Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-10-22
Coppers, With Notebooks,
in Hand, Take Down Do
ings of Their Beats.
MORE WORK FOR COPS
Tulsa Some Day May Have
a Department Just Like
That of Chicago.

II the corn on the little toe Of the
right foot causes you to limp; If your
thirst leads you to the Greek pop
stand right around the corner; IL your
wife put the wrong button at the front
of your collar band in the morning
the police will know II, If tho "CaVitt
Iystcm" being installed is success.
And twenty years from now, If you
fail into the tolls Of the Tulsa depart
ment. the fact that you limped on
certain date, or drank red soda on
the following day, and cursed the
loose collar or the next, viii be used
ngaiE-t you. For the department Will
have, as all that Is left OF tho present.
a regular history OF tho things you
did back in tho dim past OF 1916.
If last night as you rushed hur-
riedly homeWard and cursed tho day
that found the jtney habit with
You. you bumped into n policeman
standing Just around the corner with
a notebook In his hand, hurricdly
making notes, you may rest assured
that the copper has your number.
Aftsjr H. II. Townsend. who recently
assumed the duties Of assistant to
Chief OF Police Lucas, and Municipal
Judge Cayitt had been taken in as
the missing link of the triumvirate, 1t
was decided that Tulsa's policemen
needed more schooling.
But il was not going TO be an ordi-
nary school that "Headmaster" Cavitt
would preside over. In the first place,
there must be something mysterious
about it. to be In keeping with the
operation of the department itself.
Why not secret password? Why
not countersign? Both were sug
gcsted, bnt it was decided that u pass
word might be forgotten by police
man, and a countersign might re-
semble that OF some other organiZa-
ton, the ladder brigade. for instance.
so both were passed up and it was
decided that anyone who wore a star
could be a charter member.
Some School Now.
! Then the term opened.
"Headmaster" Cavitt opened the
class services by delivering an address
on the subject "An Uptown Police De-
partment" The schoolmaster init
mated that he had been reading
great deal of the work done by the
Chicago department and that he had
reached the conclusion that IL Tulsa
had department such as that of tho
Illinois r,ctropolis there would be
nothing to fear.
Terms such as philosophy, phenom-
,enal, phrenology, phonetics, physi-
ognomy, physiology, and others equal
ly as long and as Of much Importance
to patrolmen. were used to an advan-
tage, and at the finish OF the address
there was n chorus of amens that
sounded to the courtroom.
Then came the assignment of the
first lesson. The men were told TO
give more Of their attention to the
study of pedestrians on their boats If
o man had a physical defect. the
schoolmaster explained 1t should be
recorded against him in the spanking
brandnew hook which was furnished
clorE with the nightstick. helmet. sta-
and ammunition. If 1t was n mental
defect that sent man reelins from
jituey sign to waterplug. put 1t down,
We're the instructions to tho officers.
IT was valuable information.
If YOU are not OF the thinning num-
Der that were forced to go to the little