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Show Inter-Mountain Editorial Hilites Selected for Western Newspaper Union Service by K. A. C. and C. B. W. Those knee-high skirls are bound to put a lot of free rubber on the market. mar-ket. Glenns Ferry (Jrlaho) Gazette. It often happens that Hie first time you doulir a tiling is when you hear a reputable liar tell about it. Logan (Utah) Republican. Xow the question arises how the fellows fel-lows who drink hair tonic are going to get the inMdes of t heir stomachs burbered. Elko (Xev.) Free Press. The man whose telephone is 2021 complains because his chances of getting get-ting the wrong number re just about 20-to-l. Xampa (Idaho) Free I'ress Senators talk about a lot of things not germane to the question. The other day they were discussing the coal business and drifted into an argument argu-ment on "common honesty." Winne-rnucca Winne-rnucca (Xev.) Star. The Lucy Page Oaston who asks Harding to shun cirgarets probably uses rouge, chews gum, eats shrimp salad and wears short skirts, V-cut waists and French heels. Brigkam City (Utah) Journal. When the criminal is adequately punished, the law will be respected and the crime wave will recede. But when the criminal is pampered, others will endeavor to emulate his criminal career. Spf-.rks (Xev.) Tribune. Even the standard airthority, Noah Webster, made his mistakes. He defined de-fined the British pound sterling as having a worth of $i'.84. Wall street, the final authority, says the value is a dollar less. Fallon (Xev.) Standard. On the grojund that they carry disease dis-ease germs, male school teachers in an Oregon school have got to remove their whiskers and mustaches. A man's got to be smooth to hold a job in that district. Emmett (Idaho) Examiner. Certain senators, even from the western states, are taking the Japanese Japan-ese question with, jocular lightness. Their successors will walk in on an exclusion platform as soon as the home state farm lands begin to change nands. Twin Falls (Idaho) Times. Rumor has It that the proprietor jf one of our best k.iown dstilleries drank an overdose of his "white mule" nnd set his whole establishment and home and all he owned on fire, all of A-hich burned to the ground, including several hundred dollars in currency. Delta (Utah) Chronicle. . A bunch of so-called sportsmen were given the "privilege" by some cattle jutfit on Antelope islam1 to shoot the buffaloes,' that had been rcised on the place for many years. No regular sportsman would have been a partj Co that sort of a deal. No regular official of-ficial would have tolerated it. Poca-tello Poca-tello (Idaho) Tribune. Metchnikoff, philosopher, said il people would drink a quart of buttermilk butter-milk every day they would live to b loO years old. He did that himself, but died at 71. We'd sooner die while young and innocent than live to great old age by making a walking slop barrel bar-rel of our innards. Logan (Utah) Journal. This is the best country on the face of the globe. It has the best government, govern-ment, but that government, like human hu-man beings, has some faults, admittedly. admit-tedly. It couldn't be conducted by hu-nmn hu-nmn beings and be otherwise. Yet there is nothing to be gained by trying try-ing to tear down nnd not build up. Let's all be builders in this community. commu-nity. Rupert (Idaho) Republican. This week has been a "freezer" and a "refrigerator" 'nuf to make anybody any-body want to go to 1 or some sunny clime where no lee or snow exists. We've burned enough coal to feed the engines of the battleship Utah on a trip to South Africa, but still wo are shivering with the cold. No snap to run a printing office in the winter lime; we'd rather be skinning aligators In St. Augustine, Fla. Garland (Utah) Globe. The fault of social life is that its favors are unevenly distributed. The popular girl with her pretty face and agile tongue, gets so many invitations that she may spoil her youth with late hours and frivolous ideas. Meanwhile many quiet and reserved young people who need social attrition to bring out rheir fine powers, miss the chance for self-development that wholesome society so-ciety should give to all. Meridian (Idaho) News. People who are unable to help themselves should be helped, but those who can and won't should got the boot rough as it might he on the boot. I.ogaii (Utah) Journal. The government's proposal to put poison in alcohol to render it unfit for beverage purposes may be a good one. j hut isn't the government a little late with it'.; Seems to us. from all we I .-an hear, somebody's been doinc tha' I r'giit alone. "arson ''i'v ;"ev.' 1 ''" H s- |