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Show Telephone is Vital to War Effort The grim business of war takes over a little more of our time each day as millions like ourselves 2 11 over the nation give our services ser-vices in war work. You've probably probab-ly been doing more yourself buying buy-ing more bonds, working in civilian civil-ian defense or other war projects. ! That's the way a democracy ' fights and each voluntary contribution contri-bution of the time and service further unites a great nation meeting meet-ing the sternest test it has ever faced. As the mighty war effort gathers gath-ers momentum it touches all of us in our everyday lives and by the same token, broadens our opportunities oppor-tunities to be helpful. In this connection, con-nection, an interesting angle was mentioned today by Ernest R. Lee, ' manager of the Telephone Company. Com-pany. ! Since the outbreak of war, telephone tele-phone lines all over the nation have been busier than ever before in the Company's history, Mr. Lee said, carrying urgent messaegs between be-tween offices of government, military mili-tary posts, munitions plants, aviation avia-tion industries, naval bases, shipyards, ship-yards, factories and homes. The fact that we all seem to be using us-ing the telephone more, indicates pretty clearly its vital part in-tying in-tying together the work of war, but it also gives every telephone user an added responsibility. War calls must come first and everyone can cooperate. Hie telephone tele-phone company urges that long distance and local calls be made brief; that non-essential calls' be avoided. Unnecessary conversations (Continued on Page Eight) TELEPHONE IS VITAL TO WAR EFFORT f Continued from Page Onel may delay essential war calls. Because important telephone materials like copper, aluminum, j rubber and zinc are vital war ma-j ma-j terials as well, new lines can't be provided to handle aditional loads. In some cases no new local service can be provided and party-lines must be shared. Considerate use of party-line service is neighborly and helpful at this time. As Mr. Lee points out, not all calls going through the telephone switchboards these days have to do with war,' hut al calls that do have something to do with war do go through the switchboard. |