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

OTTAWA, ILL, June 14.-Miss
Viola Miller, who wears a regulation
police badge and carries a club. has
shown this town what a real police
man can do.
So is the first policewoman Otta-
WI ever had. In fact, she is said to
be the second policewoman in the
United States. She was EMPLOYED bv
Mayor Edgar F. Bradford and mem
bers Of the City Commission at the
request of the Woman's Club. For
more than a year the Woman's Club
headers had clamored for a police
woman.
Wears Deaeoness Costume.
The night of her appointment Miss
Miller appeared on the streets Of OF
tawa attired in the costume Of a
Methodist deaconess
When O'Clock came the curfew
bell rang for the first time in many
a moon. Then Miss Miller got busy
Stopping crowd Of rough looking
boys, some Of whom We're almost as
big as herself Miss Miller said:
Say you boys, it's 9 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 to
treat her as a joke, were taken en-
tirely off their feet They understood
her perfectly when she shouted, Beat
i'll" and all Of them started for home
except one bold chap, who made faces
at the poliCewOman.
Takes Boy to Station.
Crashing him nv 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 at the police station. Judge Dun
levy was called and, after hearing the
complaint, sent for the boys father
Addressing himself to the boy and
his father, the police magistrate de-
lvered a scathing rebuke and closed
by ordering the father to furnish a
bond in the sum of $50 as an assur-
anCe that his son thereafter would
heed the curfew.
The ottawa policewoman, however,
makes little girls, some Of whom are
dressed like young ladies, go home at
o'clock
She attends all the public dances.
Since she began her work here the
turkey trot, the bunny hug and the
tango have disappeared from the pub
lie dance halls.
One day last week when Miss Mil
Ter was walking in the northern por-
ton Of the city she saw a little girl
carrying a pail of beer. The police
woman took the beer from the little
girl, asked her where she got it, and
then with the child went back 10 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
another saIoonkeeper was arrested.
Spooning Stops at 10.
SpOOning I'm the public parks VIII
stop at 10 o'clock this summer, ac-
cording to Miss Miller, who declared
that she viii run all loungers and
spooners out Of the parks at that
hour
When Miss Miller first became po-
liCewoman she was permitted to name
her own hours for duty. She begins
work at 4 o'ClocR in the afternoons
and remains on duty as long as she is
needed, seldom going to her home be-
fore midnight She works entirely
alone
A few days after she arrived in OF
tawa the policewoman. unaccompa-
MED, made trip through OttaWa'S
"tenderloin" district. The following
day the Woman's Club started a petit
lion addressed to the members Of the
City Commission asking that the dis
trict be eliminated
A week later the petition went to
the Council To-day all is dark and
dreary where the red light once shed
its rays. Mayor Bradford declared
there will be no more red light dis
trict during his term Of Office.