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Show Inter-Mountain Editorial Hilites Selected for Western Newspaper Union Service by R. A. C. and C. B. W. A good many men use automobiles I for dodging creditors. Helper (Utah) Times. It don't pay to go through life with a scowl on your face. You get too many in return. St. George (Utah) News. Prices, we are told, are still coming down. With the use of smoked glasses they should soon be in sight. Bancroft (Idaho) Standard. Maybe stealing second, robbing batters bat-ters of hits and "throwing" the ball destroyed the morals of some player. Pocatello (Idaho) News. The common custom is to blame one's enemies for one's defeat though one's friends are sometimes responsible. Malad (Idaho) Enterprise. If you don't contribute something . to the general good, if no more than a cheerful grin, why are you here? Pocatello (Idaho) Tribune. Where's that bird who was around predicting an early winter? We wanl to congratulate him on what he doesn't know. St. Anthony (Idaho) News. For the next four years the nation will be ruled by a newspaper mail-There mail-There should be no fear of the administration. ad-ministration. Gunnison (Utah) News. A man out hunting has shot his partner, mistaking him for a squirrel. Not half so offensive as the darkey p ho was mistaken for a ukunk. Carson (Nev.) News. Sylvia Pankhurst is afraid to try another hunger strike in an English jail in the light of recent events anc1 will seek something new. Pocatello (Idaho) News. The peace conference used 80,(XX francs' worth of cigars. The Indians used to accomplish more peace with aD old pipe and a couple of tobacco leaves. Salt Lake Telegram. Also the election has shown thai neither Mr. Parley Christensen or Mr Eugene V. Debs need be concerned witl. the work of selecting a presidentia' cabinet. Butte (Mont.) Miner. If you are a voter you would roai like the bull of Bashan if anyone should attempt to disfranchise you, yel you disfranchise yourself when yoi; fail to register. McCall (Idaho) Star. It is one of the misfortunes of the times that the. great forces for gooc in the world are not as noisy and dc not attract as much attention as the forces for evil. Delta (Utah) Chronicle. Chron-icle. Most everybody heartily indorses the "city beautiful" idea, and most everybody will iilso cut the corners of a grass plot to save one second 01 their valuable time.- Elko (Nev.) Fre Press. Coal is around fifteen dollars a ton and getting more careless every day In the old days the dealers gave you the dust but now they use a whisk broom on each lump. Hazelton (Idaho) (Nev.) News. "We have search! ig'h.ts in our home,'' declared the Twin Fulls citizen. "Searchlights!" exclaimed his friend. "Yes," said the T. F. C, "whenever I get home shortly after midnight I have a hellova time searching for 'em." Twin Falls (Idaho) Times. The International Bank of Cuba has suspended, and a 50-day moratorium Is in effect on the island. Raw sugar went from 4 to 24 cents and is now back at 7 cents, all in a few short months. What has happened in Cuba If :he inevitable which, sooner or later, cstores every artificial economic situ-ttion situ-ttion to normal. Midvale (Utah) Messenger. Mes-senger. Here comes an eastern man advocating advo-cating the licensing of editors, just as lawyers, or doctors, or ministers an ticensed. And yet we doubt if he realizes that the average editor will not object to being licensed. lie In the best-natured soul on earth and does not kick at any precautionary measure. You can license him, vaccinate vac-cinate him, baptize him, deodorize or disinfect him, and it's all the same. He stands for anything. But licensing licens-ing editors will not make good editors out of bad ones, any more than licensing licens-ing lawyers will make all good lawyers. Richfield (Utah) Reaper. The Retail Merchants' association of South Dakota recently held a convention, conven-tion, and on the last day pledged themselves, them-selves, in part, as follows: "Lastly, but not least, we shall endeavor to make it more unnecessary for people to send out of town for merchandise, and thus will let less of our money go for band concerts for Sears - Roebuck employees and the widening of Michigan Michi-gan avenue. Milford (Utah) News. If you trust everybody, nobody w!U trust you. Fallon (Nev.) Eagle. |