Show RETIRING CHIEFS OF STATE PACED FACED WITH WITH DIRE CARES ARES C 7 r the problem c confronting a every ex president Is a difficult one grant tried to support himself in business with a partner ne ire knew nothing about business matters and the failure ot of ahls a nati national orial scandal helas ne was driven to spend the last of ills life through a long iong illness that ended in his death writing his memoirs in ID order to get money president roosevelt Koo sevelt once remarked that any man who had been in public life long enough to be president had bad so lost touch with his previous profession or busi business liess that making a living of the V sort required by his station was often it a serious problem lie ile pointed to the case of grover cleveland who after his retirement after his second term was forced to supplement his income by writing for magazines finally his friend thomas F byan obtained his appointment at a good salary as a trustee for the majority stock of a life insurance society which relieved rel levei him of financial worries president taft retired to a dignified lectureship in the yale tale law school until his appointment to he be supreme court president coolidge had saved enough of his bis salary to support him but he supplemented his income by his writings ile he was of a placid temperament and so was content to live as a sort of national sage at northampton it has been suggested that the great experience of ex es presidents ouight to be available to the country by an auto retirement to the federal senate this would require a amendment to the objection that such procedure would give the ex presidents state more than two members of tile the senate the answer Is made that an ex president more than any other man has a national rather than a state viewpoint and kansas kansa city star |