The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-07-22
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- Where with our
roo Little Hatchet
we tell the truth
about many things, sometimes pro-
foundly, sometimes fiippantl-,
sometimes reckessly. -.

Ambassador Sheffield has followed
General Crowder into retirement, the
one resigning from his post in Mex
leo, the other from his pleasant office
at the Cuban capital. Both are leav-
ing more gentle climates, but they re-
tire to less stormy days.
Neither Sheffield nor Crowder will
be recorded in history as a great
success, though both have made their
mark in other fields and in other
ways.
Crowder will find his war work
much more highly praised, perhaps
even by his partisans, than his am
bassadorial endeavors. Sheffield went
to his diplomatic post untitled either
to interpret his own people or to un-
He stood confronting the Mexican phe-
derstand the people to whom he went
nomenon with as much real under
standing as Canute surveying the wild
waves. He didn't know what it was
all about. If he took refuge at times
in certain hauteur perhaps that was
his only way out of predicament.
Sheffield travelled out to the Black
Hills to turn in his time sheet, fo,
reasons not yet clear. Crowder did
MT make any such journey, and Her
rick, coming home from France load.
ed with information and with a peace
treaty proposal in his pocket, is not
beckoned toward the hunting lodge ir
South Dakota The hint to be reac
between the lines is that perhaps there
is something cooking about Mxico that
is not yet ready to be passed along
to the public
Instead of being given vital infor.
nation about public affairs, the people
are fed on doses Of posed pictures Of
Coolidge in cowboy regalia, in which
he looks as lost as a small boy in his
dads pilfered pants. The Coolidge
physique and the Coolidge physiog
nomy somehow fail to register wher
garbed in the chaps and spurs of the
COW frontier days. There is a gooc
deal the effect, as the pictures show
it, of having just consumed for
hidden green apple.
The East never seems able to under
stand that the West is no longer in
tested with shooting irons which arr
not checked at the door along witt
the ten-gallon hat. There are plenty
of big hats left in the West, all man
ufactured in the East, but there i
also plenty of sun from which to pro
tect the head and as much of the fac,
as possible.
But there is almost none of tn
pony straddling, rope throwing, GU
shooting, multiplying West brough
back in the Photographic display from
Rapid City 1t has gone where th
woodbine twineth.
When barbed wire fences came il
the West of pioneer days began t,
90 out. Cattle raising today is
business and not sport or a form
of guerrilla warfare.
Nobody can imagine that Coolidge
likes to doll up in the regalia of tn
COW range Everyone is sure he doe
it for effect, which means for votes
How piffing it all is!
The news of these days is filled witt
people Sensational things come iron
all directions over busy wires. No
only Sheffield and Coolidge. Their
are more than the usual run of movi
divorces. The airplane pioneers con
tinue to amaze and captivate tn
world. Flag pole sitters risk sun
stroke to grab their bit of fame. For
retracts his anti-Jewish campaign
better late than/never. Statistician
reveal that America has one automo
bile for every five persons. There
activity everywhere except in polite
where there is plotting, but no genuin
life or interest. Politics is in tn
doldrums, freighted with deadly an
deceptive poison. More and more
becomes game and less and les
something which the people can ur
derstand and live with. The worl
is changing faster than its change
can be grasped.