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By BEN wnnu JTTAWA (CP)—0ne of the busiest men on Parliament Hill in an 84-year-old Liberal sen- ator who keeps three careers going and doesn't intend to re- tire from any of them "until i get old."

Arthur Wentworth Roebuck is a complete denial of the pop- ular idea that senators are de- cayed politicians sitting out 810,000-a-year appointments in idleness.

He rarely misses a Senate sitting. is chairman of the heavily burdened Senate di- vorce committee, keeps up a thriving law practice in Toronto and is one of the country's most active labor conciliation ex- perts.

When he isn't involved in one of these fields, Senator Roebuck might be found on a golf course the shoots in the low nos» or relaxing with paint brush and easel. Both hobbies are late-life acquisitions. He began golfing when he was 60 and took up oil painting at 70.

Retirement, he says, is some- thing young men should plan for and old men should avoid.

Friends of the senator point to him as a living argument against Prime Minister DIefen- baker's proposal to retire sen- ators at 75.

OPPOSES REFORM

Senator Roebuck has nothing but scorn for this or any other plan to revamp the Senate. He predicts that none will ever get through the upper house, which would have to approve any leg-

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84-year-old Liberal Senator is busiest on Parliament Hill

i He describes so—culIcd Senate‘ reform as a “plot" by senior civil servants who want the Senate out of their way. “We are the only people on Parlia- ment Hill the civil servants can't control."

The slim, finely featured sen- ator ls one of the capital's most familiar figures in his inevita- ble wing collar, plnce-nez and black hamburg.

silvery hair retains streaks of its original black, his walk‘ is brisk and his high- pitched voice clear and com- manding. He may doze off dur- ing a dull Senate debate after a particularly rough divorce committee session, but more often he is on his feet with

sharp questions about some government bill.

A heart attack five years ago—"not much of o '

hardly caused him to break stride. When doctors advised easing up, his one concession was to decline any more cases involving appearances before the Supreme Court of Canada.

He is a pack-a-week smoker, takes an occasional drink and maintains that hard, honest

long and active life

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Senator Roebuck has been in politics since 1911 but wasn't elected until 1934 when the Lib- erals under Mitchell Hepburn swept into power in Ontario. He became attorney-general in the first Hepburn cabinet and for a time held a triple portfolio with labor and hydro. amped the attorney-

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ing 10,000 justices of the peace, and 89 magistrates to strcam-l line the court system.

ydro, he rewrote power contracts to reduce power costs by $7,000,000 a year and as la-.

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In 1937 he split sharply with family Hepburn over interference in 1885 and took up farming near the General Motors strike at Guelph. moving into Toronto in resigning from the 1894

Oshawa. cabinet with David Croll who; had taken over the labor minis- try and who now Is a Senate colleague.

“You may remember Croll's historic remark that he'd rather walk with the workers than ride ‘ with General Motors. That went‘. for both of us."

Senator Roebuck entered Par- liament in 1940 as MP for Tor-

the Ontario leadt-rship when E Hepburn rcsigncti in l$l4.l lie i says he thought he had Ot-

tawa's backing to the leader- ship convention but found out too late that it had been with-;

drawn. ‘HORRIBLY TREATED‘

me out on a limb and sawed off "

He believes it was partly to compensate for such treatment and partly to reward his work as Liberal strategist in the 1945 federal election that Prime Minister Mackenzie King ap- pointed him to the Senate April

18, 1945.

When the new Parliament met. the 67-year-old rookie sen- ator took his seat in the staid chamber, often described as an

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old man‘: home for worn-out politicians and cabinet castoffs. At that point Arthur Roebuck

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Timis soon Father of Confederation." was deep in politics, a caning he’ feels came to him naturally. didate three times

rnasanasss-saaospnnomino aanung. ones as no tenant memory of a great-uncle. John seat and twice for the logis- Arthur Roebuck. who left Can- latura. Th times

one were must: take over a weekly newspaper ads at no and became a British for new politicians and the.aon- a younger brother had MP. typhoidl

not still retains bitter mem- "Long before the outbreak of 0”"-

gn bog, um cun.d.§ 1,. Timiskamlng riding then ran Llskeard "clear to dish nation as we know it today the North Pole" and the senator and publicly advocated its cre- says enumerators were often was the original too good at finding Conserva- tive voters and omitting Liber-

The young editor was a can- als. in Tlmis- He finally gave up, "sold the

paper 'savaooars"annnu:owasnssnsnoaIuva-a- rshnaodnt: ‘Durante arouadmoatthon.Afewofudstsa- 1917. He used the money to mined we wo ft."

finish law school. graduating 7 To lead the way they selected

gm lite!‘ I'll °1’i¢l|“1 ¢'“‘°' Hepburn. "a genuine rabble- ‘ router" ho. "had he remained

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seemed to be entering the twi- light of a long career. He hadl much to look back on.

Born at Hamilton, five in Victoria before the returned to Ontario in

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i His first job was as a $l-a- week elevator boy ‘or a Toronto wholesale dry goods firm. It took him five years to move up to a clerk's $5 salary and be- come convinced that he wasn't r the business world. By cramming the last three years of high school into six months of intense study he won entry to law school. At that time two years of apprentice- ship was needed to get into Osgoode Hall and the young Roebuck found stuffy law of- fices “too slow for my blood." RAN WEEKLY PAPER He spent five “very active, very profitable" years as a re-

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