Automatic telephones have been in use in Shanghai for' less than decade, but it Is Interesting to note that as far back' as 30 years ago a Proposal was, submitted "to. the Shanghai Municipal Council. for the introduction of this type of tele phone, On July 18, 1907, a letter appeared in the "North-China Dally News" written by Mr. B, S, Little to the SIM.C, offering to organize a new company to instal "a modern, up-to-dale. automatic telephone system in The company, he said, would be Incorporated under the Hongkong 'Ordinances. 'The maximum charge to subscribers would be Tis, 45. per annum for business telephones, 'Ts. 12 per annum for an extension desk, and Tis, 30 per annum for a tel Phone installed ina private' rosie dence. As soon as the number of tel phones reached 5,000, the charges would be reduced, No charge would be made for the installation (elephone, and all wires would be placed underground.
Mr. Little proposed to reduce the wires connecting outlying districts to the central by '70 per cent, which. would be done by means of substations, making only $0 wires neces sary instend of 300, the number then use, The. Munlelpal Council Would be supplied' free of char with all telephones actually requir for general municipal purposes.
Mr, Little's proposal, perhaps unfortunately for Shanghai, was turned down by the Council, the secretary, Mr, W. E, Leveson, stating In reply that the Council regarded the resolu tion on the subject, passed in March, 1906, a8 a. direct instruction to. n got late with the Mutual Telephone Company for a franchise monopoly, "An interesting article on "How radiotelephone calls are set up" is, among the contents of the "Shanteleo Journal" for July-September, which has just been issued. This "is pubished in connection with the opening Jot the new Shanghai-New York elroult.
Conte' Goethe be an educator of German Nazi youth? "This isthe theme treated by dferr Baldur von [Sehirach, chief of the German youth a speech given recently on the of the opening of the stival. According to for ich, Goathe was. unjustly claimed by the Democrats and the Liberals, "tu reality, the great Gers Jman.classicist had always wished for the realization of German unity, and had expressed. his opinion that the essential task of educators was to clothe at young peoples in uniform, The speaker concluded that Nazism had proved: without any scruples its right 10 "annex" Goethe,
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