Comment On Election
By Paul Pry,
Next | Tuesday will decide who
are to conduct the affairs of this ci
ty for ihe ensuing year. It seems
that in view of the worst, than emp
ty coudirioa pf the town treasury^
the must careful management will
be necessary. To this end the point
.is made and enlarged ujon that it
• behorts ue to elect a-strictly busi
ness u.eti’o ticket,meaning of cour.-e
mtn who are engaged fu business
or have a more or less wide reputa
lion »r business men, and being
. business.men it naturally follows
that a strictly business admimstra
. tioii will be tue result pf their elec
tion. Of course this view naturally
Carrie* wirh it that a council enn
posed of men who ha.vo no particu
lar reputation as business nieu will
lead to disaster
That a suoeesftd piiy.administra
tijn depends on business men dum
inatiug it is disproved in many in
. stances, Mnwiukee,. tiohenectady,
Uu to and Hamilton, Onio.aud uia
aiy o.ber places waife socialists
have been in pnvv.-r, e«en our ene
■lilies acKnoeirge that thtse cities
■enjoy or ha 'e enjoyed the be t gov
•erumeni-during the s eialht regime
of sli.ti.tir h jit, ry.
That Fa rhanks if placed under
socialist control, will he no txcep
,tion 10 idle l'uleis a foregone conc.u
sion. \\ h.ie all tbe socialist Candi
da ts aie not bus.ntss men they art
citizens oi tuis town and Uxpaveis
and .are of .that seif reliant iutelii
gent iype ufworkim* man so chrl'ac
teris.io of the North. They did not
ride into the eountrv on a gtuo pile
or a stack of cry gucds. out tnev
are the kind who blazed tbe tr»i s
.and p.o.nered t.je country, making
it possible for toe mercnandise vsu
pc.s to get litre an! do business,
and in voting for them no one need
.ftar hpi tb.it .the afjfurs oi ib.s ci
■ ty.Wili be connucieu la an efficient,
m.d business like manner , come
ibing mat cauout be said of some
previous counci.s, including pre
sent one,
The ino'jmjig council if it be so
.• cittifst,-vriil reihzi some.t.iug that
apparently no otDer council ever re
alizej btfore— the netesBlty of kee_
ping the municipal expenditure*
—within tue income, and- a* things
now apt a tr. in order to do so, one
• of two tniugs will have tu be done,
t cut expensts or incie.i*e the income
Socialists are opposed to cutting
tvat e on principle and would prob
ably resort to that method of redu
cing expenses only in me last ext e
anity.
.Tuey rather beleive that effi—
-rciency would sulicr less by cutting j
-out tue expensive heads of one or |
.mure of the d partmants or combin j
ing.tbe dut.es. I have it Oo good au j
lhoritytli.it the hirdeat and most I
w.tluanle work done by lbs fire- |
-chief is to look wise, cop y h.s report j
iron the uoies of the captain and |
• draw his ea.ary. So if the captain
(practically manages the dipart
. want. wn.y not abolish tie position
of Chief? Or if that is not practica
ble.'wouid it. not be pioasible for one
man to ait as chief of botn tire d:
.police department? We have mo«e
••police powet” here than necessity
anyhow. I ia-magme there are oth
er ways of saving mouey than by
■ cutting wages when u: dters are
docked into, hut let; it bo t.uier
—stood thu 1 am no l.usineis mua,
.jucr am i spmkng with amh
for tha B'lCia^isfs. 1 am only a com
mon rougnueck giving my own o
pillion.
But i(.,s,eem8 to me that if an equ
itable and,uniform BrKssment is fe
v.ed.ithere wili be plenty pf money
with.wjilch to run the city even on
its present basis of. outlay. I can
almost guarantee that if ths social
i-ts gain control of tbs next council
no 1500 ton stocks,of goods togeth
cr with all the real estate and para
pherqaiia necessary for carrying on
a large business will bs allowed to
pas» qn a, $70,000 asss-smem. Nor
will a $5 000 motor iruok he put in
at $10Q0. l.bere are other inequali
ties 1 could name .but space forbfds
Dpt wjil! ooserve that it ia not so
strange alter alt that busy business
men allow themselves io be • pereua
ded” to run for the council.
Speaking of police, if the social
ists are elected there w.ll be no rep
iitiono/ the cowardiyI*nd tiru.al
s.-4uiton an inoffensive working
man as occurred last Fourth ofJu
iv out at the park, which wilh the
retention of tne man iu office guilty
ol that outrage, together wittr ma
ay other things that businees ooun
cils have done have served to arou»
t-e resentment of tue men on the
creeks to such an extent that iney
shun this town as they would a pes
tilance, refusing to come here only
when.absolute.ly necessary. Under a
socialist au ministration Railroad
and other athbrations wovlJ be a
-uccess, for erttk people would men
attend, having the assurance that
they would be given a square deal.
Socialist* bel.eve it is good business
to cultivate their good will
The socialist candidates may not
have Wide 1 adulations as business
men but they have the good sense
not to do some of the things men
tioned above as well as some oth
< r things. For instance th»y will not
vote money out of the tieasury for
the entertainment of the Governor
uni to send men jnnketiug with
him around the creaks
while the,,people who depend on
their labor for e^'.ingmoney have to
wait. They w 11 not make as^ea of
'hemselses bv vo it g a respluton
calling upon elected government
officials t> resign as was done in
the school mixup last summer,
when that board lost its strictly bus
iU;ss and professional man's char
acter, and attempted to end a reign
of dissension and graft and iriject a
few real business priincip.es into its
management of the schools. Ou the
then bend .instead of making the
Fairbanks city council a laugbiug
su ck as it has often been in the
past, may he they will succeed in
making of it a business like body,
carrying ou the city affairs In an or
derly business like wr.y, as the
scnoo! board is now dqin^ in cou
ducting the schools.
Freight
Cy Noble
Hakes His
Last Trip
In One Week
.leave order? at
PIONEER,
TOWN OF FAIRBANKS
PAMPLH BALLOT
for councjlmen
Vote Fop Seven Only
Buteau Frank
AN UriuKem,, ueorge
! C’alialiau, Dau
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l Driscoll, Dan
Friss, Barnar i
j '-1 irdjii, F. 3.
Grows, J. li.
: J'- Kin?,-VK
. Knowles, A.
LurenUen, peter
; i — ■—
McDonald, K. S.
1 AN Mac'.owuu, R- P
Hy*Tt, K. K. _
Nerlaud, Andrew
..N ,rdale, A. J
peoples, E..
| Smith. ReorgedE.__
, | ami1*1, Murray 0.
( Tliorntoai, J. J. _
. AN Woodcock, llenry T.
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School Election
The candidates for the School
board are Mrs. Robert Geis and
Mrs. Zimmerman. We inter
viewed both ladies as to their in
tentions in case of election.
Mrs. Geis said ,thut sfie would
have more to say later on but
intimated that she favored a
good school and a good educa
tion for the children.
Mrs. Zimmcrnjan , handed us
the following statement-—
Mary [jHe.rmie /Zifnmcrman,
Nominee ot woman's mass meet
ing for secretary of school board
was horn jn CarlinvilJe, 111., of
American parentage. In 1S93
she graduated from ,',fce^ Carlin
ville High School For the next
six years she,, attended Black
burn College in Carlinyille and
received therefrom the degree of
A. B. in 1898 an A- M.in 1899.
The ensuing three years she
was the Principal of the Carlinr
vill High School, an accredited
institution enrolling about sev
jeuty pupils. She spent the sum
mer vacations during these 3
years in Post Graduate work at
Chicago University.
JOKES.
“Do I under=tand you paid the
JudSethat his remarks were, tcri
monions?”
“ Judge, your honor: I didn't
say that. I Eaid he just swore at
mct.l ain't agoin’ to claim that be
done what ha didn’t do."
“Don’t you kuow that your hus
band is walking the floor because
i of bis debts?"
| ‘'Isn't it fortunate?" replied
j yoipig Mrs Torking sweetly, "You
j j kuow ih- doctor fit id that Charlie
simply must take moie exercise”
■
Gibbs. I believe in oarly rising
I dont you? Dibbs \\rell there’s no
abstract excellence in early rising.
It all depeuds on.jvhat you do af
ter you rise- It would be much bet
ter for the world if some peoule nev
er got up.
The year 1902-3 was employ
ed in Post Graduate work at
Bryn Mawr College, fifteen miles
from Philadelphia.. Experience
had taught her that nothing is
so practicable for a woman as
English and she spent all of her
time at Bryn Mawr in its pur
suit.
This institution offers the
highest educational advantages
io women of any woman’s col
lege in the world.
In 1905 as the culmination of
an old . college friendihip, she
mairied J. F. Zimmerman, a
pioneer of the Klondike. They
have lived in Fairbanks and vi
cidity since 1905. As a mother of
two small children she is iater
esteu iu pur schools. Her own
parents believed an education it
' a good character more valuable
to their chUdgen, than great rich
:es She has endeavor,ed to “make
jgood.” Her sympathies for the
j Fairbanks schools embody
thpse principles and she deems
retrenchment tlieie, the deure-t
economy Fairbanks can suggest.
IT YOU want
Clean Wood
Call Up
Dan Callahan
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