Every other farmhouse from the Atlantic to the Pacific contains at least one instrument.

These statistics clearly show that the telephone has removed half the terrors and isolation of rural life.

Many a lonely farmer's wife or daughter, on the approach of a suspicious-looking character, has rushed to the telephone and called up the neighbors, so that now tramps notoriously avoid houses that shelter the protecting wires.

In remote sections, insanity, especially among women, is frequently the result of loneliness, a calamity which the telephone is doing much to mitigate.
In the United States today there is one telephone to every nine persons.
This achievement represents American invention, genius, industrial organization, and business enterprise at their best.

The story of American business contains many chapters and episodes which Americans would willingly forget.