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LETTERS Should have constructive attitude Last week I wrote about hypothermia (cold injury) and included a bit of prevenâ€" tion advice. I had wanted to mention that although old people are susceptible to hypothermia, there are ways to fight the body‘s natural tendency to become vulâ€" nerable. Regarding negative statements made by some individuals via letters to the editor pertaining to refugees. Not only should layered dressing also apply to the elderly, who often spend more time walking than young people, but the home should become a battleâ€" ground against the cold. It needs to be kept warm, perhaps much warmer than a younger person deems necessary. Elderly people have every right to complain to landlords who are miserly with heat; they feel the cold much more acutely. It is apparent that these views are not from readers that have been involved in trying to make a constructive contribuâ€" tion to victims of war, oppression and lifeâ€" threatening situations etc. _fFeedback People that have become citizens in the distant past after fleeing their homelands and have prospered under adverse condiâ€" tions are to be commended. Today, Canaâ€" da has evolved into a country that offers more opportunity to adapt as a result of more humane social services. Over 10 If the heating system cannot be conâ€" trolled individually, it may necessitate the purchase of a space heater to at least keep one room of the house or apartment comfortable. Placing the bed or favorite armchair against an inside wall should help reduce drafts. Don‘t stay still for too long. Get up and move around by spreadâ€" ing jobs around the house. Socks, gloves and a night cap may seem old fashioned but they will keep the cold out while sleeping. Other preventative measures for everyâ€" one include drinking at least eight cups of water each day that you are active outside. The cold air draws the moisture from your body with the heavy breaâ€" thing. Don‘t smoke while out in the cold. The nicotine slows the blood circulation to your fingers and toes and cuts down on the blood‘s ability to carry oxygen. If you are on medication to treat anxiety, depression or nausea, your abiliâ€" "Hockey. It‘s good to see all the world‘s best hockey players asâ€" sembled. Hopefully Canada will win 5 k o . _ w e k: Cnpiiih, e g j is ~ 9e $ a "vM { 3e $ i‘ j it “ s y % % e S s _ i: ® s Y g s *3 s 5. % t i€ C ts e C C is % y # "us 3 i §\\ & P Aeaet . â€" w & e o 3 3 es f s3 . : .t * S 5‘ n t C 4 ' W ue w s 3 & uts i. & ; 9 es 4 7 : i4# & 2e NdPtli, % f PE % R : ; i $ F # " " iE h Eue fi nc A »»sr0it . 4 w« I h C We ind | e w s o. gve * se f & # Sot *. e is S &:; . 4 C t % Ns «ue ce $ . : s S 5 E. R ut o s oo } BR s 3 se e : ‘Qte\ Nes T § l 8 ‘- ~ . ,, § ¢ m 6 ECX <@B f & k“ N axba o pus 0 en uney Dan Constant Kitchener Kathy Hammond Fitness Instructor Fitness Forum If you find yourself or someone. else exposed to the cold for dangerous amounts of time such as camping, hiking, skating or in the event of car trouble there are ways to try to stop the onset of hypothermia. You can wiggle, jump, stamp your feet, clench and unclench your hands and swing your arms in wide circles and use your armpits or groin to warm hands beginning to numb. If your hands become too cold your body stops shivering. The rapidly contracting and relaxing muscles are needed through shivering to produce body heat. ty to warm yourself may be altered substantially. Take care to keep well protected and limit your time spent outdoors. In mild and moderate cases of hypoâ€" thermia, warm liquids are needed. Be sure that they are not hot as the warming needs to be gradual. As well the throat may be numb due to the cold and the heat of the liquid may not be felt. Something too hot may leave a burnt and damaged throat. DO NOT heat and drink alcoholic beverages. This will further the dehydraâ€" tion process and increase the flow of warm blood to the surface of the skin rather than allowing it to stay within the bodily organs where heat is essential. Wet or cold clothing should be removed. A lukewarm bath followed with dry clothing and a warm blanket should reverse the cooling effect. Other nonâ€" hypothermic bodies work well snuggled together. _If 7you are not careful and develop severe hypothermia and are alone, just pray that someone else will find you. million refugees in the world have fled their homes as a result of persecution, civil strife and political upheaval. Their needs are urgent; in addition to immediâ€" ate assistance, they need help to find permanent solutions to their forced homeâ€" lessness. The provided support brings life, protection, selfâ€"sufficiency, and dignity to thousands of uprooted victims of injustice. The building of our country is party due to people from other lands coming to our shores â€" often under desperate circumâ€" stances â€" and struggling to survive. The refugee and immigrant today yearns for a better future also. Individuals and famiâ€" lies escaping persecution and seeking refuge will â€" as in the past â€" continue to give more than they initially receive in aid. Our new Canadians appreciate the chance to be part of a free and humane society and are fully aware of the support "Hockey. It‘s the only thing I‘ll watch. The team is doing so well this year that they will probably win the gold." Waterloo What‘s your favorite sport at the Calgary Winter Olympics? For instance, did you know where the word dandelion comes from? It‘s quite an old word, being a corruption of the Norman French, dent de lion, or lion‘s tooth, referring to the leaf‘s edges. I ran across some interesting things in Webb Garrison‘s book "Why You Say It." provided by concerned Canadians. If we are to create a better world and avoid violent conflict, we must move apd see the world and its changes from the perspectives of the poor. And, speaking of teeth, or dents, the word indenture is interesting. Being a contract, it is an agreement between two parties, each of which had to have an ‘"identical‘" copy. This letter is a respons; to the article in the Jan. 13, 1988 issue of the Waterloo Chronicle about the Rodriques family. Before the days of carbon paper and copiers, the agreement was written out twice on the same piece of parchment, one above the other. Immigrant offers family no sympathy We came over to Canada 35 years ago. At that time there was no welfare, living allowances or day cares. The farmer sponsored us and we had to work on the farm for one year at a very low wage to When the two parties agreed that both were written alike, the parchment was cut or torn in an irregular line across the middle, or "indentured", so that, when fitted together, each party could show that they had a duplicate of the same document, or ‘"identical". Another interesting, â€" though a bit gruesome, history is attached to the word "autopsy". As late as 1800 few physiâ€" cians had any firstâ€"hand knowledge of the interior of the human body, the only operations being confined to the amputaâ€" tion of limbs. People had a superstitious horror of the dead body and threatened violence to any doctor who dared to dissect a corpse. Yet there was a growing pressure on the part of medical men. No longer satisfied with what they could read in the few books on the subject and learn from the drawings by da Vinci, the modern doctor wished to see the human interior for himself. Thus, the opening of a cadaver was called an autopsy, from the Latin word autopsia, meaning "selfâ€"seeâ€" ing". Most early autopsies were conducted in secret behind locked doors but, as anaâ€" "Hockey. It‘s a sport I play so I enjoy watching. There will be more play and less contact than the NHL_ It‘s a different game."‘ WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 17, 1988 â€" PAGE 7 Terrance Smith Waterloo, Ont. Dan Brown Kitchener Geoffrey Fellows tomical studies began to bear fruit in the form of successful operations, public opinion shifted and anatomy became a respectable branch of modern medicine. It took only a few years to perfect methods by which the cause of death could be determined, which opened the radical new branch of forensic medicine, and the onceâ€"illegal autopsy became standard legal practice. The word "tabloid" has lost its original connection entirely. Nineteenthâ€"century advances in medicine made the British people a pillâ€"conscious society. Sugarâ€" coating was yet unknown and most pills were large and bitter. Then Burroughs, Wellcome & Co. had the idea of compressing pills so that they would be easier to swallow. They called this a tabloid and made it their tradeâ€" mark. Advertising made the tabloid well known and it soon became a generic term, applied to other condensed goods. There are many words in common use today that started out as trade names belonging to various companies to idenâ€" tify their products but, because they failed to protect their proprietory right to those names, they took on a generic meaning, such as; thermos, nylon, fridge (from Frigidaire), linoleum, stetson and many more than you would ever want to know. When small newspapers appeared, which purported to condense the news for the convenience of the busy reader, they, too, were ‘called tabloids and seem to have monopolized the use of the term ever since. (Mr. Fellows operates the Human Reâ€" source Development Institute, P.O. Box 642, Cambridge, NIR 5W1, providing effectiveness training for businmess and industry.) as we did some 35 years ago. If the Rodriques wanted to work, they could, as our unemployment rate is a mere 5%, and, maybe they would, if their welfare supâ€" port was cancelled. I speak for the vast majority of Canaâ€" dians, when I say, the Rodriques will not get any sympathy. The refugee family‘s plight appears to be a case of minimum work and maximum luxury. "Hockey. It‘s a Canadian sport, eh? 1 hope that the Cannd?;ns cream the Americans and the Russians. pay back $300 we owed him. Later, we continued to take the low paying jobs that nobody wanted. And there were no comâ€" plaints on our part. Today these new immigrants expect too much. They should be happy that they are even allowed into this country. This is a great country, but if you want to get ahead, you have to start at the bottom jt{st Cameron Jarret Waterloo Anne Lutz Waterloo, Ont.