Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1921-02-04
Inter Mountain
Editorial Hilites
Selected for Western Newspaper Union
Service by r.. A. G. and G. d. w.

Clean business is better than big
busIn Is, and a clean profit is one that
profItS both the buyer and the seller
Emmett (Idaho) Examiner.
Prizes are going to the deuce. The
lawyers who settled the New Haven
row for $2,5O0,OOO only got $833.OOO for
all their trouble.-CarsOn City (Nev.)
News.
The report that Germany is disur1l-
4ng probably means that the guns
have been removed from the armoriss
into private Easements. (Nev.l
Free Press.
isn't 1t about time an "anti-biue
law organization was formed--re-
stricting its membership to safe, sumo
and senAble men and women2-Parh
City (Utah) Record.
More general support for local In
dustries, greater community spirit ana
less mail order spending are what
Ephraim needs and must have.-Eph.
rain (Utah) Enterprise.
Where do all the speakers come
from who have great messages to de-
liver to the communicated what be-
comes of them and their messagesf--
Price (Utah) News-Advocate.
When a fellow "keeps company
with a girl for twenty years and she
let's him get away and marry another
well, we are wondering how he did
1t, that's all.-Ely (Nev.) Times.
It may give the Sim Fein some SAT.
isfaction to know that the British are
getting "Iumpy." A coffee pot boiling
over in London will send the entire
city to cover.-Twin Falls Idaho)
Times.
If your friends f1atter you, that
doesn't mean anything, because
friends are supposed to do that; but
If your enemies knock you, that
means you amount to something, CE
they wouldn't take the time to do it.
Eureka (Nev.) Sentinel.
Recently Justice of the Peace Fuller
Of Jackson received a letter from
woman living on a ranch out of Jack
son, something as follows: Dear
Judge-Old man and me had another
big fight. Enclosed find $40. Please
send me divorce right away."-Kem.
merer (Wyo.) Republican.
BY all means the railroads should
sue the government for more money.
Buying them complete outfits and maxi
ing them the only business in the
country with guaranteed profit
wasn't enough. The U. S. Mint should
have been thrown into the bargain
Twin Falls Qdaho) Times.
American national cabinets may not
resign the way some Of those Euro-
pean ones do, but at that there is not
third the predicting about the for
nation of any of the overseas kind
that there is about one of our home
sort. Europe does not get any part
of the excitement out of It's cabinet
selections that we do.-Butte (Mont)
Miner.
We never knew a newspaper so vel,
low and sloppy and inaccurate that il
did not have one good sideits inter.
est in home betterment. 1t has be-
come fundamental tradition of the
newspaper profession that it must give
it's cordial support to any proposition
tending to advance the interest of the
local community innemucca (Nev.l
Silver State.
Since the war wide propaganda
has been circulated against organized
labor, and insidious attempts are be.
ing made to weaken its ranks, but lt
Is not the province Of the state to take
sides with either party to the dispute.
1t is not the province of the state to
assist in this propaganda. 1t is the
province of the state to remain en-
tirely neutral, and this they cannot do
II legislation aimed at organized labor
Is attempted.-Sparks New 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
tenders, seat, or plank; burns lots Of
gas and Is hard to crank. Carburetor
busted halfway through. engine miss.
Ing. and piston. too. Three years old
coming this spring. Has shock alb.
sorbers anti everything Radia4or huSt.
ed-sure does leak; differential dry
you can Ghear It squeak. Ten spokes
missing; front all bent; tires blown