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CEIL

SYSTEM

Giving the Telephone Life

Wherever your thought goes your voice may go.

You can talk across the continent as if face to face.
Your telephone is the latch to open for you any
door in the land.

There is the web of wires. The many switch-
boards. The maze of apparatus. The millions of
telephones. All are parts of a country-wide
mechanism for far-speaking. The equipment has
cost over 2 billion dollars, but more than equipment
is needed.

There must be the guardians of the wires to keep them vital with speech-carrying electrical currents. There must be those who watch the myriads of tiny switchboard lights and answer your commands. There must be technicians of every sort to construct, repair and operate.

A quarter of a million men and women are united to give nation-wide telephone service. With their brains and hands they make the Bell System live.

TELEGRAPH CO

COMPANIES

"BELL SYSTEM"

AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY AND ASSOCIATED COMPANIES

Qne Policy, One System, Universal Service and all directed toward Better Service

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ALICE HARRIMAN is a national
figure in the literary world, and a
Californian by adoption if not by birth.
She heads her own publishing house-
her books are not "privately printed"
however!-and finds her greatest inter-
est at the present time in seeking out the
hiding places and the history of the old
bells of California. Her greatest thrill,
perhaps, was when she found the oldest
of the mission bells hanging in an orch-
ard near San Fernando. If you can tell
Mrs. Harriman something new about
California's old bells you'll find your
way straight to her heart.

MILDRED FOWLER FIELD has
had previous introduction to Overland
readers in a dainty lyric which appeared
in a recent number. Poems bearing her
signature have since appeared in other
periodicals, but nothing we believe
which in any way approaches in dignity
and beauty and genuine poetic feeling
the group of sonnets which we give you
in this issue. Miss Field is temporar-
ily, at least a "shut-in," and if you
think as highly of these sonnets as does
Overland we know you will wish to
tell her so. A letter to 1719-A, Avenue
E, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, will reach her.
ETHELYN BOURNE BORLAND
is a name which the older readers will
remember as having at one time ap-
peared frequently in Overland. Her
first published work, indeed, appeared
with us; and later came short stories,
articles and verse. Mrs. Borland is a
native of Nevada, but has been for long
a resident of California. She lives now
in Alameda, where "—a quaint old gar-
den gay with dahlias, somber with cy-
press, slopes down to the water that
with each receding tide strews the sandy
beach with the 'stuff that dreams are
made of "-fuel for driftwood fires, be-
fore which she puts her visions into
tangible form.

GLENN WARD DRESBACH is an-
other name which you have have seen
here very recently, and which we hope
will be before you often. He has "made"
all the important periodicals in America.
and not a few in England. Author of
four volumes, a fifth-"The Enchanted
Mesa"-appears shortly from the press
of Henry Holt & Co.

(Continued on page 48)

EDITORIAL Staff

MABEL MOFFITT

MANAGER

HARRY NOYES PRATT

ASSOCIATE EDITOR

D. R. LLOYD

FRONA EUNICE WAIT COLBURN

CORRESPONDING EDITORS

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