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Social Security
OR THE STATE PENSION SYSTEM ?
‘There has been so much interest
and opposition to the Wagner bill,
Senate 4269, which proposes to bring
Civil Service employees under the
provisions of the Federal Social Se-
curity Law, that the Association
deems it advisable to explain the na-
ture and extent of the proposal, for
the benefit of its members.
‘The present Federal Social Secur-
ity Law contains seven independent
provisions dealing with:
(a) Grants to states for old-age
assistance, whereby the Federal gov-
ernment joins states in providing fi-
nancial aid to needy persons over
age sixty-five. The only individual
qualifications for these provisions
are age and financial need—type of
occupation is immaterial.
(b) Federal old-age benefits. In
these provisions persons employed in
certain types of occupations are ex-
cluded. It is this section only which
S. 4269 would extend to public em-
ployees, including teachers. This sec-
tion provides for benefits from $10
to $85 a month, depending on aver-
age salary earned, to be paid to work-
ers at age 65 or to their families, un-
der certain circumstances, if the
worker dies before age 65.
(c) Grants to states for unem-
ployment compensation administra-
tion. Civil Service employees are not
included under this section nor does
the proposed bill extend unemploy-
ment benefits to Civil Service em-
ployees.
(d) Grants to states for aid to de-
pendent children.
(ec) Grants to states for material
and child welfare.
(£) Public health work.
(g) Grants to states for aid to
the blind. *
The Wagner bill proposes to
change only the Federal law desig-
nated above as subdivision “(b)”
November
by repealing the present provision
which excludes Civil Service em-
ployees. The Wagner bill proposes
to eliminate the exclusion clause in
the present law thereby requiring all
public employees of every State and
the political subdivisions theréof to
contribute to the Social Security
fund and thereby become eligible
for the benefits provided by the law.
Senator Wagner, in a statement
issued at the time he introduced the
bill, said that it was introduced at
the request of the American Fede-
ration of Labor because over 40%,
of public employees throughout the
United States are not now members
of any pension or retirement system.
State employees who are members
of a retirement system are generally
opposed to the extension of the act,
but it would, of course, benefit Civil
Service employees and teachers in
states or political subdivisions which
have no pension systems. Teachers’
organizations have likewise been ac-
tive in their opposition to the bill.
In October, the Joint Committee of
Teachers Organizations, through
Frank D. Whalen, its Chairman,
wrote to Senator Wagner proposing
an amendment which would limit
the Wagner bill to those State em-
ployees who are not members of an
existing retirement system. Senator
Wagner, on October 29, 1940, re-
plied: “I am therefore, in complete
agreement with the principle ex-
pressed in the proposed amendment
enclosed with your letter.”
Employees, who are members of
actuarily sound pension systems,
maintained in a large measure by
their own contributions, fear that
the extension of the Social Security
Act would eventually result in a re-
peal or modification of existing re-
tirement systems. In our State Em-
ployees Retirement System, for ex-
ample, the employees contribute
from 3% to 8% of their salaries, de-
pending upon their age when they
entered the service. Under the pro-
posed amendment to the Social Se-
curity Act they would be required to
contribute to the Federal govern-
ment 1% of their salaries imme-
diately, which amount, by the pro-
visions of the law, gradually in-
creases to 3%. The State government
would not be required to contribute,
although private employers are re-
quired to make contributions equal
to those made by the employees.
The Wagner amendment does
not, by its terms, repeal or modify
any existing pension system. Senator
Wagner in his statement suggested
that existing plans would be coor-
dinated with the social security pro-
visions but State employees and
teachers see no necessity for the pro-
posed extension to them, although
they do not object to the extension
of the Social Security Act to public
employees and teachers who are not
members of an existing system. They
object to the extension of the Social
Security Act to the public employ-
ees of the State of New York be-
cause they see no advantage in be-
coming members of two separate
and distinct retirement systems and
making double contributions from
their salaries; they feel that the ex-
isting provisions of the State Retire-
ment Law are adequate and satis-
factory and they fear that the ex-
tension of this law may, in the fu-
ture, result in the modification or
repeal of the State Retirement Sys-
tem.
Congress has not acted on the
Wagner Bill. It is still in committee,
Whether it will be amended to ex-
clude members of existing systems
cannot be prophesied at this time.
The Association has communicated
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Social Security or the
State Pension System?
(Continued from page 239)
its opposition to Senator Wagner
and has recently asked him if he
would issue a statement for publica-
tion in “The State Employee.” It is
hoped that his statement may be
printed in the next issue.
Employees may be interested in a
comparison of the provisions of the
Social Security Act with those con-
tained in the State Employees Re-
tirement System. While the Social
Security Act is very detailed in its
provisions, it may be summed up
briefly as follows:
It makes provision for benefit pay-
ments to be made to any worker
who has succeeded in attaining what
the act defines as a “fully insured
status” or a reduced benefit from a
“currently insured status.” These
benefits commence when, but not be-
fore, he attains the age of sixty-five
and continue until his death. The
size of this old-age benefit is de-
pendent on the average of his earn-
ings for the years he has worked and
the length of time he has worked.
In no case is the benefit, if the work-
er qualifies as fully insured, less than
$10 per month, but in no event can
the benefit for the worker and his
family exceed $85 per month, no
matter how many dependents he
may have. This benefit is known as
the “primary insurance benefit” and
is the basis for the other benefits,
which are as follows:
The wage earner’s wife, if she is
sixty-five or over, or when she reach-
es sixty-five, also receives one-half
of her husband’s “primary insur-
ance benefits.” His dependent chil-
dren under eighteen years likewise
receive a one-half “primary insur-
ance benefit.” If the wage earner
dies, irrespective of his age, and has
therefore succeeded in fulfilling the
requirements of period and value of
work, his widow, when she reaches
sixty-five years of age, or thereafter,
receives three-quarters of the “pri-
mary insurance benefits” and each
dependent child under eighteen re-
ceives a one-half benefit. :
If, however, the wage earner
leaves no dependent entitled to bene-
fits, a small Jump sum payment is
made, which may be used toward
funeral expenses. There is a similar
provision for monthly payments for
parents over sixty-five, who were de-
pendent on the wage earner. All
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benefits are provided and benefi--
ciaries named by statute and cannot
be altered by the wage earner.
None of these monthly benefits
can total in one family more than
(1) twice the “primary insurance
benefit,” or (2) 80% of his average
monthly pay, or (3) $85, whichever
is the least.
A few typical illustrations may
panty this explanation. Old-age
benefits for a worker who has ten
years coverage with an average wage
of $100 per month would give him a
benefit of $27.50 per month, while
the same worker with thirty years
coverage at the same salary would
receive a benefit of $32.50 per
month. The benefits, under the same
circumstances, to a widow would be
$20.63 per month and $24.38 per
month respectively. Under the same
circumstances, a widow with one
child would receive a benefit of
$34.38 per month and $40.63 per
month respectively.
If the worker leaves no survivor
qualified for monthly benefits, a
lump sum death benefit is payable
which may be used for funeral ex-
penses. The maximum death pay-
ment under any circumstances is
$336, while the minimum death pay-
ment is $123.60.
The following comparison with
the State Retirement System will
illustrate the different provisions of
the two systems:
Death Benefits, In the State Em-
ployee’s Retirement System an em-
ployee who dies in service receives
the return of all the contributions he
has made, with interest at 4% plus
a death benefit of one-half his last
year’s salary, if he has been employed
more than six years. An employee
who has served less than six years re-
ceives a death benefit of one month’s
salary for each year’s service.
Under the Social Security Act the
lump sum death payments cannot
exceed $336 no matter how large his
salary. The money contributed to
the Federal system does not belong
to the employee and he never gets
any part of it back unless he or his
family qualifies for benefits under
the provisions of the Act. Under the
State system an employee can bor-
row half his contributions at any
time. Under the Social Security Act
an employee cannot borrow any part
of his contribution.
Disability Retirement. If a State
employee is disabled as a result of
an accident arising out of his em-
ployment, he receives, under the
State system, three-fourths of his
average salary until his death or
until he is able to return to work.
Under the Federal Social Security
Act, no disability payments of any
kind are made. If an employee is
totally disabled as a result of an ac-
cident occurring in his employment
or elsewhere, he receives no benefits
until such time as he becomes sixty-
five years of age, but upon reaching
the age of sixty-five he would get
the monthly benefits to which he is
entitled by reason of his years of
coverage.
Options. Under the State Retire-
ment System the employee has the
option to take a pension payable to
himself or for the benefit of some
member of his family, or a pension
payable to himself jointly with some
member of his: family.
There are no options under the So-
cial Security Act and the benefits are
payable only under the circum-
stances defined in the law.
Amount of Pension. The retire-
ment allowance to State employees
under the State Retirement System
is considerably larger in most cases
than under the Federal Act. For ex-
ample, under the Federal Act, the
maximum pension payments to a
worker, after forty years coverage, is
$56 per month, no matter how large
his salary ma yhave been Family
benefits are payable to a wife or
widow only if she is sixty-five years
or over, and for children only while
they are under eighteen.
Under the State System an em-
ployee receives a pension of approx-
imately 1/70th of his annual salary
for each year of service, so that an
employee who has thirty-five years
of service would receive a pension of
approximately one-half of his final
average salary. Final average salary
is defined as the average salary re-
ceived during any consecutive five
year period, which means the high-
est five years.
Under the State System an em-
ployee can retire at any time after
reaching the age of sixty, or he can,
by paying at a higher rate, retire at
age fifty-five. Under certain circum-
stances, he may retire at an earlier
age if he loses his position through
no fault of his own and has had
twenty years of service.
The Federal Act does not provide
for any benefits whatsoever until the
employee retires after reaching the
age of sixty-five.
The State Employee
Our Aims In
Resolutions adopted at the Annual
Meeting on October 15th, dealing
with matters of vital interest to
every State employee, lays the
groundwork for our activities for
1941. Let us first review the many
improvements in working condi-
tions which our organization has
sought in the past few years, and
which it will continue to work for.
Let us then examine new matters
which, if attained will, we believe,
greatly benefit the State service and
the State employees.
Adequate Salaries
“In order to attract unusual merit
and ability to the service of the State
of New York, to stimulate higher
efficiency among the personnel, to
provide skilled leadership in admin-
istrative departments, to reward
merit and to ensure to the people
and to the taxpayers of the State of
New York the highest return in ser-
vices for the necessary costs of gov-
ernment, it is hereby declared to be
the policy of the State, in accordance
with the mandate of the constitution,
to provide equal pay for equal work,
and regular increases in pay in prop-
er proportion to increase of ability,
increase of output and increase of
quality of work demonstrated in
service,” constitutes the preamble to
Chapter 859, of the Laws of 1937,
better known as the Feld-Hamilton
Civil Service Career Law. After
three years of operation, there is
general agreement that the Career
Law fulfills the purposes for which
it was enacted.
At the present time, however, less
than 50% of State workers are in-
cluded under the provisions of the
Feld-Hamilton Law. During the
past two years, the Association spon-
sored legislation to bring mental
hygiene institutional employees, and
correction department employees un-
der the terms of the career law.
‘These two groups number well over
20,000 employees and are the largest
groups outside the law at present.
During 1941, legislation will again
be sponsored to extend the Career
Law to mental hygiene institutional
employees, correction institutional
employees and other groups not now
covered.
Our attempt to inform citizens
and taxpayers concerning the true
November
facts as to “where tax money comes
from and where it goes” will be
continued. Many commendable re-
ports reached the Association on its
publication of “The Taxpayer's Big-
gest Bargain” during the budget
controversy early this year. Appar-
ently many citizens did not realize
that only 7.1c out of every tax dol-
lar paid by the average taxpayer
went for the operation of State Gov-
ernment. And that out of the over
four hundred million State budget
total, only 6.7%, was used to pay the
salaries of employees of State admin-
istrative departments, and 9.8% to
pay the costs, including salaries, of
employees of State institutions, State
schools and colleges. Through the
columns of “The State Employee”
and otherwise, citizens and taxpay-
ers will be further enlightened and
informed on the valuable services
rendered day in and day out by the
faithful army of State workers.
Because of its sponsorship of the
Feld-Ostertag Law in 1938, which
established the Classification Divi-
sion in the Civil Service Depart-
ment, our Association feels a respon-
sibility for the success of the work
of that Division which is so essential
to the establishment of truly de-
scriptive titles which are necessary
to the carrying out of the Feld-Ham-
ilton Law and its application to
thousands of State institutional and
other workers, and also in the ex-
tension of the competitive civil ser-
vice classification. A strong appeal
will be made to budgeting author-
ities to provide for the proper func-
tioning of the Classification Divi-
sion by necessary appropriations for
its efficient administration.
In discussing adequate salaries, it
would be amiss to neglect the “com-
mutation” problem existing today in
the case of many employees of State
institutions. The Mental Hygiene
Law provides that where an em-
ployee lives off the grounds of the
institution, that a commutation al-
lowance should be paid such em-
ployee—eight dollars per month for
each meal, and eight dollars for
lodging, and that an additional eight
dollars be paid to heads of families.
In spite of this clear provision, many
employees living off the grounds re-
ceive only partial allowance, or none
1941
at all. This is due to insufficient ap-
propriations. The Association will
again appeal to budgeting author-
ities to make certain that increased
appropriations are accorded to State
institutions to enable full payment
of the commutation payments pro-
vided by law. Our members in State
institutions are looking forward to
the day when this question of com-
mutation payments may be taken
care of in a manner satisfactory to
all concerned. There seems little
doubt that basic cash salary scales
with deductions for meals or lodg-
ing, instead of the present commu-
tation plan, will be adopted eventu-
ally and will obviate many of the
present difficulties. This matter has
been the subject of careful study for
sometime by the Executive Depart-
ment.
Along the line of compensation
arises not only the question of ade-
quate traveling expenses for State
workers, but also the matter of pay-
ing public works department em-
ployces the field allowances provided
by the public works law. Frequent-
ly, employees are transferred from
one part of the State to another, and
the transportation of self, family
and effects involves substantial ex-
penditures which are caused, but
not borne by the State. Upon in-
quiry the Association is informed
that many private employers cover
such expenses, some fully, others par-
tially. Ficld employees of the de-
partment of public works incur ex-
penses continuously in line of duty
which are not reimbursed by the
State, although such reimbursement
seems to be provided for in the
statute. Proper appeals to budget-
ing authorities along these lines will
be made.
Improve Civil Service Functioning
The Association will continue to
work for the improvement of civil
service administration in accordance
with its basic policy of fostering the
merit system. It has advocated, and
will continue to urge the extension
of the competitive class, and in this
looks for early action by the Special
Committee appointed by Governor
Lehman to study this important
matter. It will urge that sufficient
funds be appropriated to enable the °
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Our Aims In 1941
(Continued from page 241)
Civil Service Department to func-
tion as fully as the personnel admin-
istration agency of the State. It will
endeavor to secure a sound plan of
appeals for dismissed employees, and
to secure protection against unfair
dismissals of employees in the non-
competitive and labor classes. Our
Association has noted a steady im-
provement in the administration of
civil service in this State.
Working Hours
Many employees in State instit-
tutions are still working 12 or more
hours a day. Certainly the State of
New York, whose interest in pri-
vate employees as to their hours of
work, etc., must maintain its own
house in order in all such respects
and to lead the way at all times as
the model employer. After many
years of effort, our Association in
1936 established an eight hour day
by law for thousands of State em-
ployees on “ward work” in State in-
stitutions. In 1937, the shorter work-
ing hours was extended by statute
to employees in the kitchens and
dining rooms of such institutions.
Since that time legislation has been
introduced each year which would
extend the shorter day to the re-
maining thousands of institutional
workers not employed on the wards,
or in kitchens or dining rooms of
these institutions, which employees
seem just as equally justified to have
the shorter hours. However, our ef-
forts in this direction have not yet
been successful. They will be con-
tinued, as, certainly our Empire
State cannot long permit this condi-
tion to exist while at the same time
properly and consistently regulating
the working hours of private em-
ployees.
Our Association is committed to
continue its efforts towards the
eventual establishment of a five day
week in State service. The shorter
work week has been tried in many
private concerns, and its success
seems demonstrated by its continu-
ance.
Sick Leaves and Vacations
Our organization has consistently
advocated the establishment of uni-
form minimum sick leave rules for
State workers. In 1935 it was as-
sumed that fair minimum sick leave
rules had been secured for all State
employees, as a special committee
of the Governor's cabinet adopted a
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satisfactory set of such rules. We
were disappointed to find that these
rules, adopted after much study and
debate, were not applied to the
twenty odd thousand employees in
mental hygiene institutions. To this
day these employees are being
“docked” for being sick a half-day,
a day, or longer periods, and in some
cases after serving the State faith-
fully for fifteen or twenty years. In
practically every case the State
“saves” money on such sickness, as
no additional employee is hired to
fill his place in the event of minor
illnesses. This question is even more
pressing in view of the very small
salaries received by the rank and file
of institutional workers. Of course
it is argued that such employees re-
ceive hospital care. It is true that
they may report to the sick ward for
medical attention, but it is only in
severe cases that they receive hos-
pital attention or incur expense for
the State. The Governor’s Cabinet
Committee felt justified in establish-
ing minimum sick leave rules for
State workers, and such rules or
their equivalent should be applied to
institutional workers as well as to
the employees of administrative de-
partments. Certainly the living ex-
penses of the sick employee and his
or her family are no less during the
term of disability, and are probably
greater. The Association feels cer-
tain that this unjust condition has
been overlooked and allowed to
continue as means of false economy,
at the expense of low-paid institu-
tional workers, rather than because
budgeting authorities do not feel
that institutional workers are enti-
tled to the minimum sick leaves now
accorded to employees of admin-
istrative departments. In 1939 Gov-
ernor Lehman vetoed a legislative
measure to establish minimum sick
leave rules for mental hygiene insti-
titional employees on the ground
that such matters should rightly be
covered by administrative rules. This
Association feels that the rules
should be made and will continue
to appeal to administrative heads
and budgeting authorities for relief
in this matter. Lacking rules, stat-
utory action is the only recourse.
The Association will endeavor to
establish more uniform practices
among departments, concerning va-
cations and in the granting of leaves
of absences, so that all employees
may be treated fairly and equitably.
Protect Stability of Pension Fund
Our organization, which took the
initiative in seeking the establish-
ment of the State Retirement Sys-
tem in 1921, fostering its develop-
ment during succeeding years, will
continue its efforts to protect the
stability of the Retirement System,
which according to experts is one of
the best in the world.
Continue Cooperative Enterprises
The Group Insurance Plans
founded and developed by the As-
sociation will be continued at the
present high level of efficiency. At
the present time over 30,000 State
employees are receiving either life or
accident and sickness insurance pro-
tection at rates lower than such pro-
tection is obtainable by the indivi-
dual. Since June 1, 1939, over $300,-
000.00 has been paid to the bene-
ficiaries of employees insured under
the life insurance plan. Most claims
have been settled within 24 hours,
and with a minimum of red tape.
Over $400,000.00 has been paid to
disabled State workers insured un-
der the accident and sickness insur-
ance plan since its inception in 1936,
The Association through its chap-
ters and local employee groups will
continue to sponsor the establish-
ment of Federal Credit Unions
among State employee groups wher-
ever the need prevails. During the
past year millions of dollars were
loaned in times of need to State em-
ployees as members of federal credit
unions operating at State institutions
and among other groups. Besides
this splendid loan service, the credit
unions have provided sound invest-
ment opportunities.
Continue Careful Examination of
All Legislation Introduced
in the Legislature
During each of the past few years
there has been an increasing number
of measures introduced in the Legis-
lature vitally affecting State employ-
ees, as to their compensation, retire-
ment, hours of work, sick leaves,
vacations, or otherwise. Our Asso-
ciation, through its officers, commit-
tees and counsel has attempted to
represent the best interests of State
workers on all these measures. This
representation before executive, legis-
lative and administrative heads has
become a very large undertaking,
but the work is so important to em-
ployees that it will have first atten-
tion during the coming session,
Much of the legislation usually pro-
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The State Employee
Contest Extended
The Association’s Contest, as pre-
sented on pages 266 and 267 of this
issue, has been extended. The time
for filing statements and advertising
questionnaires has been postponed
to December 20th, in response to the
requests of numerous members
throughout the State who wrote the
Contest Editor and urged that addi-
tional time be given.
Many splendid statements have
been received and it is certain that
the Contest Judges will have a dif-
ficult task to decide what statements
deserve the award of the Cash Prizes
of $100. President Brind will an-
nounce the Contest Judges in the
near future.
The advertising questionnaires
thus far received contain valuable
information concerning the adver-
tising value of “The State Employ-
ee.” Some of the facts revealed on
the basis of questionnaires thus far
returned are surprising. Apparently
on an average four individuals in the
subscriber’s household come in con-
tact with the regular issues of “The
State Employee.” A large percent-
age of State employees operate auto-
mobiles, owned either by themselves
or some other member of their
household, and the average mileage
per year is over 10,000. About 75%
of State workers, on the basis of re-
turns received use cigarettes, 25%,
cigars, 30°/, cosmetics.
Many Association members appa-
rently own their own homes. In the
matter of sports and hobbies of em-
ployees—golf, dancing, tennis, mo-
vies, swimming, football and base-
ball—seem to be the favorites. The
average mileage Association mem-
bers travel yearly on railroads, busses
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Committees For 1941 |
WM. F. McDONOUGH
THOMAS STOWELL
Chairman, Legislative Committee
Chairman, Social Committee
President Brind has recently announced the following committee appoint-
ments for the year 1941:
LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE
W. F. McDonough, Agriculture & Markets, Albany, Chairman
Dr. Frank L. Tolman, Education, Albany
Charles L. Campbell, Civil Service, Albany
Andrew C. Doyle, Labor, Albany
John Jahn, Public Works, Albany
Joseph Lipsky, Education, Albany
Joseph Crowe, D.P.U.L, Albany
Milton Schwartz, Insurance, New York City
J. Earl Kelly, Tax, New York City
Conrad O'Malley, Public Works, Rochester
John Livingstone, State Hospital, Poughkeepsie
John McDonald, State Hospital, Rochester
Wilfrid Denno, State Prison, Attica
Harry Fritz, State Vocational Institute, West Coxsackie
Ralph Conkling, State School, Warwick
Tracy Tobey, State Hospital, Ithaca
SOCIAL COMMITTEE
Thomas Stowell, Health, Albany, Chairman
Francis Griffin, Education, Albany
Beulah Bailey Thull, Tax, Albany
Hazel Ford, Tax, Albany
Frances Sperry, D.P.U.L,, Albany
Jesse McFarland, Social Welfare, Albany
Grace E. Keck, Health Laboratory, Albany
John J. Joyce, Audit and Control, Albany
Nini Foran, Civil Service, Albany
Mary Meany, Public Works, Albany
Lillian Hyatt, Education, Albany
Mildred Meskill, Agriculture & Markets, Albany.
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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
Staff Photographer
‘Walter J. Schoonmaker
Business Manager Joseph D. Lochner
Editorial Board
'W. F. McDonough
Ralph D. Fleming A. K. Getman
Arthur S. Hopkins Edward L. Ryan
Association Officers
Charles A. Brind, Jr. - - - President
Harold J. Fisher Vice-President
Earl P, Pfannebecker + Treasurer
John T. DeGraff - - Counsel
Janet Macfarlane - - - - - Secretary
Joseph D. Lochner - Executive Secretary
=
Salaries for Merit
The merit system in public em-
ployment has been recognized by the
State of New York and other juris-
dictions because it has within it the
dual virtue of securing to all citizens
the maximum of service with the
maximum of fair play in the selec-
tion of those citizens employed to
render that service. The provision of
the State Constitution which re-
quires that all persons serving the
State in its civil service must be se-
lected and promoted on basis of
merit and fitness as ascertained by
competitive tests, establishes a world-
old principle essential to successful
achievement. Nomadic or settled,
society has always depended upon
those best fitted to do the task at
hand. The progress of industrial pro-
duction is but a day by day, year by
year, record of recognition of out-
standing learning and skill coupled
with great industry and initiative.
And, as tasks and apprentices have
increased with civilization, so in the
multitudinous services carried on di-
rectly by the people it is imperative
that efficiency be the watchword.
New York State services, in line with
general progress, have increased tre-
mendously. It does not take too long
a memory to recall when the De-
partment of Agriculture and Mar-
kets, for instance, consisted of a
commissioner, a general assistant, a
ery
stenographer, housed in a single
room in the State Capitol, and two
field men. Today, that Department
utilizes several floors in the State
Office Building, has Division offices
in the principal cities and employs
several hundred workers, The De-
partment safeguards the entire food
supply of the people of the State
from its wholesomeness and free-
dom from adulteration to its weigh-
ing and packaging, as well as hav-
ing to do with animal diseases, plant
diseases, grading of products, estab-
lishment of fair prices, the conduct
of the State Fair and a dozen other
public services. Likewise, the orig-
inal departments of State govern-
ment have all developed into verit-
able beehives of industry and many
new departments and agencies have
been added. It is well to remember
at all times that when the legislative
branch of our Government acting
for the people says that thus and so
shall be done in the way of public
education, health, conservation, pro-
tection of life or property, or along
any line that it is the duty of the
Executive and the administrative
heads of government to organize the
particular functioning necessary to
bring the service to the people along
the most economical and efficient
lines possible. The Department of
Civil Service is the employment
agency of State Goverment. Under
its laws the workers necessary to
every service are selected and re-
cruited and paid. Each job is classi-
fied and each job is allocated to a
standard wage scale. The Governor
through his Division of the Budget
and the Legislature through its pow-
er of appropriation are responsible
for the money necessary to permit
the carrying on of the activities
which the Legislature in past ses-
sions has deemed shall be done.
The civil service employees of
New York State are fortunate in
having an employer who has first
of all established in the Constitution
itself the principle of selection on
merit and promotion on merit,
thereby assuring a security in em-
ployment based upon the most in-
telligent conceptions of personnel ad-
ministered yet devised. The worker
is also fortunate in that the scales of
pay are known to him and the pro-
mise is made by the State that he
shall receive yearly increments until
his maximum is reached, fitting the
known value of the work to the
people whom he serves. When the
Legislature of 1937 adopted the
Feld-Hamilton Career Law, it did
so after many years of turmoil and
distress among State workers and in
answer to committees of its own
creation which had recommended a
sound, stable plan of dealing with
salaries and with merit.
This is the fourth year under the
career law and there has not been a
single voice heard among over thir-
teen million citizens of the State for
its repeal. Gradually, the fairness of
the principle of equal pay for equal
work, has grown in its appeal to
citizens, administrators and employ-
ees. It must be considered at all
times that this law took special priv-
ilege out of the State payroll. It
could not remedy the effect of all
of the ugly injustices which had
arisen in the service throughout the
years. It could and did establish a
reign of fair-play in salaries possible
only under such an enlightened law.
State employees have no illusions
as to the career law's freedom from
attack by those who look upon the
worker as ready prey whenever cur-
tailment of taxes or the payment for
public services is being considered.
During the past two sessions of the
Legislature, we have seen that body
descended upon by groups led by
selfishly interested persons each
vying with the other in demands
for the letting of State employee
blood by way of reductions in their
salaries. In 1938, these groups were
successful, and the Legislature
against the advice and wishes of the
Governor revised his already pre-
pared budget to reduce the salaries
of State workers. It does not make
any difference whether we describe
that act as “taking out the incre-
ments,” or by its true name “salary
slashing,” the effect was the same.
The State employee was singled out,
(Continued on page 245)
The State Employee
singled out as the single victim for
as unfair and as brutal discrimina-
tion as ever occurred in any dark age
of political illsightedness.
Last year, although the bitterness
of uninformed groups toward State
employees exhibited at legislative
hearings was just as severe, good
sense prevailed and there was a rec-
cognition of facts and of fair play
which resulted in the State’s carry-
ing out its salary contract, with em-
ployees as sealed in the career law.
Tt is the earnest hope of State civil
service employees, fifty thousand of
them, and the hope of their depen-
dents, that there will be no recur-
rence of attack upon or of discrimi-
nation toward them because they
happen to be citizens selected under
special provisions of the Constitution
to serve the State..
No long argument is needed to
show the fallacy of inadequate sal-
aries in State service or in private
service. We know that State salaries
are moderate and that they have
been arrived at in as scientific a
manner as it is possible to employ.
We know that the number of em-
ployed is not determined by the em-
ployees but by the legislative, ex-
ecutive and administrative heads and
is sufficient only to the carrying on
of public services. We know that
public services are paid from tax col-
lections and in common with other
citizens State employees contribute
their share as home owners, as in-
come tax payers, and in any and all
of the various ways by which taxes
are obtained. Salaries have really
nothing to do with the amount of
taxes a citizen should pay, except as
a basis for income tax payments and
in this all workers, public and pri-
vate, are dealt with alike. When the
State worker’s salary is reduced, as a
State economy measure, it is as plain
as day that the State worker is being
asked to contribute inequitably to
State economy—to pay a special tax!
It is not conceivable that there is a
single citizen of the State, who
would with a full understanding of
the facts subscribe to exacting more
than a fair share toward economy
from one class of workers as against
another. When economy comes in
State government it must come
through the foregoing of some pres-
ent public service by citizens, or by
increased efficiency of State service.
To this latter this Association is
deliberately and definitely and con-
tinuously pledged. The elimination
November
of any present service is squarely up
to the Legislature as direct represen-
tatives of the people. This is a heavy
responsibility of the Legislature and
one which they can meet only by the
most careful evaluation of each ser-
vice now afforded to the people.
They cannot honestly or intelligent-
ly or justly establish any real savings
by salary slashing and at the expense
of the worker. To make the worker
who is assigned to a task which is to
be continued bear a salary cut in
the interest of general economy is
a rank injustice to which no fair-
minded citizen would lend himself
for an instant. And do not mistake
or misunderstand—the refusal to ob-
serve the career law increments
would be to definitely reduce a State
employee’s salary and to discriminate
directly against that employee. __
Should such a move develop at the
next session of the Legislature, all
men and women in the State service
would resist it as an inexcusably un-
fair discrimination against them as
citizens and as workers. We do not
expect any such move but if it
should come we shall be ready as
an Association to denounce it fully
and firmly.
The Front Cover
The striking picture of the fawn
on the Front Cover of this issue was
taken by Walter J. Schoonmaker,
Assistant State Zoologist, and Presi-
dent of the New York State Nature
Association. Mr. Schoonmaker is
Staff Photographer for our maga-
zine. The picture was taken in the
upper part of Saratoga County.
Unity Means Good-Will
Yes, the people of the United
States do well to give themselves
over completely and anxiously to
the ways and means for a de-
finitely helpful unity. To stumble
along as a people, aimlessly, in the
face of world conditions, would be
a monstrous crime against civiliza-
tion. And we do know the facts. At
no time in the history of the world
has there been such effective means
of communication or such wide-
spread use of such means. Daily,
men and women of our Country
hear from every part of the world.
Doubtless much of the information
contained in official dispatches is
colored by diplomatic’ necessity or
intrigue. But there is a substance to
what we hear sufficient to impress
the most indifferent thinker to the
fact that since 1900 the peoples of
various nations have been moving in
strange ways and under the influ-
ence of hitherto unrecognized forces,
The movement today is strongly to-
ward a bandit psychology which if
adopted world-wide, would leave no
hearth long secure and no nation
long in peace,
Fortunately, our people have had
the benefit of practically forty years
of observation and study of the
progress of the various ideologies of
Europe and Asia. They have seen
persecution, and revolt against per-
secution, They have seen culture
rise, and they have seen culture give
way to ignorance and hate. They
have seen freedom and happiness
grow in the hearts of whole nations
and blossom into democracies, and
they have seen these democracies
wither and perish. They have seen
unity of various kinds thrive here
and there for short periods only to
give way to human passions and am-
bitions. They have seen Russia,
crushing her people into peasantry
to maintain the despotic pomp of
degenerate rulers; Germany and
Italy, destroying human initiative
and freedom to nurture the forces of
power through militarism; France,
losing her birthright of liberty, fra-
ternity and equality in a maze of
petty and internal vice and corrup-
tion.
And why this old-world bogging
down of progress of civilization?
There is but one answer. God and
his eternal and necessary ideology of
good-will has been lacking. God
was banished to the wood-shed of
the poor; to the cellar-ways of the
powerful; to the ante-rooms of par-
liaments. God was relegated to the
vanguard of the march; to the door-
steps of diplomacy.
Our United States is great because
God has thus far been accorded the
respect and the love of our people.
Deference and thanksgiving to God
are in our Declaration of Indepen-
dence. Gratitude to God marks the
very first lines of our own State’s
Constitution. And before all Consti-
tutions and Laws, God walked the
by-ways of New York through the
glorious Marquette and LaSalle, and
countless other apostles of religion;
inspired the liberty-loving New En-
glanders who erected their meeting
houses to His honor in every hamlet
they entered; held sway in the south-
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Unity Means Good Will
(Continued from page 245)
land and the westland in countless
missions and schools. So today,
when we aspire to unity, we know
full well from many lessons that
we can be successful only if we take
stock first of spiritual values and
pray humbly for the sublime gift
of Nation-wide good-will.
Vital needs challenge us on every
hand. Among the first is the need
for wise formulaes for a just bear-
ing of the expenses of governmental
activities so that the natural wealth
of the Nation and the man-created
refinements shall be so used that life
and property may be really devoted
to the attainment of human happi-
ness. There is the outstanding need
for the application of present know-
ledge to the problem of robust health
for all of our people. Health is the
very foundation of wealth and secur-
ity and happiness. Despite great
strides in research and in profession-
al excellence, literally millions of our
people are physically unfit—unfit to
do their share of work, unfit to bear
their part in National defense, unfit
to enjoy the full benefits of an in-
telligently organized society. Much
of this unfitness begins with child-
hood, or early youth. Thanks to wise
leaders, the schools are doing a con-
tinuously better job with regard to
checking upon eyes and teeth and
other elemental health matters. Pri-
vate groups such as the Y.M.C.A.,
Y.W.C.A., Y.M.H.A., Boy Scouts,
and the like are active in a limited
way. What is needed is a complete
transformation of our viewpoint
with reference to health. It may not
in common sense be a hit or miss
proposition. Freedom does not thrive
on neglect of a factor of such im-
portance to society. It does not make
so much difference as to the kind of
clothes a person wears; the essential
thing is what kind of a body is cov-
ered by velvet or homespun. Gen-
eral disease, specific ailment, epi-
demics must be considered of vital
importance so far as public interest
is concerned, Is it not time for a
Nation-wide program for physical
betterment? And will it not begin
with well-equipped public gymna-
siums available to each and every
youth, and to adult manhood and
womanhood, with constantly present
facilities for necessary hygiene, and
the giving of knowledge of indivi-
dual bodily needs, so that we may
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have a Nation of strong men and
women in whom the certainty of ef-
ficiency breeds courage and self-re-
liance and a sense of social security
valuable beyond any yet envisioned.
‘There are other things that good-
will can bring to us, many other
things. We may be sure, however,
that without spiritual and material
health we too despite oceans and
mountains and other natural aids,
will fall victims to social and political
ills fatal for many generations.
As employees of the State of New
York we have a special call to give
freely of our hearts and minds to
the upbuilding of a unity founded
on good-will and tolerance and hu-
man dignity that will outlast all the
God-lacking ideologies of destruc-
tion and of degradation that now
curse a large part of the World in
which we live. Every people is de-
pendent upon spiritual leadership
inspiring to unity and progress. So
long as we remain true to the God
of our fathers we cannot fail.
Kings Park Credit Union
The Kings Park State Hospital
Federal Credit Union, which was
sponsored and established through
the activities of the Kings Park State
Hospital Chapter in April of this
year, announces that in the first six
months of operation, 325 employees
have become members with assets to
date already totaling over $7,000.00.
At the organization meeting the
following were named to serve: Ken-
neth V. Borey, President; Dr. Isa-
dore Schnap, Vice-President; Ernest
Palcic, Secretary-Treasurer; and
Trene Sullivan and Clarence Lyons,
Directors.
The Credit Committee is _com-
posed of Charles Shaller, Ralph
Piper and Michael Long. The Super-
visory committee is made up of Ed-
ward Sommer, Loyd Anderson and
Charles Collins.
New Constitution Available
At the Annual Meeting October
15th it was agreed to prepare and
have available for the use of mem-
bers a supply of copies of the new
Constitution and By-Laws of the
Association as adopted at that meet-
ing.
A supply of the new Constitution
and By-Laws has been prepared and
any interested employees or groups
may obtain same by applying to As-
sociation Headquarters, Room 156,
State Capitol, Albany, N. Y.
Our Aims in 1941
(Continued from page 242)
posed is of a type that its enactment
would be extremely detrimental to
the merit system.
To Aid State Employees Inducted
Into Federal Military Service
‘The Association is pledged to aid
in every possible way all employees
inducted into Federal Military Ser-
vice. A list of the employees of vari-
ous departments and institutions, as
inducted, will be carried in future
issues of our magazine.
As has been the practice during
the past, our Association will con-
tinue friendly cooperation with all
employee and other groups devoted
to human welfare and progress.
Your Cooperation Needed
Of course, our Association will be
only as successful during the coming
year as the enthusiasm and active
support of its membership through-
out the service. Membership support
and cooperation is vitally necessary
to the success of the splendid pro-
gram outlined for attention. Surely
the hard work, fine accomplish-
ments and the program for 1941,
merit the support of every State em-
ployee. Certainly the unselfish, un-
paid officers, committees and repre-
sentatives of the Association merit
unanimous support and assistance in
the work which they are doing for
the benefit of all State workers.
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The State Employee
Candidates io be Fingerprinted |
Establishment of a foolproof new
fingerprinting procedure, to prevent
substitution of impostors by ill-
* equipped candidates in civil service
examinations, has fortified New
York State’s merit system.
Under an ironclad Civil Service
Department regulation, every con-
testant—before entering examina-
tion rooms henceforth—must first
leave the imprints of his forefingers
on an identification card with the
admitting official.
And, from now on, every new job
appointee must submit to compre-
hensive prints of every fingertip be-
fore he begins service.
Directing enforcement of this new
policy is F. H. Densler, executive
officer of the department, who has
just issued instructions in finger-
printing methods to appointing of-
ficers of all State departments.
Inauguration of the system, he be-
lieves, calls two-strikes on successful
operation of the “substitute racket”
hereafter.
“And, in addition,” he said, “the
prints will enable us to double-check
ia.
the veracity of candidates in filling
out application blanks.”
Mr. Densler explained that the
comprehensive prints, taken from
appointees, will be sent promptly to
the Identification Bureau of the
State Correction Department where
experts will check them for possible
disclosures of past prison records.
Thus, future candidates with se-
cret pasts must tell all at the outset
—or stand to terminate an ill-gotten
appointment before the expiration
of a probationary period.
To Egyptian-born Sam A. Balis,
who speaks eight languages, went
the honor of being the first State
appointee to be fingerprinted.
A former New York City resident
who served as a guard in the mu-
nicipal welfare department, Balis
joined the State Health Department
as a junior messenger.
Rolled impressions were taken by
Sheridan Tuffs, Correction Depart-
ment employee, of all Mr. Balis’ fin-
gers. Then “plain” impressions of
both of his thumbs were stamped as
es
well as “plain” group prints of the
other fingers of each hand.
Then, his prints were slipped into
Correction Department files, where i
more than 110,000 other identifica-
tion cards of criminals and honest
citizens alike repose.
Chapter President Dies
Officers of the Association, and
members of the Waterford Canal
Floating Plant Chapter of the Asso-
ciation were grieved by the death of
the President of that Chapter, Frank
M. McGovern. Mr. McGovern was
stricken while participating in a Na-
tional Defense Parade, on October
25th, with fellow members of the
Troy Machinists Union.
Members of the Waterford Chap-
ter attended the wake and church
services in a body. Words fail to ex-
press the sincerity and loyalty the
deceased had for fellow members of
the chapter. Personal contact with
Mr. McGovern impressed one with
his profound respect and interest in
his fellow workman,
Dear Association Member:
Within a short time the 35,000 members of our Association will
again be renewing their membership for the year 1941. This renewal
of membership constitutes a good-sized job for Association represen-
tatives and Headquarters.
About December Ist, each Association Representative, located
in every State Office, Department or Institution, will receive bills for
1941 membership, which will probably be distributed shortly there-
after to each member.
I earnestly request your cooperation in this matter by your
prompt payment of 1941 dues to your representative upon receipt
of your bill. By so doing you lessen the work of your representative,
who serves unselfishly without pay, and thereby give him more time
to care for the more important problems affecting State workers.
Thanking you for your good cooperation in this matter, I am
Sincerely yours,
ay
CHARLEs A. BRIND, JR.
President
November
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CHAPTER IX: DEPARTMENT OF AUDIT AND CONTROL
The following article is the
ninth of a series of articles on
New York State Government.
This series is in charge of our
Editorial Board Member, A.
K. Getman of the State Edu-
cation Department Staff. The
next article of this series,
which will discuss the Depart-
ment of Mental Hygiene, will
be contained in the December
issue.
By
Morris S, TREMAINE
Comptroller
If we view the governmental ac-
tivities of New York State as a
whole (and the State Comptroller
must) we find that they consist of
a vast complex of specialized ser-
vices, part business and part reguls
tory, supported chiefly by taxation
and operating under statutory con-
trols. Let us first make a brief sur-
vey of these services, for they define
the nature and scope of the comp-
troller’s. major problems and re-
sponsibilities,
The strictly “governmental” func-
tions of New York State, as that
term was understood a few decades
ago, now comprise but a minor part
of its many activities. The average
person usually thinks of his State
government chiefly in terms of
courts, the legislature, the governor.
and of an army of office employees
engaged in regulating the daily af-
fairs of citizens. But if this were all.
the problems of government, and of
the comptroller, would be extremely
simple. On the contrary the State
is, not merely a business, as is often
said, but a system of differing busi-
nesses, each with problems fully as
varied and difficult as those of any
large public utility, insurance com-
pany, or other private enterprise.
The State of New York, for ex-
ample, operates and maintains an ex-
tensive system of canalized water-
ways; it reconstructs and constantly
improves a far flung network of
highways, reaching into every corner
of the State; it runs 15 penal institu-
tions and 38 hospitals and training
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schools, with an inmate population
of more than 110,000 and at an an-
nual cost of about $45,000,000; and
it operates normal schools, colleges,
parks with recreational facilities, the
largest employees’ compensation in-
surance system in the United States,
and a retirement insurance system
with a membership of more than
87,000 persons and investments of
around $137,500,000. This, of course,
is only a very brief and wholly in-
adequate glance at the total picture,
but it serves’to indicate, as nothing
else can, the finely developed fiscal
controls that must be maintained if
all these varying businesses are to be
managed lawfully and yet efficiently.
With this general view in mind, we
HON. MORRIS S. TREMAINE
can now start to examine in more
detail the nature of these controls
and the manner in which they
operate.
Status of Comptroller
The State Comptroller in New
York State is a constitutional officer,
elected by the people, and as such is
supreme within the limits of his
authority as defined by the consti-
tution and by statute. These limits,
insofar as the fiscal affairs of the
State are concerned, are very broad.
“The comptroller,” says the State
Finance Law, “shall superintend the
fiscal affairs of the State.” And since
practically every activity of the State
has a fiscal aspect, this means that
nothing of importance can go on
without the comptroller’s know-
ledge, and his supervision of the in-
come or outgo of moneys involved.
The comptroller must audit, before
payment, all expenditures and re-
funds of money in which the State
has an interest; he must audit the
accrual and collection of all revenues
and receipts; he must prescribe the
forms and systems of account neces-
sary to effect these ends, and by con-
stant supervision of the fiscal con-
trols so established see to it that they
work smoothly and efficiently; and
he must, finally, render to the gov-
ernor, the Legislature, State execu-
tives, and the general public, reports
which will tell in understandable
language what is going on, and
what has gone on in the field of the
State’s fiscal affairs. We will find
later on that this latter duty of “re-
porting” dominates, to a large ex-
tent, all others. The chief tool of
management, whether it be the man-
agement that goes into the shaping
of a budget, or that which deals with
the practical administration of opera-
tions under a budget, is information
quickly given, properly classified,
and embedded in a factual back-
ground of past experience. Without
this information, as every executive
fully realizes, no large business
could function. But for the present,
it is sufficient merely to note the
fact, and to add to the foregoing list
of duties, the audit of State mu-
nicipalities, the administration of
State funds and the management of
State investments, amounting to
about $250,000,000. All of which
constitutes a sizeable job that obvi-
ously could not be performed well
(if at all) without proper organiza-
tion. It seems necessary at this point,
therefore, to look into the manner
in which the comptroller’s office is
organized.
Organization of Office
There are three main divisions in
the office, each of which is concerned
with a sharply divided set of activ-
ities. These divisions are: Employ-
ees’ Retirement System; Municipal
Accounts; State Audits and Ac-
The State Employee
counts. A brief review of each will
afford an interesting insight not
only into the office, but also into the
operations of the State itself.
The Division of Employees’ Re-
tirement System takes care of all
matters in connection with the State
system of retirement insurance for
employees of the State and its com-
ponent municipalities. The business
conducted is quite a large one, for
the system has about 87,000 active
members, to whom it makes loans
(25,000 annually) and pays death
benefits and retirement allowances
when due, and from whom it re-
ceives monthly payments of dues.
‘The investments of the system, hav-
ing a value of around $137,500,000,
are managed by the comptroller, and
it is worthy of note that, despite the
restricted character of the invest-
ments and the low rates of interest
on high grade securities during the
past decade, the yield during that
period has averaged around 4%.
Not one cent of principal investment
has ever been lost. It is extremely
doubtful whether any private finan-
cial corporation of comparable size
can boast of so favorable a record.
The Division of Municipal Ac-
counts, as its name implies, audits
the accounts of State municipalities,
and establishes therein systems of fi-
nancial control. It also prepares an-
nually a report on the classified
receipts and expenditures, bonded
debts and other fiscal affairs of all
towns, villages, cities and counties
of the State. No other State of the
Union compiles a report on its mu-
nicipalities in any way comparable
to this. It is invaluable to municipal
officials for purposes of cost com-
parison, to investors, and to students
of government.
The third division of the office,
that of State Audits and Accounts,
is more complex than the other two
and will require fuller treatment.
The division has first been organ-
ized into three bureaus (Office Au-
dit; Accounts; Field Audit); and
those in turn have been organized
into subdivisions (first, units, and
then, sections) each of which deals
with a distinct phase of activity.
Thus, the entire organization of the
office is, it will be noted, on a func-
tional basis, but with the preserva-
tion throughout of the “line” prin-
ciples on which the proper working
of any complex office must depend.
It would require too much space
to attempt a detailed examination of
November
A section of the Payroll Unit showing tabulating machines which prepare
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payrolls and payroll checks of some 28,000 institutional employees, all within
a period of five or six days, twice each month. These payrolls are prepared
from punched cards at the rate of twenty-seven names a minute, and the
checks at about twice that speed. Of course there is a great deal of pre-
paratory work necessary before the payrolls and checks may be run off on
the tabulating machine.
the work of each unit and section of
the division of State audits and ac-
counts. The funds, alone, which
must be audited and accounted for,
some large, some small, some within
the. State treasury, some outside of
it, but all controlled to a greater or
lesser extent by statutes, exceed 400.
But here we must insert a caution.
While about 350 of these funds re-
ferred to are funds in the strictest
sense of the term (i.e., separate bank
accounts subject to separate checks)
the bulk of the State auditing and
accounting is concerned with some
60 funds in the joint custody of the
comptroller and the State treasurer;
and these are merely accounts on the
comptroller’s books, subject to one
kind of check. If the situation were
otherwise, the work of the comptrol-
ler would be enormously increased.
Returning to the organization of
the Division of State Audit and Ac-
counts, let us review very briefly the
work of each bureau:
Bureau of Office Audit: This bu-
reau, subdivided into six main units
(Payroll; General Audit; Highway
Audit; Receipts and Tax Refunds;
Social Welfare; Unemployment In-
surance) examines, before payment,
all claims against the State for ser-
vices of employees; purchases of
goods and services, travel expense,
and fees; distribu-
refunds of tax
tions to localitie
of unemployment insurance benefits.
It now prepares by tabulating ma-
chines the payrolls and payroll
checks of some 28,000 institutional
employees, all within a period of
five or six days, twice each month;
a service which will shortly be ex-
tended to all other regular employ-
ees of the State, numbering about
30,000. These payrolls are prepared
from punched cards at the rate of
27 names a minute, and the checks
at about twice that speed. The sig-
nature on the checks is also printed
by a high speed check signer at the
rate of 15,000 checks per hour. The
main objectives of the audits per-
formed by the bureau will be dis-
cussed later on,
Bureau of Accounts: ‘This bureau,
subdivided into five main units (Ap-
propriations; Warrant and Check
Preparation; Revenues; General Ac-
counting; Filing and Stores) main-
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tains accounts for all appropriations
and allocations thereof by the divi-
sion of the budget; for all funds in
which the State has an interest; and
for each kind of tax or other rev-
enue, It prepares warrants (orders
on the treasury) to pay bills, and
also by arrangement with the trea-
sury, prepares voucher checks with
claimant’s address and payees’ refer-
ence, which, after counter signature,
are delivered to the treasury for sig-
nature and mailing. Not less im-
portant, from the standpoint of re-
SPT Te ee ee ee a Te pd ee ed EMT TS aS
Special Audit) cach of which oper-
ates under the immediate direction
of a supervising accountant. The bu-
reau makes periodic field audits of
several hundred funds outside of the
State treasury; investigates at the
source home relief and other so-
cial welfare expenditures involving
about $195,000,000 annually; con-
ducts field audits of 80 prisons, hos-
pitals, normal schools and other
institutions spending about $52,000-,
000 annually; examines the accounts
of county treasurers and municipal
officers in which the State is inter-
Total Tax Receipts Compared With
State Aid and State Collected Taxes
Shared With Localities, 1929-1940
500,000,000
“500,000,000
450,000,000 450,000,000
400,000,000 400,000.00
‘TOTAL TAX RECEIPTS:
350,000000 350,000,000
500,000,000 300,000.000
250,000,000 250,000,00¢
200,000000 200,000,000
150000000 450,000,000
100,000,000 100,000.000
LOCALITIES SHARE (TOTALSTATLAID)
50,000,000 50009000
° °
29 1930 183!
1932 (993 1964 1995 1936 1937
a)
FISCAL-YEAR ENDED JUNE 3o™
‘This chart, taken from the Comptroller’s Condensed Financial Report for
the fiscal year 1939-40, shows graphically total tax results of the State for the
past twelve years, and the amount thereof distributed to localities by statute
and by appropriation. Since taxes constitute all but a very minor portion of
State revenues, the chart reveals the increasing extent to which such revenues
are being returned to localities as State Aid. The drop in State Aid for 1933-
34 was caused by a permanent shift forward of the dates of some $25,000,000.
porting, is the analysis performed
by tabulating machines of all State
expenditures according to uniform
classifications established by the
comptroller. This will be discussed
more fully later on. The bureau also
maintains a tabulating machine card
record of all State investments, with
cards punched for maturities, and a
card record showing State purchases
from each vendor.
Bureau of Field Audit: This bu-
reau is subdivided into five main
units (Special Fund; Social Welfare;
County and Town; Departmental;
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ested; and supplements the work of
the Bureau of Office Audit by peri-
odic examinations of the revenues
and expenditures of park commis-
sions and other operating agencies.
It constantly supervises and im-
proves the forms, procedures and
other fiscal controls on which the
comptroller must rely for the per-
formance of his duties.
The chart on the following page
will serve to illustrate the lines of
authority and organization of func-
tions in the office. If this is under-
stood, the general plan of State ac-
counting and auditing, as outlined
below, can be grasped without
difficulty.
General Plan of Expenditure Audit
What purposes are served by the
comptroller’s audit of claims against
the State? Hundreds of thousands
of these claims, from several hun-
dred operating institutions and agen-
cies, flow through the comptroller’s
office annually and are processed
for payment. They are of different
varieties, cach demanding separate
treatment; claims, for instance, for
goods purchased under contract; for
foods purchased in open market;
for reimbursement of traveling ex-
penses; for construction and repair
work; for salaries of employees; for
services of non-employces; for re-
funds of taxes and fees; for statutory
payments to school systems, county
health officers, town and. county
highway officials, social welfare offi-
cials, private institutions and others;
and for unemployment insurance
and retirement benefits.
But despite this great variety of
claims, the main objectives sought
by the comptroller’s audit are re-
latively few and simple. They are as
follows:
1. To determine that the appro-
priation account to which the
charge is made is correct. If this
were not done, then obviously all
the work performed in the prepara-
tion and passage of the State budget
would be useless. The purpose of
this step in the audit, therefore, may
be said to be to maintain the in-
tegrity of the State’s budget.
2. To determine that there are
funds available to pay the claim, In
a private business this is ordinarily
a matter of watching the bank ac-
count. However, in a government
where expenditures for each purpose
are controlled by appropriation, it
must be determined that there is
enough of the appropriation left to
pay the claim. And since it would
be unfair to vendors to require them
to wait for a deficiency appropriation
where the funds had run out, the
audit of all purchases starts with the
purchase order or contract.
3. To determine that the goods
billed were actually received or the
services rendered in the quantity
and of the quality charged for. This
is accomplished partly by the re-
quirement that each such claim must
be covered by a previously issued
purchase order; partly by the rule
The State Employee
that a signed inspection or materials
received slip for each purchase must
be on hand in departmental files for
subsequent field audit.
4. To ascertain that prices charged
are reasonable; that if the items
covered are under contract, the terms
of the transaction are in accord
therewith; and that prices on open
market purchases conform to pre-
vailing quotations in the locality.
5. To determine that payrolls
cover only positions authorized by
law and filled by employees appoint-
ed in conformity therewith.
6. To determine that proper au-
thority for all travel by each em-
ployee or official has been filed with
the comptroller.
7. To ascertain that expenditures
are charged to the proper expense
classification; a matter which will
be more fully discussed later on.
8. In general, to determine that
all payments are in accord with the
provisions of controlling statutes and
appropriation acts; that they are
covered by contracts approved by the
comptroller, where required; and
that they are for purely State pur-
poses.
There is no space here to detail
the ways and means by which these
objectives are fulfilled. One great
concern is speed, for bills must be
promptly paid and cash discounts
taken wherever possible. This is ac-
complished by the use of standard-
ized voucher and other general ac-
counting forms throughout the
State; by the audit of prices, etc.,
on purchase orders prior 'to the re-
ceipt of claims; by the daily trans-
mission of claims for audit; by the
organization of special sections for
routine verification of extensions,
for audit of travel expenses, for au-
dit of prices, etc, and in a word,
by systematized procedures which
provide for the doing of everything
possible in advance of the receipt of
the final claim. As a general rule
most vouchers are audited and ready
for payment within several days
after receipt by the comptroller.
Then they are temporarily filed by
department, institution, or other
agency, awaiting “payment-day.”
Audited vouchers of institutions and
the larger agencies are paid twice a
week on scheduled days therefor;
those of smaller agencies, once a
week. Thus, except where a voucher
has been held up for some special
reason, the maximum elapsed time “
between receipt of a purchase vouch-
November
er by the comptroller and the mail-
ing of the check is about eight days;
the average about four.
General Plan of Accounting
Prior to 1933 the bulk of the
State’s expenditure accounting con-
sisted merely of charging payments
to the proper fund and appropria-
tion. This was wholly unsatisfactory,
for it failed to show in adequate,
classified detail just how the money
of the State had been spent. It failed
to reveal specific trends, or compara-
tive increases or decreases over a
ment his appropriation accounting
by a complete analysis of expendi-
tures under each appropriation ac-
cording to uniform classifications. —
This was done by means of tabulat-
ing machines, cards being punched
for each audited voucher to show
the amounts thereof chargeable to
each analytical account established.
And as a result, it is now possible
to furnish the head of each agency,
at the end of every month, an au-
dited analysis of his expenditures,
and to provide the public within 45
Source of the State Revenue Dollar-1939-40
CORPORATION TAX 18.5*
ARTICLE 4 11.4
ARTICLE 9A 659
ARTICLE Abe4C =O}
PERSONAL INCOMETAX 23.6*
UNINCORPORATED BUSINESS TAX 1.0%,
MOTOR FUEL TAX 15.84
AKCOHOUC BEVERAGE,
CONTROL LICENSE
A-GENERAL PROPERTY TAX BG
B- PARI-MUTUAL TAX 5
C- ALLOTHER SPECIAL TAXES 13
This chart, which appears annually in the Comptroller's Condensed Financial Report,
shows the sources from which the State’s general revenues are derived. Note that taxes
account for all but 3.5% of the revenues. Taxes distributed to localities under statute in
the amount of §71,210,811.27 are not reflected on the chart.
period of years, thus dispensing with
an important element of control.
‘And finally, the accounts did not
lend themselves to the type of re-
ports on the State’s complex fiscal
affairs required for the formulation
and execution of sound budget poli-
cies, for investment analysis and for
the information of citizens generally.
Realizing these deficiencies, the
comptroller acted in 1934 to supple-
days of the close of each fiscal year
with a detailed, readable report on
the entire fiscal affairs of the State.
In order to accomplish this, there
were first established about 25 main
classes of expenditure (personal
service; traveling expenses; general
expenses, equipment-replacements;
equipment-additional; etc.), each of
which was further subdivided into
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accounts of well-defined, stable con-
tent. To illustrate, traveling ex-
penses, on which the State spends
almost $4,000,000 annually, are cur-
rently analyzed as follows:
02 Traveling Expenses
02-05 Allowances and mileage—
personal cars
Operation State-owned Passenger
Cars
02-11 Gasoline, oil, grease and
alcohol
02-12 Tires and tubes
Disposition of the Expenditure Dollar
by Purpose, 1939-1940
STATE AID TO
LOCALITIES 50.2°
STATE
INSTITUTIONS 132%
DEBT SERVICE 13.9%
A-MILITARY ¢ POLICE, 12
B-CAPITAL OUTLAYS a
C-CANALS ¢WATERWAYS &
D- PARKS # PARK. COMMISSIONS A
E-MAINTENANCE OF PUBLIC BLDGS 4
A chart such as this is a regular feature of the comptroller’s annual report
on State finances. Note that State Aid to localities absorbed more than
one-half of the State’s revenues in 1939-40, or about $200,000,000. Moreover,
this figure does not include $71,210,811.27 in tax collections returned to
localities by direct operation of statutes. “General Departments” cover the
cost of running the twenty-one main departments of government, after ex-
cluding institutional and other operating costs, debt service, and general
statutory charges, such as payments to pension funds, judgments, etc.
Officers and Employees
02-01 Allowances in lieu of ex-
penses
02-02 Fares, railroad and other
02-03 Hotel, meals and inciden-
tals
02-04 Hire of passenger cars
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02-13 Repairs, repair parts and
supplies
02-14 Storage
02-15 Insurance
02-19 Other supplies and expense
Other Than State Employees
02-21 Fares, railroad and other
02-22 Hotel, meals and traveling
incidentals
(The numerals represent codes
used to designate the respective ac-
counts.)
Approximately 225 of these “ex-
penditure-analysis” accounts are
now employed to cover the State’s
annual expenditures of $500,000,000,
They serve to reveal, irrespective of
all changes in the form of budget ap-
propriations, the objects on which
State moneys have been spent, and
the increases or decreases over long
periods of years; a degree of control
which has since been strengthened
by the use of the 25 main classes of
expenditure, previously referred to,
for appropriation purposes.
This analysis of expenditures by
uniform classifications, important
though it is, represents, however,
only one type of accounting analysis
that must be performed. The comp-
troller must also maintain in excess
of 20,000 accounts for the various
appropriations, or segregations of
lump sum appropriations by the di-
vision of the budget; he must know
at the end of each day’s business the
balance in each of 400 or more funds
of the State; he must keep a con-
tinuous record showing the amount
purchased from each vendor (a tab-
ulating machine record); and he
must establish a control over invest-
ments managed which permits him
to take advantage of favorable mar-
ket conditions for purchase or sale,
and which automatically brings to
light interest and maturity dates.
It is perhaps needless to point out
that in the performance of these
duties every advantage is taken of
the most modern accounting ma-
chinery and records, Tabulating ma-
chines, automatic check signers,
automatic numbering machines,
bookkeeping machines, visible rec-
ords and other devices are used
wherever they save time or money.
This, in fact, is practically necessary,
if payments to vendors, employees
and others are to be made promptly.
Reports
In a governmental, no less than in
a private business, the real test of
the system of auditing and account-
ing carried on is the accuracy and
timeliness of reports issued, For
these furnish the information to
which executives and citizen stock-
holders must respond, if they wish
their common business to be effi-
ciently conducted. In fact, the chief
purpose of a comptroller’s office,
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private or public, might almost be
said to be to supply this information,
quickly, accurately, concisely. If it
can do this, it is surely paying divi-
dends in service.
With this thought in mind there
has been issued by the comptroller
since 1935, an annual condensed fi-
nancial report on the State’s affairs,
which, despite the fact that it con-
tains almost 150 pages of charts and
figures, is compiled, proof-read, and
printed and issued within 45 days
after the close of the fiscal year. The
great popular interest which this re-
port has evoked, in spite of the in-
evitable “dryness” of the subject
matter, bears witness to the intelli-
gent interest of many citizens in
their State government.
We speak of this report in some
detail because in no other place can
the complete picture of the State’s
inany activities be found. Almost at
the very start, for example, it is
learned that of the total general rev-
enues of the State in 1939-40,
amounting to $393,500,000 (bond
moneys, federal grants, etc., ex-
cluded), more than one-half ($198,-
000,000) was appropriated to local-
ities; and that even this figure does
not’ include $71,000,000 of special
taxes directly returned to these lo-
calities under law. It is further
found that of these total revenues
less than 10% ($39,000,000) is used
by these general departments of
government which are frequently
thought of as the entire State gov-
ernment; that about $52,000,000, or
considerably more than the cost of
all general departments, was spent
by State hospitals, prisons, normal
schools and colleges; $55,000,000 for
bond principal and interest, and the
balance for highway and canals
($25,000,000), military and police
($4,600,000), public buildings ($1,-
400,000), parks ($1,600,00), capital
outlays ($3,000,000) and certain stat-
utory charges ($17,200,000), such
as contributions to the retirement
system, relief and instruction of dis-
abled and poor, etc. If from this
point, the reader follows through to
the exhibits indicated on the main
statement of general revenues and
expenditures, he will find compara-
tive analysis of each item, with a
brief description of the activities em-
braced thereby. A separate state-
ment, for instance, is devoted to each
of the general departments of gov-
ernment, showing functions per-
formed, total expenditures ten years
November
ago, five years ago, preceding year
and current year, and then an anal-
ysis of expenditures for the current
year and preceding year by 25 uni-
form classes. There is a section of
the report devoted to the State’s
bonded debt structure and maturi-
ties; a statement analyzing all ex-
penditures of each department for
the current year into the 225 kinds
of expenditure previously referred
to; and a section providing.a ten-
year statistical review of general rev-
enues and expenditures.
The report is illustrated by very
informative graphic charts; and
statements proceed from the general
to the particular in such manner that
the whole complex pattern of the
State’s fiscal affairs is slowly un
folded to the reader's view. We
know of no better way in which one
can become fully acquainted with
the manifold activities of the State.
Tt would, of course, be a mistake
to assume that the operations of the
comptroller’s office are organized
for the sole, or even for the main
purpose of producing this report.
Those operations would have to go
on, whether or not this or any other
of the office’s numerous reports were
issued. But the condensed financial
report, which is almost an automatic
product of the routine operations of
the office, displays in a_ striking
manner the involved nature of the
comptroller’s problems and the way
in which they have been met. This
is why the report has been empha-
sized in these pages.
Conclusion
It will be observed from the fore-
going description of the comptrol-
ler’s place in the State government
that his service is, as the title implies,
chiefly one of fiscal control of all
other activities, rather than a con-
crete service of itself, such as the
construction of highways or the
operation of institutions. However,
the comptroller also manages the
employees’ retirement system of the
State, with its assets of some $137,-
500,000 and it is his judgment which
decides the time when authorized
State bonds will be sold. It is there-
fore worthy of note that the credit
of the State, as measured by the in-
terest paid on borrowed funds, is
unsurpassed by that of any govern-
ment or private business in the
world; a clear evidence of the sound
way in which its fiscal affairs have
been managed.
The annual cost of running the
comptroller’s office (exclusive of the
employees’ retirement system) has
recently been increased by the adop-
tion of a constitutional amendment
which added greatly to its duties
and responsibilities. As a direct re-
sult of this amendment the office.
was completely reorganized, and
much work previously done by de-
partments (e.g., payroll preparation)
taken over. The annual cost is now
somewhat less than $1,500,000, For
this sum approximately $500,000,000
of revenues from all sources and an
equal amount of expenditures are
audited and accounted for, to say
nothing of the audit of municipal-
ities, the preparation of payrolls, and
other activities described. Thus the
cost of all auditing and accounting
is something less than one-tenth of
one and one-half per cent of the ag-
gregate sum of revenues and expen-
ditures audited and accounted for.
This figure will certainly bear very
favorable comparison with that of
any governmental or private insti-
tution,
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With
Winter Weather
Just Ahead
You'll Appreciate
the
DEPENDABLE
SERVICE
that goes with
MILK AND
CREAM
from
BORDEN
BOULEVARD
4-4158
Hunting For Fun
IS A STATE BUSINESS
This is a story about a numerical
man, one of those figurative “aver-
age” fellows you hear so much about
—like the one-in-a-million who's
good or the four-out-of-five who
“have it.”
Well, this fellow is one-in-thirteen.
There are 1,000,000 or more like him
among the Empire State’s 13,000,000
folks. He hunts or traps animals or
fishes,
For the most part, he’s a man of
modest means. Some would call him
poor. But right now, he’s not giving
a thought to that, or to his arith-
metical status or to the inescapable
fact that he happens to be a vital cog
in a vast $30,000,000 business wheel.
The interesting thing about this
wheel is that it’s not all business. A
large part of it, a very large part, is
fun.
And our numerical man is enjoy-
ing that fun. A big gun is hanging
out from the crook of his elbow as
he moves over the country side. He’s
out for deer.
The numerical man dwells in the
statistics of Gardiner Bump, super-
visor of game in the Conservation
Department. In fact, he IS Mr.
Pens for deer studies and experiments at Delmar Wildlife Research Center.
Here such problems as Winter starvation, disease, the mating period, mitiga-
tion of crop damage and a score of others are being studied for ultimate
solution.
Bump, a ruddy-complexioned fellow
whose palms sweat against the gun
while his fingers play ‘possum with
the trigger . . . waiting for the right
moment . . . for that deer to come
out .. . from behind those trees.
Our man (to get back to him)
A Hungry Fawn !
Journey’s end, Because of inadequate food in some sections of the Adi-
rondack deer wintering range, thousands of deer (mostly young like this
fawn), starve during bad winters. The problem of managing the State’s vast
deer is one of the most perplexing facing the Department of Conservation.
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will have taken some 14,500 deer
out of the woods before this month
is history. But don’t start moaning
that he’s extinguishing the species.
It so happens, according to Mr.
Bump, that there are more deer in
New York State today than there
were in Colonial times. It seems
Our Man, despite his tremendous
take, can’t hold a candle to the deer’s
enemy of yesteryear, the wolves, or
panthers, or Indians, or deeper
snows, Nature itself.
If all the meat Our Man shoots
annually (including 1,000,000 cot-
tontails, 173,000 squirrels, 228,000
game birds, 100,000 ruffed grouse
and 77,000 ducks) were sold on the
open market, the turnover would be
some $2,000,000,
If all the fur he garnered (includ-
ing about 200,000 muskrats and 6,-
000 minks, among other things)
were likewise traded, some $1,500,
000 more would change hands.
Our Man spends about $5,000,000
annually on guns, forest toggery,
ammunition, etc., plus about $23,-
000,000 for gasoline, food and lodg-
ing.
So now you can see, from Mr.
Bump’s figures, how our man gets to
be a cog in this big business wheel.
Tt costs him $1.65 for a license to
hunt or fish, $2.25 for a dual permit
The State Employee
Ducks, mostly mallards and blacks, and Canada geese gather at an open
water hole on one of the ponds at the Delmar Wildlife Research Center.
Many of these are breeders which will be used next spring as part of the
interesting program designed to establish mallards on the hundreds of New
York State Waterways suitable for the natural propagation of wild waterfowl.
to do both and $2.25 for a trapping
license. He and his counterparts pay
some $1,400,000 annually for these
official buttons.
‘And where does it go? Well, 38
per cent of it goes right back into the
woods to provide Our Man places to
hunt and some 160 men who see to
it that he knows—and obeys—the
rules and regulations, Some 35 per
cent more go for providing fish for
Our Man to catch, 20 per cent for
game he may take and the rest for
administration of all the functions
connected with these undertakings.
Providing fish and game and
places where sportsmen may seek
them are the two major problems ’in
the Empire State’s efforts for making
Our Man’s fun possible.
Sometimes, in the past, Our Man
hasn't been altogether good unlike
his numerical friend, one-in-a-mil-
lion. He has trespassed too often on
private property, causing people to
put up signs saying, in effect,
“Scram! And take your gun.”
So the Empire State began leas-
ing land at small costs where Our
Man could go and hunt to his
heart’s desire, within the limits of
certain rules and provided that he
registered his catch or kill. Some *
35,000 of these acres are now under
November
lease, with the property owners
agreeing to leave some crops in the
field for game-feed and their chil-
dren agreeing to raise pheasants and
whatnot.
Toward providing Our Man
something to hunt and catch, the
Empire State operates four game
farms, the main one at Delmar,
eight miles from Albany. From
these, they distribute 55,000 pheas-
ants a year, as well as 100,000 pheas-
ants’ eggs and 5,000 adult quail, un-
told numbers of cottontail and
white rabbits.
Beyond this they establish refuges,
some 25 throughout the State, plant-
ed to feed and cover wild life over
some 100,000 acres.
And behind it all, a score of high-
ly trained scientists study causes of
increases and decreases of certain
types of game and make interesting
discoveries,
For instance, Our Man _ heard
about the “starvation” of some 15,-
000 ducks last winter. Scientists in
the game research centers, after te-
dious study, found that a blood
parasite was the killer, that the
ducks actually died amid plenty.
When the scientists got reports
from game protectors about mass
starvation of deer, they verified the
facts. Promptly they developed deer
“cake” and attached 25-pound hunks
to trees so deer could feed, despite
deep snow, thereafter.
(Continued on page 262)
Day-old Pheasant Chicks
= & © be |
A total of 40,471 day-old pheasant chicks were distributed to sportsmen’s
clubs during 1940 for rearing and release on unposted land. Also distributed
during 1940 were 1,632 cock pheasants, 12,805 mixed adult pheasants, 48,900
young pheasants (8 to 12 weeks old), 58,710 pheasant eggs in addition to
quail and mallard ducks.
255
The AttormayGarieral
RULES ON MILITARY PAY OF STATE WORKERS
Attorney-General John J. Bennett,
Jr, in an opinion dated October 22,
1940, has approved a set of regula-
tions and instructions promulgated
by the Comptroller of the State for
use in the administration of his
duties under §245 of the Military
Law, under which public officers
and employees, who are members of
the National Guard, Naval Militia
or Reserve Corps or force in the Fed-
eral military, naval or marine ser-
vice, are entitled to salary payments
if ordered to active duty in the pres-
ent training program for the armed
forces of the Nation,
The Attorney-General pointed out
that the statute, passed prior to the
World War, was originally designed
to encourage enlistment in the or-
ganized militia and to protect public
employees, who thus gave their time
for military training and became
subject to order to active military
duty for the defense of the State and
‘Nation, from any loss of employ-
mént or dimunition of compensation
by reason of absence when such ser-
vice was required.
The operation of the statute, it
was said, is to continue the employ-
ment and compensation of those em-
ployees to whom it is applicable
without prejudice to their employ-
ment status or rights or loss in the
aggregate amount of civil and mili-
tary pay by reason of absence in the
performance of ordered military
duty. The theory of the provision is
disregard of absence for military
service as respects the rights and
privileges of civil employees. Re-
peal of World War provisions left
the statute applicable only to Na-
tional guardsmen, members of the
naval militia and reserve components
of the Federal armed services but its
obvious intent is to protect all pub-
lic employees within these designa-
tions.
The Attorney-General did not
deem it necessary to determine
whether employees of corporate gov-
ernmental instrumentalities, such as
the several Authorities and Com-
missions developed in recent years,
were technically employees of the
State since all of these agencies were
at least fairly within the classifica-
256
tion of “municipal corporation or
other political subdivision” of the
State to whose employees the Mili-
tary Law is likewise specifically ap-
plicable. The Comptroller was ad-
vised that he might properly make
or approve payments to the employ-
ees of such Authorities where their
funds were within his province.
The theory and operation of the
statute, the Attorney-General held,
make it requisite and proper that
salary payments, to the extent pro-
vided for, continue to be made from
the funds out of which the employ-
ees’ compensation is normally pay-
able. He cited, as an instance, the
social security funds granted to the
State by the Federal Government
for the administration of State so-
cial security and public welfare
measures.
In discussing the nature of the
protection given, Mr. Bennett said:
“Provisional or temporary employ-
ees may properly be paid, as your
proposed instructions state, only for
such periods as they would have re-
mained in State service apart from
any cause connected with absence
on military duty. The same result
must follow in the case of others
whose employment would normally
have terminated, though they were
regularly performing their duties, by
such circumstances as expiration of
term of office, abolition of position,
or otherwise. The protection of the
statute is only against loss of com-
pensation or prejudice to rights and
privileges because of military ab-
sence. It does not operate to make
temporary employments permanent,
to extend terms of office, or to con-
tinue compensation beyond the time
when it would have ceased by the
terms and circumstances of the em-
ployment apart from military ab-
sence.”
The provisions of the statute are
for payment of full salary for the
first thirty days of absence on or-
dered military duty and thereafter
the excess, if any, of civil compensa-
tion over military pay. The Attor-
ney-General called attention to his
prior opinion of September 10th, in
which the Comptroller was advised
that any time for which full State
pay had already been received this
year during absence on military duty
must be considered as part of such
thirty days full pay. The value of
army maintenance is not considered
as compensation for military ser-
vices performed but the maintenance
or value thereof given to some State
employees constitutes a part of the
compensation received by them for
the performance of their duties.
The Attorney-General’s opinion
follows:
“October 22, 1940.
“Hon. Morris S. Tremaine,
Comptroller
Department of Audit & Control
State Office Building
Albany, N. Y.
“Dear Sir:
“Your letter of September 26th en-
closes copies of your proposed regu-
lations with reference to Section 245
of the Military Law and of forms
MS 1, Notice of Induction, and MS
2, Certificate of Military Pay, to be
used in the administration of that
statute. You ask to be advised
whether these conform to the provi-
sions of the law. Comprehensive
consideration of Section 245 of the
Military Law and your powers and
duties, both as disbursing and audit-
ing officer with relation to it, is
called for by these proposed instruc-
tions and regulations addressed to
‘All State Agencies.’
“After the passage by Congress on
August 23rd, 1940, of the new Na-
tional Guard Act authorizing the
President to order into the active
military service of the United States
reserve components of the United
States Army for twelve-month peri-
ods, it became apparent that many
State employees were likely to be
ordered to duty under the provisions
thereof. In an opinion addressed to
you on September 4th, 1940, I re-
viewed the history of Section 245 of
the Military Law from its enact-
ment in 1911 until subdivision 1,
which provides for salary payments,
emerged in substantially its present
form in 1923 ‘to meet the expansion
The State Employee
of the Federal military training sys-
tem.’ I then advised you that it ap-
plied to officers and employees of
the State who were members of the
National Guard, Naval Militia or
Reserve Force or Corps in the Fed-
eral military, naval or marine ser-
vice, who were called into Federal
service, entitling them to full pay for
the first thirty days of absence on
such duty and thereafter to the dif-
ference, if any, between their mili-
tary pay and their compensation as
State officers and employees.
“The repeal in 1920 of provisions
added to the statute during the
period of the World War leaves its
fundamental peacetime provisions
intact. Its purpose, originally, was to
encourage enlistment in the organ-
ized militia and to protect public
employees, who thus gave their time
for military training and became
subject to order to active military
duty for the defense of the State
and Nation, from any loss of em-
ployment or diminution of compen-
sation by reason of absence when
such service was required. With the
extension of its application to those
in the Reserve Corps in the Federal
military, naval or marine service,
this is still its object.
“*The whole spirit of the statute
indicates that its intent is that a civil
employee entering military service,
under stated conditions, shall be
treated, as respects his rights and
privileges as civil employee, just as
if he were not absent but were regu-
larly attending to his civil duties.
But there is nothing in the statute
indicating any intent to treat civil
employees in military service any
better than if they were not absent.
The theory is that of disregard of
the absence. If we bear this in mind,
most of the questions now arising
are fairly simple of solution. (1919
Opinions of the Attorney-General,
page 74.)
“The operation of the statute,
therefore, is to continue the employ-
ment and compensation of those em-
ployees to whom it is applicable
without prejudice to their employ-
ment status or rights or loss in the
aggregate amount of civil and mili-
tary pay by reason of absence in the
performance of ordered military
duty.
“Your instructions state that the
compensation to be paid by the State
under the statute will apply to all
New York State employees regard-
less of the funds from which paid.
November
This is correct. Status as a public
employee is not governed by the spe-
cial or separate funds from which
compensation may be paid, but
rather by the character of the em-
ployment and the nature of its
duties. Subdivision 1 of Section 245
extends to ‘every officer and em-
ployee of the State or of a municipal
corporation or of any other political
subdivision thereof who is a mem-
ber’ of the designated military organ-
izations.
“Subdivision 2 reads as follows:
“The terms “officer and em-
ployee” as used in this section shall
include every person by whatsoever
title, description or designation
known, who receives any pay, salary
or compensation of any kind from
the State or a municipal corporation
or of any other political subdivision
thereof or who is in any department
of the State.’
Its obvious intent is to make the
statute inclusive of all public em-
ployees who receive compensation in
any manner from any of the desig-
nated governmental agencies. This,
with your subsequent instruction
that employees payable from funds
other than the General Fund of the
State, such as those of the State In-
surance Fund and the various Au-
thorities, will be paid from their
own funds, requires consideration of
the development of new govern-
mental agencies and _instrumentali-
ties and new methods of financing
their activities with reference to the
application of Section 245 to their
employees as employees of the State
or otherwise. It is certain that the
statute contemplated no distinction
between types of employment and
evinces no intent of discriminating
between public employees in the
application of its provisions. This
purpose ought not to be defeated
by new governmental activities or
methods of administering and fi-
nancing them which may fairly be
brought within its terms.
“Agencies such as the State Insur-
ance Fund or the Employees Retire-
ment System, which is given cor-
porate powers and privileges by Sec-
tion 51 of the Civil Service Law,
need present no difficulty. Both have
been long established in constitu-
tional departments of the State gov-
ernment. There have been created
by the State in recent years, how-
ever, a number of independent cor-
porate governmental agencies and
instrumentalities of both a tempo-
rary and permanent nature. Such
Authorities and Commissions are
usually created for the performance
of special or particular governmental
functions. within powers delegated
to them and in the public interest,
often within particular localities or
for the construction of facilities or
development of resources in particu-
lar areas. In many cases the Comp-
troller is, by the statute creating it,
made the agent of the authority for
the custody of its funds and the
supervision of their expenditure. In
the case of such Authorities as the
Niagara Frontier Bridge Commis-
sion, created as a municipal corpo-
rate instrumentality of the State
(Public Authorities Law, Section
504) or the Power Authority of the
State of New York (Section 1002)
created as such an instrumentality
and to be a political subdivision of
the State, the application of Section
245 is likewise clear. These are the
very designations used in the statute.
“Other Authorities and Commis-
sions, such as the Saratoga Springs
Authority, are established simply as
bodies corporate and politic or are
in addition said to constitute public
benefit corporations. (Public Au-
thorities Law, Section 1302.)
“In Pantess v. Saratoga Springs
Authority, 255 App. Div. 426, it was
held that this Authority was inde-
pendently exercising governmental
powers delegated to it as does a
county, city or village, so that the
State could not be held liable for
its torts, but the decision indicates
that where the State assumes to act
directly, even though it use a cor-
poration for its purpose, it would
be itself responsible. It was said:
“‘The line which will separate
one of these two classes of agencies
from the other may be dim at times
and difficult to discern as the vary-
ing facts and statutory provisions
are considered. It may well be that
in some instances the history of the
cases alone will be the guide, while
in others the agency must be classi-
fied according to the facts of the
particular case, apart from particular
enactment and precedent.’
“For the purposes of the Military
Law it seems unnecessary to engage
upon such inquiries to determine
whether employees of these instru-
mentalities are or are not to be con-
sidered employees of the State. To
do so would enmesh the determina-
tion in a tangle of varying statutory
(Continued on page 258)
257
(Continued from page 257)
provisions and technical distinctions
in a search for discriminations not
intended in the application of Sec-
tion 245. The terms ‘municipal cor-
poration’ and ‘political subdivision’
are general, including but by no
means limited to counties, villages,
cities and towns. The use of the
classification, ‘municipal corporation
or any other political subdivision,’ is
deliberately broad and may fairly be
held to include all such bodies cor-
porate and politic apart from the
State itself. Their officers and em-
ployees are unquestionably in the
public service and you are advised
that you may properly make or ap-
prove payments to them under Sec-
tion 245 of the Military Law where
their funds come within your pro-
vince.
“Your instructions contemplate
that payments under the Military
Law will be made from the General
Fund only to those employees pay-
able therefrom at the time of their
induction into military service and
to other employees who are com-
pensated from special funds within
the administrative departments of
the State, such as the Social Security
Fund or State Insurance Fund or
from separate funds such as those
of the Authorities, from such funds.
The purpose of the statute, to con-
tinue the employment and compen-
sation as employees of those who are
taken from the performance of their
regular duties by orders into active
military service, makes requisite and
proper payment of that compensa-
tion to the amount provided out of
the sources from which it is nor-
mally derived. No different result
is permitted by the statute because
such funds may consist of moneys
other than the ordinary general pub-
lic revenues, as in the instance of So-
cial Security funds granted to the
State by the Federal government. I
have before me Fiscal Letter No. 12
of the Federal Security Agency, So-
cial Security Board, dated September
6th, 1940, addressed to all State Em-
ployment Security Agencies. The
Board therein announces its policy
of considering the payment of sal-
aries of employees of such State
agencies while on military leave a
necessary and proper administrative
expense to the extent such leave is
permitted by pertinent State law. In
my opinion this accords with the
policy and method of Section 245 of
258
the Military Law which require that
a similar view be taken in all com-
parable instances.
“Provisional or temporary employ-
ees may properly be paid, as your
proposed instructions state, only for
such periods as they would have re-
mained in State service apart from
any cause connected with absence on
military duty. The same result must
follow in the case of others whose
employment would normally have
terminated, though they were regu-
larly performing their duties, by
such circumstances as expiration of
term of office, abolition of position,
or otherwise. The protection of the
statute is only against loss of com-
pensation or prejudice to rights and
privileges because of military ab-
sence. It does not operate to make
temporary employments permanent,
to extend terms of office, or to con-
tinue compensation beyond the time
when it would have ceased by the
terms and circumstances of the em-
ployment apart from military ab-
sence. (1917 Opinions Attorney-
General, pages 318, 376, 1919; Opin-
ions Attorney-General, page 74.)
“There has been serious question
raised as to whether employees en-
listing in units of the National
Guard after the issuance of orders
for their induction into Federal .ser-
vice are within the statute. In 1916
Attorney-General Woodbury ruled
in an opinion to the Governor (1916
Opinions Attorney-General, page
225) that an employee who joined a
regiment in the National Guard
after mobilization orders had been
given, was entitled to the benefits of
the statute. It was said that an em-
ployee who joins under such circum-
stances then ‘is’ a member of the
National Guard entitled to absent
himself on ordered military duty
without loss of employment or com-
pensation. The duty is ‘ordered,’ al-
though previous orders had no ap-
plication to the individual until his
enlistment. This conclusion is based
on language of the statute which is
the same at the present time. It
fairly and logically gives effect to the
liberal intent of the provision and in
my opinion should be followed.
“The amount of compensation is
provided for in the last two sentences
of subdivision 1 of Section 245. The
first of these entitles an employee
within the statute to full pay during
absence on ordered military duty,
provided such period does not ex-
ceed thirty days in any calendar year.
The proviso in this sentence is only
a limitation of full pay to a period
of thirty days. The sentence itself is
not a separate and independent pro-
vision for full pay, as has been sug-
gested, only in the event that ab-
sence does not exceed thirty days.
Its effect is to give full pay for the
first thirty days of military absence,
whether or not it extends beyond
that time. The following sentence
provides for payment of such part
of an employee's salary as equals the
excess, if any, over his military pay
for such period of absence beyond
thirty days, Read together, as they
must be, these provisions of the sta-
tute require payment of full salary
for the first thirty days of military
absence and thereafter the amount,
if any, by which civil compensation
exceeds military pay, as pointed out
in my opinion of September 4th. I
have already advised you in my sup-
plementary opinion of September
10th, 1940, that any time for which
an employee has already received
full State pay during the year 1940
while absent on military duty, must
be considered as part of the thirty
days during which he is entitled to
receive full pay.
“You are correct in your statement
that the value of maintenance while
on military service should not be
considered in determining the
amount of military compensation
It is not considered as part of the
compensation paid to a soldier for
the performance of military duty.
(Henn v. Mt. Vernon, 198 App.
Div. 152.) On the other hand, the
compensation of those State employ-
ees who are given maintenance or a
maintenance allowance from the
State should include the value there-
of. All members of the military or-
ganization are maintained by the
Government while on active duty.
Such maintenance is necessary for
the proper administration and dis-
cipline of a military organization
and appears to be no part of the
compensation for military service
performed. On the other hand, only
a portion of the employees of the
State are given maintenance or
commutation in lieu thereof, and it
must be considered under such cir-
cumstances that it is intended as a
part of their compensation, Any
other view would be a discrimina-
tion against such employees in favor
(Continued on page 262)
The State Employee
Membership Renewals
Employees recently appointed to
State service or others who have not
as yet become members of this Asso-
ciation will be interested to know
that the following self-explanatory
resolution was adopted at the An-
nual Meeting of the Association on
October 15th:
“BE IT RESOLVED, that eligible
State employees who join the Asso-
ciation after this date as new mem-
bers shall be admitted to full mem-
bership for the balance of this year
and all of the calendar year of 1941.”
Applications for Membership for
1941 have been sent to Association
representatives located in every State
office, department and _ institution
throughout the State, and any inter-
ested employee may secure a mem-
bership application from that source,
or from Association Headquarters,
Room 156, State Capitol, Albany.
Present members, may if they de-
sire, pay their 1941 dues to the Asso-
ciation Representative in their insti-
tution or group. 1941 membership
cards are now ayailable at Associa-
tion headquarters.
The method used last year in re-
newing the membership of the As-
sociation’s over 30,000 members
worked so efficiently, that it will be
employed this year. About Decem-
ber Ist, each Association Representa-
tive will receive bills for membership
for distribution to each member in
his group. All that the member has
to do to renew is attach his remit-
tance to the bill and return it to the
representative, who will arrange for
obtaining the official membership
cards from Association headquarters.
The Association’s Officers, and
Committees, and Representatives,
all of whom unselfishly give their
spare time to caring for the many
matters connected with Association
activities, without receiving any
compensation for their troubles,
would certainly appreciate your co-
operation—and you can cooperate
by paying your dues promptly to
your representative upon receiving
your bill for 1941 membership. By
30 doing, you can lessen the work
of your representative and enable
him to expend his efforts on the
more important problems of vital
interest to State workers. The mem-
bership renewal of 35,000 members ,
is a good-sized job. May we have
your cooperation?
November
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The American Red Cross
IN ACTION AT HOME AND ABROAD
As there appears to be consider-
able confusion concerning the war
relief activities of the American Red
Cross abroad, details of these activ-
ities were secured from Mr. Edward
R. Stearn, Field Representative of
the American Red Cross for North-
ern and Central New York, and are
being presented herewith.
In the first place, no Red Cross
aid is being sent, nor has any been
sent since last June, to any of
the conquered European countries,
whether they are occupied or un-
occupied. Some assistance, mostly
medical supplies, is being sent to
China, while about $1,000,000 worth
of food, clothing and medical sup-
plies are being sent to Finland.
‘These latter supplies are picked up
by Finnish ships, and are taken to
the Finnish Port of Petsame. The
bulk of Red Cross aid and effort,
however, is concentrated upon En-
gland, whose people, emerging from
their modern catacombs day after
day, offer an example of bravery that
has no rival in human history.
The cold statistics show that up
to October 15th, the American Red
Cross has spent $5,073,954 in relief
of the war victims in Great Britain.
More than 300 various items of sup-
plies, everything required to keep
body and soul together, have been
sent. They have been carried in
every British ship sailing from
America which has had space for
Red Cross supplies, and the ship-
ments have weighed millions of
pounds.
A partial list of the supplies sent
to England follows:
Chapter Produced and Donated Re-
lief Supplies:
Bandages and surgical
dressings .. 8,412,438
Hospital garments 109,038
Blankets . 1,110
Sweaters and knitted
garments ...... 365,927
Children’s clothing. 199,560
Women’s clothing 80,841
Men’s clothing. 6,259
Layettes 50,367
Purchased Supplies:
Women’s and Children’s
Clothing: Dresses
Hose (pairs)
260
Shoes (pairs)... 120,722
Underwear 321,245
Flannel, outing (yds.)... 249,737
Gingham (yds.) scone 109,265
Percale (yds.) ........ 124,998
Boys’ mackinaws . 30,000
Slickers ... 60,000
Boys’ trousers, 60,000
Men’s Clothin;
Hose (pairs) .. 114,240
Shoes (pairs) 5s
Shirts
Trousers
Underwear
Coveralls .... .
Jackets (windbreaker) 10,000
Overcoats .......
Slickers
Blankets
Ambulance
Vehicles:
Ambulances ...........00 151
Field kitchens ..... 19
Station wagons 25
Surgical & Hospital Equipment:
X-ray units, portable and
mobile - 36
Operating tables . aa 50
Sterilizers er 72
Cots ... 500
Absorbent cotton (Ibs.).. 120,000
Surgeons’ rubber gloves. 2,000
Mattresses cee 2,000
Distribution of Supplies
The British Government has re-
quested two agencies to assume re-
sponsibility as the chief voluntary
relief agencies in the British Isles.
They are the British Red Cross and
the Women’s Voluntary Services.
The American Red Cross is repre-
sented in London by a special com-
mittee composed of American resi-
dents of which the American Am-
bassador is honorary chairman and
Daniel Grant is chairman. This com-
mittee meets daily to consider relief
needs, and to it come the urgent re-
quests of the British Red Cross and
the Women’s Voluntary Services.
These requests are cabled to the
American Red Cross. The need for
every item and type of relief is es-
tablished before it is sent, in order
to give the maximum assistance, and
to conserve valuable shipping space.
British ships have carried cargoes
without charge, customs duties have
been waived, rail transportation
within Great Britain has been paid
for by the agencies receiving the sup-
plies. The warehousing and distri-
bution costs in Great Britain are
borne by the agencies to which sup-
plies are delivered, Each package or
container from America is clearly
labeled with the name of the organ-
ization designated to receive the sup-
plies, and they return receipts for all
goods,
The British Red Cross
Medical supplies, hospital equip-
ment including blankets, operating
gowns and clothes for patients,
drugs and surgical dressings go to
the British Red Cross. They are dis-
tributed to the hospitals, nursing
homes and convalescent homes for
war-wounded military men, for the
civilians injured in air raids, for the
fire wardens, air wardens, the police,
the home defense men and women
—in fact for all of the heroic men,
women and children suffering in the
Battle of Britain. It is obvious that
in the air war now being waged,
civilian casualties far exceed the
military.
The Women’s Voluntary Services
Eight hundred thousand women
are working for the Women’s Vol-
untary Services. All of the tasks in
which they are engaged are compar-
able to the work of the women vol-
unteers in the American Red Cross
Chapters. They sew, knit, are motor
corps drivers, canteen workers, man-
age the hundreds of clothes distribu-
tion centers.
David K. E. Bruce, Northam L.
Griggs and Bowen McCoy of the
American Red Cross Committee in
London, saw hundreds of these
groups at work, They saw the
American Red Cross garments
passed out at the scene of aerial
bombings. Mr. Bruce visited hos-
pitals in Wales where he saw little
children, deafened and wounded in
the more than 90 air raids sustained
on the seacoast. Mr. Griggs visited
the Dover Cliffs and witnessed the
practical help that warm clothes
from America were to the popula-
tion holding out there, not alone
against the enemy plane raids, but
the long-range gunning from across
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the English Channel. Mr. McCoy
visited concentration centers, en-
countered Queen Elizabeth of En-
gland who was checking on the
needs of the homeless families from.
Gibraltar, and she sent her warm
thanks through him to the Ameri-
can Red Cross workers for the mul-
titude of comforts then being dis-
tributed to the homeless in that
neighborhood.
Who Are the People Helped
The homeless, the hungry, the
cold and suffering have been aided,
people who have lost all they held
precious in a fleeting 100 second air
raid. The following is a letter re-
cently received by the American Red
Cross, which is only one of thou-
sands recently received: “Dear
Ladies of America, I thank you for
the bed suits you sent us. I have
been in the hospital nine months
and not out yet, but I have seen
Mum and Dad.” The cramped,
childish scrawl continued, “They
send me comics once a week. We
have eggs for breakfast and porridge
as well. I am glad you are making
some planes to fight old Hitler with.
I have to close now. Love from
Jimmy Abbott.”
Official Thanks
Field Marshall Sir Philip Chet-
wood, Chairman of the British Red
Cross, in sending acknowledgment
to the American Red Cross for the
“comprehensive list of hospital
stores,” and the “complete sets of
surgical and medical equipment for
400 convalescent hospitals,” writes:
“As chairman of the Executive Com-
mittee of our War Organization, I
should be most grateful if you would
convey to the American Red Cross
how deeply we appreciate this fur-
ther evidence of their whole-hearted
support, and assure them that in
times such as these, our close rela-
tionship with. the American Red
Cross is a constant inspiration.”
Today’s Urgent Needs
As increasing numbers of families
are homeless, and London’s millions
face the prospect of winter nights in
air shelters, requests for new types
of relief have come urgently to the
American Red Cross from the two
official British agencies of relief.
A thousand kerosene stoves, with
which to cook in air raid shelters; a ,
half million woollen blankets to
help supplant those lost by the wan-
November
dering families, and with which
they may wrap themselves against
the cold in the deep and unheated
shelters; 300 more ambulances;
many more mobile canteen units,
each containing eight cars or trailers
for rushing hot food to the latest
scene of catastrophe, all driven by
brave W.VS. girls, who take air
raids in stride, merely crawling un-
der the cars until the worst is over;
fifty motorcycles with side cars that
doctors and first aiders of the British
Red Cross may rush aid to scenes
blocked against the heavier ambu-
lances. All these are requests of the
past few days. All now are in pro-
cess of delivery by the American
Red Cross.
Do Your Share
Of all the millions who are now
mobilized throughout the world, the
Red Cross Mobilization for Mercy
stands out as heroically clear as that
sharp-cornered Red Cross symbol,
now known throughout the uni-
verse. While the armies of war pile
up ruin and chaos, the Red Cross
army with 63 nations enrolled under
its banner salvages human beings,
their homes and their civilization.
In floods, and droughts, in earth
quakes and epidemics, in explosions
and accidents—in every catastrophe
—the Red Cross Army serves with-
out question and without delay, It
is the practical answer to the busi-
nessman, to the worker, and to the
philanthropist for a medium to do
the mercy work of his world which
he individually cannot do.
The Albany County Chapter of
the American Red Cross recently re-
quested President Charles A. Brind,
Jr., to act as Chairman of the Pub-
lic Employees Division for the
American Red Cross Roll Call for
Membership, which commenced No-
vember 12th. Mr. Brind willingly
consented and is doing everything
possible to assure that State workers
in the Albany area do their share in
this work of mercy. Members of the
Association throughout the State
will probably be approached by their
local Red Cross Committees. They
are urged to “do their share.”
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"KR" milk twice daily, hot mid-day
lunch, afternoon nap, ‘juvenile crafis,
folk songs and stories, Also a large
enclosed well equipped play yard.
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Binghamton, Syracuse, Buffalo and all parts of
America by luxurious Greyhound Super-Coach.
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SINCE 1850
176 STATE STREET, ALBANY, N. Y.
Opposite State Capitol
JAMES G. TEBBUTT MARSHALL W. TEBBUTT, JR.
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Not This Association
It has been brought to the atten-
tion of the Association that a cir-
cular, dated October 31, 1940, and
bearing the heading: “Bart A.
Oddo, President of the Civil Service
Association of the State of New
York, has issued the following state-
ment,” has been circulated to State
workers in Albany, New York City
and various State institutions. This
circular discussed national political
issues.
When our Association became
aware that a few State workers, and
numerous citizens generally, were
confused and misled into thinking
that our Association was responsible
for this circular, President Brind
issued a statement which read in
part:
“The Association of State Civil
Service Employees is a non-partisan
organization and has followed this
policy since its establishment in
1910. The circular did not emanate
from anyone connected with the As-
sociation.”
Attorney General Rules
(Continued from page 258)
of those who receive their full sal-
aries in cash,
“In accordance with the foregoing,
you are advised that your instruc-
tions and forms conform to the pro-
visions of Section 245 of the Mili-
tary Law and provide for proper ad-
ministration thereof.
“Very truly yours,
“JOHN J. BENNETT, JR.,
“Attorney-General.”
Hunting For Fun
(Continued from page 255)
‘That, in part, is what Our Man
gets for his license fee. You've been
told about the private dealings he
makes to get his gun and other para-
phernalia—and the amazing figure
involved in the big business wheel.
Right now, Our Man may be up
in the Adirondacks; or down in ‘the
Catskills, or in the Southern Tier.
Mebbe, he'll bring home a venison
steak one of these days, or the
makings of a rabbit stew.
Mebbe—if that one-in-thirteen
title doesn’t jinx him.
The State Employee
ee ae a
Streamlined Civil Service
The State Civil Service Depart-
ment has gone streamlined, geared
to the second-splitting speed of an
electric accounting machine that al-
ready has stepped up the tempo of
certification procedures to thrice the
gait of old,
First test of the new device came
a few days ago when a list of 2,400
eligibles for the post of junior clerk
were turned over to Tax Depart-
ment officials in. less than a day.
The names were selected from a
field of 10,000 candidates—at least
a three-day manual task were three
of the department’s fastest clerks to
have tackled it,
Installation of the machine, in the
opinion of Philip Kerker, assistant
secretary to the Civil Service Com-
missioner, brings research within the
physical powers of the department
for the first time in history.
“But first,” he said, “we plan to
mechanize our other routine time-
consuming functions. This is our
first attempt at mechanization and,
already, it has opened our eyes to a
number of possibilities.
“It is possible, for instance, that
a way may be found to certify the
entire State payroll by machine.
Ours is the first State Civil Service
Department to mechanize even to
this extent.”
At the present time, stenographers
are cutting “punch cards” for each
of 18,000 candidates who will con-
stitute the eligible list for positions
as hospital attendants in the Mental
Hygiene Department—a gargantuan
task made easy by the electric preci-
sion of the machine.
On each card (80 “columns”
wide) are indicated the candidate's
examination number, his examina-
tion fee, his name, address and sex,
his home county or judicial district,
his place on the cligibility list,
whether he desires temporary em-
ployment and the location in the
State where he desires to work.
Already, the machine has simpli-
fied one time-consuming procedure,
that of accounting fee deposits that
must be made by the department at
the Comptroller’s office. Likewise,
it makes tabulation of refunds to
disapproved candidates easy.
November
“That,” said Mr. Kerker, “is go-
ing to take a lot of the turmoil out
of the job of certifying between 75,-
000 and 100,000 names a year, not
to mention the approximately 8,000
appointments.”
Now, three department stenog-
raphers can punch out 2,700 cards a
day (at about 150 apiece per hour).
The ‘cards may be stacked in the
machine and—presto—an eligible
list may be printed (at 400 per min-
ute) in a little more than an hour.
By the same token, candidates’
names may be segregated according
to sex, rank, percentage, home lo-
cality, desired work, etc., thereby
giving the department an immedi-
ate, comprehensive picture of the
whole situation.
Manufacturers of the machine
guarantee 98 per cent, but Mr.
Kerker, just to be sure, has clerks
busy making a manual check on the
device’s first efforts.
He sees in the offing a master file
of all the 64,000 civil positions in
the State, its counties, towns and
villages. And the “finding” powers
of the machine will be available, al-
ways capable of satisfying every
problem of reference and research.
Our Safety Program
Articles on safety, for the pedes-
trian, for the motorist, and even for
the cyclist, have been carried in re-
cent issues of this magazine. The
Association wishes to commend and
cooperate with all groups sponsor-
ing programs for safety, For the
past few years the Association has
made available to members an auto
shield upon the member’s signing
of a “Safe Driving Pledge.”
A leading exponent of safe driv-
ing in New York State is Carroll
E. Mealey, Commissioner of Motor
Vehicles of the State of New York,
who has been the author of articles
on safety carried in recent issues, in-
cluding the article entitled “The
Knowledge Test,” contained in the
October issue, Inadvertently, Mr.
Mealey’s authorship was not ac-
“ knowledged in that particular ar-
ticle.
Contest Extended
(Continued from page 243)
and automobiles is considerable.
Mountain resorts and the seashore
are the favored spots to spend va-
cations.
The average State worker, and
members of his household, attend
movies four times during the month,
Every State employee visits New
York City at least once during thé
year, and a good percentage visit
other principal cities of the State,
Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and
Utica.
Prospective advertisers should be
acquainted with the advertising
value of “The State Employee.” To
accomplish this, the Association
must be in a position to provide de-
finite information concerning the
buying habits and purchasing power
of its subscribers. Members can con-
tribute their help by filling out the
advertising questionnaire on Page
267 and sending it to Association
Headquarters promptly.
Compete in the Special Contest
announced on Page 266. Prizes to-
taling $100 will be awarded to mem-
bers submitting the best completed
statements on why they support the
Association. Remember the last date
for filing statements will be Decem-
ber 20th. Statements must be typed
or written plainly in longhand and
the name of the member, depart-
ment employed, and address of the
member must accompany the State-.
ment. In submitting statements for
competing, the advertising question-
naire on Page 267 must be completed
and sent in also,
The officers and editorial board
now responsible for the publication
of “The State Employee” merit your
help. Advertising income helps to
make your magazine attractive and
desirable. Patronize the advertisers
and suggest the use of the advertis-
ing columns of “The State Em-
ployee” to your merchants.
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Your Representatives
IN THE LEGISLATURE AND IN CONGRESS
So that members of the Association throughout the
State may know as to their elected representatives in
the State Legislature and in Congress, a complete list of
Senators, Assemblymen and Congressmen is compiled
herewith, following election, November Sth. This list-
ing should be retained for possible future reference.
LEGISLATURE FOR 1941-1942
SENATORS
Name and Address
George L. Thompson, Kings Park
Seymour Halpern, 118th St., Kew Gardens
Peter T. Farrell, 27-58 Curtis St., East Elmhurst
Philip M. Kleinfeld, 1338 52nd St, Brooklyn
John J. Howard, 453 55th St. Brooklyn
Edward J. Coughlin, 179 St. James Pl., Brooklyn
Jacob J. Schwartzwald, 701 Willoughby Ave.,
Brooklyn
Joseph A. Esquirol, 20 Woodruff Ave., Brooklyn
Daniel Gutman, 117 Pennsylvania Ave., Brooklyn
Jeremiah F. Twomey, 911 Manhattan Ave.,
Brooklyn
James I. Crawford, 589 Bedford Ave, Brooklyn
Elmer F. Quinn, 95 Christopher St, N,
Phelps Phelps, Hotel New Yorker, N. Y. o
William J. Murray, 471 Grand St., N. ¥. C.
John L. Buckley, 440 West End Ave. N. ¥. C.
Francis J. McCaffrey, 345 E. 68th St., N. Y. C.
Frederic R. Coudert, Jr, 988 5th Ave., N. Y. C.
Charles Muzzicato, 1606 Lexington Ave., N. Y. C.
Charles D. Perry, 126 W. 12nd St, N.
Alexander A. Falk, 60 Cooper St, N. ¥. C.
Lazarus Joseph, 910 Grand Concourse, N. Y. C.
Carl Pack, 866 Manida St, Bronx
John J. Dunnigan, 1945 Bogart Ave., Bronx
Robert E. Johnson, 11 Woodbridge Pl.,
Westerleigh, S. 1.
Pliny W. Williamson, 11 Heathcote Rd., Scarsdale
William F. Condon, 25 Hollis Terrace, N. Yonkers
‘Thomas C. Desmond, Newburgh
Allan A. Ryan, Jr., Rhinebeck
Arthur H. Wicks, Kingston
Erastus Corning, 2nd, 397 State St. Albany
Clifford C. Hastings, Sand Lake
Gilbert T. Seelye, Burnt Hills
Benjamin F. Feinberg, Plattsburg
Rhoda Fox Graves, 130 Clinton St., Gouverneur
Fred A. Young, Lowville
William H. Hampton, 118 Arlington Rd., Utica
Isaac B. Mitchell, Lafargeville
G. Frank Wallace, 217 Crawford Ave., Syracuse
Walter W. Stokes, Middlefield
Roy M. Page, 158 Chapin St., Binghamton
Chauncey B, Hammond, R. F. D. 2, Elmira
Henry W. Griffith, Palmyra
Earle §. Warner, Phelps
Joc R. Hanley, Perry
Rodney B. Janes, Pittsford
Karl K. Bechtold, 649 Seneca Parkway, Rochester
William Bewley, Carlisle Gardens, Lockport
Walter J. Mahoney, 519 Linwood Ave., Buffalo
Stephen J. Wojtkowiak, 25 Academy Rd., Buffalo
Charles O. Burney, Jr, 168 Cayuga Rd.,
Williamsville
James W. Riley, 307 E. State St, Olean
ASSEMBLY
ALBANY COUNTY
George W. Foy, 76 Lenox Ave., Albany
Mortimer A. Cullen, 47 No. Manning Blvd.,
Albany
John McBain, 2332 Broadway, Watervliet
ALLEGANY COUNTY
William H. Mackenzie, Belmont
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BRONX COUNTY
Matthew J. H. McLaughlin, 410 E. 159th St.,
Bronx
Patrick J. Fogarty, 446 E. 140th St, Bronx
Arthur Wachtel, 818 Manida St., Bronx
Isidore Dollinger, 1250 Franklin Ave. Bronx
Julius J. Gans, 1016 Faile St., Bronx
Peter A. Quinn, 1551 Williamsbridge Rd., Bronx
Louis Bennett, 787 E. 175th St. Bronx
John A. Devany, Jr., 120 W. 183rd St., Bronx
BROOME COUNTY
Floyd E. Anderson, Port Dickenson
Orlo M. Brees, 201 E, Franklin St, Endicott
CATTARAUGUS COUNTY
Leo P. Noonan, Farmersville
CAYUGA COUNTY
James H. Chase, Aurora
CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY
E, Herman Magnuson, 31 Locust St Jamestown
Carl E. Darling, 331 Eagle St., Dunkirk
CHEMUNG COUNTY
Harry J. Tifft, Horseheads
‘CHENANGO COUNTY
Irving M. Ives, Norwich
CLINTON COUNTY
Leslie G. Ryan, Rouses Point
COLUMBIA COUNTY
Fred A. Washburn, 101 N. 5th St, Hudson
CORTLAND COUNTY
Harold L. Creal, Homer
ELAWARE COUNTY
William 'T, A. Webb, Sidney
DUTCHESS COUNTY
Howard N. Allen, Pawling
Emerson D. Fite, Poughkeepsie
ERIE COUNTY
Frank A. Gugino, 438 Busti Ave., Buffalo
Harold B, Ehrlich, 1195 Elmwood Ave., Buffalo
Fred Hammer, 262 Lemon St., Buffalo
Frank J. Caffrey, 1197 Abbott Road, Buffalo
Philip V. Baczkowski, 379 Peckham St., Buffalo
Jerome C. Kreinheder, 171 Laurel St., Buffalo
Justin C. Morgan, 143 Doncaster Rd., Kenmore
John R. Pillion, 724 Ridge Rd, Lackawanna
ESSEX COUNTY
Sheldon F, Wickes, Ticonderoga
FRANKLIN COUNTY
William L. Doige, Chateaugay
FULTON-HAMILTON COUNTIES
Denton D. Lake, 83 Second Ave., Gloversville
GENESEE COUNTY
Herbert A. Rapp, Darien Center
GREENE COUNTY
William E. Brady, Coxsackie
HERKIMER’ COUNTY
Leo A. Lawrence, Herkimer
JEFFERSON COUNTY
Russell Wright, Watertown
iGS COUNTY
Lewis M. Olliffe, 199 Bergen St, Brooklyn
Leo F. Rayfiel, 1818 Ave. L., Brooklyn
Michael J. Gillen, 82 Pioneer St, Brooklyn
Bernard Austin, 559 Bedford Ave., Brooklyn
John R. Starkey, 916 Putnam Ave., Brooklyn
Robert J. Crews, 100 Hart Sty Brooklyn
jam Kirnan, 516 17th St, Brooklyn
Chatler J Beckinella, 615 Warren St., Brooklyn
Edgar F, Moran, 447 8lst St. Brooklyn
Francis E. Dorn, 48 Sterling Pl., Brooklyn
Eugene F. Bannigan, 520 Lincoln Rd.,
Brooklyn
James W. Feely, 300 11th St, Brooklyn
Ralph Schwartz, 288 Ainslie St., Brooklyn
Harry Gittleson, 61 Harrison Ave., Brooklyn
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John Smolenski, 1044 Manhattan Ave. Brooklyn
Carmine J. Marasco, 1679 71st St., Brooklyn
Fred G. Moritt, 650 Greene Ave., Brooklyn
Irwin Steingut, 706 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn
Max M. Turshen, 503 Bushwick Ave., Brooklyn
Roy H. Rudd, 1116 Jefferson Ave., Brooklyn
Thomas A. Dwyer, 2212 Ditmas Ave., Brooklyn
James A. Corcoran, 167 Barberry St., Brooklyn
Robert Giordano, 2346 Pacific St, Brooklyn
LEWIS COUNTY
Benjamin H. Demo, Croghan
LIVINGSTON COUNTY
James J. Wadsworth, Geneseo
MADISON COUNTY
Wheeler Milmoe, Canastota
MONROE COUNTY
Frank J. Sellmayer, Jr, Brighton
Abraham Schulman, 353 Culver Rd,, Rochester
George T. Manning, 16544 Alexander St,
Rochester
Nelson E. Owen, Jr., 85 Keehl St, Rochester
William B, Mann, Brockport
MONTGOMERY COUNTY
John F. Bennison, Fort Plain
‘NASSAU COUNTY
John D. Bennett, Rockville Centre, L. I.
Norman F, Penny, Manhasset, L. I.
NEW YORK COUNTY
James J. Dooling, 40 Front St., N.Y. C.
Louis De Salvio, 202 Hester St, N. Y. C.
Maurice E. Downing, 402 W. 20th St.
Leonard Farbstein, 504 Grand St. N. x c
Owen McGivern, 431 W. 44th St, N. Y. C.
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Morris M. Mintz, 390 E. 8th St., ae
Trwin D. Davidson, 144 W. 86th St, N.Y.
Stephen J. Jarema, 137 Ave. A., N. Y. C.
Ira H. Holley, 562 West End ‘Ave, N.Y.
MacNeil Mitchell, 305 Lexington A I. ¥. C.
Patrick H. Sullivan, 395 Riverside Drive, N. Y. C.
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Edmund J. Delany, 245 E. 2Ist St. N. ¥. C.
James T. McNamara, 41 Convent Ave., N. Y.
Warren J. McCarron, 520 E. 77th St., N. Y. C.
Abbot Low Moffat, 660 Park Ave. N. Y. C.
Robert F. Wagner, Jr, 530 E. 86th St, N. ¥. C.
Hulan E. Jack, 1867 7th Ave., N. Y.
Joseph J. Cioffi, 201 E. 116th St. N. Y. C.
Daniel L. Burrows, 2257 7th Ave. N. Y.
Anthony Guida, 409 E, 122nd
William T. Andrews, 270 Convent’ Aves NYC.
Daniel Flynn, 3657 Broadway, N.Y. C.
William J. A. Glancy, 160 Cabrini Blvd N.¥.C.
NIAGARA COUNTY
Jacob E. Hollinger, Middleport
Harry D. Suitor, Youngstown
INEIDA COUNTY
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Frank A. Emma, 1608 Gibson Rd. Utica
William R. Williams, Cassville
C. Dean Williams, Remsen
ONONDAGA COUNTY
Leo W. Breed, Baldwinsville
George B. Parsons, 102 Strathmore Drive,
Syracuse
Frank J. Costello, 636 Park Ave., Syracuse
ONTARIO COUNTY
Harry R. Marble, R. D., Holcomb
ORANGE COUNTY
Lee B. Mailler, Cornwall
Charles N. Hammond, Sparrowbush
ORLEANS COUNTY
John S. Thompson, Medina
OSWEGO COUNTY
Emest J, Lonis, Hannibal
SOUNTY
Chester T. Backus, Mortis
PUTNAM COUNTY
D. Mallory Stephens, Brewster
QUEENS COUNTY
Mario J. Cariello, 25-55 32nd St, L. 1. City
George F. Torsney, 40-01 50th Ave. L. I. City
John V. Downey, 32-27 83rd St, Jackson Heights
Henry J. Latham, 90-10 150th St, Jamaica
John H. Perrl, 425 Beach 157th St, Rockaway
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RENSSELAER COUNTY
J. Eugene Zimmer, 1889 Highland Ave., Troy
Maurice Whitney, Berlin
RICHMOND COUNTY —~
Charles Bormann, 89 Broad St, Stapleton, S. I.
Albert V. Maniscalco, 340 Olympia Blvd.,
Rosebank, S. I.
ROCKLAND COUNTY
Robert Doscher, Pearl River
ST. LAWRENCE COUNTY
Grant F. Daniels, Ogdensburg
Allan P. Sill, Massena
SARATOGA COUNTY
Richard J. Sherman, Saratoga Springs
SCHENECTADY COUNTY
Oswald D. Heck, 749 DeCamp Ave., Schenectady
Harold Armstrong, 759 Curry Rd., ‘Schenectady
SCHOHARIE COUNTY
Arthur L. Parsons, Central Bridge
SCHUYLER’ COUNTY
Dutton S. Peterson, Odessa
SENECA COUNTY
Lawrence W. VanCleef, R. D., Seneca Falls
STEUBEN COUNTY
Edith C. Cheney, 64 E. Third St, Corning
William M. Stuart, Canisteo
SUFFOLK COUNTY
Edmund R. Lupton, Mattituck
Elisha T. Barrett, Brightwaters
SULLIVAN COUNTY
James G. Lyons, Monticello
TIOGA
Myron D. Albro, Lounsberry
‘TOMPKINS COUNTY
Stanley C. Shaw, 315 N. Geneva St,, Ithaca
ULSTER COUNTY
John F, Wadlin, Highland
WARREN COUNTY
Harry A. Reoux, Warrensburg
WASHINGTON COUNTY
Henry Neddo, Whitehall
WAYNE COUNTY
Henry B. Wilson, Woleot
WESTCHESTER
UNTY
Christopher H. Lawrence, 26 Valley Road,
Bronxville
Theodore Hill, Jr, Jefferson Valley, Peekskill
James E. Owens, 75 State St, Ossining
Jane H. Todd, 41_N. Broadway, Tarrytown
Malcolm Wilson, 382 Park Hill Ave., Yonkers
WYOMING COUNTY
Harold C, Ostertag, Attica
YATES COUNTY
Fred S. Hollowell, Penn Yan
REPRESENTATIVES IN CONGRESS
SENATORS
James M. Mead (re-elected), 79 Ideal St., Buffalo (Dem.)
Robert F. Wagner (in office), 1327 Lexington Ave., N. Y. C.
CONGRESSMEN
REP. AT LARGE—Caroline O'Day, Sunset Lane, Rye (Dem.)
REP. AT LARGE—Matthew J. Merritt, 7 No. Drive, Malba,
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Rep.
Dem.
Dem.
Dem.
Dem.
Dem.
Dem.
L. I. (Dem.)
Pol.
Name and Address
Leonard W. Hall, Oyster Bay
William B. Barry, 114-52 176th St, Albans
Joseph L. Pfeifer, 58 Bushwick Ave., Brooklyn
Thomas H. Cullen, 215 Congress St. Brooklyn
James J. Heffernan, 65 Prospect Park West,
Brooklyn
Andrew L. Somers, 1328 President St., Brooklyn
John J. Delaney, 1 Pierrepont St., Brooklyn
Donald L. O'Toole, 7410 Ridge Blvd., Brooklyn
Eugene J. Keough, 1247 Hancock St, Brooklyn
Emanuel Celler, 303 MacDonough St., Brooklyn
James A. O'Leary, 771 Bard Ave., W. New
Brighton, S. I.
Samuel Dickstein, 306 E. Broadway, N. Y. C.
Louis J. Capozzoli, 36 Kenmare St, N. Y. C.
(Continued on page 269)
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CONTEST .. . CASH PRIZES
LAST DATE FOR COMPETING EXTENDED TO DECEMBER 20th
Ist Prize - - $50.00
2nd Prize - - 20.00
3rd Prize - - 10.00
4th Prize - - 5.00
and 15 additional awards
of $1.00 each.
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CONTEST RULES
1, Only Association Members with 1940
dues paid may compete in this contest.
2. The Advertising Questionnaire on the
opposite page must be completed and
submitted with the completed state-
ment in order to be considered.
»
. Each member may submit only one
entry.
4. The statement must be typed or writ-
ten plainly in longhand on a plain
sheet of white paper, and the name,
department and address of the mem-
ber should be contained on the reverse
of the sheet.
5. The completed statement must be
mailed or delivered so as to reach As-
sociation Headquarters, Room 156,
State Capitol, Albany, N. ¥., by the
20th of December.
cy
. The selection of the winning statement
by the Special Committee appointed
by the Executive Committee is final,
and the statements will not be re-
turned,
Send in Your Entry Today .
An easy way for members to win CASH
PRIZES, and at the same time help “The
State Employee” to secure the advertising
recognition it deserves.
Just complete the following statement in
FIFTY ADDITIONAL WORDS or less:
“I support The Association of State Civil
Service Employees of the State of New York
by membership because....
Send such statement so as to reach the Con-
test Editor, Association Headquarters, Room
156, State Capitol, Albany, N. Y., on or before
December 20th.
It is also necessary to complete the Adver-
tising Questionnaire on the opposite page,
and send it with your completed statement
to compete for the prizes.
ACT NOW! Share in the valuable prizes.
Send your completed statement in TODAY.
Remember, the last date for filing your
statement is December 20th. Don't forget to
place your name, department and address
on your statement.
The entries will be judged by a Special
Committee and the prizes will be announced
in a future issue of “The State Employee.”
Read the “Contest Rules” before preparing
and sending your statement.
. With Your Completed
Advertising Questionnaire
The State Employee
Members: Please Cooperate !
Readers of "The State Employee” represent tremendous buying power.
Together with their families and dependents, they purchase every necessity
and luxury, product and service.
“The State Employee” is a splendid advertising medium, reaching reg-
ularly employed individuals, containing information obtainable through no
other source and theréfore read thoroughly.
Prospective advertisers should be more widely acquainted with the ad-
vertising value of our publication. To accomplish this, the Association must
be in a position to provide definite information concerning the buying habits
and purchasing power of our publication.
You can DO YOUR SHARE in this matter by filling out the questionnaire
below, and sending it to Association Headquarters, Room 156, State Capitol,
Albany, N. Y., PROMPTLY. Cooperation on the part of members will enable
“The State Employee” to secure the advertising patronage it rightly deserves.
Those now responsible for the editing and publication of ''The State Em-
ployee” merit your help. Remember, advertising income helps to make your
magazine more attractive and desirable. Patronize the advertisers in your
official publication, and suggest the use of its columns to your merchants.
(DETACH HERE and send to Association Headquarters, Room 156, State Capitol, Albany, N. Y.)
The detailed information contained on this questionnaire will be kept confidentially at
Association Headquarters. The Association is interested only in the total or gross purchasing
power or buying habits of the readers of ''THE STATE EMPLOYEE.”
1, How many persons in your household come in contact with "THE STATE EMPLOYEE”? Male.
How many readers of "THE STATE EMPLOYEE” in your household own automobiles?,
How many use cosmetics?..
. Femal
4, How many use cigarettes?, Cigars?
Does your family own their own home?
. Any additional property? .....
ee ePE
What are the favorite sports or hobbies of yourself and the members of your family?
1 2. ,_ nee 4. 6. 6.
7. Approximately what mileage do you travel yearly on Railroads’ . Busses?.
. Automobiles?..
8. How do you usually spend your vacation? On cruises?.... At Seashore?..
9. How many times on an average during a month do members of your household attend movies?....
Mountain resorts?,
10. How often during the year do you or members of your household visit New York City?
Buffalo. Rochester. Syracuse. Albany.
11. What is the approximate yearly total income of all members of your household combined? §..
Name of Employee. Department. Address...
November
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Military Service Covered
UNDER ACCIDENT AND HEALTH INSURANCE
By
C. A. Carrtste, Jr.
Employees of the State of New
York, entering Military Service, will
have their insurance automatically
continued wherever it is possible to
continue making deductions on the
State payrolls—that is—if the em-
ployee is in any of the services where
the State is paying the difference be-
tween their Federal reimbursement
and their State reimbursement, de-
ductions will continue to be made
and the insurance will continue in
force, according to all the terms and
conditions of the policy, just as
though you were still in State Ser-
vice.
In case of employees who are en-
rolled for a year’s Military Service,
under the Federal draft, they may
continue to pay their premiums
semi-annually, to the office of Ter
Bush & Powell, Inc., 423 State
Street, Schenectady, N. Y., and their
insurance will be continued as stated
above. If, however, these payments
are not kept up by the employee
going into the year’s Military train-
ing, the policy will be suspended at
the end of the grace period allowed
under the policy and when the em-
ployee returns to State service and
active work, he should again con-
tact Ter Bush & Powell, Inc., at
Schenectady, N. Y., and every effort
will be made to have the Company
reinstate the policy—just as it was
when he left State service.
It is important that all persons in
State employment who are insured
under the Group Plan of Accident
& Sickness Insurance, and who con-
template leaving for Military Ser-
vice, or who have already left for
Military Service, should send their
names in to Ter Bush & Powell,
Inc., 423 State Street, Schenectady,
N. Y., in order that an adequate
record can be made of their present
location, and premium notices may
be sent to them and their card may
be moved into the Military Service
file, because special attention is go-
ing to be given to those State em-
ployees going into Military Service,
and every effort is going to be made
to attempt to continue their insur-
ance for them so that they will have
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adequate protection while they are
out of State service temporarily.
All of the above applies to a one
year leave of absence due to Military
Service. If the employee remains in
the army beyond the actual training
period of one year, special considera-
tion will have to be given to those
persons and their insurance and this
will be done, if they write a letter to
C. A. Carlisle, Jr, Ter Bush &
Powell, Inc., 423 State Street, Sche-
nectady, N. Y.
It is hoped that every State em-
ployee, who leaves State service un-
der a leave of absence for Military
Service in any branch, will make
every effort to keep his insurance up
and will make every effort to send
in the proper notification so that
there will no omission of pre-
mium payments under the policy.
Claim Benefits
Over $400,000 in claim benefits
have already been paid out to State
employees under the Group Plan of
Accident & Sickness Insurance, and
more than $12,000 per month is now
being paid out in benefits under this
plan. The employees in State service
who are not insured under this
Group Plan, should give serious con-
sideration to it at this time because
the winter months bring on much
illness, and many accidents.
Monthly Indemnity Insurance
Please remember that the Group
Plan of Accident & Sickness Insur-
ance should not be confused with
the Group Life Insurance for State
employees, also sponsored by this
Association, nor should it be con-
fused with the various Hospitaliza-
tion coverages issued in various parts
of the State, which cover only hos-
pital coverage and do not pay you
a monthly indemnity while you are
sick or disabled due to accident, nor
should it be considered with medical
service, or medical reimbursement
policies issued under various laws of
the State of New York. This insur-
ance pays you a monthly indemnity
of from $30.00 to $100.00 per month
depending upon the amount of sal-
ary that you earn, and depending
upon the amount of indemnity that
you have purchased each month,
while you are disabled due to acci-
dent or illness, all in accordance with
the terms and provisions of this very
low-cost, broad coverage policy. It
makes no difference whether you are
sick at home or whether you are sick
in the hospital, or whether you have
been sick, and had to go to Florida,
or somewhere else to recuperate after
an illness or an operation. By read-
ing over your policy, or by writing
a letter and asking questions, you
will get full information which will
explain to you, the benefits of this
very broad form of policy which
pays you a monthly indemnity.
Don’t let anybody sell you any
other policy supposed to be “just as
good.” Insist upon the genuine
Group Plan insurance, sponsored by
the Civil Service Association of the
Employees of the State of New
York, and insist upon payroll deduc-
tion because this is the easiest way
to keep your premiums paid and
there is not the opportunity to have
your policy lapse that there is when
you are paying it on a monthly,
quarterly, semi-annual or annual
basis.
So far as we know, this is the only
State-wide Group Plan of Insurance
offered to State employees, and it is
certainly the only Group Plan spon-
sored by this Association, although
there are many companies and indi-
viduals who have tried to meet this
plan with competitive plans of vari-
ous sorts. If you are not insured—
do it now, because—
1. War brings consideration of
higher prices for new appli-
cants to the plan. Now you can
still buy this low-cost monthly
income Accident & Sickness In-
surance at the original very low
rate.
2. War brings consideration of cer-
tain policy restrictions for new
applicants in the near future.
Now you can still buy the very
broad coverage, which pays a
monthly income to you, whether
disabled by sickness or accident
—all in accordance with the
terms of the individual policy
which you receive as a New York
State Employee under the State-
wide Group Plan.
(Continued on page 269)
The State Employee
Military Service
(Continued from page 268)
3. You pay under this plan, only a
small sum each pay-day which
can be deducted from your sal-
ary, and you get a check each
month when disabled due to ac-
cident or illness—all in accord-
ance with the terms of the very
broad low-cost policy issued to
you.
4. Old or young, married or single,
you need this insurance now,
and any New York State Em-
ployee is eligible to apply for the
insurance. Within a reasonable
length of time after you get your
policy, you must become a mem-
ber of this Association if you are
not already enrolled in its mem-
bership.
5. Claims are being paid to some of
your fellow employees every day.
You may be next.
Insure now, if you are in good
health, When you are ready to be ill,
or afflicted with a chronic disease,
or hurt or maimed in an accident, it
will be too late. Join the Group of
over 12,500 State employees who are
now insured and protect your in-
come against loss due to disability
from sickness or accident.
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Your Representatives
(Continued from page 265)
Dem. M. Michael Edelstein, 170 2nd Ave, N. Y. C:
Dem. Michael J. Kennedy, 427 W. 5st St, N. Y. C.
Rep. William TT. Pheiffer, 501 Lexington Ave., N. Y.
Rep. Kenneth F. Simpson, 109 East 91st St, N. Y.
Dem. Martin J. Kennedy, 1349 Lexington Ave,, N. Y.
Dem. Sol Bloom, 310 Riverside Drive, N. Y. C.
Rep. Vito Marcantonio, 1878 Lexington Ave., N. Y. C.
Dem. Joseph A. Gavagan, 790 Riverside Drive, N. Y. C.
Dem. Walter A, Lynch, 200 Alexander Ave., Bronx
Dem. Charles A. Buckley, 21 W. 192nd St, Bronx
Dem. James M. Fitzpatrick, 1618 Yates Ave., Bronx
Rep. Ralph A. Gamble, Albee Ct. Apts., Larchmont
Rep, Hamilton Fish, Garrison
Rep. Lewis K, Rockefeller, Chatham
Dem, William 'T. Byrne, Loudonville
Rep. E, Harold Cluett, Pinewoods Ave, Troy
Rep. Frank Crowther, Van Curler Rd., Schenectady
Rep. Clarence E. Kilburn, Malone
Rep. Francis D, Culkin, 60 W. Cayuga St., Oswego
Rep. Fred J. Douglas, 285 Genesee St, Utica
Rep. Edwin Arthur Hall, 82 Rush Ave., Binghamton
Rep. Clarence E, Hancock, 1650 James St., Syracuse
Rep. John Taber, 156 South St., Auburn
Rep. W. Sterling Cole, Bath
Rep. Joseph J. O'Brien, East Rochester
Rep. James W. Wadsworth, Geneseo
Rep. Walter Gresham Andrews, 172 Summer St,
suffalo
Dem. Alfred L. Beiter, 64 Highland Dr., Williamsville
Dem, Pius L, Schwert, 534 McKinley Pkway, Buffalo
Rep. Daniel A. Reed, 761 Central Ave., Dunkirk
Cc.
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269
New Books
Compiled by the
Book Information Section
of the
New York State Library
FICTION
Ake and His World; tr. from the
Swedish by Marguerite Wen-
ner-Gren; by Bertil Malmberg.
Farrar. $2.
With a skill that is in part nostal-
gic remembrance, part psychological
penetration, and with a charming
naivete of style mirroring the child’s
thoughts, the author recreates the
world of six-year-old Swedish Ake
as this engaging little boy views it.
Death of a Peer, by Ngaio Marsh.
Little. $2.
The closely knit, titled English
Lamprey family, with Roberta Grey,
their devoted guest from New Zea-
land, are the last individuals you
would ever expect to be accused of
the horrible murder of a relative at
their door, but there are sufficient
reasons for questionings and suspi-
cions. The appeal of this excellent
mystery story extends to readers ap-
preciative of convincing character-
ization and plot, humor and good
writing.
For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest
Hemingway. Scribner. $2.75.
In the four days which Robert
Jordan spends in a cave with the
family of a Spanish guerilla prepara-
tory to filling a commission to dyna-
mite a bridge of strategic impor-
tance, he lives through crowded
emotional experiences — uncertainty
as to the loyalty of the guerilla lead-
er, an intimate, idyllic love affair
with a beautiful Spanish girl who
had been raped by the fascists, and
the facing of almost certain death.
Written with fine craftsmanship, the
story casts its spell chiefly through
its depth of sincerity and its moving
tenderness.
Oliver Wiswell, by Kenneth Roberts.
Doubleday. $3.
Oliver Wiswell, Yale student, is
forced by an infuriated “rebel” mob
to flee his home in April, 1775, with
his distinguished lawyer father be-
cause of their Loyalist sympathies.
From beleaguered Boston, to Hali-
fax with the bungling, dilatory
Howe and back to New York, with
some time in England and France,
and yet more fighting in the South,
270
this young man participates in the
Revolution, and from the undeviat-
ing viewpoint of a Loyalist writes it
all down, including his despairing
love for Sally, whose brothers are on
the “rebel” side. Stimulating and
provocative because of its fresh angle
of approach, and full of color, action
and lively dialog. Map on end
papers.
‘The Ox-Bow Incident, by W. Van
T. Clark. Random House. $2.
Two men, Art and Gil, after a
winter alone on a cattle range in the
°80’s, come into town on the loose,
just in time to hear that rustlers
have been busy and on the heels of
that comes word that a man has
been murdered. Men ride in, bent
on pursuit and lawless vengeance,
in short a lynching. The account,
as related by Art with the greatest
versimilitude mounts with increas-
ing tension to the tragic and horri-
fying climax when three men are
found asleep in a lonely little valley
called the Ox-Bow. The motives of
the lynchers, how they are swayed,
and their individual characteristics
are incisively limned with more than
ordinary psychological acumen.
The Spanish Bride, by Georgette
Heyer. Doubleday. $2.50.
The author skilfully blends ro-
mance and realism in this captivat-
ing and informing novel of Welling-
ton’s Peninsular campaign and in
particular of the part played by ener-
getic Captain Harry Smith and his
glowing, sparkling, young Spanish
bride, who “made the war with
him,” from Badajos to Toulouse.
NON-FICTION
Our Future in Asia, by R. A. Smith.
Viking Press. $3.
The author's forthright, realistic
survey of the economic and political
interests of the United States in
southeastern Asia—China, French
Indo-China, British Malay, Nether-
land India and the Philippines —
leads to what is to him the inevit-
able conclusion that American stakes
are so great that this country must
quickly adopt a dynamic policy to
protect them. Special attention is
given to the problem of Philippine
independence. Four maps.
Parents Can Learn, by H. E. Han-
ford. Holt. $1.75.
Discussing family life and every-
day problems in the home with hu-
mor and the wisdom of common
sense, this book will make a wide
appeal because of its freshness of
approach and its informal, readable
presentation.
Race: Science and Politics, by Ruth
Benedict. Modern Age Books.
$2.50.
In this enlightening and impor-
tant discussion, the author, a noted
anthropologist, makes clear the dis-
tinction between the facts of race
and the claims of racism. She re-
futes the assumption of racism that
“one human group has biological
and perpetual superiority over
another” and concludes with the
chapter “Why then race prejudice?”
in which she draws on history for
her answer and suggests ways to
overcome it.
Test Tubes and Dragon Scales, by
G. C. Basil & E. F. Lewis.
Winston. $2.50.
His interest caught by a travel
folder, Dr. Basil took his young
wife out to Chungking, determined
“to scrape scales from the Chinese
dragon of traditional medicine.” In
this chronicle there is unfolded the
doctor’s increasing awareness of
Chungking’s fascination and wis-
dom in the days before it became the
capital of all China, his glimpses
into the heart of the Chinese race,
his enriching friendships and his
many experiences, ludicrous, danger-
ous, exasperating or delightful, aris-
ing from his medical work at the
hospital and throughout the city.
‘Tragedy in France; tr. from the
French by Denver Lindley; by
Andre Maurois. Harper. $2.
As Official Eye-witness connected
with the General Headquarters of
the British Army in France, Mau-
rois, from October, 1939, to the fall
of France, was in a position to de-
duce from his own observations the
causes of the French defeat. Writing
without recrimination and out of a
great love for his country, Maurois
is, nevertheless, frank in telling why
France and England were ill-pre-
pared, why the German offensive
was so quickly successful, and how
France and England were separated.
‘This timely and pertinent book con-
cludes with some of the author's
notes written during this period.
The State Employee
NEW YORK STATE EMPLOYEES GROUP PLAN
ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE
OVER $400,000 CLAIM BENEFITS PAID
DO NOT BUY ANY OTHER JUST AS GOOD — GET THE GENUINE
LOW COST — BROAD COVERAGE — EASY PAY
(PAYROLL DEDUCTION)
SALARY GROUPINGS, BENEFITS. AND PREMIUMS
YOU MAY BUY
THE FOLLOWING
OR LESS
IF YOUR MONTHLY PRINCIPAL ANNUAL SEMI-ANNUAL SEMI-MONTHLY
ANNUAL SALARY IS INDEMNITY SUM PREMIUM PREMIUM PREMIUM
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$ 600 but less than $1,000... $50 $500 $15.85 $ 8.05 $ 65
$1,000 but less than $1,200... $ 60 $500 $18.25 $ 9.25 $75
$1,200 but less than $1,600. $75 $500 $21.85 $11.05 $ 90
$1,600 nd OV ET neem we $100 $500 $30.25 $15.25 $1.25
NOTE: To your cash salary you may add any maintenance and time service allowed to you.
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drink fresh milk every day to
keep pep up, pounds down,
3. DO YOU SLEEP WELL
at night? If not, try a
cool glass of fresh milk.
Or try it hot, in a cup.
‘You'll find it helps lots!
4. COOK WITH MILK—
Send the coupon for new
mill recipes and enjoy
easy-to-make dishes that
are no '@—and in-
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THE STATE OF NEW YORK SAYS
aw (OOK BETTER, FEEL BETTER OGINE FRESH WILE
1. WILL YOU have to “let down” at
40? Or will you take steps to cross
the “40 line” with speed to spare?
Among other things, drink fresh milk
daily—it helps keep your body in
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