| Show ff Are Ar you ou a little over 4 U years old It if are arc then you can cango cango go back nith Ith us to o 1880 1110 In September 1880 KIesel Goldberg and others ot of this his city a license and formed a company for thi th purpose of con con- connecting connecting con connecting different houses In Ogden by telephone That That 1 paragraph Is taken from froma a directory of 0 den City pub pub- publIshed published forty years ago aco It If you had been one on of thos those men you could have claimed to have been In at ot the birth of the thc telephone system In 18 1881 S1 It nas lIS as the boast ot of the th Ogden den Telephone Exchange corn com company pany that 40 s sets ts of Instruments had been Installed and Olden Ogden Was connected with Ith Salt Silt Lake North Ogden Plain City hot Springs an and 1 SI Sixty ty miles of wire waS wal was In service vice and two swItch boards were In use Then by by 1883 the number oX ot to 10 1 0 and the Rock i-Rock Mountain company with a a capital of had hail taken over I the busIness Ogden Orden has ha tho the honor to claIm the first t of the th tele- tele telephone telephone 1 phone hone m In the Jr west said MIJ the t directory and from 40 In- In In Instruments strum the number has hall In- In Increased Increased creased to V The must have ret referred to the Installation throughout the United States and In other mother coun coun- coun- coun countries countries trl tries s V What would Ogden do today Its 7 00 telephones How How could the tle people even In social relations go BO on with without out a central Og den Of And Aid yet only 46 4 years ago aro dEn had Its ts firs telephone and to date no city In In In the World h dA lel hono system rI Come Cometo om to think about It 11 nearly all the convenience s of o tod today y have c beep nt of the pat forty y ur S C S SA A friend going colne over E Edward Backward Looking n about the time the ITs telephone was wa put Jut Into service In Ogden wu was wa struck with th the re- re remarkable remarkable re remarkable forecast which the book contaIns In one of o the tho chap chapters ten sup UP posed KUP-posed posed to be a 0 r record co d of events In Inthe Inthe the thet year rear ear 2000 8 A A- AV V V the follow tollow- followIng tollow ing Is related I x folio followed followed wed h her ht 1 Into an apart apart- apartment apartment apartment ment finished without han hangings hanis tn In wood with a floor of polished poll wood Ivas I was vas prepared for tor now new devices In musical Instruments saw but saw but saW nothing in the room by any stretch any of the Imagination could be b conceived as a such Please Jook ook at today's musiC she said handing me a card and an lell me me what you yu would prefer It Is now flow B Ii o'clock you remember remember ber- ber berV ber V The card boru bore the date Sept 12 2000 and nd d the larg largest est cst program 1 of oC music mut-lc mu lo I 1 had ever seen cen It It was as various as It was l long Including a most extraordinary extraordinary extraordinary nary range ranie of ot vocal and Instrumental Instrumental mental solos duets d quartets and ond various orchestral combinations She made me m tit fIt It r down com corn comfortably V and cro the th room so far as I could we see merelY one touched ono one or two screws an and at once the th room was filled tilled lIh the music of a 11 grand Brand organ all an- anthem an anthem them In commenting our friend says sayf Truly Trul Truly Bellamy missed nothinG but the date lIe He should have m de It Sept 1 12 1926 1925 and ho would have about as good a do- do de description ot of modern modem radio broad brond- broad casting as could be b written tO- tO tOday to today day After Alter reading reading- tho thu foregoing ono one is persuaded that Bellamy's LOok Look Look- Ing Backward I Ic i IL ii most MA forward forward- 1 book an and can be re read re with added Interest t Forty years sin ago It created quite II a sensation V 00 The he Poster has two pictures wh ch are arc stories tyIng the past to the present One Ono is the tb Last Hays flays a sailIng vessel in full sail sali At sunset The Th coloring Is beau beau- beautiful beautiful beautiful V Th The old clipper ships made mode Am- Am America America erica famous Camous on on- on 5 sea In the days doys of long ago CO V They wore were majestic and far tar moro impressive than the largest steamer of today The other picture Is II from ChIna A Chinaman Is 1 I In th foreground with two buckets of water waler balanced on a a pole across the shoulders Narrow flights or of steps made of l lead ad up an alley The Chinaman Is naked halt and the house age ace It Is II I a 0 a glimpse limps of ot the world orld of oth the Far East You ron see ee se h In u It the the primItive and andi i you think thInk ot ot of the centuries of ot pov pov- pov- pov Continued on Pace rife nyc News and Views Vie Fro From Pac Pago One Oiw erly c ty and misery and Und then turn backward t to to your our own own thankful for lor all ull that hat America stands stand for I We and nd w we 0 arc are dis discontented contented until we see the tin wr wretch wretchedness edness beyond the seas Then we weare e oro are ah meil of our of nl ap- ap ap predation of the th lend land l nd of plenty Look Lok L ok agaIn te at the picture e and you ou see se tile the which has hIlS been ted teJ by 1000 years ofa of ofa a passIve And A nd you a aun rc e willing f ito to ac c ute er f to tIri may have fur your our who hive have havo In Den l that their Helt th lt prosperity and I will b bo be undoing Better Belter a a te ev centuries rles of 00 yea y ara oi or or- more of a 1 country the great gleat body of At the tho people eko ekl out only Amlie ablo ml O able c-able ablo existence Yes the put pAt P t I t tIed lied to the th pres prell- pres- pres present tnt ent but tho the present is the the- theall all ll Im Important Im- Im or ant time Kt L Let t us Jive to th for tor the th dIlY l y Tomorrow never come Who Wo said aid Tomorrow Is 13 nn aa n old deceiver deceiver de- de iHu Huxley said aM warn U It Is 1 the customary fate of now new truths to begIn be ln DoS as s heresies nd to o end as Heresies and superstitions aro and dl disappearing oppe I g The To world today t day I l is less inclined to cling to anything and it critically receives tho newIt new r r It It has lost Io t Its s for It 11 stares at nothing and It n nas no io dread of oC tho the mysterious for 01 ot my mystery tery hill has ha been be n lIay |
