met in ordinary longâ€"distance ¢onnections. Further extension, they said, dependâ€" ed merely upon the public demand. No on tA fe ts wme' at the present TRANSATLANTIC _ SYSTEM | development of the service. ing. of New cently ; Se Unobtainable| DO\VN the road it travâ€" els, one of the most efficient things on wheels. Coils of wire are stored inâ€" side. Tools are in the snug lockers. Pike pole§éndshov- els are in their racks. A big winch is bolted to its frame and there are pipics of steel from which to form a sturâ€" dy derrick. | Sometimes it draws a trailer loaded wtxth long, straight poles. sometimes it 10, BELL SYSTEM One Policy â€"â€" One Systemn > UnwcrsalSewwc ILLINOIS BELL TELEPHONE CoOMPANY _ ] MANY CONTACTS N The telephone p ve uw | o ooo S o otik maith in the Bell Teléephone laboratories. Because of the rapidly increasing deâ€" mand for platinum in the jewelry, dental, chemical and electrical indusâ€" tries it has risen greatly in. price. ‘This made it desirable to have a platâ€" inum substitute for contacts which would be available in greater quanâ€" tities and could be purchased at a lower price, and after a long series of tests covering a period of years Efficiency switchboard of 10,000â€"lines capacity, there are over 160,000 of these conâ€" tact points in a telephone office. They ‘pre about half as big as the head of a pin and weigh from five to eight milligrams, while there are a few major ones that weigh as much as eleven‘ milligrams. Just how heavy this is can best be realized by the fact that an ordinary postage stamp weighs about fifty milligrams, and that there are 450,000 milligrams in one pound. | | _ Whenever a telephone connection is established, electrical circuits must ‘be closed and opened. ~The point of contact between two metallic surfaces is controlled by the action of a relay, ‘and if the control functions properly the telephone call may be readily put through. Relays are, in effect, gates along the highway of speech.. â€" | _ Each day users of the telephone |connected with the Bell System in the ‘United States make over 70,000,000 calls, which means that about 70,000,â€" 1000 circuits must be set up and taken \down. In each of these circuits, esâ€" tablished between swWscribers served by manual exchanges in a multiâ€"office district, upwards of twentyâ€"one reâ€" lays are involved. In cases of conâ€" necting circuits, established, by maâ€" chine switching systems, as many u‘ 146 relays are utilized, _ { _ In a city of upwards of 50,000 inâ€" ‘hal_)_itgpts, _served by a multiple in alloy of gold, silver and platinum, n specified proportions, has been As a substitute for platinum, used ‘or many years as a contact materâ€" al, a new alloy has been developed SOME FACTS OF INTEREST and failures of the various conversaâ€" TÂ¥ tion of Lines Which: Are Used Daily by Milâ€" lions in U. S. The telephone truck gets many a glance as it passes. For whether on the peaceâ€" time job of construction and maintenance or bound to where snow and sleet have made for it a battle ground, it means power, speed, efficiency, economy and human loyalty, united in the task of making teie phone service better, broad â€" er, more dependable. bears a heavy reel of cable. Often its load is men. WR H. W. Lee, at present attached to the company‘s construction departâ€" ment in the general offices, will sucâ€" ceed Mr. Crowley as superintendent of the Maywoedâ€"Elmhurst district. W. P. Crowley, at present district superintendent in the Maywoodâ€"Elmâ€" hurst region, is being promoted to the position of â€" Kankakee district manager, following approximately two ‘years at Maywood. B. G. Smith, the company‘s present district manager in Chicago Heights, will be brought to Oak Park to reâ€" place Mr. Judd, Mr. Smith also has been with the Public Service comâ€" pany for many years, having served as district manager in Kankakee prior to his Chicago Heights appointâ€" ment. fied with many civic enterprises,. His new capacity will permit the enlargâ€" ing of his scope of usefuiness and will also open a larger field in which to develop such friends as characterâ€" ized his long stay in Oak Park. W. C. Dowdy, who now holds the position of district manager in Kanâ€" kakee, has been named to succeed Mr. Smith in Chicago Heights. Mr. Dowdy formerly was district manager at Streator. Harry L. Judd, who has served the company for 18 years as district manager in Oak Park, has been proâ€" moted to the posgition of assistant to vice president Bradley. During his long term of service in Oak Park, Mr. Judd has made innumerable friends and has been actively identiâ€" Important changes in personnel, affecting three major districts and one subâ€"district of the Public Service company of Northern Illinois terriâ€" tory, have been announced by Charles W. Bradley, vice president in charge of public relations and service. AFFECTS THREE DISTRICTS PUBLIC SERVICE CO. PERSONNEL CHANGES The individual savings in each tiny contact is small, but on account of the great number of relay and key contacts necessary in the telephone plants of this country this saving mounts up to a large totalâ€"each year. Saving Is Large â€" This alloy at the present time is being used in approximately 95 per cent of all telephone relays and keys. found to have the necessary features and is now being used in the Bell And Also Transfers To New Locations Are THE HIGHLAND PARK PRESS, HIGHLAND PARK, ILLINOIS Gt‘s o oi n ce n o of Ever| sifi_WEJOM beâ€" came hpad of the Department of Comâ€" merce |systematic efforts have been made fo expand our foreign comâ€" merce hs rapidly as possible. It is to y establigh the position of foreign trade representatives of the United} States Department of Comâ€" merce fnd to provide for their classiâ€" fication under: various grades. . The measure has met with favor in the lower house and it will undoubtedly pass the present session of congress. About twenty years ago the United States ibegan to realize the necessity of extending its frade relations into foreign: countries, and the agitation began |with ‘demands that Central and South America trade be taken away from England and Germany. | A Systematic Effort PLAN DIRECTION OF FOREIGN COMMERCE Meastire Introduced to Definiteâ€" ly |Establish Position of a t. of Commerce Repâ€" All pf the above changes are disâ€"| gratifying to know that "foreign ti‘nctL ryfnqt_iom, and are indicative | commerce," under Hoover‘s guiding of teady . growth and developâ€" mmfif'the company‘s . business. is a bill pending in congress resentatives CFwoolve Years DEPENDABILT Donee BrRrothers MOTOR CARS _ â€" â€" frequently it delivers mileage runâ€" ning well into six figures; and that maintenance cost is remarkably low throughout its long and useâ€" ful life. ' gr." These facts powerfully witness Dodge Brothers success in conâ€" stantly bettering a product that was exceptional even at the start. You will find also that six, eight and even ten years of service are not exceptional for the car; that This enviable leadership Dodge Brothers have rigidly maintained. Whercvcr‘difiicult conditions try the souls of men and the stamina of motor cars, you will find Dodge Brothers product foremost in favor. : It was Dodge Brothers distincâ€" tion, twelve years ago, to create a more dependable car in its price class than previously had been known. f A. G. McPherson We Also Sell Dependable Used Cars Congress® Aiding Congress has gone into the quesâ€" tion of strengthening our foreign trade field and a report has been subâ€" mitted by the house committee on inâ€" terstate and foreign commerce which shows ‘that the government foreign commerce service is rapidly becomâ€" ing a splendid example of efficiency. are: placing their ~American cars everywhere, and the monthly stateâ€" ments of foreign commerce show that hundreds: <of ‘new industries â€" Have broken into the world markets; ‘The Department of Commerce and the state department have been coâ€"operâ€" ating in all matters relating to the nation‘s export and import business. need the help of the government in a foreign : tradeâ€" center these departâ€" ments propose to be in a position to have "a man on the job." YELLOW CAB RATES endeavor instead of a mere First twoâ€"thirds mile ..............35¢ Each additional 1â€"8 mile ....._.10¢ No charge for extra passengers. 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