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ZURICI-I CITIZENS NEWS
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1973
mare, what? Apparently the best
cure for this is wild blackberries.
So, remember. 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 Feb-
ruary.
If you're short on calcium,
it's just as bad. Here are a few
of the 48 symptoms: "laborius
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 develop-
ed a fondness for the grape,
than someone suffering a lack
of calcium? It does to me,
Anyway, the best cure is turnip
leaves. Moral: carry around
some turnip leaves and lay off
the hooch.
I wish I had space to tell you
what ghastly things can happen
to you if you are short of the
other vitamins. I'll give one
example of each, with its cure.
Potassium: feeling of sand in
eyes --dandelion leaves.
Magnesium: cholera - oranges,
Silicon; fingertips burn
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The moment f truth!
Tuesday, January 1, 1974, is not only going to mark the
beginning of a bright new year, it is also going to mark the
moment of truth when a whole new batch of cost increases
are going to have an effect on the lives of everyone.
On January 1st, the recently announced contributions to the
unemployment fund will become effective. The increase, the
second within a year for employees and employers, will amount
to an increase of over 50 percent during that period.
A new increase in the provincial minimum wage rate, also
the second within the year and the amendments giving two
weeks vacation after only one year of employment, is going
to be a burden on smaller business firms.
Then too, will come the increases in hydro -electric rates
and the myriad of other increases that have been announced
almost daily and will continue to be announced.
No doubt January 1,1974 seemed to be far off in the distant
future in the minds of government officials and others when
all these brave new plans were announced. Time however,
goes on and on January 1st the chips will have to be picked up.
(Tilbury Times)
The ;7 est expe sive prof essi
n!
It's getting tougher and tougher for a young person these days
to enter a profession. With the skyrocketing costs of education
and living, many of the less financially but brilliant persons
of our younger set are finding it nearly impossible to enter
any profession, be it law or medicine, to mention a few.
But to many people's surprise, the most expensive profess-
ion in Canada to enter is farming. It tops them all as far as
costs are concerned.
According to an article in the November 16 issue of the
Financial Post, starting a farm now costs an average of $76,
500 and its going to get even more expensive.
Professor G.R. Winter, head of the department of agricult-
ural economics at the University of British Columbia told the
recent Canadian Bankers Association conference in Winnipeg
that capital requirements for the average Canadian farm rose
to that figure from $27,389 in 1961 and $44, 258 in 1966.
To make the picture even more dismal for potential farmers,
Prof. Winter said that debt, as a proportion of total farm assets,
rose from 9.5 percent in 1960 to 20.8 percent in 1970.
The number of operating farms has been dropping at the
rate of two percent a year from 1941, one reason why fewer
farmers are being forced to grow more food.
Prof. Winter also predicted an increasing proportion of part-
time farmers. some attracted by high commodity prices and
others attracted by interest in a rural environment and a diff-
erent lifestyle.
Russell Harrison, president of the Canadian Bankers Associat-
ion had earlier predicted that the total outstanding farm credit
would likely triple within the next decade and the average
investment in a farm will grow to more than $100, 000 by 1980.
There can be no doubt, then that for these kind of invest-
ments, farm prices must be higher. No farmer in his right
mind would invest $100, 000 and see more than 20 percent of
it owing nearly constantly.
Those kind of figures also spell doom, we think, to the
;amity farm concept which has been fast dying in the last ten
years anyhow.
Who among our young people, if they didn't inherit, would
go into farming that requires a $100, 000 outlay. Most young
people wouldn't have the power to borrow it, and those that did
would be debt ridden for nearly their entire working lives.
Both the federal and provincial governments have farm
credit systems, but none really serve the purpose --getting
more young people into farming.
Unless both governments get their heads together soon and
come up with a logical solution, family farming in Canada
is doomed and along with it, a whole way of life.
(Clinton News Record)
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THINK YOU'RE SICK?
HERE'S A FEW CURES
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, "Iley. 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 954+
It's not quite as exciting in-
. side as it is on the cover, be-
cause 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 int-
erest, 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, defect-
ive, bloating, arthritis, head-
ache, nervousness, liver and
kidney ailments, heart disease,
feeble-mindedness and a thous-
and 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 hemmorhoids and
arthritis occasionally, and I
am definitely becoming feeble-
minded, but I've had none of
those 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 natur-
al food fiends. Let us say, char-
itably, that there is a certain
feebleness of will.
My son comes home with his
little bag of unpolished rice.
He cooks some for breakfast,
taken at 12 noon. 1 -Ie gives us
a lecture on what harm we are
going our bodies, putting poisons
in them.
During the afternoon, he
smokes eight of my cigarettes,
though, theoretically, he doesn't
smoke. That evening, at dinner,
he decides, just to keep peace
in the family, to break his habit
for once, and eat meat. He eats
about a pound and a quarter of
the roast beef we can afford only
because my wife rushed out and
put a second mortgage on the
car.
How would you like to have
to kill a fatted calf? That story
would never have 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 mac
aroni, 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 refrig-
erator, whips open the frozen
meat department, and starts
muttering. "Meat! Glorious
meat!" the saliva running down
her chin.
But this is a good boolt, no
doubt. The title refers to the
fact that we can drink all our
health problems away with veg-
etable juice. What a way to go!
It is based on 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 for-
bids the listing of them, but a
few are: "face alternately flush-
ed and pale; murky, yellowish
gray face; crying involuntarily;
fearful of losing reason; tense
genital organs; swollen ankles;
bed 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 night -
u ►!nese and
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