Show 1 f TIMELY TOPICS I TALKING BACK AT CENTRAL It does do to talk back to the telephone girls In France Their average age is 63 53 years vears and they are government but they call them girls nevertheless A A. subs subscriber Is taking a long chance In France if it he gives an honest expression to his feelings after he puts in a call waits patiently for his party part and finally gets Number please He lIe must ta take tak e it in good part and start all aU over again If he takes any other course his telephone service is cut off oft entirely for tor two to days das That Is the rule In France If the tho same rule were applied in this country there would be precious few tew telephones In continuous use for the operators will make mistakes the subscribers subscribers subscribers sub sub- scribers do become exasperated and cannot smother the Impulse to ease their feelings by telling central what they think about her and the whole telephone organization It is a practise that has a tendency to tomake tomake make male for better sen service Ice and It is not good policy to put a penalty on the beneficial There is a class of ot telephone users users however er that might be reminded ot of the tho rights of others by an application of the the Fren French h regulations There is the woman on the party line who delights In gossiping over the phone with her friends and thinks nothing of holding on for halt half an hour while she chatters about Mrs new dress or the n new nw w feather in a neighbors neighbor's hat Then there is also that delightful delight delight- ful person on the party line Une who listens in and makes everybody's business her own If It they were penalized by the suspension of their service for forty eight hours or forty-eight forty years the world would not suffer San San Francisco Chronicle |