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Show If One Man Were to Do All Our Telephoning A recent Issue of the Railway and Marine News presents this graphic picture of the enormous amount ot trafflc handled by America's natdon-wide telephone system: "Supposing the first man to talk over the telephone had been endowed with some of the qualities ot Methuselah. Supposing Sup-posing his conversation to be ot such importance as to keep him at H day and night, without cessation, from then to now. "Ilia conversation started In . 1S76. In 1925. forty-nine years later, he is still talking. "lie would have to keep bn talking tor thirty-six years more, night and day, or until 19SL if he would consume the amount of time spent at Bell telephones every day by the people of the United States at the present time, allowing only one minute to the average call." |