News the poor
women home
and employed them to lose the
one that since we took everything with us. But the kitchen sink.
The average soon to tell a paper boy not to deliver the newspapers this three week.
Our newspapers know that only about Uma going to.
You know
that front lawn of Oz is so high I can only find the walk in to tell of Benson
going to keep the grass cut Well we will go on. As though. No I'm serious.
If you take care of it. I did.
Well I guess I didn't baby my goodness.
Boy a thousand six ounces.
That wonderful they're going to name him day
that wonderful they're all yeah yeah it's great.
I tell you the nice thing about coming home from vacation is the nice big pile of
mail. Raising to be opened fire on.
What is this.
Albert Albert they're going to change your telephone number.
From from some products three to four six eight to seven. Yeah.
Hard numbers in their own team.
Yeah I heard about that at the drugstore when I stopped in to pick up the liniment.
Always been a bubbling brook.
Always I mean they can just change to seven numbers like this. I mean.
Sounds like a lost ticket or convict or something.
I don't know what difference it made.
What's the difference why we have been babbling brook deer since.
I mean we've had a babbling brook number ever since the name was chosen out of the
back of the babbling brook and my great grandfather I know Dolly
but after all times have changed even the brook is dried up.
Side the telephone company must have a good reason.
I'll bet it's quite a job changing all those numbers. I can't think of any reason.
Maybe they ran out of telephone numbers.
They've run out of numbers must be movin millions of numbers.
Well why don't you phone them
and find out after all that's what telephones are for look I'm going to put the car
away I'll be right back. Wait a minute.
What I ask for you know I don't know why don't you ask for the new vice
president in charge of numbers.
But I got one too.
I think it is outrageous to change the telephone number.
I don't want you to think
that I'm a person who's always complaining because I'm not
but if you know how much this means do.
I want to speak to the vice president in charge of the.
Numbers more numbers more telephone pole numbers next
it'll be international numbers
and then maybe into these numbers who know numbers Department speaking.
Where you just can't change my telephone number like this why it's like changing my
name. Yes I understand how you feel. But hardly any warning.
I certainly can understand
that we have tried to tell everyone about our new all number calling plan and.
Well the time when your own number has to be changed is do. Some time away.
Well maybe you did send me notices that I threw out without reading
but you see we've done away on a vacation mystery. Where did you say your name was.
As in seven California. Yes well.
Did I I simply can't believe you do away with our babbling brook why longside
little boy Veron and when he has a son.
It will belong to our grandson the bubbling brook prefix belongs to your grandson.
Yes And well I hope it well when we have a grandson.
I mean this may sound silly
or sentimental to want a phone number to be traditional
but my great grandfather was the only casualty in the battle of babbling brook are
but this is our whole point.
I'd like your little grandson there will be millions of others
and they used to come and we're trying to plan ahead.
This new all number calling plan is taking place.
Gradually throughout the country to provide everyone with enough telephone numbers
for the future.
I don't mean to tell me your running have telephone numbers or what is
that ticking noise.
And all that but that the sound of new telephones. Every time you hear the tick.
And.
The new telephone has been added to the eighty million now in use in the United States
and and all of the country people are demanding more and more telephones.
Thirteen thousand a day
that adds up to sixty five thousand by the close of business each week.
And over two hundred eighty thousand at the end of each month a total of almost
three
and a half million new telephones a year that's a lot of new telephones a minute
and almost every one of them were need a new number.
But I have a number and nice number that starts with B.
You for babbling brook I can understand why you want to change it to all numbers.
Oh that's because letters are stunting our growth.
Are Coming up in nothing.
Let us get ready to give you and all our customers including this one.
Then the telephone service you will need and want for the future mystic did it.
Please slow down.
What do you mean letters are hemming you and it's really simple
and fascinating to I think for example look at your telephone guy.
There are a ten dial positions but only eight have left news you can use one
or zero for either the first
or second dial poor no lessons this cuts down the amount of telephone numbers
and then two you can hardly make any words where both first levies come from the J.
K. L. and W. X. Y. Places.
About the only word you can strain out of this combination is you're lying.
That's a fine name for a Philippine tree which is what it is
but it makes a poor name for a telephone.
Number less is the names cause confusion to zero is mistaken for zero.
People die. B B for bubbling brook instead of B.
You many names are easily misspelled is limb broke an ally
or air Wow. Or for
that matter your friends from out of town may wonder if your own number is be you
for bubbling broke.
A babbling brook using no words
but just letters like L L R X R would help some
but not enough to get maximum use with selected lessons as we would have to
simultaneously change every dial in the nation.
Putting levels an old hymn buzzes in and B.'s
that AIDS think of the confusion between lessons like B. and P. and T.
and D. and D. and D.
and Who can tell the difference between a J and A.J.. Numbers On the other hand.
Fortunately less confusing if you do have quite a problem
when the whole thing is the present
that has the numbers system gives you such a limited quantity of central office
names. How many thousands like your.
A bubbling all numbers and no letters you had one to eight hundred
and each year across the land
and every one of these central offices can have powers
and thousands of numbers in it. You see the numbers will be freezing. Wow.
Meanwhile I say we are being him to him and this is a very and will be the loser.
Piece numbers are going to be needed in the future.
Time act just starting for example direct distance dialing Oh you mean where a
person can dial his own long distance calls. That's right.
I move more and more cities are offering this service to make it work.
The United States and Canada are divided into telephone areas.
Each with a three number area code. Yours is three one one.
Remember it's on your that actually yes well.
When you dial a number out of your own area you first dial the three number area
code this connects you with the right.
Then you dial the local number say Fine fine five one two three for
the same local number can be used once in every area. So can names of course.
But remember with names we can have far fewer central offices in an area with
yes.
I remember with all number calling millions of no numbers will become available.
The public's demand for more telephone services is tremendous.
Aside from more
and more people in Moama homes there are many new business needs for example large
companies which once had only one number and lots of extensions.
Now have separate numbers for all their telephone.
You can dial right to each telephone.
Also there be more direct dialing to movie or telephone
and the girl by which buzzes to tell you to call your her.
Yes telephones are going in everywhere. More and more telephone.
More and more numbers to overwhelming How do you ever keep up with.
It's not easy because it means that more
and more central offices are being filled up
and so areas of filled up in fact this is happened many times already
and all because of the letting in the telephone number
and so we have to split the affected areas into two smaller areas.
If this happens often more
and more of our customers will have to dial the three number area code even on
short distance call. So it's best to keep these areas as large as possible.
All number calling will provide the capacity to do this it will take care of the
country's and your grands and communication needs for years to come.
And all number calling opens the way for so many future improvements in your
service.
Such things as easier to be dialed in some time in the future letters can be
removed the use of compact buttons instead of the small Kenya.
More attractive instant international dialing where all numbers will avoid the
confusion of falling out for them
and who knows outer space dialing these things may seem far in the future
but so did Earth satellite only yesterday.
Well that's the story of all number calming the new look
and telephone numbers.
It'll be coming to cities
and towns all over the country in the next few she quickly in some gradually now.
But all number calling. Is Coming.
Everywhere I really think you'll like it. Well Mr digit I might at that.
Thank you for explaining it to me it's what I owe Mr did it about babbling brook.
I do understand why it's being changed.
I hoped you would and good by.
Now that my.
What in family are you doing business right.
But there's all this business.
Where I Am is it working.
I'm thinking of calling the vice president charge of numbers.
So I mean I was just kidding.
There is no vice president Sharjah numbers
and he had value no need to bother calling the phone company.
I was talking to Seeley next door.
You know I have a car away and he gave me all the stuff
that they got which we probably received
when you just threw away without even reading my little darling.
It seems
that this new number system will open the way for all sorts of wonderful things.
Yes I know I had better service for homes and business
and international dialing maybe even space dialing some day.
Yes I know dear I was dialing will be easy fast and
and more accurate because it will be all this confusion between letters
and numbers. It's actually the result of everything growing like mad.
I know I know here I let more industry more business more homes
and all going to need more telephones and more numbers you see look at
that it's all right here.
Mr Just talking to him you're just talking to Mr They just
sit here that's how I knew everything that you were telling me on the telephone
that. I think oh you're tired.
Oh no I'm sure Don't tell me you need another vacation.
Maybe I do you know my grandfather wasn't the only one the lose the battle from
bubbling Brock
and I now have much of a battle.
Yes.
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off off
you off the
off.