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tion is but the shadow of some man, and this is true in all departments of business as well as in all the various divisions of eleotric railroad work. Trained men must be

found; men not only with training but with the ability to think, to plan, and with the executive ability to carry out their own plans and those of their superiors. The invest-

ors in the securities of any electric railway can well rest easy whei they know that the affairs of their property, in all its branches, are in capable, competent hands. The fourth problem, as important as t^o securing of executive ability, is that of labor. and men mus and persona do it. Work must be done

And on the feeling of mutual benefit There is a great disAnd

interest much defends.

Jtion be >r_ier t o rnusl . be so keei > them s the; r work, doir lg t h e i r

s e n ring the

een a "co-worker" instead of an employee.

kke men consider themselves as co-workers they bated. It is a big uroblem to secure r,ood men

isfied, arouse in them a personal interest in nd to inspire them with the feeling that by est for the organization they are also subown interests, bring about these conditions requires consider nd good judgment on the part of the superinter To my mind this problem is worked out most

• by consideration for tho individual man and his

be If an

have boon able to maintain the best of feeling anion. !QO employees by keeping In close touoh with