Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-01-22
Inter Mountain
Editorial Hilites

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Service by X. A. c. ald c. B.W.
Why doesn't some Jealous person
start crusade whose object shall be
prohibition of protiteering ?-Caldwei
(Idaho) Tribune.
Coalyille citizens long ago learned
that every little bit added TO what you
got makes just little bit more tax
---Coalvllle (lItah) Times.
The high price of lumber has pro-
duced at least one beneficial result.
People no longer carry chips on thelt
houlders--Winnemuc (NeA) Star
"a friend In need" would be all
right If you could depend upon him
still to be your friend when you are
in need.--Gardneryille (Ney.) 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,
Rlchfield 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.
Bull Qdaho) Republican.
The reform wave Is getting an early
start in this state, and 1t 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 sqnanders 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 riotous living.-togan
| tUIah) Journal,
The ultra-dry bigots are going 10
help undo even the good in that INV,
II they do not let UP. The people are
already In some protest. The ques.
tlon was informally submitted In 1--WE
states, Massachusetts and North Da
kota, and both Of them voted moder
stely "wet. "--Goldfield (Nev.) News.
Mister Lenine, over there In Russia,
| Is said to be uncommonly anxious to
turn the United States to Bolshevlsm.
| Our compliments to Mister Lenine, but
we have to say that he Is entirely mis-
taken as to the nature of the folks
| that inhabt these little old United
| States. American Falls tIdlho)
Press.
When president and congress work
| .ogether 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
Rhyelite now. In Its boom days tho
town had 1000 or 5000 residents, but
the houses are rapidly falling into
decay now and not even prospect Is
oeing developed In that section. Ae-
cording to the men who have just re-
turned, the town is truly ghost
city ."A-Tonopah (Nev.) Bonanza.
Every community has Its spirit.
With some 1t Is one of honor and In
tegrIty and progressive intellectually.
With others the spirit Of greed, gonge,
repression and retrogresslon pred0ml-
aates. The first attains Its aim In
life, while the latter aims. no higher
than that which 1t attains. We of this
community have our choice. We can
progress with the march of time, or
we can procrastinate while time
marches by.-Parma Qdaho) Review.
Reform cranks In our state are plan
ming to get In the limellght OF pub
iicity by urging legislation for the pre-
yentlon of the sale OF tobacco and the
punishment of those who use 1t. B0sh
It Is to be sincerely hoped that the
first efforts Of those half-baked, belly
aching extremists will be ridlculed to
death In the opening days Of the com
Ing state legislature--and we believe
they will be.--Park City (Utah) Rec
ord.
Smile, dodgast you, and keep ever
lastingly at 1t, even If 1t does make
you resemble blithering idiot, be
cause 1t Is much better to smile thar
gloom and crouch, always. The frs
lay you begin, smile fifty times; tn
next day sixty, and keep 1t up unit
you reach 200. It will expand you
face several inches until 1t looks Tx
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