The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-16
GIRLS IN Topeka


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course the telephone girls listen |
They're human and you can't tell me
that a man wouldn't do the same thing |
under similar circumstances but we |
never tell and you never heard of a I
case of blackmail from a phone Of |
flee.
Pick Out Good Husband.
Then. too, telephone girls with
good sense can pick out a better hus-
band than any girl going. She knows
exactly what man is if anyone does
Half dozen of the girls from the
Peoples Home Telephone company at
Leavenworth will arrive at noon if the
chief operator finds it possible to
spare that many, H. w. Sexton, man
ager, announced this morning. Law
renee, Oskaloosa and other neighbor-
ing towns are expected to send a num-
Der here by noon.
An address on the Ideal Mutual
Telephone company by Senator j. D.
Joseph of Whitewater, opened the
meeting this morning Then H. A.
White of Kansas City, gave a practical
demonstration on how to locate trou-
BILE in coils and bad joints. A photo
graph of the independent telephone
men was taken at noon. o. F. Tall
mans of st. Louis, and D. " Taylor, of
Topeka, gave practical talks in the
afternoon and then the operators
school was opened.
IOnlgnt a merry time VIII De en-
joyed at the Commercial club rooms
when a, hair raising initiation will be
given the visitors. j. Will Kelley,
secretary of the Commercial club, was
busy this morning making prepare
lions for buffet luncheon that will
be given the phone men.
A Woman Manager.
Miss Frances Bailey, manager of the
Spring Hill Telephone company, is the
only woman manager at the conven-
ton. She is one of the most persist
ent after all kinds of information, too.
Only two operators were left at Perry
this morning after j. D. Frost and his
wife, Misses Nora Elswick and Hazel
Brideson had left to attend the lin
structor's school, here late this after
noon.
Miss Margaret Kunze of Scammon,
and Miss Myrtle Vanatta of Columbus,
are the three hello girls who travelled
the farthest to listen to Mrs. Douglas
this afternoon. They are all members
of the Galena Home Telephone COM
pany. Miss Bessie Brooks, chief oper-
ator at Hiawatha, and her manager, c.
J. Stocking, arrived in Topeka this
morning to attend the school.
Employers Organize
During the morning session the pro-
posed organization of an EMPLOYERS
association throughout the state was
discussed. Already 800 employers
have written into Topeka declaring
themselves in favor of such an organ
ization which will be perfected at the
Commercial club rooms on March IS
1t seemed to be the opinion of MANY
that if labor unions organize to in
fluence legislation there is no reason
why the employers shouldn't do the
same thing.
Tomorrow a paper on Decisions of
Courts and Commissioners will be
read by E. Hogueland of Topeka, at
o'clock. At $50 Mrs. Douglas will
open her school again. At 1890
O'Clock F. B. MacKinnon, third vice
president of the United States Inde-
pendent Telephone association, Wash
ington, D. c., will deliver an address.
Election of Officers.
At IL O'Clock reports of various
committees will be read and at 11:15
o'clock officers will be elected. There
seems to be no advance information
on the election of officers The pres
ent officers are: T. L. Youmans. Osa-
watomie, president; A. ]. Stevens, Hia-
watha, vice president; J. H. Close To-
peka, secretary-treasurer. This will
end the convention.
Senator JOseph's Speech.
Criticism cannot be TOO severe
against independent, Bell or mutual
telephone companies that do not CO.
operate in a spirit of fairness and
good will for the mutual benefit of
all, Senator j. D. Joseph of White
water, told the telephone men at their
annual convention this morning 1.-The
Ideal Mutual Telephone company
was the subject of Senator Joseph's
address.
Continuing, Senator Joseph de-
clared that the disposition of Bell and
independent companies not to grant
to the mutuals terminal fees for in
and out messages is responsible for
much of the ill feeling often existing
among them. Senator Joseph insisted
that the Public Utilities commission
should always make as one condition
to any permission to raise rates, that
the company applicant grant the ter
minal fee above stated to all COM
panies asking the same, with which
its toll lines are connected.
Not Practical in Cities.
The mutual and small joint stock
company is best adapted to the coun-
try and village, Senator Joseph be-
lieves, but for cities the mutual large
or small, he does not think it prac-
teal Senator Joseph warned the
telephone men against almost GER
tain failure if a mutual company
shuts itself out from the world by re-
fusing connections with other com
panies, but in all contracts for joint
service, the mutual should insist upon
a five-cent terminal fee on each in
and out message passing over its lines,
when the total toll charge is Is cents
or more. He admitted there should
be some exceptions to this rule but
declared that such fee is reasonable
as a general proposition.
But first" said Senator Joseph, IAN
ideal mutual telephone company
should be organized upon a solid fnan-
ciaI basis It's stockholders, or d
large per cent of them, should COM
prise the best men of community and
large per cent of the men in the
] oh aoI1e, n
that will pay the expenses of opera
ton. create a reasonable depreciation