The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1921-04-20

one tnlnS every MluVale citizen mas
out eErly in life is that a crouch is
like baby-the longer you nurse it
the bigger it grows.-Midvale Qdaho)
Reporter.
In casting around for II AeasOn for
the recent political slump and reading
many post norton verdicts, we have
about come to the conclusion that 1t
was due to too many Democrats
marrying Republican wives.--Brigham
City (Utah journal.
II the corntields and wheattields
and orchards and hayfields and barn.
yards were as popular as the auto.
mobile camps during the summer
months there would be absolutely no
danger of starvation in this nor any
other cOuntry.-Price (Utah) Sun.
Doctors disagree on the food and
medicinal value of wines and beer.
But under the ruling that beer may be
prescribed as medicine, nobody is go
ing to insist on having his doctors
opinion as to it's constructive Value
Idaho Falls Udaho) Times-Register.
| The price Of crude oil, from which
gasoline is made, has been cut in two.
But you haven't noticed any such drop
there the refiners have Topped off a
cent or two, but in the main you are
paying the old high prices.-Salt Lake
Telegram.
It behooves anyone who is in tn"
habit Of circulating rumOrs false or
true about the standing Of banks to
refrain, as it is reliably reported de.
tectives are on the ground for the
purpose of locating the source of such
rumors. The penitentiary is not i'm.
possible unless you prove what you
say.-Myton (Utah) Free Press.
While a good many OLD tOpperS In
Montana are not satisfied even now
he state has adopted the Volstead
act, they still are of the opinion that
here is merit in the old axiom, that
"half loaf is better than no bread
and consequently pint Of hooch
every ten days is better than no whis'
key at all.-Butte (Mont.) Miner.
Naturally cautious as this loyal Re
publican sheet is about giving credit
to a Democrat, even so generally re-
spected and long departed as Thomas
Jefferson, we must admit that no Re-
publican ever uttered greater truth
than he did when he said that the peO-
pie who were the least governed were
the best governed.-Buhl (dahO) Re-
publican.
The tarring and feathering of two
Nonpartisan League organizers al
Great Bend, Kan, may drive those
two propagandists out of Kansas, but
it will not drive out the doctrine II
came to teach. There is no more
logic in a coat of tar than there is in
hemp rope.-Hailey (Idaho) Times
News-Miner.
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Public ownership of railroads /.
coming, and how much better it would
be If it had come when it was first
absolutely necessary-in 1917. Our
foolishness and foolish fear of al
legged ,,Oeialistic ideas increased the
present panic and will cost us event
ually between three and five billions
in direct railway representation
(Idaho) Enterprise.
Some Of the local people had IN ex
perience with the much-talked-O1
"crime wave" last week, when the
party refreshments disappeared from
the back step. However, they had 8
good time without Ice cream and .
number of the denizens of the under
world were on the sick list the mex
day. so why punish them further?-
Aberdeen (IAho) Times.
At the present time more attention
Is being given to mining n, western
Nevada than since the bonanza days
The uncOvering of new lodges an(
prospects in this end of the. state il
receiving attention from some of thu
best known mining men. While the,
are not making public statements, thu
fact that they keep coming. taking
samples. and putting out location no
tees Is about the best evidence of thu
interest taken.-Winnemucc (Nev.
Star.
Prof. F. r. Moulton of the Univer
sity Of Chicago predicts that "humal
achievements in the next few million
years will so eclipse modern accom-
plishments that mans intelligence to
day will bear the same ratio to tn
man of future years as the toad to tn,
twentieth century human" We ar
afraid that life is too short for II
! to see this marvellous change.-Parl
City (Utah) Record.