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Show ephone is anxious to locate the exact spot where the fire is, thereby giving the operator an unnecessary amount of work, when really her time should be devoted more to the needs of the Firemen. Sneers an insults are often heaped upon the heads of operators op-erators sometimes without the least provocation. Let there be one slip in her service and she gets a blowing up, and if she dares talk back she is regarded re-garded as overbearing, but if she extends a hundred kindnesses kind-nesses those favors are soon forgotten. The telephone girl is one of the public servants who serve people in & manner that could not be compensated for entirely entire-ly in dollars and cents. Did it ever occur to you the secrets she could tell about you and your family life if she cared to do so.' When wfe critize her we should investigate ourselves first, did we talk at the telephone tele-phone instead of talking into it. Many errors are due to carelessness care-lessness on the part of the patrons. pa-trons. Although many telephones have been installed since publication pub-lication of the last directory, many phones had been installed many weeks before it was published, pub-lished, yet those names and numbers were omitted, which fact is another source of trouble to the operator and one, which might seem trival to the patron. When telephoning it would be a good idea for subscribers to think at least once before they turn the handle on the tele-hone tele-hone box and by doing so eliminate elim-inate many of the troubles that the telephone girl has to endure to-day. Editorial BINGHAM'S TELEPHONE TELE-PHONE OPERATORS The Volunteer Fire Departments Depart-ments of Bingham are eulogized eulog-ized after every fire and rightly right-ly too, too much praise cannot be extended these wounderful organizations but in doing this we should not forget another of our most valued assets of the camp, we mean the telephone operators. They have called out the Fire Departments and saved the town from destruction many times, on the first alarm! of fire it seems every patron of the tel- |