Show 0 DISCOUNT f GARDEN NOSE HOSE j I i NEW STOCK THE MOUNTAIN STATES I RUBBER CO i t i I State Street S 3 1 I i 1 F Fr r H 40 r 50 ROUND TRIP TO TOVIA San Francisco and Los Angeles r VIA VIA Southern Pacific INCLUDING STOPOVERS AT ATTHE LAKE TAHOE TIME THE KiLLARNEY OF AMERICA YOSEMITE OAKLAND SANTA CRUZ BIG TREES DEL MONTE SANTA BARBARA MONTEREY CALIFORNIA BEACHES Let This Office Take Care of Your Itinerary and Reserva Reservations ons F. F E. E SCOTT D. D F. F P. P A. A Southern Pacific Suite Walker Bank Building Phones Wasatch J iL a h. t. t 1 Jo z l L o. o II lA M i t Jl I 4 i S j i. i p i I. I f. f har t s E r 1 1 rF It r I 1 s We Shall S re Nei r 0 Nor t Mee D and M 1 4 First for Military Preparedness and Next for the Urgent Commercial Service Theodore N N. Vail Vl aa- aa President American Telephone and Telegraph Company 1 J I We nave have done one and are aTe doing ou ours our utmost to ca carry Y out in spirit that under such conditions on operating irregularities and d del delays ys w will will- l and to the letter the pledge made by the executive head of the Bell occur that would not occur occur in normal tim times s. s f. f I System of which this company 1 is s a unit It has been suggested by many of our ou r p patrons that the yen length J We have increased our o operating P forces to the very maximum of of telephone conversations should be arbitrarily limited b by y the telephone tele- tele the present switchboards and we ar are e continually training students in phone company our our operating operating school in order order that ha t s s skilled killed opera operators tors may always be U Unfortunately tel y the suggestion is neither practicable Ie nor possible I ova avaIl available liable ble to fill an any y vacancies in In the ran ranks ranks ks that may occur When As As man many as thirty people ma may y be connected at any anyone one moment the the time comes that more ore switchboard equipment can be obtained through the portion of switchboard controlled by any single operator opera opera- still more operators will be employed 4 for her to note the time 4 to tor r and it would not be human humanly possible each conversation Moreover if it were possible to M Meanwhile we are confronted with an unprecedented demand c consumed by for service Meanwhile too the operators are striving g faithfully and time roc local al conversations and all al 1 conversations were to be interrupted interrupt interrupt- c co courageously to give service under very adverse conditions They ed at the end of a given period it would result in a still greater g renter ar are handling b bI a traffic load calculated calculate d to fill fell a much larger switch switch- switchboard number numb of calls a situation n that would be disastrous in the extreme i 1 I board rd capacity than we are able to supply It must be expected We are now handling an average of calls per da day ay J j r You c can n her help the situation greatly by limiting the time of ail all your conversations Most business conversations conversations' i 4 are necessarily brief Social co conversations however 3 are often continued over long periods to the great at detriment deter detri ment meant of the service service because of the congestion of our facilities Please be brief It will help the service service generally general y ir i t t The Mountain States Telephone T Telegraph Comp y 1 I S SY r k f. f 1 c 1 Y I i i t t- t i 0 17 V Ii r. r ir it i I I r. r lil f ill n t p 11 ni r 1 f P i t |