In fact the telephone operator's work is as full of human interest as a swiftly changing moving picture screen. Hundreds of calls for aid in business and pleasure flash before her on the switchboard. Most of them are full of intensely throbbing life, and all of them are in a hurry. Business men and women, society women, day laborers, shop girls, doctors, nurses, theatrical people -work and pleasure, life and death-they all pass before the operator. All humanity is on parade through the switchboard.
Among all who attend to our general needs, few are more important than the telephone operator. She establishes and controls the channels of the nation's speech. Presidents, senators, hankers, and captains of industry lift their telephone receivers and ask for her services. Yet she also serves with equal efficiency the smallest merchant or the most humble citizen. With the aid of the wonderful organization of wires and workers, of which she is a part, she contributes her share toward the advancement of the nation and makes work easier and life happier for all.