The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1920-12-31
Inter -Mountain
Editorial Hilites


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Why doesn't some Jealous person
start crusade whose object shall be
prohibition of profiteering Caldwei
Qdaho) Tribune.
Coalville citizens long ago learned
that every little bit added to what you
got makes just IA little bit more tax
-Coalville tUtah) Times.
The high price of lumber has pro-
tuced at least one beneficial result
People no longer carry chips on THEN
-Winnemucca (Ne,.) Star
"A friend In need" would he all
right If you could depend upon him
still to be your friend when you are
in need.-Gardnerville (Nev.) Record.
Courier.
Office seekers going to Washington
to Interview the new president should
remember that the roads are in bad
shape for walking home in March,
Richfield (Utah) Reaper.
Jellyfish are left on the rocks when
the tide goes out. No doubt they com
plain of adverse conditions. They can
not adjust themselves to the situation
-Buhl Udaho) Republican.
The reform wave Is getting an early
start in this state, and it Is a dull day
when some new petition fails to mate.
rialize. A proposed alright anti.
gambling law Is the latest to appear
Virginia City (Nev.) Chronicle.
The young man who squanders his
money has many companions, but few
friends. Men form friendships for
those whom they can respect, and no
one respects another who dissipates
his substance in rlotous living ogan
(Ulah) Journal
The ultra-dry bigots are going to
help undo even the good in that law,
II they do not let up. The people are
already in some protest. The ques.
ton was informally submitted In two
states, Massachusetts and North Da
kota, and both of them voted moder
ately Eve" (Nev.) News.
Mister Lenine, over there In Russia
Is said to be uncommonly anxious to
turn the United States to Boshevsln.
Our compliments to Mister Lenlne, but
we have to say that he is entirely mis-
taken as to the nature Of the folks
that inhabit these little old United
States. American Falls Qdiho)
Press.
When president and congress work
together, hills are ironed into valleys,
and roads made smooth. Neither
president nor congress alone bears the
full responsibility. Neither alone can
have all the knowledge. Both must
be involved in every important ma
tional movement. Boise U1lho)
Statesman.
Only two persons are residing in
Rhyolite now. In Its boom days the
town had 1000 or 5000 residents, but
the houses are rapidly falling into
decay now and not even a prospect is
being developed in that section. Ac-
cording to the men who have just re-
turned, the town Is truly a "ghost
city. "-Tonopah (Nev.) Bonanza.
Every community has its spirit.
With some it Is one of honor and in
tegrity and progressive intellectually.
With others the spirit of greed, gouge,
repression and retrogression predomi-
mates The first attains its aim in
life, while the latter aims no higher
than that which it attains. We of this
community have our choice. We can
progress with the march of time, OF
we can procrastinate while time
marches by.-Parnla Udaho) Review.
Reform cranks in our state are plan |
ming to get In the limelight of pub |
iicity by urging legislation for the pre- |
vention of the sale of tobacco and the |
punishment of those who use it. Bosh |
1t is to be sincerely hoped that the
first efforts of those half-baked. belly |
aching extremists will be ridiculed to |
death in the opening days Of the com
Ing state legislature-and we believe |
they win be.-Park City (Utah) Rec
ord.
Smile, dodgast you, and keep ever
lastingly at it, even if 1t does make |
you resemble blithering idiot, be-
cause 1t Is much better to smile than
gloom and Crouch. always. The first
day you begin. smile fifty times; the
next day sixty, and keep it up until
you reach 200. 1t will expand your
face several inches until 1t looks ik.
a hUcfeberry map of the Garden of