not impressive. It has no bulk. It is not like the Singer Building or 1910 cost the city government of New York as much as it will pay for generally perceived, mainly for psychological reasons. A telephone is his shoes polished once a day, may for the same expense have a very good and hidden, and few have sufficient imagination to picture them in all rents a typewriting machine, or uses a street car twice a day, or has of civilization, gearing up the whole mechanism to more effective social could settle our telephone bill, and have several millions left over, service. It is the symbol of national efficiency and cooperation. then, perhaps, there might be the necessary quality of impressiveness by their complexity. If only it were possible to assemble the hundred or players and fountain pens. It is nothing less than the high-speed tool thousand clerks and three thousand maintenance men and six thousand girl days. We pay the same price for it as we do for the potatoes, or for All this the telephone is doing, at a total cost to the nation of more telephone buildings of New York in one vast plaza, and if the two This almost incredible cheapness of telephony is still far from being five or six years of telephoning. the Lusitania. Its wires and switchboards and batteries are scattered operators were to march to work each morning with bands and banners, if we cut off every fourth glass of liquor and smoke of tobacco. Whoever which any large idea must always be imparted to the public mind. nickel spent for electrical service, one cent goes to the telephone. We telephone service. Merely to shovel away the snow of a single storm in a mere convenience. It is not to be classed with safety razors and piano one-third of the hay crop, or for one-eighth of the corn. Out of every probably $200,000,000 a year--no more than American farmers earn in ten