Arizona republican., 1905-07-10
TELEPHONE CONVERSATION
Suggestion Of a System for Making
 Ones Self Understood.

Notwithstanding the perfection of the modern telephone those who have occasion to use it daily will agree that that sort of communication is often perplexing and confusing, especially in respect of long distance lines. When the telephone machinery is in good or der, the weather perfect and the per sons at either end of the wire have their mouths exactly in the right place with reference to the transmitter everything moves perfectly, but this happy combination seldom occurs and the time conditions are most trouble some is when the message is most inn po-taut.
 Particularly confusing is the trans mission of proper names and especially the initials. If one gives the initial F and there is anything at all out of or der oI carelessly done it Is sure to sound like $ and vice versa. If one uses the letter T it will surely be taken for the letter P. c. D or c. These are only two instances. There are many others.
 Few people have occasion to use a telephone more than telegraph opera tors especially where their offices work Tn conjunction with long distance offices. Operators therefore have mo- ] ticed long ago the facts related above and one operator at least has devised "code" which he is trying to get his friends and everybody else to use for | the mutual convenience of all and in the interest of accuracy in the tran saction of business. By his system al- ! so code messages may be the more | safely transmitted over a telephone | wire for the reason that a code mes ! e.r { t,, ! it's meaning is uninteiligible and there | is no way of knowing that it is ac- l curately taken unless the hearing is | absolutely distinct.
 Tine operator who has devised this l telephone code is J. H. Bailey, manager l of the Western Union office in Pres l colt Other codes might be devised in | the same way by using other names ! but it is desirable that his code be | adopted generally as it is now in use | by some and it has been carefully stu
 died out using words easy to pronounce
 and yet dissimiiar. It is as good
 as any and it's value lies in it's univer-
 sal adoption. If everybody has diff ferent code there will be little gained. ! The following is his code. the use of
 which will be hereafter explained, and
 it is suggested that the code be clip ped out and pasted in the hat: l Arthur Nancy
 i Benjamin Oliver
 l Charlie Paul
 ! David Queen
 | Edward Robert
 | Frank Samuel
 ! George Thomas
 | Henry Underwood
 Isabel Violet
 John William
 KIondike CH) for Cross Road
 Lady Yellow Dog 1 Mary Zebra
 Tn ordinary use suppose the phone message came ID. s. Brown was kill i ed" If tie victim were not a well l known character his initials nine times out of ten would be incorrectly re- 1 ceived. b would sound like either F, C. R, or some other letter and 5 would
 be sure tO sound like F so the name ! would most likely appear c. F. Brown
 instead or D. $. Brown. In the use
 of the code when the transmitter gave the name the receiver would immedi- ately inquire in an interrogatory tone
 ID for David and for Samuel?' If
 the answer came in the affirmative he
 would know the initials were D s. But
 if the transmitter were not aware of {. method of using the code he would
 immediately reply 'I don't know what
 the initials stand for and that method
 of talking would be all off But if
 everybody knew that code and used it
 it would be simple enough. It would
 not matter whether the dead mans