The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-07
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Good Evening.
BY THE MAN IN THE TOWER


 fine br vaudeville cheftan nearly 25 years ago. The letter was sent after Lou and his Casting Compbes Gall Waterbury boys in World War D had made trip from Mobile Ala to Johnson City Tenn to entertain disabled veterans of World War at government hospital, on Christmas Day MT Abee was so impressed by the iact that the entertainers made this trip of several hundred miles just to entertain some veterans that he wrote as follows think your having given your services to the tubercuar patients at Johnson City Tenn is one o the finest voluntary charitable considerations heard of To give up Christmas Day and travel to Johnson Guy and then back again without any compensation other than having your railroad fare paid is splendid demon Sraon of your consideration for these poor unfortu- mates There has been great deal of charity disbursed by vaudeville artists but finer act than yours IS recorded want to add my thanks with that of these poor soldiers who delighted with your entertain ment, The joy which you must have experienced in bringing little sunshine into their lives is your reward for having done a kindly act" Times sure do change
 The recent appearance of Bill" Tilden at an
 indoor tennis exhibition in Hartford recalls his last appearance here in Waterbury, It was in the early
 sos and the "Big Bill" very much in his prime then always. There never was better snowman than Tlden the courts In his local appearance he matched strokes with Karel KOzeluh out on the courts of the Waterbury Country Club then cOmpara- lively new It quite match, but Tiden on tour or in was too good iSr any oi %an them M t
 wing several New England players, perhaps the most prominent among them being A. H Chapin of Spring field and Arnold Jones of Providence. Where they differed from the master, though, in their approach to the game. With Tlden it definitely profession; with them it was sport
 Phil Sptalny, conductor of the Hour of Charm algirl orchestra, and Gene Ovatt, WaterburyS piano vrtuoso have very interesting thought in common and that s Americas music consciousness is the increase Phil and agree that the liking for piano has reached such proportions among embryonic players that 1t will be years before manufacturers will be in position to meet adequately the demand Radio has certainly made America music conscious says Gene. Some people inclined to believe that radio would prove sufficient to satisfy the great natural desire for music but It ever" Sptalny in establishing his point that the de- mand for pianos is unprecedented and points the way to musical tomorrow holds that the piano the local nucleus of family musical groups For families giving their children musical education he states the piano gives the most thorough groundwork in music teaching har mony part of the process of learning to play the n- Strument In fact, conductor Max Relter placed so much faith in sales of pianos as a guide to musical enthusiasm that when he arrived in this country seven years ago. one of the first things he did find out what section of the country surpassed all others in piano sales When he learned that the instruments were sell ing fast in Texas he went there and founded the San Antonio Symphony which since has grown to be one of the top orcheStraS in the country.
 Pretty blonde Betty McGurk an inspector at the Waterbury Tool Division of Vickers, recently received the singular honor of being the first woman ever elected to office in the A. F. of L. Machnists Unlon Local 1135 Betty is the secretary of the local union which comprises thousands of Waterbury workers. The young ladys interest in union affairs
 is not inexpcable by any means, for she comes from
 family long devoted to the of labor. Her father and brothers have always been staunch union workers while her grandmothers efforts in behalf of labor made history. Before the turn of the century, when few women had termerity to assert their rights to get the vote Betty's grandmother, Anne Kduff, was active crusading organizer and bargainer for the Shirt and Collar workers to combat the sweat shops She continued in this work for 37 years and in 1916 York state with Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins battling for better working conditions for all garment workers. The Waterbury Tool inspector, who
 s extremely popular among her cOwOrers planned to become a physical education teacher following her graduation from Catholic High however, the broke cut Betty decided to put her slim shoulders to the wheels of production to get the needed equipment lover there". And almost the very first thing she did when she arrived at the Tool was to take out a membership i'm the union.
 Here's an instance of where the cure is apparently worse than the afficon to people. The proposition for better vision and good health is simply this Get out of bed at a. m" It doesn't say you may return at SOL We presume you supposed to start swinging and battle the daily routine of making living. Day light Saving, adopted measure, is good move toward eyesgh conservation, according to the Better Vision Institute The plan aims at maximum of human activities under daylight as Nature intended Human eyes best adapted for daylight seeing They were built by Nature early to bed early to rse basis continues the Institute Many animals rats and owls have eyes that much better suited for noe turnal seeing than human eyes If people arose at five o'clock in the morning and went to bed about eight o'clock at night the prevalence of defects probably would be lesSened comments the Institute Tt is we'll known that farmers who get out of bed with the growing of the cock and who retire with the chickens generally have fewer defects in vision than have their city cousins