Not content with discovering the irl with the golden voice for its Nelephone exchanges, the General Post Office in London is reported to be considering the idea of searching for "Perfect Telephone Subserfber." Tt is not at all clear how it proposes to achieve this quest for after all the London system at all events fs largely devoted to the automatic principle, No doubt' the Shanghai. Telephone Company would find relief from its resent anxieties in a similar kind of adventure—adapted of courte to. the Fequirements of Shanghai. Perhaps might accept the suggestion. th a prize for the best tempered re. Cipient of its monthly accounts would stimulate public courtesy and, in the ong run, help to dispose of the financial problem of that ten_ per cent, profit. Incidentally the notion training the public in talking on the telephone has much to commend It. The broadcasting hobby is doing something in that direction, for Histener-in has become acutely vole conscious. "There are certain a announcers who give pleasure whenever they make themselves heard. There are also others. The same difference of opinion probably prevails reard-ing voices on the telephone. Wild horses or tame Alsatians however, will pot drag from this Journal mors specifte observations.
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