The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-06
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The West Side Forestry club met
Thursday, July Is, with Mrs. W. Nc
Afee. on the West Sixth pike. Mrs. E.
e. Ames read a paper on Parks" and
a musical program followed. The club
continues its sessions throughout the
summer, and takes a short vacation
about Christmas time. Meetings are
held the last Thursday Of each month.
Federation affairs are at a stand
still and will be until the club season
opens again in the fall and the local
clubs are called together and the new
seasons work begun. The officers Of
the federation are making their plans
and hold their business sessions from
time to time, but the individual MEM
hers of the clubs and the federation are
taking a rest. and many of them are
away from town for the summer. Mrs.
GODDARD and her executive board are at
work on club business and making plans
that will materialize in good results
when the fall season brings the clubs
together again.
The following from a Los Angeles pa
Per shows how another field is open to
women:
The office of woman policeman "
which was created by a recent ordi-
rance, will be filled at once by the po-
lice commission.
Mrs. Alice Stebbins Wells, formerly
ent work backed by ministers and club
women of Los Angeles, caused the Gre
alton of the office. will receive the ap
pointment. She wflf~pe the first woman
to hold a position of this kind in
southern California.
Mrs. Wells today discussed~her plans
for filling the position.
It have had great deal of expert
ence in that line" she said. In Chi
cago did a great deal of work among
young men and women, particularly
those who came to the city from the
suburbs, and saw that their energy was
expended in the right direction. It is
interesting work and vital work fol
any great community like it i'm
n1enSely.
81 shall be urder the supervision Of
the chief Of police and his orders will
govern my duties. I have found any
form of uniforms is Instantaneous in
such work. The less you are known the
better chance you have to operate sue
cessfully. / will have many costumes
to be used on different occasions, and
While do not anticipate having to re-
sort to any physical arguments. I an
not afraid of any one or anything.
may find it necessary to carry a revol-
Yer, and will always have police
whistle with me. / do not anticipate
carrying either handouts or club. My
police shield probably will be carried
IN my purse.
MY field of work will be chiefly
wherever young people gather for en-
tertainnlent, in parks, penny arcades
moving picture shows, and dance halls
will deal chiefly with the proprietors
of such places, seeing that all laws are
o5eyed and that the places are kept
clean and moral. In the dance halls
may find it necessary to talk 10 some
of the young people personally.
There will be many reports to the
department from mothers. These re
Iorts probably will fall to me for in
vestigation. 1 am not going in for 3
record III the number of my arrests.
believe in the golden rule plan of keep
ing the people out of Jail as much as
possible and making them do the right
thing. One dollar for the proper cdu-
cation of the child and So for housing
the criminal is about the present ratio
1t ought to be reversed.
Il believe in being worlanly at al
times The mother of today has enter
ed public affairs not because she de-
sires to enter the field of mans WORK
but becau: tie chil@ren of tbs &c
have taken a wider scope outside the
home, and the mothers scope must nee
essarily widen to bring her in contact
with her young ones at all times.
Il expect to be able to do much good
in handling cases among young men
and women, boys and girls, to keer
them on the right road SO that they
make good men and women"
Apropos of the agitation lately re-
garding the. stage life of children, an
eastern writer on social and indus
trial questions, who calls himself
''Presbyter Ignotus." says: Il am
sitting on the broad western veranda
of farm house in a quiet New Eng
land hamlet with roses and peonies
and fresh-cut clover to perfume every
thing There are children all over the
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