OUT FOR GOOD

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 945, 11 April 1930, Page 9

OUT FOR GOOD

COOLIDGE'S GOOD-BYE TO PUBLIC LIFE

ADVICE TO HANGERS-ON

United P.A.—By Telegraph Copyright Reed. 9.5 a.m. NEW YORK, Thursday. Mr. Calvin Coolidge, writing in the latest issue of the “Cosmopolitan Magazine,” put an end to all suggestions and rumours that he might be a candidate for a third term of the Presidency or for _ a senator’s post. “When I left Washington I left public office,” he said. “It was an incomprehensible re-

lief, and I have no intention of returning to it. “If I were in the Senate it would not be agreeable to many of my colleagues, and with all my desires to be helpful, it would probably oftentimes be an embarrassment to the Administration to have a former President in Wash-

ington exercising political power, and would result in all kinds of uncomfortable complications. “Only the necessity of serving in some national crisis, so great as to subordinate all other considerations, would warrant it.” Mr. Coolidge continued: "Nor do I have any sympathy with those ■who are discussing again making me President. The service that I could give the people in that office I feel is done.” Discussing prohibition, Mr. Coolidge states: —“Considering that the people have differed most radically on the best method of regulating the sale of liquor for generations, it is not likely to be settled for a long time to come.” The ex-President concluded his article with a discussion of the advisability of minding one’s own business.