The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-20
Vice President Retires
Following BriIliont Service
Henry 4. WsIIeee Succeeds
to Second highest Office

owASHINGTON. Jan. 20-lR
The savel fell today for bluif,
hearty John Nance Garner after
almost two score crowded years
in the nations capital. ~.
His last official duty was to
administer the oath Of Office to
his successor-Henry Agar d
Wallace-as the thirty-second
vice president Of the United
States. Then it was home to Tex
as and the quiet role Of private
citizen.
Il was the tenth Inauguration
for Cactus Jack" since he start
ed his career a. q member Of the
house in 1903-the year the
Wright brothers made the hrst
successful airplane flight at Kitty
Hawk. Those were the days Of
bicycles built for two and that
very new tangled invention
Marconi's wireless. New York
was yet to open its first subway,
and the Panama Canal was =
distant dream.
Today the 72-year-old Corner
was full Of smiles and jests as he
babe goodbye to the many col
leagues of his 80 years in con-
gress-30 years as q member and
speaker Of the house and eight Is
vice president.
He confided to reports that
what he had in mind now was to
get home to Uvalde, Tex, as
quickly as possible. Once there,
he intends to look over some
rental houses he has built, 60
over his fishing tackle, oil up his
gun, and settle down to live to 90
at a leisurely pace.
The outgoing vice president
explained that he had selected 90
as his goal because he wanted. to
say before he died that he had
spent more than half his years in
private life. He spent eight years
in office in Texas before he came
here.
Besieged with offers to 60 in
to private business, Garner has
turned them all down.
One particularly attractive
overture, involving a Swear con-
tract at $50, 900 annually, was
said to have been made by an
insurance company.
The insurance official was re-
ported to have told Garner that
his Arm was willing to pay such
a salary because it wanted his
reputation for honesty associat-
ed with the company.
Garner, who has said he want
ed to become q plain citizen
without any, connections Of that
kind, was understood to have
replied that his reputation for
honesty was not for sale.
President Roosevelt -"t h e
boss" to Garner for the last eight
years-was said to have told the
Texan during a recent White
House chat that he ought to de-
vote another ten years of his life
to public service. Gamers re-
ported answer was that he
thought his services were not in
dispensable and that ne hoped he
would never sgain be required
to hold any Office.
AS Gamers successor, Wallace
"a studious, unpretentious pro-
duct of Americas farmland
will preside over his first senate
session tomorrow. Having no
legislative experience, he has
devoted the last two weeks Ia
an intensive study Of parlia.
mentary rules and congression-
al procedure.
The energetic former secretary
Of agriculture, who has been
walking the three miles from his
apartment to the capital every
morning, has indicated that he
would not be content with the
nominal duties of vice president,
He set for himself q much wider
sphere of activity-helping uni.
fy the American republics un-
der a Good Neighbor" program