TALKING TURKEY

Organization has become the god of those in charge of athletics. Fleets of trucks, card indexes, carefully trained players are all part of the machinery. And it is perfectly fitting and proper that athletes should be delicately handled. But debating is another matter, and the innovation adopted by Coach Rowe has merited a front-page notice in the Post. A training-table for the debating team has a certain piquant novelty: it is fraught with delightful possibilities for the time when the conservative orators of the present pass from Paine Hall, and the Freshmen and sub-Freshmen of today, brought up forensically under the new regime, stand in their places.

Training table represents a start in the athleticizing of the debaters. Uniforms more distinctive than Tuxedos should come next; perhaps the editors of the Lampoon would offer suggestions for delicate tones of color and graceful designs of robes. Scouts at other universities, larger and handsomer platforms, overemphasis, with squads of ambitious candidates going through their paces in every room in Sever, and English A sections changed to more debating practise: a gloomy outlook, but the unavoidable result unless the process thus initiated is checked. In the interests of already overworked sporting editors, the coaches should reconsider their decision, and call a halt before it is too late.