The Ford Car today is an absolute necessity in the business life of the Nation and we can help you solve your transportation problems at a low cost HALF THE BUYERS OF AMERICA DEMAND FORDS Touring Car, $360; Coupelet, $560; Runabout, $345; Light Delivery Chassis, $325; (ALL PRICES F. O. B. DETROIT) A Large Variety of Light Delivery and Truck Bodies in Stock HARVARD COLLEGE LICHANY BY EXCHANGE WANT MORE FARMERS IN LEGISLATURE Strong drive to be made for fifty members this year MAKING OF A NEW YORK ASSEMBLYMAN Assembly majority leader tells how it is done STATE PRIMARY WEAKENS LEADERSHIP Senator Brown's argument for return of State convention WHEN THOMAS F. GRADY QUELLED A MOB Story of a stormy political meeting in the election of 1884 BUYING SUPPLIES FOR THE STATE. Comptroller Travis urges importance of new system SAVING THE STATE'S PUBLIC RECORDS Urgent need for metal cases to protect valuable papers STATE MARKS CIVIL WAR BATTLE FIELDS The World's Safest Safe THE SAFE-CABINET You cannot run your business without records. Their value is without meas ure. Their loss cannot be repaired. Therefore the safety and protection of those records should be one of your chief cares. Every employee you have can be made to realize the importance of your records only if you show him or her how much you value them by providing suitable, easy to reach, pleasure-to-workwith accommodations for your records. And that's saying THE SAFECABINET "The World's Safest Safe!" Correct in Design and It's a perfectly designed safe, in which steel is one of the materials used, but between the walls of steel is a processed, patented material found after much seeking the greatest fire resistant, fire retardent composition known to man today. The result is a splendid-appearing, modern steel safe, handsomely finished, "business-all-the-waythrough," fire retardent! Accessible! Portable! Space-saving! The "highest good" in record protection as far as this world has journeyed yet. GEO. W. HARPER COMPANY 47 Maiden Lane, Albany, N. Y. Write us for Copy of "Report of Supervisor of Public Records, Addressed to the Commissioner of Education of New York State, in the matter of an official test of The Safe-Cabinet held at Marietta, Ohio" AN ILLUSTRATED MONTHLY MAGAZINE DEVOTED TO THE VOLUME II JANUARY, 1918 NUMBER 1 WHO'S WHO IN THE STATE LEGISLATURE I Fifty-one new assemblymen and three new senators this year- Some N order that the people of the State may know something of the legislature assembled at Albany for 1918, STATE SERVICE devotes about one-third of its space for January to pictures of the members and an outline of what is likely to be done at the present session. There are 201 members in the legislature, 51 senators and 150 assemblymen. Senators are elected for a term of two years and assemblymen for one year. Fifty-one assemblymen sit in the legislature for the first time this year and there are three new senators. In many respects the session now begun is certain to be a memorable one in the history of the State. This is because New York State, comprising one tenth of the population of the nation and by far the wealthiest of the forty-eight states, is vitally affected by the great war. The war has not merely provoked military activity but radically is changing the whole Governor Charles S. Whitman structure of legislation. Legislators are therefore constrained to change their opinions of what is wise or unwise legislation. This has been plainly shown in the sessions of the legislature since the war began. New policies have been inaugurated; new reforms have been begun and some of them achieved earlier than seemed likely they would have been before war was declared. It is an era of great, of unexpected political and economic changes. Probably the present legislature will continue that policy at an increasing pace on account of the |