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PAGE 8 Is Your Job Helping You - - (Cont'd from page 7) In case you need one, here's another inducement to stay married: There are more deaths by violence among single people than there are among the marr- ied. Murder, for example, occurs three to four times more frequent among the unwed. How long you are going to live is determined, of course, by many factors outside your direct control, but you can help to lengthen your life span if you choose a career with longevity in mind. Statistically the number of years you live is influenced by the / amount of money you earn and by your social position The death rate for men in the lowest socioeconomic level is almost twice that of men in the highest. Be as rich as Rockefeller and you may live as long as old John D. did. For those who aren't good at making money, the next best thing is to select a safe white-collar job. And the whiter the collar, the longer you will be wearing it around your neck. Professional men, clerical workers, merchants, salesmen and financiers are all good insurance risks. If you must work with your hands, choose carpen- try, plumbing or bricklaying. The chances are ex- cellent that you will live long enough in these trades to collect a pension. Stay clear of mining, however, unless you own the mine. Miners, granite cutters and sandstone grinders have a death rate o two to three times greater than white-collar workers. The one exception to the hard-work-will-kill-you rule is farming. The agricultural worker has the lowest death rate of all job classifications - and the Midwestern states generally are the healthiest areas in which to live. Going to college increases survival chances, but be sure to be an honor student. Those at the top of the class live longer than star athletes. Protestant ministers.can look forward to long, peaceful years in the ministry, but this is not true of Catholic priests whose death rate is 5 per cent higher than the average. If you can't live without excitement, become a pilot for a domestic scheduled airline. The risk element is negligible and you'll live as long as any- one else. Among professional men, the young doctor's life expectancy at 25 is slightly greater than that of the general population, but he loses this small advantage by the time he is 35. As he grows older, he is likely to precede the rest of his golf foursome to the grave TERRACE BAY NEWS AUGUST 8, 1968 if the foursome includes a lawyer, a banker and an insurance agent. You are stuck with your appearance, but it may cheer you up to know that if you are short and un- der 40, the tall men in your age group will tend to die off before you do. Unfortunately, you forfeit this advantage after 40, when the odds are reversed. Among older men, those of average height have the best chance of survival and, as everyone knows, it is healthier to be a bit underweight. Women (who live longer than men anyway) have a slightly differ- ent pattern. Tall women live longer than short ones at every age level. But fat is fatal to them all! Whatever your appearance or your job, you can be glad that you live in the sixties. The life expec tancy of the average Canadian at birth has increased 23 years since 1900. By the time the century ends we will have pushed the limits of life well beyond 80. AGUASABON GOLF CLUB NEWS During the past two weeks vandalism has been sorely evident at the Golf Club. All flags and pins have been stolen, and practice balls, being used on the driving range and provided by Mr. Cornfield, have been gradually disappearing. Fortunately all flags and pins have been located and returned to the course, but about 200 practice balls are still missing. ~ | plead with those who are in possession of these balls, to return them to the driving range as soon as possible. BABYSITTING - babysitting position wanted. Phone 3248 s Even patients who don't like hospitals count themselves lucky in some cities when they find themselves in a hos- pital bed. There is nothing like a shortage to enhance value. Fund raisers seeking money for capital purposes are find- ing it heavy going in some places. There is a feeling that governments should pay more per bed for hospital con- struction than they are now doing. As an example, in one province the average cost per bed is about $25,000 to $30,000. The government grants total $10,000 per bed. This leaves a large balance to be made up by charitable dona- tions and loans. . A shortage of beds does exist in some centres but the answer does not lie in sweepstakes, although there is always a politician somewhere ready to champion the method.