San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-15

dition to the organizations already
mentioned.
Mrs. W. W. McCrory is compar-
atively recent addition 10 ciuu clr-
cles, having como to san Antonio from
Edna, Texas, about Two years ago.
She has been active in club work
IN her own district for q number OF
years, having been president of the
Fourth District. Sic went 10 Vic
toria for the convention as dele
gate from the Woman's Club OF San
Antonio. by ruling at the meet
ing of the state parliamentarian, Mrs.
II. +. Buchanan of Fort Worth, every
club is entitled TO delegate to rep
resent every fifty peisons OF its mem.
bcrship. This gave the Woman's
Club of San Antonio, the privilege of
voting for seven delegates, as this
club has the largest membership Of
any club in the district.
Ten other women represented San
Antonio at the Victoria meeting, max
ing excellent reports of the work
study and plans of their respective
clubs. Mrs. j. Il. Beretta and Mrs
Sallie King Hopkins, represented the
City Federation of 43 clubs; Mrs.
Fred J. Maurer, accounted for the
History Club in original verse; Mrs,
Alex Adams reported for the Lotus
Club: Mrs. W. s. Anthony for the
Phoenix; Mrs. ]. I. Smith for the
Self Culture; Mrs. Helen Teagarden
Saunders for the Sorosis Club; Mrs
j. NJ. Browne for the Woman's Club,
and Miss Mary Howard for the San
Antonio Musical Club.
Mrs. Scott Speaks.
One of the excellent speeches Of the
convention was made by Mrs. q. r
Scott of Corpus Christi, on the Past
Present and Future of the Fifth Dis
trict." 1t is given here, in part:
Just think, my friends. what this
coming together today means-a hall
century of woman's cooperation fol
promoting the good things Of life
Truly we should come together here
in this beautiful City of Roses, tt
lay the shcaves of our harvest, and
to make merry as they did in the
| olden days. Truly may We call this
garnered fruits of long, efficient ser
vice.
ITO me is assigned the backward
glance. and then the forward glimpse
The first library sponsored by the
Brontes was kept in a box under the
bed. And. oh. how that spot was
guarded. No democracy in those days
no come and take theories. II was
rather we are the high and mighty
touch thou not the hem of our gar
ments. But. that library grew here in
Victoria. and it grew out into the
state, and the box under the bed is
now great, magnificent temples dedi
Gated to service, one and all.
"They tell me that the Brontes are
the Oldest club in Texas-and what
is more, the members being women
of the present, do not hesitate TO tell
their age.
Twenty years. members of the
Bronte, your predecessors drank deep
Of the Pierian spring. Then came
our beloved State Federation. The
Bronte was there. and. there it is
today in your Craftsmanship Of parks
and Fairgrounds mas. more, there II
is in your state president-your very
own, Mrs. Lee Joseph. whose first
club membership was right here in
the Bronte.
You sent out the call in your ever
generous way. not TO show us your
way of entertaining. but. in your own
language. We renlize that this con-
vention will influence all that is
good. true and beautiful. SO you
gathered US for the good that we
might do TO your community.
Too Few Brown Ones.
To-day, the Junior movement is
stressed. At the Chautauqua Bien-
NAL, it was said. There are too many
gray heads here Mrs. Pennybackers
quick wit replied: NO, not too many
gray heads. but too few brown heads
We have for the first time Junior
organizer.
at seems to us who come to Vic
toris. that this is only history repeat
ing itself, for Victoria's own, Miss
Genevieve Power, now Mrs. Stevenson,
used to 60 out TO tell of all the things
done by her Junior Civic League. How
the other districts did envy the Fifth,
pioneer as il was in this work. none
considered the all important branch
out of our Notwithstanding in
coming youth to take the place of re-
firing age.
"Our first Fifth District officer
came out of the Fourth for our first