Show Europe PI Plans ns Long Distance Plume Phone System IA I IA A mighty long distance telephone system to link all Europe Is one of ot tho latest plans to advance the tho work of rehabilitation Taking tho the operation oper atlon of ot tho the Bell Dell S System stem In the United States as an Indication of or what might be accomplished d abroad Mr Frank Gill European Chief Engineer of ot U the tho o International i Yc Western estern tern Electric E Company Company Com Com- pany told mem members era of the tho institution of ot Electrical Engineers that tho the pr v vont ent ont policy of each nation In Itself Va was waa fatal to any real long-distance long ser ser- vice ico In his hit inaugural address as president president president dent of ot the tho Institution the largest and ono one of the tho most Important engineering engineering engi engi- societies In Great Greal Britian Mr 1 Gill compared tho the telephone system I In the tho United States with those of at Europe He lie brought out that there thero was no long distance telephone service ser ser- service vice on that continent as we wo know itin It ItIn I In this country one In which a subscriber subscriber subscriber sub sub- scriber can communicate with any one ono I of ot other sub subscribers In practically any town village or city over miles of oC long Ions distance telephone tele telo- phone lines This ho said was duoto duoto duo Jo to the fact that thero was no organization organization controlling or coordinating tho the various local operating organizations which have to Junction an as a whole In hi Continental telephony In offering his solution to tho the problem ho stated that through business must bo be bandied handled handled han ban died as a complete unit If It It were wore to Ib top efficiently done To this end ond he ho re recommended recommended recommended re- re commended that a commission be bo deputed de de- to engineer and operate long ions lines for all the European nations or that a a. long lino company bo ho organized or which would be licensed by tho the various various various vari vari- ous governments It Is 15 Interesting to recall In this connection that a Committee of the tho Fr French Chamber of ot Deputies recommended mended that the Government sell I Its telephone system to a private corporation corporation corporation corpor corpor- l for tor Its better operation per Uon I |