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Let’S: Divvy Up!
Back 32 7 A.D., King
Tsempo/of Tibet, decreed an
division of all wealth in. his
flom—-everyone an equal share,
less than ten years, the wealth was
•distributed about as it had beep be
fore, so twice more the theory of
equal distribution was put into prac
tice.
And each time it failed!
Would an equal division
weqlth work out today?
Well, we are told that there is
approximately nine and a half bil
lion dollars in currency in circula
tion in the United States today,,
This—divided equally—would give
each person in that country about
W.38.
Now what about property? Well,
if we divided the wealth accord
ing to land holdings and other tang
ibles, it would give each person an
interest equal to about .$3,000.00.
Not much of a fortune after all—
when we consider1 present property
ownership or home ownership.
How about giving each iperson an
equal w^age regardless of training,
talent tor occupation—regardless- of
education or experience?
The United States Steel Corpora
tion recently figured that each of
its employees received an average of
$8.33 a day. ’..... tv'’’ 50
the salaries
down to the
the company
the average would still be just $'8.3 8
• a day, jqst five cents more than
the present average of $8.33!
The American Telephone Com
pany has calculated that if all sal-
aries over $5,000 a year were cut
down to that amount and the mon
ey thus saved distributed: ajnong
all the workers, receiving less'than
$5,000 a year, the average -pay of
these workers would l?e raised only .
17c a week.
Or, if all salaries pf the A.T. & T'.
werp cut to $3,000 a year, the pay
of the rest would be increased only
28c a week.
Whenever anyone starts talking
about an even distribution of wealth
or about a more level rate of wage
among all people or one group of
people, it means that they forget
one of the most important laws of
nature—a law that is, as immutable
as. the law of gravity-^which is the
principle that: u .
A man’s value to society, 'his
country or the World, increases as
the need of supervision decreases.
Every man who must have super
vision must pay the supervisor. *
The purpose of .labor is to pro
duce the wealth and the wealth of
• -any country since the dawn of his
tory has been produced only be-'
cause of supervision.
The more people a man can keep
•profitably employed, the more Val
uable he is to mankind and to him
self. This principle is more all-
inclusive than. ordinary Leadership,
■as we' think of the terms: Leader
ship in time of war; leadership in
religious life; leadership in busi-1
ness. It has a more broad applica
tion which, perhaps, we can best'
illustrate by pointing Out the large
salary paid to a ‘movie’ star-—par
ticularly a juvenile star. Are they
worth whht they get paid?
The answer is an emphatic yes.
Because, through their talent,
■ability and popul’arity, they exbreise
a different kind of supervision or
leadership.
' . Indirectly they create employ
ment for thousands of people—not
• only in the studios Where they work
(script writers, supporting cast,
directors, technicians, property men,
camera men, electricians, etc.) but
also in theatres—projection room,
doormen, Ushers, box office as. well
as the manager.
Then in newspaper plants: editor
ial room, composing room, press
room, yes, even delivery boys. In
the printing trades: lithograph pos
ters, programs, etc., arid back of
these,, the people who log the tnn-
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This-means that if all
from the president
lowest-paid worker of
were lumped together,
her, make the paper and ink.
Briefly, the influence of
'star’ spreads through hundreds
of Industries and pays wages to
thousands of people.
And, if we were ttot so modest,
we’d make a Professional bow to
those industrious individuals who
write newspaper columns. They,
too, through their work, indirectly
give employment to hundreds of
people In printing, publishing and
allied trades. Every time they sit
down to *their typewriters, they
create employment for many people,
who never even heard of them or
read their column. Starting with
the men who worked on the type
writer, the girls who make type
writer ribbons, on through to the
men who set their ’copy’ on a ‘Lino
type’ and on to the newsboys
newsstand clerks and the men
gather and bale waste paper.
For example, take your own
Think of how many people
give employment to-starting with
the farmer wlio produced the grain
for your breakfast cereal, the men
who made the tools you work with-r-
and the railroad and other transpor
tation employees who bring
your food, the raw materials
work with, then transport the
ished product—
It’s an endless chain...from
time we come into this world,
til we leave it, we are constantly
making gainful employment.^ for
someone.
-Mhe American Analyst
and
who
job.
you
you
you
fin-
the
un-
Putative Bum
A teacher was giving hie class a
lecture on charity.^ “Willie,” he
asked, “if I saw a boy beating a
donkey, and stopped' him from doing
so, what virtue would I, be show
ing?”
“Brotherly love.”-
* *—Lydia <
Invitation
A house of hope could I but frame,
In some sweet vale of rest,
The doors would open to youi’ name;
You’d be the chosen guest.
I’d set the heavens’ choicest star
. To furnish you with light;
Bring costly gifts from near
Your pleasure to invite.
My loving wish, my tender
Your guardians, should
And all my thoughts be
there
To serve your least command.
and far
prayer,
stand, .
waiting
On hearthstones ,hewn from happy
dreams".
Would burn love’s deathless fire,
And music soft as purling streams
Should sing your, heart’s desire.
Jowly but necessary pig is
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By constant, fervent love I .rear
This home within my heart—,
The door swings wide: come, enter
Dear,
And never more depart!
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- Man must
initiate,
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imitate before
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Discourtesy to inferiors
our own inferiority.
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he can
prov.es
’MagTih’iiimity of Big Men
The story is told that during.
Civil War Jefferson Davis one
wanted a reliable officer for^an
He asked Gen-
the
day
im-
The L.._ IJ _
selling himself at a good price, •
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V' &
up his self-respect by
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The onions and the early peas have done fairly well this year.
We’re looking for good
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things from the
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bean harvest.
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Eighty-four in the
day wondering if a little fire in the stove would not feel pretty good.
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shade one day,with high humidity. Next
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There was a lively
kets the other night as
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call for hot water bottles and woollen blan-
the thermometer tumbled away below fifty.
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Did the shortness of the speeches by President Roosevelt and
by Premier Hepburn indicate anxiety as to the progress of the war?<
Johnny has not been able to add any considerable sum to his
millions by berry-picking,
bean harvest.
■ He’s looking forward hopefully to the
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The summer
churches are well
done.
camps held under the auspices of the various
attended and the work undertaken is being well
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Again .we ask, have western Ontario towns and villages got
effort for the cominganything like an organized help-the-farmer
harvest.
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- Unleashed dogs should not be allowed
impoundings and a stiff fine or so would make things pleasanter for
a good many people who wish to use the streets in peace.
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on. the streets. A few
The Union services of James Street and Main street are off to
a good start in attendance, music and preaching. Mr. Woods’ series
of sermons on the Book of Revelation will be followed with interest.
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Experienced farmers fear that the extremely hot weather of
The crops have ripen-
Light oats and barley
two weeks ago will result in shriveled wheat,
ed' somewhat too rapidly this last ten days,
are looked for.
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Out of the confusion and incomplete reports of the German in
vasion of Russia comes the belief that the Germans have not made
the rapid advance expected either by the Germans themselves or by
the neutral powers. ,
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The world race has become exceeding swift. Woe to the na
tion that stops to tie its shoestrings.
Let us, then, be up and doing.
Learn to labour and to wait.
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labour and to wait.
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, . A WISE MOVE
: There is a good deal of agitation in
ing car drivers who are subject to heart _ ___ _______ ___
the party likely to be seized in this way and the general' public are
interested in this matter of life and death.
favour of doctors report?
or other, seizures. Both
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~A GOOD MOVE
_ Heaven and governments help those who help themselves,
With this in mind, the powers that’ be in Huron are moving to get
better rates for their county, as far as-hydro charges' are concerned.
Since our rate of consumption justifies our getting our electricity
more cheaply our right is to get a reduction forthwith. Were- the
shoe on the other foot we’d soon have our rates increased.
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The Red -Cross work blesses him who gives as well as him
who takes. A Vumber of our ladies who were strangers to the arts
of sewing and knitting have taken practical consideration of the
necessities of our defenders on the sea, on land and in the air and
Dave resolutely set themselves to the task of providing comforts for
sailors, soldiers and airmen. Skilled Red Cross workers tell us
that these new adventurers in the
among the very best helpers.
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KERB AT IT AND DO DOTW
One of our neighboring ministers tells ns tin:- lie was in one
of the Torontp churches last Sunday* seated for a congregation 0*
oyer eight hundred. There were just thirty-five present, ami that
in Toronto the Good, mind you. The smallest church in Exeter
could do and did do better than that, and we are not overproud of
the size of our congregations during dog days. We’re not patting
our own backs in what we have to say on church going, W.e have
no reason to do so. We have a right to do some thinking about at
tendance at prayer meetings. We could increase our church at
tendance by fifty per cent at almost any time.
Just the same, there are those In this community who regard
church attendance as a tine combination of duty and privilege, and
not as an affair of convenience. They know that while church-
.going is not the whole duty of man, they see that where church*
going falls off other good things soon droop and die.
down to brass tacks in this affair of Church-going,
is not fun, It is not
observe if they are to
to bej
recreation. It is an
keep themselves the
Let us-get
Chursli-going
exercise that men must
sort of folk they ought
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JUST A LITTLE GRAVER
Russia’s ehtry into, the war must not be allowed, to obscure the
fact that the war is to be won on the Atlantic and the western
front, Just now the crucial. point is the Battle of the Atlantic.
What has gone on there is not known to most pf us and, indeed, few
know the situation on the ocean. We are well off if we regard
the situation as really grave. We are getting a great many supplies
and men across to the old land but a great many of both men and
supplies are being sunk. The United States is aware of this fact,
In, the next place, the invasion of Germany is exceedingly proble
matic. Just now our hopes are set on blasting the ^nemy to pieces
‘ by -air inyasion. A great deal has been done find is being done in
that line of warfare, but no one quite estimates how much is to be
done; #The effort required is believed to be simply colossal. In this
connection we must remember the crippling effect of, strikes in the
United States.. In Canada, too, we must wake up, forget the ballot
box, recognize that the new day calls for new efforts and get down
to a last man, a last woman, a last youth and last dollar effort,
Npthing less will do the occasion anything like justice.
BATTLE OF ATLANTIC
brings CLOSE shave FOR
VETERAN EXETER SEAMAN
W. J. Seymour, of the Merchant
Marine, Saw German Submarine
Ace Hiiuled in as Prisoner of War
How his ship was torpedoed and
how the British destroyer that res
cued him sank three U-bqats within
an hour is the thrilling story told
by W. J. Seymour, formerly of
Exeter, recently returned from wit-,
nessing the Battle of the Atlantic,
according to the London Free Press.
One of the Nazi submarine surviv
ors that the ship picked up out of
the sea was pones cither than Ger
many’s ace U-boat commander, Otto
Kretschmer.
Seymour’s
that left an
last March,
as they entered' the danger zone,
things broke loose. They missed a
torpedo when the captain ordered
the helm to starboard in the nick of
time. Five minutes after the tor
pedo had gone by they were^rammed
by a Swedish ship.
The survivor relates that he Was
having a shot of rum in the chief
steward’s room,, when,
dropped my glass and said we have
got it. I ran for the starboard al
leyway door. All lights had gone
out ttnd I could not get out of the
door as she had jammed. I thought
I was trapped. I felt my way back
again to the port alley door and
managed to get on deck.”
For what 'seemed an indetermin
able length oi time Seymour and
others, in the crew drifted in two
lifeboats until they.were sighted, by
a destroyer, which took them
aboard,
day yet,
British
lifeboat.
WINCHELSEA
Miss Gladys Batten is spending
a couple of weeks with Mr. and
Mrs, Harold Denham of Sarnia.
Mrs, R. ‘E. Pooley and daughters
attended the
picnic held at
Miss Grace
is holidaying
ents, Mr. and
Mr.
Hensail,
Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Batten.
Mrs. Gladwin Glenn, of Brinsley,
spent a couple of days with
and Mrs. Sherwood Brock.
Zion Sunday -School
Stratford on Friday.
Collier, of Kirkton,
With her grandpar-
Mrs, H. Bailey.
and Mrs. Ezra Willard, of
visited on Sunday with
Mr.
reXlly kiu.
One pad kills flies all flay* and every
day for 2 or 3 weeks. 3 pads in each
packet. No spraying, no stickiness,
no bad odor. Ask. your Druggist,
Grocery or General Store.
10 CENTS PER PACKET
WHY PAY MORE?
THE WILSON FLY PAD CO., Hamilton, Oat.
Young people of I'oday are a& hard
to understand as their parents were
at their age.
"A surgeon—-writes in Carious
Cynic—can set a broken bone but it
takes a.n attorney to heal wounded
pride,
ship was in a .convoy
Eastern Canadian port
Seventeen days later,
There was a young
Herb,
Had his auto parked
He backed on the
Without looking back;
Now his car is a wreck-—so is Herb.
fellow named
at the curb,
track
Soreness
from fired muscles
under gentle, rubbing'
with Minard'a, the
60-year-old remedy
.for muscle strain, stiff
or aching joints,
sprains, twists and
rheumatic pains. Rub
the pain away with
Minard’s! It's greaset
Jess; has np un
pleasant odor; dries
quickly, Colds and
ordinary sore throat
are relieved by it. Sore
feet rejoice in its
penetrating effective-'
^ess. Get a bottle at
your druggist's today.
Keep it handy. 130
MiflAKD'S
LINIMENT
which took
“I shall see my old birth-
he said to himself as the
tars pulled him from the
‘ He was 59 the next day.
. Sight Submarine •’
s
destroyer got under
Mr. Seymour
Stubborn Cases
of Constipation
Those who keep ’ a mass of
impurity pent up iri their bodies,
flay after day, instead of having it
nymnyett as nature intended,‘ at least
Mee in every twenty-fbur< hours, in
variably suffer from constipation.
The Usd 6f Cheap, harsh purgatives
will never get you any where as they
only aggravate, the trttubld arid in
jure the delicate mucous lining of the
bowels,, and ate very liable to Cause
piles.
If Constipated take .Milbum’s -
Laxa-Liver Pills and have a natural
movement Of the bowels, .They do
not gripe, weaken and Sicken as -
many laxatives dd.
TM T. Milburn Co., Ltd., Toronto, (jiiik
MAN HAS A RIGHT
. Premier King’s assertion regarding the sacredness of pledges
is. worthy of every consideration. No statesman can afford to make
dr to break a pledge with a lightheart. The circumstance; however,
recalls the occasion when Principal Grant was twitted by an oppon
ent with recommending a course of public conduct contrary to a
course of public conduct recommended under entirely different cir-
/‘It’s a man’s privilege to change his mind,” the astute- ...... . . . - added. The
What they
Even the
TO CHANGE HIS MIND
The
again immediately,
relates, having sighted the U-boat
which she had lost sight of earlier.
‘Then the fun started.' Ten depth
charges, one after the other,
brought two U-boats to the surface
and then, the pom-pom gun and the
4.7 started ripping at them.” xyitli
tlieir submarines crippled, the Nazis
began to surrender and the order
to cease fire was given. The Ger
mans* scuttled the IJ-boats and
jumped overboard. .
Get Commander
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The March of Science
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IMPROVES RECORDINGTELEPHONE RESEARCH
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portant command
oral Lee what he thought of a cer
tain oman by the name of Whiting
for the post, Lee commended him
highly. ;
One of the ‘latter’s- officers was
greatly surprised at the General’s
commendations, and, calling him
aside, aske’d’him if .he knew what
unkind things Whiting had been
saying, about him. , Lee answered!
“I understand that the President
wanted to know my opinion
Whiting—not Whiting’s opinion
me.” '
Big men are too magnanimous
notice criticisms or slights, It
the small man, who is. carried away
with his importance-—who cannot
overlook Personal attacks, -a. *, " $ ■ 'J, ■
Be interested, and you will bO1 in
teresting. •
A Dutchman, thottgh he had been
in this country for Almost a half-
century, still retailed a marked
accent. He was inclined
iiglon and became a trustee
church Which lie .attended,
the rector complained that
tain man of the congregation had
called him a perfect ass and asked
his bdvico, the reply was ambig
uous......
“Vot you should do vould be
youst to bray for him as usual?*
—Infinitive Splitter
to ro
of the
When
a cet-
cumstances.
Principal replied. “An ass never changes his mind,” he
national and international - outlook are anything but
were, three years ago. New occasions teach new duties,
apostle Paul ichanged his mind in view of new light.
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SOMETHING N.EIV UNDER THE SUN
For the first time in its history Exeter last Thursday heard
an official call to arms. And there the call to arms remains con-
\£>picuously posted in the Rost Office. A drizzling rain fell as the
Exeter band bravely paraded the streets followed by a platoon of
soldiers who bore themselves right soldierly and wlio executed the
manoeuvres the ceremony called for in a manner and with a spirit
..4 themselves and their officers the highest credit. 1 Our
British liberties were imperiled, we were told, and His Majesty’s
government called upon all his subjects capable of doing so to take
up arms that liberty might not perish from the earth. Those who
took part in, or who witnessed this simple but highly significant
ceremony never will forget what they saw and heard.
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DOING WELL
well in the present struggle. Indeed, she Is
ex the war. Those who expected the Russian
Russia is doing
ohe of the surprises _ ___ _ ^uaainllt
bear to turn his stumpy tall to the enemy and to bounce off to the
North pole have been disappointed. Hi's face has already been badly
scratched, but he has not been scared out of countenance. His
hittuled some tens of thousands of his German
enemies. He is not a communicative party. Lively conversation is
M a ve\y g00d job at b^ing and
mawing, ke continue to chew and. choke his and our Nazi
enemies, Wn’ll not be surprised i£ he should have to back -up a good
SSS. s Ven out airnlen a rare opportunity to blast the
strongholds of out common enemy, His coming in on our side may shorten the war by many a flay. 7
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Among the 43 survivors picked up
was Otto ^Kretschmer, a submarine
commander known aS the sea wolf
and considered as the No. 1 prize of
the German underwater navy. When
he came on board the destroyer
Otto is reported to have given the
Nazi salute. “None of -that stuff
here,” said the captain,' and Otto
smirked and helled Hitler again.
Meanwhile another destroyer had
rammed a submarine head-on,
knocking a hole in herself. She
picked up seven prisoners, making a
total bag of three submarines and
50 prisoners In less than an hour,
Seymour says.
Mr. Seyniour was horn in Lon
don, England, 'coming to this coun
try many years ago'1 and living in
Exeter for some time. He was in
the Royal Nttvy during the First
Great War and lias been active in
the merchant tnkrine for 30 years;
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(htrious Cynic Cants
—did’ja ever know* any girl who
Washed her hair arid did net just
’have to tell* someone' about it?
—■never ridicule the matt who
lives on his wife's money-—-chances
are ten to one be earns1 it.
—-the difference between men and
women is that a man can’ love his
dog and still adore his mate,
—being old enough to know bet*
ter is hoi a guarantee o£ virtue.
The soft notes of a distant
flute, the roar of the crowd, the
rumble of thunder, and terrific
crescendoes unequalled by any
orchestra — all coming from a
stage unpeopled, by any players
whatsoever were presented re
cently by Bell Telephone Labora*
tories in a demonstration Of its
latest development in sound re
cording — stereophonic reproduc- »
tion of “enhanced” music. By this
nfew technique, sound can be re
produced with a clarity, range,
and spatial sense hitherto un*
known.
For .example, the usual motion
picture sound track cannot record
tfle full range of a large orches
tra. In the stereophonic process a
special sound track is provided to
“make a note” of the overtones
lost and re-introduce them when
the record is played back. The
listener hears eve'ry sound he
could have heard when the or
chestra itself was playhig. *
Secondly, the sounds are picked
up by three microphones placed
near each section of the Orchestra,
and thus each group of instru
ments is recorded on a sound
track of its own. In reproduction,
loudspeakers are located on the
stage in the places occupied by
the original sections of the or
chestra. The listener hears-—let
us say—-the drums from the left,
and the flutes from the right,
and the other instruments in-be
tween, The Whole Width, breadth,
and depth of the orchestra is re
produced.
Finally^ before being played to
an audience, the stereophonic rec
ord is heard by the orchestra con
ductor. Seated at a control board,
he varies the volume or tone of
' the music as he desires. The vol
ume can be increased by as much
as ten times over that of the
loudest orchbstra. Pianissimi, on
the other hand, are the merest
hush. The recording is actually
bciier than the original perform
ance.
How does it happen that tele-
• phone engineers should make im
provements in recording? As a
matter of fact, the association be
tween the telephone and the
phonograph dates back to the
earliest days of the latter. Thomas
Alva Edison invented the phorib
graph, but it was Alexander
Graham Bell, inventor of the tele
phone, who first perfected the
talking machine for commercial
purposes.
Moreover, telephone research
discovered the orthophonic prin
ciple, which revived the record
industry from the great slump of
1924. In the Old days, the power
of the voice or music alone drove
the stylus by which a sound track
Was engraved on the master rec
ord. Even the tremendous voice
of a Caruso, .however, could not
make a satisfactory recording by
this method. Then, Bell Telephone
Laboratories, studying speech in
all its aspects with a view to im
proving telephone transmission,
came forward with the ortho
phonic principle. By this method,
sounds to be recorded arc first
picked up by microphones, and
powerful electric currents from
those microphones drive the re
cording stylus, which is thus able
to catch all the delicate overtones
formerly missed.
Recently, the telephone en-
. gineers came through with still
another improvement—“hill and
dale” recording. On the old type
of phonograph record, the needle
bumped from side to side in thd
groove, producing blurred and
dragging musical notes. On the
new type of hill and dale record,
the needle slides up and down in
the groove instead of waggling
from side to side. The groove is
much narrowei' than formerly, so
that more grooves can be made
on a standard size disc. Further
more, all blurred and dragging
notes are eliminated, and the
range of overtones which can bo
recorded is Still further increased.
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oj Ibt Will Telephone °f Cariada, A
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