The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-07
WANTS WOMEN on THE FORCE.
Mrs. GoIdzler Thinks They'd Improve the
CnndncI Of the Bows.

Mrs. Julia Goldzier of Bayonne, N. j.,
wants women appointed on the Bayonne
police force. She has written to Mayor
Pierre Garven. but what action he will take
IL not known. He is married and is superin-
tendent Of a Sunday school,. Mrs. Goldzier
IL prominent in several clubs composed of
women. She resides at 20 East Forty-ffth
street. Her husband is Charles Goldzier, a
New York lawyer. In her letter to the Mayor
she says:
idcsire 10 call your attention to the pathetic
degeneration Of our youth. especially our
bows. Even those of refined parents are lout-
ish, sickly. sunken Chested. slouchy in gait
and have a general rundown appearance.
Blame is placed on the parents, particularly
the mothers. They are told that they gossip
too much or are too much engrossed In their
houses. Rlame Ia placed on the women's clubs
and finally II Ia charged that mothers allow
their sons interests to grow away from their
own.
These reasons are all invalid. Alas, self
sacrifice is still practised by women instead
Of improvements substituted by men. The
children are neglected not because Of the
women's clubs but because women do not
club enough together. Mems clubs are bad
for the men and the children. They are places
for holding smoking and drinking bouts,
gambling and general RIGHTEOUSNESS. They
should be discourse ed. for they interfere with
domesticity and waste time and money neces-
sary for the family.
Women's clubs are places for moral. mental
and spiritual Improvement which can but
conduce TO domestic felicity and aptitude
for the proper rearing of children. II would
be a small extension Of authority to organize
n police system to protect our children. our
most precious possession. We employ women
to teach our children. and it would be no
startling innovation to employ women as
guardians over our children. When the chill
dren are at home or in school they are
safe. All the mischief Is done in the streets.
and Il Ia 10 the interest of the community
that they be safely guarded on the streets, as
elsewhere. Policemen patrol our streets
TO protect property. Why shall not police
women patrol the streets for the protection
of orr boys? Nothing can he said against
II but its novelty. Better citizens would
result and the standard Of living would be
raised. Police women could readily enter
into the boys games and the much needed
feminine influence would be exercised upon
the minds of the young.
P~olicewomen would have to be specially
trained for the positions, which would re-
auite talent Of the highest order and would.
OF course. have to be well paid for. Our boys
would always be under the eyes OF the police
women. their of1cial companions. They
could be persuaded or ordered from the street
corners whore men drink. spit, smoke, swear
and swagger. and where the boys seem to he
attracted. Bayonne could make a wonderful
name for itself by introducing policewomen.
II would he an everlasting glory TO the city
10 have policewomen to minRle with the
hovs in their games and watch over them.
An immortal fam awaits the pioneer in this
movement