Bell telephone magazine (1922) (14754822542)

Identifier: belltelephonemag00vol2930amerrich (find matches)
Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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d of democracy. Itis through them that its most im-portant work is accomplished, and through them that the public spiritfor common endeavor is kept alive. A writer in Fortune for February,195 1, puts it this way: The truth is that Americans arejust about as busy with their non-official, unremunerated, voluntary ac-tivities as they are with their officialduties; and these unpaid, unofficial,off-duty activities have a deeper andmore lasting effect upon Americanlife, and even American policies, thando the official ones. In their officialcapacities Americans are busy busi-ness men, busy lawyers, busy politi-cians, workers, soldiers, teachers,housewives, etc.; but, when one hasdescribed all of that, one has still nottouched the unique nerve of Ameri-can life, which constantly stimulatesinitiative and at the same time makesthese people truly self-governed. The tradition is a long one, andwas noted by Tocqueville more thana hundred years ago. If an Ameri-can were condemned to confine his ac-
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