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The Oshawa Times Published by Canadion Newspapers Limited, 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ont, Poge 6 Soturday, September 17, 1960 How To Acquire Money During Layoff Period Cashing in on a loophole in the un- employment insurance regulations, a Winnipeg family recently earned $10,205 in a year while drawing un- employment benefits, And by repeat- ing the dodge, the family hopes to get away with it a second year, It Is all perfectly legal, Here's how it's done, as reported by the Winnipeg Tribune, The husband, an $85-a-week car- penter, was laid off in December, 1958, just as he bought a building lot and poured a concrete basement. His wife, a garment worker, stayed at her $30 a week job, while he signed for jobless pay, claiming a nine-year-old son as a dependent, He got $36 a week in benefits. This also entitled him to earn $18 a week as an "allowable" income and he promptly got a job for one day a week that paid $16.50, He mortgaged the lot and built his own home with money he borrowed, He worked four days a week on his house and one day at his carpenter's Job, Seven months later, while still "un. employed" he sold the house for a profit of $4860, Then he promptly went back to work full time, * The family's 12-month Income was: Salary, June to December, 1958, at $85 a week, $2210; unemployment insurance benefits, December 1958 to July 1959, at $36 a week $1080; allowed income, $16.50 a day for the same fod, $495; his wife's earn- ings $30 a week, $1560; profit on the house, $4860, Total, $10,205 or $194 8 week, In January, 1960, he was laid off again, He got another one-day a week Job, bought a second lot and has now almost completed another house, There Is no regulation to stop him, There is no law that requires an une employed person to account for his spare-time, A man out of work can build a house, rebuild automobiles, build boats, buy second hand furniture and remodel it, to quote a few of the "trades" followed by many of Cane ada's unemployed, and sell these items after they return to work, at a profit and without fear of the law. In this way their incomes soar over the $5,460 ceiling above which mo wage-earning Canadian is entitled to take part in the UIC plan, This is indeed high grade "insur ance." Changes Between Votes Pondering the state of the world James Reston of the New York Times finds deeply disturbing changes be- tween conditions this election year in the United States and eight years ago, when President Eisenhower came to power, The big issue in 1952, he recalls, was Democratic "containment" of So- viet power versus Republican "libera~ tion" of the Russian satellites. In 1960 the Communists are talking about "liberating" Africa and even Latin America, In 1952, main battle areas of the cold war were the Yellow sea, the Persian gulf, the eastern Mediter- ranian, Now they are in the south Atlantic and the Caribbean. In 1962 the United States had pres- sure on the Communists in Korea, in the Formosa area, in southeast Asia, in eastern Europe. Today the Com- munists have the pressure on the United States and the West, in Cuba and the Congo. There is also something "new and ominous," according to Reston: "We are seeing inexperienced, unstable and maybe even deranged men exercising the sovereign. power of the new na- tions with the support of Communist ideology and military strength." He refers, of course, to Castro of Cuba and Lumumba of the Congo. And finally Reston notes that so confident is Nikita Khrushchev that. he is coming to the United Nations in New York "to condemn the United States as a threat to the peace of the world," "It is an extraordinary situation," he concludes. "There has never been anything like it in the history of world or presidential politics, Yet... the allies reraain divided on what to do about the threat, and Washington goes on talking as if there was no- thing to worry about." The Milwaukee Jurnal has this to say about the Reston size-up: "By Washington we take it that he means President Eisenhower, Vice. President Nixon and Republican party campaigners, Certainly Senator Kennedy and Democratic spokesmen have been sounding the alarm, Whether it is being listened to in the languid American summer, over the beguiling assurances from the admin. istration, no one can know. "Anyhow, Reston's thoughtful 'look back' shows how close the cold war has been brought to home since 1962." Sometimes Who's Not Ghost writers, having infiltrated nearly every other field of modern letters, now have a man planted in "The Author's and Writer's Who's Who," the Christian Science Monitor reports, He's a chap named Septimus Cad- wallader Tissington Henriot-Brown, MA And he belongs in the category "modern fiction" by virtue of being completely fictitious, Henriot-Brown is a hyphenated hoax played on the editors -- the nonexistent author of She Osharon Times T. L. WILSON, Publisher and Generel Manager €. GWYN KINSEY, Rditor The Oshawa Times combini toclished 1871) and the itby Gazette ond hronicle (established 1863), is published daily (Sundays and statutory holidays excepted), A ot € Daily Newspapers Pub Association, The Canadian Press, Audit Bureau of Circulation and the Ontario Provincial Dailies Assos clation, The Conadion Press Is exclusively entitled 10 the use for republication of all news despatched in the paper credited to it or to The Associated Press or Reuters, and olso the local news published therein, All rights of special despatches are alse reserved. Offices: Thomson Building, 425 University Avenue, Yoronto, Ontario; 640 Cathcart Street, Montreal, P.Q, SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carriers In Oshawa, Whitby, Alex, Pickering, Bowmanville, Brooklin Port Perry Prince Albert Maple Grove Hompton, Frenchman's Bay, Liverpool, Taunton, Tyrone, Dunbarton, Enniskillen, Qrono, Leskard, Broughham, Burketon, Claremont, Columbus, Greenwood, Kinsale, Raglan, Blackitock, Manchester, Pontypool and Newcastle not over 45¢ per week, By mail tin province of Ontario) outside carriers delivery areas 12.00; elsewhers 15.00 per yeor The Oshawa Times Average Daily Net Paid as of April 30, 1960 16,999 five nonexistent books, the ghostliest ghost writer going. Horseplay in the pages of who's whos and other registers of the nn'ed is not new, The paper notes, Last year the undoubtedly masculine sports col. umnist of the Washington Post, Shirley Povich, turned up in "Who's Who of American Women" -- a lone male among 19,000 women. Britain's Sitwell family contains three whos who are noted for less than staid entries in "Who's Who," the original who book, Dame Edith lists "silence" as her recreation. Sacheverell"s taste in leisure runs to "Westerns." Sir Osbert reports his profession as including "hand-to-hand battles against the Philistine" and the advocacy of "compulsory Free- dom everywhere, the suppression of Public Opinion in the interest of Free Speech." This leads inexorably to his recreationa: "listening to the sound of his own voice . , . and not answering letters." Henriot-Brown presumably does not answer letters either. As the world's population mush. rooms, more people are naturally get ting to be Who. This leaves the vari- ous registers of celebrities looking increasingly like the telephone direct- ory, It is not hard to imagine, then, why there is joy in the reference » libraries when someone like Henriot- 'Brown shows up. His recreation ought to be listed as "hand-to-hand battles against publishers whose who's whos contain too many people who are not who." BACK BENCHERS' VIEW OF SESSION OTTAWA REPORT Life Expectancy Of Senators High An astonishing but unnoticed phenomenon of the Diefenbaker regime Is the durability of the Liberal rearguard on Parliament Hill, which is defying Canadian Life Expectancy Tables to carry on the political battle in our Sen. ate, The voters gave John Diefen- baker a huge Conservative ma. jority in our House of Commons, ut only Father Time can elim- inate the dominating Liberal ma. jority in the Senate which was bequeathed to him by the Mac kenzie King-St, Laurent Liberal dynasty, And Father Time is not be. having as the actuaries expected him to, When the Diefenbaker Govern. ment took office in June 1057, the Senate contained 78 Liberals and only 5 Conservatives, No Cone servative had been appointed to the Senate since 1035, There were also two "'Independ- ent' senators, And surprisingly enough, and no doubt to the chae grin of many Liberal aspirants who had thelr hopes shattered by the election, the outgoing Liberal rime minister left 17 vacancies n the Senate, One of those had remained unfilled for a disgrace fully long period of seven years; three had remained empty, and certain Canadians therefore de- prived of their due representa. tion in Parliament, for over six years, Only one of those 17 va. cancles had existed for less than three months, which might be regarded as the reasonable time for replenishing our Parliament. ary representation, BIG PROPORTION WELL AGED At the time of the 1057 election, of our Upper House were above the age of 70 years, Thirteen were octogenarians, and 30 were septuagenarians, Life Insurance actuaries here tell me that a man aged 70 years may expect to live for 8 years and 277 days on the average, Further, they calculate that, out of 100 men aged 70 years, six will die before their 71st birthday. Reducing human life to the brutal statistics of a Table of Life Expectancy, we are told that two septuagenarian Senators and one and one-half octogenarians should have fallen In the first Conservas tive year, and--considering the age spread of the Senate as then constituted--slightly more in each of the next few succeeding years, But our old Senators have mane aged to defy the inexorable mathe ematics of those Life Expectancy Tables, Since the advent to power of the Conservatives, of the Senators who have passed thelr 70th birthe day, none died in 1957, four in 1058, one last year, and none this year to date, In that period, one senator be- low the age of 70 also dled, BUT THEY DO FADE AWAY Thus despite their grey hairs or shiny pates, those durable Lib. eral senators still form a major. ity in our Upper House, Five deaths have only reduced thelr numbers to 73, Nineteen new Con. servative appointees, coupled with one death, have raised the Conservative strength in the Sen. ate to less than one third the size of the Liberal phalanx, or a total of 25, There are today three inde QUEEN'S PARK Farm Marketing Conference Called TORONTO~The government is taking still more initiative on farm marketing, Agriculture low has called a mass conference on marketing for Oct, 24 and 25 here in Toronto, Officially the conference is being called to exchange views, An even more important pur. pose is to do some educational work in the marketing groups. Principally to got across that it is government policy to knock down any arbitrary powers that the groups may want or assume, The conference would have been called before now except for the running controversy with the hog producers. A few months ago it would have looked like a move directly almed at this group. A semblance of peace with them has now been reached, hows ever, So some of the heat which had ta be turned on them will now be applied In other areas under more agreeable circumstances. "SABOTAGE" AGAIN Don MacDonald won't like this, Ears are open now for cries from the CCF leader that the gov. ernment Is out to "sabotage" the marketing movement, Which brings us to an excerpt from the late H, L. Mencken, He sald: "Democracy may be tolerable simply because the politicians wlio operate it are cynics, They never quite believe in the great causes that they merchant to the plain people, nor do they ever quite believe in the infamy of the opposition." NO INTRIGUE Mr, MacDonald does "believe." With the zeal of all crusaders he believes implicitly in his cause, In this case that there is a clonk-and-dagger conspiracy be tween the meat packers and the Minister Goodfel- i government to throw out market ng. There is no such thing, of course, Intrigues of this depth these days really only are occurring in Hollywood--and the trend there has been away from them as a bit too corny for public accepts ance--and in the mind of crue saders, Crusaders, which you soon learn in the newspaper business, have one great fault, They never have time to look at themselves in the migror, And they are apt to end up with much dirtier spots on their faces «in the form of Intolerance and bigotry--than on those at whom they would cast mud. BY-GONE DAYS 40 YEARS AGO Oshawa branch of the WCTU offered assistance to the raising of $150,000 for the maintenance of Willard Hall, Toronto, Oshawa's steady growth taxed the high school to capacity, caus. ing classes to be held in the base. ment, A hydro-airplane," which had made regular trips between Mus. koka and Toronto, crashed In a wooded valley near Brooklin, Ine Juring the passengers, The new buildings at the On. tario Hospital were expected to be ready for occupancy by the early winter, Council asked the Union of Ca. nadian Municipalities to help Osh awa fight the increased rates of the Bell Telephone Co, pendent Senators, and only three vacancies: one in New Brunswick and two in Quebec, Those durable old Liberal Sen- ators way not die, but they cer. tainly fade away. A senator may be deprived of his seat in our Parliament if he falls to appear at any sitting at all in two con. {| secutive years; some Senators, especially some numbered among the 16 Ontarians who have passed thelr 70th birthday, do not lav. ishly exceed that requirement of one attendance in the Red Cham ber in two years, The law of averages as calcu lated by our actuaries must work out accurately over a period. The prospects suggest that the pres. ent political imbalance in our Red Chamber may be redressed in favor of the Diefenbaker govern. ment at a slightly faster rate than hitherto during the next 18 months, MAUCH TO MANAGE OFFICIAL SOD TURNING CEREMONIES OF THE OF THE OSHAWA GENERAL HOSPITAL WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER COL. R. S. McLAUGHLIN Has Kindly Consented To Officiate 2.30 P.M. W. A. HOLLAND, T. L. WILSON, Administrator President Sharp thinker figures out State Farm's new deal on car insurance 'Saves money, Sounds good. Maybe too good, Must be a catch in it somewhere," Maybe they hold back on claim service! Who wants a hard time collecting on an accident?" "Maybe you don't really get all this coverage, I better read the fine print," "Hmm, They insure more cars than anybody. They must be good to keep so many people happy. Hmm, Where's that phone book?" Yes, State Farm Mutual agents here in Ontario are now offering such an attractive buy in auto insurance you'll wonder how they do it. Low rates... new discounts . .. extended benefits. .. plus the fairest rating plan ever. Yes, the same lower rates for careful drivers and dependable claim service that have kept State Farm the world's largest car insurer for 18 straight years! If you qualify as a careful driver, you may save real money. Call your State Farm agent. He's in the White Pages. STATE FARM INSURANCE STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY *» CANADIAN HEAD OFFICE: TORONTO, ONTARIO