San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-11
MEN ANDW0MEN
START WORK ON
$4,000 DRIVE
Men Will Cover the Down
town District in Next
Three Days.
WOMEN FARTHER OUT
Lieut.. Col. George. Wood
Here for Annual Home
Service Appeal.

The Salvation Army Home Service
Appeal for a $4,000 budget was
launched Tuesday morning when more
than 100 business and professional
men comprising the mems division be-
gan work in the business district. At
noon 200 women gathered at the tapes
try room of the ST. Anthony hotel for
their luncheon and instruction meet be-
fore they went into the residential Sec
ton 10 raise a larger amount than
the men can raise in the business dis
trict.,
Lieut.. Col. George Wood. command
er of the Southwestern Division. Staff
Capt. Alfred i. Whitney, divisional
secretary and Ensign Harry Booth, in
charge Of the young peoples work in
the Southwest were the divisional Off
GERS present as guests Of honor.
Colonel Wood in a brilliant tribute
to the womanhood of America de-
clared that no city in America posses
sed women who were more deeply in
terested and who did more for the adj
vancement and progress of humanity
than do the women of San Antonio.
The national organization of tue
Salvation Army is commanded by a
woman Evangelinc Booth" he ex-
planned. "Long years ago the Salvation
Army recognized the powers and poten-
tialities of the women. and it has been
largely due to what the women have
done that we are today what and
where We are.
Speaks to Women.
Zone Of the most outstanding insti-
buttons in the Southwest is the WOm-
ems home and maternity hospital here.
This was made possible through the
efforts of the prominent women of San
Antonio who have taken always an in
terest and concern in the i'll fortune
of others.
And when the children's nursery
which is TO be built in connection with
the women's home here is completed
the bulk of the honor will 60 to you
ladies' he declared.
Adjutant Ida l.. Anderson, in
charge of the wOmen's home, Com
mandant Mrs. o. r. johnson and other
women officers of the army in San An
tonic appeared in the speaking pro-
gram.
Nat NJ. Washer, vice president of
the advisory board, spoke in high
praise of the successes of the army In
San Antonio. james Caldwell, appeal
chairman, and Victor Keller. president
of the board. made short talks.
Immediately after the luncheon the
women started to work. The residential
section has been divided into thirty,
one district, over which captains and
team workers have been assigned as
EnIl 3 LET. 90 IL,
mapped out along the lines of the regu-
lar school districts:
Where They Will Work.
Anthony Margil school, Mrs. A..
Wright, captain; Miss Fannie Wolf
and Mrs. II. Schevalir: Stephen F..
Austin, Mrs. Wade Lewis. captain !;
workers TO be supplied; De Zavala,
Mrs. Annie L. Farmer, captain; Mrs.
w. III. Joyce, Mrs. George Carr, Mrs.
Wilmer Simpson and Mrs. Ethel
Knight; Milan, Mrs. III. A. Moos,
captain; Burnett, Mrs. j.. c. Bennett,
captain; Mrs. Lee Joseph, Mrs.
Claudio Baggett, Mrs. l.. L. Luner,
Mrs. Beulah Garvin and Mrs. Carl
Huchenbacher; Lamar, Mrs. Dan
Ruhlman, captain; Mrs. A. NJ. Haak.
Navarro. Mrs. Roberta Weathers,
captain; Mrs. Lou Davis. Mrs. :. Fan
min, Mrs. n. LeGross, Mrs. ]. Morris,
Mrs. Leon Loeff and Mrs. Lonnie IT.
win; Bowie, Mrs. Carrier Cadena. cap
tain; Mrs. B. J. Schultz. Mrs. Sarah
Locoy, Mrs. Josephine Bell. Mrs. Cur
tbs Baugh. Mrs. Joseph Bell and Mrs.
r.. Raminez; Bonham, Mrs. Edgar
Johnston, captain; Mrs. G. r. Boatncr,
Mrs. III. A. Klotz, Mrs. d. X. Grady,
Mrs. J. A. Keever: Crockett. Mrs
Charles Fletcher. captain; Mrs. Z. III.
Hayl, Mrs. +. X. Harris. Mrs. NJ. F..
Rayburn, Mrs. May Laessig and Mrs.
Louise Lawrence: Fannin, Mrs. G. l..
Buchanan. captain; Mrs. Charles c.
Bennett, Mrs. John Wright, Mrs. Ed
ward Gruener. Mrs. +. J. Seguin. Mrs
John c. Herren, Mrs. Robert Joseph
and Mrs. r. A. Bartherger.
Travis. Mrs. George Willis. cap
tain; Mrs. Grace Wilding, Mrs. J..
Ator, Mrs. May Allen. Mrs. A. X.
Bennett. Mrs. T. ]. Longino. Mrs. G.
Q. Weather Mrs. Tom Caraway. Mrs.
J. A. Hall and Mrs. Oliver Goldsmith;
Ruiz, Mrs. j. d. Dunsmore. captain:
Mrs. NJ. Burt. Mrs. J. A. Sloan and
Mrs. Ben a. Cordell: Smith, Mrs. w.