. Electric railway journal . th his desire to face all problems and facts as they are and not to dodge an issuebecause it may be unpleasant or distasteful. He had agreat opportunity to test public and group opinion whenhe served on the Federal Electric Railways Commission,which he was instrumental in forming and for which theindustry owes him its gratitude, and he is acting withthat experience as a background. He wants the railways to win public confidence, whichafter all is the basis of the credit so badly needed. It is a pleasure to talk to him and gain his inspira-tion. The car rider will u
. Electric railway journal . th his desire to face all problems and facts as they are and not to dodge an issuebecause it may be unpleasant or distasteful. He had agreat opportunity to test public and group opinion whenhe served on the Federal Electric Railways Commission,which he was instrumental in forming and for which theindustry owes him its gratitude, and he is acting withthat experience as a background. He wants the railways to win public confidence, whichafter all is the basis of the credit so badly needed. It is a pleasure to talk to him and gain his inspira-tion. The car rider will usually have the correct answer,in simple language, to many questions which confrontus, he continued. Ask the car rider, for instance, ifhe wants to pay for paving between the tracks. Askthe car rider what sort of service he wants, and if heis Willing to pay for it. It really is a pretty good testof our own conclusions to try to predict what the carriders answer will be to most of the problems confront-ing the industry Philip H. President Amei-iean Elec What do you consider the uppermost problem of theindustry to be, Mr. Gadsden? What are the thingswhich the industry itself can do so that it may betterperform its functions? Restoration of credit is, of course, the uppermostproblem that we have in front of us today. We mustapproach this problem squarely. It appears now that the work of getting a recog-nition by electric railwaymen themselves of the partthe industry itself must playin this restoration of creditwill prove to be even harderthan the restoration of creditonce the recognition is the men in the industrymust realize, 100 per cent,that it is largely an insideproblem. Electric railway men mustrecognize that they and theyprimarily have to do whatevernecessity demands in orderto rectify this credit of what has to be donemay not be liked by some peo-ple, but this much is certain:It is absolutely essential thatpresent investment be stabil-ized
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