Show RETIRING CHIEFS OF STATE FACED WITH DIRE CARES the problem confronting enery es ex president Is a d one grant tried to support himself in business with ft ath a partner lie knew nothing about busai ess matters and the tall fail ure of his firm was a national scan dal he ile was driben dm en to spend the last ot 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 life long enough to be president had so lost touch with hib pr previous eNious pro fess on or business that mal ing a liv ing of the sort required by his sta tion was often a serious problem lie ile pointed to the case of grover cleneland cle eland who after his retirement after his second term was forced to supplement his income by for magaz nes finally his friend tl TI omas F ra R an obtained his ap PO ointment at a good salary as a trus tee for tl e majority stoel of a life insurance society which relieved him of financial worries president Pies pi ident taft retried ed to a d agni fled lectureship in the lale law school until his ip to the supreme court president coolidge had saved enough of his salary to support him but he supplemented hib bib income by his writings lie ile was of a placid temperament and so was content to live as a sort of national sage at north Nor thimi impton ton it has been suggested that the great experience of ev presidents president ought to be aval available lible 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 na dional rather than a state viewpoint and alleg ance kansas city star |