| Show RIGHTS OF TELEPHONE GIRLS A story that comes from from Sacramento is of or more than usual interest W IV A Woods a citizen of that place en endeavored endeavored endeavored the other day to secure a tel telephone telephone ephone aphone in a hurry on an important business matter Instead of giving him the number for which he called the telephone operator connect connected ed him with a woman woman who Insisted on explaining to him that she wanted him to send her at once a pint of milk and anda a dozen eggs Woods ire was roused to the boiling point Just as soon as ashe ashe ashe he could get away from the woman he called railed the operator up and swore at ather ather ather her herThe The girl very promptly had Woods arrested In the justice j court he en entered entered entered a plea of guilty but set up by byway b byway way of extenuation the fact that he had been sorely tried The justice re refused refused refused fused to consider any circumstances as mitigating the offense of ot swearing at ata ata ata a woman He imposed a fine of oC 20 ZO on Woods with the alternative of twenty days da s in jail It is not at all likely that he will swear at another telephone girl soon It is just a little too expensive a luxury for him The Herald rises to endorse tho the court We wish that every man who swears sears at a telephone girl could be berun berun run fun down and punished The Tue practice is altogether too common the young y ung women who handle the calls in a tele telephone telephone phone exchange are entirely too for forbearing forbearing forbearing bearing Men who wito would not dream of of being even een rude jude to a woman when talking to her face to face tace are too t o brutal for description in their treat treatment treatment treatment ment of or telephone operators when the latter seem a trifle remiss In their du duties duties duties ties They should be made to suffer for their conduct The lot of at the average telephone op operator operator operator is not at best an en enviable n viable one To sit at a switchboard for several hours on end with lamps glowing or drops falling In every direction tion with fingers fairly flying In the therace therace therace race to keep up with the work is not the easiest occupation in the world The wonder is not that the operators make mistakes but that they make comparatively speaking so few They keep up excellently well everything considered And they are doing their very best to be accommodating ac all the time They are entitled to and should re receive receive receive the utmost courtesy courtes from the public We have never believed that anything was to be gained by being ugly with telephone operators We Vo have never neer believed that they the deliberately deliberately deliberately try to inflict In lct poor service upon anyone although they would hardly be human if It they failed tailed to make matters just a little harder for or people who make senseless and unnecessary com corn complaints complaint plaints plaint to and about them The tele telephone telephone telephone phone operator is entitled to exactly the same consideration that is shown to working girls in all occupations and that h t is consideration of oS 05 the very high est st character |
