Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1918-01-30
.. paid ADVERTISEMENT :
The Baryphone

from Wlllmar, Mluu., We "TeCelVou
The other day copy of Willmar Trib. |
une issued in that town and contain
ing the following item marked:
TO Patrons Of Telephone Exchange:
Please take notice: Please read
Rules and Regulations on Page Five
Of Telephone Directory before buying
appliances designed to improve your
telephone. We cannot allow the ad-
dition of these appliances to our. tele-
phone instruments.
John Williams, Local Mgr.
We knew, Of course, that there are
telephone companies objecting to the
use of tho Baryphone, because they
have their own intensifer, simply q
double telephone, which IL more o.
pensive but less convenient and less
efficient. They want to sell their own
intensifler and therefore recommend
to their customers mot to use any at
tachment not furnished by the CON-
pany." Their objection is q money
matter pure and simple. Competition
is protected by law, and the law will
not prevent the use Of an instrument
which cannot inflict any damage but
to the contrary Increases the useful
ness of the telephone, without ex-
pense to the telephone company. In
connection with this remark, it is
necessary to call the attention Of the
public to some legal opinions, called
forth by telephone companies' objec-
tons:
Legal Opinions.
"No contract, rule or regulation, es-
pecially one which embraces, imposes
or wells consisting condition that is
inconsistent and unjust, even if agreed
to by both sides, can, in the case of q
public service corporation, deprive you
of benefits and improvements in exis.
tence and peculiarly within the rights
and power of such corporation to be-
stow" especially while you are willing
to shoulder the expense. This has
again and again been held on the
broad grounds of public policy.
In the case Of the New York Edison
Company, with the New York Public
Service Commission, it was held that
If incandescent lamps are supplied
with the service at all, that the up-to
date economical and more efficient
Tungsten lamps must be supplied, in
stead of the great current consuming
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The public are always entitled "tt
all benefits in way of a public utility
brought forth" and will receive, aftel
the expense question has been settled
''the full measure of benefit, of any
such Improvement, in decision of 8
commission having Jurisdiction"
TRUSTS AND TRUST PRACTICE
! The United States Government con
tends, *'that all combinations, which
break down competition, are in re
straint of trade, are trespassers of the
Sherman Trust Law, and are all bad.
AS an accomplice in the hands of 8
law breaker is himself guilty OF thu
crime, we caution telephone manag
ers, and other telephone employees
against "the enforcement of health
endangering, loss 1nf1icting, efficiency
\ or comfort restraining, or defeating
regulations" either upon the tele
phone user or operator.
Amongst concerns in Chicago, eacl
using up to 20 Baryphones, are:
Armour & Co., Illinois Steel Co.
Wisconsin Steel Co., Internationa
Harvester Co., Deering Harvester Co.
Drovers National Bank, Merchant
Loan & Trust Co., State Bank of I'LL
nois, Peter Schuettler Wagon Works
Lyon & Healy Piano Co., Kimball Pi
ano Co., Steger Piano Co, Gable Plan,
Co., Tobey Furniture Co., Colby Furn
iture Co., Globe-Wernicke Co., Burle.
& Terrill, Pitkin & Brooks, John A
Tolman & Co., IroQuis Iron Works, Am
erican Steel Foundries, Stevenson Ma
chine Works, John Mohr & Sons, Ell
gin, Aurora & Eastern Ry., Common
wealth Edison Co., Peoples Stock Var
Bank, Money Weight Scale Co., By
Product Coal & Coke Co., Standar'
Forge Co., Cudahy Refining Co., Grae
SELF Chemical Co., Arthur Dixon Co
A. B. Dick Co., West Virginia Pulp 1
Paper Co., Sinclair OH Co., Beldin
Mfg. Co., Cone, Lorenzen & Wood
man .(400!), Hub Clothing Store, Hi
ton Clothing Co., Dtttmar Piano Co.
and in Indiana: City of East Chicago
City Of Gary, City of Indiana Harbol
Universal Portland Cement Work.
Burlington; American Bridge Work.
Gary; Tin Plate Works, Gary; Boltol
i Screw Works, Gary; First Nationa
Bank, Gary; Seventh Avenue Trust 4
Savings Banks, Gary; First Nationa
Bank OF East Chicago, State Bank O
East Chicago, The Inland Steel Co
Indiana Harbor; and many other bur
mess houses.
DR.. BURY and DR.. Merrill passed O,
the Baryphone for the steel trust; d.
Fisk and DR.. Britton acted for the II
ternational Harvester Co.
S. e. S. MANUFACTURING CO.,
Chicago, III.
E. GEO. HELLSTROM.
Box 9, Willmar, MINI.