Show 00 00 CENTRAL IS DISAPPEARING I With machines human hands bands there is la a a constant upset In Inthe inthe Inthe the field of ot labor abot of o which we are reminded by the story atory from Chicago ot it the changing ot of the telephone exchange in the loop district to the machIne switching system stem From now on branch exchange and 1 telephones will be op I A press report from front Chicago ins gives this account of o the change The Tho Tho from the th central manual office to the machine B switching equipment was made without a hitch Men simply limply pulled a set of o cords cordI which ct c t out one exchange and set ct the other In mo mo- molton mOLion motion Lion tion The machine machin switching of or the panel type made mada Imade by the Western Electric corn com com nany I Dany la Is the result or of o fifteen ears earll ear I work by Bell Dell company engineers It has bas been tried out successfullY In Omaha Kansas City Philadelphia Providence Buffalo Seattle and within the con con- central contral c n New w York All calls exchange will be b handled from fromi i now on without human buman aid ald i I This gives promise that In a few t year the th gIrls who have played guch an n Important part in the tele telE- tele- tele telephone telephone phone world will be displaced by machinery In Ogden there are arc 82 2 girl ei oper- oper operators operators P K U the machines were if ere to be installed In the lh local office ottic there would be b neary nearly that many girls tirl without employment Eventually this will occur but It Is well that these come j ally ally or they would be most disturb disturb- disturb Ine log Ing to our Industrial life Ufe Central has ha been so o much a apart apart apart everyday e We life I e that to part of o our I use the telephone without hearing the softly modulated voice of o the tb girl eirl operator would be a strange We Wo sometimes wonder if with v all this machinery the soul Is Js being taken out of ot business |