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Show j I Inter-Mountain j Editorial Hilites Selected for Western Newspaper Union , Service by H. A. C. and C. B. V. It is quite true tlial woman has a greater influence over man than has I money, especially it' she is his affinity. Price (Utah) Sun. "I". O. 1''." now has a new significance. signifi-cance. It is tacked onto invitation-in invitation-in high society and means 'fetch your nwn booze." St. George (Utah) News. If one tried to mix religion, prohibition, prohibi-tion, the league of nations, and party politics, a spontaneous combustion id' the brain would result. ('iiimhi (NVv.) News. "I am very fond of peanut butter and eat it daily," say a man, writing to a syndicate doctor. Thai is the proper way to do it; when consulting a physician confess everything. Las Vegas (Nov.) Ileviow. By the bye, did you notice lhat the, congressman most, outspoke in his advocacy ad-vocacy of freedom for the Philippines is Frear? We'll heat the pert paragraphers to this: Frear wants freer Filipinos. Nainpu (Idaho) Free Press. Our idea of an ignoramus in the field of economics is a man who tries :o show variations in the cost of living liv-ing by quoting wholesale prices. Consumers, Con-sumers, who pay the cost of living, Co not buy at wholesale. Pirk City (Utah) liecord. We have read so much about the prices coming down, and have wailed so patiently for the effect to reach Sparks, and have never noticed any effect yet, that we are beginning lo think these news stories are simply extracts from the Arabian Nights. Sparks (Nev.) Tribune. The strike agitator has not been agitating agi-tating much lately, not that anybody has heard of. The fellow who ban a good paying job is so well pleased with it that he is keeping the matter as quiet as possible and if he is discontented discon-tented he is not advertising the fact to the world. Jerome (Idaho) News. Men and women are perverse and inconsistent anyway. A man would not walk on the street with a woman who had a cigar snick in her mouth or who was squirting tobacco juice into the gutter, and a woman would not walk down the street with a man whose outside clothing allowed his underclothes to show through. Etu-mett Etu-mett (Idaho) Examiner. Next to the duty of the individual man, woman and child to save and accumulate is the duty of lawmakers to stop the ascending scale of public expenditure, curb the demands of self-expanding self-expanding officialism, and reduce the fixed charges of government which have become exorbitant and industrially indus-trially paralyzing and prohibitory.' Burley (Idaho) Bulletin. i : Disp.cehes from Europe . state that an attempt is being made to smuggle large numbers of Russian red agitators agita-tors through HoUand into the United States, and reports of our immigration immigra-tion officials confirm the statement. Here is where somebody should get busy. Such erazied, half-savages should never be allowed to set foot in .America. Brigham City (Utah) Journal. Jour-nal. Never before has there been such nn uiflux of immigration ready to pour Into this country from Europe, nor a time wjjen America is so ill prepared to receive and assimiliate it.. To stem the tide is one of the pressing problems facing .congress. Nevada and other slates have vast domains to be settled, set-tled, but should be open to-Americans first Virginia City (Nev.) Chronicle. Legislation is being blamed nowadays nowa-days for almost everything you can think of. When prices were high we blamed the government, and now that they are coming down we are inclined in-clined to blame the government for that, too. But the government just can't make the people be good, and the champions of virtue by legislation ought to realize it. Kemmerer (Wyo.) Camera. What is more needed in the daily press of today is clean, helpful, constructive con-structive thought, the kind that will inspire us to better work, instead of criticism and overdrawn pictures of suffering and remorse, drawn by over-enthusiastic over-enthusiastic persons who have not the least knowledge of what they are talking talk-ing about who have learned their chatter, in other words, from writers as ignorant as theyselves. Winne-mucca Winne-mucca (Xev.) Silver Stale. Next time .limluy Cox runs for president presi-dent he ought to hire Constantine to manage his campaign. Any man who can get himself elected king of Greece while he lives in Switzerland surely must know something about politics. Boise (Idaho) Statesman. Some Winnemucca men seem to go on the theory that it doesn't matter how they dress when away from home nobody knows thcn ; and that it makes no difference how they dress at home everybody knows tlrem. Win- j nemucca (Xev.) Silver State, |