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Zurich Citizens News, 1973-11-29, Page 4PAGE 4 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 (continued on page 5) rp) 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) ZURICH Citizens , E ` Sr PRINTED BY SOUTH HURON PUBLISHERS LIMITED, ZURICH HERS TURKHEIM, Publisher Second Class Mail Registration Number 1385etallieN 1 44 Member: . i ' Canadian Weekly. Newspapers Association OnWeekly Newspapers Association Art Subscription Rates: $5.00 per year in advance in Canada; $6.00 in United States and Foreign; single copies 15¢ ill miley 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 fession i I 'wed OPTOMETRISTS J. F. Longstaff OPTOMETRIST SEAFORTH MEDICAL CENTRES 527.1240 Tt{esday, Thursday, Friday, Sat- urday a.m., Thursday evening CLINTON OFFICE ' 10 Ossac Street 432.7010 Monday and Wednesday Call either office for appointment. 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