The Brussels Post, 1976-11-10, Page 2BRUSSELS.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1.976 ONTARIO
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told me they used it in the old country as a
medicinal tea, A tea to calm the nerves or
give a good night's sleep or quiet a baby's'
colic.
This tea was fennel seed tea -- no leaves
crammed into a paper filter bag. But
genuine green-brown seeds that have a
very obvious licorce flavor.
I sipped my tea while John went on with
inflation horror stories for me. In Germany
he saw people carting off wheel barrows
full of money to buy a1oaf of bread. He saw
the rich people bringing in their luxuries
and their ' jewelry tO pay for, the simple
necessities of life.
We can't imagine it here. But John saw
it. John lived through it.:.That's why he
worries about rundwayjnflation here. He
says we must cut hack. Expect less. Give
more than we get. Step wasting and
needing so much. And I can't tell hiny all
my credit cards don't cost a cent if I pay the
bill by the end of the month.
I needed another cup of tea. I asked Mrs.
Rauser where I could buy' fennel seeds. I
knew I was going to need fenhel to soothe
• inflation nerves.
She gave me ,the rest of their opened
packet -- bought in a European specialty
store. The packet read: "Fenchel". That's
the German word. "Scald one to two
teaspoons fennel seeds with one cup of
boiling water. Take fennel tea once or twice
a day.".
I had my day's dose already-- in that one
hour at John's home.
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Fennel tea helps
Short changed
Never before in Canadian history has it cost so
much to accomplish so little.
While that statement may be taken as a generality
applying to m any , facets of our way of life in these
inflationary times, the one area that s t ands out is
that of education.
Canadians are second only to Sweden. In the
amounts of money poured into the open-bung barrel
of education. Yet, more and more, experts and those
who are considering the results of such expendi-
tures, advise we're turning out a large number of
illiterates and otherwise poorly educated people.
Universities are instituting English examinations
to test the qualifications of their first year applicants,
are ordering. special pickup courses to those found
below the required standard.
Canada Manpower finds many unemployed people
do not have the ability to hold jobs, simply because
they do not have the ability to read and write
sufficiently well, and thus communicate effectively.
• A senate study, recently completed, finds many
things wrong in our overall educational system, and
suggests a considerable portion of the tax dollars
being spent are obviously wasted because the results
are just not acceptable.
Something is seriously wrong, and just as obvious
is the need for immediate corrective action. The first
line of offence for area residents is the people
whom they elected as members of their country
school boards. While they are not by any means
solely responsible for the deplorable state of
education, they are the people in an ideal situation to
express our concerns for us and .to take some -
measure to instigate corrective actions; and further,
to see that improvements are undertaken.
Trustees have an immediate and urgent
responsibility to study and assess the results of our
system. For too long, many feel, they've been more
or less dealing with lesser issues, spending their
time and talents on bus routes, auditorium rental
fees and salaries, without considering the prime
objectives of a good educational system. The people
by whom they have been trusted with that objective,
have, by many indications, been short-changed.
(The Rodney Mercury)
Two minutes
[By Rev. EdBaker, Duff's United Church, Walton)
It is nearly sixty years since the guns fell silent on
Armistice Day on a November day. It has been a
generation since the end of the most recent World War
and over 20 years since Korea.
World War I took place at a time when machines
were becoming important: We remember with awe arid
admiration the triumphs and endurance of body and
spirit during those wars; especially World War I, tor
that was the last time when flesh really challenged the
machine. By World War II it Was a battle primarily of
machines. In the battle of flesh with a machine, flesh
loses: If you don't believe it, walk in front of a car.
Is Remembrance Day a time primarily for old soldiers
to remember lost comrades and terrible suffering of the
human soul, and for those of us who never fought to
offer a couple of minutes of thankfulneSs for their great
gift to keep us free?
It is primarily former soldiers Who take the initiative
to celebrate Rethembraride Day, The World War I
veterans are now 80, arid the men from World War II
around 50. If we leave it to them the Celebration Will
soon fade away.
Slogans, you,ask?` "The War to end War,' or`The:
war to n' Ake the world safe for democracy," both Waste
I was sitting in John Rauser's home in
Mitchell and lilstening to some of his hard
sayings.
John's actually a' gentle man, but I
couldn't help think he's one of those latter
day prophets who rage against the
economic conditions of our times.
Then John's . wife came into the living .
room and offered us'a cup of tea. A cup of
fennel tea.
That's just what I needed. I needed some
tea to sooth John's, words. To make them
go down better.
Now, it's true. John has no white be'ard
aflying -- like those prophets of old. But
John is a man in his 70's. He has no eyes
aflaming and arms aflying. He's a rather
calm man. His voice doesn't roll and
thunder. He speaks in soft and well chosen
words and in accented speech -- in speech
that betrays his Swiss origins.
John'a a keen, well disciplined man. His
trim figure and erect stance show it.
Yet John can get to you. He's not a
prophet like Nathan who can charge right
up to you and point his finger and say
"Thou art the man!" •
But no matter. John's words still have
point and pique. They still say "I'm the
man". I'm the man who's pushing the
inflation spiral upward.
He won't let me get away by blaming
Trudeau, his policies, or this government
or that. He won't let me shrug and say it's
a global affair. I can't do anything about it.
.John lets me know it all begins at home
--with me. I expect too much from the
economy, from the government. There's no
such thing as a free lunch from the
government.
I have to pay for all the services I expect
for all the things I want'the government to
do for me.
John says I expect too much money for
my work. Whenever salaries come around
for review, I want more money. Everyone
else is getting it, aren't they? I want up and
up. More and more. Like everyone else.
I've got to meet rising costs of living, don't
I?
Sure, John says, but would I ever think
of sacrificing? Say, take a cut in wages? Or
would I reduce my work week a few hours
and let some other , guy share in
employment?
John delivers those kind of punches.
So I really needed Helen Rauser's tea.
Ahh, what a comforting cup of tea. She .
people from the so-called Christian countries.
SoldierS have to give their all, their lives if necessary(
some lost their lives on the battlefield. Some returned
to their regular life.
The poem says,
. To you, from failing hands, we throw the torch;
be yOtits to hold it high . .
if ye break faith with US, who die,
We shall not sleep "
Ask a dozen people about , . :the torch . ." Which
We are te, hold high and Many won't know what you re
talking about, oh' the Stteet today, ,
Let us add a new dimension to, our understanding of
Remembrance Day, Those Who Went to War were ready
to give their best to build better world.. et us dedicate
ourselves Ott this day to the cause of human decency
and freedern. Let us net wait until injustice, hatred and
fear bring us to the place where war' crowds in upon Us
again
One of the Beatitudes refers to this. It does
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I started to ask other people about
• fennel. The German natives all know about
it. It's from the parsley family. The
Puritans nibbled the seed in church and
called it "rneetin' seed" -- a seed they
chewed on while church was going on.
No wonder the Puritans needed monitors
up and down the aisles to keep all the
members awake.
Who knows? The peace of God may have
been the peace :from fennel:
John admitted to me when his inflation
thoughts keep him awake, he goes for
another cup of fennel tea.
Right now John's working on getting all
his inflation concerns into print. In the
newspapers and into magazines. He wants
to let everyone know "You Are the Man".
I'd like to give him a suggestion. Would
he mind telling them about fennel tea?
Fennel tea may help get us all through
inflation.
rather a bitter taste in our mouth. One great writer
said, "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance," and
that requires more of us than two minutes per year of
remembrance and thankfulness.
Vimy Ridge, Passchendale and the Somme were
times when Canadians came of age, part of our growing
up. Although m any nations have come to birth since
then, nationalism is impossible in a world as small arid
fragile as ours.We, the nations of the world, /Mist learn
to co-operate; if we don't learn to live together
peaceably we will die together.
What a tragic commentaryy on a so called Christian
'society that we are ready to mobililze men and
resources to wage "total war": but when that war is
over there are pitifully few of either men or resources
given to clear up the debris of war and build homes and
lives for the future. After the Korean. War, I lived there
for a time, where between One arid two million refugees
who had lost horrid, livelihOod and often loved ones,
Were trying to .get on their feet in an overcrowded land.
I was ashamed of the Miserably few resources which
Unscathed countries gave to help, either people or
goods. In fact, people In the Third World often claim
that thy" people who have' stated the Wes are usually