The Need for a New Outlook in Legislation.
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ALT no time more than the present has there 1-3-been a need for a new outlook in regard to co-operation between industrialists and those responsible for drafting legislation. Experts in practically every trade have shown willingness to give generously and gratuitously their services in the effort to ameliorate conditions. Instances in the automobile industry are legion, but the results are often very meagre. Why?
The reason is not far to seek. Officialdom spends much of its time looking for " traps " which it thinks are laid by those connected with various trades. It fears that it may facilitate too rapid progress, thus offending less enterprising interests. How much sounder policy is it to endeavour to foster any development which offers good prospects in the brighter days to come. Must the basic idea always be to moderate the pace to the slowest?
The road-transport industry in particular is tied by enactments based upon technical and operating practices long ago ripe for advantageous supersession. Automobilism has advanced despite the law maker ; what could it not do for the benefit of the whole country if he would co-operate in a new spirit?