The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-04-10
Modern Women
kVl.-NEWER CALLlNGS FOF
WOMEN.
By Frederic J. Haskin.

Olive Schreiner informs us that the
only calling which has not been in
vaded by the modern woman is the
army. With the modern methods of
warfare, however, she sees no reason
why women should not enter his field
also since her strength is quite suffi-
cient to manipulate a Maxim gun. Mrs.
Schreiner believes though that warfare
would not be a popular calling for
women because, having borne it,
women always will have a higher APP
probation of the value of human flesh
than men, and, therefore, will not have
it ruthlessly sacrificed. That women
have been successful warriors in
earlier periods of the worlds history
is evidenced by the tales of the ANA
IONS and other nations of feminine
%valiants. A tribe now exists in Cen
trail Africa in which the women are
the soldiers and the hunters protecting
the village from enemies, n provid-
ing the game for food, while the men
stay at home and do the sewing. 1t is
said hat these men are better tailors
than the women They are able to
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| fasten the crude mantels and waist
cloths that constitute the fashionable
clothing of the community. more skill
fully than can the women
Next to that of the soldier the call
ing, which it is natural to suppose
few women would choose, is that of
police officer. Yet within the last
two years a number of women police
officers have been appointed in the
larger American cities, and the effec-
tiveness of their services is likely to
call many others into the same field.
Two of them serving in Los Angeles,
according to the .stimony of G.. f Sc
bastian, chief of police, form "a val
liable and harmonious addition to the
department. A conference of women
police officers was held in Portland,
Ore. in December. which represented
all of the larger cities along the west
ern coast. 1t has been determined to
effect a national organization which
will include the police women of all
the cities in the country. The chief
of police of Portland declared at the
conference that only through the APP
pointment of women officers could the
problem of city vice be solved.
Three main points Were brought gu
at the first conference of women DO
lice officers: First. women will work
harder to protect n save, n think
less of t." punishment of those Who
are destroying themselves n Others
through vice; second, Women will do
better work in cleaning up the vice
conditions of a city; third, women
should be appointed Upon the pay rolls
of the city under some sort of super
vision. or cooperation with volunteers
of their own sex. 1t also was decided
that every city should have at least
one police woman for every IS men
upon the force.
The greatest progress in the police
woman movement has been made in
the western states, but the east also
Is falling into line. Three women are
doing active police duty in Baltimore
and n has been appointed in Mime
apolis recently. Several are holding
offic in Kansas, the first being Miss
Lille A. King of Topeka. The law
providing for the appointment OF
women upon the police force in Mary.
land, which was passed in 1912, desig.
mates them as "matrons to the polict
force to distinguish them from tn,
station house natrons who have beer
in service in most cities for a mum.
Der or years. In a number of cite:
tnere are women who are known a:
| protective officers. They serve upo,
the regular police force, and have IN,
mower 70 mako arraStS te