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Show der said. Mors than ons thousand tel. ephone operators are employed by the two companies In Kanaaa City. The use of mechanical operatora would cheapen operating sxpenses. Kansas City llsr. phonb onus to oo. It Is only a matter of tlms when ths day of the "hello girl" will end. a .-ceding to O. C. Hnlder, general msnsger of ths Karisaa "1ty Horns Telephone company. com-pany. Mr. Hnlder haa relumed from a trip taken with a committee of ths Home company atorkholrirra to see automatic au-tomatic telephone connections. "Ws fouiMZ nothing that could be e-pended e-pended on, although eeverel plsnts were visited," Mr. Hnldsr aald today. "Many big plsnts are equipped with automatic oonaectors, but no satlsfsc tory test hss been mads yst. Ths In vsnttoiis along; that Hn. ars getting closer to perfection and It won't be many years until girl operators will not be needed. The stockholders of ths company ars eager to give the quickest poeslhls ssrvlc. and to avoid mistakes, Mlstakss will he mads so long as human beings work as op. orators." f On. of ths Isrgsst cities which has automatic telephone connections Is Omaha. Oma-ha. Ths system bss not been used long enough to show whether fewer mis. tskes ars made by the machinery than hy the average "hello elrl." Mr. Pnl- |