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Show Inter-Mountain Editorial Hilites j Selected for Western Newspaper Union Service by K. A. C. and C. B. W. Judging from some of the styles the women wear, they must think all of our men folks are "from Missouri." Ilaz.-iton (Idaho) News. I Champ Clark missed the White House, but he will be remembered long tift'er some who have been president are forgotten. Nampa (Idaho) Freo Tress. Men who -are reported "wise" declare de-clare there is a star a billion times the size of this little globe. It may be true. T.ut. we are willing to bet it hasn't got taxes as big as Idaho Eden (Idaho) Eagle. After the new administration gets down to work, the state legislatures adjourn, the farmers get their crops in and the merchants display their spring stocks, industries and pay rolls will become be-come normal. Trice (Utah) Sun. Long work days will never again be tolerated by the American people am' every newspaper in the nation should take up the battle against the efforts of I he packers to force a ten-hour day. on their employes. Sparks (New) Tribune. Congress, says an exchange, will soon be deprived of its last excuse for doing nothing. , And still, there are times when nothing is preferable to something. Some, of the bills recently passed by the Idaho legislature, for instance. in-stance. Tarma (Idaho) Review. We are in favor of the new Kansas plan to tax bachelors for the benefit of schools. Dodgast him ! He has no business being a bachelor. And if he has no children to send to school, thf is both his misfortune and his fault. Soak him hard. Brigham City (Utah) Journal. And now Secretary Daniels resumes his editorial work on his newspaper in Raleigh, N. C, with the knowledge that he did pretty well for an editor. The average editor, especially in the south, does not relish so much water as a whole ocean full. Idaho Falls (Idaho) Times-Register. The legislature adjourned Saturday night. ' What a relief! Now if some scheme could be devised to keep it from meeting again, the citizens would rest fairly easy there would be no more Normal moving, ntiti-cigarette Inset's or highway blunders. Rupert : Idaho) Republican. Very evident from the latest news reports of what's doing in soviet Russia Rus-sia that the bolshevik ezardom has not succeeded in "convincing" all the Russians, Rus-sians, by any manner of means, that sovietism, . bolshevism or any other kind of anarchism is a panacea for Russian nation.al ills. Butte (Mont.) Miner. Motion pictures of the lower house of the Utah legislature have been taken for exhibition throughout the state. It is announced the film is for educational purposes. We hope the picture will show the legislature as it appears to the general public and that no solon will miss the opportunity to see it in the interest of education. Salt Lake Telegram. V Ludwig C. A. Martens, the soviet "ambassador" recently expelled from this country, is telling his friends in Kussia that his expulsion "was not an expression of the will of the American people." Nevertheless the only criticism criti-cism the American people have ever uttered ut-tered in connection with the departure of this dangerous propagandist is that he ought to have been sent home months earlier than he was. Goldfield (Nev.) Tribune. The result of the vote on Wie gasoline gaso-line tax biil in the legislature demonstrates demon-strates that the mining interests are in full control in Carson City. The mining industry is not foremost in the state today, and pays but a small percentage of the, taxes and expenses of the state government, but in spite of this they dominate and control the lawmaking bodies, and pass or defeat any legislation legisla-tion they desire. Elko (Nev.) Free Press. It has been suggested that the interest inter-est due on the ten billion loan made to our allies in fhe war be used to finance I the soldier bonus bill, and the idea will meet witli general approval from the public. If such an arrangement is made it will forever settle the question as to whether or not this. loan will be paid. With four mil'ien service men interested in the loan it goes' without saying that it will be paid in full, as well as all act-emulated interest. Ely ! (Nev.) Record ' If fish bait would only grow in the : same place that the garden needs digging, dig-ging, wifey would not need to worry about getting that part of the work looked after. Emmett (Idaho) Exam iner The young ladies of Reno are wearing wear-ing extremely short skirts, and we are told that it is because they believe in freedom of the knees. W e believe in freedom of the "sees," so everything is perfectly satisfactory on our part. Taidnerville (Nev.) Record-Courier |