Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 239, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1912 — AMERICANS FIRST IN TALK [ARTICLE]

AMERICANS FIRST IN TALK

Statistics, Notably of the Telephone, Prove the Pre-eminence of X This Country. We Americans are the greatest talkers in the world. It might be hard tq demonstrate that fact beyond the reasonableness of a doubt, so far as ordinary conversation is concerned, but when measured in talk over the telephone our primacy is undisputable. Statistics carefully compiled for the American Telephone and Telegraph company, based on actual figures of the number of Instruments and wire mileage in use in all quarters of the globe and other exchange data, warrant an estimate of 22,000 million talks transmitted by telephone in the year 1911, of which 14,500 million were within the borders of the United slates. Of every 100 telephone talks wb Americans perpetrate 66, so that the combined number for all the rest of the world is but one-half of ours.

Our facilities for talking is also illustrated by the relative use we make of the telephone as compared with telegraph and letter mall. Taking only Europe and the United States, European letter talks In 1900 were three times over those of the wire, while in this country the telephone messages were half again as many as those that went by mall. —Omaha Bee.