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Show RETIRING CHIEFS OF STATE FACED WITH DIRE CARES The problem confronting every ex-Tresident ex-Tresident is a difficult one. Grant tried to support himself in business with a partner. He knew nothing about business matters and the failure fail-ure of his firm was a national scandal. scan-dal. He was driven to spend the last of his life, through a long illness that ended in his death, writing his memoirs, in order to get money. President Roosevelt once remarked that any man who had been in public lite loug enough to be President had so lost touch with his previous profession pro-fession or business that making a living liv-ing of the sort required by his station sta-tion was often a serious problem. He pointed to the case of Grover Cleveland, who after bis retirement after his second term was forced to supplement his income by writing for magazines. Finally his friend, Thomas F. Ryan, obtained his appointment ap-pointment at a good salary as a trustee trus-tee for the majority stock of a life insurance society, which relieved him of financial worries. President Taft retired to a dignified digni-fied lectureship in the Yale law school until his appointment to Jie Supreme court. President Coolidge had saved enough of his salary to su iport him. But he supplemented his income by his writings. 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-Presidents ought to be available to the country by an automatic retirement to the federal senate. This would require a Constitutional amendment. To the objection that such procedure would give the ex-President's state more than two members of the senate, the answer is made that an ex-President, more than any other man, has a national na-tional rather than a state viewpoint and allegiance. Kansas City Star. |