Show Open Secret Party Line Phone Holds Rural Sway MINNEAPOLIS Jan 30 UP p- p Small rural communities welcome new ga gadgets g ts machines and improvements im In- except except t the mode modern n telephone H. H J. J Lien Blackduck Ml Minn m. m attending a telephone conVention convention con con- on- on said today The old fashioned telephone with its secret open party line Ine still held its own he said It is an intimate part of oC their a life If It a doctor is b to be called if it baby swallows a button and if It almost any sort of emergency arise the housewife runs to the phone twists twists' the bell until she gives the right number of rings and gets get the persons urgently wanted And the rest of ot the neighbors know all about It within a few minutes for tor there thee are as many as 20 parties on one ono line |