Shanghai women cannot be accused of lacking a. practical view of things, By selecting the topic "Transportation" and. discussing it In all Lis aspects, even to the extent of taking a ferry trip to Minghong, del-gates at the annual Club Insitute fof the Joint Committee of Shanghai Women's Organizations are tackling tone of the most dim cult of local problems. Shanghai's rapid lon which has resulted in the popul lon being doubled in tess than 30 Years has created a trifle problem of unusual magnitude, and the solu-on has been rendered more difficult rather than easier by the variety of forms of transportation available. The task of transporting a large body of people from one part of the city to another as the tendency develops for residents to live farther and farther away from their places of business has created difficulties which only a frank survey and appreciation of the community's needs in. relation to existing conditions can remove, Undoubtedly, nothing for short. of a rastle revolution. in. transportation Intwoducing some. form of overhead railway or some form of communica lon not yet envisaged willie. ne-assary in the near future to keep pace with conditions." 'The Club Instule's programme is very comprehensive "and embraces" many phases of the subject and, with the thoroughness which Shanghai women Interested in communal matters gen= erally exercise In their deliberations, the two days' conference should produce esulis of material value,
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