The Innocent Penalized The ways of club committees are at once inscrutable and illuminating. An example of this is the recent ruling of the Columbia Country Club "denying certain of its Indy members the privilege of ftroducing guests into the club, This decision, which doubtless was taken only after mature consideration and strictly with a view to the best interests of the organization, applies only to unmarried lady members and hence a legitimate subject for public comment. It is not for us to pass upon the reasons which led the lcon: mittee to act, but solely to speculate upon this distinction between the wives of members and the not inconsiderable number of spinsters to whom the club offers the most convenient, of not the only means of repaying social obligations without too great expense. It 15 so excellent a thing to have provided such facilities for the office worker who would otherwise be hard pat to it for a place in which to entertain, that it seems a great Pity to rescind or even restrict the privilege. It is quite pertinent: to inquire why the spinster is. thus discriminated against to the advantage of the wives of members who in the majority of instances excellent homes in which to" enters fain, is probable that the' unied woman's sole reason for Joining, a club is this desire for a place t6 which she may occasionally take a guest. It is not difficult to surmise what is at the bottom of it all—the inevitable abuse of privilege by one or two for whom all the rest are now made to suffer, Nor are we unsympathetic with' those upon whom devolves a problem of this kind. One cannot but wonder, however, why club committees are '30 prone to legislate to the radical disadvantage of the unoffending rather than discipline the offender Is one to construe the restriction of the spinster's privileges while placing the married at a double advantage as a reminder to her of the desirability of the holy state of matrimony?
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