The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1921-03-16

Inter -Mountain
Editorial Hilites
Selected for Western Newspaper Union
Service by r. A. c. and C. B.W.
Those knee-high skirts are bound to
put a lot Of free rubber on the mar.
ket.-Glenns Ferry Udaho) Gazette.
It often happens that the first time
you doubt thing is when you hear a
reputable liar tell about it.-LOgan
(Utah) Republican.
Now the question arises how the fell
lows who drink hair tonic are going
to get the insides of their stOmachs
barbered.--Elk (Nev.) Free Press.
The man whose telephone Is 2021
complains because his chances OK get
ting the wrong number are just about
2Oto-1.- -Nampa Udaho) Free Press.
Senators talk about a lot of things
not germane to the question. The
other day they were discussing the
coal business and drifted into an argu.
ment on common honesty."-Winne-
mucca (Nev.) Star.
The Lucy Page CASTOR WHO'S asks
Harding to shun cirgarets probably
uses rouge, chews gum, eats shrimp
salad and wears short skirts, V-cut
waists and French heels.-Brigham
City (Utah) Journal.
When the criminal is adequately
punished, the law will be respected
and the crime wave will recede. But
when the criminal is pampered, others
will endeavOr to emulate his criminal
career.-Spsrks (Nev.) Tribune.
Even the standard Authority, Noah
Webster, made his mistakes. He de-
fined the British pound sterling as
having a worth of S4.S4. Wall street,
the final authority, says the value Is
dollar less.-Fallon (Nev) Standard.
On the ground that they carry dis
ease germs, male school teachers in an
Oregon school have got to remove their
whiskers and mustaches. A mans
got to be smooth to hold job in that
district.-Emmett (Idaho) Examiner.
Certain senators, even from the
restern states, are taking the Japan
csc question with ocular lightness
exclusion platform as soon as the home
state farm lands begin to change
hands.--Twin Falls Udaho) Times.
RumOr has it that the proprietor
u one of our best Known dstilleries
and set his Whole establishment and
| home and all he owned on fire, all Of
which burned to the ground, including
several hundred dollars in currency
Delta (Utah) Chronicle.
A bunch of so-called sportsmen were
given the privilege" by some cattle
outfit GU Antelope island to shoot the
buffaloes that had been raised on the
place for many years. No regular
sportsman would have been a party
to that sort of deal. No regular of.
fetal would have tolerated it.-Poca'
tello Udaho) Tribune.
Metchnikoff. philosopher, said II
people would drink a quart of butter
milk every day they would live to be
| $50 years old. He did that himself
but died at II. We'd sooner die while
| young and innocent than live to great
old age by making walking slop bar
rel of our innards.-Logan (Utah)
Journal.
This is thu best country on the face
| of the globe. 1t has the best govern
ment, but that government, like hu
man beings, has some faults, admit
teddy. 1t couldn't be conducted by hui
man beings and be otherwise. Ye,
there is nothing to be gained by try
ing to tear down and not build up
Let's all be builders in this commu
nity.-Rupert (Idaho) Republican.
This week has been freezer" and
"refrigerator'-'nuf to make any
body want to go to i or some sunny
cline where no ice or snow exists
We've burned enough coal to feed the
engines Of the battleship Utah on q
trip to South Africa, but still we are
shivering with the cold. No snap tc
run printing office in the winter
time; we'd rather be skinning aligators
In st. Augustine, Fla.-Gar,and (Utah)
Globe.
The fault of social life Is that 1t.
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