Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1909 — WOMEN POLICE AND FIREMEN [ARTICLE]

WOMEN POLICE AND FIREMEN

Dr. Anna Shaw Says That the Criminal Needs “Mothering.” Minneapolis, July 23. —That Minneapolis* needs 100 women policemen Is the opinion of Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, president of the National Woman’s Suffrage association. “It would not be too much to expect that women should do their share In the police and fire departments,” she said. “One hundred women specialists put on the police force would make for better civic conditions. The criminal needs ‘mothering.’ ”