| Show RETIRING CHIEFS OF STATE FACED WITH DIRE CARES the problem confronting every ex es president dent Is a difficult one grant tried to support himself in ia business with a partner ile he knew nothing about business matters and the failure of tits his firm was a national scandal lie ile was driven to spend the last of his life through a long iong illness that ended in his bis death whitin writing his memoirs in order to get money president roosevelt once remarked that any man who had bad been in public life long enough to be president had so lost touch with his previous profession or business that making a living of the sort required by his station was often a serious problem lie ile pointed to the case of grover cleveland who after his retirement after tits his second term was forced to supple supplement ment his income by writing for in magazines a garines ga finally tits his friend thomas F I 1 ryan kyan obtained his appointment at a good salary as a trustee for tile majority stock of a life insurance society which relieved him of financial worries president taft retired to a di dignified nl lectureship in the yale law school until his appointment to jie he supreme court president coolidge had bad saved enough of his salary to support him but he supplemented his income by tits his writings ile ie was of a placid temperament and so was wag content to live as a sort of national sage at northampton it his has been suggested that the great experience of ex presidents ou ought bt 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 presidents state more than two members of the senate the answer is made that an ex president more than any other man has a national rather than a state viewpoint and alle allegiance glance kansas city star |
