telephone service, the government officials looked upon it with jealous Handled on the American plan, the telephone abroad may be raised to a telephone in Belgium earns three times as much as one in Norway. In Austria. Little Finland has better service than France. The Belgian eyes, and usually snatched it away. The telephone thus became a part of have less than one telephone per hundred. Little Denmark has more than telephones have cost the most--two hundred and seventy-three dollars twig of bureaucracy. Under such conditions the telephone could not telegraph. The public officials did not see that a telephone system is a nuisance. the telegraph, which is a part of the post office, which is a part of Germans, British, Swedish, Danes, Norwegians, and Swiss. The others apiece; and the Finnish telephones the least--eighty-one dollars. But general, the lesson in Europe is this, that the telephone is what a nation makes it. Its usefulness depends upon the sense and enterprise comprised in the Bell System of this country. prosper. The wonder is that it survived. highly complex and technical problem, much more like a piano factory American levels. There is no racial reason for failure. The slow service or a steel-mill. And so, wherever a group of citizens established a made a State monopoly; and the tele-phone was regarded as a species of the government. It is a fraction of a fraction of a fraction--a mere countries. Before the telephone was invented, the telegraph had been and the bungling are the natural results of treating the telephone as There are only six nations in Europe that make a fair showing--the with which it is handled. It may be either an invaluable asset or a Too much government! That has been the basic reason for failure in most