NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
WHATS THE HURRY ? 
Well, Read the Interesting Whys and Hows 
of the Telephone Directory 
if You Want to Get In, You Had Better Call 
The Local Manager To-day 
It is to the mutual advantage of the Telephone Company 
and the subscriber to have the latter listed in the dircctory 
as soon as possible after he gets his telephone, because such 
a listing saves many calls for “Information.” 
The Boston division directory plays such an important 
part in promoting good service that tts preparation, printing 
and distribution are subjects of the most careful supervision. 
t costs a good deal in time a.d money to revise an average 
of 40,000 listings per issue, to transform 600 tons of paper 
into 200,000 books of 400 pages each, and to distribute these 
books over 1,500 square miles, but it is well worth the effort. 
It is apparent that the preparation for printing must pro- 
-eedona schedule as arbitrary as that of a newspaper press- 
room. If the book is not produced promptly, much of its 
value is lost. When the closing date is announced, therefore, 
the printing must proceed with whatever listings are at hand. 
Those received subsequently must be held over for a later 
issue. 
The patron who rushes in at the last minute with his 
order may find he cannot be listed in the next book. It 
may be for one of many reasos, such as the running of ad- 
ditional wires or the setting of new poles or cross-arms ; but 
the reason is a compelling one, although perkaps it might 
have been overcome had sufficent notice been given. 
MORAL: Don’t wait another day if you are contemplat- 
ing installing a telephone, or changing to another class 
of service. Call the Local Manager from any Telephone 
or Pay Station FREE OF CHARGE. 
New England Telephone 
and Telegraph Company 
NEWSPAPER ERRORS 
The editor of an exchange doesn’t 
want anyone to send him any more 
copies of his papers in which they 
have found mistakes. If they find a 
perfect copy, however, he offers a big 
price for it. Same with us, says the 
editor of the Crystal Falls ( Mich.) 
Drill. If the fool critic who hunts 
for mistakes in the papers would find 
them all he would be kept busy. We 
will be pleased to buy copies of any 
paper which can be proven entirely 
free from errors, either typography or 
in statements of fact. We _ will be 
pleased to find a merchant who never 
made a mistake in putting up an or- 
der; a lawyer who never lost a. case 
through his own errors, a doctor who 
never wrongly diagnosed a case, a 
druggist who never made a mistake, 
a postoffice official who never put mail 
into the wrong box, a woman who 
never forgot to put in the salt while 
cooking or to put the tea in the tea- 
pot before putting in the water. Bring 
on some of your mistakeless paragons 
who fine it so easy to criticize the 
’ papers and we'll give them a chance 
of their lives to find out whether they 
are really human.—Publishers Auxil- 
ary. 
Succest Cuances In THE AuTOMo- 
BILE LAWS 
Many important changes in the 
laws governing the operation of auto- 
mobiles are recommended in the an- 
nual report of the State Highway 
Commission, transmitted to the Gen- 
eral Court last Friday. 
The commission states that the use 
of heavy motor trucks is increasing 
very rapidly, and the rates of speed 
at which many are run are excessive 
and decidedly dangerous. It also 
Says: 
“The commission believes that the 
law should limit the weight and 
speed of such vehicles and the speed 
at which they may be moved over the 
highways. ....The law should limit 
the kind, character and weight of the 
vehicle and load....... Already one 
bridge on the main line between Bos- 
ton and Fitchburg has been practi- 
cally destroyed by a six-ton ‘truck 
which went over it. Officials in many 
towns are complaining that roads 
which they repair are immediately de- 
stroyed by heavy motor trucks. Com- 
mercial vehicles and motor trucks now 
travel long distances, and the commis- 
sion feels that it is only fair that the 
same fee should be charged for their 
registration as for automobiles of like 
horsepower.” 
The report states that the number 
of automobiles in operation is con- 
stantly increasing, but the accidents 
in many places increase at a faster 
ratio. The commission believes that 
it would prove a great safeguard not 
only to the public but to the motor- 
ists as well, if an absolute maximum 
speed limit, say of 25 miles an hour, 
were fixed by law. This, it says, is a 
reasonable limit, and no sane opera- 
- tor would care to go much faster. 
In view of the difficulty encounter- 
ed in securing adequate sentences for 
persons convicted of reckless opera- 
tion, or operation while under the in- 
fluence of liquor, the commission 
suggests that the present maximum 
penalty of six months’ imprisonment 
be increased. 
Hubby had arrived home _ while 
wifey slept and at the breakfast table 
there was a cold silence. 
“A penny for your thoughts, my 
love,” he daringly ventured. 
“For two cents I’d tell you what 
I think of you,” she retorted, with a 
dangerous gleam in her eye. 
He did not raise his bid. 
