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Show THE CITIZEN 12 PRESS COMMENT. During the past year the newspapers of the country have been hampered by the extremely high prices of paper. One of the underlying reasons for this increased cost is the diminished supply of pulp wood in our forests. Forest fires do not tell the whole story, but they represent one of the largest items that js responsible for the present condition. A campfire left smoldering or a burning cigarette or match carelessly thrown aside, is a detriment not only to the success of your favorite daily paper, but to the pulp and paper industry, lumbermen, manufacturers, and the welfare of the nation. Park league has been organized for the purpose of seeking to reduce burdensome taxation. In Portland a strong and effective organization has been perfected which will look into all matters of taxation before they are permitted r to become effective. (Twin Falls) Idaho. Times-Registe- Senator Pomerene insists that in spite of his disarmament policy that he wants the United States navy to If he and a few be next to none. more like him had their way it soon would be next thing to none. Corvallis (Ore.) Times. City Record. at Boise the other night took a fling at the music she and Many a motorist who greets Sunday1 with the salutation, To 'ell with the speed laws, opens Mondays activities with Good morning, Judge. everybody else call jazz. She swung some pretty hard jolts at the thing, but just the same these jazz affairs have one fine thing about them. There are none of them dead, lifeless things. Oakland Tribune. Newspaper editors learn many secrets they are not supposed to know. worry. They also learn to forget the things it is not best for them to remember. Lodi Sentinel. But-don- 't horrors of the The expression Rhine has been about forgotten in this country since the collapse of the canard which was made the excuse for holding propaganda meetings in some of our cities, but there is an amusing aftermath. It appears .that residents of the Rhineland had not calculated on the possible boomerang effect of the story they so industriously circulated, says the Bonanza. They are now finding to their own horror that the sensational reports concerning the conduct of French colored troops are scaring tourists away from the region. Carson City Times. Back to normalcy seems to have been a pretty good cry, for the department of agriculture estimates that 6,000,000 men are leaving cities to go back to the farm to work. Labor in farm circles is now reported 96 per cent normal. Thus is relieved the unemployment situation in the cities and the unbearable high wage situation in the country. We wish some of these birds would hesitate long enough in the city to learn linotyping. Corvalis (Ore.) Gazette-Times. Those who studied Caesar will remember the opening paragraph of that work, to the effect that All Gaul is divided into three parts. In this modern day it would look as though all America is divided into two parts; the with all of and the the gaul on the part of the r is meant those By who seek to create new methods and reasons for the increase of taxes. They are in the minority, but are active, while the taxpayer having to make a living by some other method than propaganda is ordinarily not aware of the tax burden until it is ' . upon him.' ; President Harding is seeking' to devise ways and means to relieve the tax situation. In Twin Falls a tax-eat- tax-paye- r, er tax-eate- r. tax-eate- tax-paye- rs A woman Another fine thing about them is that the people like em. There are a lot of people who measure the goodness or the badness of a thing by the way the people take to them. If the people like them they are per se bad. If the people dont like them then they set about to torture themselves into the belief that there is something good about them. The Caldwell (Idaho) News. A Preston man is slated soon to be a millionaire. William Bergman of the Palace meat market holds a big block of stock in the new Big Six drilling on the west side of Grand river, about four miles from the town of Moab. This company recently struck oil. From the activity in that section other and more startling strikes will be ushered in by that company, it is asserted. To say that Mr. Bergman feels highly elated at the prospect is only drawing it mild. Citizen (Preston) Idaho.) well, SUBCONSCIOUS ACTIVITIES. Many writers sleep with pencil and notebook under their pillows and a lamp at hand, so that they may dash off the thoughts that come to them in the watches of the night. There is about these thoughts a clarity that does not come with daytime thinking a sureness of vision that approaches the clairvoyant. Misfortunes- never loom so full or realistic as after midnight; but joy and pleasure lose something of their glamor, their evidence; doubt creeps in with them. A problem which we have wrestled in the daylight, weighing it with all our Intelligence, is settled in a certain way, calmly and judiciously and after mature reflection. Our decision seems the right one. And then, suddenly, in the dead of the night, that issue bobs up before our mental vision, wakes us from a sound sleep and set-tel- s itself in quite another way, in one great flash. A strong white light has been turned upon the brain and has revealed there a conclusion of which we had no inkling before. The processes of arriving at it are a closed chapter. The clairvoyant brain has - self-sam- e , registered a result only. And again and again it will be found to be the right, the splendid solution. Memory, too, is peculiarly keen in the silences between midnight and 4 in the morning. All the cobwebs have been swept from the brain by the first hours of sleep; the body and nerve centers are singularly rested; there are no noises to disturb and some subconscious power is at work within us. THE SABBATH DAY. In English there is not a more definite word than Sabbath, yet it is used with an amazing carelessness as a synonym for Sunday. The writers and translators of the New Testament use Sabbath correctly, says a writer in the Brooklyn Eagle. It is always Hebrew and in no instance is it associated with the New Testament dispensation now universally known as Christianity. Indeed the apostles were severely rebuked by the Jews for breaking the Sabbath. Christians cannot break the Sabbath, for they do not have it to break. Sabbath and Sunday- are observed on separate days, but this is not necessary, as astronomy shows that the identity of days from year to year is impossible; since the year and day are Incommensurable. The leap years show that any given date varies a day; even this does not correct the dates, as other corrections the leap years become neecssary. There is still deeper reason for discarding the severity of the Sabbath: 'namely, our seven day week is counted thousands of years older than the book of Genesis. Evidence is very strong that it was founded on quartering the sidereal month the true month. Long before anything even approaching astronomy arose man noticed that the moon slowly moved into another group of stars each night, and by rough eye measurement, completed her revolution in 28 days the 28 mansions of heaven of the Chinese and Japanese. - cen-turi- al SPELLS SUCCESS. Said a wise old bee at the close of day, This colony business doesnt pay. I put my money in that old hive that others may eat and live and thrive; and I do more work in a day, by gee, than some of the fellows do in three. I toil and worry and save and hoard, and all I get is my room and board. Its me for a hive I can run myself, d and me for the sweets of my pelf. So the old bee flew to a meadow lone and started a business of his own. He gave no thought to the buzzing clan, but all intent on his selfish plan, be lived the life of a hermit free Ah, this is great, said the wise old bee. But the summer waned and the days grew clear, and the lone bee wailed as he dropped a tear; for the varmints gobbled, his little store and his wax played out and his heart was sore, so he winged his way to the old home band, and took his meals' at the hard-earne- Helping Hand. Alone, our work l, little worth; together we are the of earth; so its all for each anJ each for all united we stand, 0r vided we fall. Pittsburg Ad-Ve- nt HEALTH FOR BUSY vt MEN. !a ? Losing your pep? If so, raise right hand and repeat the folio resolutions with Dr. Royal S. 4 land, health commissioner of Vork City: j 1 I solemnly promise and swear I onl each and every day I will spend f least one hour in the open air, in vg f ing or in some other form of phy. c? - p exercise. I will never ride in a street carf in a taxi or in an automobile if 4 distance to be traversed can reasj ably be covered by walking. I further promise that I will taker least twenty minutes for my mid meal, if that is lunch, or thirty minif the meal is dinner. I will give myself at least a k - ' hour for removing the days dirts' for rest before sitting down to evening meal. I will sleep two hours before at night, and at least six hours the after, in a room ventilated by an of window, both winter and summer. I will refrain from harmful exces in the use of candy, tobacco, me cines, rich food and from any ofr practice that will lower my resist! and leave me liable to disease. I will do only such things that make for my health and my neighle health. I will refrain from doing c hr' thing that may damage me or do to my fellowman. I set for myself high standard! living, and by clean lines of mindt body will make this year better ft any previous year in my life. j gj BOISE SELLS ITSELF. As a means to impress on reside of Boise, Idaho, the advantages oft jjj y, i e city from the standpoins of indu Be c distribution and home life, the series' Advertising club gave a luncheons, followed by a banquet: Jj which the ideas developed at the luc jp eons were sifted and summarit u Prior to the series of meetings, the vertising club made a survey oft t city, figures from which were offe j to show that Boise has little reasoi j of business conditic. g complain t Newspapers gave splendid tion throughout the campaign, i i co-op- t. J UTAHS LOFTY MOUNTAIN!; ( Utah has many lofty mountpeaks. Six of them rise more 13,000 feet above sea level and nf j accori above 12,000 feet, sixty rise j ! to the United States Geological j mountain in vey. The highest state is kings peak, which has an I j ' vation of 13,498 feet. Mount Eflinj j and Gilbert Peak, both in Utib,( ' also high mountains, reaching elf. ; tions of 13,438 and 13,422 feet, reap tively. - G i i |