WOMEN POLICE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 47, 25 October 1913, Page 4

WOMEN POLICE.

The New York, Outlook states that esN though the newspapers have been disposed to see only the humorous possibilities of the .appointment. of t.on women to the police force in Chicago, the women have apparently gone , ac their work in a spirit calculated to bring credit to themselves and discomfort to those whose attitude towards this social experiment has been expressed in gibes about ''copesses armed with hatpins," and in such puerility as letting rats and mice loose among the female police. Six mamad women were among those selected. A committee of three women is in

charge of the movements of the aniazons, composed of Mrs Gertrude Howe jiritton, of the Juvenile Protective League; Mis ,J. T. Meder, ot the Catholic Women's League; ami Miss Winnie Loewe. of the Associated Jewish Charities. The uniform adopted temporarily is a blue suit with the silver police star, and a hat with a blue band. Each "blueskiri" is equipped with a police whistle and a patrolbox key, but, for a while at least, no billies or revolvers will be carried by the fair enforcers of the ( law. The women will devote themselves rather

to getting informations and to assisting the forlorn than to making arrests, although the performance of that function is not dicouraged. Miss May Wilson had the honor of making the first arrest when, on the evening of her second day on duty, she "pinched" one of her sex for soliciting. At first it was planned to send tiie valiant ten into the "red light" district to combat the social evil, but the advisory board decided, wisely we think, to assign the recruits to parks, bathing beaches, excursion steamers, and

railway stations, where they are a source of protection to children and to women and girls unacquainted with the city. Other cities may be expected to follow Chicago's example. We already have women social workers and women probation officers, why not policewomen ?