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Show -. Why the Policeman Is Disliked. Many telephone messages that come in to the police department at night are sent by women, according to the New York Times. "They want a policeman hurried up to their block for every reason Imaginable," Imagin-able," said one officer. "Maybe they want him to look up an absent husband, hus-band, or maybe there Is a suspicious person prowling around th neighborhood, neighbor-hood, or a noisy quarrel going on next door, or a dog howling In the back yard, or a piano going at unseomly hours. All these things and a hundred others are sufficient to send a nervous woman to the telephone to ask why in the name of all that Is wonderful our men don't attend to their duty and stop such unlawful proceedings. Obviously Ob-viously It is lmposslblo tn respond to all those calls. Tho most active policeman, po-liceman, alive can't put a muzzle on every dog that takes It into his head to iiowl after midnight; neither ran he walk right into a man's house and order him to stop nagging at his wife. Women with the telephone habit, how-ever, how-ever, can't understand that. That Is why they don't like policemen." |