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Show ! Inter-Mountain Editorial Hilites Selected for Western Newspaper Union Service by K. A. C. and C. B. W. 'After one gets through with his income in-come blanks the greatest puzzle is to find the income. Pocalello (Idaho) Tribune. It will probably be just as well for any Americans who have surplus funds to invest them at home. Xampa (Idaho) Leader-Herald. Say, Cull ! slip me a "sig." Sure "ting." Drop a git in me paw. Yes, a nickel for ten draws, will be the slogan. slo-gan. Coalville (Utah) Times. The old-fashioned woman who used to boast that she made her own petticoats petti-coats now has a daughter who doesn't use any. Carson Cily (Nev.) News. Capital is the labor of the past. Labor La-bor is the capital of the future, and both of them pulling together is what creates the prosperity of the present. Logan (Utah) Journal. j Anyhow, Mr. W. J. Bryan issued his new program for a "reorganized Democratic Demo-cratic party" sufficiently early to preclude pre-clude any possibility of its being listed with midsummer light reading. Butte (Mont.) Miner. The Idaho legislature has passed an anti-cigarette law which has no merit and which from the experience in other states is destined to make conditions worse instead of better. Weiser (Idaho) American. One fact about Idaho taxation that cannot be controverted is the fact that the burden placed on citizens by Counties, Coun-ties, cities and school districts must be lightened if there is be any relief. Boise (Idaho) Statesman. When we look, at some people and cogitate tipon the statement that man is the noblest work of God, we can't help feeling that the Creator was not as particular as he expects us to be. Emmett (Idaho) Examiner. For the love of Mike, let's be done with this whining and moaning about hard times ; and let's stop all this talk about how much worse conditions are apt to be in a few months than they are now. Hazelton (Idaho) News. In spite of pleas for economy and the need of curtailing many items of expenditure, congress has sent out J400,000 worth of free seeds. The only way the people can get even is to use the seeds. Hailey (Idaho) Times. The failure of the old primary system sys-tem to fasten its clutches again upon the people of Idaho may be counted as a blessing of more tfcan ordinary value. The primary is the tool of the rich man and the blatherskite. AVeiser (Idaho) American. The reason there are so many automobiles auto-mobiles is because on fine days the only way to find a man that you want to discuss business with is to get in an automobile and hunt for the automobile automo-bile that hois in. Price (Utah) News-Advocate. A Los Angeles preacher says the mission mis-sion of Christianity is almost finished. Not as long, brother, as people blow each other to atoms in wars. And the Democrats will offer another reason, also. With so many voting the Republican Repub-lican ticket, they know they have much missionary work yet to do. Brigharc City (Utah) Journal. "Not pinching yet" is the best expla-wation expla-wation for the state senate's handling of the anti-Japanese legislation. There is no crying need for tRl' law just yet. Its intent was to provide bulwark against a future inevitable isue and thus, in all likelihood, actually avert the issue. Twin Falls (Idaho) Times. Before one should suggest the doing away with some state institution to save money in taxes, it should be remembered re-membered that the state tax in the aggregate ag-gregate is the smaller part of our tax burden. It is the local and county taxes that go to swell the tax statement state-ment you receive in the fall from th county treasurer. Meridian (Idaho1) Times. And we have something else to be thankful for. The slate legislature, one of the greatest farcical aggregations aggrega-tions of goody-goody fanatics that ever assembled to draw pay as lawmakers, will soon adjourn, and the members thereof scattered to their various home towns, where they will, if they get what is coming to them, he held up to public ridicule on every public or semi-public semi-public occasion. Park City (Utah) Record. Congress reminds us of old Rip Van Winkle. It sleeps and sleeps and then shows signs of slowly coming to life. At last it appears to be awakening to the peril of wholesale immigration' from pauperized Europe after the press of the country litis been sounding the warning for many months past Parma (Idaho? Review. We learn somelh'ng every Any. The latest bit of information is that "man- date" i the Japanese word for "annex- j ation."- Idaho Falls (Idaho) Time- I Register. I |