The Bystander, January 28, 1925

WONDERS OF THE TELEPHONE

II.-If all the Lines were cut !

Supposing one day we woke up to find that all the tele- phone lines were cut ; and supposing they remained cut for, say, forty-eight hours.

How many million pounds' worth of business would be lost ?

How many fires would rage unchecked; how many burglars work immune ; how many pleasure plans go wrong ?

How many lives would be lost or endangered because medical aid could not quickly be made available ?

How many-but imagination cries a halt. For the mind cannot conceive that life as we live it could be supported without the omnipresent aid of the telephone.

It stands at your elbow. Talk through that friendly mouth- piece, listen through that sensitive ear. A motion of the hand, and you may con- verse with whomsoever you choose out of millions of peo- ple from John o' Groats to Land's End.

Could any legendary Merlin work a greater magic ?

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