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Show Telephone Paradoxes The telephone has upset the calendar. cal-endar. Now, over a circuit of 14,000 miles long, we may speak cn one day to a friend in Australia the next day; because if it is night-t night-t me for us, it will be the following morning for him. Time in the United States and Australia difTers b." about 15 hours. This is but one of the many telephone tele-phone paradoxes. It has, so far as transmission of messages is concerned, con-cerned, entirely eliminated both time and space. It has brought p.ll the major countries of the worii' within speaking distance. It has conquered the obstacles of mountains, moun-tains, oceans and desert that, not sj many years ago, made it a matter mat-ter of months for the sending of o letter a few thousand miles. Compared 'to the achievements cf the telephone, Aladdin's magic lamp was but a trivial parlor trice. Physical laws bow down before it. What a monument to private initiative, ini-tiative, enterprise and ambitior. |