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The State Employee

VOL. 9, Number 5

JUNE 1940,

10 a Copy

New York’s National Guard

By
Capr. RoceR STONEHOUSE

The Governor's recent alert and
timely actions affecting the National
Guard have caused an added inter-
est in this important State-National
service, which is so often well-nigh
forgotten by the public and yet is
carried on with admirable faithful-
ness and devotion,

This article is an informal attempt
to acquaint the reader with some
general facts about our New York
National Guard. Its _ peacetime
strength is 25,632 officers and en-
listed men. Should 75% of the Na-
tional Guard be called into Federal
Service and removed from the State,
the law requires the immediate cre-
ation of another force within the
State of not less than 10,000, If less
than 75% are absent on duty, depot
units are formed in place of the ac-
tive units called. These take over the
armories and duties and also serve
as recruiting sources for the absent
commands, The armories in which
the units are housed as well as other
military buildings and the camps at
Peekskill and Pine Plains are, by the
Governor’s orders, under constant
guard. For this purpose unem-
ployed enlisted personnel is being
used, The pay of a private in the
National Guard is $1 a day, corporal
$1.25 and sergeant $1.50. Under
normal conditions there are approxi-
mately two drills of 1% hours dura-
tion each week, for which pay is ap-
propriated by the Federal Goyern-
ment.

Our forces in New York State
comprise ten regiments of infantry,
the two of cavalry, five of field ar-
tillery, three of coast artillery, one
of engineers; the 102nd Medical
Regiment; the 102nd Quartermaster
Regiment; the 102nd Observation
Squadron; the 101st Signal Bat-
talion, and various other smaller es-
sential units. 3

June

Our New York troops were first
employed as a complete tactical di-
vision, under the more recent tables
of organization, as National Guard
in Federal Service on the Mexican
Border, 1916-17, with the designa-
tion 6th Division, United States
Army, When in the World War the
National Guard was absorbed by the
Federal establishment it was reor-
ganized as the 27th Division, U. S.
A,, and sailed overseas in May, 1918.
Tt served at various times with the
2nd, 3rd and 4th British Armies and
participated in the occupation of the
Dickebusch-Scherpenberg sector in
Flanders, the Ypres-Lys offensive in
Belgium and the Somme Offensive
in Picardy; the fighting at East
Poperinghe Line, Vierstratt Ridge,
Knoll-Guillemont Farm, Quenne-
ment Farm, Hindenberg Line, Le-
Selle River, Jonc DeMer Ridge and
St. Maurice River. The personnel of
the Division received 527 U. S. and
foreign decorations for conspicuous
gallantry in action or other distin-
guished service.

In Albany is established our State
“War Department,” the Adjutant
General’s Office under Brigadier
General Ames T. Brown, an able
and popular officer whose many
qualifications have already been
noted in these columns.

In command of the New York
National Guard in the offices at
New York City is Major General
William N. Haskell who entered
West Point from the Albany Public
Schools. He is a graduate of the
Military Academy, a “Distinguished
Graduate” of the Infantry and Cay-
alry Schools and a graduate of the
Army Staff College.

Several officers of the New York
National Guard have attended West
Point and a relatively large propor-
tion are graduates of Army Service
Schools. Professional courses are in
constant progress, On declaration

of war the personnel of the New
York State National Guard would
be called to active duty as a com-
ponent of the Federal forces,

Recently Governor Lehman rec-
ommended that the 107th and
369th Infantry of New York City
be changed to Anti-Aircraft and
that a new regiment be created
probably in the vicinity of Buffalo
to still further augment this arm of
the service which at present has only
the 212th Regiment. A glance at the
histories of these three regiments is
of more than passing interest.

‘The 212th was originally organ-
ized from companies already in ex-
istence as the 11th Regiment and on
July 27, 1847, as the 12th Regiment.
On July 9, 1921, it became the 212th
Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Coast Ar-
tillery Corps. It saw much service
—the Civil War, in Cuba in the
Spanish-American War; and on the
Mexican Border. In the world war
it furnished many officers and men
to augment other organizations and
served as a nucleus for the formation
of the 52nd Pioneer Infantry which
participated in the major operations
of the Meuse-Argonne, the Ist Army
Area Defensive Sector and also was
a part of the Army of Occupation
on the Rhine,

Companies A. B. C. and D. of
what is now the 107th were organ-
ized in 1806 and became the 2nd
Battalion of the 3rd Regiment. In
1824 at the time of the parade in
honor of the visit of the Marquis de
La Fayette, a Major John D. Wilson
suggested that the organization take
the name National Guards in defer-
ence to La Fayette who had com-
manded the National Guard of
Paris. For a long time this remained
the distinctive name of the regiment
until April 23, 1862, when it was
adopted by the Legislature for all
of our New York State troops.

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New York National
Guard
(Continued from page 131)

On May 6, 1824, the battalion was
reorganized as the 27th Artillery
Regiment. It became the 7th Regi-
ment July 27, 1843. The World War
brought redesignation as the 107th
Infantry, 54th Brigade, 77th Divi-
sion, U. S. A.

It saw Federal service in the War
of 1812, the Civil War, on the Mexi-
can Border and all operations of the
27th Division overseas. Space does
not permit enumerating its many
services to the State in aid of the
civil authorities.

‘The 369th Infantry was organized
as the 15th Infantry, N.Y.N.G., a
colored regiment in 1916 and re-
ceived complete Federal recognition
April 18, 1917. It went overseas in
1917 and early in 1918 was attached
for combat service to the 16th Divi-
sion, 8th Corps, 4th French Army.
Later it was transferred to the 161st
Division of the same Corps. It partic-
ipated in the following major opera-
tions: Champagne-Marne; Aisne-
Marne; Meuse-Argonne and the
French Army Area of the Defensive
Sector. Its colors were decorated
with the Croix de Guerre as an in-
dication of the citation of the whole
regiment for gallant conduct in ac-
tion during the Meuse-Argonne of-
fensive. 191 United States-French
decorations were conferred upon its
personnel. Through the courtesy of
the French it was the first regiment
of the Allied Armies to reach the
Rhine November 20, 1918.

We World War veterans, employ-
ees of the State at that time must re-
member with gratitude the generous
policy of the State. Our places were
guaranteed for our return and we
received the difference between
Army or Navy pay and our State
salaries. Under the State military
law service in the National Guard
cannot prejudice the vacation or
promotion of a State employee, who
in addition is permitted up to thirty
days leave for field training.

In conclusion it seems fitting to
quote General Haskell’s recent’ re-
commendations as published in the
New York National Guardsman:

(1) Increase the Regular Army
and National Guard by at least fifty
per cent. Our present total force is

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smaller than Holland’s was on May
Ist (about 500,000 active and 160,-
000 reserves).

(2) Institute some equitable sys-
tem of compulsory training, because
the present system of voluntary re-
cruiting does not produce enough
men, and, what’s worse in our Ssys-
tem, recruits are dribbling into ser-
vice every day of the year, and no
logical cycle of training can be set
up.

*03) Rush completion of all au-
thorized naval building, and make
our naval goal a two-ocean navy,
with a balanced fleet in the Atlantic
and also one in the Pacific equal to
any combination of foreign powers

leader by putting on a uniform.
(8) Make some use out of the
boys that receive C.M.T.C. training
by requiring those who go to such
camps to be available for future ser-
vice in the National Guard, or else-
where as needed, Otherwise discard

it.

(9) Follow the advice of the Gen-
eral Staff, and forget the cost. What-
ever it costs will be cheap, if done
in time. Remember that, as early as
1935, comprehensive plans were
urged on the Congress by the Gen-
eral Staff—with little success, Read
General MacArthur's (then Chief
of Staff) final report dated June 30,
1935, which outlined the concrete

Departure of the Seventh Regiment for War, April 19, 1861

likely to attack this hemisphere in
either ocean. We cannot rely on the
Panama Canal in these days of sa-
botage, fifth columns, and parachut-
ists,

(4) Place orders and rush delivery
of all material needed for war, in-
cluding reserves of essential raw ma-
terials and ammunition.

(5) Stop the expensive mainte-
nance of useless Army posts through-
out the country, and take political
interference with Army planning
and the pork barrel out of national
defense,

(6) Put basic military training
into the C. C. C.

(7) Discard the idea which has
prevailed for over a hundred years
that any one can become a military

objectives that should be unfailingly
attained within five years, ie. by
now.

(10) Time is the all-important
factor. We must act—not next year,
but now.

Meanwhile, every officer and enlist-
ed man in the New York National
Guard must in conscience prepare
himself for action by regular at-
tendance and strict attention at ar-
mories and camps, to learn the ut-
most about the duties he will be
called upon to fulfill, Every man
must be alert and anxious to do his
duty effectively.

The New York National Guard
will not fail. Give us the modern
tools of war without stint. We are
ready to give our lives in using them,

The State Employee
Last Chance

TO SECURE GROUP LIFE INSURANCE
Without Medical Examination

ACT BEFORE JUNE 30th

If you have not already taken ad-
vantage of securing the low-cost life
insurance protection offered through
the Association’s group plan, ACT
NOW, as Association members have
only until June 30th to obtain this
splendid protection without medical
examination. During May and June,
1940, the Travelers Insurance Com-
pany agreed to waive medical ex-
amination, and since May Ist hun-
dreds of employees have applied.
We know that hundreds of addition-
al employees who didn’t apply, are
nevertheless interested, and to these
employees this message is addressed.
Applications will be accepted with-
out medical examination, until June
30th, only from members who file
applications while actively em-
ployed. This offer is open to all
State employees who are members
of The Association of State Civil
Service Employees except those em-
ployees who have been already re-
jected on the basis of a medical ex-
amination for this Group Life Pol-
icy G-9000. It is, therefore, impor-
tant that you apply now, as failure
to do so may subject you to the
customary medical examination of
the Insurance Company later on,
and to possible refusal of your ap-
plication.

Thousands Already Covered

Some 30,000 State workers have
availed themselves of the protection
at low cost accorded by the group
plan sponsored by the Association.
Since November Ist, 1939, medical
examination was required, and after
June 30, such examination will
again be required. Probably this
will be the last opportunity ever
given present employees to secure
the insurance on a non-medical ba-
sis. New employees, may however,
secure the insurance if they apply
within 90 days of their appointment
to the service.

Claims Paid Promptly

Up to the present date of writing,
120 claims, totaling over $200,000
have been paid to certificate holders
since the inception of the plan on

June

June 1, 1939, Payments of the claims
have been made remarkably prompt.
Where possible in some instances,
payment to beneficiary was made on
the same day that notification of
death was received by the Associa-
tion, thereby placing funds at the

* disposal of beneficiaries when most

needed.

Amount of Insurance
The plan of insurance remains
unchanged and is as follows. The
amount of insurance is based on an-
nual salary in accordance with the
following schedule:

Insurance Amount of
Annual Salary ‘Insurance

1 Less than $900... -$ 500

Il $ 900 but less than $1,400... 1,000
TH 1,400 but less than 1,700... 1,500
IV 1,700 but less than 2,100... 2,000
V_ 2,100 but less than 2,700... 2,500
VI 2,700 but less than 3,500... 3,000
VII 3,500 but less than 4,500... 4,000
VIL 4,500 and over... 5,000

Female employees whose annual
salary is less than $900 are eligible
for $500; those whose annual salary
is $900 or more are eligible for
$1,000, which is the maximum.

Due to the low premium rates for
this insurance and the privilege giv-
en to secure it regardless of physical
condition, the rules governing this
form of insurance do not permit the
selection of amounts other than
those determined by annual salary
as indicated above.

On August 1 of each year the
amount of insurance for each mem-
ber whose annual salary has changed
so as to place him in a Class pro-
viding a larger amount than pro-
vided for the Class under which he
was previously insured will be in-
creased to the amount for the Class
in which his annual salary then
places him, but no increase in in-
surance resulting from such reclassi-
fication shall become effective as to
any member away from work be-
cause of disability until he returns
to work, Increase in the semi-month-
ly cost to the Member will be effec-
tive from the effective date of his
new amount of insurance.

The Low Cost
‘The cost to insured members dur-
ing the first five years of the plan
will be based on the following table:

Semi-monthly
Age Attained Age cost for
Group Nearest Birthday each $1,000 insur,
A 39 and under. 30
B_ 40 to 44, inclusive, 38
C 45 to 49, inclusive. 50
D_ 50 to 54, inclusive. 170
E_ 55 to 59, inclusive. 1,00
F 60 to 64, inclusive... 1.50
G 65 to 69, inclusive... 2.25

On August 1 of each year the
semi-monthly cost to each member
whose attained age has increased so
as to place him in a higher Age
Group will be increased accordingly.

Not “Only” the Old Die

A surprising feature of the cover-
age was the number of young people
who died in State service. More
claims were paid in the Age Group
“39 and under” than in any other
Age Group. The cost of insurance
in this Group is the lowest of any,
and it would seem that all the young
people in State service should avail
themselves of this coverage. Most
of these people are employed in the
lower pay brackets. These employees
probably have less money to spend
for insurance than any other Age
Group.

Older employees in State service
have had greater opportunity to ob-
serve the need of Life Insurance pro-
tection and should recognize the
value of this low-cost Group Life
Insurance Plan,

Act Now!

This offer of Group Life Insur-
ance, without medical examination,
is open only until June 30th. Soli-
citors already have, and will con-
tinue until that date to visit many
points in the State (but not all loca-
tions). ACT PROMPTLY, and
send in your application to Associa-
tion Headquarters, or give it to a
solicitor. Applications may be se-
cured from Association Headquar-
ters, Room 156, State Capitol, Al-
bany.

133
A Bear Story

“In one instant I had all the sen-
sations that Poles defending their
land against the Bear That Walks
Like a Man felt and how Hitler's
blitzkreig appears to an Allied out-
post when a bomber dropping a load
of parachutists looms suddenly over
them,” related Walter J. Schoon-
maker, assistant State Zoologist and
president of the New York State
Nature Association, on his return
from a trip to Alleghany State Park.

Mr. Schoonmaker, widely known
for his extensive collection of wild
animal photographs, has long de-
sired bear pictures taken in natural
surroundings. At the end of last
month he drove down to the Park

from his studio in Rensselaer with
the car loaded with cameras and
other photographic equipment. He
chose the locality with which he was
familiar from the work formerly
done there by the State Museum,
The bears, he remembered, were
quite tame and rather numerous.
Arriving at the Park, Mr. Schoon-
maker took a cabin and looked for
a place of advantage where he could
put his bait, a fore quarter of lamb.
Wiring the meat to the base of a
sapling where Bruin was sure to
find it on his nocturnal prowling
the scientist set up his camera about
fifteen feet away and pocketed a few
flash bulbs. And then began one

This bit of bacon was wired to a tree as high up as Mr. Schoonmaker
could reach. The bear standing in a hollow could reach it with ease.

134

of those long vigils which have
made the words patience and
Schoonmaker synonymous.

A dim crescent moon hung in the
sky behind the photographer. A
barred owl hooted on a nearby
mountain, A chorus of spring peep-
ers rose from the marshland. All
was quiet in the clustered buildings
that comprised the settlement of
Red House not far away where the
inhabitants were sleeping as bliss-
fully unaware of the impending
tragedy as was its principal narrator
who sat with his back against a
huge tree, ready at any instant to
set off his flash bulb.

Mr. Schoonmaker had just re-
placed his watch in his pocket after
noting it was nearly four o'clock,
almost time for the false dawn,
when suddenly, and as silently as a
shadow, a huge blackness, only a
little darker than the surrounding
obscurity, appeared, remained still
for a moment, charged past the bait,
and made straight for the weapon.
less hunter armed only with a flash
bulb and a camera.

“A fear that | had never known

before gripped me,” said Mr.
Schoonmaker. “I sat tense and mo:
tionless, knowing only too well it

would be futile to run, even if 1
could. Thoughts raced through my
brain in confusion. 1 was Poland
being attacked by that other bear, the
one that walks like a man—Russia.
1 was that more nt group of
Allies being attacked from the sky.
1 was foolish to want bear pictures
for my collection. And what would
be the sensation of those who found
my clean-picked skeleton and could
it be identified by the camera—when
as suddenly as he started the bear
stopped only eight feet from me!

“In a ray of moonbeam | could
see his great head sway and the
sniffs of the bear as he tested the
night breezes came to my ears as
loud as the roar of a plane that pre
sages the dropping of death-dealing
bombs on Flanders. Where had my
scalp lifted to? What was the mat-
ter with my spine that it seemed
filled with electricity? And then the
bear uttered a loud, terrible woof.
Slowly he backed off and stopped
to inspect my bait. How glad I was

The State Employee
1 had spent good money for that
chunk of meat! Never again would
I question the butcher's prices!

“Consciousness returned amid this
welter of thoughts and half
thoughts, none of them actually
clear, and I realized this was my op-
portunity to get my picture. Com-
pletely unnerved and actually afraid
to press the camera release lest the
flash should irritate the brute and
bring him charging again, I hesi-
tated between the desire for safety
and that of getting a good picture.
Then, determined to have that
bear's picture at all costs I flashed
the bulb, blinding both myself and
Bruin, He was now as scared as
I, for I heard him crashing into trees
and bushes. Then he stopped and I
heard his deep rumbling growl and
the chopping of his teeth,

“Soon I saw him again as he

moved like a huge black ghost
through the dull patches of moon-
light. Once he circled me, never
rustling a leaf or snapping a twig.
Then he began a second circle, this
one smaller in circumference. Sud-
denly it became apparent to me that
I was being stalked. Before the
chilling fear that came over me
again could numb me I grabbed the
tripod and, camera on shoulder, ran
faster than ever before to the com-
forting security of the cabin.

“Those bears in Alleghany State
Park were not tame!”

As summer comes, with many
campers living in the park, the bears
acquire a vicarious touch of civiliza-
tion, They seck food in garbage
cans. A few, not all, of the bears
become so docile that they actually
may be fed from the hand. This is
true particularly in July and August.

Gigantic in size and of great weight, this bear prowled the woods at
night so silently that never a leaf rustled and not a single twig snapped as
his massive bulk passed by.

June

Retroactive Taxation
of State Workers

Although the Wagner-Byrne Bill
to amend the Income Tax Law by
preventing retroactive taxation of
State employees paid in part from
Federal funds has received wide
support, it has not yet been reported
from Committee in Congress. The
Secretary of the Ways and Means
Committee has written that the Bill
will be brought before the Commit-
tee as soon as matters of this kind
are taken up for consideration. The
main difficulty is that bills of this
nature are blocked by hearings on
defense war measures. Because the
only hope for relief from the present
retroactive tax liability is through the
passage of this bill, the Association
is doing everything possible to in-
duce the Committee to report it fa-
vorably, and it is hoped that the
measure will come up for action on
the floor before Congress adjourns.

Thousands of copies of the brief
prepared by our counsel, John T.
DeGraff, which appeared in the last
issue of the State Employee, have
been mimeographed and distributed
throughout the various States. The
Attorney-General and numerous
other department heads in the State
Government have written the Com-
mittee Chairman in the two houses
asking that the bill be reported.

Numerous national organizations
have lined up in support of the bill,
including the American Federation
of Labor, the American Municipal
Association, the American Associa-
tion of State Highway Officials, the
Interstate Conference of Unemploy-
ment Compensation Agencies, the
Conference on State Defense,
and numerous State organizations
throughout the country. Scores of
favorable replies have been received
from representatives in Congress,
both in the Senate and the House of
Representatives stating that they will
support the bill, and that they are
opposed to retroactive taxation. Sev-
eral Congressmen have written that
they did not understand that the bill
passed last year permitted retroac-
tive taxation and that they will do
everything in their power to correct
the existing situation.

Pay Your Dues

135
Safety For Life and Property

EDITOR’S NOTE: Modern
life is aided by easy, quick trans-
portation. Automobiles are in-
valuable to business, and they
help to add to more leisure and
greater opportunity for happiness
to the lives of countless individu-
als. That is why the safety of
those who ride and those who
walk is something more than a
matter of law and regulations.
Attention to thinking and acting
so as to keep ourselves and our
neighbors free from bodily harm
or property loss, is really a mea-
surement of intelligence and effi-
ciency. State workers are not
compelled to observe laws or
rules more than other people. It
does seem, however, that as
members of the great civil ser-
vice family of the State and thus
one with an important branch
of that family devoting much
time to safety for all of the
people of the State including our-
selves, that we should take a par-
ticular pride in observing every
rule of law and of common-sense
in driving or walking. We can
set a very excellent example, and
perhaps save a human life or save
a whole family the sadness at-
tendant upon a tragedy, The As-
sociation asks each member to
give this subject serious thought
and to do his or her bit in the
saving of human life and prop-
erty from harm in our goings
and comings throughout the
years, We really have a special
responsibility. The present ar-
ticle will be followed by several
others in a program intended to
be helpful in the State’s safety
program,

BY CARROLL E. MEALEY
Commissioner of Motor Vehicles
State of New York

Not so many years ago, the sub-
ject of traffic safety was in the same
category with that of the weather—
everybody talked about it but no-
body did anything about it.

The public, always long-suffering,
was slow in being aroused.

Early in the century, the motor
vehicle was beginning to become a
part of American life. As its use and
usefulness expanded by leaps and
bounds, there began to dawn a real-
ization that the automobile was a
killer.

Sadly, but submissively, was the
fact acknowledged. There was a dis-
position to charge the growing mo-
tor vehicle toll to the account of
progress.

136

Deaths and injuries inflicted by
the motor car were generally regard-
ed as a necessary evil of a swifter
pace, certainly to be deplored but
also to be suffered as the price of a
greater civilization.

Then the safety movement, which
had its beginning in industry, began
to make headway against steadily
mounting traffic hazards. Finally,
the public conscience has suddenly
become aroused and behind the
force of public opinion and a will-
ingness of individuals to assume a
definite responsibility for the safety
of others, as well as themselves, the
motor vehicle accident problem ap-
pears to be yielding to solution.

For several years, there has been a
decline in the vehicle mile accident
rate—that is, cars are covering more
mileage per accident but in many
of these recent years, the actual ac-
cident and death totals have in-
creased alarmingly, reaching a crit-
ical point in 1937, when the nation’s
highway slaughter reached 39,500
lives and when New York State’s
death toll touched a near-record
peak of 3,065.

The year 1939 was one of marked
improvement in New York State—
the traffic fatality list shrinking 3.9
per cent to a total of 2,429.

While the improvement of the
past year is encouraging, it is far
from satisfactory. It is, in fact, dis-
graceful to acknowledge that there
were over 73,000 automobile acci-
dents in the State last year, resulting
in over 2,400 deaths and over 95,000
non-fatal injuries, not to mention a
probable economic loss of many mil-
lions of dollars.

For no longer are accidents being
dismissed glibly as “unavoidable.”
We know that isn’t true. Virtually
every accident is a result of human
failure, of mechanical failure or of
highway failure. And of these, the
most important accident cause is the
first. Next—The Operator.

The Operator of a Car

The driver, himself, must assume
the burden of responsibility for the
vast majority of all traffic accidents.

The automobile, itself, has be-
come a very nearly 100 per cent safe
vehicle IN THE HANDS OF A
SAFE OPERATOR. The motor in-

dustry has made great progress in
recent years in incorporating safety
in automobile construction.

At the same time, highways are
being scientifically designed for
safer travel. New construction has
spared no expense in making the
highway as nearly foolproof as is
humanly possible. Known hazards
have been eliminated from hundreds
of miles of roads of old construction.

As a result, mechanical failures
and highway failures can be charged
with only a relatively small share of
the blame for today’s traffic acci-
dents.

The failure, four times out of five,
is human,

The operator drives too fast for
conditions; he is careless or inatten-
tive; he ignores traffic signals, signs
and road markings; he drives while
drinking; he fails to exercise reason-
able caution or he is guilty of sheer
recklessness. And the result, inevit-
ably, is an accident. An accident
which could have been avoided.

Excessive speed alone, caused 493
fatal accidents in New York State
last year. Driving on the wrong side
of the road—a violation of the first
tule of the road—produced 219 fatal
accidents. Driving while not having
the right of way caused 262 fatal
accidents and reckless driving, 138.

True, less than three per cent of
New York State’s 3,983,554 licensed
operators were involved in fatal or
personal injury accidents last year,
but the vast percentage of these
operators had never had an accident
before. It was the “first time” for
them.

There is, on the part of many
operators, an inclination to regard
“safety” as “something for the other
fellow.” Not until personal experi-
ence with the suffering, death and
monetary cost of a traffic accident
are they ready to accept a sense of
personal responsibility. And then,
too often, it is too late—too late to
undo the harm wrought by an ac-
cident.

It is axiomatic that experience is
the best teacher. But cannot the
past tragic experience of others teach
the necessity for sane driving prac-
tices? Or must we inflict more need-
less suffering, crush the lives from

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The State Employee
“For All of These”

“To form a more perfect union,
establish justice, insure domestic
tranquillity, provide for the common
defense, promote the general wel-
fare, and secure the blessings of liber-
ty to ourselves and our posterity.”
These glorious things were more of
a vision and a hope than a reality
on September 17, 1787. Blood had
been spilled for those ideals, rich
American blood, even before they
were spelled out in words and more
was to be shed later. They were
ideals worth fighting for and living
for and dying for in every decade
of our existence, and they are worth
the same sacrifice today. The quota-
tion above is from the oldest federal
constitution in existence, our Ameri-
can Constitution. No totalitarian
nation ever subscribed to such a
creed of human needs and aspira-
tions, and none ever will. The State
as the servant of individual freedom,
family happiness and general wel-
fare is the doctrine only of democ-
racies.

Tt was the natural outpouring of
loyalty to American principles and
the preservation of those principles
that led the Executive Committee
of the Association of State Civil Ser-
vice Employees to adopt on May
24th, 1940, the following resolution:

WHEREAS, it is becoming that
the civil arm of government in each
unit of the United States reflect the
highest attributes of patriotism and
good citizenship at all times, and

WHEREAS, the civil service of
the State of New York as represent-
ed by the 30,000 members of this
Association is by its history and tra-
dition an outstanding example of a
government unit dedicated to the
upbuilding of good and efficient
government, and

WHEREAS, it is evident to all
citizens of the United States that
life and liberty and the pursuit of
happiness depend as far as human
wisdom now indicates upon the pre-
servation of a democratic govern-
ment wherein each citizen shall
have the personal freedom necessary
to the pursuit and attainment of
happiness, and

‘WHEREAS, unity of high pur-
pose and strength to defend the in-
herent rights of free men can come
only from common loyalty to our

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established national government and
to the will of that government as
expressed by its chosen leaders,

THEREFORE BE IT RE-
SOLVED, that this Association of
State Civil Service Employees of the
State of New York hereby com-
mends the program of national de-
fense outlined by the President and
approved by the Congress and
pledges itself to wholehearted sup-
port of that program, and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED,
that this Association urges as full
and complete aid as is practicable to
the democracies in their struggle for
that freedom which is the inherent
right of each man, and for the sup-
pression and extermination of the
unnatural and inhumane philosophy
of brute force exemplified by the to-
talitarian governments, to the end
that food be immediately forwarded
to alleviate the distress of millions
of refugees fleeing from the rav-
ages of a brutal war and that the
material resources of this country be
mobilized and utilized in every way
necessary to preserve civilization and
the rights of all men everywhere,
and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED,
that copies of this resolution be for-
warded to the President and to the
leaders of the Congress and to each
member of Congress from the State
of New York.

It was fitting that the civil service
employees of our State should thus
speak out for the maintenance of
liberty everywhere. Our own State
Constitution is second to none in
the sincerity of its preamble. No
half-way Americans, no hearts not
filled with faith could inspire such
words—“We, the people of the State
of New York, grateful to Almighty
God for our freedom, in order to
secure its blessings, do establish this
Constitution.”

A copy of the resolution was sent
to the President and to each mem-
ber of Congress from New York
State. A large number of approving
letters have been received of which
the following are typical:

(1) “I am pleased to receive
the- copy of resolution and I will
enter the resolution in the Congres-
sional Record.”

(2) “The resolution was very en-
couraging. We members of Congress
are receiving many letters in the op-
posite vein from subversive or anti-
American groups. I am certainly
glad to have your expression.”

(3) “After’ reading this com-
mendable resolution I feel all the
more proud that at one time I was
a member of your organization.”

And from the Secretary to the
President:

“The President has asked me to
thank you for your letter of May
27th enclosing copy of resolution.
He is indeed grateful to the mem-
bers of your Association for the
pledge of their cooperation in the
national defense program.”

Let us get the war situation
straight, This Association recognizes
only facts. It is not swayed by emo-
tionalism, nor fear. It has no illu-
sions. The officers of the Associa-
tion, who prepared the resolution,
served in the World War. They
know that war is Hell not only on
the front line but on the home front
and in every intermediate sphere.
They don’t want war. They do want
to preserve American liberty. They
know, just as every informed citizen
knows, that ruthless dictators are
seeking World domination and have
already shown the World that they
are doing this by the most unspeak-
able butchery and enslavement, not
of one Nation, but up to this time
of six formerly free Nations. There
is not a formerly happy fireside in
all Europe that is not shadowed by
events or pending uncertainty. We
don’t have to argue this point. The
only one who wants to argue it is
the one who wants to delay America
in her efforts to defend herself. Read
what Wendell L. Wilkie, one of
America’s leading business men and
an aspirant to the Presidency, says:

“Tt is clear that England and
France constitute our first line of
defense against Hitler. If anybody
is going to stop Hitler from further
aggression, they are the ones who
will do it. Just putting the matter
in the most selfish light, if Britain
and France lick Hitler now, we may
be saved billions of dollars, billions
of tons of armament, billions of
hours of wasted effort and unfruit-

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THE STATE EMPLOYEE
Official Publication of
‘THE ASSOCIATION OF STATE CIVIL
SERVICE EMPLOYEES
OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK

Room 156 State Capitol Albany, N. Y.
Editor Charles A. Brind, Jr.
Art Editor Roger Stonchouse

Business Manager Joseph D. Lochner
Editorial Board
W. F. McDonough
Ralph D. Fleming Linda J. Wharton
Foster Potter Charles L. Mosher
A. K. Getman
Association Officers

Charles A. Brind, Jr. - - - President
Charles L. Campbell - - Vice-President
Earl P. Pfannebecker - - - Treasurer
John T. DeGrafl - - - - - Counsel
Mary H. Ahern - - - - - Secretary

Joseph D. Lochner - Executive Secretary

Taxpayers’ Associations

John Livingstone, Vice President of
the Association of Employees of the
Department of Mental Hygiene and
representative of this Association at
Hudson River State Hospital,
Poughkeepsie, calls to the attention
of the editor the following news
item appearing in “The Sunday
Courier” of Poughkeepsie, on May
19th:

“Taxpayers’ Federation Launches
Plan to Expand Its Activities Pro-
gram .

“Forming Groups in Communities
Underway Soon

“Commitee Appointed for Statewide
Proposal
“Announcement has been made

by the Taxpayers’ Federation, Inc.,
for expansion of its program of ac-
tivities in behalf of lower taxes on
real estate and economy in govern-
ment.

“The organization has opened an
office in Albany and expects to car-
ry on ‘more effective work’ through
this branch at the next session of the
State Legislature.

“Tt plans to send representatives
to communities in all parts of the
State to aid in the formation of lo-
cal taxpayers’ associations where
such groups are not now function-
ing, acording to A. Vedder Magee,
Schenectady, the new president.

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“Herbert L. Carpenter, chairman
of the federation, has appointed a
committee headed by Clarke G.
Dailey, New York, to map out the
State-wide program. Other mem-
bers of this committee are: W. E.
Robertson, Buffalo; E. Clinton Wol-
cott, Rochester; and Alden D. Stan-
ton, New York.”

There are taxpayers’ associations
and taxpayers’ associations, those
that consist of real taxpayers who
are really and truly anxious to ef-
fectuate the reduction in the burden
of taxation placed upon real estate,
and those groups which are using
this popular war cry to further sel-
fish ends—ends which are a far cry
from the question of taxation itself.

Thousands of State employees are,
real estate taxpayers. Thousands of
them are suffering due to over-as-
sessment and over-taxation on the
property which they own. Thou-
sands of these employees are anxious
that adjustments be made but not
at the expense of curtailment of ser-
vices’ which are necessary to con-
tinue the standards of living essen-
tial to the health, safety and comfort
of the people of this State.

At the last session of the Legisla-
ture there were those claiming to
represent taxpayers’ associations
who demanded widespread econo-
mies. Investigation indicated that
while these so-called representatives
came from populated areas, they rep-
resented associations comprising 10,
15, 25 people, most of whom owned
exceedingly small amounts of tax-
able real estate. We heard rumors of
moneys being poured into the hop-
per from big business (outside of
the State at that) seeking to encour-
age the formation of so-called tax-
payers’ associations apparently to
seek economy in government with-
out any consideration to the harm
which may come therefrom.

With legitimate organizations of
people—whether they be called tax-
payers’ associations or what—seek-
ing economy in government, this
Association is in full sympathy and
accord. These organizations are
composed of people of breadth and

knowledge who are reasonable and
seek to have knowledge of the cost
of government. It is the desire of
this Association to cooperate with
these groups and to that end dur-
ing the last two years much time,
effort, money and thought has been
given to obtaining these facts, print-
ing them and making them avail-
able.

We are absolutely convinced that
the bulk of the people of the State
are insistent upon the maintenance
of health, education, safety—to men-
tion a-few of the services in general
terms—upon the maintenance of
economy without curtailment of es-
sential protection. Unfortunately
noisy minorities talk but do not rep-
resent the bulk of the people. We
do not know where the money
comes from to build up the “Tax-
payers’ Federation, Inc.” The time
may come when the Legislature will
be interested in this subject. We note
from other newspaper clippings that
following the suggestion contained
in this newspaper various taxpay-
ers’ associations are in the process
of being formed. Employees of the
State service should participate in
these taxpayers’ associations. ‘They
should take it upon themselves to
see to it that the people meeting un-
der this war cry are adequately and
properly informed and are not mis-
led into advocacy of premises which
are not based upon concrete facts.

On the Subject of Fees

Elsewhere in this issue we include
factual information concerning some
of the fees which are charged for
various services. Some of the fees
are picayune and hardly within the
dignity of the great State of New
York. We would hate to see the
time come when roads, bridges and
hundreds of other similar services
which all the people use would be
subject to petty taxes. We believe
that the State should provide essen-
tial services which benefit all the
people and the source of the pay-
ment should come through the tax
spread over all the people.

While it is true, for instance, that
certain people use the highways

The State Employee
more than others, nevertheless all
the people benefit generally there-
by. The farmer who brings his pro-
duce to market is not only using the
roads for his own good but for the
benefit of all of us.

We did not, however, publish
these fees for this critical comment.
Quite the contrary; this comment is
by the way. We want it to be no-
ticed that a great deal of money
flowing into the State treasury does
not come from direct taxation but
from payment for services rendered.
While, as indicated above, we feel
that the fee system can be overdone,
nevertheless there are certain func-
tions of the State government ben-
fiting some persons directly who
should be required to pay the run-
ning costs of the same. The Asso-
ciation for instance always favored a
fee for civil service competitive ex-
aminations. Many of the depart-
ments through this service are more
than self-sustaining. Under the fi-
nancial system which the State has
set up all moneys are paid into the
treasury and do not go to reimburse
the particular department or office
for the services. Hence we find some
departments are receiving more in
fees than it costs to maintain the de-
partment and this money goes into
the general treasury.

During the budget hearings the
aggregate amount of the budget is
spoken of without regard for the
fact that much of it is paid for from
sources other than taxation.

“Is There a Fifth Column
in State Service?”

On May 27th, 1940, stunned by
the disgraceful and amazing propo-
sals spread over Bulletin Boards in
State Departments at Albany in the
form of a “WAR BULLETIN”
distributed by some mysterious
“YANKS ARE NOT. COMING
COMMITTEE,” your Association
denounced in no uncertain language
the tactics of any and every group
within State service who would mis-
lead or betray their fellow workers
into treacherous “Fifth Column” ac-
tivities. By the prompt action of the
Association, State officials were
warned of the obnoxious influence
of the C, I. O. State, County and
Municipal Workers of America, the
perpetrators of the War Bulletin in
State service. ‘This is the organiza-
tion with the big name and small
membership which admitted spon-

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sorship of the Bulletin. This is the
organization which from its en-
try into membership-proselyting at
twelve dollars per head per annum
in State service has not refrained on
a single occasion from maligning the
30,000 loyal State employees who be-
long to this Association. Every
worthwhile State employment re-
form secured by the Association of
State Civil Service Employees has
been claimed or belittled by this
membership-proselyting, twelve dol-
lar per head group, the SCMWA.
They even claim to have fostered
the Feld-Hamilton Law although
they actually opposed it and sup-
ported a fake salary increase bill.
Their parades and lobbying and
discontent-breeding mimeographed
sheets have robbed civil service em-
ployees of the sympathy of thou-
sands of good men and women who
up to now have failed to understand
the situation. Legislators have not
been slow to declare their antipathy
for the swaggering, unintelligent ac-
tivities of the SCMWA.

Now what is the truth about the
“WAR BULLETIN?” Its instiga-
tors received National publicity by
no less a convicted criminal than
Earl Browder, King of the Com-
munists of America, in his recent
broadcast carried by force of law
and apologized for by Broadcasting
Stations, when he shouted his battle
cry of “THE YANKS ARE NOT
COMING.” That was the name of
the “Committee” which prepared
the “WAR BULLETIN!”

Of course, the SCMWA attempt-
ed a reply and an apology. Did a
State employee visit the Governor's
office to reply? No, a “representa-
tive,” a stranger so far as civil service
is concerned, a man named Allen,

. Feported by the press to be “District

Secretary and Treasurer” of the Or-
ganization, called at the Governor’s
office, and talked with the press.
The “reply” was the same old abu-
sive type common to the SCMWA
since it first sought to delude and
deceive State employees into the
meshes of its vague, nation-wide
group. It contained a belated, half-
way support of real defense mea-
sures. Why did not a State em-
ployee visit the Governor and ex-
plain about the mysterious “YANKS
ARE NOT COMING” Committee?
This Association believes that State
employees can speak for themselves

* and without the intervention of a

stranger. State civil service employ-
ees have no need for “membership”
in any “nation-wide” organization.
They don’t have to talk to the mayor
of Kalamazoo, nor Harry Bridges
in California, nor Earl Browder in
whatever jail he may be. They are
represented by their own fellow
workers who talk to their own Gov-
ernor and their own Legislators and
their own Department heads. They
speak first hand, in the American
way. An American worker and an
American boss don’t need any
stranger go-betweens.

The Association believes that we
will hear no more from any possible
Fifth Columner in New York State
service. We believe that public of-
ficers, State and National, fore-
warned by the Association, will see
to it that the honor of the civil ser-
vice is upheld by as sacred allegiance
to our Country as is required and
given by the military branch. But
the Association will discard none of
its vigilance and none of its respon-
sibility as the employee representa-
tive of the finest civil service body
anywhere in the world.

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Earl Browder, leader of the Com-
munist Party in the United States,
on a nationwide hookup, advocates
the formation of “The Yanks Are
Not Coming Committee.”

The Daily Worker, official Com-
munist newspaper, advocates the
formation of “The Yanks Are Not
Coming Committee.”

The Civil Service Standard, offi-
cial weekly newspaper of the State,
County and Municipal Workers of
America (C..O.), announces the
formation of “The Yanks Are Not
Coming Committee” and carries
propaganda articles following the
Communist party line.

The SCMWA locals throughout
the State announce the formation of
“The Yanks Are Not Coming Com-
mittee” and issued propaganda bul-

letins following the Communist
Party line.

2+2=4
The Communist Party line,

strictly followed by the SCMWA
and its locals, is not limited to the
advocacy of non-intervention in
Eurove. Its cardinal tenet is resist-
ing the militarization and armament
defense program of the Administra-
tion and Congress.

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Story of State Government

CHAPTER VI: THE STATE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT

The following article is the
seventh of a series of articles
on New York State Govern-
ment. This series is in charge
of our Editorial Board Mem-
ber, A. K. Getman of the State
Education Department Staff.
The next article of this series
will be contained in the Sep-
tember issue, when publication
of the magazine is resumed, as
no issues are to be published
during the summer months of
July and August.

bf
Dr. Frank P. Graves
Commissioner of Education

Across the street from the State
Capitol in Albany stands New
York’s most significant public build-
ing. The stranger notes its tall Co-
rinthian columns, the interesting
statuary adorning its entrance, the
spacious corridors and rotunda, its
museum and library, The citizen
sees something more—New York’s
great central school building, the
symbol of the faith of the people of
this State in public education. Un-
consciously, he feels something of
that spirit expressed by Andrew S.
Draper in his address dedicating the
State Education Building:

“This fortunate square, at the
midst of the State’s most exciting
controversies, when self-interest is
tense and reason blinded, shall be
neutral ground. This house shall
know no social, political, or religious
distinctions. It shall be hospitable
and helpful to all. Some one shall
stand in the open door to help all
men and women, all boys and girls,
to the very limits of that individual
self-reliance which is the true es-
sence of American manhood and
womanhood. It shall not aggravate
hatreds. It shall square life with
truth. This building shall stand
upon the foundation principles upon
which our free State rests, and shall
be devoted to the exalted purposes
for which our free State exists. It

Draper, Andrew S., Addresses and
Papers, 1911-1912, State of New York,
Education Department, p. 264.

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shall assure equality of opportunity;
it shall provide the common helps
which the individual can not sup-
ply; it shall aim to adjust the man
to the mass and make the wheels
of the social structure and of the
government organization run truly,
harmoniously, and for resultful
ends. Such a structure, with such
a purpose, is the only kind of in-
strument through which our claims
about the worth of our democracy
can be made good.”

“This building is rooted deep in
our illustrious educational history.”
Tt was the first and with one excep-
tion is still the only building in these
United States devoted exclusively to
the administration of a State school
system.

We are reminded that New York
was the first of the states to establish
an office of chief State school offi-
cial, to create a State board of edu-
cational control, to consolidate all
of its educational functions under
one leadership. From the days of
Alexander Hamilton and George
Clinton to the present, public educa-
tion in New York has had the sup-
port and active leadership of the
ablest men and women of the State.
Its wealth, its population and the
sound character of its experimenta-
tion with new educational ideas
have conspired to make what New
York does in public education im-
portant far beyond its own borders.

From this building on Capitol
Hill lines of influence reach into
every school in the State. Some of
these lines are direct and straight,
others are tenuous and winding. In
this building schools and colleges
are chartered, education laws are
administered and interpreted, school
building plans are approved, State
aid to schools is apportioned, teach-
ers are certificated, members of the
professions are licensed, State schools
and colleges are administered. To
this Building school officials, teach-
ers and citizens turn for counsel and
advice on every question pertaining
to education.

Education Serves Every Citizen

Few realize at how many points
the State Education Department
touches the life of the average cit-

izen. Everyone, of course, knows
that it has general supervision of
public schools of the State with their
two and a quarter million pupils
registered annually, their 81,000
teachers employed, working in 10,-
000 school houses in nearly 8,000
school districts, requiring an annual
expenditure of about one-third of a
billion dollars. Exciting as these fig-
ures are, the supervision of public
schools is only one aspect of the
work of the Department.

Through its Attendance Division,
the Education Department makes
an annual census of all persons in
the State between birth and eighteen
years of age. In this annual census
the Department learns how many of
these children are attending school,
how many are in the home public
school, how many in home private
or parochial schools, how many are
attending elsewhere than in their
home district, how many are not at-
tending, and can tell four years in
advance with a fair degree of accu-
racy how many children will be
available for kindergarten and first
grade enrollment.

Nor does the Department wait
until children knock at the school
door for admittance to begin to be of
service to them through its far-
flung educational system. Through
the Bureau of Child Development
and Parent Education, resources
have been organized for the educa-
tion of parents in child development.
Much of this instruction is given by
educated women who have obtained
special training in this field and
who give their services without
charge to the State: last year more
than 1,000 women enrolled in
courses to prepare them for “lay
leadership” in parent education.
Annually 12,000 to 15,000 young
mothers take advantage of lay
courses in child development and
education for parents.

Also, the Bureau of Parent Edu-
cation and Child Development
works in close cooperation with the
New York State Congress of Pa-
rents and Teachers and with the
United Parents Association of New
York City. Through these two
large, growing and important lay

The State Employee
groups, the schools are coming into
ever closer association with the home
in the guidance of growing children.

From its organization in 1784, the
Board of Regents has been charged
with chartering secondary schools
and colleges. More recently the
Legislature has directed the State
Education Department to register
all private elementary schools.
Through the exercise of this respon-
sibility the Department protects chil-
dren and youth from danger of ex-
ploitation by selfish or ignorant
pseudo-educational individuals or
groups.

homes or who from other cause may
be wards of the State. It administers
directly the schools for education of
the Indian children on the reserva-
tions.

Through its Rehabilitation Divi-
sion, the ‘Department provides an-
nually for the re-education of hun-
dreds of men and women who have
been incapacitated through accident
in industry. Through the State Li-
brary it provides books printed in
the Braille system for the blind.

Beyond its program of elementary
and secondary education, the State
of New York offers many educa-

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GRADUATES

New York State High Schools

Each symbol represents |O thousand graduates:

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Although the birthrate has decreased, the percentage of pupils entering
and graduating from high school continues to increase. From 1910 to 1935
high school enrollments in New York State increased 372 per cent, and high
school graduates increased 632 per cent. Slowly but gradually New York
moves toward the ideal expressed in the free school act of 1842, “a school free
and available to every person between the ages of five and twenty-one.”
A GENERATION OF EDUCATION. New York State Education Depart-

ment, 1939,

New York is among the forefront
of the states in its service to youth
who are physically, mentally or so-
cially handicapped. Through its Bu-
reau for the Education of the Phys-
ically Handicapped, the Education
Department encourages the organ-
ization of classes, helps school offi-
cials arrange for the better education
of the crippled, those suffering
from lack of hearing or vision, and
supervises the State schools for the
blind and the deaf. The Education
Department cooperates with the So-
cial Welfare Department in the edu-
cation of children from broken

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tional opportunities at public ex-
pense, in whole or in part, for youth
beyond the secondary school grade.
It provides 3,000 scholarships annu-
ally for those youth who make the
best records on Regents examina-
tions in secondary schools. It ad-
ministers twenty-six State schools
and colleges, including the two
teachers colleges at Buffalo and Al-
bany, the nine State normal schools,
the College of Ceramics at Alfred,
the College of Forestry at Syracuse,
the College of Veterinary Science,
the College of Agriculture, the Col-
lege of Home Economics at Cornell

University, the State Agriculture
Experiment Station at Geneva, the
six State agricultural schools, and
the Merchant Marine Academy.

Through its Adult Education Bu-
reau, the Department cooperates
with local school boards and other
educational organizations in estab-
lishing and maintaining schools and
classes for adults, particularly for
aliens, non-English speaking  for-
eigners, foreign-born and native il-
literates and others who need train-
ing in the common branches or the
high school subjects for immediate
jobs or for entrance to professional
and technical schools,

Outside of the professions, few
realize that no one can practice in
any one of the following professions
unless he or she first obtains a cer-
tificate or license through the State
Education Department: medicine,
dentistry, pharmacy, nursing, veter-
inary medicine, optometry, certified
public accounting, certified short-
hand reporting, architecture, profes-
sional engineering and land survey-
ing, and podiatry. Again if any
practitioner in any one of these
professions violates the statutory pro-
visions governing the practice, his
license may be revoked by the head
of the State Education Department.
Thus the citizen is protected against
the quack, the charlatan, and the
grossly incompetent.

Among the older divisions of the
State Education Department are the
State Library and the State Museum.
‘The former. established in 1818, was
designated by statute as “a public
library for the use of the govern-
ment and people of this State.” The
State Library serves those who work
in the Education Department, the
students of the schools and colleges
of the Capital District, and indivi-
duals from far and near who come
to Albany for study and research.
Not only does the Library maintain
five large well directed reading
rooms but it administers a constant-
ly growing Statewide circulation of
books and an ever increasing cor-
respondence service concerning
books. It provides book information
service in general to institutions and
to individuals throughout the State,
Tt has an outstanding collection now
numbering more than 100,000 items
of the public documents of federal

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and State government, of cities,
counties and villages in New York
State; and, probably, the largest
single stock of New York State
documents from which it makes
free distribution of appropriate
items to libraries, schools and insti-
tutions in New York State. It main-
tains and administers the State’s
- largest and most important collec-
tion of maps, manuscripts and ar-
chives,

The State Museum had its origin
in the State Geological Survey au-
thorized by the Legislature April 9,
1836. This became the State Cabinet
of Natural History in 1845 and in
1870 evolved into the State Museum
of Natural History. In the unifica-
tion Act of 1904 the Museum was
made a division of the State Educa-
tion Department. True to its origin,
it has continued the work of the
State geological and natural history
survey begun more than a hundred
years ago. It has made extensive
study of the mineral deposits in the
State including salt, limestone, clays,
iron ores, zinc ores, sands and grav-
els and similar mineral resources. It
has studied injurious and beneficial
plants and animals. The Museum
publications have been distributed
to public libraries, schools and col-
leges throughout the State and
through their distribution to other
states have brought an exchange of
valuable publications for the use of
students and citizens of this State.
The State Museum cooperates with
other State Departments. Its geolo-
gists advise in the purchase of land
for State parks or forest preserves.
It collaborates with the State De-
partment of Agriculture in their re-
search to improve insect quarantine;
with the Department of Conserva-
tion in its forest pest work, and with
the Federal Bureau of the Census in
collecting and publishing mineral
statistics of the State. The Museum
distributes information to citizens
and corporations on the various geo-
logical and biological resources of
the State.

The Museum exhibits in Albany
are visited annually by hundreds of
thousands, With the growth of
centralization of schools and the in-
creased transportation of pupils,
schools throughout the State send
classes to study in the State Museum.

The Division of Archives and His-
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State through its direction of his-
toric observances, its supervision of
the erection of historic markers, and
its provision of official historical in-
formation for legislature, State de-
partments, local governmental agen-
cies, schools, study clubs and libra-
ries. It has edited and published
many volumes and pamphlets of
New York archives and history. Sig-
nificant among these are the Wil-
liam Johnson Papers, Minutes of the
Albany Committee of Correspon-
dence, Court Minutes of the Dutch
Period, American Revolution in

of the State have called upon their
Education Department to adminis-
ter. These are suggestive only, sub-
mitted by way of illustration. ‘Those
who work in the State Education
Department sometimes wonder
what the people of this State in the
next decade or the next century will
require of education. It was not al-
ways thus.

To trace the growth of the State
Education Department, let us turn
back the pages of history to 1904,
the date of the Unification Act,
when the Regents’ system and the

A one room school that was closed through the creation of the Water-
ville Central Rural District. Under the provisions of the central rural school
law, a common school can be closed only by the majority vote of the quali-
fied citizens of the district. Since 1925, the people have voted to incorporate
more than 3,500 common school districts into central rural districts.

New York, Sullivan-Smith Cam-
paign in 1779 and Washington's
Relations to New York State. It has
helped to organize a system of lo-
cal record keeping that will enable
the citizens of the future to obtain
a clearer understanding of what the
present generation has aspired to
and accomplished.
The Rapid Growth of Education
To really visualize the State Edu-
cation Department of the present,
one needs to see it in perspective.
In the foregoing pages we have at-
tempted to sketch briefly a few of
the many functions which the people

State Department of Public Instruc-
tion were brought under one uni-
fied control headed by a Board of
Regents empowered to select a Com-
missioner of Education to serve at
the Board’s pleasure. Under the re-
organization of the Department in
1904, in addition to the State Li-
brary and the State Museum, the
Department was organized into five
bureaus later known as divisions—
Attendance, Examinations, Inspec-
tions, Law, and Visual Instruction.
The three major divisions embracing
all of these were known as the Ele-
mentary, Secondary, and Higher

The State Employee
Education, and were headed respec-
tively by Assistant Commissioners.

When the Department moved
into its new building on Washing-
ton Avenue in 1912, the entire De-
partment staff was approximately
250 persons. In 1940 this same staff
totals more than 700, Why the in-
crease? The answer lies in the ever
expanding work assigned to the De-
partment by the people of the State.

Since 1904 the State has created
boards of examiners and has placed
them under the direction of the
State Education Department for the
following professions: pharmacy,
optometry, certified shorthand re-
porting, architecture, professional
engineering and land surveying, os-
teopathy, physiotherapy, chiropody
and oral hygiene.

that rural schools needed more pro-
fessional supervision than could be
given by the school commissioners
elected by popular vote. This real-
ization of need culminated in the
creation of the office of district su-
perintendent of schools effective Jan-
uary 1, 1912. As the schools began
to take on new functions and the
methods and content of education
changed rapidly, district superinten-
dents in ever increasing measure
looked to the State Education De-
partment for counsel and advice and
gradually came to request that there
be created in the Department a bu-
reau or division, whose primary re-
sponsibility would be the supervi-
sion of rural schools, In response to
this demand, the bureau of rural
education was created in September,

The Cazenovia Central Rural District includes the former Cazenovia
Union Free School, the Erieville Union Free School and ten common school
districts. It provides a modern educational program through kindergarten,
elementary and secondary grades. Here is the kind of educational program
New York hopes to provide for all of its children.

In 1921 the State created the mo-
tion picture commission charged
with the responsibility of censoring
all films being displayed commer-
cially in this State. In 1927 the
commission was abolished and the
function transferred to the State
Education Department with the
creation of the new Motion Picture
Division.

In 1909 the Divisions of History
and Public Records were established
and in 1911 were combined as a
single division in the Education De-
partment.

Soon after the Unification Act
in 1904 the State began to realize

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1923, and was later expanded to a
division charged not only with su-
pervision of the work of district su-
perintendents, but with the organi-
zation of central rural schools and
the supervision of the even increas-
ing function of transportation of
pupils.

In 1908 in response to the grow-
ing demands of farm organizations
and industry for a more practical
education of youth applying for em-
ployment, the Department created
the Division of Trade and Agricul-
tural Schools. In the next ten years
this service grew slowly, but with
the ending of the World War the

rapid expansion of industry caused
this division to grow by leaps and
bounds. As early as 1910 the agri-
cultural interests of the State sup-
ported the Department in obtaining
the services of a competent super-
visor of agricultural education. In
1914 the State employed a super-
visor of home economics instruction
in order to satisfy the requests of
schools for competent advice and di- *
rection in education for home mak-
ing. In 1915 the State had begun
to realize the dangers to democracy
inherent in the large bodies of un-
assimilated peoples of foreign birth
and allegiance. This resulted in the
appointment of a supervisor of eve-
ning schools and classes for illit-
erates. Soon after the war this work
grew into the Bureau of Adult Edu-
cation. The enactment of the federal
vocational rehabilitation act of 1920
found ready response in New York
State which created the Division of
Rehabilitation for the re-education
of persons injured in industry. The
growing sensitivity of our people to
the need of all those suffering from
physical handicaps found expression
in the creation of the Bureau for the
Education of Physically Handi-
capped Children in 1926, following
a State-wide investigation of the
need by a competent legislative
commission. Similarly, the desire
of industry and business to profit
from the growing techniques and
methods developed in education led
to the creation of a Bureau of In-
dustrial Service in 1925, to assist
corporations and other groups in
the educational direction of employ-
ces in service.

The growing interest of the
people of the State in the proper
housing of school children led to
the creation of the Bureau of School
Buildings and Grounds in 1916,
With the rapid expansion of the
school plant during the early twen-
ties, this bureau was increased to a
division and is now charged with ex-
ercising the Commissioner's respon-
sibility for the approval of all school
building construction in school dis-
tricts of under 50,000 population,
During the twenties the total annual
cost of school building construction
in school districts and cities having
less than 50,000 population frequent-
ly amounted to $25,000,000 or more.

In 1912 the people of the State
had come to realize the preventive

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aspects of medicine, and to under-
stand that it is more important to
help children keep well than to cure
them after they became ill. In re-
sponse to this growing understand-
ing, the function of school medical
inspection was transferred from the
State Health Department to the
State Education Department in
1913, The National Selective Ser-
vice Act passed with America’s en-
try to the World War disclosed an
almost unbelievable percentage of
physical defects in the youth of the
nation. To correct this fault the
Legislature enacted the Physical
Education Law making it compul-
sory for the Board of Regents to re-
quire adequate physical instruction
for all children above the age of
eight years in all schools of the
State.

To bring about a better coordi-
nation of services required under
the Medical Inspection act and the
Physical Education law, the Re-
gents later created the Division of
Health and Physical Education
whose work touches every child in
the public and private schools of
the State from the age of entrance
until the date of leaving school. As
the years have passed, the work of
this Division has expanded to in-
clude such new features as educa-
tion for safety.

Prior to 1915 there developed a
wide-spread interest in scientific
measurement as a means of improv-
ing the processes of teaching and
learning. The use of psychological
examinations in the World War ma-
terially increased the public interest
in the use of standard psychological
tests. Following the war, the Edu-
cation Department received so many
requests for help in this new area
of public education that the Com-
missioner and Regents created the
office and appointed a specialist in
educational measurements. This was
the beginning of the Department’s
interest in and service through re-
search. In 1923 the office of special-
ist was changed to the Bureau of
Educational Measurements, and in
1928 the Bureau was enlarged to a
division with its director responsible
primarily to the Commissioner of
Education. In 1937 the Regents fur-
ther recognized the status of re-
search by creating the office of As-
sistant Commissioner of Research.
The research staff conducts such

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studies, surveys and investigations
as may be assigned or approved by
the Commissioner, assists other ad-
ministrative divisions of the Depart-
ment and officials of schools and col-
leges of the State in conducting spe-
cial investigations and studies, and
helps to stimulate and coordinate
the research in education through-
out the State.

In 1920 the people of the State
of New York had begun to realize
that a new and different emphasis
needed to be placed upon the edu-
cation of teachers and that drastic
action was needed to recruit the
teaching staff of public schools from
among the more intelligent and
competent young people leaving
schools and colleges. ‘To meet this
demand for a continually improving
staff the Commissioner and the Re-
gents created the Bureau of Teacher
Training and Certification in 1925,
and a year later changed the Bureau
to a Division with its director re-
sponsible primarily to the Commis-
sioner of Education. Later this office
was elevated to the status of an as-
sistant commissioner directly respon-
sible to the Commissioner. This of-
fice exercises general supervision
over all departments, schools and
colleges contributing to the educa-
tion of teachers and exercises all
powers pertaining to the certifica-
tion of teachers which have been
vested in the Commissioner.

One of the fundamental reasons
for creating a chief State school offi-
cial in 1812 was to obtain such sta-
tistical data for the use of the Gov-
ernor and Legislature as might be
needed to shape the educational pol-
icies of the State; naturally such sta-
tistical reporting included the finan-
cial statistics pertaining to the ad-
ministration of education. This in-
cluded keeping and auditing the
accounts of the several State institu-
tions and of the Department itself,
and annual records of the distribu-
tion of State Aid in its various
forms. Prior to 1918, for many
years the State’s share of the total
cost of education had gradually de-
creased until it was somewhat less
than nine per cent of the total. But
beginning with 1919 the State be-
gan to assume an increasingly larger
proportion of the total cost. With
the adoption of the Friedsam report
and the passage of the Cole bills in
1925-1926, it was apparent that the
Commissioner of Education must

needs exercise a greater responsibil-
ity in the management and use of
public funds through the several
thousand subdivisions of the State
school system. In 1921 the Regents
separated the finance function from
the statistical bureau, making the
Bureau of Finance. A few years later
the Bureau was changed to a divi-
sion. With the re-organization of
the State government in 1926 the
Education Department was given fi-
nancial control of the twenty-six
State schools and colleges which
heretofore had rested primarily in
local boards of trustees. Sensing the
greater responsibilities for financial
control developing, the Regents
sought funds from the Legislature
to employ Perrine & Company to
make a thorough survey of the fi-
nancial responsibilities of the State
Education Department. This investi-
gation resulted in the recommenda-
tion that the office of director of
the Division of Finance be increased
to the status of an assistant commis-
sionership, with a staff adequate not
only to thoroughly audit all expendi-
tures of the Department and its con-
stituent schools and colleges but also
to render advisory service to boards
of education in the management of
school funds. The office of Assistant
Commissioner of Finance was cre-
ated in 1928,

The Regents Inquire Into Public
Education

As the Depression which began
in 1929 gradually grew more acute,
the Regents turned to the consider-
ation of a thorough re-examination
of the whole program of public edu-
cation as it had developed in this
State during a period of 150 years.
To this end the Regents sought
funds from oné of the Foundations
for an inquiry into the character and
cost of public education in the State
of New York.

This Inquiry was organized in
1935, began its work in 1936 and be-
gan publishing its reports in late
1938. Its chief findings are epito-
mized in the small volume entitled,
EDUCATION FOR AMERICAN
LIFE. Through association and ar-
ticulation with the work of many
national groups the Inquiry prepared
an excellent statement entitled,
Growing Schools for A Growing
World. Through cooperation of
many representative groups and in-
dividuals throughout the State, the
Inquiry was able to formulate an

The State Employee
excellent statement of, The Schools
New York State Wants. On the
basis of its findings it developed
what it called The New Educational
Program for New York State.

To put this new program into ef-
fect, the Inquiry stressed three ma-
jor elements of administrative pol-
icy. The first of these is popularly
known as completion of the process
of centralizing rural schools. The
Inquiry’s recommendation provided
for a larger central district than most
of those heretofore formed by recog-
nizing that many of the smaller vil-
lage superintendencies now in ex-
istence should be incorporated as
nuclei of central districts. This
would reduce the number of inde-
pendent school districts in the State

about only through the leadership
of the Department staff to that end.
The Inquiry proposed that the
leadership of the Department should
be based primarily upon research
and experimentation, and the stimu-
lation of cooperative endeavor, local
initiative and local responsibility. It
recommended that administration
through rules and regulations should
be reduced and kept to a minimum.

As a first step toward reorganiza-
tion of the Education Department,
the Inquiry recommended that un-
der the Commissioner the staff be
divided into five major divisions,
each to be headed by an associate
commissioner, one of whom, on the
recommendation of the Commis-
sioner should be designated as his

Students working on welding, sheet metal and assembly operations in
the shop of the Syracuse Apprentice School at Syracuse Airport. This school
is one of the few public school shops approved as a repair station by the Civil
Aeronautics Authority. It illustrates how the public school attempts to an-
ticipate the future through serving well the present.

of New York. from about 8,000 to
probably five or six hundred. It
would then be possible for every
boy and girl in the State to live in
a school district where he or she
could attend an adequate school
from kindergarten through the last
year of the senior high school.

The second recommendation of
the Inquiry was directed toward re-
building the State Education De-
partment. This was based on the as-
sumption that the fundamental
changes needed in New York’s edu-
cational system could be brought

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deputy. These five divisions were
to be Law, Research, Public Instruc-
tion, Advanced and Professional
Education, and Finance and Admin-
istration. Under these five associate
commissioners the Department was
to be further reorganized in order to
effectively administer the Depart-
ment’s manifold activities in the
spirit of the principles already brief-
ly referred to.

In 1937 the Regents took the first
step toward effecting this reorgani-
zation by creating three associate
commissionerships respectively for

public instruction, professional and
higher education, and finance and
administration. The chief counsel as
head of the Law Division was con-
tinued as Deputy Commissioner,
and as already noted, the office of
Assistant Commissioner for Re-
search was created.

The third recommendation per-
tained to effecting economies in the
financing of public education. The
Inquiry advised that the present sys-
tem of State aid to schools is sound
and should be continued, and that
the State should continue to bear
approximately one-third the total
cost of public education. After ex-
haustive study, they concluded that
certain educational functions now
being rendered may be reduced or
ultimately abandoned, providing cer-
tain other functions shall be under-
taken. Their studies showed that in
terms of cost these tended to about
cancel each other, so that while there
is little hope of obtaining any large
reduction in the cost of education,
through careful economies it may be
possible to materially improve the
scope and function of public educa-
tion without greatly increasing the
cost. The Inquiry also advised that
when the process of centralization
or re-districting is completed, it
should then be possible to make
such studies as would enable the
State to further refine the formulas
governing the distribution of State
Aid to schools,

The Education Department Faces
the Future

In certain respects, the most fun-
damental problem facing the educa-
tional system of the State is the ob-
taining of such a reorganization of
school districts as will enable every
child in the State to live in a dis-
trict wherein he may obtain an ade-
quate education through elementary
and secondary grades at least ex-
pense to the State. With the many
increasing demands being made
upon its youth, New York can no
longer afford to continue the luxury
of maintaining more than 7,000
small incompetent, utterly inade-
quate school districts.

A second problem confronting
the Department was crystallized in
a statute, passed by the last Legis-
lature and approved by the Gov-
ernor directing the Commissioner
of Education to apportion annually

seventy-five per cent of the total
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State Aid provided by law to each
of the several school districts of the
State and as much of the remaining
twenty-five per cent as “he may find
necessary for the proper and efficient
operation of the schools therein and
the maintenance of adequate educa-
tional standards.” This law places
such power in the office of the Com-
missioner of Education as has never
been placed in the office of any head
of any State educational system in
the United States. His responsibility
is to administer this law in such
manner as to gradually eliminate
waste, ill-considered expenditure,
and extravagance in the use of pub-
lic funds. At the same time, in order
to maintain the tradition of New
York State, and the virtue of local
initiative and control, the Commis-
sioner must avoid the promulgation
of rule or regulation that will tend
to break down local initiative, to
deaden the feeling of local respon-
sibility and to weaken the faith of
the public in its schools.

The Foundation of the Republic

The State Education Building
houses more than a department of
government, more than an organiza-
tion of services to the people of the
State. As Draper said nearly thirty
years ago, it “stands upon the foun-
dation principles upon which our
free State rests, and shall be devoted
to the exalted purposes for which
our free State exists.”

It is the function of education to
help a people cherish rich memories
and to visualize a far future.
Through two thousand years men
have struggled toward the ideals ex-
pressed in the Declaration of Inde-
pendence, the Preamble to the Con-
stitution, and the Gettysburg Ad-
dress. These truths we hold to be
self-evident, are a priceless heritage.
They shall not perish from the earth.
As the tragedy being enacted in the
Old World reverberates in the New,
the American public school sets it-
self to the task of perpetuating the
best in America’s heritage, of build-
ing for a better way of life than has
been yet anywhere seen. This is the
hope of democracy, the foundation
of the Republic.

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Safety For Life and Property

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more human beings before we are
ready to exercise self-restraint, cau-
tion and common courtesy on the
streets and highways?

Every operator has an obligation
to the cause of safety. Nor will
there ever be material and perma-
nent improvement in the traffic ac-
cident problem until there is a more
widespread acceptance of this truth.

What can you do?

You can adopt a driving creed
which combines common sense,
courtesy, caution and consideration
for others with obedient respect for
every traffic regulation, local and
State. Then you will be making a

very real contribution to public
safety,

Here are a few suggestions for
your driving creed:

Limit driving speeds to condi-
tions. The weather, the type of road,
the density of traffic, the presence
of pedestrians—these should be con-
sidered. Speed breeds more violent
deaths on the highways than any
other cause, Except in cases of rare
emergencies, speed is neither neces-
sary nor excusable.

Drive at all times in a manner so
that you can come to a complete
stop in the assured clear distance
ahead. This is particularly impor-
tant at night, when you should
never drive beyond the range of
your headlights. Slow down after
sundown.

Switch to the lower beam of your
headlights when meeting cars at
night—and don’t blast the other
operator with your high beam if he
refuses to return the courtesy.

Form the habit of giving intelli-
gent hand signals. Give them suffi-
ciently in advance of intended turns
or stops to warn the other fellow—
and once having given a signal,
don’t change your mind.

Retard your speed upon approach-
ing intersections and show pedes-
trians the same consideration you
expect from drivers when you are
walking. Be especially on the alert
for children and elderly people.

Don’t drive when excessively tired
and never drive after drinking, even

if you feel that you are in full com-
mand of your faculties.

Don’t permit yourself to become
irritable if you can’t make the time
you feel you should be making in
heavy traffic. Impatience causes
countless accidents. Be a sportsman-
like operator.

Respect the traffic laws and the
rules of the road. They are for
YOUR protection.

Keep your car always roadworthy.
Periodically check your tires, brakes,
head and tail-lights, horn and wind-
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The State Employee
Dr. Graves Retires

Dr. Frank P. Graves, Commis-
sioner of Education for the past
nineteen years, retires July 1. Mem-
bers of the State Education Depart-
ment honored him Wednesday eve-
ning, June 19th, at a gala celebra-
tion which included presentation of
an oil portrait of the Commissioner,
a dramatic sketch of his academic
life, vocal and instrumental music
and a reception.

‘The painting by Ellen E, Rand of
New York City, widely-known ar-
tist, was unveiled by John and
“Peter” Whitridge, grandsons of the
Commissioner. Dr. George M. Wi-
ley, honorary chairman, presided at
the first part of the program, which
was conducted in Chancellors Hall.

“DR. FRANK P. GRAVES”
By Exten E. Rano

The party began with a chorus by
women of the Department which
served as a prelude to the Playcraft-
ers’ dramatic offering, “Frank Pier-
repont Graves.” Through the ve-
hicle of song the women depicted
the Commissioner's early life. His
scholastic and educational career was
depicted by the actors who were
directed by Dr. Irwin A. Conroe.

A quartet composed of William
K. Wilson, Mrs. Porter Howard,
James Seay and Mrs. Barbara Nev-
erla rendered instrumental music.

William J. Wallin, vice chancel-
lor of the Regents, delivered an ap-

June

preciation of the Commissioner's
services on behalf of the governing
body of the State’s educational sys-
tem. On behalf of the staff of the
Department, Dr. J. Cayce Morrison
presented a testimonial. Dr. Graves
briefly and modestly responded to
the honors heaped upon him.

The more than 600 members of
the Department and guests con-
ducted the reception to Dr. Graves
and Mrs. Graves in the rotunda,
which has been the scene of many
colorful ceremonies in connection
with convocations of the Regents
and presentations of famous per-
sonages who have visited the city.

Dr. Graves is a native of Brook-
lyn, He received his early educa-
tion in local schools and at the
Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, later
going to Columbia. He became the
first “youngest college president”
when he became head of the Uni-
versity of Washington. Before re-
turning to New York he served as
professor and dean of education at
several institutions of learning.

So many colleges have granted
him academic honors that he long
ago became a close runner up for
that prodigy of hoods, Dr. Nicholas
Murray Butler.

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Special Services of the State

AND RECEIPTS THEREFROM

Little does the average citizen realize the number of
“Special Services” rendered individuals or groups by
the various State Departments and agencies. These so-
called “Special Services” are in addition to the numer-
ous general governmental services about which the
Association is attempting to familiarize citizens through
the series of articles carried in this and previous issues
titled “The Story of State Government.” While the
“Special Services,” in line with regular governmental
services, have the protection of citizens generally as
their ultimate objective, they do deal directly with some
special group desiring to supply the public with pro-
fessional or industrial services. Certainly the examina-
tion and licensing of physicians, dentists, or nurses pro-
tects the public, but they likewise serve the professions
involved. Surely the investments of the public in insur-
ance companies and banks must be protected, through
periodic and careful examination of these institutions.
The public wish to be sure that the food they buy is
pure and as labeled, that the milk they drink is handled
under sanitary conditions, that they get their full
weights and measures. The State cares for these mat-
ters, as well,as many others of similar variety.

On April 6, 1938, Governor Lehman approved a
legislative measure which authorized the Director of
the Budget to make a thorough and comprehensive
study and survey .of all special services rendered and
performed by the State for the benefit of some but not
all of the people of the State and of all miscellaneous
receipts of the State, including but not limited to fees
for examinations, licenses, printed material and special
privileges, but excluding taxes and excises. This survey
was to be made with the view of ascertaining the na-
ture and extent of these special services, the persons
benefited thereby, the feasibility of making such ser-
vices wholly or partially self-supporting, the adequacy
of such miscellaneous receipts and the advisability of
imposing upon those benefited, all or part of the cost
of the services rendered and of devising methods and
means of drafting appropriate legislation therefor.

Pursuant to this new statute (Chapter 529 of the
Laws of 1938), Director of the Budget Abraham S.
Weber, organized a research staff and surveyed the
matter in an efficient and thorough manner. His find-
ings were reported in a series of legislative documents
(1939) Nos. 73, and 73A to 73P, which deal separately
with the special services rendered by the various de-
partments. Robert S. Craig was
Research Staff detailed by the Di
to make the survey. Charles H. Foster was Assistant
Chief and John Daniels, Jr., Charles E. Johnson, Car-
roll S. Hinman, Richard H. Mattox, Andrew Nie-
porent and Francis B. Thurber, III, constituted the
staff. Legal Counsel was Seymour Ellenbogen. William
E. Hannan, Librarian of the Legislative Reference Sec-
tion of the New York State Library was in charge of
Special Legislative Research.

Tt was found that many special services rendered

148

were paid for in full through licenses or fees charged
those benefiting from the service Many services bene-
fiting particular individuals, however, were not self-
supporting, and in his report to the Legislature, Di-
rector Weber suggested numerous possible additional
revenues to the State which would make these special
services self-supporting. One finding submitted for con-
sideration was incorporated into law by the Legislature
in 1939 and provided payment of graduated fees by
citizens desiring to take competitive civil service ex-
aminations, the amount of the fee depending on the
salary of the position to be filled.

The Legislature of 1940 adopted a number of pro-
posals contained in the Report of the Budget Director
on Special Services. In the Department of Agriculture
and Markets, the fee for renewal of stallion enrollment
was increased from $1 to $2, the fee for cattle dealers
license was increased from $5 to $6, the imposition of
fees equal to the actual computed cost of farm market
inspection, and the imposition of fees equal to the
computed cost of inspection and certification of nar-
cissus bulbs, nurseries, raspberry plants, nursery deal-
ers and plants. The estimated revenue anticipated to-
taled $88,450.

In the State Department of Conservation, the Legis-
lature imposed a fee of 25c a day for each party of
four or less occupying a camping space at a public
camp site, and 25c a day parking fee, and also im-
posed a fee of 10c for admission to historic sites under
jurisdiction of the Conservation Department. $119,000
revenue was expected from this source, Several new
fees were imposed or increased in the Department of
Education. Fee for original license for a private trade
school was increased from $25 to $50, and annual re-
newal fee from $10 to $20 annual, renewal fee for corres-
pondence was increased from $10 to 20. A fee of $3
was imposed for teacher’s certificates, public librarian’s
and school librarian’s; also a $50 charge for the use
of Chancellors Hall, and the fees for qualifying certifi-
cates for admission to professional schools and for spe-
cial examinations in English were increased. The in-
creased revenue in the Education Department was ex-
pected to total $52,800.

Several new fees were imposed in the Department
of Health. $6 for registration on entering upon an
embalming or an embalming and undertaking appren-
ticeship; $3 for registration on entering upon an under-
taking apprenticeship; $25 for certificate of approval
of a school of embalming and undertaking; $15 license
fee for unincorporated maternity hospitals and homes
of less than four bed capacity and $25 where capacity
is more than four beds. The estimated revenue is
$4,375.

The Legislature also decided to assess insurance
companies for the cost of operating the State Insur-
ance Department, including indirect costs, in addition
to the present fees and refunds collected. This estimated
revenue amounted to $115,000.

The State Employee
The fee for boiler inspection by the State Labor De-
partment was increased to $12, and each hydrostatic
test $5, which would produce an estimated $26,500. The
fee for surveys of private land by the Department of
Public Works was increased to cover the actual and
indirect cost.

The following statement of receipts of licenses and
fees for the fiscal year 1938-39 is contained in the Con-
densed Financial Report of the Comptroller of the
State of New York:

Licenses:
Agriculture and Markets:
Feeding stuffs, wholesalers and

retailers $ 59,715.00
Dog licen: 103,258.01
Milk licenses 118,577.00
All others 67,165.49
Conservation 374.00
Health .. 55,719.00
Insurance:
Brokers licenses . 344,141.00
All others .... 140,059.00
State:
Real estate brokers and salesmen. 176,643.06
State Athletic Commission 24,706.29
All others ..... 53,571.75
Taxation and Finance. 81,750.63
Labor:
Division of Bedding. 167,646.78
All others... 43,840.00
Public Works . 1,758.00
Total licenses .... --$1,438,925.01
Education $480,338.68
Judiciary ..... 5,118.45
Agriculture and Markets. 2.50
Audit and Control. 1,290.98
Law ..... 8,281.50
Banking. ........ 39,964.90
Conservation... 13.00
Correction 929.00
Health . 5,084.59
Insurance 26,083.60
Labor ....... 28,440.76
Mental Hygiene 3,164.29
Public Service 102,717.56
Public Works . 157.85
State . 987,552.13
Taxation and Financ 93,384.50
Executive .... 2,137.62
Social Welfare .. 735
"Total Be08 sescascsowees - $1,784,036.26
Total fees and licenses. .. $3,222,961.27

The Statement of Miscellaneous Revenues for State
Departments as contained in the Comptroller’s Report
was:

Revenues of General Department
Licenses ~$1,438,925.01
Fees .... 1,784,036.26
Board of Inmates of General Institutions 3,267,768.02
Fines, penalties and forefeitures. 502,294.41

June

1,012,511.73
253,119.88
Material, supplies and equipment. 161,963.53
Books, laws and documents. 41,822.44
Farm and garden products. 25,316.77
Gifts and unclaimed property... 840,237.42
Total ..... +--$9,327,995.47
Sundry General Revenues:
Interest on bank balances, net $ 95,592.70
Subventions and grants..... 50,558.89
Revenues of trust funds for educa-
tional purposes . 400,695.27
Premiums and interest on sales
of bonds 34,000.00
Miscellaneous 396.54
§ 581,243.40

aminations, etc.

880,934.73
Refunds of expenses,

aminations, Ct... 378,683.58
Refunds of expenses, labor admin-
istration expenses 1,472,165.96
Refunds of expenses, grade-crossing
elimination ........ 612,435.92
Refunds of expenses, all others. . 935,830.70
Refunds of appropriation advances........ 1,018,353.08
Judgments, damages and restitutions... 42,701.36
Total .. $5,341,105.39
Lands, buildings ‘and property sold 39,432.49

Total Miscellaneous Revenues... $15,289,776.75
The following is a detailed list of the principal spe-
cial services of the State Departments, showing the li-
cense fees or other charges and the receipts therefrom
for the fiscal year of 1937-1938, as contained in the Re-
port of the Director of the Budget to the Legislature:
Application Fee,

License, Fee, Revenue
Annual or Fiscal Year

Special Service Renewal Fee 1937-38
HEALTH DEPARTMENT:
Licenses of Embalmers and Undertakers (Applica-

tion Fee $5; License Fee $10, Annual License

$2, Place of Business License, Annual $1)... 33.238.00
Registration of Laboratories (Annual Registration

Fee $1) ...... 623.00
Sale of. Serum. 2,244.08
Transcripts and Searches. 4,294.39
Marriage Licenses (State’s Share 10%)... 30,967.00
Sale of Publications. 73.06
Registration and Chartering of Private Secondary

Schools (Registration Fee $20, Charter Fee $10) 220.00
Licensing and Approving Correspondence Schools

(Original Certificate $50, Renewal of Same $10) 400.00
Licensing and Approving Private ‘Trade Schools

(Original License $25, Renewal of Same $10) 5,000.00
Issuance of Qualifying Certificate (Each Issuance

$l). - , 9,149.00

11,216.00

Dental Registration (Regis. Fee $2: 20,832.00
Dental Hygiene Examination (Exam. 1,500.00
Dental Hygiene Registration (Regis. Fee §1)........ 1,048.00

(Continued on page 150)

49

Special Services and Receipts

(Continued from page 149)
ee and Surveyor Examination (Exam. Fee

Engineer and Surveyor Registration (Re;
$1

Land Surveyor Examination (Exam. Fee $10).
Medical Examination (Exam. Fee $25)...
Medical Registration (Regis. Fee $2)
Osteopath Registration (Regis. Fee $

os
Physiotherapy Examination (Exam. Fee $25)
Physiotherapy Reuistration (Res. Fee $2)
Nurse Examination (Exam. Fee $10)
Nurse Registration (Regis. Fee $l)

Trained Attendant Registration (Regis. Fee §1)..
Pharmacy Examination (Exam. Fee $10)
Phamacist Registration (Regis. Fee $1)
Pharmacy Apprentice (Fee $1)...
Registration of Pharmacies (Fee $2).....
Pharmacy Storekeeper Permit (Fee $5)...
Optometry Certificate (Fee $10)...
Optometry Examination (Exam. Fee $15).
Optometry Registration (Regis. Fee $2)
Architect Examination (Exam. Fee $25)
Architect Registration (Regis. Fee $2)
Podiatry Examination (Exam. Fee $25)
Podiatry Registration (Regis. Fee $2).
Certified Public Accounting Examination (Exam.
Fee $25) .
Certified Public Accounting, Copartnership Certifi-
cate (Certificate Fee $5)...
Certified Shorthand Reporting Examination &
am. Fee $25)
Veterinary Examination (Exam. ee $10).
Veterinary Registration (Regis. Fee si).
‘Teachers Certifications (No Charge)...
Librarians Certifications (No Charge)
Motion Picture Fees.....
Rent of Chancellors Hall (Daily $15)..
PUBLIC SERVICE DEPARTMENT:
Assessments on Public Utility Groups, etc., for In-
vestigations, Examinations of Reports, ete...
Filing Fees:
Tariffs ......
‘Annual Reports
Securities
Petitions ..
Sale of Books
Report Forms ...
Uniform Systems of Accounts ..
Papers, Documents and Certifications.
Commission's Annual Report.
Meter-testing Fees
Miscellancous
BANKING DEPARTMENT:
Refund to the State for Expenses in Examinations
of Banks .....
Fees, Pamphlets, Service Process, etc.
Licensed Lenders (Application Fee $50, License
Fee $100)
Foreign Agencies (Fees)
Investigation Fees .......
STATE DEPARTMENT:
Sale of the “State Bulletin,” “Legislative Manual,
Annual Department Report, ctc.......
Sale of Certified Copies of Laws, Electrio Pam-
phlets, Election Statements, etc. ...
Filing of Trade Marks, Mining Claims, Hotel Re.
istrations, Trust Statements, etc........
Filing Fees, Certifications and Miscellaneous Re-
ccipts Relative to Incorporations.
Real ae Brokers and Salesmen (Licenses $10
Linensing of Billiard and Pocket Billiard Rooms
($5 per Table).
Private Detective License ($200 to $300).
‘Theatre Ticket Agents (License Fee $25)...
‘Theatre Ticket Branch Offices (License Fee $50).

150

58,875.00

13,224.00
2,240.00
42,600.00
44,266.00
892.00
150.00
796.00
20,900.00
37,370.00
6,285.00
529.09
114.00
6,760.00
14,307.00

42,740.00
30.00

325.00
480.00
873.00

304,073.83
435.00

893,079.55

14,620.00
4,055.00
55,287.04
3,580.09

546.86
1,083.55
2,385.80

560.00

992.50

503.56

865,045.00
500.00

28,000.00

7,250.00
700.00

17,333.44
1,840.72
17,389.98
795,637.30
179,668.02
9,995.00
31,400.00

8,400.00
3,030.00

Steamship Ticket Agents.

Lands Under Water and rants, i Gonnecson

with State Owned Lai
Fess in Connection with Stats Racing’ Gocnraisesa
Athletic Corporations Fees..
Boxer’s License (Annual Fee $5)
Second’s License (Annual Fee $5).
Wrestler's License (Annual Fee $5)
Manager's License (Annual Fee $15).
Referce’s License (Annual Fee $25)
Judge’s License (Annual Fee $25)
Physician's License (Annual Fee $25
Matchmaker’s License (Annual Fee $25
Timekeeper's License (Annual Fee $5)
Box Office Employee's License (Annual Fee $10)
Corporation Treasurer License (Annual Fee $25)
Doorman’s License (Annual Fee $5).
Ticket Taker's License (Annual Fee $5
Usher's License (Annual Fee $5)
Trainer's License (Annual Fee $5).

INSURANCE DEPARTMENT:

Insurance Adjuster (License Fee $25)...

Insurance Broker (/

Insurance Agent

Refunds to State for Expenses in Examining In-
surance Companies...

Filing Annual Statement of Insurance Company
(Fee $5 to $50)...

Issuing of Certificate of Author
Companies (Fee $1 to $300)

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR:
Inspection of Boilers (Fee $5)
Homework Inspection (Fee $25 to $100)...
Collection of Unpaid Wages (Charge 5%).
Factory and Mercantile Inspection.....
Inspection and Certification of Places of Public
Assembly ccc
Licensing Magazines Containing Explosives. “(fee
$5 wo $25)
Sale of Publications (Various)...
Inspection of Immigrant Lodging Houses
$5 to $25) coon
Inspection of Company Stores and Labor Camps
(Fee $50) ...
Sale of Phsedie (Fee 15¢ to 25¢ cal
60c per full page)...

bisa 70 al AGRICULTURE AND

to Insurance

0 words,

Raieagretacs Un Tease
Feeding Ss Stuff Licenses (Retailers $10, Wholesalers
Fertilizer Licenses (License Fee $20)
Commission Merchants Licenses (License Fee $10)
Manufacturers of Frozen Desserts Licenses

(Wholesalers $50, Retailers $2)...

Cold Storage Licenses (Warchouses $25," Fruits
and Vegetables $10)........

Cannery Licenses (License Fee $10).

Milk Dealers Licenses.......

Soil and Plant Inoculation Licenses (License Fee

$10) .

Baber Test Licenses

Managers’ and Testers’ License:

Stallion Enrollment Licenses.

Dog Licenses (State's Share).

Fees for Bang’s Disease Laboratory Tes

Bacterial Count Licenses.

Sale of Publications...

Weightmaster’s Licenses (License Fee $3).

Cattle Dealer's Licenses (License Fee ®)

Fines and Penalties.

CONSERVATION DEPARTMENT:

Hunting, Fishing and Trapping Licenses (Hunt-
ing $1.25, Fishing $1.25, Hunting-Fishing $2.25,
Deer License $2.25, Trapping $4.50)

Water Power Rentals...

(Continued on page 156)

550.00
52.00
218,690.50

48,270.98

12,425.00
344,327.00
4,415.00
374,195.00
7,605.00

114,571.00

21,465.00
26,700.00

2,025.00
44,836.84

60.00

9,635.00
4,166.90

130.00
50.00
617.68

31,442.61

59,625.00
18,760.00
4,460.00

19,446.00

4,710.00
1,400.00
173,055.00

220.00
1,217.00
657.00
810.00
102,698.38

29, 540.00

1,397,047.00

485,839.00

The State Employee
Local Activities
Central Islip Glee Club

Brentwood Dance

The first annual dance of Pilgrim
State Hospital Chapter was  con-
ducted in the recreation hall of the
hospital May 29. Entertainment was
furnished by several radio. stars.
Dance contests were a feature and
there was a door prize.

George Rowe was chairman of the
committee in charge and was assist-
ed by the following members:

Chris Doscher, William Boyle,
Gustave Rudloff, Arthur Le Belle,
Frank Parks, Jessie Davis, Charles
Burns, Charles Edwards.

Sidney Kelly, Mrs. Mary Balan-
ger, Mrs. Margaret Matuccio, Mrs.
Anna Doscher, Mrs. George Rowe,
Miss Ruby Haley and Miss Mildred
Skala.

Rome Reports

Fort Stanwix Chapter of the As
sociation located at Rome reports a
membership of 600 out of a total
of 690 employees. A comprchen-
sive program of objectives both so:
cial and economic with particular
emphasis on local conditions is be-
ing mapped out,

Officers recently elected are Ralph
L. Webb, president; Cornelius
Sharp, vice president; Raymond
Butler, treasurer; and Elenore Buck-
nell, secretary.

Testimonial Dinner

Henry J. Rigney, information
clerk in the State Department of
Public Works for the past eighteen
years, has retired from service after
thirty years with the State. He was
guest of honor at a dinner April 30
in the DeWitt Clinton Hotel, Al-
bany.

A native of Elmira, Mr. Rigney
came to Albany where he was em-
ployed by the State Excise Commis-
sion. He was transferred to the
State Narcotics Bureau where he
was an inspector until he joined the
Public Works Department in 1922.

Syracuse Dinner

An informal dinner dance, June
13, marked the close of the summer
social season of Syracuse Chapter of
the Association, according to H. H.
Wagenhals, president. ‘The last
meeting of the chapter until fall will
be on the 21st. The dinner dance
was largely attended.

June

The Central Islip State Hospital
Chapter has an excellent Glee Club
which has brought forth great
praise from the critics whenever it
has made a public appearance. Un-
der the leadership of Otto Werner,
conductor, the ensemble has been
built up into a fine group of singers.

The Glee Club was heard at the
annual Association dance held
March 29 and again at the mass
meeting of April 26. The latter
meeting was attended by representa-

tives from various hospitals and de-
partments on Long Island.
Association members were present
from Kings Park, Pilgrim, Creed-
moor, Brooklyn and Rockland hos-
pitals. Also Farmingdale Agricul-
tural School, Long Island Inter-
County State Park Chapter, Valley
Stream; Department of | Public
Works, Department of State Parks,
State Highway Engineers, State
Highway Maintenance, Babylon;

and State Police from Brightwaters
and Babylon.

The Central Islip State Hospital Chapter Glee Club which has furnished
many an evening of entertainment is composed of the following members:
Standing, left to right: Joseph Benedict, Thomas Hogan, Patrick Tee,
Richard Baylis, Charles Fagin, Edward Haughney, Frank Frolke, Patrick
Spillane, John Gleason, Joseph Sykora, John Morris, Joseph Gaideczka, John

Sherry and Thomas Deacon.

Seated: Martin Hulka, Joseph Livierei, Anthony Livierei, Brian Hynes,
Otto Werner, conductor; Theodore Knight, Thomas Janusz, Donald Belle-
feuille, Julius Herzka and Jack Simmonds.

Harlem Valley State
Hospital

James W. Webster, greenskeeper
of the new nine-hole golf course, is
trying to remodel the course so that
to get par will be an actual accom.
plishment. He is making new
greens and installing additional

traps. Since coming to the hospital
three months ago he has been busy
in many ways on his task of recon-
struction and improvement.

The play, “No Account David,”
was presented to several hundred
persons May 22. The cast was com-
posed entirely of employees of the
Hospital.

151
“For All of These”
(Continued from page 137)
ful work. Just on the most selfish
basis it is enormously to our advan-
tage to have them win.”

Read what Dewey says:

“This country wants planes—
plenty of planes—and it wants them
as fast as it can get them without in-
terfering with the delivery of planes
to the Allies. In fact our efforts
should be to help speed those planes
to the Allies.”

Read what Lehman says:

“I£ the Nazis should be victori-
ous everything which we hold dear,
everything which this country has
cherished and struggled for since
its earliest beginning, would be in
imminent danger of destruction. We
would live under continual threat
to our territory and to our liberties.
Our standard of living would inevit-
ably be immeasurably lowered since
our free workers could not possibly
compete with the slave labor of a
Nazi-controlled world.”

Read what Dr. Butler, President
of Columbia University, says:

“The issue is between two types
of civilization, two types of life, two
ideals of government and social or-
der, That conflict if settled against
us, will put the world back for gen-
erations to come. If settled for us
+++ we may be able to. . . call back
true liberalism to its place of con-
trol in a progressive and peaceful
world, The great German people
have been reduced as no great people
has ever before been reduced in all
history, to a position where only bar-
barians should be found.”

Read what General O’Ryan, the
famous commanding general of
New York’s own 27th Division in
the World War, says:

“The United States in the role of
brandied peaches is reserved for the
destroyer’s dessert if the Allies are
vanquished. Our people seem dazed
and unable to visualize the unpre-
cedented realities and the immi-
nence of our danger. I fear the Ger-
man fifth column has successfully
anaesthetized the understanding of
our people, at least until this late
date.”

Read what the publisher of “Life”
magazine has to say:

“Adolf Hitler is not afraid of big
dollar signs in the newspapers.
Hitler will only be afraid of actual
airplanes, actual tanks, actual guns
—and actual pilots and actual gun-

152

ners. Hitler knows right now just
how many actual airplanes, tanks,
guns, pilots, gunners, we have—
and he'll keep on knowing every
step of the way. During some pos-
sible lull in the European scene you
may lose interest in the arming of
America but Hitler won't. The price
of military domination is eternal
vigilance—and it is also the price
of liberty.”

Read what President Roosevelt
says:

“But new forces are being un-
leashed, deliberately planned pro-
pagandas to divide and weaken us
in the face of danger as other na-
tions have been weakened before.
These dividing forces I do not hesi-
tate to call undiluted poison. They
must not be allowed to spread in the
New World as they have in the
Old. Our moral and mental de-
fenses must be raised as never be-
fore against those who would cast
a smoke screen across our vision.”

We were totally unprepared in
June, 1916, when Mexican Border
policing was demanded. We were
illy prepared a year later when we
entered the World War. No one
will ever know how many soldiers
perished then because of unpre-
paredness. The same barbaric forces
were the aggressors in the World
War as today. The same liberties
and the same virtues are at stake
today. We can no more fail to de-
fend them now than we could then.
We cannot break faith with those
who died, with those who live, or
with those yet unborn, We are fore-
sworn to everlasting defense of
God’s gifts of liberty, religion, hap-
piness.

And, by every practical measure-
ment, those who labor in whatever
field have the most to lose if the to-
talitarian despots win. The three
dictators of Europe have shorn labor
of every vestige of dignity. Under
their crude barbarism, the worker is
a robot without soul, without op-
portunity, robbed of every one of
his inalienable rights.

These are the reasons that the As-
sociation of State Civil Service Em-
ployees, as a workers’ organization,
as a part of our government itself,
as an organization to which 31,000
good citizens have given the strength
of their intelligence and their patri-
otism, and as an Association of
Americans true through many,
many years of unswerving devotion

to American ideals, feels so strongly
the need to speak out quickly and
resolutely, first for common-sense
attention to aiding the cause of other
democracies fighting for the truths
for which we stand and practical at-
tention to every measure of defense
precaution, and secondly, to speak
out against those subtle, unworthy,
dangerous individuals and groups
who under the lamb’s cloth of a
hundred hypocricies seek to weaken
governmental action by criticism, by
poisoned propaganda, and by out-
right treachery.

We pray God that not another
American will ever die in war. We
pray God that not a needed ounce
of America’s resources will be with-
held selfishly from those who fight
valiantly for life, liberty, and the
pursuit of happiness anywhere on
our common earth.

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The State Employee
Do Not Forget

The Nation and the State and
various subdivisions of government
are giving attention to candidates for
November lections. Scouts are
moving about in one guise or
another and would-be candidates
are stepping out at various affairs
to let the citizenry look them over.
This is, actually the most important
period in democratic functioning.

In reality the people of our
United States apply merit system
principles to the recruitment of
those executives and legislators elect-
ed by ballot. And the present period
of weighing the character and quali-
fications of the aspirants is compar-
able to the scrutiny observed by the
civil service officials in selecting civil
servants under the merit system
plan. The election itself may be
likened to the examination and the
results to the way in which the
people rate the answers to their
questions asked during the cam-
paign.

Just as character, training and ex-
perience are essentials in gaining for
civil service applicants the oppor-
tunity to take an examination, so
character, training and experience
should be measured carefully by cit-
izens in primaries or otherwise so
that they may know that nominees
are worthy of the offices to which
they aspire. It is not enough that
nominees be clever at answering
questions, and getting votes on elec-
tion day, but that they be steeped
in honesty, truth and patriotism also.

We ask that you reread “The
Challenge of 1940” as contained in
the May issue of THE STATE EM-
PLOYEE. Unless the candidates
for State Senator and State Assem-
blyman are informed as to the merit
system, as to its Constitutional back-
ground, as to its importance to good
government, as to its importance to
you and to your family, then you
and all of the people run the risk of
seeing the civil service law and the
Constitutional provision repudiated
or set aside as they have been on
many occasions by legislators lack-
ing in respect for the needs of effi-
ciency and honesty in civil service.

Unless a candidate understands
and has sympathy for sound labor
safeguards—adequate salaries, fair

June

hours, sound retirement allowances
—it is certain that the elected official
will not suddenly absorb them with
his office. It is also possible that in
the swirl of partizan politics and
jockeying for political advantage,
the interests of civil service may be
seriously neglected. The merit sys-
tem has never been popular with
those who engage in politics for
power or profit.

Do you recall the attacks upon the
Feld-Hamilton Law last year and
the year before? Do you recall the
vote upon the transfer of District
Superintendents and the brutal de-
feat of that measure solely because
it would substitute merit and fit-
ness for political prizes? Do you
recall the distressing efforts to estab-
lish special privilege by way of vet-
eran preference instead of the merit
system way of open competitive tests
with the prizes only to those who
won on efficiency and character? Do
you recall how difficult it was to
secure even a vote upon merit sys-
tem bills in the State Senate last
year? Do you recall the attack upon
fair salaries as embodied in the Feld-
Hamilton Bill by the 1939 Legisla-
ture, and the scuttling of the incre-
ments without even a thought to
the justice of the action? The time
to assure a good Senator and a good
Assemblyman is now, and not on
election day. State employees do
not wish to adopt partizan political
reprisals on election day. We do not
ask that 50,000 State workers vote
partizanly on that day. We do ask
that 50,000 State workers correctly
inform their party leaders that the
candidates should pledge themselves
to support the civil service law with
its salary safeguards. State civil ser-
vice employees have in common
with other citizens a right to take
an active part in their respective po-
litical party councils, and to see to
it that the men who are nominated
are not the enemies of the merit sys-
tem but the active friends of that
system. They have a right to ask that
every man who is nominated for the
State Legislature subscribe openly to
the Constitutional mandate as to
selection of civil servants, and they
have the right to insist that those
elected shall’ not betray the best in-

terests of the merit system under any
stress. Let it be distinctly under-
stood that State employees do not
place themselves on a pedestal to
be cared for despite real public
emergencies, They do not ask
charity. They ask the same fair play
principles that must apply to all
businessmen and workers in what-
ever field, in other words the com-
mon right of all citizens. ‘They say
that when legislatures fix the salaries
which civil employees are to receive
that they shall observe the funda-
mental human rights of the worker
to a just wage. There is no question
that the Feld-Hamilton scales are
the minimum of just salary scales
under presently accepted American
standards of living, and that they
were :stablished after honest study
and with due respect for economy
and for efficiency. We do not want
to battle each year to maintain these
scales. We want a 1941 Legislature
that will be fair to civil employees
as well as to all other citizens. We
are sure that you are justified in ad-
vising continuously with your party
leaders and with prospective candi-
dates from now until election day to
make certain that nominees are
statesmen of character and efficiency
—in short that they meet merit sys-
tem requirements as to character
and efficiency to the end that which-
ever candidate survives the crucial
ballot box examination and voting
will be a true champion of the merit
system and of the civil service em-
ployee who will always form the
backbone of efficient and economical
public service,

Inform yourselves as to local po-
litical leaders and procedures. Here
is a brief outline of political hap-
penings to come:

Fall Primary—September 17, 1940

Hours for voting—In New York
City—3 P.M. to 10 P.M. Outside
New York City—12 Noon to 9 P.M.

Last day to decline when person
nominated, without designation—
October 1, 1940,

Conventions

September 25, 1940—First day for
holding State and Judicial.

October 1, 1940—Last day for
filing nominations.

(Continued on page 158)

153
H. R. S. H. Bowlers

‘The Rams won the championship of the Hudson River State Hospital
Bowling League for the year. Members of the successful team are: left to
right, rear: Harry Cooper, attendant; H. Brennan, former attendant and now

deputy sheriff of Dutchess county; Edward Dahowski, R. N.

Front:

David H. Jones, R. N.; and Louis Garrison, attendant.

The employees of the Hudson
River State Hospital who constitute
the Bowling League have ended a
most successful season. The Hos-
pital boasts of eight five-men teams.

The League champions for 1939-
1940 are the Rams who won forty-
five out of sixty-three games for an
average of 850 per game. Members
of the champion team are Harry
Cooper, H. Brennan, Edward Dah-
owski, D, H. Jones and Louis Gar-
rison.

Members of the League conducted
an election of officers for the coming
year on the evening of May 1. They

154

met at Gibson’s Inn, New Hacken-
sack, for dinner. After the festive
board was cleared the voting resulted
in a choice of the following heads
for next season:

President, Judson Manning; Vice
President, David H. Jones; Secre-
tary, William Terpenning; and
Treasurer, James Skane.

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The Hudson River State Hos-
pital Baseball Team opened its sea-
son May 18 with a forecast by Art
Sullivan, physical director, that all
teams in the Mid-Hudson League
would be booked as soon as possible
“and have the tar licked out of
them.”

Indications are that the prognosti-
cation might prove true, for in the
opening game with Copake Falls
the Columbia County boys were
walloped 8 to 0 as the -Hospital
pounded out ten hits to defeat the
first victim.

The following week the Hospital
team put on a little blitzkrieg of its
own for the benefit of Millbrook.
When the air cleared and the re-
sultant confusion ceased the score
board was visible and the result was
apparent to all, to the intense satis-
faction of the Poughkeepsie team—
10 to 5. Hudson fell before the
Hospital team. Poughkeepsie, Hyde
Park and Harlem Valley are sched-
uled to be met.

John Livingstone, president of
the H. R. S. H. Association, attend-
ed a meeting in New York City
April 24 to help plan arrangements
for Civil Service day at the World’s
Fair, June 15. Mayor LaGuardia,
Senator Meade and Lieutenant Goy-
ernor Poletti were honorary co-
chairmen of the sponsoring commit-
tee.

At a recent Firemen’s Softball
League game, Harry R. Brownell of
the Hospital’s Broadacres farm did
such a fine job of no-hit pitching
that Beekman Engine Company's
team scored a 4 to 1 victory over
Pleasant Valley.

Yacht Club members and boating
enthusiasts of H. R. S. H. are proud
to announce a contribution to the
world-renowned festivities. A shel-
ter is being constructed on the Hos-
pital grounds to house the shells of
Princeton and Wisconsin crews dur-
ing their training period for the in-
tercollegiate regatta.

The building is to be seventy-five
feet long by twenty-three feet wide.
It will provide accommodation for
six shells, Money for the shelter is
coming from contributions to the re-
gatta fund. The building is to be
permanent and is being constructed
with the permission of Dr. Ralph P.
Folsom, hospital superintendent.

The State Employee
The World's Fair on a Budget

The World’s Fair of 1940 opened
Saturday and Sunday, May 11th and
12th, commencing a season which
promises to be even greater in at-
tendance and interest than last year.
On both days the crowd was approx-
imately as great as when the Fair
first opened a year ago. The build-
ings have been painted. The trees
are finer than ever. The lights are
brighter. Almost all the old attrac-
tions are back; the same long lines
for the Futurama and the House
of Jewels; and, interestingly enough,
a line at the new 5 and 10 cent
restaurant in the Amusement sec-
tion, There are many new attrac-
tions.

So, what could be more timely
now than a view of the Fair from
the angle of your budget?

‘An old recipe for hassenpfeffer
begins: “In the first place catch
your rabbit.” Thus, we must start
our discussion of the Fair by assum-
ing one has reached New York City.
The railroads have lowered their
rates. Some have special excursion
tickets. The bus lines are comfort-
able and they offer trips to the Fair,
sometimes with hotel accommoda-
tions included.

Generally speaking, it is not ad-
visable to drive unless the visitor
plans to take a longer trip, say into
New Jersey or Long Island, or there
are enough in the party to make
motor transportation a genuine sav-
ing. In such case the Mayor’s Com-
mittee has a tested list of private
homes where rooms can be had and
parking space for the car for one
dollar per person. Of course, traffic
conditions are difficult in the city,
and to drive back and forth to the
Fair is impracticable as it entails ex-
tra parking charges.

The Mayor’s Official World’s
Fair Rooming Bureau, Chanin
Building, 42nd Street and Lexing-
ton Avenue, tel. Murray Hill 3-1150,
has this to say: “No need to apply
in advance. Rooms for everybody.
Upon reaching New York telephone
or apply at the bureau’s offices or
booths, at the Chanin Building, the
New Jersey side of the Holland and
Lincoln Tunnels and George Wash-
ington Bridge.” The city has an in-
formation booth opposite the main

June

entrance to the Grand Central Ter-
minal and at Times Square. The
Mayor’s Committee announces that
it has rooms available in private
houses from one dollar a day
per person, and in hotels from one
dollar and a half per person. Two in
a room at a hotel costs not quite
double the price of one. Within the
framework of their prices, New
York hotel accommodations are the
best in the world. Such places as
the Waldorf-Astoria are unparalleled
anywhere. By the same token, even
the humbler dollar and a half rooms
are better than could be had for the
same price in other large cities. One
reason is that hotels in the metropo-
lis are subject to strict inspection at
all times and particularly this year
when Mayor LaGuardia is making
a special feature of reasonable rates.
Therefore, even if the room you
pick is cheap, you will get cleanli-
ness, service and reasonable quiet.

Do not make the mistake of try-
ing to see the Fair in a couple of
days. To get full benefit from your
visit to the Fair it must be seen in a
leisurely fashion.

Expenses at the Fair need not ex-
ceed five dollars per day per person.
This includes food and lodging and
an allowance of $1.25 for amuse-
ments and incidentals. Here is the
breakdown, taken from the writer's
personal experience last year and the

latest figures furnished by the
Mayor's Committee.
Room at hotel. ................ $1.50
Breakfast 2 30
Lunch at Fair 50
Dinner 75
Admission 50

Carfare, to and from Fair .20
Extras, such as special
features ... renezenen teed
$5.00
‘There is a choice of several ways
to reach the Fair. The easiest costs
ten cents and takes ten minutes. It
is furnished by the special trains
from the Long Island Station at the
Pennsylvania depot. If your hotel
is not close to 33rd Street and Sev-
enth Avenue, use the subway. The
fare on the LR.T. is five cents; ten
cents on the Independent. The ride
takes about half an hour.

An abundance of entrance gates
at the Fair prevents crowding and
before one realizes it, he has paid
the fifty cents admission charge,
passed through the turnstile and is
at the Fair.

Now we are in the World of To-
morrow, a million miles away from
the troubles of today, in a cheerful
land of friendliness and laughter
and funny clowns and lively bands,
creating the intimate feeling of the
county fair, but supported by a so-
phisticated setting comprising what
is unquestionably the most remark-
able collection of art, business prog-
ress exhibits, demonstrations of
new methods, displays of craftsman-
ship that has ever been known.
‘These are superlative expressions but
we know they are justified the min-
ute we step into the Fair grounds,
pass along the avenue of waving
flags, glimpse the magnificent vista
that spreads out ahead. Later in the
day, as dusk comes on, we will see a
magic change take place in our is-
land of enchantment; not a burst of
illumination but as gradual as the
dawn. First we will note that the
green foliage of the trees that line
the avenues is glowing from soft
rays thrown up from batteries of
floodlights concealed in the ground,
The stately Trylon has become opal-
escent while each of the myriad jets
from the fountains spreads its tiny
waterfall of sparkling jewels,

Tt is possible to obtain this year
a book of souvenir tickets which
contains five general admissions, and
also admissions to five paid feature
attractions including: 1, The Ameri-
can Jubilee; 2, Ripley's Believe It or
Not Odditorium; 3, The Dancing
Campus; or Morris Gest’s Midget
Town; 4, choice of Mrs. Thorne’s
Miniature Rooms or the Perisphere;
5, Gay New Orleans or Gardens on
Parade. The American Jubilee is a
patriotic historical pageant with mu-
sic. There are 300 performers and a
troop of cavalry. In the Dancing
Campus you can frolic with the jit-
terbugs amidst a collegiate atmos-
phere. Mrs. Thorne’s Miniature
Rooms are rooms decorated in the
18th Century style, reproducing the
work of Chippendale, Adam, Shera-

(Continued on page 156)

155
A Day's Catch The World's Fair

(Continued from page 155)

ton and Hepplewhite. The Peris-
phere is a giant globe twenty-two
stories high which you ascend on
the world’s largest escalator, step-
ping from it onto a huge revolving
platform. As it revolves, you look
down upon the kind of world which
20th Century knowledge will en-
able man to build. It is an awe-in-
spiring sight. In Gay New Orleans
the Mardi Gras spirit awaits you.
Gardens on Parade contains exhibits
of flowers which are particularly
lovely at night when the 800 foot
building is flooded with soft color
effects.

Many of the finest exhibits at the
Fair are absolutely free. Among the
hits of the big show are the Futu-
5 eee rama, the House of Jewels, the Hour

. The envy of all fishermen is this great catch of brook trout taken by the of Magic, the display of Man Made
_ trio shown standing by this evidence of their prowess. The picture was

f Lightning, the film history of Amer-
taken in front of the new warden’s home being constructed at the New _ ca at the United States building, the

York State Prison at Greenhaven. In the customary position of left to right, Kodak display, the Voder of the A.

we see Mrs. Grace de Cordova, Guy de Cordova and Mrs. Addie A. Brownell. —T- e T. It costs nothing extra to
see them.

Meals are always a problem in a

strange place. Here much depends

7 7 i on the pocketbook. If one can af-
Special Services and Receipts — gr" pocictbook, If one fan af-
(Continued from page 150) dinner, his choice is legion. If sev-

enty-five cents is better suited to the

Income from Sale of Water, Cups, Rental of Bath-houses, Rental of Hotel, budget the scope is more limited,

etc, of Saratoga Springs Commission... 432,965.00 Childs main restaurant in the Rail-
road building serves an excellent

DIVISION OF STATE POLICE: . dinner for ies than one dollar. If
Inspection of Places of Public Assembly (Inspection Fee $2) mm semsess —_yoy choose to spend a sum below
Accident Report for Insurance Coane (Report Fee 50c) eee fifty cents per person, there are the
Sale of Old Equipment... is semeninnnninnnnnninn 206317 oftechment stands, the snack bars
DIVISION OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL: and the above mentioned 5 and 10
Ticeimes 4... 8,859,464.66 cent restaurant, where wholesome
food is offered for a small price.

DRAMA Ge LUBE. AND CONNER, Here is a list of hot dishes and cold
Searching, Copying and Certifying Records = enna 2 1,122.22 desserts or beverages on the official

menu of the 5 and 10 restaurant in
DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE: the heart of the Fair grounds. Of

Furnishing Photostats ........... Pee eterna 450.95 fered at 5 cents each are meat balls;
Furnishing Certified Abstracts ” Operating Records. _ . 893.00 5 cent a portion are string beans,
Making Searches of Records of Motor Vehicle Bureau. mares a 1,580.32 peas, carrots, beets, creamed onions,
Licensing Gasoline Filling Stations (Fee $2)......... mashed or fried potatoes, peanut

Title Searches by Corporation Tax Burea 10,690.35 butter or jelly sandwich, cream

Automobile License Fees..... 6,902,512.50 cheese sandwich, 2 doughnuts. The

Automobile Registration Fees, . 45,365,013.63 10 cents a portion selection includes

Sale of Old License Plates, Registration Lists, Applications, Photostats and servings such as soups with crackers,
BEE! sisninosdnasmmesnamamsnsiasneuneaasirSniss . 45,145.24

baked meat loaf, lamb stew, spa-

ghetti with sauce, broiled pork chop,
PUBLIC WORKS DREAREMENT! baked breast of lamb, broiled blue-

Sale of Publications......... 82.00
tu fle
Inepéction of Pleasure Boats, Licensing of the Masters) Enginsire Files, fish, baked stuffed green pepper,
nas oT Pore Gitar Ooscare hase, Goa 1,682.59 baked beans, hash, frankfurter sand-
Aid Fount Hnusneeey ane, Ploon Ws Opsvane These: Roane 68250 wich, baked potatoes, hot or cold
DEPARTMENT OF LAW: cereals, coffee with two doughnuts,
Collections Made by Department of Law on Fines, Penalties, etc. ............ 289,882.35 milk, malted milk, all fruit juices,

156 The State Employee

stewed prunes with cream, ice cream
sodas, and ice cream.

Assuming five days to devote to
a visit to the World’s Fair, the first
will be spent taking bearings, ab-
sorbing the atmosphere of the Fair,
and making notes for future inspec-
tion. In the evening the fountain
display in the Lagoon of Nations
can be viewed.

The second day can cover a visit
to the Futurama, the General Elec-
tric Company’s Hour of Magic and
Man Made Lightning, the Ford
Company should come next, and
following that the rubber displays
and a visit to the Corning Glass
Company.

The third day one can devote to
the utilities. There is the railroad
exhibit and the A, T. & T. At the
latter there is the Voder (synthetic
speech) and interesting tests for our
hearing as well as a chance to call
up the girl friend at home or in
Kalamazoo if we pick the winning
number. This would be a good after-
noon to see Railroads on Parade as
a resting spot before the evening.
Then we will have dinner and see
the fireworks from the lake.

Our fourth day at the Fair can
be spent visiting State and national
exhibits. We must take plenty of
time to see the United States build-
ing and be glad we are Americans
and free. We must try to see the fine
motion picture shown there. The
pavilions of the other countries are
nearby. Outstanding to a lover of
beauty is the French building with
its manifold treasures. The British
building is particularly interesting.
‘There we find replicas of the crown
jewels, the colorful Hall of Heraldry
and an original copy of the Magna
Carta, The building of each country

has much to offer in atmosphere -

and local color. Later we pass down
the Avenue of States, through part
of the amusement area and see the
New York State Building. There is
much of interest. At least a half
hour should be allotted to it. Finally
we will walk to or ferry across to
(ferry 10c) the Florida exhibit
which is all a State display, and
should be very popular despite a
poor location. Attending an early
performance at the Aquacade might
well conclude the day.

Champlain Chapter
Dines

Champlain Chapter, Barge Canal
Civil Service Employees Association,
held its third annual dinner at the
Hotel Schuyler, Schuylerville, April
6, with fifty members present. R. C.
Bailey, Lock 4, was toastmaster
and George Deutschbein, acting sec-
tion superintendent, the principal
speaker.

Other speakers included John
Breeson, Lock 8, and Relief Operator
V. R. Warner, who gave brief char-
acter sketches of outstanding men
of the canal.

Among the members listed by the
speaker was Frank Goodfellow, 84,
janitor at the Fort Edward office,
said to be the oldest living baseball
player.

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Group Plan of Accident
and Sickness Insurance

By C. A. Cartiste, Jr.

Every month the number of New York
State Employees insured under the group
plan of accident and sickness insurance
increases.

During May, 1940, 538 more State
workers joined’ the plan while thirty-six
State employees terminated their insur-
ance.

At present over 25% of all State em-
ployees are insured under this plan, Claim
yments to those sick or injured exceed
14,000 per month.
Some of the long time sicknesses are
pneumonia, arthritis, tuberculosis, mastoid-
itis, nervousness, mental illness, etc.

Almost every day we receive letters
from happy State employees who had fore-
thought enough to protect themselves un-
der this LOW COST group plan of insur-
ance and now in their hour of need they
are receiving that monthly benefit so_nec-
essary during a disability due to accident
or sickness.

Every department in the State is rep-
resented by the insurance, and the testi-
monial letters received by us provide ma-
terial evidence as to the value to which
State employees place upon their accident
and sickness insurance protection.

Here is what one employee in the
Audit & Control Department wrote us:

“Permit me to express my sincere appre-
ciation of the expeditious and courteous
manner in which my claim was handled
and paid. Such insurance should be a
great comfort to anyone not financially
able to make immediate payment of doc-
tor, hospital and specialists’ bills and the
mental relief from such obligations af-
forded by your policy more than com-
pensate for the payment of the nominal
premium thercon. With many thanks for
the personal attention given to this case,
T remain .

‘An appreciative employee in one of the
institutions of the Correction Department
wrote as follows:

“I want you to know that I deeply ap-
preciate the very kind and courteous man-
ner in which my disability insurance has
been handled. The Commercial Casualty
has dealt so kindly, pleasantly and
promptly, T cannot speak in praise highly
enough. It has made it so much easier
for me and most certainly contributed
greatly in the regaining of my health.”

In the State Insurance Department,
where the employees have the knowledge
of what goes on in insurance in New York
State, nearly 3334% of all employees are
insured. Read what an employee of that
department wrote us:

“I have been so very glad that I took
out this policy as I have been in the un-
fortunate position of being compelled to
put in a claim this past winter. During
all those dreary months I fear my morale
would most certainly have broken had I
been compelled to carry the whole expense
myself.

“T am certainly a good ‘ad’ for your
policy and hope that several newer em-
ployees who now appear to be prospects
will become policyholders.”

157
Civil Service Day

Saturday, June 15, was Civil Ser-
vice Day at the World's Fair. Thou-
sands of city, State, and federal em-
ployees joined in the ceremonies,
sponsored by the Civil Service Lead-
er, to honor the merit system.

State employees in the metropoli-
tan New York City area enjoyed a
holiday, by proclamation of Gov-
ernor Lehman, so that they might
attend the festivities. Employees in
State offices outside New York City
were granted the day off if they
visited the Fair on Civil Service
Day.

In his proclamation, issued at the
request of Jerry Finkelstein, publish-
er of the Civil Service Leader, Gov-
ernor Lehman said:

“It is particularly gratifying for
me to witness the great enthusiasm
with which the employees of New
York State are greeting Civil Service
Day at the World’s Fair.

“In other countries, all hearts are
filled with war. While we in Ameri-
ca are fully aware of the implica-
tions that the second World War
has for us and for democracy every-
where, we are bending every effort
to further strengthen our own de-
moeracy.

“No single instrument is more typ-
ical of democracy than the merit sys-
tem, which gives public jobs to those
who prove they are most worthy.
Only a few weeks ago I was pleased
to report that henceforth competitive
tests will fill 10,000 attendant jobs
in New York State’s institutions. A
commission is now studying possi-
bilities of even further extensions of
the merit system. Those are hopeful
signs.

“The World's Fair is dedicated to
peace and freedom. The greatest ap-
plication of Civil Service will help
in keeping peace and freedom on
these shores.

“I am urging every department
head in the State to cooperate in
making Civil Service Day at the
Fair the success it deserves to be.
So that as many employees as pos-
sible may attend, I take pleasure in
proclaiming Saturday, June 15, a
holiday for the Civil Service employ-
ees in New York City. I have asked
that skeleton staffs only be on hand
for that day. Outside of New York
City, I am asking the department

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heads to cooperate by excusing those
individual employees who plan to
attend the ceremonies at the World’s
Fair on that day.”

Through The Leader, Civil Ser-
vice employees and their friends and
families enjoyed many bargains on
Civil Service Day. Special $1 com-
bination tickets admitted holders to
the Fair, to five of the nineteen most
popular concessions, and gave them
$1 in scrip. Special 50-cent combina-
tion tickets, valued $1, were offered
for children. In addition, food, trans-
portation, and hotel discounts were
offered.

Lieutenant Governor Charles Po-
letti, Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia,
and U. S. Senator James M. Mead
were honorary co-chairmen of the
committee sponsoring Civil Service
Day.
Other State officials who served
on the sponsoring committee were
Commissioners Henry E. Bruck-
man, Edward S. Godfrey, Jr., Frank
P. Graves, Mark Graves, John A.
Lyons, Carroll E. Mealey, Holton
V. Noyes, John J. Phelan, William
J. Tiffany, Michael F. Walsh,
Howard P. Jones, and Grace A.
Reavy.

Others were Charles A. Brind, Jr.,
president of the Association of State
Civil Service Employees; Paul M.
Herzog, member of the State Labor
Relations Board; Milton O. Loysen,
director of the DPUI, and Abraham
S. Weber, director of the Budget.

THE NURSERY STUDIO

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Summer session from lune Ist to Oct.
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func. Grade A milk ‘wice daily. x
large, well-equipped play-yard, sand:
box, fecters and swings. Children 2 to
6 years. Medical supervisi:

FOR SALE

Country home on State highway, 25
acres 5 of which is wooded hill lo-
cated in beautiful valley, Albany
County, 35 minutes from Albany.
Nice two-story house, electricity, fire-
place, chicken house, 2-car garage,
fruit, berries, garden (planted). Flow-
ing brook. Half down, balance mort-
gage. Inquire Fred Forbes, Senate
‘Chamber, Capitol.

Do Not Forget
(Continued from page 153)
October 4, 1940—Last day for
filing declinations.
October 8, 1940—Last day for
Gling: new ‘nominations:

Registration

Personal required to vote absentee.

(Exception: Inmate of soldiers’
and sailors’ home, person receiving
treatment in a United States vet-
erans bureau hospital, a person in
federal service, superintendent,
teachers, or student matriculated at
institution of learning outside the
county where applicant resides.)

Central
July 1 to August 31—Cities and
villages over 50,000 inhabitants.
August 1 to August 31—Cities
and villages less-than 50,000 inhabi-
tants, but more than 5,000 inhabi-
tants.
Veterans’ Absentee
September 21—Application and
Registration.
Civilian Conservation Corps
September 26—Last day.

Local
New York City
Personal Registration
October 7, 8, 9, 10, IS P.M. to
10:30 P.M.
October 15—7 A.M. to 10:30 P.M.

Cities and Villages of 5,000 or More
Inhabitants
(Except N. Y. C.)
Personal Registration
October 9, 10, 18—10 A.M. to 10
P.M.
Octobér 19—7 A.M. to 10 P.M.

Outside of Cities and Villages of
5,000 or More Inhabitants
Non-Personal Registration

October 10—7 A.M. to 10 P.M,
October 19—1 P.M. to 10 P.M.

General Election—November
5, 1940
Polls open at 6 A.M. and close at
6 P.M.

Recognized Parties, 1940
Color of Primary Order on General

Ballots Election Ballot
Republican, Cherry Republican
Democratic, Green Democratic

Amer. Labor, Granite Amer. Labor
Color of Primary Petitions, New
York City:
Republican, Cherry
Democratic, Green
American Labor, Granite.

The State Employee
Historic Markers

Summer travel throughout New
York State, yearly becoming more
popular, is rendered more interest-
ing as well as informative by the
work of the Division of Archives
and History of the State Education
Department in the placing of 6,000
markers in all regions of. the com-
monwealth.

‘The project is a development of
the Sesquicentennial of the Ameri-
can Revolution in 1926. The State
which was so zealous in making his-
tory at the time of the laying of the
foundations of the Republic had
been very lax in commemorating
the leading part it had then taken.
Other sections of the country had
long made public claim for much
that had taken place in the Empire
State and for which credit was
wrongly given.

Now the traveler by auto, be he
a native son or a stranger, may read
as he drives that at the place he is
passing there took place an event of
significance in the military, social or
economic life of the State or the
Nation.

“New York is now the most uni-
versally marked State in the coun-
try,” Hugh M. Flick, acting State
Historian and Supervisor of Public
Records, asserts, “Had such a pro-
gram started fifty years ago, much
material now lost would have been
preserved. By the erection of these
markers much fugitive material is
now preserved for all time. Driving
throughout the State has now an
added recreational value as well as
an appeal to the antiquarian.

“In placing the markers the ten-

dency is to emphasize the heroes of.

peace as well as of war. The pioneers
of industry and religion laid the
foundation of the future growth of
the State as well as did the soldiers.
Often the struggles of peace time
were more important in shaping the
destiny of the country than the more
spectacular struggles in the field of
battle. They may have had more
lasting benefit than the acrimonious
political campaigns.

“Credit has been given the early
editors whose establishment of news-
papers in remote hamlets along the
frontier maintained the cultural life
line in the settlements which were
Separated from the established com-

June

munities and served as the sole
means of communication and per-
formed the unique task of leader-
ship in all endeavors. Their work
was supplemented by the pioneer
preacher and circuit rider who have
likewise been commemorated.

“Many religious cults had their
origin in the State. They may seem
ludicrous now but at the time of
their rise there was a rational reason
for the growth. Important events in
the lives of great persons have their
locale marked, The men from New
York who went to the White House
are not forgotten nor are such men
of fame as prominent industrialists
like Westinghouse.

“We take transportation as a mat-
ter of course, so important a part of
present day life it has become. Its
carly development is traced by mark-
ers which show where was located
the Indian trails, the crude passes
of the pioneers, the corduroy roads,
the turnpikes, the Erie Canal and
its feeders and the railroads which
had a most important part in the
development not only of the State
but of the entire country.

“There is a new pride by the resi-
dents for the various communities
marked by bronze or iron tablets,
Historical markers have now be-
come local landmarks. Interest in
local history has been keenly
aroused and the office of local his-
torians has been accorded an honor-
able and valued title. Unless we un-
derstand our beginning we cannot
evaluate our present.

“A people not interested in their
ancestors will not be respected by
their descendants. Lord Bacon once
said ‘history makes men wise.” He
might have added it makes them
patriotic in the true sense of the
word.”

Mere local legend is not accepted
by the State authorities in recording
historical happenings. Every mark-
er is correct in its statement before
it is allowed to-be put in place. Re-
quests come to the State Historian
weekly and there are at least 500
markers now in foundries. There is
a small amount still in the Legis-
lative fund for the erection of these
and it is the hope of Mr. Flick that
all places of historic importance will
be properly noted.

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on
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Enjoy the comforts of one
of the city’s really great
hotels . .. with its match-
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AT A 10% DISCOUNT
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Single Rooms
$3.00—$3.50—$4.00
Double Rooms
$5.00—$6.00—$7.00

Make your headquarters.
here when you visit the
1940 World’s Fair.

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TO YOU

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this hotel their New York
home will be charged the
regular hotel room rate

LESS 10%
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Single rooms with Bath
from $2.50; Double rooms
with Bath from $3.50. All
rooms with circulating ice
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Rome Bowlers

The Rome State School Employees’ Bowling Association is considered
quite an important organization out Central New York way and the Main
Office Team, champions of the league, are tops. Winning over the other
seven teams are the champions shown above. Left to right, rear: Joseph
Wissman, William Costello, William Mathers and Walter James. Front:
Ralph Webb, Ernest Austin, captain; and Tony Badalato.

Tebbutt Funeral Service

SINCE 1850

176 STATE STREET, ALBANY, N. Y.

Opposite State Capitol
JAMES G. TEBBUTT MARSHALL W. TEBBUTT, JR.

SERVICE TO THE HELDERBERGS
Borden Boulevard now provides dependable, regular service through-
out the Helderberg region.

Altamont, Berne, Knox, Triangle Lake, Thompsons Lake, Warners
Lake, Thacher Park, Lake Onderdonk, Crystal Lake, Rensselaerville
and intermediate points.

If you are a summer resident of this section, call up before you leave
town—and you won’t miss a day of the accustomed quality of
Borden Boulevard products.

BORDEN BOULEVARD DAIRY

‘TELEPHONE 4-4158

The State Employee
Professional Engineer
License Waiver

The Conway Bill, passed at the
last session of the Legislature, will
be of particular interest to employ-
ees in the Department of Public
Works, who do not now have a
professional engineer’s license. This
law, which is now Chapter 841 of
the Laws of 1940, provides as fol-
lows:

“Prior to January first, nineteen
hundred forty-one, any person hav-
ing been lawfully engaged in the
practice of engineering or land sur-
veying for at least ten years prior
to the twenty-first day of April, nine-
teen hundred twenty-seven, and
who thereafter has failed to make
application for, or secured a profes-
sional engineer's or land surveyor's
license, as provided by this article,
and who by reason of his employ-
ment by the State or a political sub-
division thereof, or by a county, city,
town or village within the State, as
an engineer or land surveyor, was
exempt from the provisions of this
article, as provided by subdivisions
five and six of section fourteen hun-
dred and fifty-seven of this chapter
shall, on application for such license,
be exempt from qualification re-
quirements, except as to age, char-
acter and citizenship.”

This law should be called to the
attention of all highway engineers
and everyone who can qualify
should be urged to take advantage
of the liberalized requirements
which will remain in effect only
until January 1, 1941. It is of great
importance that all engineers who
can qualify should obtain a profes-
sional engineer’s license, because in
the future the possesion of a license
as a professional engineer will prob-
ably be a requirement in order to
enter promotion examinations for
high ranking positions in the de-
partment.

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perienced furniture buyers are influenced by flowery
promises and bargain prices . . . only to find in a
short while that drawers stick, upholstery sags, etc.

That is why we say buy your second furniture FIRST!
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for good furniture and good values. You can get fur-
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Write for booklet and rates

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Gietl Seve.
LEADER

Arranged time-off for State Employees to attend. . . .
Just One of Its Many Services.

CIVIL SERVICE LEADER
97 Duane Street
New York, N. Y.

I enclose (check, money order, cash) $1 for which
kindly mail the next 52 issues of the CIVIL SERVICE
LEADER to

Name.
Address (Office, Home).
City.

June

161
For Summer Reading

A List of New Books Compiled by
the Book Information Section of
the New York State Library

r FICTION

The Loon Feather, by Iola Fuller
(Iola Fuller Goodspeed). Har-
court. $2.50.

‘The great and wise Ojibway war-
rior, Tecumseh, went from tribe to
tribe, year in, year out, urging union
against the treaty-breaking Ameri-
cans until early in the nineteenth
century he was killed in battle.
Stranded on the island of Mackinac,
Tecumseh’s only child, Aneta, is
adopted by the Frenchman, Pierre,
and in this, her own story, are re-
vealed not only the turbulent activi-
ties around the fort and the Astor
trading post, with voyagers coming
and going and the Indians awaiting
gold for their lost lands, but also her
part in the life of the island, where
she proves that she is indeed the
daughter of Tecumseh in wisdom
and courage.

Mrs. Morton of Mexico, by A. D.
Ficke. Reynal. $2.50.

Each of the engaging episodes of
the elderly Mrs. Morton’s experi-
ences in the Mexico that this wise,
indomitable and amusing woman
has lived in and loved for many
years, skilfully presents some aspect
of the beauty of the land or of the
character, the turbulence, the ignor-
ance, the superstitions or the culture
of the people.

The Morning Is Near Us, by Susan
Glaspell. Stokes. $2.50.

Lovely Lydia Chippman, believ-
ing her father dead, returns to her
American home with two adopted
foreign children after an enforced
absence of 19 years. The story, taut
with suspense, describes with sensi-
tivity not only Lydia’s happiness in
the thought that she is carrying out
her father’s wishes, but also the fine-
ness of spirit that enables her to meet
with love and courage the cruel ex-
planation of her parents’ mysterious
treatment of her as a child and
young woman.

The Provincial Lady in Wartime, by
E. M. Delafield, pseud. Harper.
$2.50.

In this the most amusing of her
diaries, the “Provincial lady” de-
parts from her Devonshire home to
seek a war job in London. Turned

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away, like thousands of others, from
one government office after another,
with the admonition to “Stand By”
till needed, she volunteers for work
in a woman’s underground canteen.
Her London social and official con-
tacts, the mystifying conduct of the
war, the consequent rumors and gos-
sip together with her observations as
to the devastating effect of respon-
sibility and power on women’s tem-
pers and manners afford rich oppor-
tunity for the play of her candor and
wit.

Wild Geese Calling, by Stewart Ed-
ward White. Doubleday. $2.75.
Sally Slocum and John Murdoch

meet under a cottonwood tree in
Oregon and marry that same day
with little knowledge of each other,
but they soon find they have, in
spite of differing backgrounds,
much in common, in especial, the
pioneering spirit. The leisurely, in-
timate story of this interesting pair
and the friends they make, takes
them first to Seattle where John
works for a while in a mill. From
there they voyage in a small boat to
Klakan, Alaska, and there they settle
down while John and his friend Len
are engaged to get the machinery in
order for a canning factory, but the
call of the wild geese lures them still
further north to the wilderness, the
final fulfillment of their dreams.

NON-FICTION

Forty Years a Country Preacher, by
G. B. Gilbert. Harper. $2.75.
Out of a background of hardy
Vermont farm life, a young minister
in 1899 stepped into his first parish
in Connecticut, and for forty years
he has been a country minister estab-
lishing missions in rural communi-
ties. His narrative, bubbling over
with zest, shrewd humor and wise
understanding, is concerned not with
theology, but with vitally interesting
and amazing incidents connected
with his practical aid to the poor,
and the sick and troubled, young or
old, with his humanizing the church
and his ways of getting to know the
people, ranging from hair cutting,
providing rocking chairs for old la-
dies and cooking Sunday dinner for
his people in church, to calling off
the square dances at parties, or

taking some forlorn waif into his

home. Photographs.

I Begin Again, by Mrs. Alice Bretz.
(Whittlesey House Pub.). Mc-
Graw. $1.75.

Having suddenly entered the
world of the blind, the author va-
liantly set about learning to live in
it. From early readjustments to
everyday routine and all sorts of ac-
tivities within doors she went on to
the grand adventure of going out
alone in a taxi to shop or for lunch-
con. This is the inspiriting chronicle
of a gallant woman who can find a
thrill in outwitting difficulties and
who, facing the fact of her blind-
ness, has achieved happiness, phi-
losophy of life and a living, vital
faith.

News Is My Job, by E. L. Booker.
Macmillan. $3.

During the past 18 years of chaos
and war in China, the author has
been correspondent for the Interna-
tional News Service of New York,
her various assignments frequently
taking her into the very center of
danger and peril, whether she was
interviewing war lords in the north,
or scooping the world on the story
of the downfall of Sun Yatsen, or
more recently observing the results
of the Sino-Japanese war at the
front. Authentic, and exciting, the
narrative has diverse interests, not
the least being personal glimpses of
leading Chinese figures, including
Generalissimo and Madame Chiang
Kai-shek. Map on end papers, pho-
tographs.

Polish Profile, by Princess Virgilia
Sapieha. Carrick. $2.50.

Virgilia Peterson Ross, American
short story writer, married in 1933
Prince Paul Sapieha and went to his
family’s country estate in Poland,
though her husband’s business fre-
quently took them away, with a
long interval in upper Silesia and
another in Warsaw. The chronicle
of her six years in Poland ending in
flight with her babies before the
Nazi invaders, is a forthright and
entertainingly informative record of
the Polish way of life on the estate,
with its feudal class distinctions and
restrictions, and relations with ser-
vants and peasants, of festivals and
shooting parties, of religion, politics
and foreign affairs.

The State Employee
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