Show OKlAHOMA TElEPHONE COMPANY FORCED TO REFUND MONEY How the this corporations commission of Oklahoma made mado the telephone company company com corn pany there refund to Its SUbscribers SUb sub subscribers scribers because it raised the rates without first getting the per permission of the commission is related by J J. J B. B Love chairman of the Oklahoma corporations corporations corporations cor cor- commission who is here en route to the exposition in San Francisco Fran Fran- cisco The corporation commission of ot Oklahoma has not flOt dealt harshly with be the corporations nor nor shown favorit- favorit I lain Ism sm to the people said Mr Love The result resultS has b been n that the commission commission com corn mission is the most popular body in inthe inthe the state The commission has hM the power to regulate and control all aU public service corporations within the state which collect toly And we do it too On one occasion we caused the telephone company operating in the state to refund to its subscribers for raising rates without permission Ever hear of a telephone company giving back any money before At another time we put in a community rate on the railroads which they did not like and they fought us Some Sometime Sometime Sometime time later the presidents of the Santa SantaFe SantaFe Fe Ie the M. M K T. T and Frisco lines met us personally came to an agreement agreement agreement agree agree- ment with us and caused the suit tobe tobe to tobe be dismissed and ordered a a. refund on overcharges of approximately In hi the operation of the affairs oi ot I the Oklahoma commission the red tape has been done away with and matters are adjusted on common commonsense commonsense commonsense sense principles with the result that no matter what the complaint filed with the commission it receives at attention at- at For example some time ago agoa a lone passenger found himself In a depot on one of the lines Jines operating in inthe inthe inthe the state on a rather chilly night It was some time before his train ar ar- ar- ar rived And as he had to wait there he asked the station agent for a fire Ire The agent declined to build a fire The passenger then said If he would tell him where to get a bucket and some ome coal he would build the fire lire and the agent told him that there were lots of buckets up town and plenty of coal in Kansas Incident Causes Probe Naturally this man was somewhat angered and he laid the matter before t tie the e commission commis and this little incident incident inci mci- dent with some others of ot similar character was the basis for an Investigation investigation lures lures- of conditions generally In railroad stations throughout the state The result was an order requiring railroads to improve conditions which were found unsatisfactory |