Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-15
POL|CEWOMAN
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 l4.-Miss
Viola Miller who wears regulation
police badge and carries a club, has
shown this town what real police
man can do
She is the FIRST policewoman Otta-
wa ever had. Ia fact she is said to
be the second policewoman in thu
United States. She was employed by
Mayor Edgar +. Bradford and mem
bers Of the city Commission at the
request OF che Woman's club. For
more than year the Woman's club
leaders had ylamorcd for a police
woman
Wears Deaconess Costume.
Tie night Of her appointment Miss
Miller appeared on the streets Of OF
lava attired in the costume Of a
Methods deacaness
When % o'clock came the Curfew
bell rang for the FIRST time in many
n moon Then Miss Miller got busy.
Stopping a crowd OF rough looking
boys some OF whom We're almost as
big "a herself. Miss Miller said.
SAY. you boys. It's . O'Clock. Now,
you 60 home just as quick as YOU can.
BEAT IT."
She fairly shouted the last two
words The boys al first Inclined Go
treat her as joke, were taken en-
tlrely of their feet They understood
her perfectly when she shouted. Beat
81" ana all Of them started for home
except one bold chap. who made faces
at the po.icewomau
Takes Boy to Station.
6rasIiug him by the collar Miss
Miller dragged him 10 police box
and called for the patrol wagon. a
moment later the big boy found him
self at the police station Judge Dun
levy was called and, after hearing the
complaint sent Tor the boys father
Addressing himself TO the boy ana
his father the police magistrate de-
livered q sCathiug rvbulle and closed
by ordering the father 20 furnish e
bond In the sum of $50 as am aSSur-
ance that his son thereafter would
heed the CurfgW.
The Ottawa puIicewomau. however
makes little girls, some ut whom are
dressed like young ladies. go home at
s|o'CloCk.
She attends am the public dances
Since she began her work here en-,
turkey trot, the bunny hug and Oh,
tango have disappeared from the pub
Die dance halls
One DAY last week when Miss Mil
Der was walking iu the northern por
tion Of the city she saw a little gin
carrying a pail of beer The police
woman took the beer from the littl,
girl. asked her where she got o.. and
then with the child went back Co the
sa loon
The saloonkeeper admitted that %,
Tad sOll the beer. Miss MILE
promptly made complaint and caused
his arrest An hour later she found
another little girl carrying beer and
another saloonkeeper was arrested.
spooning Stops at 10.
Spoouug In The public parks will
stop at 10 o'clock this summer ace
tording 20 Miss Miller. who declared
that she viii run all loungers AN,
spooners out Of the parks at that
hour
When Miss Miller Hrst became poo
licewoman she was permitted 90 name
her own hours for duty She begins
work al : o'clock iu the afternoons
and remains on duty as long as she is
needed. seldom going to her home De,
fore midnight she works entirely
alone
a few days after she arrived IN OF
tawa the policewuman. unaccompa
lied. made "a trip through ottawa
"tenderIoin' district The follawiul
Gay the WOman's club started petit
lion addressed 60 the members of Oh,
cts Commission asking that the dis
trict be eliminated
a week later the petition went e.
the Council To-day AN is dark and
dreary where the red light once shed
its rays. Mayor Bradford declared
there viii Doe no more red light dis
trict during his term of office