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' r Thus filiation i i t n i i A nalyst and - t ' I ' who are Om ef don't have a am without political !-obligation or prejudice Well — sometimes one 1 do have prejudice— a race Some prejudice times I get awful World Series game—if it weren’t for the old caveman? have heard It said that baseball has become the monarch of sports because It brings Into play so many of the primitive emotions ly prejudiced First we have pursuit without against the human which primitive man could not get race food necessary to sustain himthe Another reason am not po- self and his family (or even a wife that to raise the family) litically excited Then—another primitive pastime this year Is that used In baseball— pity the poor have been watchwho couldn’t accurately the Washinging ton vaudeville heave a rockl Xt only requires show from a good plenty of practice in a summer seat In the gallery camp plus what was learned In the press and radio sandlot to turn that baslo desire nomost the time for the Into the ability to pitch a of gallery— past three decades and although run game Take one more example As the the performers have changed there hasn’t' been to much alteration of progressed he learned to use a club So there it Is— base the script A Republican or a Demrunner pitcher batsman ocratic politician to a reporter smells no sweeter by any name It Is my business to report what they de and any and of course from my standpoint ' the more they de and say the better— let the - brickbats fall where they may ' have observed a good many acts on the Washington scene that got top hilling— and deserved it have also listened to a lot of pretty sad comedians and seen a lot of hams But on the whole X believe that regardless of who happens to be in the cast taking It all In all it’s a pretty high class drama In fact X think as we compare the Washington program with most of those that are offered by the other capitals of the world It's really the greatest show on earth However during campaign time X must admit I would rather be Resident right (where am) than I On any ticket’ ' New don’t think I am object-- ' ing’te our good eld drag-eu- t method at electing Presidents or any ether officials I' not only think It’s a wonderful 4 thing that we have this every four years but I i think both parties would wither ea the vine If we didn’t In fact think the abandonment of our method would probably bring crashing to the ground the palladium of our republic' would destroy our opportunity to pursue life liberty and happiness— and the weekly pay envelope— and would reduce these United States to such the Indians a condition that wouldn’t take the property back If we offered it to them base this statement not upon mere guess but upon sound scientific studies of the question of why we behave like human beings (when we do) Now don’t know how tar you will go along with the psychiatrists who claim your athlete's foot Is due to a complex created when you were two years old by having your big brother drop a baseball bat on think one our toe Nevertheless thing has ttbeen 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 when you Especially thoughts think what you'd like to do to the man who crumpled your fender while you were attending prayer 4 — meeting I refer te the accepted trains that evea the meet benlga and m klr Milquetoast bae a caveman deep within him One has only to observe one’s who on bis way cam home from Sunday School and in cooperation with the of one’s neighbors will tie a can to a dog’s tall or engage In a dozen activities that other "humane1 would give a visiting cannibal from the South Seas something to write home about t We XX have a caveman within us we DO have primitive aggressive Instincts We have the instinct to give pain to destroy to take The advantage of our early period of our lives is spent In being taught to turn these instincts to good purpose The psychologists them The call It "eubllmatlug" sadlstle inclination of a medical student can be transmuted under the Influence of civilized society to make him the finest surgeon The desire te plunder end rob and destroy eotnmoa le ere the (nest angelio tittle anea can he channeled Inte the ingenuity by whUh the engineer mere tnsoatslna and captains ef Industry pash railways teraagb the foreat and Urns benefit in-stead of barm mankind J t ul Commentator ful Irresponsibility with minora Idiots and criminals vote either h i By BAUKI1AGE WASHINGTON— I know vou may find it hard to believe but I was not greatly stirred up over the election campaign and its outcome I have a job and it’s as tough under one party as another I have no vote and between you and me 1 am not agitating for a civil rights bill which will get me one like all of the citizen! of the District of Columbia I share the delight- ' i s News Russ Reject U Berlin Proposal Stalin Hits Three Western Powers As Attempting to Start a Hew War By Bill Schoentgen WNU Staff WriterlEDrrOH’S NOTZ Wfcaa aplalaae ara mnanl la Umm aalaiaa tbey “ act ituiurUr aaalxiM WMltti NiwitM" llxin'i 0 t0 w could put OQ JOU tuppoa great t of all exhibitions— a Primltiv Urgtt Basic In Democracy Just as the sublimation of primi- tive instinct has formed the greet sport of the greatest democracy la the world— eo the sublimation of some id these Instincts behind an dent tribal Customs has mads our democracy Itself possible In a successful democracy instincts are not represeed They are merely modified' ee that they fit Inte a humaa and humane eoolety As you know by the time man had reached the point where he had organized himself Into a clan It was the "paps’' who ran things He was the chief because he had the one quality moat essential In thoss days for self and group His term of office was not limited by statute Sonfe of the chiefs even ran for a fourth term But as the "pepaH grew older— If not wiser— he also grew weaker But his sons were growing stronger Finally they felt It was time to hold an election (They had bad their of course and had primaries picked a candidate)' Then the campaign began Xt was usually quit short— but very snappy Both d candidates wers armed with clubs The debate took place at torn point whera the lng but Interested electorate (this was before women’s suffrage) could watch with'as little peraonal danger as possible Of course the best maa finally won Inauguratloa ceremonies took place immediately attended by all of the tribe except a couple who were delegated te bnry the defeated candidate Thea the younger brothers and the females settled t dowa te maintain peace j prosperity and the pursuit el happiness Let ms quote one or two paragraphs from the work of that very fascinating hook by Dr Gregory Zilboorg — "Mind Medicine end Man" "It Is difficult to find any function of our democratic society which surpasses or even approximates an electoral campaign in Intensity and blatancy of aggression Acrimony anger hate Blander venality appear — everything except actual homicide The proverbial Ud Is literally off the reservoir of patricidal drives and society hurls itself on Its symbolic victim with all the an ergy of a primitive cannibal Xt Is primitive cannibalism whether It expresses Itself In campaign Blander whispering campaigns political maneuvering or Battery of the Indolent who do not care A father is to be killed by way of democratic ceremonial and a new one will at once he set up by way of the seme ceremonial" la ether wards we had a healthy fight la November and get It out of ear systems The was eatie- wlthla Bed We’ve got ounelvee a President aad nobody has committed murder And there in we have ea advantage not shared by some other countries For here even between aucto tions we allow the roar unmuzzled in the press over the radio end from the rostrum He can brandish his verbal club and hurl his barbed epithets In the very face of the President the congress end the town meeting And thereby likewise we prove our strength a strength which derives not from the atomic bomb but from e power that can and does penetrate peacefully even through an iron curtain u married man Is a better adapter than a single man says the American Machinist He probably has learned that It la adapt or increase Fldo's housing problem A French troops In battle array march DIFFERENT COAL STRIKE Into the VUliers mine in the St Etienne area of France as the government eelsed d eeaJ mines throughout northern France Vicious rioting and assorted civil battles preceded the government! ‘ action la taking ever the mines REJECTION: U N Proposal Russia wouldn’t play ball with the United Nations on the settlement of the Berlin dispute A " reso- lution for solving the crisis was presented te the U N security council and promptly batted down by the Soviets— to the surprise of no one concerned THE RESOLUTION proposed that Russia lift the Berlin blockade immediately that the four military governors of Germany begin immediate negotiations to implement the Moscow agreement of August 80 for a controlled mark in Berlin by November 80 and that a foreign ministers’ council be convened within 10 days thereafter to take up other serious differences over Germany Russia’s stated objection to the resolution was that it provided for the lifting of the blockade before the currency control went into lifted tee Soviet blockade and ended the crisia BE CHARGED teat tee western powers fear "most of all’’ to retch any agreement with tee Soviet Union "Whet they went is not agreement end cooperation but talk and cooperaabout agreement tion so as to put the blame on the U S S R by preventing agreement and to ‘prove’ that cooperation is impossible" Stalin's statement obviously was Issued as a propaganda stroke— a move tee Russians undoubtedly hoped would tip tee Berlin scales in their favor J effect Previously the western powers had turned down Andrei counter proposal for simultaneous lifting of the blockade and putting Into effect the currency IN Mrs Walter 'YORK Pa agreement anSechrist made a IN REALITY this point of difnouncement teat her gas range ference upon which the latest transmissions wave short up picks deadlock centered was a minor r mads by her neighbor an one but it served to Illustrate the amateur radio operator vowed it vest gap that must be closed behad broadcast a conversation before a meeting of minds between tween tee neighbor end another opthe East and West can bs achieved erator in South America MOREOVER it has become In- IN SALEM Mass Robert C creasingly dear that Moscow does Carter claimed in a divorce suit not even have any desire to lift teat bi wife had deserted him the blockade It is for them too block from the church Just two good a weapon with which to at- minutes after they were marriec tempt to bludgeon the U S end in 1944 ' V ' fc ? the West into granting teem fur- IN HAGERSTOWN Mo Thieves ther concessions in Germany in- broke into tee Potomac Edison cluding e voice in tee operation building got sway with a specially of tee Ruhr industrial equipped camera set up to take area pictures of thieves breaking" into tee Potomac Edison building STALIN TALKS: IN LITTLE BRICKHILL Eng Postmaster N C Parrott looket IIorrors down bia note at the man with tee In whet Is probably tea most gun trying te rob him of his posta amazing outburst he has made receipt! sneered "The revolver is since the war Soviet Premier not loaded you know" "Sorry Josef Stalin told tee world teat the said the crushed desperado slink U‘ S Greet Britain and France ing sway I rs are seeking a new war through a IN DURAND' ' WlS Frank "policy of aggression" Weimlrski was forced to reassure The accusation despite the high his customers as to the feet the level of its source amounted to he still was In tos popcorn and sof nothing more then a repetition of drink business after he began makthe already stereotyped Russian ing deliveries with an old hearse practice of attempting to turn an BLUFFING: opponent's reasoning back on him HOWEVER be added the "pubIn Berlin lic forces favoring peace" ere too Gen H H Arnold wartime strong to permit "the instigstere of of the U S air a new war” to plunge tee world forces turned up in tee news with conof the "horrors" Into again e military man’s hearty opinion flict Stalin named Winston Churchill about what to do with tee Rusftani In Berlin as "the main Instigator of a new "WHY NOT take a motor convoy war" and predicted teat Church-Cl'- s and push it through tee corridor "pupils of aggression" would Berlin?" he suggested "Perhaps as j be rejected by the people Just we might have learned somethin Churchill has been from Gen George Patton’s technot Presilabel did Although he If Patton were running tee dent Truman or any other leader nique show he' would take it through” tee as a "pupil in aggression" Russia be claimed is attemptI to be implication was too 'dear ing a tremendous bluff against tee j mistaken particularly since tee U S and tee western allies bu Moscow radio had broadcast a preIs "not ready to fight doesn’t want diction that Mr Truman would be to fight and won’t fight" 12 some-odefeated on November 8 should call hei' bluff STALIN accused the U 8 and WHAT would the Rmsiane do Britain of twice rejecting an armed convoy did plow through of the Berlin crisU with the blockade? "Not much if anyRussia and said that debate on thing" wee Arnold's laconic estithe Berlin question in the U N mate security council "was a display of "It would be a grave and basic aggression on the part of error to kt the Communists bluff " and French ruling us out In the present deadlock' tn ' £ f Germany " ney are not ready to fight and The British end Americans the declared they do not want to fight We should said Soviet premier "null and void” an agreement curb the national tendency to be la ewe reached in tee Kremlin conferof tee Russians an awe ences August 80 teat would have amounting almost to fear "TIME plays with tee Russians but a a We have the superior power now They may have It liter Meantime it would be folly to let them bridge old fashioned ere Toothaches That la the opinion of Dr John C the gap by bluff elone" Whether be was right or wrong Brauer of the University of WashHap Arnold st least bad don the ington school of dentistry a leading authority on children’s den- worrying U 5 public on favor: By reducing the problem to hard tistry and card of the teeth Dr Brauer said few children simple term of pur action and would experience dental pain durdivorcing It from the Intricet ing their Uvea if they practiced realm of diplomacy be mad it apless preventive measures now known pear more understandable to dental science Mft older peo- overwhelming and lest frightenple ere doomed because of their ing General Arnold at least lu't ' ast habits t i expecting a wer tomorrow vi 77 Growth ol Bai TREATY: On the Way? In view of the existing physical and Ideological rift which has divided the world into two opposing it has come to seem battalion almost inevitable that the western loc sooner or liter would devis soms kind' of' formal military treaty for the mutual protection of the nations concerned AND A few days before the election word began to creep out from among "high American sources" that a military treaty was on the way The report was teat drafting was scheduled to begin soon of an agreement pledging full aid to the Brussels' alliance of western Europe Results of tee U S election were in no way supposed to effect the plan since both' major parties had committed themselves In principle tq becking tee Brussels alliance AN alliance SUCH supposedly win link tee United States end Canada in formal treaty relationBelships with Britain France gium Holland and Luxembourg standFrom a point this will not be a new move It is highly probable indeed teat tee broad outlines of a north Atlantic pact — with soma details sketched in— hai beep in existence tor some time The alliance Is expected to commit tee U S end Canada to: L BUILD up air land and sea forces of the Brussels powers 8 STANDARDIZE equipment end training uni8 CREATE a fied military strategic command under an American commander-in-chle- t FLEDGE a guarantee of each nation’s territorial integrity in case of war 5 GIVE tea North American powers the right to establish air land or sea bases in any of te five other countries U S officials expect test the treaty will be ready tor ratification by the middle of 1949 barring How conextraordinary events gress will react to such a treaty is for tee time being e debatable question 4 When n l‘bi a biJl teeth are although ther2t-begito come tween the sixth SjS Tbi Intelligentsia : Will Cottier's posthumous volume "The Old Beauty" is getting high bids from thq film firms Despite the fact that her will specifically instructed teat non of her works was ever to be screened She was too disheartened by the Hollywood treatment of her masterpiece y Cleveland "A lady "The Proper Boss tonians" wlBbe a musical J Styn The inspiration tor adapting "Love Life" the musical hit is said to have come from "Modern Women —The Lost Sex" s tome by Ferdinand Lundberg end Marynla Farn-haEzra Goodman has mag on H’wood historian S smarticl Skolsky Its title "Smell Wonder" Dino Yannapoulos is in stags director of the Mexico giving tee opera there a Drew Pearson gets New Look an honorary degree at William John Jewell College this week Roy Carlson author of "Under Cover” and "The Plotters” her another tizzler due toon e Moscow Mole: Walter tee UP mao In Moscow for two years told tele one te Illustrate the Russian Routine When last year's minors reached Moscow teat a Swedish medico had flown to the Kremlin (te attend Stalin) tee reporter phoned tee Ruslan ‘press bureau to check tt "'Is It tree Mr Stalin Is sick?" he Inquired Long pause "I knew It Isn’t true" said tee reporter "bat can’t yen deny It?" "No" waa the Retort Remarkable 'It Is net possible for ns te deny it becaue It Is not trie!" u T J t Conspicuous First' r hlon About Town : -X Y Cx One ef th minor ahkhghis the late great elect! oe was provided by Mrs Fannie tef Dahbnry Oim' Eh turned 1S4 year eld ea October 83 aad celebrated this lx chronological i attainment November 2 by day later coating a vote for th first’ time tn her life t h RED PRICES: Going Up America doesn’t have a capitalistic monopoly on inflation Russia Is getting ber share of that uncomfortable condition too Here’s what happened in Russia tn August: Postal and telegraph rate wer boosted 83)4 per cent Train fare and long distance phone cell rate went up in varyIn Moscow ing amounts eubway fares Jumped 23 per cent end streetcar fares from 60 to 130 pet Cent btX baby teeth birth Th hKV MdunTia”mo‘k‘Z“ o strong healthy teeth You can f part of your by simplifying your ga?' probably a fact that tout friend p pe smoking You I lease these friends several cartons of Camels and pound bn? - Ctogffi £i J nSi dealer Both these popl come day dress No other :ing is necessary Twi space for your personal Save time and energy thur mas season by giving Camels and mellow Prfc&l Smoking Tobacco (AdvJ gl W bees type 0 lelectif J mrt 1 Jtengal WASHINGTON TICKER: May eonvkUi with the Ger torn for crooked war contracts bat those inexpensive Umcbet in the new Home Office Bldg- cafeteria ? SHIPBUILDING: Signs there say "Only for Congressmen and Gov’t Employees" Navy Expands Mmsolin?s asttobieg always refers to In tee Insteed of Howl hinuelf at He Increasing importance o G - Argentina Ambassador minds of U S defense chiefs of mid Terry Hatfield (ef the underwater end air warfare Infend clam) are Doing the cluding consideration of possible Toum CBS man Larry Paris attacks across tbs Arctic was reat the United Nations reported: statement outlining vealed in looks isbinsky very weary Se tee navy's shipbuilding weary be didn’t once pick a fight with Welter WmcbeU" program Larry Vic Adm Earle M Mills chief they always look weary after picking a fight with That Mam of the bureau of ships listed tbs development of advanced protoPrivate deteetivea ere seeking types in four major fields as tee aim of tee building end conversion photogger who snapped pix of some ' Park Avenuers as they were led out plan: ' ' 7 "FIRST' aircraft carriers cap- of a sin den (vis tee backdoor in a able of handling the fast heavy private Greenwich Village bistro e of course Is blackmail navel planes developed The and under development since te - Peggy Maley back from being shown London by nobleman Milford war second submarines ' third' Haven (of the Buckingham Palace vessels to combat Set) has a hunk of fur that dangles tees fourth submarines Jean McCormick ships down to here equipped for - Polar and picket and Doris Lilly are two others just back which makes it Glrltown service U The credit for the New Battleships were not mentioned again in tee statement nor was there any Look went to a Parialen but frock makers will tell you it was created direct reference to preparations against air attack over the roof of by Ceil Chapman a New Yorker Forbidden by law absinthe was tee globe- but te program’s emphasis on polar ships was could th refreshment that caused severs ered glamour girls to fling their clothes out the windows st s midtown party IN THIS phase of te program Good Housekeeping it suing Libtwp destroyer escorts and two submarines will b 'specially' fitted for erty (the first of its kind) lor runaircraft detection ' One ning Condensation of Marion Hargrove'S new book cargo ship and two floating tor landing ships will be contor service in polar waters verted Overseas Cable: Lana TurThe aircraft carrier part cf tee ner's former greens Steve Crane and a Hungarian count program includes dhe construction to begin late 'tela year fir’ early f’es are making pared gayer tn 1949 of the supero The British Laber Party recarrier of 83000 tons designated mains definitely f anti" te tee as te Duke ef Windsor'' It criU- else his South ef France Palm Beach and etheT Idxnry Jaunts "while England fives 09 Its Iren An American Emt rationsV bassy attach has London bate-- ' X f lng ever his attentions te Con- chlta Cintron tbe famed femme Laura Haggerty bullfighter (ef tee rich construction family) le la Switicrland "fes n year” The dented heart ah left la New V York belongs te Union News exec v "'V the baby was bom Xth ealth of the babv’J Sin growing fivJ M before birth t Corinn Calvey the French movie octrees and J Bromfleld (the novel ist’a newiew) will make it a Marry Christmas Winston Churchill’s newiew Giles Romilly win with' Prince Fleming cousin to tee King of Denmark gives up his royal pre rogatlvea when he weds commoner Ruth Nielsen "Superman” ere ator Jerry Siegel and model Joanne Carter bad It Sealed tn Cleveland Tii Herald Tribune’s Alice becomes Mrs Gerald Parker of the insurance clan "Summer and Smok’’ leading man Tod Andrews and bis wife have reconciled Thet lovely filly in red nylons is Franca Nardi who peter la an Italian generaL McLoud Woody (exec at Stern’) we married th other night to th former wife of a Grumman Aircraft prexy Mery McCarty wjo crashed th Broadway heavens via "Smell Wonder” bad her salary doubled They insiat many of Wallace! better epeechre er ghoet-eby N Mailer author of "Th Naked and th Dead" Mr Hugh (Woo wool) Herbert wd take th Ranoath et Dalles her bom burg M7 L who low To Rcli lost b xritten Bronchi! lithe te land i the Cieomulsioo relieves prompdw it goes right to the seat ofil I help loosen and expel W phlegm and aid nature tone heal raw tender inflamrip mucous membranes Tell sell you a bottle of Cm with the understanding yo the wsy it quickly allays or you ere to have your md I h ij CREOIVIULS! f for Coughs Chest " Colds!!- MASON IT OUT AND PRIFil £ REMEDY NATURES (Ml LETS— A purely vegetabltle relieve constipation withoa griping sickening done end does not cauuif NR— roe will see the dia coated or candy coau is dependable thorough Kf of NR’a havt million 25c bos aad use u directed jjjnmih f fUTO’NIGHTT: FUSSY STOMACH? 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