Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 161, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1912 — Girls to Enforce Hat Pin Ordinance [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Girls to Enforce Hat Pin Ordinance

CHICAGO. —Thieves to catch thieves, and women to catch women. If the first, why not the second? So reasons John McWeeny, chief of police. And Binoe It sounded good to the head of Chicago’s police department thereupon outlined his plans for a regular beauty squad. Hat pins caused his cogitations and the same pointed reasons, coupled With an old ordinance that never has done duty, will inspire the 20 girls he hopes to enlist in the service. “You see, my men are bashful,” explained the chief. “And men are anyway. Now if you were standing on the corner and a pink cheeked girl strolled by with the points of her hat pins sticking out a foot, would you arrest her? “No, yoO’d probably wink your eye at your brother officer and say, ‘No, no.

my no—she ain't breakin’ the law.’ So you see, we’ve just got to have girls to catch girls—a regular beauty squad.” Then when the woman with the hatpins strolls by, a fashionably dressed girl, wearing a tiny star where she formerly wore the pin of her sorority, will touch her; on the shoulder and suggest that, “The captain wants you.” And herein lies just one fear tha£ may wreck the proposed beauty (iquad before its organization. What if the woman shouts: “What for?” and the beauty policeman says: “Your hat pins are too long; they stick out too far; you are under arrest;” will the arrested one cry “Leave me alone or Ml scratch your eyes out?” —. Will this be followed by a real hairpulling contest? And will the original gentleman policeman have to cry “break,” stop the argument, and take both lighters for a ride in the bide wagon? These are questions experience alone can solve. And Chief McWeeny says > he will take a chance on the battles just to try out his plan.