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The Facts of the Telephone -3
Vt# Situation in Georgia
By J. Epps Brown, President.
SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE A TELEGRAPH COMPANY.
The Service Situation 1 4
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Tttephoo# service should be adequate, effi¬
cient and dependable; sufficient in quantity,
satisfactory in quality and furnished without
interruption.
Adequate service is dependent upon adequate
facilities
EBcient service Is dependent upon a suffi¬
cient number of trained employees to maintain
and operate the faculties.
Dependable service is dependent upon both
adequate facilities and trained forces.
The facilities are paid for with the money in¬
vested in She huslncss. Trained forces are
paid with the money paid to the Company Ly
the public for the service furnished.
10 bo other way can these essential requi¬
sites of service be had. The needed facilities
are never paid for out of the earnings of this
Company, and the employees are never paid
out of the. capital of the Company.
Subsequent statements will show what the
Company has done to meet Us obligations to
furnish both facilities and forces.
Everyone knows that this Company's service
has been dependable. Throughout the war and
In spite of strikes and the most abnormal con¬
ditions ever known, our service was furnished
without interruption. While, the service now
Is not adequate to meet the unprecedented de¬
mand, due to causes which will be given larer,
the facta show that the Company Is now fur¬
nishing a far greater quantity of service tL^u
ever before.
Hie following figures show the service fur¬
nished within the State of Georgia:
EXCHANGE SERVICE
TeleybsnM TcUtibonte
1915 installed 14,232 Disconnected 12,691 Net 1,641 f!si*
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1916 . 16,154 11,914 4,240
t917 . 14,908 12,875 2,033
1911 . 10,829 8.821 2,008
The next advertisement will tell what we must do to adequately servo
you during the r.ext five years.
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Mr. Hardwick Voted Against the Farmer: ■■t
1. For the Fertilizer Trusts against the Nitrate Fertilizer \ .
Bill to reduce the price of Fertilizers. Today you are
paying $10.00 more than last year, while the price of l!
cotton continues to fall to ruinous prices.
2. For the Sugar Trusts in ail their legislation. V,
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3. For the Railroads and Express Companies against M
the Parcels Post Bill. I . i V Ii »
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4. For the Shipping Trust against the Shipping Bill, •• ! V
when in 1914 the lack of ships beat down the price of
cotton to 5 cents a pound. j f !»- 12
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Vote for Clifford Walker Who \ Has Always
Stood for Genuine Americardsm and
• Clean Christian Citizenship
Let 1 e NEWS do your JOB PRINTING
WBE COVINGTON COVINGTON, GEORGIA.
An average gain of 2,481 telephones per year. f
Since 1918\the performance was:
Telephontl Telephones
Installed Disconnected Net Caitt
1919 . . 18,746 10,258 C 188
1920
(5 mo.) . . 6,001 3,403 3,158
During 1919 the net gain was 242 pe;• cent
greater than the average gain for the four ffi
previous years. If the rate of net gain during
the first live months of 1920 is maintained
throughout the year, the 1920 gain will be 210
per cent greater than tho normal average an
nu.-i indu.
The average number of calls made from the ’V*
ex--:,:..usp stations has greatly increased, ’
so : ::i
oat the Company is now furnishing several
hundred thousands more, ofltelephoues, exchange messages, ■M . 74
front the same number than ever
before.
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1915 ...... 2,170,422 toll messages •
1910 ...... 2,457,195 “ In
1017 ...... 2,724,910 “
19! 8 ...... 2,859*398 “
.9...... 3,001,375 «
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(first 5 rues.) .* . 1,329*402 “ ;,s
The volume of toll service during 1919 was i «&{
40 per cent greater than: during 1915, and if
the volume of toll service for the first five rl
months of 1920 is maintained throughout the
year, will be the 47 volume per cent of greater toll service than during during 1915. 1920 h
Does this record entitle this Company to s :
your support? If it does, your interest de¬ f 1
mands that you lot it be known. :
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every one cannot now be sewed Is due r
to the unparalleled demand, and the abnormal 4
conditions of the manufacturer and means of
transportation; all of which will be shown. ■; i
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Mow fuaa.f SchoolbO'yA, Struggling
With the stoif oi the Gallic wars, km/fr
that ©aesat' founded in Home what
presently grew into a dally city papefY
It was up-to-date, too, even In its name,
Acta Diurna—the Dally Events or Dal¬
ly Doings.
At first the Daily Events, or Acts,
was published merely by setting up In
the Forum a white board on which the
news was Inscribed. The Romans stood
round on tiptoe craning their necks to
see, quite as the crowds stand today
in every city In the land to watch the
newspaper bulletins, and sometimes a
trumpet-voiced citizen, studying what
was written op the “album,” or
“white,” would turn and roar opt the
information to the gaping listeners.
Caesar had a double purpose in this.
He reasoned that, If affairs were re¬
corded dally and published in a busy
place like the Forum, such publicity
would let the people know what their
officers were up to, and would thus
check the secret passage of unpopular
laws and corrupt measures; and as he
was playing the desperate game of Ro¬
man politics, In which banishment or
death followed downfall, he had to
know what his opponents were doing
behind the closed doors of the senate,
and the publication of their transac¬
tions daily made It less easy for his en¬
emies to lay dangerous plans without
his knowledge. Finally, he understood
perfectly the value of such an organ
to advertise himself.
By stimulating the appetite tor news,
and by making it easier to collect In¬
formation. the Dally Acts brought
about a remarkable growth of Roman
journalism. It did more than merely
record the proceedings of the senate;
it gave a dally list of births and
deaths, touched on financial news by
noting the receipts of the tax depart¬
ment. told the news of both the civil
and the criminal courts, and reported
elections and other political events. A
few years later, when Rome had be¬
come an empire, it regularly gave de¬
tailed news of the imperial family. In¬
deed, the new emperor, Augustus, tak¬
ing Caesar’s hint, used the Acts freely
to promote his personal views.
The natural result of all this was the
demand for more accessible news. Soon
the number of hand-written news
chronicles? increased. Thus the Acts
began to circulate commonly among the
well-to-do, and Roman ladies are men¬
tioned as “reading the morning paper."
This “home edition” was an enlarged
issue of the Forum edition, and the
various “publishers” supplemented the
news that they procured from the bul¬
letin board with additional news gath¬
ered from other sources. Dictating to
a number of copyists at once, they
could “run off” an edition of 50 or
even 100 copies, though the usual num¬
ber for one publisher was probably not
above 12. A still more enlarged edi¬
tion, but apparently not a daily, was
written for the “mall,” and travelers
In the provinces sometimes stayed over
to await it when it did not arrive on
time. The Daily Acts was published
for 300 years or more.—Youth’s Com¬
panion.
Building Houses in China.
All lumber for building in China is
bought in the log, says H. R. Richard¬
son, writing in Asia magazine. Assoc"
as the logs begin to arrive the con
tractor tackles them with the saw¬
yers. These men are paid piece rates
which average about three cash or
one-tenth of a cent per square foot of
surface sawed. They average a bet¬
ter wage than a carpenter, getting
about 10 cents a day, as compared
with 8 cents a day for the carpenter.
At this rate they are cheaper than
any steam saw mill that can operate
in China. In fact, the only reason a
saw mill can operate in China at ail
is because it can produce quickly and
with a more even thickness than the
native sawyers. The necessary doors,
frames and window sashes are all
made by hand. Three Chinese carpen¬
ters at 8 cents a day with their na¬
tive tools can accomplish about the
same work done by one Canadian car¬
penter with all equipment. The work
Is well done If well supervised. In
comparison, I should say that about
five Chinese carpenters at 8 cents a
day each are necessary to do the work
if a Canadian carpenter who receives
86 a day and has all his wood {ire
pared for him.
“Bluebeard's" Home Stripped.
“What troublous times we are liv¬
ing in! Even one’s property Is no
longer safe,” was the angry comment
of Landru, under arrest in Paris for
the alleged murder of several of his
sweethearts, when informed that his
villa at Gambais, near Paris (where
the police say the women disap¬
peared), had been broken into and ran¬
sacked from cellar to attic by souvenir
hunters.
Since the villa had been closed by
the authorities, pending the outcome
of Landru’s trial, no watchman had
been detailed to guard the house. An
official who visited the villa a short
time ago found the shutters, doors and
windows smashed. Everything port
able had been taken, from kitchen
utensils and etchings to chair legs.—
Continental Edition of the London
Mail.
Remembering Hit Manner#.
“I understand the convict who es¬
caped was noted for his polite man- |
ners.” j
“He was unusually polite. Even in
escaping, he left a note for the warden j
saying: ‘Please excuse the liberty I t
am taking.’”
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J. I. GUINN’S CASH STORE
SPOT CASH! Now goods <>l '*<’!>*
ONE PRICE! sou turning t u n
BIG VALUES! low OilV'i
SHOES OUR SPEC IAl/n
J. I. GUINN
Covington. Ca
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weak and watery, when you wake up with an
awful taste in your mouth” and ‘‘about as
tired as when you went to bed.” Better get
busy with Dr. Thacher’s Liver and Blood
Syrup. It'll put your liver and bowels in
good shape and brace you up all over. Finest
kind of a FAMILY TONIC—in use for 68
years. On sale at your drug store.
Mr. and Mrs. J. If. Nelson, Cartfiu c, Tex.: “We have
used Dr. Thachor’s Liver and Bicod Byiup ier many
years. It has been our only doctor when sick and n
run-down condition."
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