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Show SCANDALS IN SOCIETY LEAK ON TELEPHONES Oklahoma City, Jan. C. When n telephone system leaks It is Just ns bad us a leaking water or heating system. Tho telephone system nt Ardmoro la In that condition, according accord-ing to complaints that havo been filed with tho corporation commission. City Attornoy Russell Brown of Ardmoro has gathered up all ovf tho complaints nuout tho lcnKs in tho system ot tho Pioneer TelcphonoCo. nt that placo and filed them with tho commission. Somo of tho complaints aro mado by oil men, who say their conversation over tho telephono lines Is known to others who havo no right to hear it, and that everything said over a telephone line Is no longer a secret. Many of tho complaints nre made by women and they say (ho secrets of society In Ardmoro havo been scattered scat-tered broadcast. If a wedding Is to tnko placo and Is to bo known only to a solect few, It must bo whispered whisper-ed and nothing must bo said about It over tho telephone. It is the same way with scandals. Somo persons who occupy high positions hnvo been Involved through tho leaking telephones. tele-phones. Tho complainants ask that tho telephone tele-phone company bo compelled to find tho leaks and stop them. Families in Ardmoro who havo been friendly for years, now are enemies on account of tho gossip that has leaked out over the telephone wires. Party lines are not to blame for it, the complainants complain-ants allege, but leaks that can only bo accounted for by a telephone being secretly attached to tho wires. |