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_Feedback Dismayed by stoopâ€"andâ€"scoop issue dismissal I was be 1 surp 1 and dismayed to read the Ci.â€"onicle _ d discover that the City of Waterloo not only doesn‘t have a stoopâ€"and scoop Bylaw but that City Council took the request for one so lightâ€" ly. I‘m not sure exactly what Mayor Carroll meant when she said, "I‘m not sure we‘re ready to tackle stoop and scoop quite yet,"" but I don‘t understand why the cleanliness of our city is obviously not being considered as a priority for the fuâ€" LETTERS Anyone who has ever taken a walk through one of our parks can‘t deny the If you want to be with somebody really miserable (though I can‘t imagine why) hang around with someone who has a neck pain. Not somebody who IS a pain in the neck, though it‘s certainly underâ€" standable that after having a pain in the neck they would probably become one. A pain in the neck is one of the most common physical injuries and not tarâ€" geted at athletes and fitness buffs. The main reason I have chosen to write about our necks is because I have unfortunately been the victim of such pain for several days. Like most neck pains, mine could have been avoided. When a friend came to call I stood at the door talking for a few minutes. Now I know that many of you who know me are probably thinking I talked for much longer . . . a few minutes being virtually impossible, but a few minutes it was. After the door closed I got a sudden sharp pain on one side of my neck that almost brought tears to my eyes. I guess it was the cold draft. Whatever it was it was enough to make my every moveâ€" ment uncomfortable. Sitting, standing, walking, sleeping, and yes, even talking became a chore. Our heads weigh between seven and 10 pounds. Graphically speaking, imagine a 10â€"lb. bag of potatoes lolling about on the top of our necks, with only small bones at the base of the neck and small muscles at the front and sides of the neck to hold it in place. Or worse yet, think of what happens to an infant‘s head when it is not properly supported. We certainly cannot expect someone a ‘ 1 4 l l j P ' > e taill, | l\ ‘ d s ® p 2l f LV ’ P . @Â¥t « ‘ because I just bought a house, so the blahs won‘t come until I have to start the payments," _ _ Fitness Forum _1 â€" Fitness Instructor to support our heads for much longer than a few months, so it‘s up to us to strengthen our neek muscles and retain or try to attain a good posture so we can hold our heads up with little effort. Depending on the type of job you have, you may be putting your neck in high risk of injury. For instance, even writing this column forces my head to tilt down and to the side as I initially scratch this out in pencil and then again as I type it. Secretaries who do a great deal of typing, looking to the side continually, plasterers, painters, drywallers who look up constantly, or anybody who uses concentrated efforts to see something throughout the duration of the day needs u; stretch and strengthen the neck musâ€" cles. Other than the obvious sitting, standâ€" ing and sleeping with the body in proper alignment, there are a few exercises which will help. Throughout the day, drop your head down, trying to rest your chin on your chest, and move your head from side to side. When at home, clasp your hands together behind your head, push against your head with your hands and resist with your head. This will strengthen the muscles at the back of the neck. To work the muscles at the front put the heel of your hands against your forehead and do the same resistance movement. Turn your head to the side, place your hand flat against the side of your face and push and resist. This will work the side of the neck. fact that it‘s impossible not to watch where you are walking at all times. I appeal to city council to reconsider the issue, this time seriously. A stoopâ€"andâ€" scoop bylaw is long overdue and one which I‘m sure we are all ready to tackle. Sunday shopping uproar merely smokescreen The uproar over Sunday as an enforced rest day is a smokescreen. The Scriptures prociaim the Seventh day as the Biblical Sabbath in both the old and the new "I don‘t get the blahs because I like to ski, and I know that spring is just around the corner," . Waterioo, Ont. How do you beat the February blahs? Testaments. A look at any calendar will confirm that the Seventh day is indeed the day we know as Saturday. The following quotes show who changed the day: ‘"You may read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation and you will not find a single line authorizing the sanctification of Sunday. The Scriptures enforce the reliâ€" gious observance of Saturday, a day which we never sanctify." James Cardiâ€" nal Gibbons, The Faith of our Fathers (1917 ed.) s ‘"‘The Bible says "Remember the Sabâ€" bath day to keep it holy." But the Catholic church says, ‘"No, keep the first day of the week" and the whole world bows in obedience." Fr. T. Enright, Roman Catholic Priest. So, people disobey the Creator Yahâ€" weh‘s Law by working on the Sabbath and uphold the Pope by enforcing Sunday as the rest day. It is a matter of obedience to suspicious mind is a high one. When the Ford Motor Company first opened its plant in Dagenham, England, it imported security guards from Deâ€" troit, and with them came the foreign practice of inspecting the contents of all lunch boxes as the employees left the This blind assumption that all workers were dishonest so incensed the Brits that there began such a wave of stealing that has never been seen, before or since. shrewd. But the price paid by the devised. People who never dreamed of stealing now accepted the challenge to beat the unjustified system. The town was soon full of Ford parts, lying around for all to see. They were not being sold, that wasn‘t the point. The employees were going on the theory that "If you have the name, you might as well have the game." And a game it was, in expressing their resentment at the company‘s lack of trust in every way they knew how. * & Eventually, when the management realized what suspicion had brought about, the inspection was discontinued and the game was over. Expectations are powerful motivators and if they are negative, people will live down to them out of resentment, but will just as readily live up to them out of selfâ€"respect. It went to show that it is better to be fooled sometimes than to withhold trust, for the loss of a possession is trifling compared with the loss of faith. Question asked on King St. "I usually don‘t experience them â€" I‘ve never really paid much attention to it," While the lunch boxes remained WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1987 â€" PAGE 7 Dale Sawyer 4 4 qwe l â€" When Rucdyard Kipling was a small ; boy, he and his sister were sent to a _ foster home in England while his parents were living in India. § The foster mother was of the stern, , Victorian breed which assumed that all â€" _ children were born bad anyway and, ; _ therefore, would be expected to lie. | After constantly accusing young Ruâ€" _ dyard of lying to her, he, with the clear logic of childhood, decided, "If she ; thinks I‘m lying to her when I‘m not, then I‘d better start lying and get her off t _ my back." This he did, with great success, but the i experience never left him. The sheer ) stupidity of this suspicious woman in Mfimm very thing she did not want to so impressed him that he wrote a book about it! That misguided senator who gave his name to McCarthyism is a classic example of the suspicious mind and all horrors and sufle{lng it can conjure. Any witch hunt, of whatever kind, will produce more witches than existed before. Some people can be perversely obliging in providing you with what you want to find. Similarly, when citizens expect that politicians are all selfâ€"serving or crooked, their incentive to be otherwise is hardly compelling. Why is it that our suspicions about people are always sinister and negative? Is it unthinkable to suspect that people are basically good? For, as C.S. Lewis points out, *"Suspicion often creates what it suspects." (Mr. Fellows is the founder of the Human Resource Development Instiâ€" tute, P.O. Bor 642, Cambridge, NIR 5SW1) The Sunday law is only the beginning. The Tribulation the Bible says will result from this will make the exterminations and martyrdoms of the Early and Middle Ages (also perpetrated by the Christian Church: conservative estimates 50,000,000 deaths) insignificant by comparison. (Mathew 24:21) The time is coming and indeed is already here when ALL people will have to make a choice. Ignorance is no excuse. Choose Yahweh, Choose Life. Yahweh. Disobedience brings death. (Romans 6:23) Daniel wrote about the changing of the law in chapter 7. John wrote about the religious empire that rules the world (in Revelation 17) as Babylon, mother of Harlots. Babylon‘s day of worship is Sunday, and annually December 25, the Venerable day of the Box 767, Armstrong, B.C. VOE 1B0 "I look forward to university reading week, which is a good time to catch up on work and