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_ Feedback As you know, the Arts Council is dedicated to creating a higher visibility for the Arts, and the Ball is only a small vehicle to this end. Again, my sincere appreciation. Without the support of communityâ€" oriented people such as yourself, the Waterloo Regional Arts Council would not have been able to achieve the success we did with the Beaux Arts Ball. I would like to thank you, as well as on behalf of the Arts Council‘s Board of Directors, for providing us with publicity for our third annual Beaux Arts Ball. LETTERS Beaux Arts Ball huge success Jump Rope for Heart is coming. Comâ€" munities from all over will be supporting their elementary schoolâ€"aged children as they skip in teams for several hours, raising money for the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario. Teachers in partiâ€" cipating schools have Jump Rope kits including charts on the brain and heart and information on how a cardiovascular activity such as skipping can benefit our bodies. When the students skip they will not only know why they are skipping but what happens to their bodies when they do so. When you‘re a kid it seems so natural to pick up a rope and just skip. As teachers or parents who plan to join the Jump Rope as a show of support, there are several DO‘s and DON‘Ts which will make us feel good as we skip and reduce risk of injury or soreness several days later. This list is especially important to the adults or children who are not When my kids dig their skipping ropes out of the garage and run to school, in running shoes no less, I know spring is truly here.~I only hope their interest in skipping is contagious. Before moving to a new school, both my children spent their recesses and lunch hours skipping. Double Dutch, Double Dolly, Apples, peaches pears and plums ... the whole school yard was hopping. In fact the skipping ropes were not idle at home neither. The street was always jammed with neighborhood skippers. However, skipping ropes are not a comâ€" mon sight at or new home. At least not in the proportions we are used to seeing. Not yet. *5 _ i1 f , oo itke: _\ “‘k.i\ ob ‘ "I got a twoâ€"pound chocolate Easter bunny with a bow around the neck. I‘ve got it almost eaten. The bunny was good to me this EJ Fitness Forum Shirley McHugh, Chairman, Waterloo, Ont. | Kathy Hammond Lars Pastnik Waterloo Fitness Instructor Grandfather was Moses Springer Some time ago a copy of a news item was sent to me about Moses Springer, born Aug. 31, 1824 â€" my name, Harold Springer Lee, 9 Ann Street, Paris, Ont., phone 442â€"4574. My grandfather was Moses Springer, born Nov. 28, 1856. His father was John Springer married Honorâ€" ah Sheehan, I believe John and Moses were brothers. Have picture of Moses in Sheriffs uniform. Wonder if there are relatives still living, as a child we visited a Mrs. Moyer in Waterloo. I am now 70. Would be interested in hearing from any relatives. â€" don‘t look at the rope. Look straight ahead. â€" don‘t jump too high. You‘ll land too hard and increase the trauma to your joints. Jump on the balls of your feet and think "light" as you land. â€" don‘t stand still after a few minutes of skipping. The blood will pool to the legs which won‘t redistribute it and you could feel faint. Walk around. â€" don‘t allow the rope to slap the ground. Let it skim slightly. â€" don‘t hold your hands in too close to your body or too far away. Elbows should be slightly bent, upper arms in and hands about a foot away from the hips. â€" wear light running shoes with cotton socks to absorb the perspiration and add cushioning. DON‘Ts â€" keep your legs in front of your body â€" never behind. If you jump with your legs behind the rope could entangle your ankles, fatigue you sooner, and create a temporary postural imbalance while jumping. â€" either stretch before you skip or after several minutes when your muscles are more responsive. If skipping for several hours remind yourself to stretch at least every half hour. â€" bend your knees slightly reducing the shock of the landing in the hips, knees and ankle joints â€" jump on a soft surface if possible. Grass or dirt is better than pavement. accustomed to skipping any length time: ‘Nothing. Easter has lost its purpose, like Christmas, for most people. Besides, chocolate is addicâ€" tive." Harold Springer Lee Paris, Ont. Steve Slute Waterloo What did the Easter Bunny bring you? This is an open letter to the woman who almost smashed us to smitherings Monâ€" day, March 21 at 4 p.m. at Amos and Churchill Sts. in Waterloo. I had correctly indicated my intention to make a left turn on to Churchill when you tried to pass me at a very high speed. I tried to take evasive action but by that time I had already started to make my turn. Need:â€" less to say my front bumper was partially detached and part of the driver‘s side was scratched. Your explanation was that I was crawlâ€" ing along and you did not see my signal. You‘re right, I was going much slower than you, but I was still doing 40 km per What kind of conscience does woman have? ‘"Both these presumptions, it seems to me, have been invalidated, for the first time in history, by the invention of atomic weapons. In an atomic war, all that a soldier was trying to defend might be annihilated in the same flash as the soldier himself, and there would be no distinction between a winning and a losing side. The second presumption is that a war is bound to end in one side losing and the other side winning, and that it is so much better for one‘s own country to be victorious than to be defeated, that it is something worth giving one‘s own life for. Or, we may be on the verge of lasting peace and social justice. We cannot tell. ‘"War is an institution founded on two presumptions that have always held good in the past. If they were to cease to hold good, the institution would become unâ€" workable for the first time in history. The two presumptions are: that the soldier has a good chance of being able to defend, effectively, his family, people, country and cause by risking and, if it so happens, losing his life. ‘"‘Nothing. The Easter Bunny brought the end of school. I don‘t believe in the Easter Bunny." We cannot really judge the importance of our own times. We may be on the verge of destroying all life on this planet, and making it permanently uninhabitable. rian, who nt a semester at Grinnel College in ‘r:wa, had some interesting things to say about our age of:crisis. The 74â€"yearâ€"old author of the 10â€"volume Study of History said, ". . . . every generâ€" ation feels its own age to be the most important in history. Obviously it is the most important for that gener;ti&;: but it is not necessarily the most important in history. . ‘"Here there seems to be an entirely . Arnold Toynbee, the English histoâ€" Paul Weller Waterloo WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY APRIL 6, 1988 â€" PAGE 7 Geoffrey Fellows ‘"‘Nothing. I didn‘t go home for Easter. I missed out on a turkey dinner. My rabbit‘s famQy doesn‘t give chocolate anymore. This is a terrible injustice and I shall leave no stone unturned in getting this matter rectified. If you have a conscience, I hope your nights are as sleepless as mine have been. I certainly hope the vast difference in our neighborhoods had no bearing on what transpired. Drive safely! In all the years that we have been slowly attempting to conquer our eneâ€" mies, wourdn‘t it be wonderful if we are living in the age when we conquer our greatest enemy â€" ourselves. Fortunately, you were able to convince the investigating officer of your innocence and I was given a ticket for $57. Dr. Toynbee is reassuring also, when he points out that it has always proved impossible to suppress human freedom or to destroy human creative power. When these are banned in the field of politics they break out in the fields of economics, science, and so on. The size of wars has been diminishing, almost as though they were the last dribbles of a dying age. Today, the brushâ€"fire wars of the world are conducted under a limiting rule for the first time in the history of warfare. Always before, the newest and most terrible weapons were exploited in vanâ€" quishing the enemy. But today, the big bombs cannot be used as the struggle between the forces of freedom and comâ€" munism for world control erupts in small, localized, guerilla type wars. It‘s a deadly game, but with some holds barred. hour before I started my turn. This is a school zone and around that time the children are on their way home. Why were you in such a hurry? Mr. Fellows operates the Human Resourâ€" ce Development Institute, P.O. Box 642, Cambridge, NIR 5W1, providing effecâ€" tiveness training for business and indusâ€" try. new element in the problem of war. Now, for the first time, the alternative to abolishing war is to destroy a great part, or even perhaps the whole, of the human race. This is quite a new situation, and I believe it is going to stimulate the human race to abolish the institution of war," Dr. Toynbee said. Certainly, since the perfecting of the atomic bomb and its even more devastatâ€" ing successors, there has been no repetiâ€" tion of a major war such as World War IL Letters welcome John Leahy Waterloo Jeff Harding Waterloo, Ont.