Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-03-24
0N HOW ID MANIPULATE X
 TELEPHONE
SOME RULES THE SUBSCRIBERS WOULD DO VERY WELL
 TO FOLLOW

Strange as it may seem, not one per son in ten knows how to properly oper- ate a telephone, and telephone compan ies claim that this is responsible for great deal of the poor service com planed of Persons think they know how to use the telephone, and quito in noeently make many mistakes and cause 2 great deal of trouble to the operator and the company.
 For instance a number is guessed at and wrong bell is rung. An innocent subscribed is disturbed and voice says "They gave me the wrong number, and the company gets tho blame.
 A bell rings--it rings again--still no answer The operator finally reports, '' They don't answer.'' She never says "They are not there. Five seconds later-just six seconds too late--the ring is answered, and tardy subscrib- CT gets Number from an operator who knows nothing about the call in question. Upon being told "Why, you just rang my belll" she can only an swcr, Thepe is no one on your line. 7 She apparently acknowledges the error and again the blame falls in the wrong quarter; especially when little later tho called party meets the calling party and says he twas right there all the time. "
 { A person steps in and "borrows the use of telephone. When through talking he leaves the telephone off the hook, thus keeping the line busy" " and causing series of busy reports to be made to calling parties. Finally someone finds the receiver off the hook and replaces it. Business is resumed and the friend who has "been trying for fifteen minutes to get the line planes the company severely when told truthfully that "I have been right there all the, time and the line has not been in use for twenty minutes. " The thing occurs when the called for subscriber overlooked the fact that he is sharing a party line with someone else and that therefore the line may have been busy all the time and he not knowing anything about it. Rules
 l. Use the directory. Never try to remember a telephone number. It's all right if you remember it, but to try to remember it is to begin to guess Ii you have the least doubt about it, look it up and thus save time and trou- ble.
 g. Spell out all the numbers by giv- ing each figure separately, as "Main two, five, six, one," for "Main 256l. ' "Black two, double oh, four,'' for ''Black 20O4.
 3. Speak distinctly, especially when giving the number to the operator and when talking over toll line. Tal kinto the mouthpieee
 4. Answer your bell promptly. A ring means friend is calling you don't make him wait, or perhaps miss you entirely.
 5. Ring two bells when you want to recall the operator. Her drop signal falls when the bell is rung just the same as when you first called her.
 6. Until your bell stops ringing do not remove the receiver from the hook.
 :. Be brief but courteous to the op- orators. They have no time to converse with you. They do not know sub scribers' names; they deal entirely in numbers.
 | s. Call for Information when you can't find the telephone number you want or wish to learn the numbers of new subscribers. Your regular oper. ator cannot answer such questions. 9. Report all complaint to the com. plaint department. They should be prompt and describe the character of the trouble encountered. Any forms of trouble look alike at first.