Show I Ferry for C pettes Tells He Club Women Favors Skirted Cop Assurances that he ho himself has been considering the plan of placing one or lw two women police pollee on the city force and that he will do so If It suppo supported ted in tho proposition by the other c COmmiSsioners commis commis- I was given this Oils morning by Mayor W. W V. V Mont Ferry to Mrs MIs F. F H N. N McHugh chairman of the civic committee committee com com- of f the tho Federation n of Women's Clubs Mrs McHugh and members of ot the civic committee waited upon the mayor at 10 10 o'clock in the m morning and requested re requested requested re- re quested that he provide for at least two women on the force lorce Jt It being explained explained cx- cx ex ex- that one should be on duty durIng during during dur dur- ing the the day and and another at night at least until midnight or 1 l a. a m. m The idea of ot the club women as explain explained CX- CX ex ex- plain d to the mayor is not to have the women police pollee walk beats beat as the themen themen themen men do io but to have them on duty at large in the business district to devote their attention especially to girls and boys u Of cours Course they will have th the tho authority au authority au- au of arrest said Mrs l McHugh but but the idea is not to make arrests so much as to act in an advisory caPaCity ca- ca It would be their province to watch the streets and public places and when they see see girls or boys in m public places who should be at home i or who are drifting into bad ways they should advise them then and aid in directing them back bach Into the proper channels The mayor told the women that he had been planning on putting one or two women police o officers on the Uie force and thought he would do so l if the theother theother other members of ot the commission would operate co-operate with him in the plan |