Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-03-18 | Page 17 | To License Women for Driving Taxis

TO LICENSE WOMEN FOR DRIVING TAXlS London people to See Females in Now Occupation Because of Necessity Arising From Wax. LONDON", March 37. Women taxlcal drivers are to be Been Jn London at last. The home fecretary, replying ln the house of commons to Sir Henry Norman, Kald: In view of the opinion of th army council that it has become necessary to call upon certain driver hitherto evempted by the tribunals, the commissioner com-missioner of polico. who 1b the licensing li-censing authority, propound, with my approval, to license qualified women to be drivers of public ca,rrlas;s. The proposal that women should drrr taxicabfl in Ixmdon ha been made many timfts, but has always been vetoed by the police and previous home eoreU.rin, chiefly on the ground thai women were not equal to the Htruin. With a short h go of men drlvern, some of those who btill plied have behaved with insolence, knowing know-ing that the public was at their mercy. It im underHtood that If a woman op-plies op-plies at Scotland Yard now she will bo iven a license, provided ehe can pa.a the usual teats. These will not be relaxed re-laxed in her favor. A woman must jk)s-spfs jk)s-spfs tho enKlnoeriiiir oial) ficat Ions demanded de-manded of men and must fulfill phvslcal requirements. They must hIfo have a perfect "knowlerisre of London," the oim test In which men foil and which rah companies urped, should be made lee exacting.