San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-22
VOTERS LEAGUE
COUNCIL MEETS
HERE MONDAY
Discuss Budget for Coming
| Year and How to
Raise 1t.
LASTS UNTIL FRIDAY
Open Session Monday Night
on Finance Of the
League.
LASTS UNTIL FRIDAY

Members of the executive council
of the Texas League of Women Not-
ers, who have already arrived in San
Antonio, are spending Monday, the
first day of the convention. in dis
cusSion of. league business behind
closed doors in the red room of the
st. Anthony hotel.
The meeting of the board was con-
vencd promptly Mt $3.50 with Mrs.
Jessie Danile Ames of Georgetown,
president of the League in Texas,
presiding. Subjects that will come up
! for discussion are the convention of
the league in 1924. presentation Of
the budget; plans for raising the
budget land delegates to the national
convention.
Luncheon will be served TO the
members of the board. in the oak
room of the hotel, after which they
will convene again in council for TIE
organization of congressional districts ::
to discuss recommendations 10 be
made TO he convention; and to speak
on The New Citizen"
Monday at s o'clock, Miss katherine
Ludington, of Lyme, Conn. national
treasurer of the League of Women
Voters will preside at Il working con-
ference on league finance, in the eXccu-
tive council. '"'rh 81.
l. Prominent Women Here.
Among the important figures in
league politics who have already ar
; rived and are present ut the cNecu-
tive council meetings. are Mrs. ii. Il.
4 Moore, of Texas City; Miss Florence
Sterling, of Houston; Mrs. q. a.
Rogers, of San Marcos Miss Mary
Jag0e, of Denton; Miss 4. Louise Die
trichs, of FL Paso, and number Of
| others.
I Mrs. Moore is the wife of Colonel
II. l.. Moore. who served through the
war as chairman of transpoi tation of
the American soldiers in France, I'M
der General Pershing. She has been
cxtrcmerly active in suffrage circles
p, in the state from the time the first
serious work so that end was begun,
until the amendment became law. She
worked regularly in the office of the
Equal Suffrage Headquarters in CAL
weston, until ratification of the Nine
teenth Amendment was an established
fact. She is first vice president oil
4 the League of Women Voters.
\ Miss Florence Sterling Of Houston
the leagues third vice president, is
i secretary of the Humble oil and Re
! filming Company vice president OF The
, Sam Houston Memorial Association
and treasurer of the Houston Recrea
ton and Community Service in which
she is especially interested and active
Her concern with philanthropic work
of this tyne has recently taken her
10 the Tenth Congress of the Play
ground and Recreation Association
=, which has just, met in Springfield, Ill
/ 8 "oldsIine Suffrsgist.ye:
Mrs. Anna Barnes Cade is spoken
of as one of the "old-timersr in. tho
Texas fight for Woman's suffrage
though t is only fair 10 add that she
doesn't look as if she could have been
n pioneer in anything. She was tho
faithful and efficient secretary of the
!. Texas EQUAL Suffrage Association
when n League of Women Voters,
seemed the widest sort OF improbabl,
dream. During the three years of The
leagues existence, she has "eld the
same office of secretary: She Is one
of the old-linc suffragists.'
Miss A. Louise Dietr chs of FL PasC
is president Of the Nurses Association
in Texas, land while her work is
primarily with and for the Nurses As
ISOLATION, she works with the league
in every Jay and has given mucf
4 valuable service.
| Miss Mary L. Jagoe. chairman oi
the Efficiency in Government" com
} mittee Of the league, is spoken of by
the legislators in Austin, where she
was helpipgf to "lobby" through tho
program of the Joint Legislative Coun
Gil, as 1.-THE woman who is so easy
to look at and so hard to say no TO.
Miss Jagoe has been president of the
Denton County League for two years
and compiled political calendar that
will be shown at the convention.
On State Committee.
Mrs. S. J. Smith of Austin. record
ing secretary of the league. has ais
the distinction of being n member o
the state Democratic executive com
mittee. She has been active in MANI
other organizations. She is past presi
dent of The League of Women Voters
and has been regent of the Thanktu
Hubbard Chapter Of the ID. \. X. Sh'
was one of the pioneers of women
suffrage in the state, and ORGANIZED
/ the LampasaS association, of which
she was president. and later than that
| chairman of her senatorial district.
Mrs. Dave Doom, also of Austin
/ chairman of the legislative council o
2 the league, comments on how amuSin,
it is TO her to hear Texas politicians
discoursing with enthusiasm on how
, anxious they always were for WON
ems suffrage. and how hard they
worked to get it. She is one of th'
t ranking active officers in point OF
. service on the leagues roster,
/ OF Mrs. Jessie Daniel Ames oil
!; Georgetown. president Of the league
and presiding officer at the meetings
|, of the executive council. much mas
been written, and much more VIII De
She fills a big place in the league, III
q big way. One of the members OF thf
board in speaking of her, said Mrs
i Ames is probably the most tactful per,
son in the state. and one OF the mos
! efficient" In addition TO being presl'
dent of the league, she is treasurer "l
the Equal Suffrage Association, part
owner and active manager OF inc
Georgetown Telephone Company, and
the mother OF three children. she eau
do anything just a little better than
anybody else can do II, TINS SANE
board member says of her.
Convention Opens Tuesday.
On Tuesday morning the convention
will open in the tapestry room Of the
ST. Anthony Hotel. The invocation
delivered by Rev. NJ. s. Garriga, VII
be followed by addresses of welcome
from Mayor John Tobin in behalf oil
the city and from Hrs. J. X. Beretta
president of the City Federation o.
? Women's Clubs, Reports will be made