Show POWER INDUSTRY IS COMMENDED FOR 5 PRINCIPLES Cooperation rat io n in in B Business siness' siness Is Fact Factor r for Future Success to In the old days das bitter rivalry and actual actual ac- ac hostility between In any line of ot business were the rule rather rather- than the the- the exception exception and it Jt was held to be an axiom of of business business' ihM that you must beat your competitor by by- any method fair or foul In order to succeed Instability Q of prices cutthroat and piratical practices sweatshop methods of manufacture man In Inferior inferior in- in goods business feuds often otton ending In n bankruptcy for tor the weaker contestants contestants contest contest- ants N and g gouging n prices following w tl the ng fu mf elimination n of competition p were some e of the accompanying evils of ot an unhealthy system The The situation is happily changing toY to today to- to day Y Friendly rivalry on on- sportsmanlike principles of ot fair fall play has supplanted the bitter feuds of of- yesterday It is being recognized that such practices have a a. hurtful influence on trade trade- in general and amI andare andare are d detrimental to the best Interests of f bu buyer er and seller alike that a a. business cannot long succeed that ignores e the Just i r rights of the other fello wand especially s e I I the rights of the buying public This gradual recognition of ot a fundamental law has resulted in cooperation taking the I place of competition Uon A good example of the benefits of ot co cooperation cooperation cooperation co- co coI I operation In business is to be found In the electrical Industry A little mUe over two years ears ago a a. movement was initiated to enlist In cooperative effort all electrical interests for the general advancement o of the the- whole Industry This wa was the beginning begin begin- ning of what is known as the California electrical cooperative campaign In It its second annual report recently published the committee directing the campaign summarizes its aims alms and accomplish ments rents In setting forth the object ct of the tho campaign as better service to the public public pub pub- lic and expressing its faith In the principle prin- prin ciple that he he profits most who serves best best the committee states that it Is i firmly convinced that upon this principle rests the success of ot all Industries Everyone Every Every- one In the electrical Industry will be en encouraged encouraged encouraged en- en to look beyond the Immediate dollar gain In and to realize that present a awell as aswell well as future success and good will ar arthe are the products of service The success that has attended upon this united effort of oC the electrical interests Inter inter- ests as evidenced ld by the e number o of ih retail retah stores or remodeled el or n new stores store established the Improved methods o of merchandising and accounting the fact fac that all branches of the he Industry are doIng doing do do- Ing a a. record volume of ot business an and l that tha all are working in harmony with a single great graat purpose bears witness to th the soundness of or the principles underlying that success The electrical industry Is to be commended commended com com- mended for Its conspicuous leadership toward new and higher business ideals |