With the present arrangement it will at times be necessary to look in two places, for a phrase or code word, the extra turn of a leaf.
Many users of the code having written their own phrases on the blank lines, or pasted phrases over the printed ones they do not care for, but using the "Code" word for the phrase covered up. Any change in the original book would cause confusion, loss and lack of confidence.
You have probably found phrases not needed by you, and failed to find some you do want; to supply this need, write them in the blank lines. A few minutes time will do it.
To attempt to put in one Code the matter to meet all wants, the size would kill its usefulness.
Time is too valuable these days of rush, to use a dollar's worth hunting through a big code to save a few cents in Telegraph Tolls.
Better use two code words, combining the phrases of each, for even then you will seldom fail to get your Telegram inside ten words.
The All Important Thing is Safety.
Very few realize the liability of error by the receiving operator in receiving cipher or code words by sound, where the connecting words are no help.
The missing or adding of a single dot or dash, the misjudgment of a "space", may change the entire meaning.
It is therefore vital that the code words should be selected with the utmost care, and by one fully competent to judge of their fitness.