Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-15
POLICEWOMAN
REFORMS TOWN
IN ONE MONTH
Armed With Badge and Night
Stick, She RigidIy Enforced
g O'clock Curfew Law.
CENSOR At TURKEY TROTS"
Appointment Was Due to Insist
ence and Money of Members
Of Her Own Club.

OTTAWA. ILL, June 14.-Miss
Viola Miller, who wears a regulation
police badge and carries a club has
shown this town what q real police
man can do
She IS the first policewoman Otta-
wa ever had In fact. she is said to
be the Second policewoman In the
United States She was employed by
Mayor Edgar r. Bradford and mem
bers Of the City Commission at the
request of the Woman,s Club. For
more than year the Woman's club
leaders had clamored for a police
woman
Wears Deaeoness Costume.
The night Of her appointment Miss
Miller appeared on the streets Of or
tawa atured In the costume Of a
Methodist deaconess
When 3 o'clock came the curfew
bell rang for the first time I'm many
a moon. Then Miss Miller got busy
stopping a crowd Of rough looking
boys. some Of whom were almost as
big as herself, Miss Miller said:
Say, you boys, it's 2 O'Clock. Now,
YOU go home just as quick as YOU can.
BEAT IT."
She fairly shouted the last two
words The boys, at first inclined 10
treat her as joke, We're taken en-
tirely on their feet. They understood
her perfectly when she shouted Beat
st." and an Of .hem started for home
except one bold chap, who made faces
az the policewoman.
Takes Boy to Station.
Grasping him by the collar, Miss
Miller dragged him TO "a police box
and called for the patrol wagon A
moment later the big boy found him
self az the police station Judge Dun
levy was called and. after hearing the
complaint. sent for the boys father
Addressing himself 20 the boy and
ris father. the police magistrate de-
iivcred scathing rehuke and closed
by ordering the father 90 furnish
bond in the sum Of $50 as an assur-
anCe thai his son thereafter would
heed the curfew.
The ottawa pollcewoman. however.
makes little girls, some OF whom are
dressed like young ladies' 60 home at
3 O'Clock
She attends all the public dances.
Since she began her work here the
turkey trOt, the bunny hug and the
lic dance halls.
one day last week when Miss Mil
Ter was walking I'm the northern por-
ton OF the CITY she saw a little girl
carrying a pail or beer. The police
woman took the beer from the little
girl. asked her where she got a., and
then with the child went back to the
saloon.
The saloonkeeper admitted that he
had sold the beer Miss Miller
promptly made complaint and caused
his arrest. An hour later she found
another little girl carrying beer and
EnOther saloonkeeper was arrested.
spoonins Stops at 10.
Spooning In the public parks win
stop az 10 o'clock this summer ac-
cOrding 10 Miss Miller, who declared
that she VIII run all loungers and
spoouers out Of the parks az that
hour
when Miss Miller frat became po-
Ecewoman she was permitted 10 name
her own hours for duty She begins
work az ( o'clock IN the afternoons
and remains on duty as long as she Is
needed. seldom going 10 her home be-
fore midnight. She works entirely
-aioac
A few days after she arrived I'm OF
tawa the poicewoman. unaccompa-
MED. made a trip through Ottawa's
''tenderloin" district The following
Gay the WomaH's club started a petit
ton addressed % the members Of the
City Commission asking that the dis
.riCt be eliminated
A week later the petition went 10
the Council To-day all Is dark and
dreary where the red light once shed
its rays Mayor Bradford declared
there VIII be no more red light dis
trict during his term OF office.