Published Weekly In The Interest Of The Working- Class.
No. 1@. FAIRBANKS, ALASKA, Aug. 22, 1914-. Vq!- 1.
A FREAK ORDINANCE PROPOSE
Marquam Plans To Hog-Tie Council In Milk Regulation.
It appears triad City At
torney Marqu.im is framing
up to put another one over on
the Council in the shape of
. a new-fangled ordinance;
which he claims is designed
to regulate the sale of milk
in Fairbanks. This new or
dinance was slipping through
the council like a greased 4th
of July pig, for it had passed
its first reading without an
objection being made to it*!
and it would have probably
had the same smooth sailing
•on second reading at .last
Monday evening’s session of
the Council, had not Council
man Callahan who was out
of town when the ordinance
was introduced, been present
and taken occasion to. jump
on to it and point out some
objectionable and typically
Marquam-esque features .in
it.
The ordinance, so far as it
provides for a* proper stand
ard of milk, is probably all
right. Otherwise, it might be
entitled, “an ordinance to e
liminate the common council
of the town of Fairbanks, so
far as regulating the sale of
milk -is concerned, and to
place the matter entirely in
the hands of tne Board of
Health and the City Attor
ney,” and'that is about what
the ordinance would do if
passed in its.present form.
Section 2 provides that the
Board of Health from time
to time direct the city health
officer.to make-inspections of
the milk sold in the town
and report to the chairman
of the board of health, such
reports to be filed with the
city-clerk. Section 5 provides
European War Affects
American Interests.
New York. ‘Much speculation
is rife regardrathThe effect of the
European war on prices of Ame
rican commodities- The discus
sion was started as a result of
the announcement that wheat
had increased in price and that
other commodities were bound to
see a like increase. Many articles
have already advanced in price
and it is declared that the war
having become general other in
creases will be made, It is de
1 dared that this advance is due to
the general law of supply and
demand, the greater the demand
and -the smaller the supply the
larger the price. It-isesaM that
the war will mean a big demand
and consequently increased prii
i CCS'
i C.-icago, Cudahy, the packer,
! pEedictsv that the price of meat
in America -will soar skyward.
He'says that soldier^ in the field
consume more than at other times
20 Society
. Taken From Cafe
Kansas City. A ecantial has
heeri turned hJose in thrsxity as a
result of the arrest Of '‘twenty
^prominent society people in one
•of the questionable cafes of the
city. '1 ho place ha'a been for the
most part a resort for the lower
’Element of (h j ciry and the ar
■sest of the society people and ta
king them to jail where they were
compelled to register their names
has created such a scandal as hat
| never before stirred the ci^\ The
society folks declare that they
wee ont to see the sights only
ind th it their arrest was due to'
either ignorance or malice on the
part of the police.
that when in the opinion ox
the Board of health the pro
visions of the'ordinance are
violated by milk dealers, the
chairman shall report the
fact to the city attorney with
evidence etc.
Thus it will be seen that
the matter is taken out of
the hands of the,council and
handled by the Board of
Health and the city attorney.
The Board of Health is to cr
der inspections at its plea-,
sure, reports of such inspec
tions to be made, not to the
council, but'to the chairman
of the Board of Health.
The Board of health is to
Judge when the ordinance
has been violated, and when
*it has so, judged, it is to re
port, not to the council, but
to the .city attorney.
This is certainly an unusu
al way of handling such mat
ters, Gity councils are not in
the habit of turning its im
portant functions over to a
committeefor its chairman to
be managed as they see fit.
Legislative bodies of all
•kinds usually order its sub
ordinate officers to make!
Fred Warren
G'rard, Kansas. Fred Warren, j
who for many . years has-been ed ;
itcrof the-Appeal to Reason, a
Socialist publication with almost
thrceTci^arters of a million ciicA
latkm, has res’gned his position
as editor-in-thief-’aml will seek a
much needed rest. Mr. Warren
declares that ft>r a number of
years he has-devoted his entire
time and energies to-the building
up of the publication -and that
the numerous fights which ‘ the
paper has undertaken and has
been forced to go through have
been a continual source of strain
on him and as a result he is for
ced to resign owing to an under
mined constitution and poor
health. The Appeal to Reason is
regarded as the most influential
socialist periodical in the country
WILL THEY DO IT?
The transportation whole
saler combine has again boos
ted the price of a few arti
cles of necessity to the people
of thiscommunity. When the
news came in that as a result
of the war in Europe, flour
and sugar had gone up on
the outside, the combine lost
no time in taeking on a cor
responding -increase here, j
though their stocks had-been ^
laid in'months before. Now
since news comes that sugar
has fallen and -that there
was no warrant for raising
it in the first place, it is to be
wondered if the combine will
be as prompt in reducing the
price here as it was to raise
it in the: first place.
Sugar is now higher than
it has been since the early
days of the camp.
PEACE IN MEXICO
Nit,
A despatch printed;in today’s j
Times conveys the information (
that Secretary Bryan is .jubilant
over*the -success of President
VVilsom’s peace policy in Mexico.
Another despatch is also printed
saying that Villa is assembling
an army of 40,000 men to force!
the reforms -for which he has
been fighting all the time. Zapata
is also gathering an army for the
i
same purpose.
It is almost a certainty that peace
is not in sigiit in Mexico, for the
Carranza government, hiding be
hin I red- tape and other subterfu
ges, in the manner-of ail well
legulated governments will not
grant the reforms as directly ana
as speedily as Villa and Zapata
wish, and in all.probability no;
ai all. Villa in the North and Za
pata in the South who have been
uranded as bandits and cut
cnroats by the capitalist press,
having had experience wita “reg
ular governments” and not see -
ing the sense of so much “regu
larity,’’know-about wt at to ex
pect, and will goon the war path
and fight until the land has been
restored to the people from
whom it was stolen.
such Investigations -as they
deem necessary, and require
that reports be made directly
to them and not lothe chair
man of some committee who
is to pass it along to some o
ther functionary, with power
to ignore or pigeon-hole it.
This ordinance was framed
by City Attorney Marq uarn,
and he undoubtedly knows
what the effect of.it will be,
and if he is 'allowed to get
by with the proposition, milk
dealers will be given the wi’d
est latitude to do as they
please, and it will give ihe
health committee and city
attorney all the chance in the
world to shield and protect
from publicity and prosecu
tion any dealer found viola
ting its provisions.
When regulating,'why no!
regulate?
Boston. Exchange pir'F, em
ployed at the local telephcn ■
company’s central station, threa
ten to strike unless the company
takes immediate ttens to elimi
nate the large number of rat?
which are to he seen about the
buildings accasionally running
across the floor and causin'? ma
ny a scare 'among1 the female em
p'oyees. It is declared that
j the number of rats around i 3
| building- is exceptionally large
, and steps should be taken imme
diatfely to eliminate th«n.