The telephone maniacs are usually men of leisure, who have small appreciation of the value of time, and the more leisure they have the less hope there is for them, so far as a cure is concerned. 

It is time that the atrocious nature of the telephone should be fully exposed, and its inventors, of whom there are any quantity, held up to public execration.

When this nefarious instrument was first introduced, it was pretended that its purpose was an innocent one. We were told that the telephone would enable a man in New York to hear what a man in Philadelphia might say; and though it was difficult to understand why anybody should ever want to listen to a Philadelphian’s remarks…

In this day of many wrong numbers and strained ears, telephones are going to be responsible for a new disease which will ravage the phone-using public. 

This is the Telephone Age. Naturally, the prevailing disease among the young generation is Telephonitis. It has reached the stage of an epidemic, and the axtitoxine for it has not been discovered as yet–unless it is the radio craze… 

A French professor lately deplored the decline in the art of writing love-letters, which, he suggested, was due to the fact that lovers now transmit their cooings by telephone. He declared, moreover, that a telephone conversation was less satisfactory than the written word as a medium for the outpouring of the heart.

Adolescents who hang on the phone for hours on end are–of all things–defending their ego. And the bizarre positions–head on floor, feet on chair–and strange body movements during the telephone conversation are like a tranquilizer for the adolescent.

Now I am convinced that the American populace is divided into two groups, those who are and those who are not able to sever the telephone cord. One of the most serious, unreported, disabling, anti-social diseases in America today is that of telephone addiction.

Americans tell pollsters that they do not have enough time to cook, clean, see their children or just relax. But they are spending an ever-growing part of their day on the telephone.

It is said that complaint has been made to the Public Service commission of the Second district of New York that the practice of making love over the telephone has proved a serious hindrance to the transaction of business in the city of Brooklyn.

The wireless telephone will be too expensive to become a public service, but it will be a boon to privileged persons.

With this new telephone photography life has no privacy any more. Suppose your phone bell don’t work, somebody may be calling you up and looking you over and you not knowing it.