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Show A TELEPHONE NATION In 1877 the number of telephones per hundred population in both the United States and Europe was none. In 1 899 the United States had less than one telephone per hundred population and Europe had barely a fraction of a telephone. In 1921 Europe had a little better than one telephone per hundred poulation while the United States had risen to more than thirteen telephones per hundred population and now has a total of 14,500,000 in use, which is two-thirds of all the telephones in the whole world. In this country there is about one telephone to every two farm dwellings, a convennience unheard of in other countries. This wonderful telephone development is due to efficient organization, to the cumulative effect and importance of investments great and small in all the apparatus and eqiupment required for the transmission trans-mission of speech, as well as to the foresight and business acumen of those who have directed the policy of the Bell system from the beginning, and to the fact that in this country the policy of the Bell system from the beginning, and to the fact that in this country telephone tele-phone development has been left to private enterprise under reasonable reas-onable government regulation. |