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Title: Some comment on government ownership of telephone properties ..
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Bethell, Frank Hopkins. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Government ownership. (from old catalog) Telephone
Publisher: (New York?)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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here, and its uses havebeen developed here as nowhere else on earth. / To illustrate the extent to which it has been developed, I direct attentionto the fact that though the industry is truly one of the inf;int industries of thecountry, it has grown to such proportions that according to reports of theUnited States Census Office it is the fourth largest industry we have ininvestment per capita, yielding only to Iron and Steel, Lumber and Timber,and Gas and Heating industries. Such is the magnitude of the industry it is proposed to turn over to thegovernment. Some quarter of a million workers are now enjoying the fullbenefits of the sick, accident, insurance and pension plans adopted for themby the companies. It is now proposed to transfer these workers bodily tothe government pay roll and in the transfer compel them to surrender allthe benefits that long and faithful service has brought to them. DISTRIBUTION OF THE WORLD ^S TELEPHONES JANUARY 1, 1913 13,816,000 (JPartly Estimated) 100%
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as^ 7^ J09& S&^o 60% FORM OF GOVERNMENT. Is our form of government a better form of government than can befound elsewhere? The answer made by all of us, including that vast numberwho have come here from other countries, and who are coming here onpractically every ship that comes to our shores, is that it is. It is betterbecause it offers opportunities to the individual to develop himself while he isdeveloping the countrys resources, and because it insures freedom while itprotects life and property. It has left the development of the nations resourcesto private enterprise and that very fact has prevented the stagnation that ob-tains in other countries. There is no instrumentality on earth that does more topromote business, to extend civilization, and to make possible our present-day standards than the telephone. And it follows then that private enterprisehere has done far more to extend these things to the people than has publicownership abroad. — 3 — TELEPHONE 5TAT10N5 COMsomecommentongov00beth

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