Scheme to Increase Its Usefulness An idea recently submitted to the Committee of the Union Club of.
Shanghai for their consideration is that this organization which has at the present the about 300 members should move its club premises away. from the Central District and find suitable quart rs somewhere in the Western section of the city.
The authors of this plan point out that the Union Club was founded primarily as an instrament for social contact between British, 'Americans, and Chinese. Recently the regulations of the club have been altered to permit of the membership of other nationalities besides the original three, and the hopes of the Committee' and those who have the welfare of the Union Club. most at heart are to make it as comprehensive an institution as is suggested by the versatile foreign community in Shanghai, so that all nationalities may get into touch with the Chinese community of like interests, On the Beaten Track In view of the original intention, therefore, of emphasizing the soci side of the club, it is felt by some of the club members that dropping in after office hours, quiet dinner and tea parties and other aspects of club life would receive a great impetus if the club could be situated along the "beaten" track to the residential district. The inclusion of tennis courts and a garden would be other feasible arrangements for making the club more attractive in various ways to its members, they say.
In the same connection, it is pointed out that the new idea carried with it the employment of a Indy secretary who would be at the club during the day-time hours, after which the present arrangements for a secretary from 5 p.m. would obtain. The gradual build-con: lo number of Chinese ing up of a fine library with a
books is also a part of the plan.
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