POLICEWOMAN’S REMINISCENCES.

Hokitika Guardian, 11 February 1924, Page 4

POLICEWOMAN’S REMINISCENCES.

CEE AX IXO UP A COMMUNITY. Clime Hies otiL of the window when women tackle the problem of cleaning up a community just as dirt and dust disappear under tlie energetic brush and broom of tlie thrifty housewife at house-cleaning time, writes Mary E. Hamilton, in the New York “Herald.' Recently some wide-awake women m a large college town got together to find out what was wrung with their community. They didn t meet to gossip about tlie terrible tiling- Airs Jones’s daughter was doing, or the Tad habits of Dr Smith's son. 'lheir interest centred upon conditions generally, bad conditions that were coda tigering the future of their young people. They discovered that there was too much drinking and smoking; teat the dancing in which the young people were indulging was not the must wholesome: iha l public plac-'s "1 amusement were actually crime centres. and that danger stalked through tlie streets and highways o! tlie villiiicc*, or waited «jn .street corners to ensnare those oarc-free. Inn-loving hoys and jjjirl.s in a vicious net oi scandal, shame and crime. Kii’ty years women would h-' e thrown up their hands aghast at siieh a state of’ aiiairs, and then hd:iod them calmly in the lace oi the inevitable. Rut Silly years no* v, omen v, t •re iu.-t bea'iniiina to undertake ‘ ,Jr^

tiling, as irahu-il nu r aa anv. ala! ihf piaitico u! law. In a ,hori <• ‘"urm v<Irani. .1 lam- in hand! ■ pn ; ! M lie sr wo';. i M know ll'al 111" > 1: 1 . lo Imiicl! > t)ii-.i pi<iJ>l.-!ti was i.i 'im i'.,f llir <■!.lull 1 ‘:ii:■ills' -r'-vr-. ■ ul a woman who ('■■.(l,l lorn. as for rrlU'ii-a - wnmrri Lav live:..! ilirt clt'JHI il i^Viiy. Tlivy I 'ini a iv.>a:: i» i .ih > !I ‘' hcarl and li*i*!(• r-in• I’ll<>t a liU'lln'U' a wonjaii wini (liv-sr.l pn i-Li's ana danard ril. it pal 5. .11 v. ho li!.. ! vuiing proplr. and was nriihci too "M if l= il '" il,r ‘ Couch tlial she was oi'-'v '"o' .voiihr. Hiil- L.J youi:;; iml I" a jipPJi l nl ■■ *■% li:iL uuitmii.v nii. , :ii!>. They duln (■,! Is- - i> i not IjlTiin.-r silo vas ;p lo non a 1 "■ '■ ' vviiMi’i. lull hcac.il- >!■•• was n, guard lor tli.iii a siu-iv-d mist, tlio mrn ami women of tlu: futniv in liu- hoy, arm sills of in-day. To v ••• air l In ■ in; l it. v. ;,s n ■"■-■•an would pos.es. surli I'uw. r iiiai would rualilr Ini’ lo prol.-ct prop!,-. prevent ciimr. and oiiioivr la.v. dii.\ I Ita I rniinuiliiily is i loan ami ..air; its hoys and eirls arr happy ruin l ive -part ienku !y I'l-mii vii r and crinir.