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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1973-11-28, Page 2'Storm• on Lake Huron. Sugar and by Bill Smiley cf virmiusuge 1172 s.sels Post anusse ONTARIO WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2110 1973 serving Brussels and the surrounding community pnbliShed each. Wednesday afternoon at Brussels, Ontario by McLean Bros. Publishers, Limited. • Evelyn Kennedy - Editor Tom Haley - Advertising Member Canadian • Community Newspaper Association and Ontario weekly Newspaper Association. Subscriptions (in advance) Canada $4.00 a year, others $5.00 a year, Single copies 10 cents each. seCond class mail Registration No. 0562. Telephone 881-6641. Who pipes the tune ? If we are to take our provincial government in TOronto at its word, regional government is coming, even to Huron County. Many of us may disagree with the idea that large integrated regions can govern as effectively and economically and with as much' opportunity for individual citizens to be heard as can the small municipal and county councils we have now. But whether we agree or disagree, it is up to 'us to do research, collect ideas and support our positions. If we don't want regional government to involve Huron, what can we suggests as an alternative? Do we have studies which back us up or are our Objections ,based on vague feelings? And if we support regional government (or conclude that it's inevitable) what ideas do we have about how it could work in Huron? The Ontario Government is currently asking how lbcal councils think county government should be structured. The Gaderich-Signal Star recently warned that if local councils don't pass on concrete proposals to Queens Park, eventually the province is, going to make decisions on regionalization on its own, without much regard for local wishes. The Signal-Star. says: • It is time now for Huron County Council to stop speculating about the future and to begin to draft some real and workable changes for the benefit of people here and all across Ontario. And according to Provincial Treasurer White's communique, there will be no consideration given to half-baked b riefs and parochial pussyfooting. It is clearly set out inMr. White's letter that because the government intends to give restructured counties the same grants it now giveS to, regions, the restructuring must be actual "and not merely tinkering". ' Mr. White has also declared that the seven basic criteria by which a restructured county might be judged are reviewing all aspects of local government within the county; involving the separated towns or cities; determining present servicing responsi- bilities; examining the county's economic resource, assessment and financial bases; defining the problems facing the area, With particular reference to present organizations and structures; encouraging public awareness, participation and understanding of issues by, among other things publishing the county's findings and recommendations; and submitting these findings and recommendations to the. affected municipalities and the Minister. The Minister further suggests a number of items thata restructuring study Should examine including population pressures; the boundaries of local municipalities and the county Itself; existing communities of interest between various population centres in or near the county; the relationship between the county and the cities and separated towns; the organization of county Council', the appropriate division of responsibilities; the elimination of special-pUrpose bodies: and the degree of accountability and responsiveness that could or should' be provided by the organizational frarritwork. The province is willing to share ill the costs of SOO restructuring studies - 50 percent or UP to a iTiakimUM provincial input of $66,000.- But as Well as money, such study needs the courage and the vision of dedicated Men and Wornen who know that if they do not do the job themselves, the day Is not fat Off when it will be done for -them. But when that happens the 'tune' will be played by' another plOer, First, we'll do a book review this week. A fascinating volume has come into my hands., It is called "Drink Your Troubles Away." The title alone Would sell a lot of copies. I can just hear the boozers say, "Hey. That's for me. It's time somebody wrote a sensible book," And then there's the name of the author. It is John Lust. What an intriguing combination. Drink and Lust: All for 95© . It's not quite as exciting inside as it is on the cover,' because, it's a natural foods tract. Unless you can get excited over the thought of a brimming glass of carrot juice, or start to drool at the image of a cabbage pie, it may not be your meat, if the author will pardon the. expression. I was a bit cynical at first, but I read on with groWing interest, and by the time I had gone through a few chapters, I was engrossed. . , I'm a meat and taties man, myself. You know what that will get me? I quote: "Wrong diet brings with it constipated bowels, hemmorhoids, anemia, defective secretions, acidity, ulcers, bloating, arthritis, headache, nervousness, liver and kidney ailments, heart disease, feeble- mindedness and a thousand other ailments . . . Well, I think that's a pretty sweeping statement. I have never been constipated in my life. Lots of the people I know who follow the same diet as I are constipated. I do have hemmorboids and arthritis occasionally; and I am definitely becoming feeble-minded, but I've had none of those other things, though I try not to think of my liver. Defective secretions indeed. What kind are you supposed to have? Effective' secretions? Don't think I'm knocking this book, I think John Lust is on the right track, even though it has Many turnings: I haven't seen any signs of feeble- mindedness among natural food fiends: Let us say, charitably, that there is a Certain feebleneSs of will. My son comeS home with his little bag of unpolished 1 rice. lie cooks some for breakfast, taken at 12 noon. HO gives us a. lecture on What harm We are doing our bodies, putting poisons in thein. During the afternoon, he smokes eight cif my cigarettes, though, theoretically, he doesn't smoke.. That evening, at dinner, he decides, just to keep peace in the fanfiy, to break his habit fOr onee, and eat meat. He eats about a pound and a:quarter of the 'matt beef we Can afford only because my Wife rushed out and put a second mortgage on the ear. How would yoti like to have ' to kill a fatted calf? That story would never Neve made the Bible at today's meat prices. My daughter, who is also a natural foods freak, has even less will power. After a few weeks on rice and beans and macaroni, she comes home with her husband, a sensible young chap who would eat stewed rats if he were hungry enough. She goes straight to, the refrigerator, whips open the froien meat department, and starts muttering, ``Meat! Glorious meat! ", the saliva running down her chin. But this is a good book;no doubt. The title refers to the fact that we can drink all our health problems away with vegetable juice. What a , way to go! It is based oil vitamins. Take iron, for example. If you are short of iron in your blood, you can have one of 40 different symptoms of debility. Space forbids the listing of them, but a few are: ,"face alternately flushed and pale; murky, yellowish gray face; crying involuntarily; fearful of losing reason; tense genital organs; swollen ankles; beg wetting; film before eyes; desire to carry arms over head; partial deafness . . How would you like to crawl into bed with somebody who had no iron at all? Bit of a nightmare, what? Apparently the best cure for this is wild blackberries. So Temeniber, If you are suffering from an iron deficiency, and at..the same time want a fulfilled Sex life, keep a bushel of wild blackberries handy by the bed. Lay in a good store. They're a little scarce in' Pebrttary. If you're short on calcium, it's just as bad. Here are a few of the 48 symptoms: "laborious thinking; looking into distance;' incoherent speech; afternoon headache; diZzineSs in open air; staggering upon ariSing; early sleepiness . . ." Does that sound more like Uncle George, who has developed a • fondness for the grape, than someone suffering a lack of calcium? It does to, me. Anyway, the best cited is turnip leaves., Moral: carry around softie turnip leaves and lay off the heOch, I wish I had Spade to tell 'you what ghaStly things can happen to you if yott are 'short of the other vitatninS. I'll give one example of each i, with its cute: Potassium: feeling of sand in eyes - dandelion leaves. Magriesinni: cholera ,orangeS. S icon: fingertips burn Calitnyrna figs. Chlorine - purple extrenfities asparagus That's jtiSt a. sample If I meet someone With cholera, burning fingertips, amid in his eyes, and purple ektreinities i I itnagitio I'll give him a wide both. But , On't `Say„I • didn't Warn Am. You're going to look pretty fonnyi though, going around with pookOtffil Of dandelion leaves- and atinther of asparagus.