Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-09-03
Women's News
And Views
BY Odessa Overy
Secretary Women's Bureau
Region 2-B


union to be on their toes. Lo-
cal IL is financing the choral
group under their recreational
program. Now it is no more
than right that each and every
one of you come and investi-
gate to see If you like the set
up.
1t is your program and we
would like to have as many as
possible come up and try for
the chorus. Remember you
don't have to have a voice to
Join the chorus. In fact, the
biggest share of the girls
didn't even begin to carry a
tone when they first started
in to practice. 1t certainly is
wonderful just how much Mrs. 1
Davies can do for your voice.
Our directress, Mrs. Davies, is
so very engrossed in her work
sometimes / think that she has
more enthusiasm than some of
you girls who don't even know
that there is a Women's col
umn in the Toledo Union Jour-
nal. There are active women
in this union who don't even
take time to read the Journal
or even the Women's column.
Now that is very bad state OF
affairs. When the women want
something they sure are re-
sponsive then, but when they
have what they want, then
they forget about all of the
good things that they have OBJ
tanned from the union and they
think to h. with every
body l got what I want. Or
they just don't find time to
even attend their own unit
meeting.
Well, this is all leading up
to one thing and that is to
take advantage of the good
things in life or they will be
taken away from you. At one
time the local sponsored an all
around recreational program
at the Y.W.C.A. having all ex-
penses paid with only a few
hand-fuls taking part and par
ticipating in it. So before you
knew it, the program was dis
continued because 1t was a
waste of good money to pay a
sum of money without any
body taking advantage of 1t.
Now we would like to see
more women take advantage
of this opportunity of the
choral group. 1t has a very
good incentive behind 1t for
by next June we expect to
have it built up so good that
the Local will keep up their
part of the bargain to buy us
all formals and send us to the
international convention to en-
tertain.
The choral group is rather a
new project that was under
taken and we certainly don't
want the bottom to fall out of
it so that the men will say,
We'll, that's the way it always
goes when you leave it up to
the women. They just haven't
got what it takes"
Well come on, girls, and show
the men that we can put this
thing across. We aren't doing
too awful bad but / would like
to have us do a lot better.
The women's conference
will be held October Is and Is
and we would like to have the
girls that would like to sing
at the banquet which will be
held at the Secor Hotel at six
thirty on October 16. All those
who are interested please come
to Parlor Il" on the fourth
floor of the local at 8 o'clock
every Monday evening. | un-
derstand that Tillotsons have
some girls with lovely voices,
but why are they so shy about
letting everybody hear these
lovely voices. Swartzbaughs
also has some very fine voices
but where are they? We don't
have a single girl from either
one of these places and we
would like very much to have
these shops represented.
This choral group is not
only for industrial women but
also for the wives of any local
IL member. We have with us
the wife of the Bingham chair
man Bill Weston, as also the
daughters of other members.
Well, / hope that this little
column will help to bring more
enthusiasm and that we will
have a large gathering next
Monday.