TOPICS FOR INVESTIGATION AND REPORT
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1. Make a list of the natural monopolies in your locality.
2. To what extent are the public utilities in your locality controlled by the (a) municipality, the (b) state, the (c) Federal government?
3. The franchise-granting power in your state.
4. The regulation of local utilities in your municipality.
5. Extent of municipal ownership in your section. If possible, visit a municipally owned utility and report upon it.
6. Interview an official of some local utility upon the desirability of municipal ownership of that utility.
7. The history of railroad development in your section.
8. Outline the more important laws enacted by your state legislature relative to railroads.
9. Service and rates in your locality during the period of government control, 1917-1920.