The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-22

1E YER since I can remember, the one ITJ person in all the wide world whom SI I've always wanted to see face to face and talk with, heart to heart is- Central
 Just name, to be sure, but have you ever stopped to think that this same little Central" is the one person who affects your daily life more than almost any body else you come in contact with? And yet in spite of this, you hardly think of her as human being, which is at once the triumph and success of this big pub- l lie utilities corporation, to have things move as evenly, as smoothly, and there fore as mechanically as possible. Central in my busy life plays very in portant part, because I live by the tel ephone; she holds all my secrets, as it ! were, in the hollow of her nice little, ca pablo hands; so promptly, so inevitably, so evenly comes, Number please every | time I pick up the receiver, whether for | a business engagement, to decline an l invitation to tea, or to extend one, as | the case may be, that I always feel as l if "Central' is indeed a part and parcel of my very being. and yet, as I said | before I hardly ever think of her as a human being.
 Up to yesterday, I'd never had the | pleasure of meeting any young woman connected with the Southern Bell Tele- {, phone company, but it just goes on Sto show that waiting has it's compensations, for at last had this pleasure come my | nn Irrh in rf1xy iSt af delightful acquaintances a young woman who I regard as one of the incest and most attractive and certainly one of the most capable and human people l have met in many days-Miss Ann Chris ltainsen-who occupies a high position with her company and besides has time | to do her "bit" in war work as captain of the French war baby drive. which the young women of the Southern Bell Tele- phone company in the Birmingham dis | trict have gone lover the top with sc beautifully.
 | Miss Christainsen refuted every idea l that anybody might ever entertain as to mechanical effects in telephone girls; fol she's just the most human sort of a girl you ever saw--with a great big. patriotic heart that beats in time with all the big opportunities afforded to women in these strenuous war times to show mercy anG kindness to those who need it. My con- clUsion is that all the nearly 800 girls ir the service of the telephone company ir this district are a wholesome, fine army of volunteers-a credit to their company and to their country.
 Organization, which has always beer the keynote of the success of the South
 ern Bell Telephone company, is mani
 festly the plan on which the young wom
 en have worked in their big French wal
 baby drive, for every girl connected witt the company throughout the district ha! done her share nobly and gladly and ha. established the loyal spirit of patriotism which is so truly needed in these wal days
 "In the Red Cross drive, the w. s. s drive, the Liberty Loan and all othe war measures" Miss Christansen said
 'the telephone girls have been enthusias tically interested, and furthermore de cided that we would do what we could for the French war babies, so we adopted one baby. This seemed very little, so il
 was suggested that we might adopt oth CTS and we organized our work, elected four-minute speakers and began to wag, our campaign for a fund to adopt a'