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Show AND YET WE KICK AT A SECOND'S DELAY In England the telephone system is owned by the government and is operated through the postal department. depart-ment. If anyone in London desires to talk across the Channel, he must go to the central post office and make an appointment, possibly for the following follow-ing day. He must then be on hand at the hour appointed to attend the call. What a contrast to our own privately private-ly owned telephone system. In our I country anyone may place a call from his own home and in a few minutes talk with anyone in any part of the country, and even across the ocean to London in a few hours. |