The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-12-22
It WORKS ALL RIGHT
Some Women Cry, Some Faint and
Just a Few Laugh, But All Promise
to Go to the Relief Of Their Men
Folk-This is How it Sounds.
Your husband is in jail?"

Il say, your husband is in jail-in
the holdover. He got in a fight last
night and a policeman arrested him."
We'll, what of it? Let him stay
there. Think I'm going to run down
there every time he gets in? Please
don't call me away from my washing
any more to tell me anything like
that. Where do you think | thought
he was when he didn't come home
last night?"
Whereupon the feminine voice
ceased and the telephone receiver
clicked in the ear of Roy Casey, in
vestigator for the board of public
welfare at police headquarters.
If all wives We're like that one,
whom Mr. Casey called by telephone
this morning, the job of the man who
goes in the city holdover each morn
ing and gets the names of the pris-
oners wouldn't be so helpful. But
all are not so. And so Mr.. Casey
went right on calling wives, mothers,
fathers, friends and employers of the
twenty or more men in the city Jail
who were to appear in police court.
The next on his telephone list was
mother.
rs hits Mrs. Walton? Well, your
son is in JAIL" the investigator told a
feminine middled aged voice that an
swered the telephone.
And he's safe! Oh, he left home
yesterday morning" And the way
the voice died away indicated the
woman had sank back in chair,
more delighted by her sons safety
than grieved by his Imprisonment.
The next one called was young
wife. The husband already had told
Mr. Casey that he had only been mar
ried two weeks and he had paced
the holdover all night, worrying as
much perhaps as the wife at home.
When the wife was reached by tele
phone at the nearest grocery and
told that her husband was in Jail she
asked why the first thing.
Drank a little too much and got
in fight" she was told.
She sighed and informed the inves-
tigator she hadn't closed her eyes all
night.
why, l didn't know he drank"
she said. But I'll be right down.
Where is the horrid place.
Another husband found out" re-
marked the man whose duty it is to
tell wives, mothers and fathers of the
plghts of their husbands and sons.
But the wife was true to her word
and was in court. She kept smiling
until the trial was over and the hus-
band was discharged, but once out
side the court room there may posi-
bly, have been an opinion expressed
abbuJ vi AhhlhS huobahuS'
The next person called was con-
tractor whose son was among those
in the holdoyer. When informed of
the fact he said, not pleasantly:
We'll, it serves him right-let him
stay there"
But this IS his first time" Mr..
Casey replied, following the theory
of sociologists that first offenders al
ways are entitled to help.
We'll, its not because he should
not have been there before the faith
er replied. I've told him to keep
away from those cardrooms-it
serves him right. Let him soak, it'll
each him a lesson" and the receiver
licked at the other end of the tele-
phone line. But the same stern faith
n was at the police station in an
lour. He explained that the boys
mother was worrying about him."
When told that their men folks are
n jail some women cry, others faint,
/ few laugh, but nearly all promise
o go to the rescue. Fathers usually !
Issert its good enough for him. and
hen go 10 their aid.
Please call up-please call is
Usually the half-fnished entreaty Of
hose who go down the iron stairs to !
he city holdover.
Sure We will" is the habitual re-
'ly of the jailers as they hustle the
along.
But telephoning is one of the du-
les the jailers spurn. When a man
placed in the holdover he stays un-
il the morning when Mr.. Casey ap-
ears 10 notify his friends.