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Show Inter-Mountain Editorial Hilites Selected for Western Newspaper Union Service by R. A. C. and C. B.'V. If a lot of us could use less long division di-vision and more long vision we would have fewer troubles. Hailey (Idaho) News-Miner. It's so quiet now that an Emmett man has bought two cots and put them in his siore. so Ids clerks can sleep. Emineit (Idaho) Examiner. Don't be a knocker. Hide your little lit-tle hammer and try to speak well of others no matter how small yon really know youself to he. Ephraim (Utah) Enterprise. Governor General Harding has asked ask-ed for a general divorce law to clear up troubles in the canal zone. Why confine it to the Panama region'.' Price (Utah) Nows-Advocale. The ladies of Cascade 'have started a dress-form class. Wonder if they will wear their old forms or their new ones when they come up to visit us next summer. McCall (Idaho) Star. Nobody knows, or ever will know, how much the world war cost, but the latest estimate $;,S,l(0,000.(00 will serve as a reminder of its fearful waste and folly Goldlield (New) Tribune. Tri-bune. It is said a divorce was never sought by a couple who habitually called each other "Daddy" and "Mother." and that the woman who is good looking lias the best chance to get a man, but the woman Vho does good cooking linis the best chance of keeping one. Gunnison (Utah) News. A Milwaukee astrologer says the world will be flooded with twins, triplets and quadruplets during the next six years. This is a warning' to a certain forest official of this section. When he moved to McCall twins came. Now he is moving to Salt Lake. Emmett (Idaho) Index. ' As spring approaches, the , good housewife is going to mobilize for house-cleaning, and put each piece o furniture where something else was, so a fellow can never lind anything. During that period we never write any poems about home sweet home. Brig-ham Brig-ham City (Utah) Journal. This present congress might well be termed the "Iconoclastic Congress," for it has done scarcely anything but tear down. Its entire activities have been given up to worthless investigations and criticism of men who have worked heart and soul in the interest of the nation. Ely (Nev.) Times. The report is persistently circulated circulat-ed around Hurley that there is a concerted con-certed movement to elect a woman mayor of Hurley for the coming term. A number of ladies have been named as possible candidates, but all deny the charge. Women for city council are being freely mentioned. Hurley (Idaho) Bulletin. Anent the cigarette bill, we heard a man in Richfield recently advocating that the legislature should meet only once in twenty years, and then meet only every other time. Such Bolshe-viki Bolshe-viki doctrine is dangerous. Pray what would Pappen if the legislators organized organ-ized and went on strike.' Be quiet man! Utah Farmer. The Pocatello Chamber of Commerce is in sympathy with a move to create a new state out of the northern section sec-tion of Idaho under the name of "Lincoln." It will no doubt he done now that Pocatello so desires it. Wonder Won-der If they would favor this move if Pocatello was the capital of Idaho Instead In-stead of Boise. Soda Springs (Idaho) Chieftain. The complaint of several , colleges for physicians that prohibition has reduced the number of unidentified drunks found dead in alleys and parks in various purls of the country and has, thereby, caused a dearth of human hu-man bodies for laboratory dissection is rather a ghoulish commentary on the efficiency of the eighteenth amendment. amend-ment. Boise (Idaho) Statesman. A bill has been introduced in the state legislature to allow the lieutenant governor the same rate of compensation compensa-tion as the governor when he is required requir-ed to perforin the duties of the governor. gover-nor. It is a sane provision. Aside from that the executive understudy should he more fully in contact and co-operation with tile governor. There should be more of the spirit of team work in all states that is to lie part and parcel of the national adininist ration ra-tion after next month. Pocatello (Idaho) Tribune. 1 "Trade at Home the Year Hound" is a pretty good slogan to tie to. if the welfare of the home town is to lie promoted pro-moted anil conserved. The prosperpy of a town is known by the prosperity of its business houses. Virginia City (New) Chroiiisle. A small-sized Austrian who has re-s'.iied re-s'.iied in this country "0 years r. ml can't yet sound the let ter "g." observes that, "What we need in this country is a kink." Such freaks should be nrnmp'lv deported to their own eoun- |