The Wingham Advance-Times, 1984-11-07, Page 201
Page 6—Crossroads—Nov. 7, 1984
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vommillinsaimmib, Bill Smiley
Lest we forget
missistas
I feel quite hurt this year.
Nobody has asked me to
speak at their Remetnber-
arice Day dinner. I would
have turned it down, of
course; because I think you
can flog the old poppy and
talk about throwing the torch
from our failing hands only
so long, before it becomes ir-
relevant.
- However, I've not been
ignored entirely. A teacher
asked me to send a copy of a
Rememberance Day column
I wrote either last year, or
the year before, to be read by
a Grade 8 student, to the
whole school, I presume.
Some order. If I kept a
decent file of columns, I
could put my finger on it, run
off a copy and shoot it to him.
But my files are something
like my mind: scattered all
over the place, confused,
mixed up.
My wife, in a fit of pique
over some little thing, once
stuffed about 200 of my
columns into a large plastic
bag. It's a litte difficult to
reach into the bag ( it's really
a garbage bag, as she im-
plied when she did it) and
pull out the right column.
And of course, I haven't
been forgotten by the good
old administration of our
school, which has requested
that I write a two -minute
thing about Rememberance
Day.
Then back to the Legion
Hall for beer and b.s. There
was a good feeling between
the old-timers of W.W.I., and
us young veterans who had
never gone over the top,
deloused ourselves, coped
with a gas attack, or been
under heavy bombardment
or artillery, as the old vets
frequently reminded us.
The native Indian veterans
turned out in force. This was
before they were allowed to
buy any kind of spirits, and
they made a day of it.
Now, the tiny remnant of
old vets of that time are
rapidly becoming old men.
Then I started teaching
school. Rememberance Day
was still observed, with the
whole school being called a
special assembly, and the
old platitudes recalled and
H. GORDON
GREEN
When I learned of the
passing of the English novel-
ist J.B. Priestley recently, I
felt as though I had just lost a
personal friend. Actually I
had never met the man in the
flesh, nevertheless I had
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made his acquaintance a
long time ago when I was a
University student and had
him held up by my. professor
in creative writing as, a shin-
ing example of how a writer
• may, if he is skilful enough
and picturesque enough,
continue to be read even by
those he infuriates. •
And Priestley, who was 90
• when he died, spent most .of
his writing career making an
ever grow,inrtg circle of read-
ers stmcied and, angry.
I remember in' particular
one article which the New
Statesman had the courage
to publish in which Priestley
talked very frankly about
sex and before he was
finished he had criticized
just about every high and
holy tradition our civilization
has about marriage and
love.
He was not convinced that
this oh so delicate matter we
label faithfulness provides
any insurance 'at all to the
happiness of .a marriage, or
that its absence means that
said marriage has to break
up in shame and tears. He
seemed t� thi i . that both
sexes are mo or less poly
gamous by nat r- at
it is hypocrisy for our clergy
and our lawmakers to deny
this.
But where Priestley really
began to strike fire with his
views is when he told us that
it shouldn't be considered
shocking at all for an older
woman to fall in love with a
man much younger than her-
self, or vice versa.
Which is of more interest
to me now that it was then
because I now happen to be
happily married to a woman
less than half my age.
But to get back to this
Priestley article, it goes
without saying that it caused
a terrific furore amongst the
readers of the New States-
man and it brought in the
mail by the buckets. Strange
as it may seem however, of
all Priestley's contentions
about sex, the one which
brought in the most howls of
anguish and anger was the
assertion that • it is neither
foolish or wrong for youth to
fall in love with age.
But in the letters to the
( editor which followed the
publication of the article,
there was at least one which
agreed with Priestley en-
tirely. And it came from an
old English sheep man.
"What Priestley says isn't
any new idea for me," this
man begins solemnly. "I
have long followed the
practice of mating my old
ewes with a young ram, and
my youngest ewes with the
oldest ram on the farm." '
The farmer wasn't com-,.
menting on the sociological
question involved, he said.
He 'merely wanted to report
that he got a much bigger
lamb crop that way.
DICKENS BORN
English writer Charles
Dickens was born on Feb 7,
1812.
regurgitated. •
I was asked to Speak, at
one of them. The head of the
students' council preceded
me, and pulled out all the
cliches and hackneyed refer-
ences; "Sacrifice," "the
fallen," and carrying "the
torch" were among them.
I didn't mean to, but pulled
the rug right out from under
him. I pointed out that the
dead didn't fall; they were
killed; that the sacrifice
made by millions of young
men, from many nations, all
of them fighting for "the
right", achieved absolutely
nothing; that if someone
threw them a torch to carry,
they should throw' it right
back, and so on. The kids
loved it, but the adminis-
tration thought it was
iconoclastic.
These assemblies went on
for a few more years, stead-
ily disintegrating as the re-
memberance ceremony was
turned over more and more
to the students, to whom both
wars were ancient history.
They degenerated into folk
songs like "Where Have All
the Flowers Gone?" juvenile
diatribes against war, and
maudlin sentiments about
peace, far worse than the
Legion, which' always had a
certain dignity, could per-
petrate.
Eventually, the assem-
blies were cut entirely, and
yours truly became the goat.
His task: to write a two -
minute commercial remind-
ing the students that Re-
memberance Day is not just
a school holiday. Try doing
that in 200 words that will.
stir the students' emotions,
uplift their souls, and make
them want to rush out and
defend their country against
something or other.
The wars. mean almost
nothing to them, and the only
things they'd fight to the
death for are their tran
sistors, motorcycles, hi-fi's,
and high allowances. Most of
them have only the vaguest
idea of the tensions in the
world, and small reason.
They're sick to death of
politicians and are inured to
violence by seeing it daily on
TV. They don't really care
much about abstracts like
patriotism, loyalty, sac-
rifice.
But I get ray quiet
revenge. Therle's no teach-
ing, in the usual sense, in my
classes on the day before the
"holiday."
I show them souvenirs,
pictures of "your hero"
standing beside his Typhoon,
and tell them funny stories
about stupid senior officers,
and make them realize that
if it were forty years ago,
most of them would be in the
process of being shot at, or
losing a sweetheart. It
works.
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great male dancers. "We are
different. We are stronger,
fitter, and better trained
than most athletes. We have
to be. We are trained to
compete against ourselves
throughout our whole career,
but unlike athletes we never
win. There might be very
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championship fight and you
won it."
Schaufuss, distinguished
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of the male dancer in a
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Nov. 12, at 9:05 p.m.
The series looks at the
dancer's role as athletic
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