Show A SIGNIFICANT FACT It It is significant that the United States has 64 per cent of the worlds world's telephones Europe Europe Europe Eur Eur- ope 26 per cent and the rest of the world 11 per cent says the Vallejo California Evening Evening Evening Even Even- ing News in an editorial editorial- It Itis Itis Itis is also significant that there are telephones per hundred hundred hundred hund hund- red population in this county while Europe has 13 and Asia but 01 Fifty years ago the telephone was an impractical invention representing so much wasted time for an an equally impractical inventor Now the American America people each year talk time over the phone Some importance must be attached to the fact that 71 per cent of the worlds world's telephone telephone telephone tele tele- phone lines are owned by private private private ate capital and that 88 per cent of the lines controlled by private private vate capital are in the United States Private ownership of the telephone it is manifest has not retarded its growth in inthis inthis inthis this country |