. Electric railway journal . how he did it. There is nothing mysterious about this. Methods ofbringing improvement about must differ in differentlocalities, but the principles always are the same. The Peptimist Is Surely Needed These Days Some one recently said that men may be classifiedas: the pessimist, who says, It cant be done; theoptimist, who says, It can be done, and the pep-timist, who goes out and does it. The electric railway industry seems to be in greatneed of men who combine optimism and has been too much croaking, too much gloom,and not nearly enough stimulating o
. Electric railway journal . how he did it. There is nothing mysterious about this. Methods ofbringing improvement about must differ in differentlocalities, but the principles always are the same. The Peptimist Is Surely Needed These Days Some one recently said that men may be classifiedas: the pessimist, who says, It cant be done; theoptimist, who says, It can be done, and the pep-timist, who goes out and does it. The electric railway industry seems to be in greatneed of men who combine optimism and has been too much croaking, too much gloom,and not nearly enough stimulating optimism and action. Perhaps the Almighty knows why so many elec-tric railway executives fear to adopt out-in-the-open,straightforward methods in their dealings with thepublic, and particularly with the press, but the ordinarycitizen does not. There has been an unreasoning fearof publicity, a horror of innovations and a distrustof modem methods that have been successful in manyother lines of business. Conservatism, which too. John W. Colton He Summarizes the Plans of the Newly - Formed Committee of Publicity Men, Formed at Atlantic City often has been a synonym for unpro-gressiveness, has brought disaster tomany a business that might have pros-pered if only those at the helm hadsteered a course that took advantage offavoring winds and currents instead ofobstinately bucking the storms andhoping the craft might reach smootherwaters before it was battered to this is preliminary to a shortdiscourse on the relations existingbetween the .public and the electricrailways, what has been done to bring about improve-ment in these relations and what may easily be donein the future. Whatever is said herein is not in thespirit of criticism, but with the hope that electric rail-ways which have not yet studied the psychology oftheir situation may get busy and do something for theirown good and incidentally for the good of the will agree that the hearings held by the Fede
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