Brian Sullivan, 8, Ottawa, Ont., for his question;

How do they telephone across the Atlantic?

Canadians in Ottawa speak to the mother country over the, wonderful now Transatlantic telephone cable. Your call is routed to headquarters in Montreal. Radio circuits whisk it to Sidney Mines, Nova Scotia. From there it zings over a submarine cable to Newfoundland, It travels through a short overland wiry: to Clarenville. From there, the conversation is carried to and fro over cables resting on the ocean floor for 1,900 miles. At Oban, Scotland., it is routed to contact the proper party. The whop operation seems as simple: to you as any long distance call.

But the work of installing that overseas telephone circuit is one of the wondars of modern times. The tAlmorican 13.11 T(lephone Company worked with Canada and EnF°lanc3. to make it possibl:;. The underwater cable itself is built to cope with any unduriT,rater ;damage you can imagine. It is riddled in special plastic, enfolded in shields of copper, armored in supple steel cords and coat od with wads of jute and fiber. Sometime, Andy would like to tell the full story of this new miracle of the overs<;as telephone system.

Until recently, t(~:,,lephone talks over the Atlantic were; carried by a syst~;m of radio and telephone. The radio circuit was limited and calls often piled up to take turns. Air pressure and magnetic storms in the atmosphere often r,‑,ado conversation difficult. All those tiresome troubles are now '>c;hind us. For we now talk across the Atlantic over a two‑way cable sitting safely on the ocean floe