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Show 1 I Inter-Mountain j Editorial Hilites Selected for Western Newspaper Union Service by R. A. C. and C. B. W. Long prayers are going out of date-. Ton man;7 people fail to wake up j promptly at their close. LVnua (Idaho) Review. There is always room for improvement improve-ment ami !-."s about the only room you don't have to pay tiny rent for. Las Ytgas (Xev.) Age. Wonder if the time will come when a feller will ask for the kind of beer his mother used to make. Gleans Ferry (Idaho) Gazette. If the war had not been won in 101S, what would have been your income tux. for 1020? Pay it with thankfulness. thankful-ness. Cambridge (Idaho) News. If prohibition endures, the price of wine grapes will soon enable California Califor-nia to buy Japan and settle the question. ques-tion. Virginia Ctiy (New) Chronicle The Reds in this country claim that holshevism is the best government in the world, but how they do scream when we deport a bunch of them to r"ssia. Logan (Utah) Journal. Eight Chicago girls were recently awarded in court $2 each for a hug apiece. If they could close out their stock at that price they would be pursued pur-sued by titled foreigners. Emmett (Idaho) Examiner. The politicians don't want Herbert Hoover in the cabinet, as he would hand out food to the starving children of Europe rather than plums to the hungry office seekers at home. Rich field (Utah) Reaper. Back in the east several large coal companies have reduced the price of coal. Similar action in this snow-covered, heavy coal consuming section would be mightily appreciated. Part City (Utah) Record. A local dairy manager has announced an-nounced that the price of milk to the patrons in Twin Falls will be cut to 12 cents a quart beginning February Febru-ary 1. Maybe the old cow is returning to earth again after her .tump over the moon. Twin Falls (Idaho) Times, A Meridian man says the most precious things in life are those that can't be bought. This thought came to him when he realized he had money to buy things to fill the Christmas stockings, but no children to find the stockings after they were filled. Meridian (Idaho) Times. Just as we fearetl, it appears that Greece got $15,000,000 of our money and that since 1919, that is, after the war was over. Our government has undertaken to finance any one deemed needy and the people who pay the taxes have had little to say about what was done with their moneys. Goldfield (New) Tribune. Because the building could not be leased on acceptable terms for another year, the W'eiser General hospital was closed Saturday. This leaves a population popu-lation of approximately twenty thousand thou-sand without hospital facilities. This is probably a condition that exists nowhere else in the United States. Weiser (Idaho) American. Postmaster General Burleson's estimates esti-mates were cut $11,000,000 by the committee before the postoffice appropriation ap-propriation bill was reported to the house, which was letting tile department depart-ment off rather lightly considering that many members would like to cut off the postmaster general. Idaho Falls (Idaho) Times-Register. High over the door in the job office of the Press-Bulletin for years and years has been pasted a pungent paragraph, para-graph, perhaps the handiwork of a tramp printer, which reads as follows: "The idea is advanced that the lack of equipment tends to keep peace forgetting for-getting that it was not the absence of equipment which gave the charm to the Garden of Eden, but the presence of innocence." Btngham (Utah) Press-Bulletin. Right now there is nothing fundamentally funda-mentally wrong with the United States from an economical standpoint. We are world creditors, the nation In money and products was never wealthier, our exports continue in sufficient suf-ficient volume to give us a comfortable comfort-able trade balance. There is no economic eco-nomic reason why we should not. resume re-sume normal business activities on a safe and sane basis. Ouiy one thing ; prevents and that is a lack of public j confidence. Caldwell (Idaho) Ti-j Ti-j une. I Experts in the business world as- I sure us tbat the worst is over, and that l!i1 will see a strong revival of ; business und a steady forward movement move-ment to continued prosperity. That : sounds good, and it. will be even bet-j bet-j tor when it materializes. Winne-nucca Winne-nucca (Nov.) Star. j Most remarkable thing about the communist literature is how those fel- i lows overcome their constitutional ob- ' Jections to work sufficiently to run : their stuff off on a printing press. Elko (Xer.) Free Press. |