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Show Inter-Mountain Editorial Hilites Selected for Western Newspaper Union Service by R. A. C. and C. B. W. A "conscientious objector" has no business getting married. Met 'a mnmn (Idaho) News. McCall will soon be an appendixless town. Except the Missouriaus. And they were born without any. McCall (Idaho) Star. We can't understand why eggs should he so high when they've fixed it so people can't have egg-nogg any more. Mammoth (Utah) Record. Oh, baby ! As we go to press we are interrupted by the laughter, smiles and cigars of Sirl Davis, who calls out "It's a boy, fellers, it's a boy." Kays-ville Kays-ville (Utah) Reflex. We are beginning to wonder if our friend the congressman is going to run for re-election. The customary package of garden seeds has not shown up. Vernal (Utah) Express. " The man who gets mad at what the newspaper says about him should return re-turn thanks three times a day for what the newspaper knew about him and suppressed. Aberdeen (Idaho) Times. When a person finds that he does not fit in with a certain circle of acquaintance acquaint-ance the wise thing to do is to flit out again. A proper adjustment can always al-ways be found elsewhere. Price (Utah) Sun. It is said to be Henry Ford's ambition ambi-tion to furnish every family in the United States with an automobile. Good ! We're in a receptive mood, Henry. Send us a Packard. Logan (Utah) Journal. A good many people have borrowed money with which to pay their income in-come taxes. It is good for the small man to know that the interest on these loans will be exempt from income taxes uext year. Fallon (Nev.) Standard. Some Indiana high school girl graduates grad-uates have agreed on commencement gowns in organdy of a quiet shade. If complexions equally quiet can be managed, man-aged, a decided reform will have been achieved. Idaho Falis (Idaho) Times-Register. Times-Register. The newspaper editor who will stoop so low to cover a fallen opponent with slanderous and vituperative invective is not fit to be in the society of men who are trying to lift the profession to a higher and loftier standard of ethics. Preston (Idaho) Citizen. The latest ;ssue of the Utah Extension Ex-tension New uays: "Every lady in Lehi has a form." Well, well 1 Why brag? We go 'em one better: Ever' lady in Delta has a form and a figger non-skid detachable type. Delt (Utah) Chronicle. Somehow or other, there appear to be certain factions in Cuba not at all willing to concede that the recent presidential election there was anything any-thing in the nature of an actual landslide, land-slide, as regards Cuban public opinion. opin-ion. Butte (Mont.) Miner. We were nil young once and out parents and their associates were al times very much exercised for fear that we would not come through al' right and much of their fears were groundless- because we were safe In not knowing as much cussedness as our parents and their associates feared we did. Caldwell (Idaho) News. Still, the time is not far away when Idaho woolen mills will care for her wool, when she will export butter and cheese instead of shipping bulky and cheap hay, when Idaho timber will be converted into furniture in Idaho. And high freight rates will help to speed that day. Caldwell (Idaho) Tribune. Farmers sell wheat at less than a dollar a bushel and buy it back ugiun as breakfast food in fancy packages at $25 a bushel, and the same is true of corn. They sell hogs at fifteen cents a pound and buy them back at sixty cen Is as bacon; not .because they have to, but because they want to. Brig-bam Brig-bam City (Utah) Journal. Utah's legislature recently staged Its fourth fist fight. The latest bout, as our sport editor would put if, was pulled off between the city attorney (elected to enforce laws) of Salt Lake City, and a member of the legislature (elected to make laws). The Utah legislature fighters quickly would denounce de-nounce fist fighting among the people they represent, and loudly would they demand punishment. Twin Fulls (Idaho) Times. The country needs every dollar ot production and increased wealth possible. pos-sible. Ii needs the work of every man and every man needs the wages he can get. It is a time when conditions arc so uneer'ain no inan can tell what the next day or wool: may bring forth. It is not a time for s: i ;l;os. lookouts or ! any oilier hol-beadi-d procedure. It. is, above all, a time for men to get to-g'dher to-g'dher as men as Americans first and calmly discuss their differences with a real desire for sol dement, not for trouble Ely (Nev.) Times. |