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Show WIRE AND GABLES POOLJSJVDVISED PRESIDENT OF BIG TELEPHONE COMPANY POINTS OUT THE ADVANTAGES OF MERGER Would Be Brought About Without Dismemberment of Properties In Way to Bs Turned Back After U. S. C-jntrol Ends. Washington. Pooling of the telephone tele-phone and telegraph facilities of the country on one hand and the murine cable lines on the other, each with a comprehensive operating organization under a single head, is recommended to Postmaster General Burleson by Theodore Theo-dore N. Vail, president of the American Ameri-can Telegraph & Telephone company. In his letter Mr. Vail said the pooling pool-ing arrangement would be brought about without dismemberment of the properties and in such a manner that they could be turned back to private ownership at the expiration of the period per-iod of government control. "What should be done to create an ideal system," said Mr. Vail, "cannot be done because of existing laws, nor would complete consolidation be justified, justi-fied, since to undo such a consolidated system into its former units would lead to unwarranted waste. Co-operation Is Advised. "There are, however, many things which can be done which would not produce waste, and which might, by improvement of service help to further educate the public and crenre an actively ac-tively favorable attitude towards some corelation or co-ordination of operation opera-tion and service with the control and regulation and restriction, through some combination of government authority au-thority and private ownership or operation, oper-ation, retaining all tlie ai.""? utages aud incentives of both." . Mr. Vail, who is acting as confidential confiden-tial adviser to Mr. Burleson in the control con-trol of the wire communications systems sys-tems taken over by the government, discussed the laud and marine wire organizations or-ganizations separately. |