﻿IDEALS 
  OF 
  TELEPHONE 
  SERVICE 
  — 
  CARTY. 
  537 
  

  

  all 
  pass 
  away, 
  as 
  did 
  the 
  first 
  Pioneer, 
  but 
  our 
  association, 
  the 
  Tele- 
  

   phone 
  Pioneers 
  of 
  America, 
  will 
  continue 
  to 
  live. 
  The 
  greatest 
  work 
  

   which 
  our 
  society 
  can 
  do 
  is 
  to 
  exemplify 
  the 
  ideals 
  of 
  our 
  service 
  

   and 
  to 
  transmit 
  to 
  its 
  future 
  members 
  the 
  splendid 
  traditions 
  of 
  our 
  

   art. 
  It 
  should 
  be 
  our 
  purpose 
  to 
  encourage 
  and 
  to 
  sustain 
  among 
  

   the 
  men 
  and 
  women 
  of 
  the 
  telephone 
  system 
  their 
  ever-increasing 
  

   zeal 
  for 
  the 
  public 
  service. 
  

  

  While 
  it 
  is 
  beyond 
  ray 
  power 
  to 
  put 
  into 
  words 
  these 
  ideals 
  of 
  our 
  

   service, 
  they 
  already 
  exist 
  within 
  your 
  hearts 
  and 
  mine, 
  where 
  we 
  all 
  

   can 
  feel, 
  though 
  I 
  can 
  not 
  express, 
  their 
  potency. 
  These 
  feelings, 
  

   which 
  form 
  the 
  mainspring 
  of 
  our 
  actions, 
  do 
  not 
  arise 
  from 
  mere 
  

   wishful 
  thinking, 
  nor 
  do 
  they 
  spring 
  from 
  an 
  idealism 
  which 
  is 
  dis- 
  

   connected 
  from 
  reality. 
  They 
  rest 
  upon 
  a 
  solid 
  basis 
  of 
  achievement 
  

   and 
  represent 
  the 
  practical 
  purpose 
  of 
  that 
  great 
  telephone 
  system 
  

   of 
  intercommunication 
  which 
  bears 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  our 
  first 
  pioneer. 
  

  

  It 
  is 
  interesting 
  to 
  note 
  that 
  the 
  biologists 
  were 
  the 
  first 
  to 
  appre- 
  

   ciate 
  the 
  peculiar 
  importance 
  of 
  electrical 
  communications 
  in 
  the 
  

   social 
  organism, 
  and 
  to 
  Herbert 
  Spencer, 
  writing 
  more 
  than 
  50 
  years 
  

   ago, 
  we 
  are 
  indebted 
  for 
  some 
  analogies 
  which 
  have 
  not 
  yet 
  been 
  suffi- 
  

   ciently 
  studied 
  either 
  by 
  the 
  biologist 
  or 
  the 
  engineer. 
  In 
  tracing 
  

   the 
  analogy 
  between 
  the 
  telegraph 
  system 
  of 
  his 
  day 
  and 
  the 
  nervous 
  

   system 
  of 
  the 
  animal 
  organism, 
  Spencer 
  expressed 
  the 
  view 
  that 
  prob- 
  

   ably 
  when 
  the 
  then 
  rudimentary 
  telegraph 
  systems 
  were 
  more 
  fully 
  

   developed, 
  other 
  analogies 
  would 
  be 
  traceable. 
  This 
  development 
  

   has 
  already 
  been 
  provided 
  by 
  the 
  telephone 
  art, 
  and 
  national 
  tele- 
  

   phone 
  networks 
  have 
  now 
  become 
  a 
  vital 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  social 
  organism. 
  

   I 
  believe 
  that 
  the 
  study 
  of 
  these 
  networks 
  from 
  the 
  standpoint 
  of 
  

   biology 
  is 
  destined 
  to 
  yield 
  important 
  results, 
  and, 
  indeed, 
  that 
  an 
  

   investigation 
  of 
  the 
  remarkable 
  developments 
  of 
  the 
  automatic 
  ma- 
  

   chinery 
  used 
  in 
  modern 
  telephone 
  switchboards 
  might 
  even 
  throw 
  

   light 
  on 
  the 
  mechanism 
  of 
  the 
  mind 
  itself. 
  

  

  Scientists 
  have 
  long 
  been 
  studying 
  the 
  theory 
  that 
  man 
  has 
  ad- 
  

   vanced 
  to 
  his 
  present 
  high 
  estate 
  by 
  upward 
  progress 
  in 
  the 
  bio- 
  

   logical 
  scale 
  from 
  a 
  microscopic 
  speck 
  of 
  protoplasm 
  forming 
  the 
  

   biological 
  cell 
  or 
  unit 
  of 
  life. 
  They 
  have 
  pictured 
  him 
  as 
  composed 
  

   of 
  countless 
  millions 
  of 
  these 
  living 
  creatures 
  forming 
  an 
  organic 
  

   entity 
  marvelously 
  designed, 
  each 
  cell 
  performing 
  its 
  allotted 
  part 
  

   in 
  that 
  exquisite 
  division 
  of 
  labor 
  which 
  characterizes 
  this 
  biological 
  

   state. 
  

  

  We 
  commonly 
  compare 
  a 
  nation 
  to 
  a 
  complex 
  living 
  organism. 
  

   " 
  We 
  speak 
  of 
  the 
  body 
  politic, 
  of 
  the 
  functions 
  of 
  its 
  several 
  parts, 
  

   of 
  its 
  growth, 
  and 
  of 
  its 
  diseases, 
  as 
  though 
  it 
  were 
  a 
  creature. 
  But 
  

   we 
  usually 
  employ 
  these 
  expressions 
  as 
  metaphors, 
  little 
  suspecting," 
  

   as 
  Spencer 
  says, 
  " 
  how 
  close 
  is 
  the 
  analogy, 
  and 
  how 
  far 
  it 
  will 
  bear 
  

  

  