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Show Wolves May Teach Man To Curb Aggression By CAROL COLLIER was done without inflicting injury, which is an important aspect of wolves ability to control aggression among themselves. The day after the male established dominance, a new aspect of behavior emerged. Gestures of submission and aggression continued, but the wolves now acted as a group. A pack had formed. But it was more complicated than a simple leader - follower relationship. All were submissive to the older male, but the pups also were submissive to the older female and there was a refinement of rank among themselves. Fox, who also is associate director of Zoo, has been conducting extensive studies on wolf behavior in an effort to learn more about people. ,, He says an important aspect of wolves behavior is their ability to control aggression among themselves. They have a biologically inherited ritual for this, which has been developed through social interactions just as smiling has been in man, Fox points out. the St. Louis his biological evolution. Man hasnt developed sufficient ritual for sustained social interaction, especially at the international level, according to Dr. Fox. In the Middle Ages, man did have cultural rituals or controls in relation to his society. He cites dueling with its intricate rules as one bygone safety valve for aggression. Wars were ritualized at one time, but in this age of war in push-butto- n Can't Get Rid Of Sciatica 11 F.A. Answer: Sciatica is a pretty generfor pain in the leg. Like intestinal flu eczema, lumbago, attd some others, the name of the complaint doesnt give any exact description of what is afflicting you. v The point I want to make is that a number of quite different t considerable , conditions can cause any of these complaints. ' "t wish this werent so. I wish I could offer some specific means of helping 'patients suffering from such ailments. But lets face facts: the Important part of getting over them is in finding out what the real cause is. Merely attaching ; sqme sort of A name to the illness doesnt really do a particle of good. True sciatica is pain spreading along the sciatic nerve, with the pain in the back of the leg. Thus I wonder" about Mrs. F. A.s trouble, with the pain extending down to the toes. Perhaps her trouble isnt really sciatica, but not that that makes something else her feel any less pain. " She makes ho mention of having seen her doctor; but when such trouble goes ,, pn and on,- theres not much point in to doctor it yourself. For, Until ditrying agnosis has given some clue to where the "trouble is originating, how can you know what to do for it? If it really is sciatica, there still are several causes possible, ranging from bony defects in the lower spine to toxic factors which affect the nerves. Gout is just one example. Mrs. F. A. says there is nothing it wrong with her back. Well. Id still be suspicious of the back,' even if there is no pain there. Arthritic changes can put pressure on a nerve at the point at which it extends out from the spinal column. . Curiously, the pain quite often does not occur ai that point. Rather, it is felt farther along that nerve. al term -- Or bony changes in the hip joint can cause pain in the leg. '.'.'In such a case, one of the starting of points in diagnosis very often is r the lower back and hip. ' y Incidentally, the intolerance of heat may indicate a disorder in the spinal cord itself. Until the true cause of the pain is de- termined, it is very difficult to answer Mrs. F. A.s other questions. Whether she should stay off her feet depends on the nature of the ailment. Some degree of activity, one way or another, should be taken despite pain to keep the joints from stiffening. Medications, meantime, can be given to control, if not entirely prevent, the pain, but I repeat, the important step is to pin down the actual cause of the trouble. Otherwise the pain may well be expected to continue, and perhaps even make ultimate correction far more diffi-; Cult. ' Dear Sir: Can cancer of the stomach Mrs. and colon be detected by S.II. ' Answer: Many cases are detected that .way, but not necessarily in very early stages. . a wolf pack, bloodshed is avoided and social stability maintained through a ritual which sees the subordinate wolf twist its head upward in a gesture of surrender to the leader. which the enemy is hardly seen, communication and ritual break down, Dr. Fox points out. Fox recently served as science adviser for a project in which sLx wolves were introduced to each other for the first time when they were released into a four-acr- e The enclosure. six animals, pups, including a four female, and a male, immediately acted out a ritual of aggression. They organized their own rank and file in a more orderly fashion than is often seen in human social activity. Whining obsethe female and the pups quiously, crawled toward the male on their bellies, with ears flattened and tails lowered, avoiding eye contact and sometimes raising their paws. soon began to act in a way befitting his higher status. He held his head and body high, with erect tail and ears. Raised hackles emphasized his stately posture. He formed his mouth in a puckered expression, quite different from the other wolves whose lips were drawn tightly back. The latter often tried to lick The male made no initial effort to establish his dominance. He was even slightly defensive when first approached by the others. Their submissive behavior, however, evoked a change in him, and he notes. As his assurance developed, the domi- - half-close- their leaders face. ' The wolves realized they needed a leader and seemed to elect one, Dr. Fox New Board On Shaky Course By LAVOR K. CHAFFIN Deseret News Education Editor YOUR SCHOOLS Its Dear Dr. Thosteson: I have had sciatica for five weeks and cant get rid of it. The leg does not seem to tolerate heat. Is it best to stay off the feet? I have nothing wrong with my back. It starts at the Mrs. ,bip and goes down to the toes. i In course. 'By GEORGE C. THOSTESON, M.D. You Hate A Calliope? By HARRY JONES are getThey meaning the police Just as man has stereotyped gestures, ting all steamed up iri Jackson, Wyo., such as smiling or frowning, by which he about a Utah-buicalliope. You know, conveys a message, the wolf also uses one of those big visual signals. The dominant male, for Steamer Stanley example, exhibits aggression by staring pianos. into the averted eyes of subordinates. In fact, they Dr. Fox says use and recognition of meaning the Jack-sopolice again appeasement and submissive gestures hare arrested one prevents actual fighting and severe injuof our pretty ry among wolves. In this way, social staUtahns just for bility is maintained. a 4th of playing There are close parallels, Dr. Fox July concert on points out, between the social organizathe tuneful boiler. tion of the wolf pack and that of primiJoLane Laycock, a tive human tribes. Both have a domiand musical nance order, a recognized leader and pretty got the citation. various rituals. If you saw the Days of 47 parade last It is not inconceivable that in human year, or the musical Carnival at Val societies the clan or tribal leader at one ley Music Hall, you probably saw this time established his supremacy by dissame calliope. plays of dominance, not unlike the domiIt was built by Ray Millard, formerly nant wolf pinning the subordinates to the of Ogden and now living in Clearfield. Fox Dr. ground, says. Hes a mechanical marvel who switched Most of our social organization from building racing cars and airplanes the office, the factory are based on a to building the calliope. He used old wolf-lik- e hierarchy, he continues. But plumbing and parts from all kinds of because man is basically individualistic, appliances to build it. he must withdraw from this hierarchy. Dr. Glenn Winn, a graduate of the Then the truly communal organization of medical school up on the hill, but now the wolf breaks down. living in North Hollywood, bought an old theater in Jackson. He did some remodeling and renovating . . . called it DiaMERRY-GO-ROUN- D mond Lils. It features the melodrama. That was four months ago. And it has n The ship of higher education governance in Utah still is not on a steady Pains in Leg How Could lt YOUR. HEALTH " miiHiit 5 Friday, July 11, 1969 nant wolf began to act aggressively by seizing the muzzle of each of the younger wolves and pinning it to the ground. This When it comes to ST. LOUIS, MO. men and living together peacefully, women could learn a lot from wolves, according to Dr. Michael W. Fox, a at Washington University here. In spite of programs to annihilate this animal, Dr. Fox says, the wolf still survives: a species that has evolved and attained a degree of social stability befrom which we have much to learn fore wTe annihilate ourselves. Man also has rituals, but they are not all genetically inherited. Some are culturally acquired. However, mans rituals may mimic the inherited rituals of animals. For example, a man shaking his fist or brandishing a sword can be compared to a fiddler crab waving its claws. Dr. Fox thinks that at one time man controlled his aggression just as the wolf. He feels the problem of human aggression has mushroomed because mans technological evolution has outstripped DESERET NEWS, not only waiting the wind and weather and sailing orders, it even lacks a captain. Its tied up in port with a care-- , taker crew. More than that: like a mother whaling ship, it has a whole complement of auxiliary craft already at sea under uncertain higher education to control the seven one board. schools wanted just that Those who favored a strengthened council wanted to retain the individual boards, such as the University of Utah Regents and the Utah State University Trustees. The legislature tried to satisfy both groups. It created a single board, but it also provided for individual boards to be called institutional councils. Clearly, it did not settle the issue. The single board bill enumerates a long list of pcwers which may be delegated to the presidents of each institution and the Institutional councils unless the board shall reserve to itself such action. This is the key clause in the bill. If the State Board of Higher Education, as the new central board is called, should decide to delegate all the powers listed , on a permanent or near permanent basis, the state would be right back where It started. It would have the same system of institutional boards (except it would have seven instead of five) and would have a central board (the old Coordinating Council idea) trying to hold the schools together In a system. ' Although the Legislature may have thought it settled the matter, the real de assign- The 1969 Utah Legislature created a new governance system for the states seven collegiate institutions the University of Utah, Utah State University, Weber State College, Southern Utah State College, College of Eastern Utah, Snow College and Dixie College. Like most legislative actions, SB10, the bill creating the new system, is a compromise.. Its somewhere between a super board" and a strengthened coor-dinati- council." Those who wanted a single board of gle board or by institutional boards has yet to be made. It will be made only after the State Board of Higher Education chooses a Commissioner of Higher Education (the search for this key person has not been well publicized) and he and the board together determine just how much power shall be delegated to the institutional councils. No Utah education agency ever faced a more crucial task or a more critical period than does this board (well henceforth call it the state college board to avoid confusion with the State Board of Nixon On Banking Bill By DREW PEARSON and JACK ANDERSON WASHINGTON A group of lobbyists representing the biggest banks in the country sat in the House Banking and as Chairman Currency Committee Wright Patman of Texarkana, Tex., g bills. marked up the new Education, which well call the state The lobbyists included Jack Yingling school board"). of the First National City Bank of New The college board is comprised of perYork; John Holton of the American sons of exceptional ability and stature. Bankers Association; Matt Hale of the Their performance in the critical weeks ABA; Don Rogers of the Association of ahead, both in the choice of a commisRegistered Bank Holding Companies; sioner and policy direction they estaband Robert Oliver of Sperry and Hutchinlish, will set the course of higher educason, Inc., the S and H green stamp comtion for decades. pany, together with three executives of the Wachovia Bank and Trust Company, This column believes that the college board must reserve for itself the policy biggest bank in North Carolina. The lobbyists Watched every Vote that making powers and delegate td the institutional councils ciily ministerial funo' was taken on every Item in the bank hill. And When the committee Was finished, tions. they were able to telephone their banking of If it falls to do so, Utahs ship higher education will wander the same old bossies back home that they had scored an amazing victory. Every Republican ways with the same uncertain power. It deserted will chart no new courses discover no Congressman on the committee the Nixon Administration to give the exciting shores and return ho profit to its bankers exactly what they wanted designers who so hopefully set it afloat Five Democrats also deserted their chairman, Rep. Patman, to vote with the bankers. Significantly, half of the Congressmen who deserted Nixon and Patman to line up with the bankers were either stockholders or directors in banks themselves. At issue was the question of whether vor; not, in Heavens name, to become MUSICAL WHIRL banks can go into business in competition more musical pictures, but as inhabiown customers. This is a real tants of a positive, practical world, such with their to banks which have set up advantage as we see in every chapter of the Old tlon. But I would like the representation enterprises such as departTestament. ment stores, insurance agencies, furniItself to be as spirited as possible. ture and carpet factories, TV and radio The oratorio, "Elijah, Las two secJust how spirited Mendelssohn's stations, trading stamps and even pizza tions. Elijah really Is, oratorio buffs can parlors. The first describes how the prophet Under this system which Patman and hear when the Salt Lake Oratorio Society brings on a drought in Israel to punish the Treasury Department sought to chorus, a presents its people fob deserting God for Baal. After change, a bank can lend money at lower orchestra, and soloists in its second anperforming the miracle of raising a interest rates to its own department imal performance Sunday (13). widows son from the dead, Elijah chalstore or pizza parlor, as against a higher John Marlowe Nielsen, choral director lenges the prophets of Baal to a contest interest rate to a competitor. Or it can to determine who the true God is. Elijah of the Salt Lake Oratorio Society, will require a borrower to go down the street conduct the performance in the Temple emerges victorious in this test and thus and do business with a subsidiary owned View Amphitheater at 8:30 p.m. brings about doom to the false prophets. by the bank. What Rep. Patman and the Nixon AdIn the second part, Elijah is hounded OratoThe concert by the rio Society is free to the public, and no by enemies out to destroy him. But ministration sought to plug was a loopMulti-Ban- k Holding Comtickets are required. Dr. Howard T. An-- d under the protection of the Lord, he hole in the 1956 banks to which Act single in the end is pany permits e r s 0 n, production manager, has triumphs over them, and announced that the gates will open at carried aloft to heaven in a flaming own commercial enterprises. For a good many years only small country banks chariot. 7:45 p.m. took advantage of this. But 18 months soSoloists will be Cohlene Bischoff, Sounds of Young America The ago the big banks spotted this loophole prano; Glade Peterson, tenor; and Don wont radiate from the new Salt Palace in and there has been a stampede to take Watts, baritone. July. Difficulties in securing outstanding advantage of it. In another communication to Pastor musical and acting talent for the three-da- y Among the foremost of these has been the First National City Bank of New Schubring, Mendelssohn reaffirmed his Sounds and forced presentation wish to make the oratorio as dramatic as Salt Palace officials to agree to cancel York, whose lobbyist, Jack Yingling, possible: the 1969 presentation. The officials of watched the House Banking and CurrenSounds of Young America' Dr. WilIn such a character as that of cy Committee last week. of the 100 largest banks in Thirty-fou- r liam Fowler of the Music Department at Elijah, like everyone in the Old Testahave either formed or nation the to was of Utah executive seems it the ment, except perhaps Moses, University announced their intention of establishing and the Salt Palace will meet me that the dramatic should predomidirector holding companies in the last 18 months. to attempt to establish dates for the 1970 nate the personages should be introThey are already in 100 different types of with duced as acting and speaking fer presentation . businesses. The Patman bill, aimed at divorcing banks from competitive businesses, was by Brickman a clearcut attempt to plug the loophole in the 1956 law and even tighten it. The Treasury Department bill, not as strong as the Patman bill, contained a grandfather clause whereby banks which had subsidiary business firms prior to June 30, 1968, could retain them. However, neither bill survived the tactics of the banking lobbyists. They had persuaded Rep. William Widnall, New Jersey Republican and friend of the bankers, to introduce the - ment GOP Deserts Utahs colleges and universities are to be governed by a sincision on whether bank-holdin- 'The Dramatic Should Dominate By HAROLD LUNDSTROM Deseret News Music Editor I picture Elijah as a grand, mighty prophet, such as we might require in our own day," Mendelssohn Wrote to his librettest, Pastor Julius Schubring, energetic and zealous, but also stern, wrathful, a and gloomy; contrast striking to the court of henchmen and popular rabble in fact, in opposition to the whole and yet world, borne on angels wings. I am particularly anxious to do justice to the dramatic element, and, as you say, no epic narrative must be introduced. If I may make one observation it is that I would fain see the dramatic element more prominent, as well as more vividly and sharply defined appeal and rejoinder, question and answer, sudden interruptions, and so forth. Not that it disturbs me, for example, to have Elijah first speak of the assembling of the people and then forthwith address them; all such liberties are the natural privileges of oratorio representa- - (he small society g 150-voi- been a success. Meanwhile, the old owners opened a tent show in competition. Its called the Pink Garter." Both are top shows . . . tough competitors. When Dr. Winn brought the calliope to Jackson, he was told by the police that there was an ordinance against such gadgets in the city. So, the good doctor moved it out into the county. He checked with a member of the county attorneys office. Dr. Winn said they told him that it was permissible not only in the county, but in the city. So the singing tea kettle was brought back to the theater property in the city. And this is where JoLane comes in. Shes musical director of Diamond Ills. She had just gotten through a medley of patriotic songs on the calliope for about 300 tourists, when she was served with legal papers. She appeared in court and entered a plea of innocent. There was some confusion. The prosecuting attorney was not prepared to try the case right then and there. It was set for a later date; The charge was breath of the peace. JoLane says she was playing what is called a lobby show. Sometimes it Was difficult to hear because of the firewdrks that were bursting all bver the place, she said. Apparently, shooting off giant firecrackers doesnt breach the peace like a calliope. booked. JoLane Was the only person That same night, someone cut the wiring from the keyboard to the pipes on the calliope . . . vandals. The hunk of plumbing will be out of action for several days or even weeks With internal injuries. And while the calliope is being repaired, it might be well if some political fences can be mended, too. Some of the county officials want the calliope playing in Jackson . . . good for the tourist business. Others in the city office have other ideas . . . favor noise abatement laws. So it looks like that old calliope of Rays may turn into a political organ. Wits End: Wish we could be as successful in keeping down food prices as we are in getting our astronauts up! iiiiiiifiiiiiiiiiii'uiniiniimiitiiinniiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiimiiiiiHUiitii BIG TALK high-pressu- kind of bill they wanted which, among other things, permitted the banks to hold on to travel agencies, pizza parlors, radio and TV stations and all other forms of business which they had acquired up until four months ago Fekil7, 1969. "I've never bad the urge to flirt with a bow-legge- d girl In a miniskirt!" 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