tca;sitvt£cljobs to be a carfeer would attract men who want to make prison work their life • work,” he said. “The present system gives , tnem little hope of promotion.”; He said that a merit system1 \bould £ive the prison trained, ex-iperienced men in supervisory ■posts—such as guard captains, _ yard men and shop supervisors. ;§ Clark S3id he does .not know g whether or not politics influenced hiring and firing at the prison in general. But he said ‘I was ^ allowed to do my own hiring and = firing in- the office without re--g gard to 'politics—both under Derr,- g ocrats and Republicans.”