Evening star., 1921-07-01
CITY CLUB HOME !
READY FEBRUARY |
Present Quarters to Be TAX
en- Over by University Wom-,,
ems. Association.

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ems. Association. !
The City Club expects to take possess
sion Of it's new $seo. 200 home. on G
street. now under construction. by next
February /. and has disposed Of its
present club building. on Farrasut square.
e. C. Graham. president. at a general
meeting OF the club membership last
evening. 80. ,.- be- ..--..
The present building. once the, home
Of Secretary Of the Navy Tracy, later
the Russian embassy and still later the
Clubs home. will be taken
sociation Of University Women. 1t was
Walter a. Browns real es-
tate Office handled the sale.
President Graham also explained de-
velopments in the tentative interior
plans for the new building by which
rooms have been added to the clubs
facilities for the use Of private dinner
parties. meetings Of civic associations
for which the club hopes to provide a
center, and for other organizations OF
which club members are the majority.
Eight FloOrD.
Although the new club is listed as a
four-stor structure. 1t contains in a
large part Of the building in reality
construction OF large mezza-
nine floors at each side.
Under the plans as finally developed
and approved the club will have in ad-
dition to the great main dining room on
the second floor, which will seat 400 or
mora nofSnnE q mems RYfII.
seating seventy-five to eighty: large
private dining room, accommodating
sixty persons: another for forty to fifty.
and two more on the mezzanine floor to
from forty to sixty.
on the third, floor. which centers
around the immense lounge. with more
than $500 feet Of door surface. will be
another big private dining room. seating
well over 100, and considerably larger
than the main dining room in the pres.
ent club building. Also of this floor will
be two big cardroons. a large writing
lard room. which will be provided with
seven tables: the office Of the executive
secretary and the barber shop.
The top" floor. which will be used reg
ularly as the gymnasium. Mr.. Graham
explained. will be the largest hall Of its
900 to 1000 for q banquet-something
which cannot now be done in Washing
ton-and up to 1000 for a meeting. In
its function as civic organization. MIR.
Graham said. the club probably would
permit use Of this big hall for i'm
sions. 1t will also be available as a
ballroom for club dances and other
social affairs.
Would Use Store Space.
while we are now planning to have
Mr.
Graham concluded. II can assure you
that just as soon as conditions warrant
this space also will be reconstructed
sires. AS it is. however, we will have
over $4,000 feet OF floor surface ex-
for club uses-a feature which
be appreciated without full
study Of the plans and dimensions
After the membership had approved
to the governors for their
deal. the Rev. A. H. Zimmerman. Wash
lngton pastor, gave brief address on
''The American Sunday" outlining what
he believed the menace of the so-called
blue laws to American institutions.
Ito the attack on our constitutional
rights by this aggressive minority of
politicians who would with
their laws unite church and state. to
the detriment both Of the American
and Of true religion.
Stand for the American Sunday of rest.
return Of seventeenth century bigotEy
ahasa sss yaa Graa s y9n ~hen mSs, yoa
must worship and where you must
Mans religion is matter Of
and when law steps in the
nation is on the slippery grade to ma
Forums Suspended. 4
The club also voted to suspend the
" Wednesday forum meetings during
the hot months. resuming the second
in September.
An entertainment program and buf-
let supper followed the busi nesa meet
ing and address. Announcement was
made that returns on the Dempsey
match will be received by
rounds at the clubhouse tomorrow
.f.ernoon for the convsnience of mem
The American Association Of Uni
Did home OF the club, Is charitable
composed Of 1900 wom-
en-. graduates Of some ninety-six col
eges and universities. It was organ
zed thirty-nine years ago as the As
ISOLATION of Collegiate Alumnae, tho
name having just been changed. The
association is charter member of
The recently formed International
Federation of University Women.
High Purposes.
It is pointed out that it's work has
,een to elevate the standards Of edu-
.ation in women's colleges and to Sc
:ure their continuity. 1t maintains
'ellowships for advanced study in Eu-
.ope. and offers in South America
for study, in colleges
ish scholarships in each of the seven
Christian colleges for women in the
orient, located, respectively, in China,
Japan, India and tho near east
The association acts as q clearing
house for information about educa-
:ional opportunities for women in the
United States. and has established q
:enter for university women abroad,
t is announced. 1t co-operates with
he National Educational Association,
he General Federation OF Women's
Clubs, the National Council OF Women,
he bureau of education and the chill
iren's bureau Of the Department. of
Labor.
LeEislation Committee.
Its educational legislation committee
keepS the ASSOCIATION informed OF
,endinE legislation that the associa-
lion may help to promote suitable
bills and oppose bad ones. At the lag:
resolutions were passed
ndorsing the so.called maternity or
Sheppard-Towner bill. the bill to
sreate a federal department Of edu-
,ation. the bill for the economic
equality of women. q bill to grant in
dependent citizenship to married wom-
N, to establish women's bureau and
,ne to give the District Of Columbia a
model child labor compulsory school
law.
The organisation, IL is stated, has
extended aid to needy students and
in European universities