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Show Inter-Mountain Editorial Hilites i . . . i Selected for Western Newspaper Union I Service by R. A. C. and C. 13. W. Clean business is better than big busin t s, and a clean profit is tine that profits; both the buyer and the seller. En.inett (Idaho) Examiner. Prices are going to the deuce. The lawyers who settled the New Haven row for $2,500,000 only got Ss:(:i,H!H) Tor all their trouble. Carson City (New) News. The report that Germany is disMi.i-ing disMi.i-ing probably means that the guns have been removed from the armorials Into private basements. Elko (Nev.) Free Press. Isn't It about time an "anti-6'ue law" organization was formed restricting re-stricting ts membership to safe, sane and sen'j'ible men and women? Park City (Utah) Record. More general support for loeni industries, in-dustries, greater community spirit and less mull order spending are what Ephniim needs and must have. Fph-raim Fph-raim (Utah) Enterprise. Where do all the speakers come . from who have great messages to de- j liver to the community and what be- j conies of them and their messages? i Price (Utah) News-Advocate. I When a fellow "keeps compary' with a girl for twenty years and she lets him get away and marry anotl er well, we are wondering how he did It, that's all Ely (Nev.) Times. It may give t lie Sinn Fein some sa -isfnetion to know that the British am getting "jumpy." A coffee pot boiling over in London will send the entiie city to cover. Twin Falls (Idaho) Times. If your friends flatter you. thi. t doesn't mean anything. because friends are supposed to do, that ; but if your enemies knock you, tint means you amount to something, or they wouldn't take the time to do it.--Eureka (Nev.) Sentinel. Recent'7 Justice of the Peace Fuller of Jackson received a letter from a woman living on a ranch 'out of Jackson, Jack-son, something as follows : "Dear Judge Old man and me had another big fight. Enclosed find $10. Please eend me divorce right away." Kem-merer Kem-merer (Wyo.) Republican. By all menus the railroads should sue the government for more money. Buying them complete outfits and making mak-ing them the only business in the country with a guaranteed profit wasn't enough. The U. S. Mint shou.'.d have been thrown into the bargain.--Twin Falls (Idaho) Times. American national cabinets may not resign the way some of those European Euro-pean ones do, but at that there is not a third the predicting about the formation for-mation of nny.jif the overseas kind that there is ubiut one of our home sort. Europe does not get any part of the excitement out of its cabinet selections that we do. Butte (Mont.) Miner. We never knew a newspaper so yellow yel-low and sloppy and inaccurate that it did not have one good side its interest inter-est in home betterment. It has become be-come a fundamental tradition of the newspaper profession that it must give Its cordial support to any proposition tending to advance the interest of the local community. Winnemucca (Nev.) Silver State. Since the war a wide propaganda has been circulated against organized labor, and insidious attempts are being be-ing made to weaken its ranks, but it Is not the province of the state to take sides with either party to the dispute. It is not the province of the state to assist In tills propaganda. It is the province of the state to remain entirely en-tirely neutral, and this they cannot do if legislation aimed at organized labor is attempted. Sparks (Nev.) Tribune. Lost Between Soda Springs and Phosphate mine, In snowdrift, one Ford car with piston ring, two rear wheels and one front spring. Has no fenders, seat, or plank : burns lots of gas and is hard to crank. Carburetor busted half-wny through, engine missing, miss-ing, and piston, too. Three years old coming this spring. Has shock absorbers ab-sorbers and everything. Radiator busted bust-ed sure does leak ; differential dry you can heai it squeak. Ten spokes missing; front all bent: tires blown out ; ain't worth a cent. Got lots of speed: will run like the deuce; burn? either gas or tobacco juice. Tires all off: been run en the rim. A darn good Ford for the shape it's in. Soda Springs (Idaho) Chieftain. About the only certainty relative to the controversy over freight rates and the amount recent increases have cost Idaho producers is this: "Go east, you farmer, and farm somewhere near the fine markets Idaho helped to create and is barred from sharing." Caldwell Cald-well (Idaho) Tribune. This man D'Annunzio, who has been creating so much trouble in Italy, has laid down his sword and will Ugaln write poetry. That's what you call going from bad to worse. Las Vtgiis (Nev.) Age. |