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Show Inter -Mountain Editorial Hilites Selected for Western Newspaper Union Service by It. A. C. and C. U. W. JIilNon did not discover the talking miK bine. A fellow unnied Adam beat "hlir to it. Carson City (Nev.) News. How to pay the Income tax ln't botheiing w half as much as how to get tlit. Income. Wlnneiniieca (Nov.) Star. "The day of the vampire Is waning," ob-sPnes-Tliedii llara. A few gray hairs and some wrinkles lo It, eh? Salt Lake Telegram. , Nothing pleases Ka pretty woman uiorr than to be seen on the street with i another woman who Isn't pretty. Mid-, Mid-, vale (Idaho) Iteporter. Our new sccretnry of war can speak Chinese, but what wo v.nnt Is somebody some-body who can talk so the Japs can understand It. Prlco (Utah) Sun. Hut then, oven long before there was gtich n thing as "medical beer," thero were thoso who pronounced It pretty good medicine, especially on a hot, thirsty day. llutte (Mont.) Miner. 4 Filer needs either n rovlvnl of tho curfew ordlnunce, or else parents should exercise greater vigilance In knowing tho whereabouts of the'r votiiigstcrs nt night. Filer (Idaho) Itecurd. . Judging from the nmnunt of liquor being withdrawn from bonded warehouses ware-houses for sacramental purposes, thorp must bo a big wave of religion sweeping sweep-ing over tho land. Hrlgham CT.y (Utah) Journal. Oennnns nro wagering ns much as , 50,000,000 marks In u single day on the raeo tracks of Uerlln. T.ven In terms of real money theso sums would go some distance towurd relieving tho , distress of which the Germans com-plain. com-plain. Idnho Falls (Idaho) Tlmoi-Register. Tlmoi-Register. Whatever may bo tho pet Ideas of those who e'ret n life of bloouiered, single-blessedness, a woman never was born to be u Judge and Jury. Her scepter scep-ter Is a caress, and her boundless em-plro em-plro n realm of love. When she falls thero her power over man has largely dwindled. Poeatello (Idnho) Tribune. Utah seems to hnvo sidetracked Its widely advertised legislation limiting the height of tho heel on n woman's shoes In order to pass nn nntl-tobncco law. ti,o millennium will probably come before zealots of tht Utah species, now so certain that they aro right, lenrn that they nro nearly uU i wrong. Goldfleld (Nov.) Tribune. Many people nrgtio that the new nntl-clgnretto law will not accomplish anything. They nro wrong. It will' enable many pnrents who nro too bujj going to dances nnd card parties nnd hnyo growing boys to pass tho buck to tlm sheriff and that's ono of tho pur-poses pur-poses for which the bill wns Intro-Jueed. Intro-Jueed. Price (Utnh) News-Advocnte A Now Zealand nuthorlty asserts Hint Japan Is planning to tnko Australia Aus-tralia and then step over nnd annex tho United States. Hut don't let II disturb your pence of mind. Weil hnvo plenty of tlmo to down n few moro chicken dinners before we have to kowtow to the llttlo brown mlkndo. Logan (Utah) Journal. Tho majority of farmers who own dairy herds In Carson Valley fully realize tho folly of feeding and milk Ing n cow that only produces 200 pounds of butter-fat per yenr, when, through n good'anlmal, tho yearly output out-put can bo rnlsed to 3.r0 or 400 pounds with tho snmo amount of feed nnd labor. Gardnerville " (N.ev.) Record-Courier. Record-Courier. Considering tho fact that England acquired territory about half tho slzo of tho United States In Afrlcu by tho world war, und that this country hns been paying England for transporting Its troops, It would seem nbout tlmo to drop nny further discussion nbout cancelling tho ten million dollar loan made England. Greybull (Wyo) Standard. Setmtor Frank Gooding likes to sny that Idaho's woalth Is bar soil. Hut the mmntor Is not qulto right. Not her soil, but her water, nmkes Idnho what sho has boconio nnd glvos Idaho the promlso of what sho will do tomorrow. to-morrow. For valueless nro her arid plains without life giving water. That Is why somo day boforo wo reach the utmost In Idnho reclamation, thli 1 statu must loam to properly uso and I consorve her most prlcoloss gift Caldwell (Idaho) Trlbuuo. |