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Sunday, August 17, 19S8 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. MEDFOW&TRIBU!iE "Everyone ia Southern bfregon Publihei Dally except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO S3 North Fir St Ph. SP.2-6141 ROBERT W RCHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manage! GERALD LATHAM. Business -Mgr RIC ALLEN. JR. Managing Editor KARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER. Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3 1891 SUBSCRIPTION RATES fy Mail In Advance: Copy lOe. Daily and Sunday 1 year S15 00 Daily and Sunday 8 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Med ford Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er T alert and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County "United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY CO.. INC, Of fices In New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St Louis, At lanta. Vancouver. 3 C. x NEWSPAPEt PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL AsJocfjlQN Flight 'o Time Medford aijd Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Aug. 17. 1948 (Tuesday) The painting exhibition in the Confidential Business agency by Medford Artist Clifford Platz closed today after attracting enthusiastic comment from local art-lovers. Tickets are now on sale for the "Community Appreciation Day" ball game honoring the Medford Dodgers. 20 YEARS AGO Aug. 17, 1938 (Wednesday) There are more entries every day for the contest to choose the little Southern Ore gon girl who most resembles Shirley Temple. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Laun . dries are now using invisible ink for making of laundry ' marks on shirts. The mark is - said to be harder to find than the shirt that didn't come tack." SO YEARS AGO Aug. 17. 1928 (Friday) Table Rock melon growers ' are standing by with loaded shotguns to ward off thieves. Three hundred seventy-five China pheasants were re leased in Jackson county re 1 cently by the state pheasant farm. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 17. 1918 (Saturday) Thanks to an early fruit ' harvest, Medford schools will open Sept. 16 instead of Sept. SO. Tourists to Mt. Ashland re port there is but one small snowbank left on the summit. Whai's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is superior; .seven or eight is excellent; five or snc is good. 1. Which vitamin is impor ' tant in the prevention of scurvy? 2. A half-wild horse of the South west plains is .called a m g? 3. Who has been called the Immortal Bard? 4. According to the Bible, whose father was Jesse? 5. What is the antonym of ; occidental? 6. What is the short name for the B. P. O. E.? 7. Which flowering plant has been called "The Queen of Flowers"? 8. Name the capital of El ; Salvador. 9. Georgetown University is in which city? 10. The rank of a Captain in the Army is equivalent to that of a Captain in the Navy; true or false? Answers: 1. Vitamin C. 2. Mustang. 3. William Shake speare. 4. David's father. 5. Oriental. 6. Elks. 7. The rose. 8. San Salvador. 9. Washing Ion, D. C. 10. False. (Navy Captain equals Army Colo nel) President's Nominees Include Oregon Man Washington (WD Presi dent Eisenhower yesterday nominated Hugh M. Milton LT, New Mexico, to be Under secretary of the Army. The President also nominat ed Paul Kearney, Astoria, Ore., Sheriff of Clatsop Coun ty since 1936, to be U. S. Marshal for the District of Oregon, y The Free Souls Sometimes, at the end of a long day (like the moment when this is written), we have a sneak ing desire to emulate those hardy souls who prize independence above all else. People like young Jeff Williams, who took off earlier this summer to hitch - hike around the world, and who now presumably is on the last leg of his trip perhaps in the Orient, or on the Pacific headed for San Francisco. rR LIKE another acquaintance of ours, a man of many travels and many parts, who thinks as little of taking off for the far corners of the world as others do of starting out for a picnic. This man sailed Aug. 11 from Canada bound for Rotterdam. Aboard was his red-painted jeep. He's off for a jaunt through Europe, and in the fall will stop in Paris for a while at the Sorbonne, to brush up on his French. He has just completed a couple of years at the University of Oregon, where he received his degree in journalism resuming an education started years before. DUT his "education" never really stopped, for he has soaked up knowledge all his life, in rambles all over the world. He has no particular source of income, and occasionally comes back to Oregon to work in a log pond long enough to raise another stake to take him again to far places. And he says, "Frankly, I expect to see myself back on a pond in a year or so. I am too indepen dent to care a hoot whether papers want my stuff or not." And he added, typically, "You might be amused "to know that my very tenuous connection with the journalistic world enabled me to ride in the offical cortege when Princess Margaret was in Quebec. It was strictly a 'con' job." More power to him. The world needs such people. But, also, it needs the stay-at-homes, the people who work 8-to-5 five days a week. The world needs, in fact, all kinds. But it's fun thinking about the free souls, and envying them, a little. E.A. Move Ashland's Festival To Portland? No! Adroitly, The Oregonian suggests the removal of the Oregon Shakespearean Festival to Port land, foi"the Oregon Centennial in 1959 seeing as how the people at Ashland are confronted with the problem of rebuilding their Elizabethan stage and the dressing rooms and service facilities at tached to it to meet fire marshal's requirements. This is another unscrupulous effort on the part of the metropolis to steal something good from the upstate which is really Portland's bread and but ter. If the people of Ashland and Jackson county submit to this raid, they are dumber than we think they are. Portland does not give back. CINCE it was established in 1935, under the in spiration and leadership of Angus Bowmer, the Shakespearean Festival has grown steadily in popularity and in artistic merit to the point where it has achieved national recognition. Through all of these years most of the special financing has come from the people of Ashland and Jackson county. Portland has contributed nothing to the growth of the enterprise (except the scanty and often incompetent "reviews" of its professed "drama critics"). Much more effective support has come from discerning and able friends in nearby Calif orniaJ Much of the charm of the Shakespearean Festival has derived from its site in the lovely little hillside city in Southern Oregon with its inexhaustible list of forest and mountain and countryside attrac tions to occupy the daylight hours between shows. IN PORTLAND, the Shakespearean Festival would be just another side show. We would not pay a plugged dime to see it in Portland. The phoniness of Portland's "one year" offer can be seen from these facts : 1. If plans are made now, Ashland's stage and back stage facilities can easily be rebuilt to any dimensions and specifications in ample time for the 1959 Centen nial shows. 2. If Portland takes the shows for one year, Port land will not be able to provide more than a temporary structure which would be little better than present Ashland facilities. 3. If Portland houses the shows in anything but an Elizabethan theatre the character of the plays is des troyed. Tony Brandenthaler, the energetic promoter of the Centennial has been trying hard to con vince the upstate towns that though Portland is the only logical place for the Trade Exposition, Portland is not trying to hog it all, and that all other tows should push their special attractions and get their share of the Centennial tourist busi ness. By raiding Ashland, Portland threatens to destroy the illusion. MO DOUBT some of the theatre people at Ash land are plugging for a move to Portland. We know temperamental and ambitious theatre peo ple always "an itch," the pickings in Portland look awful good at a distance. In Portland, their festival would probably become just one of the dozens of struggling and partially supported ar tistic enterprises. For nearly a quarter of a century the Oregon Shakespearean Festival has had ROOTS in Ash land and Jackson county. Such enterprises do not transplant easily. As a patron of many years we'll say a loud NO on moving the event to Portland. Editor BUI Jjjgman, Port Umpqua Courier. - Dennis the Menace M HE just got scared WM A r-Kfcfc HAIRCUT. Matter of Fact THE PAIN OF CUTTING . 1 LOSSES Washington Until the President went off to join the U. N. vaudeville in New York, the American National Se curity Council was engaged ffi in something very like an agonizing re appraisal of our world pol icy and strate gy. There has Joseph Alsop never been a time when the gap was so wide between the governmental facade and the things going on behind the facade. The facade "peace plan," including the develop ment scheme so ironically borrowed from Aneurin Bev an. The reality is the secret huddle of high policy-makers, anxiously discussing how to avoid total catastrophe, not just in the Middle East, but also in the very heart of the Western alliance itself. For the policy-makers know what they do not tell the country, that - the rush of events in the Middle East will begin again, just as soon as the U. N. speech-making is over. THE policy-makers know too that the real question raised by this rush of Middle Eastern events is the ques tion, "What to do about Britain?" The second partner in the Western alliance is not just dependent on Middle Eastern oil; Britain's solvency is also directly dependent on Britain's ownership of the Middle Eastern oil sources. The British, we may say, are like a family that not only needs water to live, but also gets a large share of tha fam ily income from the stock in the water company. Britain cannot stay in busi ness as the second partner in the Western alliance after sustaining the kind of loss that now threatens in the Middle East. The British divi sions in NATO and many other vital contributions are quite directly at stake in the outcome. All this was recog nized in a grim .presentation of the British situiation .Sec retary of the Treasury Robert Anderson made to the hud dled policy makers. The seemingly easy way out is for Britain to use military force if need be and the need seems likely to arise in order to hang on to the enormously rich, rather easily defensible oil sources in Ku wait and the other British protected sheikdoms of the Persian Gulk But this expe dient cannot possibly be adopted by the British with out all-out American support, for obvious reasons of war risk. THE expedient also has two further, vastly more im portant drawbacks. Any such despairing British move will Try and By BENNETT CERF- OBSERVTNG A POLITICIAN in action whose speeches "al ways have overshadowed his actual achievements, humor ist E. B. White concluded, "His words leap across rivers and mountains, but his thoughts are still only six inches long!" Another E. B. White re mark worthy of quotation is, "A despot doesn't fear eloquent writers preaching freedom, but he does fear a drunken poet, who may crack a joke that will take hold." Do you know that the word "abecedarian" means "easy as ABC?" A Chicago dean slip ped it into a letter last week. . It's very useful for silencing hecklers. Solemn warning1 sign in a suburb of Cleveland: "Beginning Mon day, there will te absolutely no parking allowed ia front of No Farkjug gags:" : 'cause 1 SAtO tp GIVE By Joseph Alsop actually strengthen Nasser l greatly, by giving him a burn ing anti-Western reason that he can use to control the di visive forces in his growing empire. It will also force Nas ser to go beyond his present anti-Western but non-Communist policy. It will thrust him, in fact, straight iiito the Kremlin's waiting arms, with incalculable but surely evil consequences. Such are the apparent alter natives: Doing nothing, and risking British bankruptcy that will begin the break-up of the Wes tern alliance; or- backing the British in the Persian Gulf, and thus causing a war scare, defying large sectors of world opinion, actually strengthen ing Nasser, and making the Kremlin a free present of Nas ser and his whole powerful movement. Confronted by these hideous alternatives, most of the American policy makers have been frozen into immobility. However, a few on the low er levels have recalled the scheme put forward by George F. Kennan in 1949, for a special Anglo-American relationship that might . also include Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. There was no pompus constitution-making in Kennan's , half-forgotten proposal. It envisaged military and political, co ordinating machinery, on the simple model of the old Com bined Chiefs of Staff Com mittee. It also - envisaged economic machinery, perhaps in the form of a massive stablization fund, that would maintain an agreed exchange (ate between the dollar and the pound, thus freeing Brit ain from her eternal hard cur rency problem. THE minority recalling this plan of Kennan's points out that it would not only strengthen the core of the Western alliance. It would al so free Britain and the United States from the need to make either of the horrible Middle Eastern choices above - out lined. With British solvency no longer so dependent on shaky, neo-imperial positions in the Middle East, sensible, down-to-earth bargaining with Nasser and Arab oil pro ducers would at once become possible. And after the U. S. and Britain have conceded 'so much, 'they would then be able to draw the desperately needed clear line, say. at the Sudan and Libya, that Nasser must not pass without . im mediate war. : ' These are the. advantages. The disadvantages are the cost, which would not be un bearably great, and above all the difficulty of taking such bold, imaginative action with out admitting past errors. This second difficulty would- be very great indeed. Cutting losses and making a sensible new start is alway, alas, an extremely paninful process, (c) 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc. . Stop Me eLA-BLA-BOt. Washington Report By William GREAT DIVIDE ; Washington President Ei senhower's United Nations ! plan for quieting the Middle East may u n expectedly mark a Great Divide in America's en t i r e foreign policy. If he presses on for con structive and e s s e n t i ally William S. White op tions, in that area or else where, he may well win a truly vital and creative Demo cratic backing in foreign af fairs throughout the world. This kind of backing he has not had for two years and more. His need for it has been very great all along. And it will be even a far greater need if, as is expected, the new Congress chosen in No vember is again in Demo cratic control. For the critically dangerous years of the Eisenhower te nure will ; be the final two years when his influence with the public, and especially with the Republican party, wUl be on its last declining curve. And this phase will open in January, concurrently with the new 86th Congress. INDEED, the President's newly proclaimed policy could turn out to be a most useful one even if it should fail in the Arab world itself. For the significance of his ap proach goes profoundly be yond this immediate area. He has at last made a deep appeal to the leading Demo crats. This time they are pri vately and genuinely enthu siastic, though the feeling is tempered with skepticism that says: "Now, if he will only go through with it . . ." For a long time before this, these Democrats had been only publicly and wearily go ing along with Presidential proposals on foreign policy and solely because they were not willing to divide the country before the Kremlin. The Eisenhower promise of American support to a region al Arab economic develop ment scheme is good Demo cratic doctrine. It is wholly in line with what the senior Democratic member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senator J. Wil liam Fulbright of Arkansas, has been urging for at least four years. pij Today tr Tomorrow By .Walter Lippmann BASIS FOR NEGOTIATION The General Assembly hav ing met, there is some reason for thinking that there now exists a basis for negotiation on the im mediate issue. The ' issue is not in Leban on, which does not pose an insoluble problem. The issue is in Jor dan. Walter Lippmann .The fact is that the kingdom of Jordan is not capable of being an independent and sovereign state, and that it cannot be maintained much longer even if the British troops remain there. The ques tion before the U. N. is how to prevent the collapse of the kingdom from producing an Arab-Isaraeli war for the par tition of the territory of Jor dan. ..... The only hope is that the U. N. itself, following along the lines indicated a few days ago by Mr. Hammarskjold, will make the territory of Jordan into a protectorate of the U. N. For Jordan cannot be a British protectorate. It cannot be absorbed into the United Arab Republic with out arousing Israel. If peace is to be preserved, Jordan must be given a new and special status. Only the U: N. itself can do that. On this crucial point, the American position . and Rus sians are within negotiating distance of Mr. Hammarsk- jold's proposals. THE essential element of an arrangements for Jordan is that its territory should be neutralized and demilitarized as between Israel on the one hand, Egypt and Syria on the other. Jordan cannot be parti tioned without a great risk of war. It should, therefore, be preserved" and be trans formed into a buffer state, as is the Gaza Strip. This requires concessions. It means that Nasser mut re nounce the notion of incor porating Jordan into his mili tary system. It means, on the other hand, that the West must renounce the idea of pre serving the kingdom under the Eisenhower doctrine as a "bastion" against Nasser and S. White r" IS good, strong medicine to the Democratic Congres sional leadership in general. The Democrats say, too, that it is little more than what Adlai E. Stevenson had urged on the Eisenhower Adminis tration long ago. Harry S. Truman, too, is said to be pleased. All these facts mean that if and when the President calls on Congress for any leg islative action he might need in this field, he will get it, and quickly. In fact, the Dem ocrats do not exclude action in a special session of Con gress this fall in the unlikely event that the President should decide on such a course. Too, the President's posi tive stand is widely r seen among the controlling Demo crats as a belated but still welcome break with the negative influence on foreign policy of the right-wing Re publicans. - The Democrats believe that such Republicans, and notably the Senate Republican leader, William F. Knowland of Cali fornia, have frightened the Administration away from imaginative steps in world affairs. They see the new Ei senhower policy as a signal that a thoroughly honorable but thoroughly inflexible veto power by right-wing Sen ate Republicans has come to an end. THUS, they think that even if the Russians or Nasser's Egypt should forbid t.he peaceful development -t5f the Middle East which we seek, the Eisenhower Doctrine of 1958 will have been far from in vain. They see it and so do some Western members of the foreign . diplomatic, commu nity here as opening ; the way to a fresh and hopeful start in the cold war. They be lieve, for example, it will do much good for us, as one puts it, "with all the Nehrus of this world." ' He means Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru of India and the vast numbers every where who have persisted in suspecting us on the. ground that we are "sterile" on the issues of pacifying the world. They think, in short, that we are at last off dead-center, assuming that' the President will strongly exploit the ini tiative he has gained. (Copyright, 1358, by United , Features Syndicate, Inc.) the Soivet Union. A United Nations protectorate over a neutralizied Jordan would not prevent the Jordanians from entering the new Arab com munity. But it would prevent them from being part of Nas. ser's military system. Some such solution as this may be possible at the meet ing in New York because it serves the vital interests of all the powers concerned. None of them can afford to stand by land let another Palestine war break out. On the other hand, none of them, not the Western powers nor Russia and Egypt, has a vital interest in Jordan as such. Jordan is not an asset but a strategic vacuum which must be filled by statesmanlike ac tion lest it be filled by violence. IN THE larger sense, the chance of a general accom modation in the Middle East rests on the fact that the vial interests of Russia on the one hand, of Britain and the Unit ed States on the other, can be satisfied without the military domination of the region. The Middle East is very im portant to all three of the great powers involved, but none of them has a vital inter est of a kind that demands exclusive military control. The oil of the Middle East can be sold only in the West. It. is not needed and it is not wanted in Russia. The West for its part cannot hope to control the oil of the Mid dle East by its military pow er. It can control it only by the use of its financial and economic bargaining power which, all things considered, is very great.. What we might hope is that in New York there will be an agreement to deal with the very real emergency in Jor dan, and, beyond this, that the great powers will find a basis for a negotiation aimed to achieve an economic and strategic accommodation in the whole of the Middle East. OF PRESIDENT Eisenhow er's address to the General Assembly, one may say, I think, that it permits an agreement about Jordan but that it does not very much promote any larger negotia tion and arrangement. Con- TQUCC (By M-T Staff and Contributors) That Russian rocket case (usually referred to, incorrect ly, as "Sputnik"), has prob ably been the principal topic of conversation in the Rogue valley the past week. Probably a majority of the residents have tried to spot it, and a lot of them were un doubtedly disappointed. It has been difficult to get pre cise information as to what the darn thing was going to do, and how long it is expect ed to be visible. The object has caused a few casualties, too. One of the girls that works in our office received a "crik" in her neck peering up to see the rocket so severely, in fact, that she made a visit to the doctor's office the next day. He was quite blase about the whole thing. - "You're my second Sputnik victim today," he told her. "The other was a man who looked up, stepped back and fell into a cellar window. He's now walking on crutches." Funny thing about the sky object when you see it, you can't quite see how any one could miss it, so bright and dramatic it is. But when you're looking for it and can't see it, you can't understand how it can be so elusive, and how everyone else can see it while you can't. The Daily Bulletin of hap penings in the sheriff's off- In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Free world reaction to Ike's Middle East proposal: Western Europe generally welcomed President Eisenhow er's peace plan as a realistic approach toward solving the problems of the troubled Mid dle East. A Paris source says it would be difficult not to admit the honesty of the speech. In Am sterdam (Holland) the speech is greeted as very construc tive. A West German spokes man says the plan is a "rea sonable beginning." RUSSIAN reaction to Ike's speech: ' The Russian press and radio sharply criticized President Eisenhower's Mideast pro gram. Radio Moscow said the President "virtually ignored the most URGENT problem withdrawal of U.S. and Brit ish troops." QUESTION: HOW ABOUT WITH DRAWAL OF RUSSIAN TROOPS FROM HUNGARY, POLAND, CZECHOSLOVAK IA, EAST GERMANY, etc? - It is an ancient proverb that what is sauce for the gpose is sauce for the gander. MODERN gadget note: A Danish inventor (name of Hellweg Friborg) claims he has invented an electronic atmosphere - taster with a great distastes for liq uor. He says the jigger will shut off an auto engine "at the slightest hint of alcohol on the driver's breath." He adds that once the shut- off system goes to work the driver can't shut it off. TTMMMMMM. . . These electronic thinga- majigs are wonderful, but there is a point at which hu man credulity balks. How can ans electronic breath-sniffer tell" the differ ence between likker on the breath of a DRIVER and lik ker on the breath of a PASS ENGER? STILL Modern progress is fabu lous. Maybe it can be done. structive work can be done in using Mr. Hammarskjold's proposal as the basis of a plan for the neutralization of Jordan, and if it can be done it would be a great blessing for aU the world. But in the larger conception of the address there is, it seems to me a fallacious as sumption namely, that the region can be stabilized by coming to terms with the Arabs, by-passing the Rus sians. Necessary as it is to work towards an accommodation with Nasser, there will be no peace in the Middle East un less there is an understanding with Russia. For the Middle East is not all Arab. There are also Tur key and Iran which, are not Arab, and they are on the southern border of the Soviet Union. As the Soviet Union can no more be excluded from the Middle East than can the United States be excluded from Central America, any position which ignores this fact will have about it an air of unreality, (c) 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc. ice. on Aug. 12. had the following notation: "Joe Cowley reports thai he is the father of a 9 lb. baby girl." Joe is lhe Mail Tri bune's farm editor, who is sometimes quoted in this space; also the "office phil osopher, junior grade" whose observations have been noted here. Joe passed the cigars around the next day, like a good fel low. But he was a little upset about the whole thing, for he took Mrs. Cowley to the hos pital in the morning, was as sured that it might be a long . arawn-out process, and then came to work, without saying "boo" to anyone about the im pending blessed event. He worked right through the morning, anxiously await ing a call summoning him to the hospital at any moment. Finally he could stand it no longer, and called to find out how things were going. He was casually informed that he was the father of a baby girl had been, in fact, for some time. No one had bothered to call him. No wonder he was sore. Anyway, it all worked out all right; mother, baby 'and father are doing fine, and the M-T news staff is as pleased as can be. v " While, generally speak ing, the opening of the one way couplet involving Main and Eighth streets went smoothly enough, there were, as was to be expected, a few creatures of habit who just plain forgot about it. One of these, we are in formed by a spy, was May or Snider, who was driving blithely eastward on Main street early one morning, and wondering what those cars were doing parked on the wrong side of the street. There's also an unconfirmed report that Police Chief Charles Champlin was an other of the forgetful trans gressors. And the secretary of health, education and welfare of a family we know was horribly' embar rassed after she'd turned out of her favorite grocery's parking lot into lhe honk ings of oncoming cars, and the shout of a small boy, "Hey Lady, that's a one way street!!" Four travel editors from various publications came through Jackson county not long ago, on an annual tour sponsored by the Pacific Northwest Travel association for publicity purposes. Before they arrived here, the local chamber of com merce was making prepara tions for their reception, and, among other things, forward ed them a "Southern Oregon Survival Kit" for them to have ready when they arrived. ; The kits contained a num ber of handy items, including a pack of Bull Durham for snake-bite, windshield wiping or smoking; a tin of a well known pain-killer for head aches caused by criks in the neck caused by watching Ore gon s magnificent scenery; a kit for repairs of scratches. nicks and dents in the hide; a thin dime as a down-payment on a telephone call home in case of emergency; a pack of Pik Pak toothpicks for after dinner use following tough steaks, and a packet of No-Doz tablets to help them stay alert for Oregon's scenic wonders. The visitors, by all ac counts, were taken, not only with the kits, but also by the magnificent southern Oregon country from whence , they came. Kiwanis club members were upset the other day when someone referred to their organization as a "lodge." Whereupon, from the back of the room, came a voice in a molasses-thick southern accent, which said, "Waaal, suh, we-uns sho nuff are a lahdge Kiwanis club." Bob Chandler, the editor of the Bend Bulletin, claims that there are many, many quiet indoor sports, but that the Big Three are dieting, quitting smoking, and going on the wagon. The biggest, by far, he says, is dieting. Participants may be divided into types, he says, such as the quiet welsher, the quitter, the compulsive cheater, the martyr, and so on. The authoritative tone of his little essay leads one to believe he has had personal experience in one or more of these sports, which in turn leads one to wonder in which type he classifies himself. Overheard in the M-T newsroom, young lady to society editor: "Do you handle engagements?" So ciety editor to young lady: "We ANNOUNCE ngags-ments." L i.- i r I ! i- ! r
