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TIIE PROGRESSIVE FARMER. HOW TO EXTEND RURAL TELEPHONE SERVICE. Begin at Home With Your Local Exchange, Join this to Other Rural Exchanges and Insist Upon a 'Mutual Service Agreement When You Connect With the Lines of the Big Company. 966 (S By J. Z. Green, Marshville, N. C. li.ji It Needs No Painting WHOSE neat sparkling roofs with their crushed mineral shining in the sun you see them all over the country they are Amatite roofs. The fact that Amatite needs no .paint ing means a great saving to those who use it. It is also a great convenience not to have to paint roofs. Many buyers have adopted the policy of using nothing but Amatite owing to this economy and satisfaction. A booklet about Amatite will be sent free on request. Address our nearest office. Creonoid OS&sSZ Oreonold sprayed on cows keeps away flies and prevents insect torment. Equally useful in the hen honse to de stroy lice and keep them at a distance. The cost is trifling. 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(Can Sate SOU -rnSKft Aoa From ""OU All flio hvklna and VI11 nt tfiA ntrwrf. AVnArt WOrk- mnn urn inmblnnd with thn htuhftflt crrade materials mnnni can tmr. In turninc out this Bucsy. 'It's a iob I'm proud of and you'll be proud to own it. I'll stake my reputation on it and am ready to ship it anywhere X M Hi I 130 Days' Road Trial Free f5fo .SW '." I With 2-Year Cuarnteo- m MR. GREEN. THERE are several plans under which rural telephone service has been established and ' ex tended, under the co-operative idea and mutual exchange of service, but in the county which has, per haps, the most extensive and sat isfactory rural telephone service in the South, the system has had its re marka ble growth and devel opment under the following practi cal plan: A farmer in a community buys a switc h b o a r d which he installs in a room oi nis residence and he erects a line con necting his switchboard either with another rural exchange which has connection with a market town or runs the line directly to the railroad town. He offers service to all his neighbors who will buy the,ir own telephones and erect their lines to his switchboard, usually at 50 cents per month, where two or more telephones are on the same line. This' plan is self-protective and in sures its patrons against imposition with excessive charges. The only as set the exchange man owns is the switchboard and a line giving con nection with a market town or vil lage. His patrons own the remain der of the system, and if the owner of the exchange should decide to in crease prices for service, his patrons have a lever to use against it, which they can do by a simple request of the switchboard man to disconnect their lines at the board. This ar rangement prevents the owner of the rural exchange from exercising arbi trary "trust" methods, if he should become greedy for larger rents. Mutual Connection of Exchanges. No satisfactory rural telephone system can possibly be developed in any county where one exchange is permitted to charge another ex change for connection. In the early history of the rural telephone system in the county referred to the larger telephone exchange at the county iyh ycioioicu in cuaiguis iim main roads smaner rural exenanges $2 a month for connection. This was a small price compared with the cut-throat prices which the telephone "trust" charges rural exchanges around such cities as Greensboro and Charlotte, but it was too much. So the rural telephone folks got busy and began under such conditions are forced to pay over to the telephone "trust" $9G a year for the useof a "drop" at the switchboard that costs about $2.50 and the "trust" also uses the farm ers' line for a toll line. Toll Lines Should Not Be Tolerated. Toll lines for local use in a county should not be tolerated. They are a nuisance. In an eastern county the other day a farmer called his home from town and it cost him ten. cei.ts for a two-minute talk. And ho was already paying $2 a month rent for his 'phone at home an amount that was equivalent to a 10 per cent dividend on a $240 investment, but the actual investment represented was not over $40. Prohibitive telephone rents and tolls have done more to hinder the extension of rural telephone service in some counties of North Carolina than all other causes combined. In fact, there are some counties that will never have a creditable develop ment of the rural telephone service until the schemes of some grafting telephone companies are beautifully defeated. Among all the 34 inde pendent telephone exchanges and the 2,000 rural telephones in Union County there isn't a local toll line in the county, the price of rural 'phone rents is only 50 cents per month, and one exchange makes no charge against another for connect ions, yet many of these rural ex changes are paying investments for their owners, and stock in some of them would bring a good premium above original cost. How to Overcome Difficulties. There isn't any better place to take up the proposition to establish a neighborhood telephone exchange than in your local Union. In fact, a local Union can be made the best asset and the most constructive force in any community, and if you haven't got the local Union, get in commun ication with the State Organizer and have one organized. In your local Union get a member to agree to buy the switchboard and let the other members agree to immediately pur chase their 'phones and build their lines to the switchboard. Along the it is best to start by putting up poles heavy enough to bear up several wires. Now, as for connection with your town or city exchange: Don't be in too big a hurry for that kind of connection. When the town exchange agrees to let you in without rents, on the mu tual exchange basis, it will be time 4" r nillnlrlir AwrrnnUn 1 ' fn. " r.V a ge t0 go in. You have just as much for . their convenience at the county :vT , , . 0 fr ooo'f t, nA i , ,. A. . riSnt to charge a town exchange for seat town, and knowing that their nnnantinn o1 wh town customers couldn't get along without the farmers and would quit them and go to the new exchange, the old exchange folks decided to yield to the demands of the country exchanges and permit them to con nect without charge, on the mutual exchange of service basis. connection with your rural exchange as' they have to charge you for con nection with the town exchange.. And when enough independent rural exchanges have been established In any county to represent a hundred or more good farmers you may de pend upon it that the business men In town, whose very life and exis- And why not? Why should invest- tence defends upon your patronage, ments in one exchange demand trib- "will help you get in behind the town ute from equally as good money in- exchange strong enough to securu vested in another exchange in the satisfactory terms of connection. A same county? In other words, is it neighborhood telephone exchange i morally or legally right for a greedy worth many times its cost as a social telephone "trust" to declare big div- and neighborhood convenience. You idends from rents and tolls collected can afford to wait for town connect- from farmers' investments from as- ion and just keen on building your sets owned by farmers In which the county exchanges until you have "riic4-, l.nn.ii . ... . . . w1 i,u" iiaoii t a, uennv lnvp.stPriv i enouen ram ips inrp.rp.stea i - . u ------- W...V,,,. vuum, leuiiiers rural ex changes positively refused to pay town exchanges $2 4 a year for con nection because it wasn't right to pay it, but in counties where a telephone hud. ua uungs its own way, the enough rural telephone assets to make your demands interesting. In fact, the fight for a squafe deal and just rates will be practically won after you shall have installed several good, live, independent rural ex- very few farmers' exchanges that changes in' the county, for you will nave managed to com into existence then be masters of the situation.
The Progressive Farmer (Raleigh, N.C.)
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