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We should all be, and I hope we are, "friendly enemies", but always willing to cooperate, cognizant of each other's points of superior usefulness, and always different to the public's needs. The protagonists and partisans in each medium of transportation should seek, while retaining the spirit of competition, to enhance the growth of all four of the media of transportation. Each should recognize and preserve each other's inherent advantages and should strive to foster sound economic conditions not alone in their own, but also in their competitors' form of transportation, to the end that relations and conditions of mutual interest may be improved.
 
As is true with reference to the transportation of passengers and merchandise, concerning air mail, it has also been proven that the provisions and advertisement of the facility attracted new users and inspired new uses. The phenomenal increase in volume of air mail has not been, in the main, at the expense of the volume of mail carried by train and boat, but has represented new and additional communication with all its corollary intellectual, social and economic benefits to American life.

In the creation and building of transportation by air for passengers, mail and cargo, the carrier must, as does his brother on the surface of the earth, cater to the consumer, study his needs and wishes, and give him the service which he desires at the price which he is able and willing to pay. Success can be obtained and new traffic can be created only by giving continually better service at lower and still lower prices. There is no fixed or limited amount of transportation to be performed. The volume of this world's transportation requirements can be limited only by availability, speed, convenience and the prices charged, As Commissioner Eastman has recently so ably indicated, the problem for the carrier by air is the same as the problem for the carrier in other mediums, namely, to tap the