WOMEN POLICE.

White Ribbon, Volume 20, Issue 236, 18 February 1915, Page 2

WOMEN POLICE.

Dr. Sheldon, of Topeka, Kansas, while in New Zealand was entertained at Christchurch by the New Zealand Club. In his address, among other things he paid a fine tribute to women police. Dr. Sheldon was pleased to say that he had taken a part in the appointment of two women police officers in Topeka— the hr>t women police in the States. Other big cities were following suit, and Toronto had women police now. lie hoped to live to see the day when half the police of every city would be women. “In our town,” he went on, “these two young women, college graduates, go everywhere. They work two shifts, one* day and one night. They go through the parks, and after the curfew rings they see that all the children are indoors. They instruct girls on sex questions; they meet trains, and direct the country girls to proper places of abode; they deal with housing problems; they are the friends of the young women of the town. I believe that this is a proper duty of the police. I have often said that if I could be allowed to pic k the men for the police force of my town I could cut in two the crime record in five years. We want men of the right type. We get our best young men educated at college, and send them off to the cannibal islands to educate the heathen there, but we take any kind of men to look after our heathen at home. It’s all wrong.’’ Why is go-ahead New Zealand so far behind the times? We have no women police to do preventive and educational work among our young girls. We would like to see all public domains, parks, gardens, etc., policed by women, to guard the children and to make these places safe for young women to walk in up to io p m.