The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-24
DR.. Babb,. City Milk Inspector
Fired Himself From Office.
Drafted New Ordinance That
Left Him Out in Cold.
TO START OVER AGAIN
The Doctor Nust Put in New
Application for the Place.
All This Happened After Months
Of Close Figuring.

People have been known to resign
from office, others have quit because
their pay was stopped, and some have
been thrown bodily from their position
but it remains with DR.. George S.
Babb, city milk inspector, to capture
and hold the medal for a novel way of
being separated from a job.
After many weeks of hard labor and
confinement, DR.. Babb succeeded this
morning in legislating himself from Of
flee. In other words DR.. Babb, erstwhile
city milk inspector, is out of a job-and
he did it himself.
DR.. Babb, veterinarian, is hunting for
the job that DR.. Babb, city milk in
spector lost today.
Before there is a misunderstanding
in the matter it should be said that by
passing a new milk ordinance which
repealed all previous ordinances, the
Topeka milk inspector threw himself
out of a position-because the old ordi-
nance was the basis upon which he
was appointed.
Babb Suggests New One.
It happened this way.
The city has been in need of a new
milk ordinance for many months The
old ordinance which was dragging
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amendments, was not satisfactory to
the farmers, to the milkmen, to the
creameries and to the city officials.
1t placed burdensome tax on the
milk dealers and it made a position to
fill for a city milk inspector that no
man on this earth could do justice.
DR.. George Swatthecow Babb came
into office last year. As soon as he
unlocked his desk and took the first
sidelong glance at his pretty steno-
I L.
pick up. He could feel the gathering
storm of public sentiment approach
ing-and digging into the ordinance
books he made his first attempt at re-
form
For months DIR. Babb has been
working on the new ordinance. Sleep
| less nights, tiresome days and gruel-
some conferences with the city Off
| cials have worn his mammoth body to
a mere shadow--a1I because he wished
to create city milk ordinance that
would be satisfactory to all concerned.
When he tried to pass a section tax
| ing all cows in the city and making it
necessary to tag them the city officials
| split their sides in laughter Lets
/ have them city cows wired for electric
! lights, said the city electrical inspec-
! tor "Why not attach proper plumb
! ing apparatus" exclaimed the plumb
! ing inspector. Put scales on their
bodies to weigh the milk suggested
this inspector. Pad their hoofs,''
meel1ly offered the paving inspector.
| Put a Gabriel horn on their horns,''
said the automobile license man. And
so on came suggestions from the city
officials
! Ordinance Is Passed.
! Finally the milk ordinance came up
before the board of commissioners for
consideration. It was so long and
dreary looking that they postponed it.
/ City Attorney Ralston peered into it
and made about fifteen pages of
changes. Mayor Billiard injected
about thirty pages of his ideas Each
/ commissioner, whether he owned a
COW or whether he knew a man who
owned one nailed an amendment on
the ordinance.
Once more it was presented. once
more it was referred back to the milk
| inspector for alteration
Finally, after travelling over the
stormy waters of the commission sea
for several weeks, it came up for final
consideration this morning.
After a three hour discussion it was
passed.
But alas! alack!
! 1t was found that no provision had
been made in the ordinance for the ap-
pointment of a milk inspector. The
new ordinance had repealed all other
| ordinanceS-and the other ordinances
| had created the office.
This news has not been transferred
to the milk inspector. The city Off
cials haven't the n rye to tell him after
he has gone through so much suffer
ing-and they have left it to the news
papers.
DR.. George Swathecow Babb, veter-
marian, will put in his application to
the civil service commission for exami-
nation for the office He will have tC
be examined and then he will make
application for the position. If the
commissioners see fit to take DR.. BobE
back to the fold he will be restored.
Meanwhile. the city has no milk in
spector and DIR. Babb is without job
But he did it all himself.
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