Show SERVICE commissions COU MISSIONS experience has shown that states with appointive public service commissions as in ili california and washington are most prosperous and get the best results in ili the regulation of public utilities appointing commissions secure more inore effi efficient clent members arid and can retain these trained officials where in the lottery of politics the best qualified man mail on oil the commission often loses out on nomination or election the saturday evening post in ili on an able review ot of the utility problems in our country discusses eme efficiency lelley in such commissions and reaches this conclusion tho the members ot of tile the state commissions should be appointed appoint eLl rather than elected for in the latter case diey are frequently embarrassed by political policies and platforms in the consideration of q questions which should be decided only on sound economic and financial principles the best pinion also favors substituting indeterminate permits for or term franchises so that the companies will have tho the right indefinitely under proper regulation and duricr good behavior with provisions for the equitable adjustment of rates from time lime to time as occasion demands such a plan would tend to eliminate controversies which inevitably impair the public service ind and injure the credit ot of tile the companies involved as well as the value of their securities the california railroad commission which is appointed has adopted such sound policies tor for litt public lilic utility regulation that its program Is establishing tab lishing new national standards |