The Regulation of Public Utilities

an investigation of the expense account. In recent years there has been an awakening on the part of the public; this has had the tendency to relegate the utilit:es to their proper position of servants instead of masters of the people. A new view of the relationship of the utilities to the communities in which they do business is in vogue on the part of the public. And by the same token a new method of meeting the changed conditions is in vogue on the part of the utilities. The utilities are with us. They form an integral part of the mechanism of modern community life. How shall they be so controlled and regulated that the new methods they employ to gain the old ends may be met and checkmated? I shall not attempt a scientific answer. Nor shall I discuss the