Show 0 elections will brin brang 9 out those cave man instincts dy by ewt analyst and commentator washington I 1 know you may find it hard to believe but I 1 was not greatly stirred up over the election campaign and its outcome I 1 have a job and its as tough under one party arty as another I 1 have no vote and between you and me fain 1 am not agitating for a civil rights bill which will get me one like oil au of the tha citizens of the district of columbia I 1 share the delight ful irresponsibility with minors idiots and criminals who dont have a vote either thus I 1 am without political affiliation obligation or prejudice well sometimes 1 I 1 do have one prejudice prejudices a race prejudice sometimes I 1 get awfully prejudiced against the human race another reason that I 1 am not politically liti cally excited this year isthan is that I 1 haye been watching the washington vaudeville show from a good baukhage Bauk hate seat ln in tho the gallery press and radio gallery most of the time tor for the past three decades and although tho the performers have changed there been to much alteration of the script A republican or adern a democratic socratic politician to a reporter smells no sweeter by any name it Is my business to report what they do and say bay and of course coune from my standpoint the more they hey do and say lay the betterley bett erlet the brickbats brick bats full fall where I 1 i they may I 1 havi have observed a good many nets on the washington scene icene that got top billin gand deserved it 1 I have also alio listened to a lot of pretty sad comedians and seen a lot of 0 hams but on the whole I 1 believe that regardless of who happens to be in the cast taking it all in all its a pretty high class drama in fact I 1 think as we compare thrash the washington program with most of those that are ire offered by the other capitals of the tha world its really the greatest show on earth however during campaign time I 1 must admit I 1 would rather be right where I 1 urn than president on any ticket now dont think 11 am objecting to our good food old knockdown knock down drag dra out method of electing presidents or any other Is I 1 not only think its a wonderful thing that wo we have this free for pil every four years but 1 I think both parties would wither on the ho vino vine if wo we in fact t I 1 think the abandonment of our method would probably bring crashing to the ground the palladium of our republic aou would id destroy our opportunity to pursue life liberty and happiness and the weekly pay envelope and would reduce these united states to such a condition that the indians indian take the property back it if we offered it to them I 1 boe this statement not upon mere guess but upon sound scientific studies of tho tha question of why we ive behave no like human beings when we do now I 1 dont know how far you killgo along with the psychiatrists who claim your athletes foot is due to a complex created when you were two years old by having your big brother drop a baseball bat on your toe nevertheless I 1 think one tiling has been established by psychiatry a truism confirmed by writers and poets of all ages and which you can confirm yourself by going over some of your own inner thoughts especially when n you think what like to do to the man who crumpled your tender fender while you were attending prayer rne meeting eting I 1 refer to the accepted truism that even the most benign and mild mannered mr milquetoast has a caveman deep within him one has only to observe ones onea 0 own wn angel child who on his way home bome from sunday school and in cooperation with the angel children ot of ones neighbors wu tie a can to lo a dogs tall tail or engage in pi a dozen other humane activities that would give a vill visiting ting cannibal from the seas something to write borne bome about I 1 wedo we DO have a caveman within us we DO have primitive ageros 0 give ive instincts we wa have the instinct t to give pain to destroy to te taka advantage vantage od of our fellow man the early period ot of our lives is sp spent sventin entin in being taught taugh tto to turn these instincts to good purpose the psychologists call it sublimating thera them the sadistic inclination of a medical student can be transmuted under go the influence of civilized society to make maka him the finest surgeon the desire to plunder and rob and destroy common to even the most moat angello tittle little ones one s can call be channeled into we the in ingenuity by which the engineer moves mountains and captains of industry push railways through the lorest forest and thus benefit in stead of harm mankind do you suppose osil we could put on that greatest of all exhibitions a world series game it if it for the old caveman cave man I 1 have heard it said that baseball has become the monarch of sports because it brings into play so 00 many ol of the primitive emotions first wo we have pursuit without which primitive man could not get the food necessary to sustain himself and his family or even a wife to raise the family then another primitive pastime used in baseball pity the poor caveman cave man who accurately heave a rocki it only requires plenty of p practice in a summer camp plus nl what at was learned in the sandlot to turn that thai basic deslie desila into the tha ability abille to pitch a no bit norun game take one more example As the caveman cave man progressed he learned to use a club so there it la ja base runner pitcher batsman primitive urges basic in democracy justian just as the tha sublimation of primitive instinct has formed the great port of tha greatest democracy in the tha arld world so the sublimation mation ot 0 some oma of these instincts behind ani an dent clent tribal customs has made out our democracy itself possible in a successful democracy instincts are not repressed they are merely modified so BO that they fit into a human and humane society As you know by tho the time maxi man had reached tho the point where he ha had organized himself into a clari clan etwas it was the papa who ran things lie ile was the chief because he had the one quality most essential in those days for sell self and group pro ills his term of office was not II 11 limited m by statute some of the ch chiefs I 1 eai even ran for a fourth term but as the papa grow older ihnot it not wiser he be also grew weaker but his sons were growing stronger finally rIn alIj they foli felt it was time to hold an election they had had their primaries of course and had bad picked a candidate then tho the campaign began it was usually quite short but very snappy both candidates were armed with good sized eked clubs the debate took place at some soma point where the non vot ing but interested electorate this was before suffrage could watch with as little personal danger as possible ur of course in cesi man finally won inauguration ceremonies took place immediately attended by all ottlie of the tribe except a couple who were delegated dele fated to bury the defeated candidate then the younger brothers and the temples settled down to maintain peace prosperity and the pursuit of happiness let me ma quote one or two paragraphs from the work ot that very fascinating book by dr gregory mind medicine and man it Is difficult to find any function ot of our democratic society which surpasses creven or even approximates an electoral campaign in blatancy ot of aggression acrimony anger hate slander venality appear everything except actual homicide tho the proverbial ud lid Is literally oh the reservoir of patricidal drives and society hurls itself on its symbolic victim with all the energy ot of a primitive cannibal it is primitive cannibalism whether it expresses itself in campaign slander whispering campaigns political maneuvering or flattery ot of the indolent who do not care A father la is to be killed by way ot of democratic ceremonial and a new one ona will at once be set up by way of the same ceremonial 1 I 1 in other words we had a healthy fight la in november and got it out of our systems tho the caveman cave man within us was satisfied weve got cot ourselves a president ident anil and nobody has committed murder and there in we have an advantage not shared by some other countries for here even between elections we allow the tha caveman cave cava man to roar in the press over the radio and from the tha rostrum he ha can brandish his verbal club and hurl his barbed epithets in the tha very face ot of the tha president the congress and the town meeting and thereby likewise wo we prove our strength a strength which derives not from the atomic bomb but from a power that can and does penetrate peace peacefully even through an iron curtain |