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THIS dramatic poster by G. Pat
rick Nelson, prize winner in the
thousand dollar contest con
ducted by Henry Morgentbau for the
best poster fcr the Go)den Rule Sun
day campaign of the Near East Relief,
tells in graphic fashion the story of
the Armenian earthquake disaster. Pri
marily intended to provide funds for
the child welfare work of the relief
organization in Armenia, Syria, Pales
tine, Turkey, Persia, and Greece, the
Golden Rule Sunday campaign this
year will be used to collect funds for
the earthquake victims. The disaster
not only upset a 'urge part of the re
constructive eL'orts of the relief organ
America’s Golden Rule Girl
MISS BETTY COMPTON of New York has been selected In a nar'onaJ
competition to portray the spirit of the Golden Rule In connection
with the forthcoming observance of International Golden Rule Sunday
for the Near East Relief.
Help Her Keep Her Feet!
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*TThe Armenian earthquake has left 80,000 people homeless. Near East
\ Relief needs $1,000,000 to meet this emergency.
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lzation in Armenia, but it created a
vast army of homeless. It is estimated
that approximately 80 per cent of the
homes in the tiny country were de
stroyed and people are living in bitter
zero weather in rough dugouts, with
out sufficient food or blankets and
practically no fuel.
A large number of the victims are
children and many new orphans have
been forced upoii the relief organiza
tion for care. Approximately 11,000,-
000 will be required to meet the earth
quake needs and to care for the chil
dren already In the orphanages until
June. The Golden Rule Sunday cam
paign, endorsed by President Coolidge,
is the only answer to the situation.
Thousand Eat Golden Rute Meal
At
MORE than a thousand leaders
in religious, social, civic and
political circles In New York
sat down to the “Golden Rule Dinner’’
at the Hotel Pennsylvania in New
York which recently opened the cam
paign for the fourth annual observ
ance of International Golden Rule
Sunday in the United States.
Clergymen of all faiths and eomeof
the leading philanthropists of the na
tion participated iu the program.
Girls from various New York and
Brooklyn colleges served as wait
resses and not a dish wa* broken —
most of them were made from old
condensed milk cans especially for the
dinner by boys in the Near East Re
Relief Work in Wake of Earthquake
At America’s Orphan City in Armenia
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Near East Relief Orphans Repairing Damaged Streets —American Ambulance
Bringing In Casualties.
THE Armenian earthquake has
laid waste the most novel city
In the world. Cable dispatches
to the Near East Relief indicate that
its orphanage centers of the organiza
tion in Leninakan, formerly Alexan
dropol, have been seriously damaged
by the disastrous earthquake that
cost 500 lives and made 80,000 home
less In the mountain country.
The orphan city was established by
the Near East Relief shortly after
the armistice, being housed in bar
racks that once belonged to the Im
perial Army of the Russian Czars. At
one time 35,000 children were cared
for here, though rehabilitation efforts
had been so successful up to the time
of the earthquake that the number
Expect Sixty Countries to
Observe Golden Rule Sunday
MORE than sixty-nations through
out the civilized world are ex
pected to join in the observ
ance of International Golden Ruie
Sunday this year, according to Gor
don L. Berry, Executive Secretary of
the International Near East Associa
tion, under whose auspices the day
will be celebrated.
Originally intended to promote
peace and belter understanding
throughout the world and to attract
world wide attention to the situation
in the Near East, where American
and foreign philanthropy are caring
for an army of war orphans, the day
this year will have-the additional pur
pose of aiding victims of the earth
quake in Armenia, a large number
of fhem children now under the care
of the American Near East Relief.
On Golden Rule Sunday people
throughout the world are asked to
serve in their homes the simple meal
of a Near East Relief orphanage and
then to contribute as generously as
their means will permit to relief work
and child welfare work In Bible
Lands. The children thus cared for
are being trained as apostles of a
more peaceful world.
Reports submitted to Mr. Berry in
dicate that last year fifty-one na
tions joined in the observance of the
day. Official sanction to the Idea In
this country was given by the en
dorsement of President Coolidge and
abroad by rulers, statesmen, and
diplomats.
The appeal for aid to children in
Bible Lands has received a universal
THE VIDALIA ADVANCE
lief training school on the island of
Syra, Greece. They were similar to
the tableware of the orphanages.
The menu served was meat stew,
macaroni and cheese, stewed apricots,
with syrup, bread and cocoa. This is
the fare served daily in the Near East
Relief orphanages abroad at a cost of
approximately four cents a meal.
Golden Rule Sunday this year will
have added significance since about it
will be built a nation wide campaign
for one million dollars to aid the vic
tims of the recent earthquake In Ar
menia and to provide funds for the
maintenance of children in the Near
East Relief orphanages until June.
had been reduced to nine thousand.
The disaster, however, now threatens
to throw a large number more on the
hands of the organization.
Relief officials on the field have es
timated that a million dollars wyi be
required to provide adequate relief
in the earthquake zone and to furnish
sufficient funds to repair the orphan
city and maintain it until June.
People in the United States are
urged by the Near East Relief, 151
Fifth avenue. New York City, to ob
serve International Golden Rule Sun
day, for the benefit of the earthquake
victims and to aid in the continuation
of w r ork in the earthquake zone and
in Greece. Syria. Palestine, Turkey,
and Persia for another year.
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response in all civilized countries.
Practical application of the Golden
Rule is the sole purpose of the ob
servanee. Golden Rule Sunday will
be celebrated everywhere as a day of
self sacrifice and kindly thoughts
toward children In distant lands.
ARMY HAD FIRST
TELEPHONES IN
WASHINGTON, D.C.
National Capital’s Instruments
Grow From Fifty in 1878 to
Mare Tkc 130,000
The first telephone line installed
in Washington, D. C., connected
two of the offices under the Chief
Signal Officer of the U. S. Army.
This was in 1877, but it was not
until December 1, 1573, that the
first centra! office in Washington
was opened, it having taken many
months to secure fifty subscribers,
the number desired before open
ing an exchange. Among the orig
inal subscribers were the White
House, the State Department, sev
eral offices of the Treasury Depart
ment, the Evening Star, the Ebbitt
House, G. G. Hubbard, and Pro
fessor Alexander Graham Bell, the
inventor of the telephone.
Those fifty telephones of 1878
have since grown to over 130,000.
In the early days, however, so
skeptical were many people of the
new invention that an offer was
made to the public to install tele
phones on trial. This scheme
worked out fairly well, and, by
18S0, the number of telephones in
Washington had reached about
400. The first inter-city telephone
line out of Washington was estab
lished in 1883, when on July 25,
communication was opened be
tween Washington and Baltimore.
The number of telephones in
Washington was then 896. During
the eight-year period between 1885
to 1893, only about 100 telephones
per year were gained in thenation’3
capital. This slow growth was
due principally to limitations in
the physical aspect of the business.
The first wires were placed un
derground in the city in 1834.
Up until 1900 there was only one
centra! office in Washington, but,
on December 12, 1900, a second
such office was opened, there be
ing at that time 4,426 telephones
in the whole city. Then began a
more active period with several
new exchanges being installed.
Many people believed that the
peak of this telephone develop
ment was reached during the
World War when there was a very
heavy demand for telephone serv
ice, but it is a fact that there are
now fifty per cent more telephones
in service in the city than at any
time during the war. During the
last ten years Washington has
gained over 75,000 telephones,
which is more than it gained in all
the preceding forty years.
Automatic telephones are to be
installed in the Japanese settle
ments in Mukden and Changchun.
The work will not be completed,
however, until 1931 and is to cost
1,800,000 yen.
EDITORIAL SPOTLIGHT
INCREASED USE REQUIRES GREATER SERVICE^-Warren
(Pa.) Mirror.
Many people do not understand why, with increase in number of tele
phones, rates should increase when most other services grow cheaper aa
their use is extended.
To the prospective subscriber it appears that all that is necessary is
to put a telephone instrument in his home or office. What actually is nec
essary is, not only to install the instrument in his home or office, but to
provide also the complicated plant which will make it possible for his tele
phone to be connected with any other telephone in the United States, or
for anyone of the others to be connected with him.
Each new telephone means increased investment in plant, which Ur
only in part represented by either the telephone instrument oir the line
running to the particular portional increase in the plant, but it also means
increr<!o', of operation. *>■,.*** < >•!*•
The piooiem of furnishing service increases with number of tele
phones which can be connected, and it is obvious, when one considen-s the
nature of the business, that the many factors entering into cost of fur
nishing service would increase more rapidly if it were not for new econo
mies constantly being effected by the telephone organization.
This Six-Room Bungalow
Adapts Self to Any Lot
T HERE is much to be said in favor of the one-story dwelling, and when tht
iloor plan is as expertly arranged as in this Colonial bungalow the usua
objections of lack of privacy and long distances to walk, are avoided.
This house may run either lengthwise or across the width of the lot. The
exterior is of stained grey shingles with either a green shingled or tiled roof.
The trimmings should be white and the shutters green to harmonize
with the roof.
The three bedrooms are well shut
off from the rest of the house. The
large open porch or sunroom can be
made to open off either the living
or dining room. The kitchen has the
desired built-in features, including
the useful breakfast nook.
The cost of this house can be ma
terially reduced by omitting the
basement and allowin'; space on the
malt! floor for a small boiler room.
The walls and root also are sheathed
with celotex to keep the tempera
ture at comfort point the year
round.
$300,000 TRANSACTION
CLOSED BY TELEPHONE
A San Francisco steel broker re
cently closed a business transac
tion involving ?300,000 by Dong
Distance telephone from San Fran
cisco to Havana, Cuba, while his
competitor, who thought he had
stolen a march on him, was hurry
ing across the continent to close
the deal in person. This broker had
previously closed a most satisfac
tory deal with New York by Long
Distance telephone, and when he
heard that his competitor was
half way to Cuba he decided to call
up his party in Havana, and in ex
actly nine minutes he succeeded in
clinching a deal involving almost
one-third of a million dollars. When
his competitor reached Cuba, confi
dent in the belief that he had out
witted his rival, he found that the
latter had beaten him to it by Long
Distance telephone, and the long
trip, therefore, of about 5,000 miles
had been made in vain.
Mr. Edison’s Tribute
Thomas A. Edison pays this
tribute to the telephone in a con
• gratulatory communication re
ceived by the American Tele
phone and Telegraph Company
in recognition of its fiftieth an
niversary:
“Founded on science and
great business sagacity, the
march of the telephone has been
steadily onw r ard and upward to
the stupendous success of the
present day. Tire end is not yet.
I heartily congratulate the com
pany and its personnel on the
celebration of its Golden Jubi
lee.”
(Signed) Thomas A. Edison.
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Ficls About the Telephone
The city of Toledo, with over
50,000 telephones In service, has
about as many telephones as the
combined number in Chile and Co
, lombia, South America.
The development through re
search of an alloy, cheaper than
platinum but just as efficient, for
use in telephone electrical contact
points resulted in large saving in
the first cost of apparatus added
to the plant cf the Bell System In
a single year.
The telephone lineman whose
special duty it is to keep the
branches of trees from injuring the
wires or cables carries a booklet
carefully prepared under the guid
ance of forestry experts, showing
him hew to trim trees so that his
work will be a benefit, rather than
an injury, to them.
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