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Show I Inter-Mountain ' Editorial Hilites Selected for Western Newspaper Union Service by R. A. C. and C. R. W. Willi booze at a dollar a drink, there is a long waiting list for every ami-treating club. Carsou City (N'e-r.) News. One of the saddest facts that we have- to record is that 'Private Stock is not re-enlisting Leadville (Colo.) Uerald Democrat. No Washington bartenders will have to listen to the fresh crop of stories brought in by the new administration. Salt Lake Telegram. What right have we to laugh at the Bolshevists when we read in history that our Puritan fathers put a tax on bath tubs. Cedar City (Utah) Record. There is a lot of protest against the prohibition law, but women and children chil-dren don't seem to be taking, very active ac-tive parts in it. Winnemucca (Nev.) Silver State. j When a woman gets a letter from her kin, her husband-waits anxiously till she gets through reading it,, to learn who is coming this time. Em- mett (Idaho) Examiner. The "poor 111 old" punchboard is next to get the reform ax. District attorneys of Oregon, in convention at Portland last week, decided to wage war . upon them. Vale (Ore.) Enterprise. Enter-prise. There is just one man who is as Independent In-dependent as a "hog on ice" and you can't say much to him except In a friendly way. He's the man who lives in a house of his own, all paid for. Meridian (Idaho) Times. Many of us who don't own Boise project lands were entirely eligible to attend the recent water users' meeting. meet-ing. Haven't we qualified by being water users ever since the prohibition law went into effect? Caldwell (Idaho) Tribune. The auto is becoming 'more and more safe. Drivers are more and more careful. But there are still careless care-less 'drivers and careless pedestrians, and even if the lion's share of the responsibility re-sponsibility does lie with the driver, society will not go amiss by protecting protect-ing both classes. Boise (Idaho) Statesman. - That bank in Terington that is giving giv-ing each new-born child a bank account ac-count of $1 would need some bank roll if that proposition were extended to Elko county. We are told mind you, merely told that the stork will be some busy bird this year bringing babies to the county. Elko (Nev.) Free Press. Just because some scribe indulging in poetic license might happen to remark, re-mark, anent the Benjamin Franklin anniversary, that the distinguished pa-troit pa-troit "is sleeping in Philadelphia," is no reason for any outsider to get up to inquire, "Well, what else would na be doing there?" No, sir; nothing like it Butte (Mont.) Miner. Still there's probably too 'much competition com-petition among the breweries in some sections of the state, and it is said that farseeing bootleggers predict a sharp break in the price of hootch unless un-less something is done to curtail the production .thereof, which at present is rapidly increasing in volume. Bingham (Utah) Press-Bulletin. Why wail and shed oceans of pessimistic pes-simistic tears over conditions that are not half as bad as the faint-hearted pretend? This country is byilt on a foundation of optimism, with every grain of sand in it. 100 per cent grit. You should be the same way too much "grit" to give up. Start things moving again. Eden (Idaho) Eagle. So worked up are some of our goody-goody, publicity-loving legislators legisla-tors over the health and morals of us poor sinners that they are now taxing their brains (?) forming laws to prevent pre-vent chimneys from smoking, the prohibition pro-hibition of the sale of smoked hams and the arrest and imprisonment of ail persons who hereafter look at the sun through smoked glass. Pane City (Utah)." Record. News dispatches indicate that a great influx of immigration is to be ex-peeled ex-peeled soon from foreign countries, and especially from some of the German Ger-man states. We have plenty of room in this country for reputable and law-abiding law-abiding citizens from any other country, coun-try, but our doors should be religiously religious-ly closed to troublemakers of every de- script ion. We have too many of that j breed here now. for our own good. I Bancroft (Idaho) Standard. I The fellow who kicks his home town shouldn't complain if hefinds that in time the town begins to kick him. IOcking is not a profitable pastime pas-time v i best, and people would do well to keep this fact in mind w hen" they assume to emphns:zp their own judgment judg-ment against that of an entire community. com-munity. Winnemucca (Nev.) Star. W overheard one Hazelton citizen say yesterday that his children have the "galloping consumption." Tln-v Just eat -and run. Haze-Iron (Idaho) Newa |