The Penn's Grove record., 1921-03-11

TEN of roads and bridges within ten
years.
State Engineer Thomas Wasser
submitted a summarized statement of
the state highway system in which he
showed that $40,000,000 Of the $780,
OOO,O was to be used for the build
ing of new roads and S15,0OO,O00 for
the building of bridges.
His statement showed that there
would be completed under the present
contract 100 miles of roads before
January l, 1923, while there would
be 494 miles neither completed or UNI
der contract at that time.
The estimated cost of finishing the
work of building the main state high
way routes, said Mr.. Wasser, was $4O,-
100000 and bridges $15,OOO,0O0. There
were now 70 miles completed and 81
miles under contract at the present
time which would cost on an average
per mile of $4,000 and allowing for
contingencies, $4,000, which multi
piled by 494 miles brought the total
amount up to S40,000,000 in round
figures.
Pressure was brought to bear upon
the committee to continue the present
mill road tax and to kill the bill In
troduced during the early days of the
session to repeal the act under which
the one mill Is nov raised.
This act terminates mex year and
the state highway commission, backed
up by all advocates of good roads,
want the one mill tax continued as
the best means for raising the money
and the one least felt by the tax
payers. They also claim that the one
mill would take full care of the $780,
100000 bond issue.
Anti-Nieht Work Measure
A number of women crusaders and
employers of labor locked horns be-
fore the house labor and industries
committee over the Laird measure
limiting night work of women in manu-
featuring establishments to nine hours
in ten consecutive hours and forbids
them to work between 10 o'clock at
night and 6 in the morning.
Ing hOIJCA NtIC leu ny II Is L .
Feickert, vice chairman Of the Repub-
lican state committee, and by Mrs. H.
Otto Wittpenn, member Of the Demo-
cratic state committee. Many women
of prominence spoke and the burden
of their remarks was that motherhood
was a matter which should find a
place in the financial calculations of
every manufacturer and if the manu-
facturerS could not see the benefits to
the nation of womanhOod kept in good
condition for honorable motherhood,
the legislature should compel them by
wise laws like the one under review.
States Duty to Children
They told of the hard work Of wo-
in manufacturing establishments
where they are compelled to work
and said that o or later
the young giIls would marry and have
children and therefore it was the duty
of the state to safeguard them against
the time of bearing healthy children,
the greatest asset any state could
have, and the are of whom should be
the prime object of the legislature"
In addition TO the women mentioned,
voicing such views were Mrs.
John r. Schermerhorn, East Orange,
of the State League of Women Vot-
ers; Mrs. L. G. PelCubet, State Fedora
ton of Women's Clubs; Miss Blanche
South Orange, Catholic WO-
mems Council of tEe Diocese of New
ark Mrs. l. c. Gemmel, East Orange,
public health nurse; Mrs. C. A. De
Russey, Woodbridge, New Jersey
Council Of Mothers; the Rev. Theo-
dOre Andrews, counsel Of the Episco-
pal Church, diocese of Newark, and
Mrs. G. w. B. Gushing of the Con-
sumers' League of East Orange.
The manufacturers cOntended that
where women worked nights in manu-
featuring establishments this work
was done under ideal conditions. The
contention was made that in many
places where such night work was
done women doing it were paid 10 per
cent more than where they worked
In the day time, and each speaker said
hat every safeguard was thrown
the women
Plead for Overhead
The manufact .rers asserted that to
discontinue the work of women in
manufacturing establishments
between the hours of 10 at night and
5 in the morning meant the disappear
ance of those reductions in prices
the American people expected
and would have. Furthermore they
contended that for New Jersey to put
such a statute on her books would be
o cripple Jersey manufacturers in
competition with mills in other states.
This was Illustrated by a carefully
prepared and voluminOus brief offered
by the Botony Worsted Mills of Pa $
sale among the largest in the United
States, with the owners saying that if
hey had to stop the night shift for
women they would be forced to aban-
Ion the night shift for men also.
They said that the "dexterous
fingers of women only could do GER
tain work, and without that work there
he no night Sniff of men. The