The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-06-29
The Cherry
" Where with our
roo Little Hatchet
we tell the truth
about many things, sometimes pro-
fOundly, sometimes fiippantly,
sometimes recklessly.


is the republican candidate for the
presidency. Discussion here of Hoover
is without prejudice to whoever may
be his democratic opponent.
Hoover sailed to the nomination
with the kindly assistance of Bill
Ware, Andy Mellon and a choice col
lection of former Daugherty and
Harding cronies. Trained politicians
were in the trenches.
Either these men think they are
earning something to be realized later,
or else Hoover believes he can put
them in their proper places when the
time comes-if it comes.
Anyhow, this campaign is going to
be something unlike the last cam
paign. If present indications mean
anything, there will be men with ideas
at the head of both tickets. That
will be refreshing; and it will be diff
ferent from 1924.
Probably oil and corruption will!
not be much of an issue. The demo-
cratic wheel horses, the fellows who
really garner the votes, have made
little show of putting those issues to
the fore, evidently thinking folks
aren't interested. They may be right.
But unless everybody pussyfoots,
there will be ideas in the campaign.
If we can have discussion of real is
sues of moment, if we can have dis
cussion that looks ahead, maybe we
can forego the digging of dirt about
the oil and other scandals, of which
there have been so many in the last
eight years.
Let us look forward hopefully, but
not so hopefully that we can't recover
under disappointment.
Two curious items have broken into
the news in recent days. In one of
them DR.. Winthrop Talbot, of Boston,
said that illiteracy in industry is in
| Observation-Disclosures can't read blue
prints or time sheets. Industry needs
literacy.
In the other Mr.. Pierre S. du Pont
chairman of the board of General Mo
tors, expressed himself as believing
there should either be very stiff ex-
animation or else a fee to be paic
before child could enter our high
schools
Maybe the two ideas will get to-
gether and work out into a plan fol
just enough education for the masse.
so that factory employment will bt
provided for, but not enough to get
the boys and girls out of the mills
into anything more remunerative.
Generally speaking, that is the way
the dominant forces in society have
felt all through the ages.
The idea at the top has been to give
the masses knowledge enough so thai
they might be able to perform the
work of the world, but not enough
so that they might participate il
running the world.
That idea is cuckoo. 1t is done for
Too much education has been le
loose in the world to ever bring abou
a retracing of the steps.
The barn door was left unlocked too
long. DIR. Talbot is right, but h
doesn't go far enough, at least il
the quoted speech. Du Pont is al
wrong. He'd better stick to making
automobiles.
Our present educational system il
full of flaws. 1t will have to b
lchanged a great deal. But it will
mot be done away with. Free edu
Ication will be enlarged, not restricted
| Herbert Hoover, to get back, t.
him again, is at the top because thi
country offered a chance for educa
ton. At least he could not have bee
at the top had there been no chanc
for education. We are not going t
begin shutting education away fror
American youth. Not even to pleas
Mr.. Pierre S. du Pont, who on othe
matters has at least some progressiv
ideas.