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Show AMERICA HAS MOST PHONES, I Americans going to Europe are astonished to find that telephones ' are still comparatively rare there. Recent figures show that in this country we have one phone to every twelve people, which is thirteen times the proportion for Europe. New York state alone has as many telephones as all Germany, and Ohio has as many as all Great Eritain. As a nation we have 6 per cent of the area of the earth and 5 per cent of the population, but we have 70 per cent of the telephones. Canada comes next and Sweden third. The main reason given for the lack of telephone facilities in Europe is that over there the telephone systems are mostly owned and run by the government, and no enterprise is used in extending the service. |