STATE EMPLOYEE
Volume I August and September, 1932 Number 8-9
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ST. LAWRENCE STATE HOSPITAL. OGDENSBURG, NY.
INSTITUTIONAL EMPLOYEES ACTIVE
Representatives of the Mental Hygiene institutions, having employee associations affiliated with the State Hospital
Employees Association, met at Albany on September 14th and elected the following officers for the ensuing year:
Fred O. Field, of the Willard State Hospital, President
C. C. Colesanti, of the Middletown State Hospital, Vice-President
Miss Luc
Henry Frank w:
S. Baumgraf, of the Marcy State Hospital, Secretary-Treasurer
s re-elected to represent the Hospital employees on the Retirement Board.
A committee consisting of Jay Livingston, of the Hudson River State Hospital, Chairman; Guy Campbell, of the Rock-
land ‘State Hospital, and C. C. Colesanti, of the Middletown State Hospital, was appointed to revise the Constitution and
By-Laws.
Definite action was taken to affiliate closely with the Association of State Civil Service Employees of the State of New
York, and resolution was adopted providing for appointment of a committee of five to represent the hospital group in all
matters affecting institution employees. This healthy, enthusiastic spirit of cooperation is extending to state employees every-
where, throughout the State and augurs well for a strong, state-wide Association acting entirely for State employees.
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A CALL TO ARMS!
This is an appeal to every State Civil Service employee
to rally to the defense of Public Service. The founders of
our government indicated plainly that the purpose of gov-
ernment was to make secure for all citizens—not a favored
few—life, liberty ang the pursuit of happiness.
Government means service along essential lines. It is
the only agency which gives guarantee of life, of liberty
and of an equal opportunity for all citizens to seek happi-
ness. Government in the State of New York does not go
beyond the fundamental principles embodied in sound co-
operative effort on the part of all citizens to make their
lives and their liberty secure and to supply as far as pos-
sible the opportunity for happiness. There is not too much
protection of life or property—there is too little if we are
to judge from the annual toll of human life and material loss
chargeable to organized crime and vice. There is not too
much protection of liberty—there is plainly too little in a
period when the menace of well organized communism and
other fallacious political doctrines are everywhere being
fostered openly or secretly. It is nothing short of treason
itself to assert that there is too much fostering of educa-
tion when millions of the clean, eager young men and
women of our commonwealth can not attain to graduation
from high school much less enjoy the benefits of higher
education, There can never be too much accomplished to
make community life richer, better and happier.
Some enthusiastic persons representing this or that
group have apparently gone beyond the sane objective of
fighting against waste in government. If they held fast to
this they would have the ear of every honest citizen in public
service and out. The effort seems actually one to blame the
present period of distress occasioned by failure of many of
these same persons to practice sound economics in their own
business upon public business, and to take from the people
those blessings which they have gained after long and pa-
tient sacrifice and struggle. Let it never be overlooked or
forgotten that the worth-while institutions of America were
wrung by force in practically every instance by the poor but
honest classes of citizens from selfish groups very similar in
character to the blocs and organizations seeking to cripple
and undermine government today in a way that will paralyze
it for years to come. Under the guise of economy, these
enemies of popular government seek to have financial sup-
port withdrawn and to palsy government functioning that
they may in the helplessness of the citizens gain the selfish
advantages which come with the rule of organized power
and wealth,
The miseries of Washington and of his army at Valley
Forge and elsewhere during the fight for liberty and good
government, were the direct result of lack of support of the
Government. The slaughter of thousands of men and women
in the World War is undeniably the fault of a lack of sup-
port of our government that left it largely unprepared.
Legitimate government expenditures are the wisest and
best investments and bring the largest return of any ex-
penditures made by the people of any country. The home
owners, the farmers, the workers of this nation, the men
and women who bear the real burdens, of government build-
ing do not find fault with the essentials of government or
with economical expenditures therefor. They have de-
manded these services and expect to finance them. They
want only an honest return for their taxes, and they have
never by word or deed given to any organization or bloc or
association, any mandate to wreck the State government
with false economy.
The insidious appeals to withdraw funds needed to
maintain protection for life, liberty and the pursuit of hap-
piness are as un-American as the basest plot ever formulated
for national destruction. Demoralization of our educational
system, laxity in combating disease epidemics, abandonment
of protection of the purity of food supplies, exploitation of
4 THE STATE EMPLOYEE
public lands, limitation of transportation and communica-
tion to favored classes, restriction of the use of water power
in the interest of special groups, lack of care for the insane
and other dependent wards of society, and the halting of the
wheels of progress along the lines of finer, better com-
munity development are the substitutes and the only pos-
sible substitutes for rational, honest, and efficient govern-
ment. Instead of economy they assure unlimited loss and
waste, be
The attacks upon the rank and file of public servants
and the demand for their removal or for the reduction
of present low rates of pay furnish further proof of the
insincerity and selfishness imbuing those now active in criti-
cising State government. When prosperity had extended
to all groups throughout the width and breadth of the land
except to public servants, these self-appointed doctors of
government were nowhere heard investigating or advising
or planning to do justice to the public service or to public
servants. They were too busy enjoying the fleshpots of
material prosperity to be mindful of the fact that sane pros-
perity and the prosperity that is bound to come with honest
business and industrial adjustments was and always will be
dependent upon good government. State civil service em-
ployees know more about the needs of the various functions
of state government and their value to human welfare and
human happiness than any other group in this State, As
citizens and taxpayers they owe it as a patriotic duty to
take it upon themselves individually, and collectively through
their Association, to inform their friends and neighbors and
the citizens generally of the utter futility of maintaining in
any other way than by intelligently manned government de-
partments and bureaus the essential services required if chaos
is not to replace order and progress in political and social
life. If government is so weakened in its vital parts as to
fail to attract wholehearted loyalty and respect, the end of
all of the cherished institutions of this country is truly only
around the corner.
When Sparta was in the throes of a great natural dis-
aster, the horror of an earthquake, her enemies organized
to destroy her. Sparta’s leader, Archidamus, ordered the
trumpets to sound as to arms. With a display of patriotism
that has made the event sublime in history, the immediate
misery was forgotten in a triumphant rally to preserve their
national existence. State employees have a call to active
endeavor to arouse their fellow citizens who wish to see
New York State government continue to progress in use-
fulness and honor. It is your duty not only to leyally sup-
port your government in your daily work but in your social
and political activities.
It is your sacred duty to leave nothing undone to main-
tain the integrity and efficiency of New York State service.
WILL OUR STATESMEN BE STAMPEDED
INTO FOLLY ?
(in an arti bristling with brilliant appreciation of the
dangers of the present irrational rush toward demoralization of
e, Dr. GJenn Frank, President of Wisconsin Univer-
ention to the after effects of yielding to folly. Prof.
is pri ment
appeared.)
Yesterday and the day before, I spoke of the impor-
tance of keeping clear the distinction between real and bogus
economy.
August and September, 1932
I pleaded for that insight and courage in leadership
that will enable it to tackle such treasonable wastes as are
to be found in war and our obsolete local governments
which have stubbornly refused to readjust themselves to
the age of the automobile, good roads, and the telephone.
The current campaign for drastic economy being pushed
so vigorously by the business man and the politician is not
coming to focus on these fundamental wastes, but is level-
ing its guns against those great underlying services of a
scientific, social, economic, and educational nature.
I am not so much concerned with what a scuttling of
the budgets of scientific bureaus, libraries, schools, hospitals,
and like institutions will mean in 1932.
The real results of bogus economy will not show up
in 1932.
But I am deeply concerned with the results that bogus
economy will register in the American life of 1952.
If now we hi-jack the fundamental scientific, social,
economic and educational services of the nation, it will be
a generation or more before we shall be able to begin to
climb back even to the efficiency these services now display.
It is so easy for those in public service to yield to the
clamor for drastic cuts in the salary scales of public service,
to take but one point by way of illustration.
But if now we beat down the salary scales of public
servants, we shall but succeed in further diverting superior
capacity from public service.
Business and the professions have long drained off
from public service our ablest men and women. We dare
not intensify this diversion of ability from public service.
I am quite aware that salaries and wages outside public
service have had to take drastic cuts in these trying days,
but, once the economic curve turns upward, it will be but
a question of months until the salary and wage curve in
business and the professions will follow the economic curve
in its upward sweep, but this will not be true of the salary
and wage scales of public servants.
And in the meantime, with the memory of the almost
insulting scorn to which disinterested public servants are
all too often subjected in the midst of an economy campaign,
in the years immediately ahead fewer men and women of
outstanding ability will be inclined to give their lives to
public service.
All of which means that it will be our children rather
than ourselves whe will pay the price of our short-sighted
economy.
COMPULSORY RETIREMENT
The matter of urging retirement upon persons who
have attained the age of sixty-five is receiving serious atten-
tion as an administrative practice throughout the various
departments of the State. It is the understanding of this
Association that every such case will be treated upon its
particular merits. The Association has also been advised
that where the policy is adopted, it will not extend to those
employees who unfortunately may not be members of the
State Retirement Fund, and whose entire income therefore
would cease with their enforced retirement. The benefits
of the retirement system are very real to those of advanced
age who for physical reasons are deprived of normal salary
income.
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August and September, 1932
GOOD BUSINESS CONDITIONS REQUIRE RA-
TIONAL WAGE STANDARDS WITH SHORTER
WORK PERIODS
Secretary of Labor William N. Doak, speaking at the
New York State Fair, reviewed the progress of the applica-
tion of machinery to farm and industrial activities, and
stressed the dependence of good standards of living and con-
tinued well-being of the United States upon the maintenance
of reasonable wage scales and shorter periods of work.
Secretary Doak said:
“The incomes received through the source of salaries
and wages must be so balanced that all may have the means
of livelihood. Such a plan will prevent the collapse of our
social fabric which would otherwise destroy our advanced
civilization, which the machine age has helped to make
possible,
“This can be best safeguarded by increased wages,
shorter workdays, and shorter workweeks, thereby equally
distributing the fruits of progress. This plan has my un-
qualified support.”
GOOD GOVERNMENT IS SOUND THRIFT
The New York State Civil Service Commission is
endeavoring intelligently, honestly and vigorously to meet
the needs of the State as to a capable and industrious per-
sonnel. After many years the Civil Service Commission of
the State of New York is establishing what is the basic
need of every successful personnel management system,
large or small, a complete classification set-up of positions
on the basis of duties and responsibilities. They are in-
ventorying the duties and responsibilities of all positions
in State service, and they are giving like names to like posi-
tions wherever they exist in the service. A common lan-
guage absolutely vital to fair treatment of employees and
to a good business understanding in dealing with personnel
matters in State government is being written. This common
language will make it possible for the governor, the legisla-
ture, department executives, employees and citizens gener-
ally to understand the needs of State government and to
intelligently solve State personnel problems. Instead of
meaningless words only presuming to describe the duties
and responsibilities of State positions, and in place of mis-
leading and even grotesque titles, where no two persons
speaking of State work had the same duties or responsi-
bilities in mind, the positions of thé State and the personnel
employed therein are to be accorded a just and honest classi-
fication and allocation, such orderly arrangement carrying
with it the assurance of uniformly fair treatment in all
employment matters,
The enemies of efficient and economical State service,
the devotees of special privilege, political and otherwise, are
loud in their opposition to this splendid improvement of
State Civil Service. The plan will help to rescue civil
service from a state of helplessness as to basic needs.
Few if any of the critics of the present activities are
actually connected with State civil service. Their insin-
cerity is plainly shown by their attacks upon this Associa-
tion, which for twenty years has stood for the preservation
of merit and fitness in public service. Although this Asso-
ciation is composed entirely of State employees and has
expended all possible efforts to secure the application of the
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best type of Civil Service system to New York State em-
ployment matters, the accomplishment is vastly more vital
to the citizens than it is to the employees. The integrity
and the efficiency of the civil service system, and the honest
administration thereof, are the truest guarantees of citizen
security and of administrative economy.
PROGRESS IN CLASSIFICATION WORK
Howard G. E. Smith,
Commissioner, State Dept. Civil Service
The work of the Civil Service Department in bringing
up to date and administering the classification of positions
in the state service is progressing very satisfactorily. The
helpful cooperation which is being given by employees and
departments generally is invaluable.
We are giving a great deal of time and attention to
requests of employees for re-study of their position and re-
allocation where their duties and responsibilities indicate that
an error has been made. A better understanding of the
basic aims and principles of this work and a stronger realiza-
tion that the employees themselves will be the real bene-
ficiaries, is becoming more and more evident. We have had
many conferences with employees or representatives of
groups of employees, and we welcome suggestions from any
responsible group or from any individual, if such sugges-
tions are an honest effort for improvement of the state
service. Special consideration or privilege for an individual
or a group would be unfair and resented by the great mass
of employees who are not so considered.
Classification reduced to its simplest terms is nothing
more than an intelligent and comprehensive effort to call
things by their right names, in order to distinguish positions
from each other according to the essential natures of the
positions themselves. There are two facts of the greatest
importance which should be given the careful thought and
consideration of every state employee.
The first of these is the recognition which classification
gives to the true nature of positions as they actually exist.
Such recognition is particularly valuable in its relation to
promotion and transfer.
The second is the fact that classification provides the
only workable basis for the development and application of
an orderly and consistent compensation plan by which the
rates of pay of positions may be fixed with relation to each
other on a fair and equitable basis. This is impossible with-
out a systematic classification to which the several rates can
be related. When the present economic situation becomes
more normal, we trust that a fair, just and equitable com-
pensation plan can be developed which will guarantee equal
rates of pay for equal service, but without some standard
plan for determining like positions such as classification
will provide, no such equitable compensation plan can be
provided.
We are convinced that as time goes on, the many and
far reaching effects of a sound classification of positions on
the basis of duties and responsibilities in advancing the
interests of both the public service and the employees of
the State of New York, will become more and more appar-
ent, and in direct ratio more and more appreciated,
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6 THE STATE: EMPLOYEE
ORDINARY DISABILITY RETIREMENT
By Franklin B. Holmes
Director, Employees’ Retirement System
The Retirement System Law in § 64 provides for re-
tirement of a member who has had fifteen or more years
of service on physical or mental disability.
Either the member, or the head of the department in
which the member is employed, or a person acting in behalf
of the member, may make such application.
When application is made a physician about the state,
appointed by the Medical Board, as provided in § 55 of the
law, makes the examination for the Medical Board. The
Medical Board is composed of Dr. Paul B. Brooks, Assistant
Commissioner of Health, Dr. Thomas Ordway, Dean of the
Albany Medical College, and Dr. Andrew MacFarlane.
If this Board, after review of the report of examina-
tion by its representative, certifies to the Comptroller that
the member is mentally or physically incapacitated for duty
the Comptroller must retire the member within ninety days
after the examination and the filing of the application.
Of course, there are as many reasons for retirement
on disability as there are chronic diseases. Quite a few re-
tirements are temporary in nature. The member may be
broken down nervously, needing a rest of a year or two.
The Retirement System produces a small income during such
absence from work. Again a great many of the ordinary
disability retirements are permanent.
The law in § 66 provides that an examination of the
member who-has retired on account of ordinary disability
must be made once each year for the first five years after
such retirement and then once every three years thereafter
until attaining age sixty. Should a member, retired on account
of ordinary disability, refuse to be examined the retirément
allowance would cease, :
Should the Medical Board after one of these periodical
examinations report to the Comptroller that the member so
retired is no longer incapacitated, the member is given the
opportunity to return to work. The name of the. member
is placed on a preferred eligible list in the Department of
Civil Service. Usually on return to health the retired mem-
ber returns to the department from which retired.
In the issues of June and July the way of determining
‘superannuation retirement allowance was described. Usu-
ally ordinary disability retirement equals ninety per cent of
what the retirement allowance would be were the member
age sixty, using the same factors. Thus the disability re-
tirement allowance would be approximately ninety per cent
of one-seventieth of one’s final average salary for each year
of service. To produce the amount of retirement allowance
the amount of contribution of the member is first considered
and then the state or municipality makes up the difference.
You will readily see that on disability retirement the state
or municipality pays by far the greater share of the retire-
ment allowance.
A member may retire on ordinary physical disability
and still be employed, either by the state or a municipality
or otherwise. The amount received as salary for such em-
ployment while on ordinary disability retirement plus the
retirement allowance cannot exceed the final average salary
of the member when retired. Thus, if a member were re-
August and September, 1932
tired on $1500 final average salary and if the retirement
allowance were $500 the member could earn either by em-
ployment with the state or a municipality or otherwise up
to $1000 without having the retirement allowance affected.
Nor would the person so retired, if employed by the state
or a municipality, become a member of the Retirement Sys-
tem until the salary received and the pension exceeded the
final average salary. If the person is employed other than
by the state or a municipality and should the total salary
exceed the final average salary the retirement allowance
would be reduced. That is, if in the above case the person
received $1200 salary from a firm the retirement allowance
would be reduced to $300.
Ordinary disability retirement should not be confused
with accidental disability retirement, which will be described
as our next subject.
Superannuation retirement and ordinary disability re-
tirement are the only two benefits toward which a member
of the Retirement System contributes any part thereto, ex-
cept if one borrows one pays the administration cost thereof.
All other benefits are paid for entirely by the state or
municipality. This is evidenced by the fact that the rates
of contribution by the member, as established as of January
1, 1921, have not been increased when a new benefit was
added in which case the state was advised as to the probable
cost thereof to the state.
GOVERNOR ROOSEVELT GIVES FACTS AS TO
LOW COST OF STATE GOVERNMENT
Of great importance in the matter of tax reduction and
its relation to salaries paid to New York State workers, is
the fact that only a small proportion of the tax burden
actually’ goes to maintain the great work carried on by the
State. In this connection, also, the salaries paid to the rank
and filé of state employees are generally lower than those
paid in federal or municipal service or in business and in-
dustry. The Governor's statement follows:
“It goes without saying that the cost of government is
too high, and this is particularly true of local government.
The fact stands out that in the average community half of
all that the individual pays for the support of the govern-
ment goes to local government; most of the other half goes
to Washington, and only a small percentage of the whole,—
12 or 15 per cent goes to the carrying on of state govern-
ment.”
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EDUCATION FOR LEISURE TIME
William C. Smith, Chairman, Education Committee
“One can not stand still in the flowing stream of events.”
—Japanese proverb.
AN ADULT EDUCATION PROGRAM
Objectives
To assist employees and staff
To take advantage of educational oppor-
tunities for self-improvement and utilize
leisure time constructively,
To enable the great army of men and
women in State service to get greater
joy from life and work by developing
their native capacity to fullest power
To cooperate with the library and other
organizations offering facilities for indi-
vidual and group study which enlarge
one’s capacity to appreciate the finer
things of life.
To assist in selecting correspondence
courses and arranging cooperation with
agencies offering them.
In this changing world, everybody should make leisure
time count for something either in professional advance-
ment, social betterment or enrichment of life.
There are a myriad ways in which this desire may be
satisfied. The Association wishes to cooperate in every
way to make opportunities available for education during
time off duty and has asked the Education Committee to
assume responsibility for directing ambitious members of
the staff to facilities in local or state institutions.
Present conditions in the industrial and economic world
emphasize the importance of educational qualifications in the
various lines of service and, therefore, an adult education
program is timely.
Some years ago Budget Director Mark Graves in-
augurated for members of the Tax Commission staff, in
cooperation with the New York State College for Teachers,
a course of instruction in accounting, etc., and this course
was widely attended, with most excellent results both to
members who took the course and to the Department... This
course was conducted in the Albany High School in the
evening’ school.
Later Dr, Robert T. Hill, then connected with the
State Education Department in the Teacher Training Bu-
reau, as Chairman of the Education Committee, organized
a group of courses in the Capital District, covering a wide
variety of topics from State government, History, Ele-
mentary Economics to Statistics and Accountancy. Over
five hundred members -attended these courses. :
With the present demand for the best preparation on
the part of State employees, the Association is glad to
cooperate and offers the following tentative program for
the members to consider:
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Correspondence Courses
Instruction by correspondence, when properly organ-
ized, has proved of great value to students who can
not attend classes under personal direction at fixed
hours.
A correspondence course may be started at any time.
Through cooperation with the Massachusetts State
Department of University Extension, members may
enroll, as nonresident pupils under almost the same
conditions as Massachusetts residents. Sixty of these
courses are offered in the following lines; the com-
mittee will also point to other correspondence courses
and have plans in preparation for extending this
service along state lines:
Courses in Language
Courses in Drawing
Courses in Homemaking and Art
Courses in Education
Courses in History and Government
Review Courses for College Examinations
Courses in Economics
Courses in Mathematics
Commercial and Management Courses
Courses in Mechanical Engineering
Courses in Electrical Engineering
Courses in Structural, Highway and Hydraulic
Engineering
Special Industrial Courses
Courses in Textiles
Natural Science Courses
Civil Service Courses
Civics, History, Government, Economics
We and Our Government
We and Our Work
We and Our History
Here is a simple outline of a year’s work in the above
titles giving one an intelligent and informed view of
three important phases of everyday life.
The State Travelling Library has a limited number of
these and will send to groups in State institutions
for study. Those desiring to keep books for their
own use may purchase them.
Modern Novels — Current Literature — Shakespeare
Studies
The committee will undertake to outline and in co-
operation with the State Travelling Library to offer
studies and programs for the above. Ten of the great
books suggests a year of profitable reading. Modern
novels of recent years might appeal to another group.
Still others may wish to return to a year’s study of
some of Shakespeare’s plays and comedies.
High Lights of Modern Knowledge
In this age of specialization it has become increasingly
difficult for the busy person to acquire even an ele-
mentary understanding of the many subjects which,
although not directly related to his specialty, never-
theless have an important bearing on modern lite.
Everyone realizes the importance of a wider knowl-
edge not only as a useful adjunct in his practical
everyday work but also for the sake of keeping
mentally alive and progressive.
The time the average man can devote to acquiring gen-
eral knowledge is, of course, limited; he does not
and can not hope to master any other subject as
thoroughly as his own. But the desire to know is
universal and the intelligent man is always looking
forward to a day when he will have the leisure in
which to satisfy his urge to know more about a great
many things. That day, however, usually remains in
some vague future.
The University Series is especially designed ‘to provide
this busy person with the means of satisfying that
urge now, when the knowledge he seeks will be of
the greatest value and afford him the most enjoyment
and satisfaction. The purpose of the Series is to
present, in an attractive form and in a concise, read-
able style, the truly amazing story of the life of
mankind—an authoritative survey of the physical and
social sciences, history, philosophy, literature, and the
arts. Especial emphasis is given to matters of mod-
ern import, and each subject is evaluated from the
modern standpoint.
One of the first steps in starting on your program for
self-improvement is to get in touch with your local public
school director of adult education, or if near college or uni-
versity, with the extension director of the local institution.
If these do not offer any of the desired courses, send in the
properly filled blank at the bottom of this page, indicating
your interest and the committee will try to serve you.
Epucation CoMMITTEE,
WILLIAM C. SMITH, Chairman
FRANK L. TOLMAN
BEULAH BAILEY
WILLIAM E. HANNAN
Education Committee—The Association of State Civil
Service Employee—P. O. Box 48, Capitol Station,
Albany, N. Y.
I am interested in the course or courses checked
below.
Please send me further information.
A correspondence course in ..........eee0ee
A course in New York State Government
We and Our Work
We and Our Government
We and Our History
A course in High Lights in Modern Knowledge
A course in Current Literature
A course in Shakespeare’s Plays and Study
A course in
A course in Ten Great Novels
A course in elementary subjects in .
A course in academic subjects in
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Institution
Department
Address
or Institution.
THE STATE EMPLOYEE
August and September, 1932
WHO RUNS THE ASSOCIATION OF STATE CIVIL
SERVICE EMPLOYEES OF THE STATE
OF NEW YORK ?
YOU do if you are a member of the Association. State
civil service employees in the competitive and non-competi-
tive classes control the Association from the bottom to the
top. No one else can control it.
You need organization—your own organization. Over
9,500 state employees, AND ONLY STATE EM-
PLOYEES, are now members of the Association.
This organization is already a splendidly active one.
One state-wide, STATE organization, and only one, is
needed.
Help yourself and your fellow workers by becoming an
active member NOW.
To Meacham — The State Employees Vacation Camp
ESTELLE J. ROGERS
Department of Law
Vast lake and lofty mountains
That tower to the sky,
Tall pines that softly murmur
As fleecy clouds drift by,
Fir trees that point like fingers
So sharp and clear defined :
All speak of virgin beauty,
Of vast and endless time.
Soft stirred by piny zephyrs
The lake’s a lullaby.
The ripples blend with fragrance
And hearts forget to sigh.
Knee-deep in ferny silence,
Beside a hidden pool,
A young fawn stares in wonder
Mid verdure, green and cool.
A fox appears—to vanish!
From far off calls a loon.
Each hour is filled with beauty
Against a winter’s gloom.
Here is a new contentment
Where sky and water meet.
An unseen thrush trills softly
And life is very sweet.
July, 1932.
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