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Identifier: bellvol25telephonemag00amerrich (find matches)
Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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nd thousands more like them. Shall I ask you zvho? Youre strictly 1947, Miss Susie. A bright path and ready laughterare your heritage and your right. But you are also wise beyond youryears, for you knozv that these thingsare not all. Did you know, Miss Susie-at-the-Switchboard, that a picture of youwas painted, back years ago beforeyou were born? Thats true—and more than anyother picture ever painted, it has cap-tured the significance of telephonecommunication for all time and allpeople. It is called Weavers of Speech. A line of telephone poles emergesfrom a shadozvy mist. The wires sweep dozvn to the leftJiand of the central figure—thatsyou, Aliss Susie.^—and rise again toher right, as she feeds the lines ofcommunication to people everywhere. Age-old folk tales tell of Fate as aweaver, spinning the threads of des-tiny and weaving them into the pat-tern mankind must follozv. In the darkness, from zvhicli theteleplione lines come to your hand, Mefuo To a Girl at a Switchboard ^55
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\\ EAVERs OF Speech... a picture of you was painted, back years ago before you were born unseen are all mans efforts to createan ideal of communication, on zvhichJie might build his future. There are the smoke of his firstsignal fires, the naked runners trainedto run for miles, the messengers onhorseback, all of these and manymore. Progress rests on communication,and mans search for an ideal hasbeen endless. Into your hands come the tele-phone lines. They are the fruit of his effortsand the threads of his destiny, whichyour hand weaves into the pattern ofa better world. It is as though you held a lanternhigh, and in its rays new life is form-ing, new growth springing up. JFhere there was darkness, nowthere is light. It is a great picture of you. MissSusie. It tells a great story—one so bigmere words cannot make its importclear. That took paint on canvas. It is a timeless story, too, one evenmore true today than when the pic-ture was painted. Thats zvhat makes it a great pic-ture. An

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