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Commentary on ills of our society LETTERS As a Christian businessman, who grew up in the Kitchenerâ€"Waterloo area, and an avid reader of your paper, I would like to address the issue of how our income tax system might be more beneficial to our society, not only in Canada, but also in the global community. $ _ Firstly I‘d like to quote part of a recent issue of the biweekly paper, the Catholic New Times. ‘"Citizens for Public Justice (C.P.J.). a church based advocacy organization has presented the federal government with an innovative alternative plan for spending the Canadian tax dollar. The heart of the plan is creation of an $11 billion developâ€" I wonder whether the surge of low impact or no bounce aerobic classes is encouraged because of the fact that many fitness clubs or organizations found their exercise surface (their floor) was adding to foot, leg and knee injury. Rather than replace the floor to be more appropriate for the activities which take place on it, low impact aerobics replaced the more traditional aerobic movements. Low impact meaning reduced bouncâ€" ing and more arm and leg work and less bouncing done at a fast tempo. And no doubt many people will applaud low impact as saving their legs which suffered brutally with higher intensity aerobics. My real wonder is whether these same physical ailments could have been prevented by putting a suitable floor in the gym. Though I agree with a reduction in bouncing (I never supported continuous jumping on one spot repeatedly) going lower intensity will not stop shin splints, knee trouble, ankle sprains or low back pains which still occur. Nor will it substantially raise the heart‘s pulse, or burn as many calories â€" the objectives for doing aerobics in the first place. Changing the floor, which is just as important as having suitable footwear, carn make the difference and help eliminate these troubles. In low impact aerobics foot glide and pivot occur frequently with the constant sideâ€"toâ€"side movements which replace the upâ€"andâ€"down movements. Therefore _fFeedback ‘ i gi f 4 f R % ® s e T} P S g*t 3P . NJ 6e "It‘s difficult to tell â€" I think the way the mood is now that they would have a hard time getting back in." Fitness Forum John Szierer Kathy Hammond Fitness Instructor the surface friction of the floor becomes more important as the shock reducing factors become less important. Highlyâ€" cushioned or padded carpeted flooring designed to reduce foot stress will prohibit the foot from sliding smoothly. This awkwardness could result in sprained ankles and leg trouble, never mind the inability to coâ€"ordinate yourâ€" self. A smooth, nonâ€"yielding surface will provide the best foot glide as well as stable support. Finished hardwood floors are the most suitable. For aerobics such as fast walking, jogging, running, skipping or jumping there are several types of floors which will hold up. Before I let you know which floors they are, I‘ll tell you which floor to avoid. Cement. There is no absorption for stress. (Though I did exercise on a cement floor for five years I made sure to properly warm and cool my legs and feet. Many do not and suffer because of it.) Hardwood floors, particularly old ones, are most suitable for running. The floor gives as the foot lands. Spring hardwood floors are good for onâ€"theâ€"spot bouncing. Floating floors which are elevated with supports off the foundation of the floor are good for both low and high impact aerobics, providing they have a smooth finish to aid in fluid movements of the lowâ€"impact. Before signing up for any given program do yourself a favor and ask about the floors and whether they will need to be upgraded or replaced. ment fund to provide jobs and reduce poâ€" verty." **The source of the fund represents what C.P.J. calls a 10 percent shift in federal spending. Additional dollars for impleâ€" menting the plan would be raised in a variety of ways. Corporations would lose tax breaks and a seven per cent surtax on the profits of Canada‘s 500 leading companies would be imposed. Tax exâ€" emptions which mainly benefit the rich would be eliminated in favor of an increase of taxes for an upper income earner. A freeze in defense spending is also suggested." "Oneâ€"third of the money would go towards establishing a Guaranteed Annuâ€" al Income for the working poor and for those on social assistance. The remainder of the fund would be used for four main projects: 2.2 billion would be channeled into job training and counselling for those receiving social assistance and unemâ€" ‘‘*No. I think the cabinet shuffies have been too much â€" there has been too much discontent with the way his cabinet has been bumâ€" If the next election was today, would the Mulroney government still be in power? Waterioo Question asked on King St. in Waterlioo ployment insurance payments, 1.7 billion ‘"*Recent statistics show that the top 20 would build low cost housing. 1.5 billion percent of wage earners in Canada take would support communityâ€"based projects home 40 percent of our total earnings. The and 1.3 billion would pay for more child lower 20 percent make less than 5 per cent care programs. ‘‘While proposing these measures C.P.J. recognized that we can‘t blame the government for all our social and ecoâ€" nomic problems. Nevertheless, the orgaâ€" nization believes that in the past, federal policies have paid too much attention to economic development and have neglectâ€" ed structures that would address social needs such as low cost housing and child care. The details of the C.P.J. plan are carefully researched. According to Uniâ€" versity of Toronto economist Abraham Rotstein, ‘it moves us in the right direction‘ and ‘it shifts our priorities from a fixation on deficit reduction in favor of job creation and shoring up the social structure.‘ There‘s one thing that a generation of human beings knows for sure: it‘s going to be told how terrible, how out of joint, how weird and frightening it is. As far as most older people are concerned, the younger generation is always going to the dogs in a handbasket on a greased slide. And yet I doubt if there has ever been a generation in human history that hasn‘t had the same sort of accusations thrown as it. And there‘s a good reason for this. . As Eric Hoffer points out: no one likes the really new. We are afraid of it. We all tend to resist change. Even in slight things, the experience of the new is rarely without some apprehension. In the case of drastic change, the uneasiness is, of course, deeper and more lasting. We can never be really prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in selfâ€"esâ€" ht 14 M ctrtentindiiie Autbediiihemmmmnmht £M0 JCCCBOC* generation always represents a lot that is new, and the new is a threat to our selfâ€"esteem. Another part of it is that it tends to put us on the shelf. We see ourselves being replaced and any time that happens we find animosity, fear, and a threat to our egos. This is not to say that all adults look with fear and misgiving upon the younger generation. In fact, if they are intellectually mature, they see it for what it really is â€" the irrevocable changing and moving ahead of society and the world. They remember the beginning of their ‘"It‘s doubtful. It appears that the Canadian public is very disâ€" satisfied â€" myself included." He did a pretty good job of summing it generation when they themselves WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1986 â€" PAGE 7 eoffrey Fellows were the objects of dismay, head shaking and tongue clucking on the part of their elders. I remember when my generation took to flying, as today‘s kids take to computers. And I remember hearing my father say, "you‘ll never get me up in one of those things unless you can show me how to keep one foot on the Similarly, when women decided, for the first time in history, to chop off their "crowning glory‘"‘ below the ears it ushered in the ‘"roaring twenties‘" â€" a rebellious period in which women finally broke out of the traditional mold. Inevitably, the pendulum swings back a bit; the rebels of the sixties are now the parents of another generation and, having made their point, can now view their excesses in more mature hindâ€" While we have a natural tendency to resist anything that removes us from the familiar ground to which we have grown accustomed, we should not condemn the newubetore it has had a chance to prove itself. Surely we know, intellectually if not emotionally, that the present younger generation has to be the best our soc}_ety has ever produced if we use no other criterion than that it must build upon our own. To deny that it is better is to deny that we have improved at all. _ _People with selfâ€"confidence, who never stop growing and changing with the times we live in, come to terms with the new generation with perfect ease and feel no resentment towards it. (Mr. Fellows is the founder of the Human Resource Development Instiâ€" tute, P.O. Box 642, Cambridge, NiR of the country‘s income dollars." 5SW1) developing their naturallyâ€"grown prodâ€" ucts (i.e. bananas, pineapples, sugar cane, etc.) He could encourage more organizations such as Mennonite Ecoâ€" nomic Development Associates (MEDA) to work together with government grants and subsidies to help these poor countries also market their products to us here in North America. "I think they would still be in. They haven‘t been in power long enough for people to become displeased enough .‘ Mr. Wilson could look at Third World untries and try to assist them in Michael Wolf B.Sc., O.D. Box 698 Penetang, Ont.