ROOSEVELT AT WORK.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 852, 25 June 1910, Page 5

ROOSEVELT AT WORK.

BEGINS JOURNALISTIC LIFE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. New York, Juno 23. Mr. Roosevelt, who was some time ago appointed to tho editorial staff of the "Outlook," the well-known weekly magazine, at a salary of £GOOO per annum, has commenced daily work at tho "Outlook" office as associate editor. AMERICA'S EX-PRESIDENTS. . SHIFTING FOR THEMSELVES. After its coup in securing Sir. Eoosevelt ,as associate-editor, the New York "Outlook" was able to announce that it carried a larger amount of paid advertising in its issues than did any other weekly paper in America. The "Outlook" is edited by the Ifev. Dr. Lyman Abbot, and was originally a purely religious paper. Latterly it has occupied in America u position somewhat similar to that of the "Spectator" in Great Britain.

That it should he possible for a newspaper to make a commercial scoop by buying up the exclusive services of an ex-President occasioned some comment in America. The New York "World" contr/.ided that the dignity of the Presidential offico is shockingly lowered when tlio President of the United States, at tho end of his term, is thrust into private life to shift for a living for himself, faring as best he con. "It. is not seemly," said the "World," "that a Grant should lend his name to a firm of Wall Street gamblers,, or that a Cleveland should be compelled to accept a Ryan sinecure, or that u Harrison should have to appejr before tho Supremo Court, to argue that a street railway company's franchises are perpetual." One ex-President is stated to have eventually become an insurance agent. The "World" proposed that the Government should give all Presideuts a pension of at least ,£SOOO a year for life.