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Katherine Bement Davis, New York City’s Commissioner of Correction
The Indeterminate Sentence and Parole Law in Indiana
VOLUME IV, No. 2.FEBRUARY, 1914
THE DELINQUENT
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KATHERINE BEMENT DAVIS
New York City’s Commissioner of Correction
It is significant of the liberalizingsentiment which is the outgrowth of thesixty years or more of campaigningwhich the suffragists have carried on inNew York State and all over the country,not for the vote alone, but for the recognitionof women as co-workers with menin the affairs of the world, that a womanis for the first time in history a memberof the cabinet of the Mayor of NewYork City, and is at the head of one ofthe most important departments ofmunicipal administration.
Dr. Katherine Bement Davis, the newCommissioner of Correction, is a goodsuffragist—her family for some generationshave been supporters of the causeof women—and she is a firm believerin her sex as well as a splendid monumentherself of feminine achievement.The New Year opens most promisinglywith such a woman to inspir