Two-Day Session Ends with Many Suggestions After two days of intensive and intelligent discussion of some of Shanghai's major transportation prolems, the annual Club Institute of the Joint Committee of Shanghai Women's Organizations was brought to a close on Friday with the entire delegation of women voleing their hope that those in authority. would John their spirit of close cooperation.
Although all formal resolutions were left to the Civies Affairs Committee of the Joint Committee to resent to proper places, the women, at the suggestion of Mrs. H.C. Mel, expressed their hope of ce-operation, Miss E. M. Hinder led the general discussion after the spai covered the various subjects of the Tnstitute's general theme of "Transportation In Shanghai." During this Informal half-hour the members voiced their approval of the follow: Ing suggestions: ~That measures taken to prohibit police from arbitra ary removal of rickshaw cushions snd licences; that the number of rickshaws be reduced gradually and that public shame fall on the heads of those who than 10 cents big money for short rickshaw rides; that women of Shanghai should have something to say in regard to cleanllness of trams and other public con voyances; and that steps should be taken to secure closer ce-operation of all concerned.
In French Concessi The transportation. problems in the French Concession were described by M. Paul Premet in whose opinion they "present particular dimteulties because of the variety of vehicles, the {indifference of the public, the number of private motor-ears, andthe Jack of foresight of those authorities concerned at the beginning of the city's growth, Lack of ce-ordination constitutes one of the major transportation prob-Jems in Shanghai, according (2 Mr. V. Arnold Jones, who discussed omnibus transport' aspects forthe benefit of the Joint Committee Club Institute during the morning.
The puzzling question of why pullers are taxed seven cents per day for an institution they may not want to use was answered by Miss Jeanne B. Perkins during her presensation of "Some Aspects of the Rickshaw Problem."
Protection For Girls In an impromptu talk Mrs. W. Hines explained the proposal of a group of women who' have been studying the problem for more than year to establish a Travellers' Aid Society in Shanghai.
While not proposing it as a panacea for the problems of vice-traflle Mrs, Hines said that the 'Travellers' Aid, which now exists in all large cities of the western world, would fill a long felt want in Shanghai, especially the care of lonely, frightened girls who come from other parts of China, as well as other countries, seeking employment.
Tiffin, served at the A.W.C. was followed by an amusing programme Which included a skit, "Shanghai in 1950," presented under the direction of Mrs. Arthur N. Young, in which present and future trame' problems were pictured. The cast Included, Mrs. Philip "Dunbar and Mrs, 5, Kapper as ladies of the present, and Mrs, Owen Dawson, Mrs. H. Tarby, Mrs. E. Jacobi, Mrs. Alfred S. Lo and Mrs. J. W. P. Marsh, who dressed in cellophane costumes were the Iadiee of 1050,
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