Clubs

Clubs exist mostly as recreational institu­tions and the best manners for these would be that members devote themselves to the very purpose for which they exist. If it is a dramatic or cultural club, a place for cards and indoor games or a sports and outdoor games club, the members have to propagate the purpose of the club. In other words, to join a club and then not to participate in its activities or to go on criticising it for this and that deficiency is the height of bad manners and even of misbehaviour.

There are reading clubs where the members are expected to read, ladies' clubs where the members may be all females (though there is no harm in the attendants being males) as well as there are hiking clubs, gliding clubs, smokers' clubs and clubs for various other purposes and ideas.

Members may choose to be either active or re-- main passive. The latter would like to follow the crowd, be one with it and do whatever duties may be allotted to them from time to time. Active or passive, members render their full support to the policy of the club and the decisions of the manage­ment committee are seldom disputed or called into question. However, not all clubs may have such a smooth sailing and their failure may be attributed to some extent to the non-cooperation of members. If the members lose track of the main ideals and get involved in the policies of club managements, or if they break up into too many factions or groups, all with separate ideas or themes for the club's welfare, none of the groups may acquire enough power to implement their coveted plans. Club-spirit is against groupism. If required, the offending or obstructing members may be asked to leave or resign.

Club etiquette would require that the members mix freely and on an equal footing with one another. They are not to take personal matters to their club and bother other members with their worries or problems. Club life is different from home life and though a few members may discuss some personal or business matters, essentially business life and club life are to be kept severely separate. Easy though it may seem, the performance requires some practice for the novice or the uninitiated. Mixing and relaxa­tion are the twin objectives of club life. This mixing, however, is to be differentiated from social mixing, and it is quite possible that a person may have one set of friends socially and another set of friends at the club, and the twain may n'ver meet. The efficiency of a successful club-member is to keep the two walks of life separate.

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