San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-23
WOMEN REPORT
F|GHT AGAINST
LIVING COSTS
exas League Of Women
Voters Asked to Sup
port Program.
LAWS WILL HELP
State Convention Opens
| With Reports Of Impor-
tant Committees.

An exchange of courtesies from the
ply OF San Antonio to the League of
women Voters, and from tn. league
70 the city marked the formal opening
the state convention in the dining
DOM OF the st. Anthony hotel Tues
ay morning. Mrs. Jessie Daniel Ames
tate president, tharA... Mayor John
'obin and the city commissioners. for
magnificent bunch yellow chrys-
nthemums sent in greeting, and in re-
urn Mayor Tobin Offered the league
ne Freedom of the City" and asked
Eomen OF the league to ask for any
ming they wanted while they were
ere in convention with the certainty
hat they would get it.
Il am perfectly safe in making such
statement" Mayor Tobir said, "for
know that these women ask for moth
ng but what is right" The mayor
aid that in the beginning he had not
Reen in favor of women's suffrage, and
lad made very half-hearted speeches
"a behalf of giving women tie vote,
put since he has seen the work women
lave done in politics, and the use they
kaye made of the vote. he has changed
ntirely, in his opposition to woman's
outrage.
Want to Share Work.
Mrs. j. X. Beretta, greeting members
md delegates of the league in behalf
4 the organized women of San An
ionic, as president of the City Fedora
ion, made very short talk on the
Importance work women have done in
politics. and said that only by a full
representation in the government of
he country, would women ever come
nto their own" There is no desire
the league" Mrs. Beretta said. ito
Pust men from the position they have
always held in the world. but there
strong desire on. the part of wo-
men to share with them the burdens
nd responsibilities of government"
Mrs. W. II. Moore, first vice-presi-
fent OF the league, responded to Mrs.
Beretta's greeting. saying that Mrs.
Beretta had sounded the keynote of
the league organization. in what she
has said Of sharing burdens of govern
|nent with men, instead Of taking them
Entirely away.
Reports that were made at the morn
ing session. were much more in the
|hature of a great vision, than of dry
Ftatistics. according to Mrs. Ames
who introduced the speakers in turn.
Mrs. Maggie Barry If College Sta
zion, chairman of the committee on the
POSTS of living, spoke first of the work
That has been done and that is being
planned TO bring the producer and con-
,umer closer together, and of the eff
feet it will have on economic coHdi-
lions throughout the country"
"Will you buy guaranteed, stand
hrdized home products at n fair cost.
IF they are Offered YOU" is the question
Mrs. Barry left with her audience, af
Ter telling of the work that ten At
)anta women had done six years ago
In arranging with farmers to bring
their produce In to be inspected by
home economic agents. and guaranteed
by them, and then getting 500 women
TO buy exclusively these HON, produc-
hons, at n saving. Problems of or
kanized production. utilization, con-
Standardization and market
ing are all under consideration and
ian be carried out with proper laws
governing transportation, and with the
bid of home demonstration agents, Mrs.
Barry said.
len VI IfBisidtiUu.
A program of work done by the
legislative committee. was prepared by
Mrs. Dave Doom. chairman of that
and read by Mrs. S. J.
Smith, secretary. The prison survey
bill that had been vetoed was resub-
Knitted and passed and received the
approval; the Sheppard
|rowner appropriation, vetoed. with the
general appropriation. passed again;
The Bell bill in regard to prohibition
enforcement passed: the Ono Warranto
bill was killed in senate; finance COM
mittees of both houses unan.mou y
Eoted to repaint Capital dome: the
(lliteracy commission bill passed senate
Ind lacked twelve hours of passing the
House. where it had enough votes
pledged to go through: in the third
session the Sheppard-Towner bill was
passed intact. she reported.
Mrs. Ames gave brief outline of the
national convention Of the League of
Women Voters held in Des Moines.
iowa, last April. in the absence of Mrs.