Show l APPRENTICESHIP 7 TOP FOR POLICE SUGGESTED MAYOR OR Or Oi CLEVELAND ND URGES NEW JEW METHOD Cleveland eland Aug 28 S Mrs Jones Janos and Mr Mrs Mrs Smith are aro re leaning over tho the back fence talking excitedly Why h ti do you know sal said Mrs JonesI Jones I never had an n Idea a policeman 1 knew nc nn anything thing about out milk bottles bottIes for a baby b. When hen I told tho the policeman my hah baby had been crying all night he ho ups and ard tak's th the milk bottle and sa says 8 Why h are aro you feeding that poor tot from a like this this' Dont Don't you OU ItIs it itIs itIs Is not healthy to use lIse these ordinary ordinal y nipples hippieS And And my my Lord Lord Lord-ho ho sa says There Thero are enough tiles flies around hero here hereto to kill any health healthy child If It they set Ct into hi his milk it'll bo be the death of or him Mrs Smith was T astonished d. d She has known that Patrolman Cleary Clean was a afine afine afine fine man but it is news to her that ho te 1001 looks 8 after aCter the health of ot the residents of or his beat This Is tho the kind hind of or policeman man that D. D Baker mayor maor of or Cleveland I advocates In a n. recent article In tho the Atlantic Monthly M Mayor Baker who I Is one ono of tho the foremost authorities InI in inI civic problems foresees the tho day when I policemen shall have havo an apprenticeship I to study for their work as a life I tion Ho lie would have havo young fellows I enter the service and nd begin with work liko 0 the tho boy scouts are aro now doing later laler t t. t h. h w.- w. v. v We Wo must stop regarding policemen as mere keepers of or order and anel we must enlarge our view of 0 their duties far ar beyond tho the arrest of or criminals and the terrorization of 0 tho the nel neighborhood small all boy declares Mayor Maor Baker Policeman New Nes e Cr ure The Tho social policeman Is a now term for tor the up to reador reader Imagine Imag Imag- inc ine a policeman who trios tries to educato educate the citizens of at his beat not to throw papers in the alloys alleys not to have rubbish rubbish rub rut bish hish In the cellars not to sleep In unventilated un- un ventilated rooms rooms' It If Mayor faor Bakers Baker's ideal is to bo be fulfilled tho the policing of our American cities Is 18 to become an entirely different rent thing from what It has haw been Instead of oC being tho the gruff sinister j MAYOR FAVOR NEWTON DI D. D BAKER i f J I of Cleveland who declares J I policemen's policemen 5 duties are arc too reI re- re I I 1 strict cd 4 f e fellow with the heavy club who chases small boys and tells tolls loun loungers to move on ho will be Patrick s Esq of at Mulberry MulberT Bend Bend the tho guy who hands you ou the dope on sanitary plumbInG plumbIng plumbing plumb- plumb Ing and measles lIe Ho will bo be a sort of or mixture of ot parson teacher and ln grandpa rand ps Mayor Baker recommends that durIng during during dur dur- ing their apprenticeship the duties assigned assigned assigned as as- signed to embryo embro policemen en should bo Lo largely larGel on the social side side duties duties sue such as sanitary inspection traffic control Juvenile ju recreation and correction th the regulation of 0 amusements and patrolling patrolling patrolling patrol patrol- ling parks parka and public places in which people con congregate for recreation this work under such conditions as conduce to the development of the social sense would therefore train Into these fu futuro futuro In- In turo policemen In their Impressionable years a sympathy with Ith people born of ot association with them and of helpfulness helpfulness helpfulness help help- extended to men muon and women and children ren as part of a dut duty floIng flowing flowing flow flow- ing from employment b by society Itself Laws Lans are arc what men will write writes Mayor Maor Baker He points out that tha Americans have a time-honored time custom of repealing their outgrown laws Ios by merely ceasing to observe th them m. m Bu But there comes a time when such sach laws ar are nearly but not quite dead when 1 It comes to be tho the public will that these laws be disregarded yet et for all that tha they are still laws as tho the uncomfortable uncomfortable uncomfortable able mayor maor finds out when he I Is charged b by some well-meaning well reformer reform reform- er with neglect of ot dut duty for not enforcing enforcing cing them I n Respect for LawIt Law I It HIt mo may be the midnight or Sunday closing of or saloons tho the prohibition o or of theatrical al exhibitions on Sunday Sunda o or prizefights on any da day or another spasmodic revival of the tho notion that tha merely putting a n few lew women through the amercing processes of the police court will win suppress vice Ice but when such sucha a delegation Is asked whether hother the tha lesson lesson les les- son of or respect for law will not be further further further fur fur- ther Impressed by stopping Sunday street t e cars 8 suppressing I the Sunday Sunda day s the newspapers up toe ino m mand milKman and generally restoring by force th the Sabbath of the statutes wisdom triumphs tri tri- over knowledge and the tho reply invariably Is that it would be better to take tako one timing thing at a time and especially especial especial- I ly 13 tho ono one thing then than agitating that tha particular delegation OJ More tore troubles arises over the police poUca re regulations ro regarding those thinGs thing about which there is 18 a divided public sentiment such sentiment such as strikes and labor labo troubles the enforcement of Uon tion laws the suppression of ot social soda vice etc The public a as a whole does not know what it wants and the police do no not know what to give ghe it I Their perplexities and man many of their I shortcomings are tho the outcome of our own uncertainties and disappear with them S The Tho really vital police problems according according ac ac- ac cording to Mayor Baker are arc tho the en enforcement enforcement on- on of or unwritten laws Those These problems will be bo solved the bottor bettor as the police department becomes more mor sympathetic and moro more Intelligent hence the proposal l of the police apprentice apprentice- ship I 1 |