Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Wanted: A Name: $30 reward: Buzzer? BC Electric aka BC Hydro / TransLink


 British Columbia Electric Company   The Buzzer  1916 - 1929

 Public Utilities Must Be Understood
We often hear people say: "Oh, that's some more B. C. Electric propaganda!"  Well, what of it?  The only thing wrong with the remark is the insinuation put in the word propaganda.  If the other fellow says it, it's propaganda; if you say it, it is truth.

Every public utility company has to keep informing the public about its business.  That is the only kind of "propaganda" we use.  But the criticism is so general that we came across some remarks made the other day by Preston S. Arkwright, president of the National Electric Light Association, which express what we have in mind better than we could do.

Our business is peculiarly subject to public favor or ill-will, and is regulated and controlled everywhere by commissions, city councils, LEGISLATURES and juries.  Their attitude is influenced by prejudice which arises largely out of unfamiliarity with the business.  We therefore should acquaint them with the business.  If we are going to perform our public duty, we have got to expand every year.  We have get to GET THE MONEY for EXPANSION from somebody else, and we can't get it if the community is prejudiced against us.  so it is our business to see that the industry is understood, for one reason so that we can get the additional finances we need in order that the public may benefit in better service at a smaller cost.  That is only one of the benefits from public relations.  We want the public constantly to benefit in better treatment, greater consideration, more universal service and economical rates."
February 15, 1929


British Columbia Electric Railway Company Limited

1929
February 15, 1929
British Columbia Electric Company
1922
August 11, 1922
June 16, 1922
May 12, 1922
1921
September 16, 1921
1917
February 9, 1917
1916
July 14, 1916
June 2, 1916

June 2, 1916
July 14, 1916
February 9, 1917
September 16, 1921

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