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.WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 6th 1967
THE LUCKNOW ,SENTINEL,: LUCKNOW,. ONTARIO
PAGE FIFTEEN
SUGAR
AND SPICE
by Bill Smiley
Me
a:• hiPPY •
Every so .often •I :experience
an •overwhelming urge to throw
everything to • the winds, run
away,, and ; become a middle-
aged
iddle aged. hippy.
• Those kids . have • the ; :world
by Op tail. With the: rest of us,,
it's ' .the world that has us:: by
the tail, and does the twisting ,
Think, of those lucky bums.
No taxes, no insurance pre-
miums, no shaving every morn-
ing, no .handing over a buck
and a half for a haircut.
The hippies : have . abdicated
from a: society that has no real-
ity for them, a society in which'.
they see precious little love
and honesty and A great deal. -
of hate and hypocrisy. They
have; said, "Include, • nne out,"
• and in • 'many, ways:. I don't '•
Mame . them. '
' So let them grow` their ;hair
and beards. Let them have
love -ins and ` smoke grass and
give each other flowers. and •
refuse to work. They're.harm-
less compared to many .people
and things that are highly res-
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less rapture of seeing myself
among the •hippies, the cold
wind . of reason, blows: ';and I;
know I couldn't make the
scene. . •
Oh,, I could let the hair and
beard :sprout, get some purple
pants and hide behind a pair of
shades. I could look •the part,
But I'd never fit in. I don't
have thehippy attitude or..
mentality or whatever it is.
And it's . all the fault of my
parents..
They brain -washed . me with
a lot of Victorian cliches and /
puritan, maxims that made ' me
the warped, inhibited individual
I an today: You know the -
sort ,of , thing. "-Cleanliness is
next to Godliness. A rolling°
stone gathers no moss. A stitch
'in time savesnine.
Pure poppycock, most ` of it..
Fortunately, our ` own children
have .not allowed -themselves to
. become , indoctrinated. 'Try' that •
rolling stone thing on Kim and'
she just hoots . and 'points out
how many million records the
Rolling Stones: made this year.
The only "Stitch'' in .Time" she
knows' •is •a- roek-n-roll group by
that ' name,' , and she thinks
they're great:.
My 'parents infected a lot of
other, ';hair -brained ideas into
my. innocent little ' skull.. They.
convinced me 'that you should
do an, honest day's .work for
day's pay. Thatgiyes you some'
idea of how old-fashioned I am,
They: said • you should face
your responsibilities, ':not run
from them. That's ' another rea-
son I'd.never make:it. as a
hippy. •I'd•be:.completely out of
tune:
. They believed : 'in / helping
people who needed' it. ' My::.
mother ' must have fed 2,000.
hoboes during the . depression..
My.' father lost .his `business be-
cause. he kept on giving credit
to people who could never pay
' their bills.
- They believed ;that you" bore
-your troubles as bestyou could;'
and' did not inflict them on
others. They. 'told us, : many.
• times, that if you couldn't say
something nice about ' a: person,
you shouldn't say anything
: about him.
They • detested. the . idea of
'charity and fought tooth and
.nail, :and .successfully,to keep,'
' from goingon relief. My moth'-
'er sold 'home-made bread ;and
'Avon products, 'took :in. board-,
`ers . and tourists. 'My. dad, .who
couldn't sell air conditioners in
the Congo, took a series 'of :
• humiliating jobs as.'a salesman
on: commission, -fighting it out
with younger, brasher men and
selling . almost nothing` but his
pride. .
They believed in God and
lawand order ` and absolute
honesty. • They .believed • in
neighborliness, but • also ' in
minding your own business. .
'They believed in the 'family,, in'.
total 'abstinence, in good man-
ners. •
'They, . believed:' in • paying . ,
your •bills 'an d sweated, agonies
when. there . wasn't the' money.
to • do so. That's one. thing that :
didn't' rub off on me, ;thank
.goodness. I pay, them, eventual-
ly, but I don't • sweat in the:..
'interim.' • ' • '
. Andto tell the. truth, I'm
afraid 'a lot of the 'other things
didn't take, with 'me. I did have. . •
some resistance. But a lot of it
did.. Now, how could anybody.
be a hippy 'with a rotten up...
bringing like that? ..
• So don't worry. •'If you conie
'across a' middle-aged ' hippy
with a flower over his ear next
time you're in San Francisco
or Vancouver or 'Yorkville, :I'm
• sorry, but it won't be me •
I[ was ruined by: my parents, .
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two sons,, William Of Ripley and
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grand -daughters, Mary and Shir
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Funeral service was held 'at the
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