New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-12
BITE Of POLITICAL PIE
NOW SUFFRAG|STS' CRY
Members of Votes for Women
Society Would Be Judges,
PatroImen and Inspectors.
pBOTO-PLAYS CAUSE WORDS
But Meeting at Hotel Astor
Ends Without Any Decision
as to What Pictures
Should Be Barred,

All along suhfragists have been assur-
,rg the men that women have no taste
Gov political pie, that they only want to
na,n choose who shall rule them. and
...,,,dn't be bothered with holding Office.
put now up hobs the Society for Polit-
,cal study with its members frankly an
,ouncing that they want to be judges
ord patrolmen and inspectors, and that
that is why they are working for the
vote.
There is this about them. though-the
,or,en are animated by a high moral
,urnose. They want Office not for per-
sonal gain but to benefit humanity.
Mrs. J. w. Loeb began the discussion.
which rose and fell for two hours at the
Hotel Astor Yesterday Mrs. Loeb Is
sort Of unofficial policewoman whose
heat Is the moving-picture shows. She
visits the shows and when she sees a
pboto show that she thinks would have
a bad effect on the young she tells the
managers. and such is their confidence
in her that generally they take of the
things she condemns.
"But lust think" she told the Society
for Political Study. how much better 1t
would be II a number of us women were
civic officers, with power to oversee the
movies and the dance halls. ] can only
60 TO a few of them. There are hundreds
that ought 10 be visited"
There's a Board of Censors 20 pass on
films" began one woman.
eyes retorted Mrs. Loeb, there's a
hoard. and only yesterday l saw photo
nlav no children ought to see-all safe
breaking and burglarizing and such
things. The play isn't on to-day told
the managers, and they suppressed II.
But il needs us women to look out for
those things. And we need authority TO
do H."
ITO be sure" agreed. Mrs. Thomas
Slack. president of the Legislative
League. And there should be women
Judges out in Denver there was
woman sitting with Judge Lindsey in the
Juvenile Court as his assistant just the
work she could do showed how inVaIuaDle
a woman can be in such position. we
should have women judges to deal WIN
women offenders and with children put
don't think any but voters can hold Oh
flee I'm New York State.
"Of course" said Mrs. Mortimer D.
Menken. that's why I want the vote
That's why we ought 70 work for SUI
frage" agreed the others
This discussion was followed by ore
on moving pictures, and a decided u.l-
ference Of opinion developed among '"e
embryo policewomen as TO what pictures
are bad. one woman declared that crime
ought not 10 be depicted. This drew am
mated protests from the more advanced
school who argued that the young ought
10 be shown the bad IN the world 'Ha'
they may avoid it.
of course" said Mrs Loeb, Il believe
=, reaching the young everything-ld
,escb augenics from the ground up-ou'
It's a bad plan 10 show chldreh Pi'o'"
PLAYS of breaking into banks ana shoO'-
ing people. 1t makes them want 10 ~
and do those things
Mrs. Slack said she had heard the'e
were young men who made IIac'l0e -
giving girls whom they happened TO SIT
near I'm movie" theatres KNOCKOUT uiop'
bv means of hypodermic syringes' sur
reptitiously applied. -,
"Ougbtnt such deeds to be shown by
the films. TO warn rirls?' she asked.
But that might put it into the he@u'
n me, ycto otherwise would never thlhK
Of using a hypodermic syringe on e'r''
objected another Political Study woman
and the meeting broke up without coming
IN am, CONCLUSION as TO what pictures the
nol,cauoroar--if there were policewomen-
ought 70 suppress.