The man who wouldn't sign up

By THOMAS E. PURDOM
Chances are you'll sympathize deeply with Henry Westing, who merely wanted to go on living his own life in his own manner. But under the same circumstances, how would you go about doing it?
All his life people had been trying to get Henry Westing to sign up. They were all signing up themselves and they wanted everybody else to sign up too.
In college it had been the fraternities. Mr. Westing hadn't tried to join one.
But you've got to belong to something, they said. Everybody does.
I don't.
Sure you do. You're just being rebellious.
Perhaps.
Everybody's got to belong. Ask any psychologist.
Perhaps. I wouldn't know.
After college it had been work. He had lost three jobs in a row for the same reason.
We're sorry, Westing, but you just don't seem to fit in with the group.