There is no racial reason for failure.

The slow service and the bungling are the natural results of treating the telephone as though it were a road or a fire department; and any nation that rises to a proper conception of the telephone, that dares to put it into competent hands and to strengthen it with enough capital, can secure as alert and brisk a service as heart can wish.

Some nations are already on the way.

China, Japan, and France have sent delegations to New York City--"the Mecca of telephone men," to learn the art of telephony in its highest development.

Even Russia has rescued the telephone from her bureaucrats and is now offering it freely to men of enterprise.
In most foreign countries telephone service is being steadily geared up to a faster pace.