Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 163, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1910 — QUIT KICKING! [ARTICLE]

QUIT KICKING!

Telephone Girls Perform Neree-raelc-lus: Work for Thankless Public. One member of the family was quarreling over the wire with the telephone operator at the other end. When the brief dlsppte was ended another member of the family said: "You ought not to do that. You ought never ‘to say an impatient word to a telephone operator. You can’t do enough to make the work easy for them. Were you ever In a telephone exchange?” “No,” replied the guilty one, looking repentant. “Well, go to the first one you have an opportunity to visit. The manager will have some one show you through, and you will never lost patience again with one of those (girls. You will be humiliated and amazed and Instructed to see what wonderful work they do — what Impersonal, patient and really self-sacrificing work they perform, hour after hour—nerve racking, straining work, for a thankless public. You will respect and esteem every one of them and you will feel that nothing Is too good for them, Instead of being critical of a slight mistake that may at times creep In. The wonder is that they do anything right, considering the difficulties with which they have to contend. Instead of giving us the leally marvelous service they do. If you want a lesson In patience, forbearance, fortitude, endurance and all the other virtues, don’t fail to visit a telephone exchange.” __