It has six times the net earnings and eight times the wire.

And it transmits as many messages as the combined total of telegrams, letters, and railroad passengers.
This universal trend toward consolidation has introduced a variety of problems that will engage the ablest brains in the telephone world for many years to come.

How to get the benefits of organization without its losses, to become strong without losing quickness, to become systematic without losing the dash and dare of earlier days, to develop the working force into an army of high-speed specialists without losing the bird's-eye view of the whole situation,--these are the riddles of the new type, for which the telephonists of the next generation must find the answers.

They illustrate the nature of the big jobs that the telephone has to offer to an ambitious and gifted young man of to-day.
"The problems never were as large or as complex as they are right now," says J.J.Carty, the chief of the telephone engineers.

The eternal struggle remains between the large and little ideas--between the men who see what might be and the men who only see what IS.