AMERICAN TELE

Wherever your thought goes your voice may go. You can talk across the continent as if face to face. Your telephone is the latch to open for you any door in the land.

There is the web of wires. The many switchboards. The maze of apparatus. The millions of telephones. All are parts of a country-wide mechanism for far-speaking. The equipment has cost over 2 billion dollars, but more than equipment is needed.

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There must be the guardians of the wires to keep them vital with speech-carrying electrical currents. There must be those who watch the myriads of tiny switchboard lights and answer your commands. There must be technicians of every sort to construct, repair and operate.

A quarter of a million men and women are united to give nation-wide telephone service. With their brains and hands they make the Bell System live.

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editorial staff of the New York Herald. He wrote articles on musical and other subjects for various magazines, and is the author of short stories dealing chiefly with musical and stage life.

editor of publications at the New York Public Library since 1914. From 1906 to 1920 he conducted a department called "The Librarian" in the Wednesday edition of the Boston Transcript. Three of his books deal with his library experiences, and another is about Theodore Roosevelt. He I will have other articles in SCRIBNER'S.

Martha Haskell Clark lived in Hanover, N. H., and was the wife of Eugene E. Clark, a member of the faculty of Dartmouth College. She contributed several unusually appealing and widely appreciated poems to this magazine, and had established herself among women poets of the first rank at the time of her sudden death in 1922. Her husband is editing a collection of her poems, which will be published in the spring. Evelyn Schuyler Schaeffer is a sister of the late Eugene Schuyler, about whom she has written a comprehensive memoir, and of Brigadier-General Walter S. Schuyler. Her husband was president of the Uni

work under the American Red Cross for the past five years. She has published several articles, but has only recently taken up fiction. Her home is in Beach Bluff, Mass.

Alice Harvey was born in a suburb of Chicago, and graduated from art school at the head of her class. She says she has always liked to draw, especially when her subjects were people or animals. In her opinion she draws people better than animals; it is plain that she catches very deftly the characteristic and the humorous aspects of the individuals in an audience.

Lloyd Osbourne's third paper on his stepfather, R L S, gives a unique picture of the Stevenson household in the South Seas, where the last half of "The Master of Ballantrae" was written, and where the two men collaborated on "The Ebb Tide" and "The Wrecker." Lloyd Osbourne now makes his home in California, but is spending the winter in London.

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Ward Macauley writes that he has been engaged in bookselling in Detroit for a good many years. He was president of the American Booksellers' Association from 1916 to 1918. His writings include plays for amateur production, short stories, and a large amount of book criticism, and he runs a column in the Detroit Saturday Night headed "Wayside Tales of a Literary Rambler."

Doctor George Ellery Hale, director of the Mount Wilson Solar Observatory in Pasadena, author of "The New Heavens," organizer and honorary chairman of the National Research Council, is accounted everywhere one of the foremost of the world's scientists. His article in this number, if placed beside "Gulliver's Travels in Science," by Doctor Robert A. Millikan, in the November, 1923, number, shows strikingly how these two men, in their respective fields of astronomy and physics, have pushed out the frontiers of science into the regions of the infinitely great and the infinitely small, and have combined in their discoveries to make plain to the layman the amazing range and structural unity of all existing phenomena. Doctor Millikan has lately received the Nobel Prize for physics and the Hughes Medal of the Royal Society of London. The two men have shared or succeeded each other in many important honors, and refer to each other's work in their articles.

H. G. Dwight rarely publishes poetry, but is known to many readers as the creator of tense situations and the delineator of memorable characters against a richly imagined Eastern background in his short stories. Collections of these include "Stamboul Nights," "Persian Miniatures," and "The Emperor of Elam and Other Stories." Isa Urquhart Glenn is Mrs. S. J. Bayard Schindel, cousin of the artist Whistler, with whom she studied in Paris, and widow of Brigadier-General Schindel, who was stationed for some time in the Philippines and in the islands of the South Seas. For eighteen months she lived in "that hole in

the wall, Tacloban," as she calls the place in which her story, "The Shuttle," is set. An earlier story of hers, "Bats Macabre," brought in letters from army men all over the country, who had seen fighting with the Moros of the Islands, and who recognized and approved both incidents and atmosphere of the story. Mrs. Schindel came originally from. Atlanta, Ga. Her father, once mayor of that city, was one of the State's most prominent attorneys and distinguished citizens.

Professor E. M. East, of the Bussey Institution for Research in Applied Biology of Harvard University, is the author of "Mankind at the Crossroads," a sensational revelation of sociological facts and questions affecting the immediate future of the race. Professor East was acting chief of the Statistics Division of the United States Food Administration in 1918.

Professor William Lyon Phelps, whose book of papers under the title "As I Like It" is reviewed in Governor Allen's paper, the Wichita Beacon, receives the following tribute in a long appreciative discussion: "Phelps is not an iconoclast. His criticism is always constructive, sometimes apologetic, as if he hesitated to hurt some one's feelings. How different from the new crop of idol-breakers to whom nothing or no person is sacred! The delicate vein of humor which crops out now and then is indicative of the kindly nature of this man who gives praise where praise is due and so gently directs attention to a condition that is not exactly 'as I like it.' He doesn't hesitate to differ with the savants whose word on the arts is accepted as law.”

Royal Cortissoz, always a popular lecturer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and at several universities, has just published a new book entitled "American Artists," which contains critical essays about many of the most significant figures in American painting, among them Abbott H. Thayer, Elihu Vedder, Edwin A. Abbey, and Kenyon Cox. There is also included some comment on the modernistic movement in art.