San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-30
|CRESPONSE
| 0 TAG DAY
| HERE: TUESDAY
Very Few People Refuse
to Contribute for Grip
pied Children.
Fer FREE WARD
Workers Cover Office
Buildings and Tag on
|. Houston Street.

wont you help a crippled child?'
,as the question heard many times on
II the downtown corners Of San An
onio streets Tuesday morning, and
inc times out of ten the response to
he question was 30, I've got one"
At first hearing, that sounded as If
early every person in the city was
announcing that he had a crippled
hid, but it really meant that nearly
very one had bought a yellow tag
which read: Il did not run but helped
crippled child to walk"
Groups of workers for the cause of
Helping afflicted children to become
ormal again. reports that for the most
part, the response is very generous,
nd the sealed money boxes in many
Eases feel encouragingly heavy. Com
nents of the workers on the types Of
onors and the amount of donations
re varied in instances, but much
like on the whole.
Men are a lot more generous than
EOmen," is the consensus of opinion
I about ten groups of Houston street
workers, and 1.-THE best dressed people
re the least generous on the whole"
another opinion freely expressed.
How They "COme Across"
Maybe the rain has something to do
With that, though" one worker said.
Whenever women get wet, they get
snubby,' and men don't seem 10
mind"
"The largest contribution l have re-
eived from any one person, was a $40
Jill from a rather shabby woman
me worker said, and another one
dded, well, the smallest l have re-
eived was from a banker seated in
is own bank. He gave me . cents,
nd looked as if he was parting with
lis last friend when he did it,
Zone shabby little newsboy gave me
0 cents early this morning, and his
Get were so wet and his clothes so
hin that l hesitated about taking it
rom him." "A crippled soldier gave
ne the first 81 bill / got this morn
NJ" "A badly crippled man, who
3ells papers from a wheel chair, gave
|ne 81, bill for a tag. l didn't want
o take it,. but he insisted, and said
he couldn't afford not to give it, If 1t
you'd help a crippled child. 1 want
Pne of those. things'' was my first sale
bf a tag this morning to little boy
kibout 8 years old who couldn't talk
plain. He gave me a nickel for his
bag and went away wearing it proud
". ] sold two tags TO a rather shabby
boy who was leading an old blind
IMAM. The boy gave me two quarters
for the tags and pinned one on him.
self and one on the trembling old mar
be was leading" These are some Of
he stories told in a single sentence OF
the generosity of people of the city.
Two for a Dime.
"The hardest sale l have made was
TO a very handsome woman, beautiful
" and deliberately dressed, who got
put of fine closed car, leading a
dressed child, in front OF
The Empire Theater. asked her three
lines, going in and out of the build
Ing, to give something for the crippled
children, and she looked straight ovef
my head and wouldn't answer. Finally
hs she got into the car to go on, |
hsked her again, and she said We'll,
here are two dimes, give me two tags
For them. 1t is worth that TO be to be
ct alone She pinned one tag on her
self and one on the child she was
leading. There are. people like that.
A few persons who are, asked to
Haven't time" Cant be
"Want TO go to the bank
FIRST" but on the whole the donations
have been free and generous and the