Show I I Ever Happen to You JOHN JOHN BLANK the the- busy business executive J picks up his phone and says to the switchboard operator Get me Smith of the firm firn of Punk Bunk and Monk Mr Smith is gotten on the line and is told io lo wait a a minute please It develops that I Mr Blank has ambled across the hall ball to a neighbors neighbor's neighbors neighbor's neigh neigh- bors bor's ors office or is down at the far end of the factory He has a mania for getting as far away fr from m the phone as possible after putting in a I call caU I Smith at the other end of the line tine rests i I 1 wearily on his elbow and goes into a comatose state watching the window cleaner across across- the street et After about five minutes Blank has been successfully paged and rushes in to the phone 1 Sorry to have kept you waiting I If Smith gets a dozen such calls in a day I ii an hour This is a pest and a growing one one that hat has risen in business within the past few years It has been made possible by the era I of private switchboard oper operators tors In the days I when a business man had to make his own telephone telephone telephone tele tele- phone calls direct he had to stay on the job until he got his party Nobody's iy's time was s wasted Thoughtlessness Yes But it can easily be remedied Have a little consideration for theother the theother other fellows fellow's time Dont Don't put in a phone call for him unless you are ready to stay nearby for forthe forthe forthe the the thirty seconds or so required to get your con con- on- on It'll sa save ve a lot of time and I make ike 1 ke kebus bus business n ss run more s smoothly |