Show POLICEMEN OF THE FUTURE Interesting Question Provoked By Josiah Flynt Chicago Inter Ocean Flynt who vho wl studied tramp and onil criminal life Ufa from the Inside and then became borame a a policeman suggests In the cur current current rent rest issue of the Independent t a new ca career career carose reer rose for well bred well TreW educated young men He proposes P that they be become b come policemen poU n He points out that all aU Over the th country the cS e same e class clam of f axon with the Same samo mediocre I concep m ot of morality honesty and good citizenship are ara found on the f forces Their IE general Men Idea of fT P pollee pol pel Ie Icy and method is to keep the city ell su sax clean of ot criminals and to sup press every elery Occurrence ence likely to arouse the thc public to t au an Inv Their Theli as are aro ro chiefly saloon keepers and cheap Not all U are ore dIshonest eh 01 lazy but most of them th have the code of honor suggested by their associations tons As Q a rule rul e they t are aTe men who in other walks of life Ute would haye have attained to much Jess lers responsible Mr Flynt believes our cities are not policed as na they should be because bernise the oPPortunities of the police business are not seen by men coming con ngo out of conego and arni casting about for a career H Yet f the 15 lI calling is highly hi y useful and an responsible and ard an In ia f few w oc cc O has hm an intelligent hon st and end resolute young man better bett r ti f for d doi really realy worth utile In r 11 German Germany these facts are roe rec zed anti ana men train for police work as aa diligently as for any other profession Mr Flynt 5 sees no remedy for W the ad aci mUted failure of ot the present police leo ica to prevest provost an Increase in crime ex at for honest and well educated young oung men to Lake fake the matter Into their own hands h d When such young men melt animated ted by a resolution res to do their th Ir full duty d termine to enter the police they will gradually arouse arou the public to the necessity of better police methods Tire The pioneers in such a will have hava a hard fight light and hundreds will wU fail I Out but to those who stick fast will come como great opportunities for fOT public usefulness s and personal distinction In the war wax which society is ever eer waging wa Ing against its own baser bater elements The young man who enters on the po career must keep his moral ballast on board He Ho must really in law and that lawbreakers Jawbreakers must be punished He will find thud that many man ap nip successful mon men now on tho the force regard re d the thief merely as o 9 a whetstone on which to sharpen their wits when they th have huv caught him they are disposed feo tto o be lenient with Wm him eH must also alBo learn that the tho great grest majority of ot persons arrested ore are justly taken Into custody and their hardluck stories are nearly all pure pur fabrications At the same time be he must mu t beware of becoming hard bard and an pessimistic for the tho officer who comes to believe every mery body bod unscrupulous so n drifts Into a phil pl philosophy wirich permits him to be unscrupulous unscrupulous lous bus aleo aeo aZ o With all aU the difficulties ant ana discouragements of the lot Mr Flynt FI nt declares d clare from his own exper e r fence that few other men have so many opportunities of doing good The Tho young youns t man who decides to follow the tho police career must first consider how I he is to tort Mr advises him to tG I seek preliminary experience on a rail railway railway i way police force The no police pollee reporter of ol ofa ola I Ia a newspaper r has many opportunities to i obtain that knowledge of criminal hab habits habits I its and methods which goes far fat toward makin a 9 valuable policeman A prison S n also gives acquaintance with criminals and ami knowledge knoW ge as to the efficiency of ot different kinds hinds of punish punishment punishment ment Mr suggestions are somewhat out of the of those who under undertake take takO to advise young men as to their is lifo life The Th e need for better men mm ana arni better methods in police work is evi ev evident evident dent and arid the t 6 career suggested by b Mr Flynt is i plainly worthy of or consideration by young youns philanthropists who desire daire that lives may be of some som value to society so ety as well wen as to themselves |