The municipal employee (Volume v.3 (Jan. - Sept. 1929)) online

proper time. We have received a few more applica-
tions for membership from employees of the company.
but extend a hearty welcome for the others to come in.
Come in and help us help you. That is the proper
spirit, and especially so at this time of the year. Send
all applications to the writer, who is secretary of the
Association, at 2940 Sixteenth Street. Entrance fee
is $3.00, which includes the first month's dues, which
are $1 per month thereafter.

In closing let us remind the clerical and semi-cler-
ical workers that this is the only organization of city
employees which is of any material help to you. No
other organization is interested in your wages or
working conditions. We are. We will fight to main-
tain your civil service standing at all times. We de-
liver to you in the pay envelope rather than with hot
air conveyed by printer's ink. Our Association is one
for all and all for one. We cannot conceive of the
idea of all for a few. Get in where you belong. We
need you and you need us to make this year one that
will count for all of us.

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February



THE MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEE



31



The Election of 1928



(Continued from Page 10)

The voting niacliine is sometimes criticized and a
l>reference expressed for the paper ballot because the
L-ritic feels he has some advantage in this particular
ver the voting machine.

In no secret system of voting, whether with paper
!<allots or voting machines, is it possible for the voter
;o see his vote counted. If the voter could see it
L-ounted and recognize it as his own, then someone
L-lse can see it counted and by the same identifying
-ign recognize and identify it, thus destroying the
luality of secrecy.

What the voter wants to know is, that his vote has
'>een counted ; and, the method of voting and counting
his vote, which gives him the strongest assurance that
lis vote will be counted exactly as he casts it, ought
:o win his approval and support.

In voting with paper ballots — the voter goes to the
polls and receives a paper ballot which he must mark
n a prescribed fashion under penalty of losing his
;ntire vote. Assuming he has so marked it, he hands
t to an election officer, and, if he is a cautious voter,
he may wait long enough to see it go into the ballot
>ox; then, he loses sight of it forever.

It contains, though often imperfectly, the indication
to election officers as to how they shall count the vote
tor him in his absence. He must trust entirely to their
ability and honesty to do it. He cannot see it counted
nor can he know that it will be properly counted ex-
ept to the extent of his confidence in the ability and
ntegrity of the men and women who do the counting,
and, how often has experience shown his confidence
to have been utterly abused.

With voting machines, the voter stands in front
of the machine which cannot be operated or its rec-
ord otherwise changed except by his own act. Even
f all the people in the room are corrupt, his vote — or
the vote of any voter who preceded him — cannot be
changed without positive detection.

Whenever a voter pulls down the pointer over a

andidate's name, that candidate receives the vote

:tfter he moves the red lever over to the left. The vote

is instantly counted — not by an election officer but by

the voter himself.

How does he know it is counted? When the ma-
chine is opened, at the close of the polls, the votes
appear in unchangeable figures, properly accredited
to each and every candidate of all the parties.

There will be no drawing out and destroying of e.x-
cess ballots, as is done with paper ballots, because it
is mechanically impossible for the aggregate vote for
an office to exceed the number shown on the total
counter. In other words, the vote for each candidate
will be there in unmistakable, unalterable figures and
in plain sight but out of the reach of either honest or
dishonest election officers.

At the election on November 6, 1928, in precincts
where paper ballots were used, election officers, with
but two exceptions, abandoned the canvass. New of-
ficers had to be sworn in to finish the long and tedious
count.

Since 1923 I have conducted all the elections for
fficers of the student bodies of all the Junior High
Schools with success, and in about two years we will
have educated voters on voting machines, in fact, they
will know what an election means and how it is con-
ducted.



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Herbert B. Gee, Editor

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Volume III



MARCH. 1929



No. 3



CONTRIBUTING EDITORS



Assessor's Office Louise M. O'Hara

Auditor's Office J. Everett Sharp

Board of Education

D. P. Hardy and Mrs. Harriet Leaman

Board of Health Edward M. Coffey

Board of Public Works Sid Hester

Bureau of Engineering N. A. Eckart

Bureau of Supplies Ivy Perkins Cerkel

City Attorney's Office Edmond P. Bergerot

Civil Service Commission James J. Maher

Civil Service Association Edward M. Coflfey

Coroner's Office Jane Walsh

County Clerk Howard Gudelj

Dept. of Electricity Joseph P. Murphy

District Attorney Henry Goldman

Engineers' Union J. L. Slater, Jr.

Exposition Auditorium James L. Foley

Fire Department Lieut. Fred Jones

Justice Courts Robert W. Dennis



Mayor's Office Edward Rainey

Municipal Railway Eugene W. Clisbee

Municipal Carmen's Union Edward D. Vandeleur

Office Employees' Assn William T. Bonsor

Parks and Museums W. M. Strother

Per Diem Men's Assn F. J. Ferguson

Playground Commission Veda B. Young

Principals' Association Susie A. Ward

Public Library Anne M. Farrell

Public Administrator Henry Boyen

Recorder's Office Daniel McGloin

Registrar's Office George L. Sharp

Retirement Board John W. Rogers

San Francisco Hospital Mrs. Mae H. Noonan

Sealer of Weights and Measures Mrs. M. Dolan

Sheriff's Office W. J. Martenson

Superior Courts Henry J. McGrath

Tax Collector's Office Homer Warren

Treasurer's Office I. A. Richardson



In This Issue



PAGE

Official Endorsements 1

Editorials 5

Frank J. Klimm 6-7

Health Department's Program 9

By Dr. M'ilUam C. Hassler

Some Noted Autobiographies 10

By Anne M. Farrell

San Francisco's 16-Mile Aqueduct Tunnel 1 1

By L. B. Cheminant

Highway Program Speeded Up 12

All on the Wing at Mills Field 13

Municipal Civil Service Association 14

By Ivan Flamrn



PAGE

Playgrounds 15

By J'eda Beresford Young

Got Your Golf Clubs Ready? 16

Not All Bovs and Girls Are Bad 17

By J. C. Astredo
Auditor's Department 18

By J. Everett Sharp
Easter Just Around the Corner 19

By Anita Day Hubbard

Educators Attend Eastern Convention 20

Blame the Mayor! 21

Schools 22

Impatient Youth and Marriage Licenses 26

The Flowers That Bloom in the Spring 28

By W. M. Strother




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J. C. HESCHELE, Proprietor

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What Progress Are We Making?

IT IS interesting to review from time to time the
achievements of the governing administration
and to consider, from a purely constructive
standpoint, its plans for San Francisco. Greater
than all other issues, in the final judgment of our
citizens, is this: What progress is San Francisco
making?

As this issue of The Municipal Employee is
devoted partly to the Health Department, it may
be noted at the outset that no Mayor has taken a
deeper interest in the public health and welfare
than Mayor James Rolph, Jr., and that it has
been with his heartiest cooperation that so great
progress is to be made at the San Francisco
Hospital and that plans for the future fast are
materializing.

The personnel of the Board of Health — all
devoted civic workers — includes: Frank J.
Klimm, president; Dr. Alex. S. Keenan, Dr.
James W. Ward, Dr. William W. Wymore;
Laurence Arnstein, Jr., Arthur H. Barendt,
Arthur Sharp; Dr. William C. Hassler, health
officer; Edward M. Coffey, chief clerk and statis-
tician; Dr. Arthur A. O'Neill, city physician;
Dr. T. D'Arcy Quinn, city physician; Dr. Joseph
F. Poheim, city physician; Dr. Edmund Butler,
chief surgeon. Central Emergency Hospital; Dr.
Leon M. Wilbor, superintendent San Francisco
Hospital, and Charles M. Wollenberg, superin-
tendent, Laguna Honda Home.
* * *

"Blame the Mayor"

MEN in public life always are subjected to
criticism, much of it unfavorable and most
of it unwarranted. No man in public life escapes
the harpings of malcontents, the ravings of dis-
gruntled politicians. The great Mayor of a
great city is no exception to the rule; in fact, it
seems to be the favorite indoor and outdoor
sport to "blame the Mayor" for everything. You
will find some of the things for which the Mayor
is "blamed," if you turn to page 21.

Assessor Russell L. Wolden, always on the job,
is to be congratulated for having established
throughout San Francisco branch offices of his
â– department where citizens may file their annual
personal property returns. As a result of his fore-
thought taxpayers have been saved considerable
time and monev.



A Beneficial Move

A"> NOTED elsewhere in this issue of The Mu-
r\. NiciPAL Employee, members of the San
Francisco Municipal Civil Service Association,
at a recent joint session of local and transbay
civil service executive committees, took steps to
organize a state-wide association of civil service
employees. THE MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEE believes
this is a move in the right direction; a move that
will be of inestimable benefit to the organizations
concerned. At present there are too many ways
to circumvent the laws affecting employees with
civil service standing. With the various civil
service organizations coordinated into one asso-
ciation there will be a better understanding all

around.

* * *

A Greater Hospital Service

SAN Francisco readily recognizes its own
needs as attested by the voters in approving
at the last November election the $3,500,000
bond issue for betterment of Health Department
needs, and so it is only to be expected that there
are already prepared plans for the kind of future
hospital unit of which any city may be proud.
x\nd to Dr. William C. Hassler, Health Officer,
is due the thanks of this city's citizenry for
formulating with his colleagues plans for a
greater hospital service. An article in this issue
of The Municipal Employee tells of the
various hospital units as proposed under the
$3,500,000 bond issue.

* * *

FOR THE sake of economy in election costs, as
well as to serve the convenience of voters, a
permanent registration law is to be introduced
in the Legislature. The proposed statute has the
backing of the election officials of California's
largest municipalities. Under the proposed law
a voter once registered would be registered for
life or until removal to another locality, or
change of party declaration would require cor-
rection of the record. The cost of making such
corrections, according to J. Harry Zemansky,
Registrar of Voters, would be nominal. Under
the existing registration law it is imperative that
California voters be registered anew every two

vears.

* * *

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Frankfurter Rolls a Specialty

OAK STREET BAKERY

J. C. HESCHELE, Proprietor

Bread, Buns, Pies and Cakes

Phone MArket 6035
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Quality Cakes f Home Cooking -f Fountain Service

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What Progress A re We Making?

IT IS interesting to review from time to time the
achievements of the governing administration
and to consider, from a purely constructive
standpoint, its plans for San Francisco. Greater
than all other issues, in the final judgment of our
citizens, is this: What progress is San Francisco
making?

As this issue of The Municipal Employee is
devoted partly to the Health Department, it may
be noted at the outset that no Mayor has taken a
deeper interest in the public health and welfare
than Mayor James Rolph, Jr., and that it has
been with his heartiest cooperation that so great
progress is to be made at the San Francisco
Hospital and that plans for the future fast are
materializing.

The personnel of the Board of Health — all
devoted civic workers — includes: Frank J.
Klimm, president; Dr. Alex. S. Keenan, Dr.
James W. Ward, Dr. William W. Wymore;
Laurence Arnstein, Jr., Arthur H. Barendt,
Arthur Sharp; Dr. William C. Hassler, health
officer; Edward M. Coffey, chief clerk and statis-
tician; Dr. Arthur A. O'Neill, city physician;
Dr. T. D'Arcy Quinn, city physician; Dr. Joseph
F. Poheim, citv' physician; Dr. Edmund Butler,
chief surgeon. Central Emergency Hospital; Dr.
Leon M. Wilbor, superintendent San Francisco
Hospital, and Charles M. Wollenberg, superin-
tendent, Laguna Honda Home.

"Blame the Mayor"

MEN in public life always are subjected to
criticism, much of it unfavorable and most
of it unwarranted. No man in public life escapes
the harpings of malcontents, the ravings of dis-
gruntled politicians. The great Mayor of a
great city is no exception to the rule; in fact, it
seems to be the favorite indoor and outdoor
sport to "blame the Mayor" for everything. You
will find some of the things for which the Mayor
is "blamed," if you turn to page 21.

Assessor Russell L. Wolden, always on the job,
is to be congratulated for having established
throughout San Francisco branch offices of his
department where citizens may file their annual
personal property returns. As a result of his fore-
thought taxpayers have been saved considerable
time and money.



A Beneficial Move

As NOTED elsewhere in this issue of The Mu-
l\ NiciPAL Employee, members of the San
Francisco Municipal Civil Service Association,
at a recent joint session of local and transbay
civil service executive committees, took steps to
organize a state-wide association of civil service
employees. THE MUNICIPAL Employee believes
this is a move in the right direction; a move that
will be of inestimable benefit to the organizations
concerned. At present there are too many ways
to circumvent the laws affecting employees with
civil service standing. With the various civil
service organizations coordinated into one asso-
ciation there will be a better understanding all

around.

* « *

A Greater Hospital Service

SAN Francisco readily recognizes its own
needs as attested by the voters in approving
at the last November election the $3,500,000
bond issue for betterment of Health Department
needs, and so it is only to be expected that there
are already prepared plans for the kind of future
hospital unit of which any city may be proud.
And to Dr. William C. Hassler, Health Officer,
is due the thanks of this city's citizenry for
formulating with his colleagues plans for a
greater hospital service. An article in this issue
of The Municipal Employee tells of the
various hospital units as proposed under the
$3,500,000 bond issue.