HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1983-01-26, Page 24Page 14—Crossroads--Jan. 26, 1983
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ill Smiley
It isn't fair
With 1983 newly arrived,
this is the time for the goom
and dloom merchants, and
they're having a field -day.
Just read the other day in
the Globe that the western
provinces are in a cataclys-
mic state, bordering on that
of The Great Depression of
the Thirties.
According to this garbage,
the west is only about two
jumps ahead of the millen-
ium, the apocalypse. The
learned professor who wrote
it is obviously a product of
the well-nourished post -De-
pression era.
It seems that there are all
sorts of people out of work in
the west. They're having a
terrible time existing on
pogie and various welfare
payments. Many of them
scarcely know where the
next twenty-four of beer is
coming from.
Despite the black smoke of
the professor's statistics, he
doesn't know what he's
talking about, as any sur-
vivor of The Depression in
Western Canada will agree.
Was listening to a couple of
younger (around 40) col-
leagues of mine recently:
They couldn't understand
why their parents were so
concerned with such things
as bargains, and turning off
the lights that weren't being
used.
"I guess it must have been
the Depression," chortled
one. "They haven't got over
the hard times, and they're
scared of being destitute
when they're old."
"Yeah," smirked another,
who makes about as many
dollars in three years as his
father made in fifty, "they
seem to have this thing. They
run all over, looking for bar-
gains, and worry about keep-
ing up the house."
Neither of these chaps, or
their wives, or their chil-
dren, has ever missed a
meal, unless by accident.
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Neither has ever lived under
the humiliating cloud of hav-
ing to "go on relief," the ulti-
mate in soul-destroying.
"Yabbut, I paid unemploy-
ment for, years," they
chorus. Right.' They paid in
about $100 -a year, , and the
minute they're fired, they
start to withdraw over $100 a
week, and there's no shame,
no humiliation involved. The
gummint "owes" it to them.
They will never have to
live in second-hand clothes,
or eat potato -skin hash or
pea soup bolstered by bar-
ley. They'll be horrified if
they can't send out for a
pizza, or Chinese. They will
never have to ride the rods,
looking for non-existent
work, or depend on a good-
hearted housewife to give
them a meal, or sleep in jail.
In short, these youngish
middle-aged men don't know
what a real Depression is.
They don't know what a
world war is. They'll never
know the searing reality of
not knowing where the
money is to come from to
pay the fuel bill.
It's hardly likely that
they'll ever see their'
mothers weeping brokenly
over the sewing machine at
midnight, which I have. It's
improbable that they'll miss
a lot. If things get tighter,
and they will, these chaps
may have to curtail their
daughters' dancing or skat-
ing or piano lessons.
Inflation and the price off
gas may forestall them from
driving their sons, with sixty
dollars worth of hockey
equipment, to the arena at
5:30 a.m., feeling all good,
and a fatherly glow, after
they've dumped, or picked
up, the kids.
But they'll miss the close-
knit loyalty of a family in
truly hard times, when
everybody accepted the cold
fact that there was no
money. And •everybody
chipped in to help.
They'll miss the warmth in
the family circle that is
playing parcheesi or mono-
poly or crokinole, instead of
competing wildly in a TV
push-button Bar Stars or
Outer Space Freaks game
where nobody wins except
the con men who peddled it
at $299.
They'll miss telling their
kids stories, because the kids
get a better . story on TV.
They'll miss the heartache
of the children who want a
doll and a pair of skis and
have to settle for suits of long
underwear.
They'llmiss the thrill 'of
children who look awed and
exalted when they're given a
dime for the matinee, in-
stead of looking surly when
their allowance is cut to
three bucks a week.
They'll miss the often bor-
ing, but somehow tenuous
experience of having cousins
by the dozens (family con-
nections are outre now).
And they'll miss perhaps
the most important ex-
perience of all: the knowl-
edge that somehow, despite
all adversity, they have kept
their pride, have swum
against the stream keeping'
their heads up and trailing
their families safely behind
them.
I don't envy • ,thein too
much, ' these youngish
middle-aged men and
women, many of whom are
friends of mine.
They are good people.
They have all the right ideas.
They bring up their children
right. They treat their
parents (fairly) well. They
are not vicious, or malicious.
They have worked hard for
the cocoons they have spun.
But, dammit, they don't
know what hard times are,
Or they've forgotten, in some
cases. I want them to suffer.
And the -trouble is, they
won't: They just go on being
happy, and comfortable, and
complaisant. It isn't fair!
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