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Bill Smiley

Those hypocrites

By BILL SMILEY

‘There is one type among the species Man that puzzles and saddens me.- In an age that congratulates . itself Gn its openness, its honesty, its ‘Let it all hang out’’ attitude, the hypocrite is - still very much with us.

. Some people might “think.

the 19th -century was the golden age of hypocrisy. Certainly, it set some high standards i in this line. .

_ ‘There were the manu- facturers who preached en- ‘lightenment and progress on .the one hand, and ‘on’ the other. worked children 60 hours a week in their

. °.. There were the men who brayed of_chastity as one of - the prime virtues, and dallied

“< with prostitutes. There were the men who spoke glowingly

‘of a gentler way of life, and

ve _. set ‘savage fighting dogs on

- one another. The. list is end- less. - And the women! Oh, but

weren't they the, hypocrites, -*

. too? Just as tough and . voracious as any woman of today, they hid these. traits behind a facade of gentility, _. humility, helplessness and _ fainting fits. . It was an era in which the public mouthing of the Christian virtues was only

exceeded by the private -

““ materialism, corruption, and sometimes downright vicious- . Ness of the middle and. upper

glasses.

’. Well, then, have we got rid —

- "of this particularly abnoxious type, well into the second haif

af: the 20th century?. Not |

~- “bloody likely!

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Perhaps we're note quite as

hypocritical as the Victorians, .-

but 1 wouldn’t want to bet on

it. All that’s changed is the ” terms of reference.

.No manufacturer today

could get away with hiring

children. But don't think

- they’re any tess heartless than " their forebears. At least, in

the 19th century, you knew.

the. boss was a bastard, Today,, a company can ~ “reorganize,” and turn halfa dozen middle-aged men into

lazy, and lot even that bright when they were young people.

We have mothers who got in the family-way at 19, and’ had a shot-gun marriage, be- wailing the ‘“‘sexual licence” of their daughters.

We ‘have fathers who

_. deplore at length the sloth-

‘fulness of their sons, con-

veniently ignoring that they. --

* had to havea good boot in the

the street by an “executive ;

decision.”’

Many men: in

today'r .

society still practice adouble . standard, one for themselves, .

one for their wives-A man’. ,

> who gets drunk has had’ 4g -

‘few.-too many," A. woman

- wha’ ‘gets “drunk is- diss eo gusting’? A man can go toa

__Tespond with ‘chuckles and

business convertionand have ~

“alittle fling with a call girl]. his wife, kisses a couple of.

tail from. their own’ fathers _ before they"d even carry Ont the ashes,

We. have school trustees

who ‘will double over in an.

agony of glee after hearing a at filty joke, but. in. public | - '. women? Are they less hypo- ‘ critical than “:their great- -

sternly deplore the: “pom:

ography” children are being’: éxposedito in their - ‘school _ literature. .

They are the type who: will even belly.laughis to the secual:

. leer. of Norman, Lear in oS" no percentage in ‘pulling a

guys at the New Year's. Eve:. -

party a bit too warmly, she's a - o :

ey _SAILPLANE PILOT ess Nazi ace a showman. =

SEX maniac,

"We have politicians who. _

spout of peace and plan for - ‘war, doctors who. -predch against. drugs and tell’ you. cigarettes will kill you, even as

they butt their S0th coffin nail”

of theday and popa couple of _

bennies to keep going.

We have pillars of the 7 church whom you wouldn't . {rust as far as you could: .

bounce a bowling. ball in. a swamp. ©: We have all kinds. of

‘their income tax, and. then

_ berate people on welfare for: “ripping off . the - govern

‘ment.’”

“can't understand the. atei-:

an they th themselves were insolent,

t

characters who will cheat - on.

- all tude of young people today," “ ~ completely: forgetting - that.

- HAMILTON (CP) . Former Luftwaffe- - ace, Oscar Boesch, now a rr estate broker in - Toronto,

has: built-an- international : reputation in one of the most” esoteric forms of flying— .

- sailplaning.,

We have - teachers who: So

“Ta his: Schleicher ASW-15 :

"’ sailplane;he performs: each |

year at'16-to 20 air shows, -

_ going as far afield as Rhode Island.

Awhen you. fly: the -5q like a.

fi ait those. wings are

yout: wings, i says Boesch’ who began fying at the. mage. :

_ TRURODAT

during

Maude and All in the Family, -but thunder fulminatingly against a fine novel like The

Diviners by Margaret Laurence. They arethe type whodon’t_

want anything racier than

. “The Bobbsey Twins’” taught

in school, but will shout with. ribald laughter ‘at smut on television and take in every Testricted movie in town,

-. laughing when there is blood- . shed on ithe screen,

and. nudging heavily when a

. couple of naked bodies start — 7, squirming on the celluloid

strip.

What about today’s

grandmothers? On the whole, I'd say yes. They're just as blasted irriiating as ever, but they're more honest. They still. cry for no apparent reaosn, but they know there’s

* of 15 and was a glider pilot “peer to the Second World

"A German fighter pilot the ‘war, he completed 120 missions in

"1944 and 1945, shooting down - .18 Allied planes.

‘It was done in the

‘defence of Germany,” he said quietly during a recent. air show here.

“We lost many men in my uadron—36 pilots in one

year” when a squadron con- + sisted of 12 men. -“

DOWNED EIGHT TIMES

Boesch himself was ~ ; . says his interest in gliding .

faint. They'd probably. just get aglass of water in the face.

But even the.-women are a long way from being outof . the woods, when it comes to: . hypocrisy, And many of ‘the biggest. hypocrites are ‘‘sur- face” feminists. They wantall. .”

the perks of the new freedom, . . wet

and all the treats of the old = .- .” “essence of woman.” mo Oh well, “Let him who is, without sin cast . the, first stone” _ I'm. certainly not ‘talking ee about me. and thee, gentle reader, Butaren’t you alittle - sick ‘of them -— = all: those. hypocrites? - oT™ Areas Syadeat Lid."

forced. down “elght times, rachuting to safety four. -

imes and«managing to. _

crash-land without serious injury on the- _ other, OC». casions.

He credits his experience

in gliding with helping him

to survive .. these

experiences. 7 “x Canada . since - “1951; anada oie silent

alae ote Windsor, Ont

from Orangeville, Ont.,

distance’ of 175 miles, only a

few miles short. of the Canadian’ record, .

Born in Austria, Boesch

was prompted by watching —

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