Deseret Evening News | 1909-10-08 | Page 4 | Police Women in the West

POLICE WOMEN IN THE WEST VEST St Paul Dispatch The cities dUell of the west ost st are never nov r afraid of Innovations This is one ox ex explanation plantation of ot the existence of ot polle polica women In Portland antI ami Seattle Beattie The Tho Theother Theother other explanation must be In tine the fact that these cities have discover 1 that policewomen are needed In business of maintaining order ani all solving problems of or order In the tho large I The old theory that men are ure urethe the criminals and must mut be ho policed by br bymon mono mon is III giving way before the fact filet that tint there thore do appear a pear from time to tim women criminal and especially be before before fore tore the tho fact that women can be bo saved aed before crime clime fixes them permanently permanent as all Us Its possession poss In III Portland there thure U lot Ua lota isa a woman on the Iho police polleD force torCe who vImo has hall done efficient work In connection with tho the Young Christian Association tion another vital factor tor in hare towns in the ordering oC of the city She Sho hall hail also accomplished much as JI a ft II pro probation probation bation officer Having served her term in these the woman was waa ready when Portland decided that it required a policewoman She la Is a regular mem mcm member ber bet of or the department with the same llama recognition shown hown to men In n Seattle there l tic Itt also a policewoman although her appointment is temporary tt during the tho Exposition In ail nl probability however Seattle will find finch this one policewoman of ot such uch value that she he will be retained