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Thanks for move to review constitution The City of Waterloo is to be applaud- ed for its recent announcement of a committee to review the constitution of the Waterloo Minor Hockey Association (WMHA). and we wish to add our thanks here. This review is welcome because there are several indefensible aspects to the WMHA constitution. not the least of which is its prohibition of voting membership in the organization for parents of players. Under this constittr tion we have the ridiculous situation where a WMIIA functionary, say a team manager or a member of the executive, who generally has no formal specialized training in the supervision of youths and who may have contributed no more hours to minor hockey than many parents has a voting membership in the Association, while parents who pay heavily to support minor hockey (through taxes, registration fees. and. sometimes. travel expenses for coaches) have no vote. Now that I've worked in an offiee where women do not wear deck shoes or running shoes with their wool or _silk suits, I can appreciate the claim of many Podiatrists that nearly 80 per cent of the female population wear shoes that are poorly fitted. LETTERS As a fitness instructor my personal repungance is with high heels. To me they seem like a horrible means of punishment. Take away the back sup- port such as the sling-back and you might as well say goodbye to good posture or a healthy back. I'm not referring to the women who wear strapless, spiky shoes for a romp in a vampy costume on Ha1iowe'en or to those who suffer the consequences of high heels on occasion. I'm referring to women who wear heels all day - all week - for years. Indeed, a voting WMHA funrtionary may not even live in Waterloo (or pay taxes here), while all parents of players do this. In the interest of fairness, parents who support minor hockey financially, and who have the final responsibility for the welfare of their hockey playing sons, should have a vote on maior decisions. We look forward to the review committee's attention to such problems in the constitution. Our bodies were intended to be positioned in alignment over our feet - the entire foot. Not the balls of our feet or toes with the heel jacked up like a super-charger. When high heels are worn, this natural alignment becomes out of whack. It forces the body up and forward moving the support to the upper back, knees, and toes. This can cause a variety of foot troubles. Corns and calluses are a minor one, caused by shoes that are too small and narrow. if the high-heeled shoe is not a good fit around the heel, the foot will slide forward making the shoe too small and narrow. The constant rubbing against the shoe will cause the skin to at first become tender, swollen and sore and then eventually tough and scaly. No the kind of foot you‘d like to see coming out In and Da- McDonald Waterioo. Ont. Fitness Forum Peter Etril Snyder 'i' Kathy Hammond Fitness lnstructm returns next week of a dressy shoe. Another problem caused when the foot is pushed forward is called "hammer- toes". This is a permanent curling of the toes resulting from the foot being forced forward. The toes buckle to avoid being pinched. Eventually the bones in the toes become deformed. (This, however, takes several years to develop and become serious.) I'm, sure you can recall twisting your ankle, perhaps while wearing a flat shoe. Imagine then the possible injury when your ankle wobbles while wearing high heels! If you don't concentrate on heel and foot placement, or if you have weak ankles, your ankle can become sprained. On the lighter side, the comical struggle as you are trying not to fall can embarrass yourself to the point of walking very strained and unnatural each time you wear heels. Particularly dangerous are those backless, strapless, sling-back shoes. The ultimate question I ask myself is of course "Why would anyone wear high heels?" Fashion dictates many women's wardrobes. Particularly that heels be worn with dresses and office wear. The reason for this can be found in the false illusion that wearing heels looks more sophisticated and dresses up a certain outfit. Because of the forward position the body is pushed into unnaturally, the bust is accentuated, the rear end is accentuated. and the legs are supposed to become long and leggy looking. You‘ll notice that tiny. short women and heavyset women favour heels for pre- cisely this illusion. The Sept. 25 issue of the Waterloo Chronicle reports Prof. John Shortreed calling for the immediate enforcement of the occupancy by-law. He stated that the city doesn't need a task force to enforce the law. United Way is the community, and each and every individual in the Kitchener-Waterloo and Area is affect- ed by at least one of the 29 participating member agencies of United Way. We're all affected by United Way Support your community, This year's United Way Campaign is upon us and I would like to reflect on the question "Where would our community be without United Way?" This year the community needs at least $t,750.000to try to catch up to the ever increasing demands on the par ticipating agencies. This 16.7% im crease, when achieved, will only be a start to make our community a better place in which to live. In this, a year when our region is prospering, be generous. Support your community. Give the United Way, James E. McGlll Campaign Chairman He questions alderman on position Steadfast in quicksand. the tunny season of municipal elections is upon us. Questionnable claims are being made to snare an unsuspecting elector- ate. The Oct. " issue of the Chronicle reports Prof. Shortreed as stating that ,nd m, immediate enforcement of the by-law “...could make students innocent vie tims." In his newspaper advertisement urg ing Waterloo residents to re-elect him to council, he selectively quotes Waterloo Chronicle editorial stating that he. ”...steadfastly stood his ground." The IM-degree flip-flop made by Professor Shorter on the occupancy by-law raises questions regarding the truthful- ness of this claim. On behalf of university students in Waterloo, I would like to apologize for the disparaging comments made by Marcel Lemmen in his letter of October 23. Michael Kinsey Erb Waterloo.0nt. Getting along is what it is all about His advertisement stating: "Re. elect" is wrong. Professor Shortreed was defeated in the 1982 election and was appointed to council by default. Kitchener-Waterloo may be small in comparison to Toronto, but it is not a "hick" town. nor do the majority of students view it as one. " Mr. Lemmen is a student (which. quite frankly. I doubt) his letter shows that some students gain little from their educa- tion. I wonder what kind of grade the good professor would give to one of his students for such presentation of the "facts." I won't profess to being as high on Hallowe’en as Linus, the Great Pumpkin worshipper from Peanuts comic strip fame. But I've always thought the occasion a rather neat one, certainly one of the highlights of the fall season. It is not so demeaning to live in the less wealthy part of a city. If anything, it is a valuable experience. Those who have never known what life is like without manicured front lawns and snow-blowers can never be expected to relate to a large chunk of our urban There are so many great things about Hallowe'en. Stopping off at the roadside fruit stand on a crisp fall Saturday, picky, picky, picky about making Just the perfect choice of pumpkin for the front room window. Spending days agonizing over a costume to wear. Buying the right kind of goodies, cheap enough to stay on the family budget, but classy enough that you don't zoom to the top of the neighborhood blacklist. Carv- ing Pete Pumpkin up the night before, rolling up your sleeve to the elbow and sliming around in all the goo. And of course, the big event itself, trick or treating. In regpect to the latter, I guess I never got over being _ kid. In fact, it bothers me to no end that once upon a time. someone arbitrarily ruled that trick or treating was deemed to be a fun night out for kids only, while adults had to content themselves with silly costume parties. Why? lmean, trick or treating is what it's all about. I was thrilled to hear from Waterloo Regional Police the other day that we‘Seem to be on a downward trend in vandalism and the like. and have returned the event to its good old- fashioned fun night out. That's great news. What isn't such great news is that at my age, the roles available on Oct. 31 range from flashlight holder at end of driveway to front door goodie guardian, when what I really long for is the chance to re-live my childhood, prancing merri- ly from door to door, collecting enough of a stash to keep me in chips and tootsie pops till Christmas. Ah, the memories. The first time I ever remember trick or treating, . dressed up as Rocket Richard of Mon. treal Canadien fame. Two neighbors refused to dish out until I came back wearing a Leaf sweater, which was understandable since they were a popu- lar team in Toronto in 1960. I'll never forget the year my brother WATERLOO CHRONICLE. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 30. 1985 ..,..u PAGE , Rick Campbell Chronicle Editor Rights _ and I both decided to dress up as ghosts. Fine; except he hit the bricks 15 minutes before l, and everywhere I went, people would say, "oh no, you‘ve already been here before, we're not shelling out for you again." Needless to say, that practice ended quickly. Did we have our favorite shell-outs? Of course we did, though they were somewhat more modest than the offer- ings you see today. The one bad memory I had was that each of the Campbell kids carried a four or six-quart basket to haul in the spoils, with Mom explaining "the basket is big enough, it's not right to be greedy." Then, of course, we would join our friends, to the one carrying an oversized pillow case, triple-sized gar- bage bag, or similar receptacle able to carry a dozen times over the stuff we got. Never forgot the time a neighbor hooked up a speaker in the shrubs beside his verandah. scaring the beejibers out of trick or treaters with eery, haunted house sounds. Or the lady across the street, who made those delicious cara- mel taffy apples, as long as you were among the lucky first 50 to her door. The thrill of getting anything, potato chips, chocolate bar, anything that had a five cent or upwards price tat. The neighbors who always had to guess who you were before handing out. The utter joy, after unwrapping 364 molasses kiss candies, of finding an orange/licorice bon bon. Heaven. Clearing a special spot in your bedroom closet to stash the loot, taking daily inventories. and when the spirit moved, trading off a package of sweet tarts for two tootsie pops and a miniature Oh Henry. And a Double Bubble, for future considerations. Arrgh. I can't stand it. Why is this pleasure reserved solely for children? Can I start a new trend? Maybe, but I'll need your help. When the call of trick or treat Thursday night comes at your door from a suspicious-looking 6-foot-4 floozy with frazzled wig, exaggerated lopsided bosom and passion pink lipstick gooped all over her face, be kind and treat her as just one of the kids. For she/he is, at least at heart, on Hallowe’en. populations, and should not become the "movers and shakers" of society since they will move and shake only in the interests of the rich. Yes, we would like decent shelter where we do not have to turn the heat down to 60' to keep it from being wasted to the outdoors because the, landlady will not pay for storm windows. Yes, we would like to live near the universities and Uptown so we can walk and save our already scarce money, but behav ing like snobs is no way to achieve our goals. May I remind Marcel Lemmen (let- ter, Oct. 23) that the taxpayers are already footing some of the bills of students of higher learning categories through defaulted loans, etc. Dormitories could be the answer Therefore. as a taxpayer. I personally have no intention of paying for their beer, noise or other antics. When entering a city or hick town which houses a university, students must take their chances. Otherwise dormitories for all of the student population, expensive as it may be, could be the an- swer. I'm a student and a resident. I like my neighbors. They like me. We get along. and that's what it's really all about. Let's try to get along with each other. for both our sakes. We old retirees are fed up with hicks who probably will gain their degrees in beer drinking. Students already are movers and shakers - not necessarily embodying intelligence or respect for permanent residents. Cindy Long Waterloo, Ont. N21 tC2 Norma Sangol Waterloo. Ont.