http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,773720,00.html Children Without Morals - Time Magazine, Oct 5, 1942 Monday, Oct. 05, 1942 One crime frequently suggests another, and it sometimes happens that a small wave of violence follows one sensational brutality. But the outbursts of cold murder and the high incidence of rape in the nation during the last few weeks seem to be something else again. Public officials and welfare workers think they see a deeper reason than mere suggestion. What worried police and welfare workers most was a sharp rise in juvenile delinquency. Near Chicago, two boys held a farmer's family terrorized for several hours, threatening to kidnap their young daughter. San Franciscans were shocked by the story of two girls, 12 and 13, living in a downtown hotel with three members of an orchestra. This was only one incident: the city was crowded with girls and women, eager for the easy life of a port city, drawn by soldiers waiting for embarkation. To talk to the young girls, to help them along, the city set up a Big Sister Bureau in its Police Department under motherly Kate Sullivan, daughter of a onetime detective. Kate Sullivan found that many girls felt it was their duty to do whatever a departing soldier wanted; she told them to try to convince the soldiers that they are fighting for American homes and respectable women. But juvenile delinquency was up 20% over last year in Los Angeles; in New Orleans it was up 56% among Negroes, 5% among whites; in Boston up 15%. Said Dr. Mary Fisher, head of Vassar's child-study department: "There are thousands of 12-to 15-year-old girls who flirt with men in uniform. Educators should do something about them. They are war casualties." In New York, FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover warned "unless we all do our jobs better, we can expect another era of lawlessness as after the last war." Judie Cook wrote: >http://www.greenspun.com/ > >Has anyone heard of this site? By happen chance a researcher found a >post I made 4 years ago to assist in finding information on Kate >Sullivan, one of the first police women in SanFrancisco. I have NO >idea how my posting got onto this site..I've never heard of it. I am >thinking maybe they bought out one of the smaller Genealogical sites? >This is what I had written in 2004 in case there is someone out there >now who knew of Kate.... > >Death date of Kate Sullivan, famed policewoman >greenspun.com : LUSENET : San Francisco History : One Thread >Moderator: comments@zpub.com > > Kate Sullivan was a policewoman in San Francisco from 1916-1948 >when she retired. I have found in a very old photo album an article >from the SF Examiner with "Friday April 11" written in the margin. >There is a s tory on how Kate(daughter of POlice Captain Thomas Ryan) >became one of the first female policewomen in San Francisco. I >remember "Auntie Kate" when I was a small child in San Francisco, but >I do not know the connection to my family. If I had her death (and >birth dates) I might be able to find the connection. > > -- Judie B. Cook (granny@liquidgravity.org), September 26, 2004 > > >Any help about the site, or about Kate will be appreciated~ > >Judie >************************** >Visit SFGenealogy.com! >http://www.sfgenealogy.com >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CASANFRA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- James R. Smith Author: San Francisco's Lost Landmarks ISBN: 1884995446 www.HistorySmith.com <http://www.historysmith.com/>