Almost two years ago heads of the Southern Continental Telephone Co., promised improvements in the Columbia system and even agreed to install a dial system when equipment is available but as yet nothing along this line has been done in spite of repeated efforts of civic organizations and interested individuals.

Any improvement is appreciated by the harassed and long suffering subscribers, all of whom are looking forward to the day when shattered nerves and ruffled tempers will not be the result of attempting to use the telephone.

By-the-by, the article was headlined "Some Improvement In Phone Service." The improvement, as it turned out, was "some changes on the switchboard which now makes it possible for two operators to be on duty during the busy morning hours."

Whoever penned the article rather wryly noted that while the additional operator was indeed an improvement, the real problem was elsewhere; to wit:"like the old gray mare that old switchboard 'ain't what she used to be.'"