new england to the southern plantation in the new york cutting table other methods of communication or slow and tedious the telegraph was the only means  it kept pace with a nation's expanding fro today but it's still in the making get the next course well sure fred brough twins are news western union is about to make it official and while you think of all the people who should know about alice and the twins he places his reply on a cylinder and with a push of a button the reply goes direct the western union in his own handwriting and ultra modern telegraph method that is close to magic fifty stories down western union serves hamilton ohio construction here my head of schedule urgent uighur immediately earliest arrival structural steel b urgent words speed from an engineer to his home office a steady flow of words flashes the western union from the communications room of a large business for a battery of tele printers handle swiftly a mass of urgent details the i live daily operations of a major business to save time to pack more hours into the day to get on fast orderly record the many details of a busy enterprise no less important is telegraph service to the smaller to the western union operator impartially and impersonally sending an almost endless flow of words the contrast between six pound babies and twenty ton cranes that is by almost without notice now the syracuse high speed math each other for the territory in which the telegram originated and a link in the chain of mechanized centers throughout the country good news travels fast and with the speed of light this good news now in syracuse is automatically being flashed on the way to st louis method center for the delivery office guided only by the two key signals punched in new york swiftly accurately practically none stop along with  as it arrives she knows but that the nation and play with voice of a button the words are on their way to a couple in missouri twenty ton crane has reached its final destination preston california thousands of miles farther away reached it and already the leopard because distance means nothing when it's at the end of a sailor will have the money he wants through the speed magic of a telegraphic money order this is a network of interconnecting high speed methods setters linking together bombast western union system from coast to coast and from the great major method centers spring a multitude of connecting circuit directly linking thousands of towns and cities large and small throughout our country where there's a vast ultra modern automatic telegraph system the finest asked has been world as we call it speedway hall where a speedway extending far and wide within our shores and even beyond to in from any part of the globe meanwhile of typical day continues from great automatic network in a matter of minutes the water order is on the floor of a large produce exchange seventy million housewives are concerned with every move in this marketplace for the price tags of the nation's gro shelves are determined here five hundred cases ninety five sale goes up on the big board and over the western union circuits but transaction apply just instantly to produce growers and shippers across the land in every type of marketplace from brought her to obama's western union record of the nation's sense of value to provide service to as many as possible today as western union reaches the american people in different ways those in small communities may know western union service through its agencies and railway stations like this where young ladies and meet me telegram the busy housewife send a greeting or congratulation  may call for telegraph service and simply say charge it to my phone please the hired man wants to talk away his telegram and get going send a reservation telegram from a convenient direct coin box cab communities away from the center of things knows that attended a local drug store as western union representation to millions of sports fans western union is the answer to what's th happens western union speeds the story to its national press centers serving the world's top newspapers with lightning fast reports of the press that life wherever disasters strike western union is on the job to restore  american people it is perhaps here representatives speak and act for one hundred and fifty million citizens that western union serves the greatest number in the senate press room correspondents compile the daily hard copy record of significant speeches western union in washington is a funnel into which americans pour their messages of support of protest to their leaders the opinions of grassroots voters feel rightly believe that the elected man is a public servant when green issues are at stake of its system operates by microwave being transmission from towers like this in washington more than two thousand telegrams can be sent and receive simultaneously on a single radio be traveling with the speed of light cting one hundred eighty eight banks in fifty four cities providing direct immediate and confidential communications banks on the network there is an outstanding example of modern to with a serving the nation's great industries yes western union does more than serve the individual twenty four hours a day it's three hundred sixty five days a year at all times less battery of t presents a permanent record of the origin and destination of every message exchanged over the private wire system contracts confirmations instructions purchase orders financial transactions not lumber tail has been left hanging in the air in the pentagon brains out of america's military might the primitive aspect of telegraphic communication conforms to the traditional demand of a military for realistic records the army and air force use private telegraph systems to  coordinate the vast organization was operated by specially trained service personnel carriers are among the greatest communications centers ever designed and serviced by western union edition because the story is happening right now a reporter is taking notes in the research center of western union and what he is looking at will make the story that will fill the last empty space in the newspaper the story is a familiar one to western union a new one to the reporters it's the story of an embassy search for improve or somebody to serve the communications needs of america but he was peg of the story is one of the findings of that search high speed facsimile transmission and reception both words and pictures in a matter of seconds thirty five hundred words are s system at the user's elbow speeding messages to destinations with just the push of a button to better serve america everywhere to bring distant friends and business customers within arm's reach of the swiftness of a yellow light a long way from the old hand to hand relay from point the plane flown at the mercy of human error has been said here is to let go of the on wheels roaming the streets of outlying districts to bring telegraph service right to the front door on the radio beam tower and it's amazing capacity of two thousand telegrams at a time on a single radio