Sn ee a a eh ee responsible for the crimes of their child- ren. Sending the parents to reform school instead of the child would be the punish- ment for juvenile delinquency under such a program. Beyond that, Hoover says the need is for better local police and more of them. Return of the cop to his beat as the child- ren’s friend is fundamental. Removal of police from political control would be the next step, tightening of the pardon and parole systems to keep the criminals in gaols and let their victims live, then clean- ing up the gaols themselves, are other needed reforms in his program. POLICEWOMAN THE BLONDE sat in the Hell’s Kitchen police station on a bitter winter day in 1911, wrapped in sealskins and silence. Days of grilling had failed to shake her stony calm or extract a word of evidence concerning a dope smuggler’s murder. The inspector, exasperated, strode out to the matron’s desk. “T wish you'd talk to that dame and see if you can’t get something out of her,” he said to Mary Agnes Sullivan, named for a nun, born a Sullivan, widow of a Sulli- van and former travelling saleswoman, who became a police matron so that she could live in New York with her small daughter. Mary Sullivan walked into the room, sat down beside the blonde, talked to her, woman to woman, and gradually pulled from her the evidence that convicted the slayer. Thus—in a day when there were no New York policewomen—was born the career of America’s best known police- woman, who retired in mid-April, after 35 years’ service as Director of the New York Policewoman’s Bureau of 195 lady cops. “And may there be many more police- women—not only in New York, but all over the world,” says 64-year-old Mollie Sullivan, who springs from a family of policemen and holds three honour medals for distinguished detective service. “It’s a fine career for a woman. Of course, it’s no job for anybody who is simply seeking excitement, because you have to work hard and always be on your toes. But you have the satisfaction of knowing you're adjusting homes and helping mend lives ana “A number of our policewomen are assigned to the missing persons or juvenile aid bureaus, the pickpocket, shoplifting or narcotic squads. Women make fine detectives because of their intuition, their understanding of human nature and their patience. They try to prevent crime as well as control it.” No PLaAce For A LApDY At the time she resigned her sales- woman job to become a policewoman, her GOLDSTREAM INN Cliff Robb, Proprietor Licensed Premises Very few of the back issues of The Shoulder Strap are available. Order yours now before it is too late. Address: THE SHOULDER STRAP 1872 Parker St. Vancouver, B.C. ENGINEERS YARROWS LTD. SHIPBUILDERS and | VICTORIA, B.C. | Page Sixteen An Dies bhi ion WPA na ren ede Sieben BR ANAS Dae Island Highway | = —— THE SHOULDER STRAP old boss said in horror, “That’s no job for a lady.’ Since then Mary Sullivan has been in many a spot that was no place for a lady. She had herself committed to jail on a false charge in order to scrape acquaint- ance with a suspected murderer and col- lect circumstantial evidence on which she was later convicted. She lived for weeks with a gangster’s opium-smoking moll to collect information on the murder of Her- man Rosenthal, shot down in front of a New York hotel. She moved into the suite of a killer’s wife to learn her pecu- liarities of speech—and later mimicked her on the telephone so well that she learned the killer’s hideout and thus brought about his arrest. The most hair-raising of her exper- iences were the evenings she spent in a Harlem dive to collect evidence on a white slaver. Wearing mulatto make-up, decked in dime store jewellery and accompanied by a negro “boy friend”, she gave the sig- nal that filled the house with detectives. So perfect was her make-up that when she entered the station house later with the prisoners, the captain failed to recog- nize her and said, after one look at her gaudy array, “Stand over there, lady, and keep quiet.” After a life like that you might expect Mrs. Sullivan, now a grandmother, to stay “retired”. Instead, she is back to work. This time on the radio, where she appears in a crime series. Compliments of BRITISH COLUMBIA FOREST PRODUCTS LTD. VICTORIA DIVISION VICTORIA, B.C. When in Victoria a Welcome Awaits You at ~ SIX MILE HOUSE Most Modern Licensed Premises on the Island Courteous Service Genial Company Phone Belmont 76 e@ - Victoria, B. C.