Show PHONE UTOPIA SEEN RAPIDLY NEARING connections with foreign countries Is forecast washington the telephone utopia or a time nhen han all telephones liones in all catl nations ons can be connected Is rapidly nearing in the opinion of engineers who recently celebrated the fifty seventh anniversary of use of the speaking device in the united i states i iu u y already telephone users in the united states can converse with users in 40 other different countries located on the six other continents ts these connections comprise a network of 32 7 telephones or more than 92 02 per cent of all such instruments in the world it will A III be only a short time until virtually all of the remaining connections will be possible in the opinion of government communications experts four countries left there remain only four countries barid having more than telephones with which the united states stales does not have connections these are china japan russia and south africa the link with the last named is likely to be completed within the current year ye ir and that with japan should require only a relatively few months more according to stanley shoup of the communication dhillon of the commerce department all this development has come since march 10 1870 when alexander 1 graham I kell bell then a youthful scientist and a companion conversed for the first time in this country through electrically wired apparatus in boston today tour four radiotelephone radio telephone circuits connect the united states with europe ond and it Is expected that a transatlantic telephone cable will be completed during this year development most ot of the international dev development elop of telephony lias has come since 1922 1022 at that mat time there were only two countries connected with the united states they were cuba and canada the united states Is now connected with virtually every country in europe with argentina chile uruguay Al mexico exico aind cuba in latin america with jaia jaa Sinn sumitra atra and ana indo china in asia with cauti ceuti in Slin spanish nish morocco aft africa lea n iti ill new zealand and australia during the last las st year eions were mailo etli ith hawaii thus thug thrusting vocal communications nearly 2000 miles out into the pacific on the way to the final goal of 0 china and japan the telephone lione industry now ranks as one of the leading ones in the united states in point of assets its investments amounted to 2 ia in 1930 and officials oi of the b department 0 of commerce estimate that it spends a year in improvements alone |