Rev. Charles M. Sheldon played a prominent part in introducing the idea of women policemen into his own State cf Kansas, U.S.A. The city of Topeka, in Kansas, has now two policewomen on duty, and so successful has the system proved that it will shortly he adopted by Toronto and other large centres. Mr Sheldon declares that policewomen arc better than policemen for working among children, to say nothing of their work among other women. He sees nothing in their sex to render them unlit for the work ; on the contrary, he believes them to be specially adapted for it.
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White Ribbon, Volume 20, Issue 234, 18 December 1914, Page 9
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