Show jj MARY h op 0 6 li 10 1 SUCCEEDS 11 14 ON 0 P 0 MAIN S STREET T R E E T i 0 5 0 by LA LAURA URA MILLER 0 0 c by laura miller POLICING MAIN STREET the very shortest skirt I 1 saw worn on a woman tile the year short skirts were worn was not swishing down broad way nor was it on the stage it was flitting nitting along tile the main niala street of sioux falls S D I 1 look nt at tier her exclaimed a member of the rotary c club ab ashes probably just in from tile the coun conn try and covering an immense ignorance with that show of sophistication shell bo be in trouble within it a if im uny any good ut at guessing but there seem to bo be much a nian man can do to help tier her kind wherefore it Is that the city of sioux falls alls tins hus a woman on the job her fler name Is lucy borneman her title la Is police matron iler interest it in her work Is 19 vital it came to tier si attention that inexperienced girls who perhaps hail had only slipped as far us as a little shoplifting were icom aliue e almos token taken into courtroom tilled with men and asked vile quest ens and that hint these same girls were stripped by men searchers in the name of law and justice she began to study the ways waya of the girls find and of the alie wen men who offered tile tho help that my honest friend of the rotary confessed was so hard to alvo in tile form of palatable advice and honest jobs with their due ale meed d 0 of f drudgery they are tiou usually ally girls without much money says bays mrs Born borneman einan and perhaps they haan hadn t realized what it costs to live ive in town where everything requires cash A man who Is on the watch takes advantage and offers the needed money then she Is under obligation to him and Is easy prey it if he Is an immoral in man a n sioux falls has only population but according to our numbers we have all the troubles that new york ims ant and we have to handle them thein much the same way I 1 have one policewoman lice woman two dance hall matrons matrona mat rons and three park matrons matrona mat rons so far this year tills this was in june I 1 hove have handled personally cases case s tills of course does not cover all I 1 come in contact with all our officials are good about helping without their assistance sis si stance tunce it would bo be impossible to accomplish com colli much it was because I 1 lini bad met mrs airs anil ani knew spirit behind tier her work thai mal I 1 chose chos tier her from froin the ninny who lire am policing our towns owns and cities and as to whether such steell work Is the lift tiling thing a woman would choose to prepare herself for 1 I have been police matron here for over ten years says mrs airs Homen mii and I 1 know of no work that would bo be moro interesting |