South Bend News-Times, Volume 37, Number 212, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 30 July 1920 — Page 21

iTHE SOUTH BEND NEWS-TIMES

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Orders For Telephones

Come too Fast to Fill

"Babe" Ruth Gives Away Pairs of Shoes for Each Home Run

vnr.K, j-.;iy ::. "Waiting ?" a.vks th oprrator. "Waiting? Waiting?" Y. a quarter of a nillion American AUK waltlnt: not for th tcU'rhon girl to srl thrm a number, but for the romf.my to lns'all the And th,r nre Indications thry uill bo waiting for f-orr.f tim yrt l.iayb two or thro yars. And thn whn thlr onlTK h:ivp bo n ;;l!cd ther will r-roraHy bn a many :r.or applicants clamoring for telephone's In Ih United states, where more than two-thirds of all the 'hons In tht world ar located. Th number of unüiled ordf-rs for t!ephon9 1.1 a direct rf-V.vcüon of the growth of bi.cin'-."M In perioral x. nd the tHphone business In particular. A larpe number of waiUnf? ortlers means a phenomenal growth of telephones lr.ftaUed and telephones ordered. For tho HM1 companies the country over thr art a total of i: bout 150,000 contracts awaiting Inftallatlon. In addition to this there i-i a cons!d-rablfl number of reiue.sts made for telephones which have been deferred for a which .jio contracts havo en maMe. There never hau ber-n and probably never will b a day that there ar- no uniil'.ed orders and statistics b.ow the number Is normally 60. Goo for the IJeli sy5tern. On the basis of the results of an Inquiry by the United Press, whereby it was learned that in twelve metropolitan districts in the country -l ct d at random there are at present approximately 121.000 unfilled orders for telephones by Individual vouli-be ubtcrlbTF. It Is estimated about other applications for qulpment In ether partH of the f-ountry that are yet to b tilled. At present in the whole country here art' about 12.000.000 now in uso. In Fpite of all the difficulties of transportation and manufacture and in spif of the short ajce of materials ::nd fabricated articles the telephone :ornpanien have mad?, for tirst live months of this year, a net gain of nearly 270,000 telephones. This means that telephones have been put in faster than ever beforo and that throughout the Hell system supply is gaining on demand. Iteaons assigned by telephone company orticials here anil In other cities In most caes were the falling off if production, Inability of in a nufacturers to et supplies and a general shortage of materials and labor. In rsTew York City alone there are now on file 65,000 applications for Installations of telephones In residences, apartment houses, offices and factories. And there are already about S 33,000 subscribers in the Kreater city. Unfilled orders as reported from other cities are as follows: Chicago. 35.000: Cleveland. 7,500; Minneapolis and St. Paul. 1,600; Indianapolis, 3,000; Boston. 19,000; Denver, 4.000; Oklahoma City, 2,000; St. Iyviis. l.SOO; Connecticut, 2.500; Atlanta, 2,830; Birmingham, 1,500;

MoMle. i.rr.n, ar;,i S;.ri:;cfi.-M. 111.. 400. other ritUs reported shortness of Instruments, cables, wires, poles and switchboard apparatus, with a resultant increase m Uk- numler of unfilled ord'-rs for tel. phones. In explaining th' situation that confronts the American Telegraph & Telephone company (the H 11 system;, v.hi-h. with its asj-ociat-d companies, owns and controls more than 1 1.000.000 of the 12.000.000 telephones in um throughout the United States, an ofTicial of that company said : "Clreat manufacturing plants havo changed their products over night. At a word the making of arms, ammunition and materials of war has been Hopped and the manufacturo of plows, textiles and vhe varied materials of peace has begun. "If all this released business were going smoothly it would put a tre. mendous load on the telephone. Hut it has not teen going smoothly. Quite the reverse, it has been in great confusion and thit confusion has been aggravated by storms and Knows and unusually bitter weather, by epidemics of inlluenza, by Hoods and tornadoes, by big exports and small imports, and by a myriad of troubles that have Increased the burden on the telephone system. "Unfilled order3 are on hand, new central offices are needed, - 11? w switchboards, new relays, new Tlstributing boards, new conduits, new cables, new manholes, new pole lines, new equipment of every kind. Thousands of miles of cable must be laid, thousands of miles of wire must bo spliced and strung, uncounted millions of joints must bo soldered to make perfect the connection to the central offices. Tl.rt whole country is teeming with this construction. covering every mechanical process from factory' production to installation of the subscribers Instruments." Lack of production, he said, had curtailed reserved supplies of practically every element of material used in the building and maintenance of telephone systems. Among the materials most used by the telephone companies and which It has been almost impossible to obtain, the official said either due to falling off of production or to poor transportation are as follows:

Copper In 1919. 25,000,000 pounds!

was used for telephone lines and 30.000.000 pounds for making leadcovered cables and apparatus. Steel Approximately IS. 000. 000 pounds used annually In sheets, strips, bands, structural shapes and magnet steel. Galvanized Iron and steel wire Approximately 10.000 tons used every year. Lead Annual requirements are 100.000,000 pounds. Antimony and Tin Annual requirements 1.000.000 and 700, ooo pounds, respectively, and most of which comes from China, Japan and the Straits Settlements. Brass rod and sheet 10.000.000 pounds used every year.

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Georcre Herman Ruth, otherwise known as "Babe, the King of Swat." and Mrs. Ruth Is a new role, entitled ''Shoe-in?: the Youngster." which was exacted by them at the Grand Central Palace, New York shoe sale, for the benefit of thirty-two children from the Catholic Orpa tin Asylum.

Germans Trying. Hard to Corner Russian Trade

NEXT CONGRESS TO HAYE NEW MEMBERS

Cot of Living is Driving Manv Present Officials to Private Life.

From the Brooklyn Eagle: There will be many new faces in tho next house of representatives. Almost daily word reaches Washington of somo present member who is not going to peek a renomination. In Brooklyn, for example, Reps. 3 1 owe, MacCrate and Johnstone have let it bo known that they do not want another term. "What is true of Brooklyn is truo of the country generally, with the exception of the solid democratic states of the south. Th house committee on the judiciary will b practically a new body of men In the 67th congress. Bep. Volstad. Its present chairman, has been defeated for a renomination. The nexL man on the committee was the late Rep. Iick Morgan. In addition to these two vacancies Reps. Igoe of Missouri. Card of Ohio and Steele of Pennsylvania uro not candidates for reelection. The reason given by most of the men who are. not endeavoring to obtain a second term Is that It is impossible for them to live in Washington on their congressional salaries. For instance. Rep. Igoe of Missouri nt the time of his election to congress had a bip law practice. This praetico became dissipated during his term in congress. He wants to return to private lif and rebuild it. Til be old one of these days." said Mr. Igoe recently, "and find myself in debt for having served too bng as a member of congress."

She Was Light Drinker And So Was the Judge PORTSMOUTH, Eng.. July 29. Charged with drunkenness, a woman denied the soft impeachment. She told th magistrate she had only iad two nints of beer, a glas-s of bitter, two double whiskies', a bottle of bass and a bottle of ale.

The bench was a light drinker:

himse.f and let her off with a fine of J2.

HV CAIUj I). CJK OAT. (United Prv.s Staff Corresiondcnt.) BERLIN'. July 29. Though some German officials concerned with Russian affairs look skeptically for the moment upon trade possibilities with Russia, certain economic authorities :ncluding Food Minister Schmidt see in Russia a future golden business opportunity lor Germany. And, while one croup of orllcials scofi's ft the Russian claims as to ah'ldy to deliver troods to the r.t of the voi Id. another croup is caefully i 'r.rning for the later con-j.-cft of the erst. Germany fee, that she i lr. a strategic position to get a generous; share of the Russian trade, and is inclined to think that .n the long run she can outstrip Ee"gh:ncl. America and France in this Held. M.u.ter Schmidt's vifw of the situation as expressed to the Wirtschaftsrat are a clear indicator c.f the G;rm?n feel.g about the orob-lvra.

"ill; respect to our ability to loripete on the wor'd market, we will hao no easy position in the fuUre." h'. said. '".Vo will s-oon haY'i rharn competition, pciruly vita America. The. concentration of

all financial power .n the United States, ao it developed during the war. mi's had directly to fcrration of werbt trusts. England also has assembled strong forces within itself. "Greater prospects are offered us through approaches to the east. The Russian market offers many possif ilities for trade relations with us. It concerns us as one of the nearest markets in which we have as far as Entrland and America are concerned. the indisputable advantage of a more favorable territorial situation." Incidentally. Schmidt viewed Ger

many's industrial situation as approaching a oris;s inasmuch as foreign demand has decreased with the increase of prices and Improvement of the mark, but he was inclined to believe that the present difficulties would be remedied if all factories would apply proper methods and if import and export were correctly controlled by the government. Meantime, it is significant that Russia is pursuing a systematic campaign as respects future trade relations. 1-sLablishment of an agency here under Wlgdor Kopp, followed by Xrassin's visit to London are known to be pnrt of a carefully planned scheme whereby Russia should plant her business relations again in foreign lands. Germany, as previously pointed out, takes with a grain of salt the astounding f'urures of what Russia is able at this moment to export, pointing out that transportation facilities are lacking for such undertakingseven if the supplies are at

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hand. And. Russ:;;-. p. are inclined to believe that considerable romanrlrg as

Russia has on hand for ej However. while some take this attitude, business many government a jth r overlookmg no bets.

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does open with Russ.a. There ar many German business m n who know the Russian '.ant-uace ..r.d c;.--tom from long pre-war experier.N', and they count this knowledge as an nsset which America and England posses in a far lesser degree. The German business man regards Russia as "virgin territory" at this time. That is to say. ho realizes that its wartime exhaustion plus th ravages of economic distintegration under holshevism will make it a fruitful field for the outside world. And. with this knowledge, he hope to be able to get a lead in th business raco once that gets under way.

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