The Monmouth inquirer., 1922-06-01
STATE EMPLOYEES
RETIREMENT FUND
New Jersey Enrolment Now $50
and Two Trustees Are to
Be Chosen.
WORKERS ONLY ELIGIBLE
Mere JobhoIders Appointed or Elected
for Terms, Are Barrcd-T axpayers'
Cash Saved by Prison Road
Camp-Better Tn New Jail.

Trenton. Nomination of two adj
ditional trustees of the State EN-
ployees' Retirement System was re-
quested by Chairman John P. Dullard,
Trustee Alexander S. Ward, of New
ark. and State Treasurer William L.
Read. The request is made in connec-
tion with an announcement that $50
state employees have already become
members of the fund Members are
asked to make nominations before May
81, on which date the ballot for nomi-
nations will close. Pending election
of two member trustees, Chairman
Dullard and Mr.. Ward, who were nam
! ed by Governor Edwards, and the
| State Treasurer, who serves ex-officio,
are functioning as the entire board of
| trustees. John A. Wood of Princeton,
| is secretary.
From the votes for nomination, the
| 10 names receiving the highest number
of votes will be printed on an official
ballot, with blank lines for additional
names. One trustee will be elected for
| two years and the other for one-year
term, each dating from July 1.
Employees in the state service prior
to January 1 last have until Decem-
ber 81 next to take advantage of the
retirement system. Those who have
Joined the service since January
have until July / to accept provisions
Of the act Under a ruling by Attorney
General McGran the trustees have con-
fined membership in the fund to en-
ployees of the state, thereby excluding
statutory officers, those whose posi-
tions are created by specific legislation.
The system will be operated by Joint
contributions by the state and the en-
ployees, based on length of service and
age, similar to rates in insurance COM
panies and the teachers retirement
fund
Praise Prison Road Camp
Work will soon be finished on the
Auburn-P Pedricktown road, marking the
completion of nearly 20 miles of gravel
roads by prison labor in Salem county
since the prison road camp was estab-
lished six years ago. Arrangements
have been made for removal of the
camp shortly to the eastern part of the
county, where the prisoners will be put
to work upon the construction of the
Elmer-Norma road. There are now
| about 80 men in the camp.
The road camp is the only one Of its
kind in New Jersey conducted for
county prisoners, although the state
has had numerous convict camps for
road-building operations. Salem county
established the camp during the world
war, when the powder boom at Penns-
| grove brought in lot of riff-raff from
all parts of the country and the old
county jail at Salem quickly became
overcrowded.
| County officials devised movable
bunkhouses and other buildings on
/ wheels for easy transport of the road
camp from place to place. Guards
watch the prisoners, but they are given
considerable free range and are locked
up in the bunkhouse only at night
Ball and chain are rarely used, except
upon prisoners who attempt to escape.
The road prison camp has proved a
| greater economy than the erection OF a
new county Jail in which to keep pris-
oners in idleness while they serve short
terms, county officials say. The new
roads have cost the county about
$4,000 mile, which covers materials,
maintenance of the camp, hiring OF
teams and purchase of utensils, road
making machinery and other TOOLS
The road mileage constructed has been
as follows: Salem Woodstown road,
one-half mile of CUT Aldine-pole Tav-
ern road, four and onehalf miles; ;
Pointers Auburn Pedricktown d,
14h miles, The Elmer-Norma road,
next to be built, is nine miles.
Many Vicious Drivers
Calling attention to the fact that IS
per cent of the automobile fatalities in
| New Jersey involve the lives of chill
dren, State Motor Vehicle Commits
sioner Dill, in disposing of batch of
complaints against drivers for vola-
tions of the laws, emphasized the obli-
CATION of parents to exercise a stricter
supervision over their children and to
keep them from the public streets as
much as possible. The safety-first
classes and the junior patrols organ
| fzed in the schools have contributed
substantially toward the protection of
| children, he said.
"There are 100000 licensed drivers
In the state and tn great majority of
them desire to do right. They sense
! the danger and are willing to observe
the law, but we have vicious persons
who drive without caring anything for
their own safety or that of Others
said Commissioner Dill. The most
reprehensible offense, he declared, is
that of driving while under the in
fluence of liquor and the state law pro-
viding a Jail sentence of 80 days to 6
months he described as the best statute
in the country. The danger attending
reckless driving, he said, is empha-
sized by the fact that the number Of
deaths in the United States from auto
mobile accidents since the signing of
the armistice exceeds the number of
American soldiers killed during the