anaheim-gazette 1931-03-26

Phone Girls Have Code of Their Own Public Can Listen In On Queer Jargon of the Exchange Operating Room LETTERS MEANING WORDS Listeners-In Don't Know What It's All About Adding to the 3,000 spoken languages said to be running at large in the world, comes another queer and abrupt vernacular used by long distance telephone operators. This increasingly famous switchboard jargon, which is now for the first time being heard by the public as operators complete calls, has been explained by A. L. Bartlett manager of the Southern California Telephone Company. Callers Like to Listen The reason the public can now hear the operator's spec is that new equipment makes it possible to connect most connections. While the line officials say that people like to listen to the operator is getting the information is interesting and it helps to hear the operator right on the job. So the operators "leave the city open"—letting you in on their behind-the-scenes language. "Don't worry about interpreting these 'funny words'," Mr. Bartlett advised, "the operators are just speeding up things so that they can get your party quicker. The girls will tell you in good Southern California English when they have your party on the line, or the..." Don't worry about interpreting these funny words," Mr. Bardlett advised, "the operators are just speeding up things so that they can get your party quicker. The girls will tell you in good Southern California English when they have your party on the line, or the reason why they can't get him." Lingo is Code Language The lingo nevertheless is an interesting code language. If the called party's line is busy, it's "By"; if he does not answer, it's "DA"; and "NF," according to the codes of operatordom, means that the called party doesn't have a telephone. "NRG" translated, signifies that your husband is "not registered" at the hotel in San Francisco where he is supposed to be—in other words, you're fooled. There are instances on record where "UX" and "UD" have been adopted by business men to save time in explaining their whereabouts to their secretaries. "UX" means, over telephone wires, that "the desired party is not there and isn't expected today," and "UD" is just a speedy way of saying "not sure whether party will be in today or not." "PK" Isn't Chewing Gum "PK" isn't chewing gum, either, since gum-chewing during hours of duty is against all switchboard law. Instead, it's just the operatic way of saying and writing "Pacific time." And "RN" has nothing to do with nurses—if the calling party's name is asked for and refused, the difficulty is just expressed with those two letters. A long distance call from San Diego to Andrew Brown of the Fresh Air Taxi Company in New York might possibly bring the query "WD?" from the distant operator, meaning "What Department?" "WX" indicates something is haywire and is interpreted as "Which one is wanted?" It's a Sad Story "OD" is a sad story in itself. It is an operator's obituary about a line that is "out of order," "AB" is a whole paragraph of information boiled down to indicate that the calling party will talk to anybody who can talk business," "LF" briefly depicts a mutiny at the other end of the line, moaning "party left telephone." It takes sharp cars to catch some of the codes, "CF" for instance, means that operators "Can't find party," but after it is thrown in reverse to read "FC" it is translated as "And called party," or, in other words, "Go git em." And as an antiquinx coaster the smart little nickname of the oprate herself. She is a "R." WEATHER Drenching rains or heavy snows in almost every part of the country in the past few weeks give promise that we shall not go through another drought season, such as the past two years have been in many sections and last year was over a very large area. Conditions are similar in other parts of the world, also. The weather experts who have been studying the subject for sixty years, since the first scientific attempt to forecast weather was begun, say that the eleven-year cycle of sun-spots has a definite effect upon the weather. The sun-spot influence is not yet fully understood, but there is ground for belief that we shall not have any more general droughts before 1940, and that for a year or two we may look for unusually heavy rains to make up the water losses of the past two years. HOLMES Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes of the United States Supreme Court celebrated his nineteenth birthday on March 8. A few days before he had delivered one of the most liberal and progressive opinions ever handed down by a judge on the bench. He is still young in mind and heart, though old in years. To realize how the world has moved since Justice Holmes was born in 1841, we need only recall that railroads were still more of a novelty than the airplane is today. That Texas was an independent republic, that Chicago was a village of 4,500 people, the electric telegraph was only six years old and friction matches had been invented only five years before, while the sewing machine had not been heard off! Justice Holmes in his own person is the greatest link our nation has with its own past. DAM Work on the Hoover Dam Colorado River will begin weeks. This is the largest project the United States government has ever undertaken will be 730 feet high, and will impound a long. A canal 20 feet deep miles long will carry water 265 miles across the Southern California, lands on which nobody can which will provide home tence for five million people plus water, not needed will be used for power under lease to a private pany. This is one case in which ment is justified in in capital, since the problem the floods of the Colorado irrating the desert is too single state to undertake profitable for private enterprise. EDUCATION Considering that it is hundred years since education available to anybody exe wealthy or those designers of the Church, a good gress has been made, the portion of really educate the whole number is so small. So much program made in teaching the elects to everybody that it assume that education formula has been discovered. Robert M. Hutchins, the president of Chicago Universe otherwise. Beginning new attendance and the follo rigid programs by the st abolished. Each student follow such lines of stud himself best fitted for, an himself for examination he thinks he can make he may receive his certificate a good general education year in college, or he years. That is returning, in to the original idea of where eager young men who knew more than the and Oxford and Salamander learning according pective abilities. It is development and one which a great influence upon everywhere. Purpose of Short Calls "All the short calls aren't so much to cut down talking time as they are to reduce writing time," says Mr. Bartlett. "Thousands of records of long distance calls may be made daily by the operators and the abbreviated vocabulary is a necessity to save time in writing out tickets. The codes have been in use many years, but only recently, due to speedier operating methods, has it been possible for subscribers to listen to the work going on behind the scenes. The time of the public is saved, not only by the codes but by the practice of holding parties on the line while the call is completed. "Time is money, and when time is saved, two things happen—telephone users get quicker service and economies realized help to keep down the cost to the public." Just an Exclusive Language "If you wish to inspect a novel piece of literature, go to the nearest telephone central office and ask to see the record of an inter-city call being made," suggests M. Burlett. "Among the 'Bys' 'DAs' and 'UDs' that may appear, you also will see the stamp of the calculagraph—an automatic timing device that forms a part of the operator's facilities for making accurate records. You may find that the telephone girl overcome several obstacles before she got the call through. "Subscribers are at liberty to learn our odd telephone language, but they won't have to use it. It is just an exclusive foreign tongue used by inhabitants of telephone buildings." A telephone cable is to be installed in 1931 in California between Chula Vista and the Mexican border, to take care of the increased telephone traffic to and from the border. ANAHEIM GAZETTE NGUAGE telephone operator, has a firm automatic timing device used calls. She says that operators do talking, and to do both language has evolved, sometimes language is written on thou- red daily. The hieroglyphics set shown here indicate that, Marietta called the party's uncle in San Francisco, and passing the auto camps in the work! DAM Work on the Hoover Dam across the Colorado River will begin within a few weeks. This is the largest engineering project the United States or any other government has ever undertaken. The dam will be 730 feet high, 1,100 feet INCENTIVE Nobody does the best he can without an incentive. Charles M. Schwab the other day told of a workman at one of his steel plants who declared he could not do another stroke more of work then he was doing every day. He was DAM Work on the Hoover Dam across the Colorado River will begin within a few weeks. This is the largest engineering project the United States or any other government has ever undertaken. The dam will be 730 feet high, 1,100 feet long, and will impound a lake 100 miles long. A canal 20 feet deep and 200 miles long will carry water from this lake 265 miles across the desert of Southern California, irrigating arid lands on which nobody can live now but which will provide homes and subsistence for five million people. The surplus water, not needed for irrigation, will be used for power development, under lease to a private power company. This is one case in which the Government is justified in investing huge capital, since the problem of controlling the floods of the Colorado River and irrigating the desert is too large for any single state to undertake and too unprofitable for private enterprise. EDUCATION Considering that it is only a few hundred years since education has been available to anybody except the very wealthy or those designed for the service of the Church, a good deal of progress has been made, though the proportion of really educated persons to the whole number is still extremely small. So much progress has been made in teaching the elementary subjects to everybody that many teachers assume that education as an exact formula has been discovered. Robert M. Hutchins, the young new president of Chicago University, thinks otherwise. Beginning next Fall class attendance and the following out of rigid programs by the students will be abolished. Each student will be free to follow such lines of study as he feels himself best fitted for, and can present himself for examination at any time he thinks he can make the grade. He may receive his certificate that he has a good general education after only one year in college, or he may take ten years. That is returning, in some respects, to the original idea of a university, where eager young men met with those who knew more than they did at Paris and Oxford and Salamanca, and absorbed learning according to their respective abilities. It is an interesting development and one which should have a great influence upon college life everywhere. INCENTIVE Nobody does the best he can without an incentive. Charles M. Schwab the other day told of a workman at one of his steel plants who declared he could not do another stroke more of work then he was doing every day. He was shoveling twelve tons of clay daily. Mr. Schwab arranged that the man should get a bonus of a small amount for every ton shovelled, and within a week or two the same man was moving thirty tons a day and making no complaint of feeling tired. It works that way all up and down the line of human endeavor. Not one person in a thousand ever does all that he and she can do, physically or mentally Give him a definite incentive—more money for more work, or shorter hours or something else that is greatly desired—and the average man will surprise himself and his friends by the increased amount of work he can accomplish. Every scheme for limiting the amount of a day's work is unsound and unfair to worker and employer alike. The only perfectly fair system of compensation is based upon actual production, with 'the worker given the finest possible opportunity to do that he has the capacity for doing. IRON ORE FOR INDIANS Deposits of iron ore have been reported in the western part of the Fort Apache Indian Reservation, Arizona, and in order that the best interests of the Indians might be considered in drawing up leases on them an investigation of the deposits has been made by the United States Geological Survey. The bed of iron ore was examined in two localities on Canyon Creek, in the vicinity of Willow Creek and Chediski Mountain and in the vicinity of Bear Spring Cayon. The ore is hematite, ranging from soft, powdery bright-red material to hard, dense dark-blue iron oxide. More or less specularite is present. The most valuable deposits of iron ore in this region lie near the mouth of Bear Spring Cayon. Results of the brief surveys made indicate that here there is a bedded deposit of iron ore of good commercial grade and that the quantity of mirable ore reasonably to be expected in this locality will reach 10,000,000 long tons. It will require prospecting by core drill, however, to demonstrate this quantity with certainty, and there is a possibility that even more ore may be found. Bows play an important part in the new fashions for spring. The appear on hats and on blouses, or frocks and on shoes. Some of the new cotton or linen dresses are made with bows of the fabric tied at the center of the V-neckline or at the corner of the belt. Bows made from fabric are usually not tied in the traditional way. The strip is folded so that there is a loop and an end at each side and then a short separate strip of the same material is brought round the center and sewed in position on the wrong side. This makes a flatter trimming than the bow all tied from one strip. If you are planning to make bows of material for any of your washable dresses, the strips should be arranged so that they may conveniently be untied when the dress is washed and ironed. Cut two strips of material of the desired length and width, plus a quarter of an inch all around for turning in. Put the strips together, right sides facing, and stitch a quarter o. an inch along the two long sides an Gifted Life Reader One of the World's Best Psychls. If you want to know about business, love, marriage, mail me $1.00 for string of Lucky Pearls and I will answer Three Questions Free. ELSIE LeNARD 318 W. 5th St. Los Angeles, Calif. NOTICE OF SALE BY TRUSTEE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on Monday, March 30th, 1931, at the hour of ten o'clock, A. M. of said day, at the South entrance to the Orange County Courthouse, in the city of Santa Ana, County of Orange, State of California, the Abstract & Title Guaranty Company, a corporation, as Truste under a certain deed of trust executed by Gertle Goodrich and Frank C. Goodrich, her husband, and recorded in Book 644 of Deeds, at page 26, of Orange County Records, which was given to secure a promissory note for the sum of $2,000.00, due two years after date, with interest from date until That is returning, in some respects, to the original idea of a university, where eager young men met with those who knew more than they did at Paris and Oxford and Salamanca, and absorbed learning according to their respective abilities. It is an interesting development and one which should have a great influence upon college life everywhere. Boulder Dam Building is built to Metropolitan Aqueduct Water Canyon brought cities by the built by District (Above) Secretary of the Interior Wilbur now pressing forward construction of Hoover Dam (Lower) Hoover Dam and Power Plant as designed by Reclamation Service. Bear Spring Cayon. Results of the brief surveys made indicate that here there is a bedded deposit of iron ore of good commercial grade and that the quantity of mirable ore reasonably to be expected in this locality will reach 10,000,000 long tons. It will require prospecting by core drill, however, to demonstrate this quantity with certainty, and there is a possibility that even more ore may be found. on Monday, March 30th, 1931, at the hour of ten o'clock, A. M. of said day, at the South entrance to the Orange County Courthouse, in the city of Santa Ana, County of Orange, State of California., the Abstract & Title Guaranty Company, a corporation, as Truste under a certain deed of trust executed by Gertle Goodrich and Frank C. Goodrich, her husband, and recorded in Book 684 of Deeds, at page 26, of Orange County Records, which was given to secure a promissory note for the sum of $2,000.00, due two years after date, with interest from date until paid, at the rate of seven per cent per annum, payable quarterly, and if not so paid to be added to the principal and thereafter bear the same rate of interest as the principal, in accordance with the said deed of trust; and in compliance with a notice of default and demand for sale of the property in the said deed of trust and hereinafter described, recorded on December 4th, 1930, in Book 435, Page 486, of Officio Records of Orange County executed by the owner and holder of the said note on account of the default in the payment of principal and interest, principal due on May 11th, 1927, and interest due on October 18th, 1930, and all payments due subsequently thereto, there being a total cum of $2163.77, including the sum of $116.36 advancements made to protect the title to the said property, due on December 2nd, 1930, and all payments due subsequently thereto—will sell at public auction for cash, lawful money of the United States, and to the highest bidder, subject to liens and incumbrances prior to the said deed of trust, the following described property, to-wit: Situated in the City of Anaheim, County of Orange, State of California, and described as Lot Three (3), as shown on a "Map of the Regier Subdivision," recorded in Book 6, Page 37, of Miscellaneous Maps, Records of Orange County, California. or so much thereof as shall be necessary to pay the principal interest advances charges costs and trustee's fees due and unpaid at the date of said sale. DATED: March 5th, 1931. ABSTRACT & TITLE GUARANTY COMPANY, BY C. D. BALL, President, BY D. N. KELLY, Secretary. (Corporate Seal) one short end. Now with the help of a blunt penell turn the strips right side out. Turn in the edges that have been left open and overhand neatly. The small strip to be used for the center of the bow may be made in the same way. The sketch shows a folded bow-like trimming for a blouse. The material is cut, two pieces, like the diagram, and seamed along all edges, leaving a space big enough so that you can turn the thing right side out like a pillow case. Pull the points out neatly, and stitch or press around the edges. Then fold along the black lines and the dotted lines. Lay a double strip of the material across the folded ornament and sew it into place. MISSIONARIES FROM AFRICA The Rev. and Mrs. A. E. Haley, at home on a furlough after 25 years of missionary work in South Africa, have been the guests of the Rev. and Mrs. J. A. Watson, of the Anaheim Free Methodist church. The local congregation has been much interested in the work of the two missionaries who work under the direction of the Free Methodist board, and the church here has been helpful in the purchase of 13,000 acres of jungle land where another mission will be established. SUPERFLUOUS HAIR Permanently Removed Mrs. F. A. Scott Electric Needle Specialist 80 Years Experience Phone Tucker 6058 710 Loew's State Bldg. Seventh and Broadway, Los Angeles Dr. J. A. Sacry, M. D. SPECIALIST Treating for many years Chronic and Recent Urinary, Blood, Skin and Infectious Diseases Suite 718 Judson Rives Bldg. 424 S. Broadway, Los Angeles, Calif. Zela Timmons SPIRITUAL ADVISOR Consultation 8:30 A.M. to 9:30 P.M. each day except Monday and Friday Evening Advice Given Love, Business and Machinery 132 W. 5th St. Long Beach, Calif. Dr. J. C. Woodward PHYSICIAN - SURGEON Specializing in DISEASES OF WOMEN Phone Tucker 1858 Room 408 Judson-Rivers Building 424 S. 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