. Bell telephone magazine . es can beresheathed and reused, and other simi-lar expedients can be adopted. If there isnt enough copper to makeenough wire to give an individual lineto everyone who wants one, peoplecan be asked to accept party line serv-ice for the duration. Orders for telephone installationsthat are necessary or important fordefense can be completed ahead ofother less urgent orders. So far, de-fense orders have been filled on sched-ule without the need to ask others towait. All these things can and will bedone, if they are necessary to keepfirst things first. That all of them wi
. Bell telephone magazine . es can beresheathed and reused, and other simi-lar expedients can be adopted. If there isnt enough copper to makeenough wire to give an individual lineto everyone who wants one, peoplecan be asked to accept party line serv-ice for the duration. Orders for telephone installationsthat are necessary or important fordefense can be completed ahead ofother less urgent orders. So far, de-fense orders have been filled on sched-ule without the need to ask others towait. All these things can and will bedone, if they are necessary to keepfirst things first. That all of them willbe necessary we cannot say with cer-tainty. However, it is clear that someof them are already necessary, and itis likely that others will be. Adop-tion of such measures will not meanthat the Bell System is sparing anyoutlay of effort or money to provideand maintain the best possible facili-ties and service. On the contrary,the System has never made a morestrenuous effort to keep the service 19^1 Telephones and Defense 205. Every Position Filled Long Distance switchboards throughout the country are handling more calls than ever before good, and some of the figures men-tioned above are fair evidence of thecurrent outlay of money. It is ob-vious, however, that if the unprece-dented demand for service which isnow being experienced should con-tinue, in the face of possible seriousshortages of essential materials, someground must be given somewhere. It may be worth noticing, in con-clusion, that were it not for the greattechnical progress made by the BellSystem in recent years, some of themost serious current telephone prob-lems would be infinitely more seriousthan they are. Thanks to cable car- rier systems and cable-laying plowtrains, it has been possible to increaselong distance telephone facilities at aspeed utterly impossible a few yearsago, under any circumstances what-ever. Thanks to the organization, re-sources and equipment of the System,the greatest demand in history has
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