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Show 'ere g " 3SESSN Ar-. yl,-,. J AI'VUV,, j Irrigaj rrj Elections Will Bring Out '"aw TAose Cove Man Instincts ssment re was f the i ately t By BAUKIIAGE er of News Analyst and Commentator. Sony's WASHINGTON. I know you may find it hard to believe, it 'may tut 1 was noi greatly stirred up over the election campaign h day and its outcome. I have a job and it's as tough under one deiincp party as another. I have no vote, and between you and me, at pui i am not agitating for a civil rights bill which will get me one. 'me"t 1 Like all of the citizens of the District of Columbia, I share the delight- 'Ji.t t. ful irresponsibility with minors, idiots and criminals who don't have a asis Ut vote either" of adv ThuSl 1 am vAVnoxA Pontic31 filiation, oblieation. or nreiudice. 5 World Series game if it weren't for the old cave-man? I have heard it said that baseball base-ball has become the monarch of sports because it brings into play so many of the primitive emotions. First, we have pursuit, without which primitive man could not get the food necessary to sustain himself him-self and his family (or even a wife to raise the family). Then another primitive pastime used in baseball pity the poor H. Pett r iblicatii I ublicati if allowini L- J ft sd with1 f opriatej f 1 1 State ( I j,. A , re yea hJ f ed, all 1 Ml 11 Lawre f $ Delta, i I "Uil, :. ft. of; L l a 2-ir j,, - - ivyJM Well sometimes I do have one prejudice a race prejudice. Sometimes Some-times I get awfully awful-ly prejudiced against the human race. Another reason that I am not politically po-litically excited this year is that I have been watching watch-ing the Washington Washing-ton vaudeville show from a good cave-man who couldn't accurately heave a rock! It only requires plenty of practice in a summer camp plus what was learned in the sandlot to turn that basic desire into the ability to pitch a no-hit, no-run no-run game. Take one more example. As the cave-man progressed, he learned to use a club. So there it is base runner, pitcher, batsman. Primitive Urges Basic in Democracy Just as the sublimation of primitive primi-tive instinct has formed the great sport of the greatest democracy in the world so the sublimation of some of these instincts behind ancient an-cient tribal customs has made our democracy itself possible. In a successful democracy, instincts are not repressed. They are merely modified so that they fit into a human and humane society. As you know, by the time man had reached the point where he had organized himself into a clan, it was the "papa" who ran things. He -was the chief because he had the one quality most essential in those days for self and group pro-te pro-te ction strength. His term of office was not limited lim-ited by statute. Some of the chiefs even ran for a fourth term. But as the "papa" 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 had their primaries of course, and had picked a candidate). Then the campaign began. It was usually quite short but very snappy. Both candidates were armed with good-sized good-sized clubs. The debate took place at some point where the non-voting but interested electorate (this was before women's suffrage) could watch with as little personal danger as possible. Of course the best man finally won. Inauguration ceremonies took place immediately, attended attend-ed by all of the tribe except a couple who were delegated to bury the defeated candidate. Then the younger brothers and the females settled down to maintain peace, prosperity, and the pursuit of happiness. Let me quote one or two paragraphs para-graphs from the work of that very fascinating book by Dr. Gregory Zilboorg "Mind Medicine, and Man." "It is difficult to find any function func-tion of our democratic society which surpasses or even approximates an electoral campaign in intensity and blatancy of aggression. Acrimony, anger, hate, slander, venality appear ap-pear everything except actual homicide. The proverbial lid is literally lit-erally off the reservoir of patricidal drives, and society hurls itself on its symbolic victim with all the energy en-ergy of a primitive cannibal. It is primitive cannibalism, whether it expresses itself in campaign slander, slan-der, whispering campaigns, political maneuvering, or flattery of the indolent in-dolent who do not care. A father is to be killed by way of democratic ceremonial, and a new one will at once be set up by way of the same ceremonial." Lee? Baukhage seat in the gallery L- lr press and radio q A gallery most of the time for the t 25 s Past three decades, and although atering1 the performers have changed, there lW-.-d hasn't been to much alteration of S. 956 the script. A Republican or a Dem- A cor. ocratic politician, to a reporter, er will smells no sweeter by any name. cattle. Delta ! 's my business to report sec. ft, what they do and say, and, of use fr course, from my standpoint, 250 ft. the more they do and say, the and E.j better let the brickbats fall ,5' 7., where they may. United f Lan I have observed a good many 59, Sail acts on the Washington scene that of wat) got top billing and deserved it. I from aj have ais0 listened to a lot of pret- '1270 ty Sad comedians and seen 8 lot T17S hams. 3ed f;r But on the whole I believe that, United regardless of who happens to be in 'f Lanq the cast, taking it all in all, it's a 59, Salt pretty high class drama. In fact, :et of j I think as we compare the Wash- from j ington program with most of those -a ,poin. tjjgt are 0gered by the other capi- 3m NE talg oJ jjjg world, it's really the avaTeri1 greatest show on earth. 5 ft However, during campaign time voir wi 1 must admit I would rather be ft. and right (where I am) than President, and in On any ticket. II be s N0W aon't think I am object- 11 -and Ijjg tG our g00d old knock-down, j0 drag-out method of electing res'ls) Presidents or any other officials, f tne I not only think it's a wonderful i reaso thing that we have this free- fidavit for-all every four years, but I filed v think both parties would wither I State on the vine if we didn't. j3 ' n In fact I think the abandonment E. H f our method would probably bring Statd crashing to the ground the palla- Tcation dium of our republic, would de- lication stroy our opportunity to pursue life, liberty and happiness and the weekly pay envelope and would ... i reduce these United States to such a condition that the Indians wouldn't take the property back if we offered it to them. AfSfj I base this statement not upon fJLAu mere guess but upon sound scien-title scien-title studies of the question of why j we behave like human beings I (when we do). J Now I don't know how far you 'Jj i wiu g0 aln8 witn the psychiatrists fjjdflA - who claim your athlete's foot is due &JjlZ to a complex created when you were two years old by having your big brother drop a baseball bat on """" ' your toe. Nevertheless I think one thing has been established by Inde? psychiatry a truism confirmed by writers and poets of all ages and 'ill. Wi which you can confirm yourself by j-. going over some of your own inner :hlCal t thoughts. Especially when you think what you'd like to do to the man who crumpled your fender t while you were attending prayer i meeting. , I refer to the accepted truism i that even the most benign and 'IBRT mild-mannered Mr. Milquetoast I IK I has a caveman deep within him. Y O One has only to observe one's 'ELTA 0Wn an6el"child who, on his way home from Sunday School, and in -.v.... ,.,,.,, cooperation with the angel-children of one's neighbors, will tie a can In other words, we had a healthy fight In November and got it out of our systems. The cave-man within us was satisfied. satis-fied. We've got ourselves a President, and nobody has committed com-mitted murder. And there in we have an advantage advan-tage not shared by some other countries. coun-tries. For here, even between elections, elec-tions, we allow the cave-man to roar unmuzzled in the press, over the radio, and from the rostrum. He can brandish his verbal club and hurl his barbed epithets in the very face of the President, the congress, and the town meeting. And thereby, likewise, we prove our strength, a strength which derives de-rives not from the atomic bomb, but from a power that can and does penetrate peacefully even through an iron curtain. - y to a dog's tail or engage in a dozen other "humane" activities that m would give a visiting cannibal from the South Seas something to write home about. We DO have a caveman within i us; we DO have primitive, aggrcs- j sive instincts. We have the instinct j to give pain, to destroy, to ta'ie V advantage of our fellow-man. The a) ' & early period of our ..lives is spent in being taught to turn these instincts I to good purpose. The psycnologists ! call it "sublimating" them. The i sadistic inclination of a medical V;:-; student can be transmuted, under imOUS the infuence of civilized society, i(J to make him the finest surgeon. P. . I. The desire to plunder and rob and destroy, common to even the most angelic little ones, can be channeled into the lngcnuii 7 ty by which the engineer moves ffitxi mountains and captains of In- 5 . dustry push railways through ' the forest, and thus benefit Id- F stead of harm mankind. Do you suppose we could put on that greatest of all exhibitions a |