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fEiiiiiEEEiE Don't allow absentee landlords There is an answer to the single family housing shortage Don't allow absentee landlords to buy all our lower priced single family dwellings for student rent- als. These students could live in single rooms __ they don't need a whole house. Three houses in our block have been taken over by students - 10-20 to a house? We are now plagued with broken beer bottles all over the street, sidewalks, our driveways. Drunken, drugged up noisy parties. Even an illegal bonfire that Our Ity-laws are not enforced and whole neighborhoods and hundreds of houses are being ruined. Single family neighbor- hoods should remain just that. Until recently those rules were enforced. feedback If you‘ve gone shopping recently you may have noticed the racks of preseason bathing suits. Gasp! Is it that time already? Do you feel safe trying one on? You know from experience that retail- ers do everything possible to make you look terrible in the change room. The fluorescent lighting highlights the ble- mishes, the scars. the flab and again this year the buttocks that are tellictam to stay inside the shape of the bathing, suit. If the retailers are really nasty they'll put posters of women with amazing bodies inside amazing bathing suits so you can see what the gun is supposed to look like. Even worse, the sales people, will fling back the qurtains and WM examine the f1t (along with all the shoppers in the store). I'm sure this is done only to provide comic relief during their lunch hour. Don't be discouraged. Do yourself a favor and don't even bother trying a bathing suit on yet. You‘ve got a few months yet to avenge the sales people by creating a behind that doesn't drag behind. (We'll assume you’re already working on that waist.) No matter what size you are naturally, there is no reason to have butocks which carry on down the back of your legs. Not only is it unsightly and uncomfortable but damaging to your posture. Because posture is relative to not only a good physical build but self-Conrad-e (or lack of it) it is essential to have your bodily weight distributed accordingly. The saggy behinds have to go. The East effective way -to work the "I think it is a good idea to put the station to good use, Why would people take a tourist train to St Jacobs? It won't get enough bum. "iu, do "s C " _ ' , l" 5 . ' ' .-_ in. I . _ E , _ t l r" , " Im . ~ “ -r :5 d " I Kathy Hammond Fitness Forum Fitness Instructov Jody Eaton Waterloo buttock muscles is by lifting your 193 back and upward (this conditions the gluteus maximums, the largest buttock muscle which lies closest to the skin), as well as lifting your legs to the side (conditioning the gluteus medias, a deep- er muscle positioned to the side of the buttock). 1. Hip um Lie on your back with knees bent, feet flat and legs apart. Lift the hips high, squeeze the buttocks, slowly lower and repeat. 2. boutue.theaaud: Same as above but raise one leg vertically while lifting the hips. (Also a great stretch for the 3. Prone Leg Lift: Lie face down arms by your sides with legs straight and toes pointed. Simultaneously lift the head and one leg, just high enough to clear the floor. Hold, squeeze and relax. A. Wall Press: Lean your back against a wall with legs apart and feet pointed outward. Press arms and hands into the wall for stability. Slowly lower your body until your hauds arehst knée heighi. Squeeze your buttocks and return to starting position to repeat. 5. Leg Raise: Supporting yourself using your dresser or kitchen counter squeeze your buttocks, push your pelvic area forward and lift one leg behind. Don't go higher than necessary to keep your back straight. The trick is in the squeeze, not in the height of the leg. For each exercise aim for 15 repetitions three times a week. You can add ankle weights for a more advanced workout. could have destroyed a number of homes More details on playground tree-cutting Ian Kirkby's cover ry m 12 Ian Kirkby‘s cover any in last week's Chronicle, "Irtaensitive' tree-chopping?" The road is taken up by football players, golf balls, etc. Little children walking home from Northdale school could be seriously cut with broken glass, hit with footballs, golf balls, snowballs, etc. These students do not shovel snow, cut grass, hedges or clear their property of all their filthy rubble. We will soon have two beautiful expensive universities sur- rounded by streets of slums. ls that what the city wants? There are answers and very simple ones if you look for them. Lillian Peirce Waterloo Ont, “I think there are too many tourists in St. Jacobs and Elmira already. They always drive through town going 20 km. Maybe they'll take the train next time." Would you use a tourist train that connects Waterloo with St. Jacobs and Elmira? Dan Stawaki St. Jacobo was very welcome. I only want to add something about the treet in question. They were not diseased or dying, nor were they loo-years-old, as the controller of buildings and maintenance for the separate school board is quoted as saying. The trees were box elders, sometimes called Manitoba maples. They grow freely as weeds, but mature trees have a pleas- ing bulgy corky appearance and are hardier than sugar maples. There are many of them up and down our tstreets. They are messy and produce lots of weak and dead limbs that must be pruned. This was the case with the trees on the St. Louis playground As anyone may still Bee, by inspecting the stumps in the St. Louis playground, these trees were perfectly sound, and there are not more than 50 growth rings in the largest of them-rather early middle-age for this species. Mar-t' Oulkin Banning. It's ,called Indenrtmtetitrle Wealth. "It was quite an interesting discussion. We were talking of a man we all knew, and someone remarked in the customary tone of horror and warning that the savings of his lifetime had been swept away. "Perhaps the lady who answered back had heard these words once too often - for this was back during the depression of the '30's - she said sharply, 'You mean that he lost his money.' The mourner nodded. 'Thttt's what I said.‘ " 'No,' said the lady, 'you didn't say that. You told us that the savings of a lifetime were gone, which is not true. They're not gone. He has a mind stored full of knowledge and experience. He has made large contributions of service to his community and neighbors, in education provided for other people. These are investments that have not depreciated and will still yield a return today. " 'He's saved his simple habits and his pleasure in living. You don't have to worry about him.' Then she added rserce, ly, 'Worry about yourself if the savings of your lifetime are all going to be the kind that can be swept away in a depression.' " _ That's very good, isn't it? Sometimes we get so caught up in frantic day-today living that we put the emphasis on the wrong things. We also tend to fear change, and regard it with suspicion and Apart from one's own abilities and skills, we tend to overlook the invest- ment that we may have built up in service to others, which is returnable in goodwill in time of need. We are inclined to overlook the fact that material things are both disposable and replaceable, whereas the qualities of minds and spirit, Hero'- launching 91' interest [rimnby “I might try it once. but l don't think I'd make it a habit. I don't think that the tramdto St. Jacobs and Elmira is that great unleaa it is the day of the Elmira Syrup Festival. Why go to the expense?" Mike Croth . Kitchener tt-xtCttrttmtCtE.WEDteathATArNL8r,tV tttttttft-ttr, Follow: once acquired. are yours forever. We were given this aound advice in the Sermon on the Mount, "to lay u for yourselves in heaven" which, 'dtrt"lf nately. too many people regard as merely "pie in the sky,“ and miss the whole point. This is due to a misconception of the word heaven, which is really another way of referring to the realm of the spiritual. It is ever-present and it encom- passes your human intelligence, your sense of right and wrong, your ability to love and all your other human attributes that are neither physical nor mental. It is, in effect, a cosmic bank, thus, whenever you perform a service for another, expecting nothing in return, you have just made a deposit in your account which, under the universal law of cause and effect, must be repaid to you some time in the future. This has been referred to as "casting your bread upon the waters." Conversely, whenever you do someone a dis-service, you have just made a withdrawal which must be paid back, under the same law, to balance your account. Millions of people know this as the law of Karma. This is what that wise old bird, So. crates, meant when he said, "it is better to suffer evil, than to do evil." For every time you suffer evil you are paying off an old debt, but if you do evil you are incurring a new one. There is an indestructible wealth that we can build and retain for ourselves and it comes from putting the emphasis where it really counts: on developing our human potential to the fullest, and providing service to others. Mr. Fellows operates the Human Re, source Development Ipstityte, P.0.r§ox 642, Cambridge, NIR 5W1, providing effectiveness training to business and industry. But even so, their location on the far back edge of the play'ing-field made them hazardous to no one. And they were an essential screen for all the people in the rest of the block. The one large tree left, which the representative of the separate school board said will blow down in the next storm, is, so far, as healthy as the ones removed. But since it has been pruned inappropri- ately by these same people, it will no doubt become diseased. Feedback will appear on page 6 as ‘You Said lt' starting May 4 Letters welcome S. Johannesen Waterloo, Ont.