The Evening Bulletin, Monday, May 7, 1923:
WOMEN DETECTIVES WANTED BY MAYOR
Tells Ministers’ Meeting They're Needed to Probe Vice Conditions
the mayor’s text was “Women in Politics”
and he called upon women of the city, as well as
the men, to throw aside their lethargy in matters
political, to register, and to vote, to keep out of
power the old “combine.” according to Mayor
cases, and in tracing other forms of vice. other
cities have women working in this capacity and
there is no reason why we should not.” with women
in politics, “not gang women,” he declared,
there will be less overlording of men or groups
of men whose only goal is wealth.
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neighborhood watches
another guy brags his mother was a mother
before she had babies, tidy streets broke from
her hands, one man attached to a motor car,
another to a motion picture house. what’s showing?
at is-a-bella’s, COUNTER GIRL WANTED.
she rides a bike, gets honked at, gets told
to get off the road. the neighborhood watches.
if tragedy strikes who will pay your mortgage.
oh watches never worked on me, mom says,
i don’t buy them. me neither, i say. but what’s
difficult about watching reruns is the policeman
between my sister’s legs looking out. he’s got
my eyes and winks, nodding to the neighborhood
north—watch out over there, he says, they’re
animals, you know, you gotta treat em like animals . . .
