Word: telegrapher
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Officials of Luzon, largest island in the Philippines, alarmed by inter-tribal strife, recently called a confab. Invited were the mountain tribesmen, who believed their hunting grounds were being encroached upon. Special word and promises of presents went out by jungle telegraph through the Cordillera range to the tribesmen...
...Instead, Sir John announced new taxes which put ordinary British cig-arets up in price from 20? per pack to 25?; matches from 11½? to 2? per box; beer from 9? to 10? per pint; whiskey from $2.50 to $2.80 a bottle. In Britain telephone and telegraph are State monopolies and the Chancellor raised their inland rates 15%, left overseas business rates unchanged to favor British trade. Finally Sir John almost doubled the ordinary British postal rates. Armchair London economists quickly figured that all these measures will cost the "average Briton" an extra shilling and sevenpence weekly...
Long has the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee considered the repeal of a law which commands that there must always be competition in the declining U. S. telegraph industry. Last January it got the opinion of the Federal Communications Commission: that Western Union and Postal Telegraph ought to merge, that there is not enough business to support both, especially Postal. The Senate did nothing...
Same month Postal came out of reorganization with a new capital structure, a new president (TIME, Feb. 12). Like all competent telegraph men, new President Chinlund was in favor of eventual merger too. "But," said he, "I don't believe in chasing rainbows." In his head were plans for mechanizing, cutting costs, more competition with Western Union...
Died. James Francis Smith, New York City Police lieutenant, 56; of pneumonia and heart disease; in Manhattan. Biggest adventure: at 16, as a telegraph messenger boy, he traveled 12,000 miles during the Boer War to deliver a message of sympathy to President Oom Paul Kruger of the Transvaal Republic from 29,000 Philadelphia schoolboys...