AMERICAN TELE France has almost won her great fight against war's destruction. Eighty per cent of her wrecked and crippled factories again hum with activity. All of the 4,006 villages and towns in the devastated regions have again resumed municipal life; and of the 6,445 schools in this vast area, 5,345 have been rebuilt and opened. Farms, factories and homes again cover most of the scarred land. In her reconstruction, France has shown the same unconquerable spirit that stopped her invaders at the Marne. And here, at home, another great & TELEGRAPH CO TELEPHONE LOCAL LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE BELL SYST TYSTEM COMPANIES AND ASSOCIA peaceful victory is being won against the greatest odds. This has been the fight of the Bell telephone employees to rebuild a national service. Despite all of the difficulties of the post-war period, the organized forces of the Bell system have established new records in maintenance and construction. Facing, after the armistice, a public demand such as was never before known; they have yet responded to the nation's needs with hundreds of new buildings, thousands of miles of new wires and cables, and with the installation in the last year, alone, of over half a million new telephones. AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY One Policy One System Universal Service And all directed toward Better Service a CONTENTS INDEX The Overland Monthly VOL. LXXVII-FIRST SERIES January-June, 1921 CONTENTS FOR JANUARY - FEBRUARY, 1921 FOO SOON, THE HEATHEN (Illustrated).. HOW THE GRINGO CAME (Illustrated). |