The Wingham Advance-Times, 1984-12-24, Page 10Page 10-Crosa4S
pec. 29, 19.89
Bill STIileY
Christmas past and present
Like practically every-
thing else in the frantic 20th
century, Christmas is vastly
overdone. • A day that was,
for our ancestors, ,a simple
observance of thi4., birth of
Christ combined with a fam-
ily get-together of reason-
able jollity, has grown to the
proportions of a nightmare
in which shopping for gifts,
exchange of cards, Christ-
mas entertainments, high-
powered advertising and a
steady and relentless stream
of so-called "Chris tmas"
music make up the accumu-
lation of horrors.
In the good old days, the
family rose early, and went
to church, where the parson
gave them a two-hour appe-
tizer. They then went home
and took a nip of something
to take off the chill. While the
servants were sweating in
the kitchen, preparing the
vast dinner to come, they
took a bite of lunch. Then the
ladies set off to distribute
food parcels to the poor,
while the men put their tails
to the fire and 'went after that
chill again.
That's your ancestors I'm
talking about. Mine were
among the people the ladies
were taking the food to. I can
still see them kicking the
pigs under the bed when her
ladyship came in, tugging
their forelocks, scraping
their feet, and saying "f'ank
yer, milady, f'ank yer,
mum" as she pulled one of
the geese that died of di-
sease, and one of last year's
bottles of blackberry
brandy, which had turned
vinegary, out of her basket.
Today, of course, my an-
cestor's descendants will eat
turkey on Christmas Day un-
til they bear a resemblance
to purple pigs, while the de-
scendants of milady, who
have managed to hang on to
the old home only by taking
tourists through at a shilling
A weekly news commentary from
one of Canada's
out.tanding news personalities
THE
BEST OF
PETER
a shot, will be dining mea-
grely, in the only room of the
big house they can afford to
heat, on a. nice bit of brisket
and some brussels sprouts.
And seres them right.
However, that's not what I
started out to say, but I can't
remember what it was, any-
way. Oh, yes, about the old
days and today. Well, despite
all the wailing and throwing
of hands in the air at the
paganism and commercial-
ism surrounding our Christ-
mas today, I wouldn't trade
it for the old-fashioned one of
a hundred years ago.
And don't forget, I said
"surrounding" our Christ-
mas. Sure our kids believe in
Santa Claus. Sure our pre -
Christmas preparations are
getting more and more
hectic and more and more
subject to commercialism.
I * kid VOW
Sa to raus, C1 Q t a
dire effects. AOyge;$et
the pre-Chrlatraa panic aed
celebrate the day with just
as mulch reverance and jt
as much family fun as ever
our ancestors did.
I'll warrant our youngsters
know just as much, and
maybe more, about the story
of Christmas, and the com-
ing .of the Christ child; as
their counter -parts of a hun-
dred years ago knew. Mine
do, anyway, thanks to their
Sunday School teachers.
And I'll bet we're not half
as smug and selfish, despite
our much -touted material-
ism, as our Victorian great-
grandfathers were, sitting on
their fat 'rumps by the fire on
Christmas day, and letting
the poor worry about them-
selves. On this coming
Christmas Day, in our own
little town, the Band will be
out in the cold, playing for
the old people and shut-ins.
Groups of ladies and men
from a dozen different or-
ganizations will be scurrying
about with vast baskets of
food and treats for the needy.
And the needy are pretty
few and far between these
days, simply because we
tIle a wholelot more poelal
►k> Ottg '. than 90 am
#tor hard: Qaide tha>~
'> ►y cx►aY .'' jolly »iel4felt.
Vines of a hwidreed
yr ago lay.aWorld of cold
ked Munger and degradation.
:We wouldn't let it exist to-
day.
So don't let the worry-
warts spoil your Christmas,
with their perpetual com-
plaining that Christmas is
being paganized, Nothing
can sully Christmas, be-
cause Christmas is in your
heart, in the simple story ,on
that day, in the shining eyes
of a, child, in the loveliness of
the carols.
Yes, and it is in the Christ-
mas tree, and the gay win-
dows, and the colored lights
against . the snow and the
perspiring Santa Claus at the
Christmas concert, and the
card from a friend you
haven't seen in years.
Just gird up your loins,
plunge into your shopping,
enjoy the giving of gifts, run
yourself away into debt, be
happy in the family reunion,
goto church on Christmas
Day, stay away from the
hard stuff, and don't be a pig
with the turkey, and you
won't go far wrong.
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There has been a row
going on in Britain about the
BBC's decision to broadcast
pictures of the Trade Secre-
tary, Norman Tebbit, moan-
ing with pain as he was
hauled from the wreckage of
the Grand Hotel in Brighton.
MP's newspaper columnists,
and members of the public
have criticized the BBC's in-
sensitivity in splashing Mr.
Tebbit's moments of agony
all over its evening news-
cast.
The row ended in a rather
dramatic fashion when Mr.
Tebbit himself wrote a letter
to The Times defending the
BBC's decision to 'use the
pictures. The Trade Secre-
tary said that although he
was opposed to graphic
coverage of the suffering of
disaster victims, the IRA
bomb attack on the Grand
Hotel was no accident. "It
was murder and attempted
murder," he wrote The
Times.
The logic of Mr. Tebbit's
decision to draw the line
between an accident and a
deliberate act escapes
since he seems to
suggesting that in this case,
there is some kind of lesson
to be learned from his suffer-
ing. Namely, I suppose, that
the IRA is a bad bunch and
shouldn't be underestimat-
ed.
But it seems to me that if
you use the same criteria,
there are cases when it
might also be instructive to
depict the suffering of a
truck driver pinned in the
wreckage of his cab, for
example. You would thereby
remind the public that trucks
and cars are lethal in-
struments and that they
should be treated with great
care and caution.
I realize that this
argument corning from
someone who makes his
living in news is suspect.
Maybe, but 'I have believed
for years that by and large,
the average editor or
reporter is much more
sensitive to this sort of thing
than the general public. And
thanks to a column in a
recent Ottawa Citizen, by
publisher Paddy Sherman, I
now have something res-
sembling evidence.
According to Mr. Sher-
man, a newspaper' in North
Carolina has done an inter-
esting study on ethics. In it,
the newspaper put some
hypothetical cases before
readers for decisions on
whether or not to publish.
Then it put the same cases
before its editors, and
compared attitudes. I'll cite
just one of them to make a
point. Suppose the mayor is a
hard-liner on crime,
especially on drugs. His 19 -
ear -old son who lives at
home, and attends college, is
usted for the possession of
marijuna. Do you publish the
story or don't you? Fully 58
per cent of the editors said
that they would not publish
it, but only 39 per cent of the
readers turned thumbs down
on the story. By and large,
the readers were much more
open to publishing dubious
stories than the editors were.
As I have said before, in a
good newsroom, the
inhabitants are ferocious
worriers. And were more
likely to err on the side of
caution than the other way
around.
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