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passengers killed in all ways, the number of passengers killed in 1912 being 318 and the number of employee killed while not on duty 815. There is grave reason to fear that there never will be any substantial reduction in our railway accidents until this terrible national vice of carelessness and recklessness has been remedied. The field afforded by that vice and its results for investigation and aotion in the interest of humanity is one of the widest and most potentially fruitful in this country. The third great problem of railway administration I have mentioned is presented by the relations between the railways and the public. The problem of establishing fair, satisfactory and stable relations is very far from solved. There Bias been plenty of discussion of rates, and service, and government control in recent years, but much of it having started with baseless assumptions, has naturally landed in equally baseless conclusions. There is no absolute standard of the reasonableness of railway rates of servioe. There is no absolute standard for fixing the proper relation between the government and the railways. These things all depend on the conditions; and there is room and need in this country for an enormous amount of research and hard thinking regarding them. Since it is the duty of the rail- ways to serve the public equitably and well, it is the duty of their managers, as part of the regular administration of the properties, to take the initiative in research to determine Just what the relations of the railways to the publio
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