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Show IN EUROPE YOU WAIT YOUR TURN Americans traveling abroad and having occasion to mako long distance dis-tance telophono calls frequently encounter en-counter unfamiliar nnd rather disconcerting dis-concerting methods of procedure. For cxamplo, thoy discover that tlo traffic traf-fic congestion on tho Government lines Is sometimes so great that It is necessary to mako out an application appli-cation to talk sereral hours ahead of tlmo and then wait until their turn comes. As is Is ofton not possible pos-sible to predict Just whon this will )0 travellers aro unable to mako appointments ap-pointments and aro otherwise embarrassed. em-barrassed. Another peculiarity of tho European servlco is that on busy circuits conversations In tho majority of cases aro limited to a specified tlmo, from 3 to G minutes. At tho end of that tlmo the calls Is Interrupted Inter-rupted by tho operator and tho conversation con-versation can bo resumed only by renowlng tho application and waiting perhaps for several additional houra. |