Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1914 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Mrs. T. W. Haas returned last W’ednesday from a long visit with her two daughters. Mrs. McCord, in Indianapolis, and Mrs. Pumphrey, in Columbia City, and has again taken up her residence at her home on Front street. All persons loyal to the Sunday School cause in Newton township are requested to meet at the CUrtis Creek school house on next Sunday at 2 p. m., for the purpose of organizing one or more Sunday Schools in the township.—H. L. Wortley, --Township- S. S. President. Frank Babcock has completed his removal here from Carpenter township and resides in the house recently vacated by Cal Cain and which belongs to Henry Harris. Mr. Oain moved to a house on Cullen street belonging to Stewart Hammond. Mr. Babcock has just returned from the Fletcher sanitarium, Indianapolis, where he spent two weeks taking treatment for a nervous breakdown. The result was all that could have been desired and Frank returned home feeling like a new man. He wound up his stay in Indianapolis by attending the democratic state convention in company with his cousin, A. D. Babcock, of Goodland, and says he never saw such enthusiasm as was displayed by the democrats on. that occasion. Extravagant policies, high taxes, fat salaried new offices, an increase in the number of saloons and the whole partv doming ated by the Taggart machine don’t seem to have chased any of the old line democrats out of the game and Frank thinks that the only way that party will be routed this fall will be by a reunited party opposing themi

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Telephone Achievements

Telephone Service of Today the Creation of the Bell Co,

In no line of human endeavor has the inventive brain of the scientist contributed more to the world’s progress than by the creation of the are of telephony, of which the Bell system is the em'bodlmeiTt. ’ When the telephone was born, nothing analogous to telephone service as we now know it existed. There was no tradition to guide, no experience to follow. The system, the apparatus, the methods—an entire new art had to be created. The art of electrical engineering did not exist. The Bell pioneers, recognizing that success depended upon the highest engineering and technical skill at Once organized an experimental and research department which Is now directed by a staff of over 500 engineers and scientists, including former professors, post-graduate students, scientific investigators—the graduates of over 70 universities. From its foundation the company has continuously developed the art. New imporvements in telephones, switchboards, lines, cables, have followed one another with remarkable rapidity. While each successive type of apparatus to the superficial observer suggested similarity, each step in the evolution marked a decided improvement. These changes, this evolution, has not only been continuous, but is continuing. Substantially all of the plant now in use, including telephones, switchboards, cables and wires, has been constructed, renewed or reconstructed in the past 10 years. Particularly in switchboards have the changes., been so radical that installations costing in the aggregate millions have frequently been discarded after only a few yeans of use. Since 1877 there have been introdued 53 types and styles of receivers and 73 types and styles of transmitters. Of the 12,000,000 telephone receivers and transmitters owned by the Bell Company January 1, 1914, none were in use prior to 1902, while the average age is less than five years. Within 10 yeans we have expended for construction and reconstruction an amount more than equal to the present book value of our entire plant. Long-distance and underground transmission was the most forjnidible scientific problem confronting the telephone experts. The retarding effect of the earth on the telephone current often impaired conversation thrpugh one mile underground as much as through 10 miles overhead. Overhead conversation had its distinct limitations. No possible improvement in the telephone transmitter could of itself solve these difficulties. The solution was only found in the cumulative effect of improvements, great and small, in telephone, transmitter, line, cable, switchboard, and every other piece of apparatus or plant required in the transmission of speech. While the limit of commercial overhead talking had increased from strictly local th over 1,000