| Show London Journals J urna s Suggest Pensions for In afew II re months the th people of the lIw United States State will have han an un on their hands hm metaphorically speak speaking ing He lIe will not from ennui or 01 lack of popular interest in his hi move mOe movements ments and views and there thelo Is abundant reason to think that be he will take tl tO ox ex care of himself both in tho way wa of strenuous work and recreation Yet theoretically the problem ot of what to 10 do with will remain unsolved and it will worry worl a good many of oC our Jur citizens citizen as well as a our cousins and friends s in England The view vie is I urged ur ed with much solicitude solicitude tude that it is IR humiliating to see former heads hen of or the tho nation n nIn in private legal business in Journal Journalism journalIsm ism or 01 in any other othel gainful competitive occupation This we arc told Is true even evell when they tho are eminently fill how much more harrowing tho spectacle of failure Callum and futile scrambling ling would be bc Two Iwo i have just been beell made mad In connection with this problem by British organs organ of light and power The Tho London favors a I an annual nual pension to with witha a IL statutory provision making them members pf of the tho federal for life l This require a great deal of constitutional tinkering In more than ono one place but our contemporary dotH does not shrink on our behalf from flom that With a greater sense oC or Tho Spectator wishing to avoid constitutional amendments amen monts proposes the placing of on haU pay with the moral understanding that services should be bo at lit all 1111 times at nt the tho disposal of oC tho nation Then it says SIlS gravely raol they the will always bo ho available for arbitrations home or for COI foreign eign special commissions confidential inquiries or 01 any an other othel delicate and an re responsible nonparty work which the tho ex executive may 1111 desire to to a man manof manof of special authority and an experience We V fear that the tho London weekly takes special commissions far Car more mOIo solemnly than thun Americans do co The Thc na native tive quality of humor must be b reck reckoned reckoned with In America the tho of 01 the tho presidency would not be en ell enhanced by making former chief executives tives paramount and general commis commissioners candidates for miscellaneous Jobs at the buck and call of the president dent or of Congress The spectacle of an sitting In splendid iso isolation lation and sighing for something to turn up something delicate and wor worthy thy would not be Impressive with us Tho efforts of our friends seem to leave the matter where it was before |
