San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-23
Americans Fail to Coop
crate in Helping Foreign
ers-Say Few Social
Workers Are Doing Much
Good But They Need Pub
lies Aid,

Wages are lower in San Antonio
than they are in other cities of this
size, according to Miss Charlotte Il.
Fraser of New York, Americaniza-
ton worker, during her study Of con-
ditions here among foreigners. Miss
Fraser found that one mother is be-
ing paid 81 per week, and with the
cost of keeping her child in the
Wesleyan Community House deduct
ed, her income amounts to $1.10 every
seven days. Out of this wage, the
mother pays her rent, grocery bill
and clothing expense for herself and
her small son.
Other conditions revealed to Miss
Fraser included the lack of co-opera-
ton shown by the American popula-
ton of San Antonio with the COM
nunity workers of this city who are
trying to remedy the foreign problem
rs it exists today. Health conditions
call for the establishment of n ma
ternity home and baby clinic for
the foreigners, according to Miss
Fraser. and she stated following her
tour of inspection about the Mexican
quarter of the city that u Protestant
orphan home is needed to care fol
the excess of helpless children who
are not being properly cared for by
relatives. and who have been denied
membership in existing orphanages
because there is no room for them
Lack Of Cooperation.
"There is an appalling lack of CO.
operation on the part of the American
residents in San Antonio, with the
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the battle of AUGMENTATION without
help or encouragement on the part OF
majority of the citizens" Miss
Fraser stated. "Splendid work is be.
ing done i'm San Antonio social vel
fare houses, where i'll one place 10
600 Mexican families are cared for
yearly. but the Indifference on the
part of the general public is making
it hard fight for the few who are
trying to carry on
Some interesting facts about social
welfare programs in San Antonio.
perhaps unknown to the majority OF
this city's residents, were unearthed
by Miss Fraser in preparation for her
study Of San Antonio conditions: For
example, in one community house
alone, the Wesleyan Institute on
Marshall street. 10,WO MeXlcans are
cared for yearly. The clinic in the
institute cared for 1900 sick people
last year, and nearly 100 babies are
kept every day in the nursery while
their mothers work. 1t was in the
Wesleyan Institute that the case OF
the mother who is making S1.15 per
week, was revealed. Her baby, q
little boy, is looked after in the
nursery for the sum of five cents per
day. With this thirty cents week
deducted. the mother is earning on
her salary Of 50 per week the total
sum of s1.T0 which must feed. house
and clothe the baby and the mother
Care For 800 Day.
In the Presbyterian House OF Ser,
vice, 5000 Mexicans are being cared
for yearly, according to Miss Fraser;
First aid work, health clinics and
educational work is being done in TINS
place. In the Good Will Center, a
community house created two years
ago BIZ the First Baptist church OF
San Antonio. Mexicans, Italians and
Syrians are taught Christianity and
| the elements of education. The
Christian Community House reaches
300 Mexicans every day, according 10
Miss Fraser's report, and religion,
health clinics, education, employment
bureaus and classes for mothers are
! features of this house in its training
The Christian Community House Is