Arizona republican., 1913-12-07
WOMEN ID GIVE
 WOMEN SHOW
Mrs. Joseph T. Bowen of Chicago, Before Suffrage Association, Urges Need of Women as Police and Jurors
ASSOCIATED PRESS DIsPATcHl

ASSOCIATED PRESS DIsPATCHl WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.-When women have the vote, Mrs. Joseph T Bowen of Chicago told the national suffrage convention Wednesday. they will give members of their own sex q fair show in the police courts. Mrs Bowen urged the need of women police. women jurors and reform of the courts and penal institutions t" help women and children.
 Prom the time of the arrest of d woman" said Mrs. Bowen, to the final dispo~it-au or her case she Is handicapped b. beins in the cAarg@ of and surrounded Ly men, who nat uraIly cannot be expected |" be as sympathetic and understanding as che of her own sex. In the police station she is at d disadvantage, for such places of detention in most of our large cities are not fit for hu- man habitation. In Chicago the ma 7ority of them are dark and unsani- tary. The women are herded to- gether, the innocent with guilty, the clean with the unolean, the young girl with the prostitute The sleep ing accommodations ale vile
 When the woman appears for her preliminary hearing she is touSled and untidy as the result of being without proper toilet accommodations, and is therefore apt to create an un- favorable impression. In all police stations separate rooms or cells should be provided. with plenty Of light and air and slceping and toilet accommodations for the women"
 Mrs. Bowen told of what had been cone to meet this situation in Chi caeo by the establishment of the court of domestic relations and the morals court The latter hears the cases or women charged with i'm proper conduct
 The percentage of mental defici- cucy is greater among women in mates of correctional institutions. she said, than among men. If women Iau and commit crimes because of
 this mental deficiency it would seen: more than ever necessary to have them examined by a pSNchCpathic eN- Fert and committed-nOt to prisons but to such reformatories as Bed 1 Iord, whose scientific treatment and humane care has made it one of the
 few hopeful spots in our wretcheu i.rison system
 Mrs Bowen declared that condi- l tons in the factories and stores that ] caploy women drove many to a life cf shame.
 .America" she said. has every 1 reason to be proud of the virtue of i it's working women, who have so ! bravely wit',stood the many pitfalls which industry and commercfalized vice have spread for their unwary | feet Women, however understand l | ana the spirit of their own sex. They i do not want t. be obliged to face ! the choice If a life starved of every | thing they consider worth while. or
 a life of dishonor. and may We not ! hope that when they have the vote | they will realize through this sympa- | trctic unders tanding the danger to l WLge-earnins women. and they will 1 then strive for d less fatiguing and shorter day and minimum wage | W hich will put in the hands of the 1 working woman d very effective weapon of defense
 ! The juvenile court should be 1 equipped with a physician who would ! examine the child carefully and if l possible remedy his physical defects. | He should also be examined by d
 psychologist who would study his | family history and ascertain how far
 His heredity had influenced his career. | His neighbOrhood and home environ
 ment should be stulied and changed | if necessary, and trained agents 1 should be sent to study the condi-
 tons which brought about hIs down l fall
 "Overworll and undcrpay of par ! Cnts is responsible for much neglect
 of children. Scott Nearing. an au- thority on wages in this country, says that -fourths of the men ir | American industry cannot provide de gently Tor more than three children:
 one-half cannot provide for more
 than two children. and one third
 cannot make adequate provision for | enc child.
 In addition to our juvenile court. We need d court for the juvenile
 adult-that is for the boy between
 the ages of Y and 21, who is too old for the juvenile court Physi- clans assert that the boy at this age IS still in the later adolescent period These wears are his formative years tnd yet at this time We are so often trying reformation and punitive
 measures. The court might be called the boys court, and have connected with it a public defender as we'll aa a public prosecutor. the former t. l investigate and defend all cases of
 first offenders. The establishment | of such q court would, I believe keen
 many q boy from criminal career "