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Show Inter-Mountain j Editorial Hilites Selected for Western Newspaper Union Service by R. A. C. and C. 13. V. Nevada is one of the must law-ahid-in, stales in the union. Kven in prohibition pro-hibition law violations, we are far behind be-hind other mure populous d:st:-Uis. Tiociie (New) Record. It was perfectly natural that the Idaho legislature would consider some bill relating to aeroplanes, as it has been in the air considerable of the time. Malad (Idaho) Enterprise. We often wondered what the feeling feel-ing of a man must he when he runs bis partial payment automobile into a telephone post the day after he makes his first installment. Park Citj (Utah) Record. Doubtless safe to assume that the Louisiana sheriff who forgot to hang a prisoner on the day set for the hitter's hit-ter's jixecution at least is receiving no ceisure from the scheduled haugee. Butte (Mont.) Miner. Congress is being warned that a national tax of !?r0 per capital is unbearable. un-bearable. Our legislature might get some food for thought from the fact that our Idaho tax has reached that danger point. Boise (Idaho) Statesman. States-man. It was the boy spirit that made of the American forces in the world war the greatest aggregation of happy, unconquerable un-conquerable fighters history Qms known ; it is the boy spirit that will bring back to a troubled world the cheerful optimism it needs. Seattle (Wash.) Post-Intelligencer. The Idaho legislature, with their session nearing an end, have finally accomplished something that is1 worth while. They have repealed the two-mill two-mill higfhway tax. A few more slashes :n extravagant places and the people of Idaho will owe the sixteenth session a debt of gratitude. Hazleton (Idaho) Xews. The boys over in-Utah are having an sorts of fun. Latest bill suggested for passage by the solons is an anti-tooth-'pick law, which would prohibit the usu of toothpicks in. public places. Let 'er go ! There are lots of good people in CTtah we would welcome to Idaho when they get "outlawed" in their home state. Montpeller (Idaho) Examiner. It is is a good thing that D. W. Jones Is not a newspaper man, or on the bench, right now. He has a boil on his nose which would make it impossible impos-sible for him to smell out any news or detect the odor of a court scandal When he came down town Monday morning he had -his nose in a slin1;. Malad (Idaho) News. Everywhere the politicians and public pub-lic office holder, instead of trying to reduce or restrict the tax burdens, of the people, are trying to pile on more. The faxpayer's back is bent with tax burdens, but it isn't broken and that is probably the reason why the politician wants to increase the load. Winre-mueca Winre-mueca (New) Silver State. Girls attending the University cf Utah adopt a logical course in resenting resent-ing JMe charge that many of their number are addicted to the use of cigarettes. Of course, no one in this state placed any credence in the story which was circulated merely in the interest in-terest of the anti-cigarette bill, pending pend-ing in the legislature. Salt Lake Telegram. Tele-gram. You may notice from the daily papers pa-pers that the criminals being rounded up and sent to jail are not the men who are doing their lhtle old eight hours' work a day and taking the pay ciheck home to the wife and kiddies. Honest work never got anybody into trouble yet, but It has kept millions out of it. Brigham City (Utah) Journal. Jour-nal. Herbert Hoover presented 'Ix1nnd Stanford University with 375,000 volumes of Bolshevik and secret war documents. These will no doubt be interesting reading but we question the wisdom of placing such literature before be-fore students endowed with even the high class minds found in the student body of a great university. Boise (Idaho) New Freedom. Congress Is often heartily condemned, con-demned, to use the milder word to express the same idea, but it may be noted still possesses sufficient sanity to avoid the passage of hlue laws calculated cal-culated to reform personal habits to conform to the ideas of some austere persons who were probably scheduled to arrive during Puritan days, but were too slow to arrive on time. Logan (Utah) Journal. .. The modern vampire is nothing muci more than an imaginative improve, ment on the bright-eyed girl of the old-fashioned bazaar who used to sell you a dime's worth of home-made butter but-ter scotch for ?1.2o. Idaho Kails (Idaho) Times-Register. A man in Glenns Ferry remarked the other day: "Vou can get away from Bny officer by dropping a bottle of whisky on the grass." Having not ' tried It. we cannot vouch for the truth- fulness of the assertion. Glenns Kerry ! 'Idaho! Gazette. i |