Note 237 — Chapter XXIV · PUBLIC UTILITIES AND PUBLIC OWNERSHIP

The city of Glasgow, in Scotland, is sometimes cited as an example of a community which has gone the longest distance in the way of municipal ownership. The citizen of Glasgow, it is said, may be born in a municipal tenement, be fed on milk from the municipal dairy (which is warmed on a municipal gas stove), be transported to school on municipal tramcars, and when he dies be carried off in a municipal hearse to the municipal cemetery.