Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-05-07

Inter Mountain
Editorial Hilites
Selected for Western Newspaper Union
Service by r. A. c. and C. b. w.
One thing every Midyale citizen finds
out eslly in life Is that Il Crouch Is
like baby--the longer yon nurse IL
the bigger 1t grows Mdyale udaho)
Reporter.
Iii casting around for ,eas0n for
the recent political slump aad reading
many post norton verdicts, we have
about come to the conclusion that IL
was due to too many Democrats
marrying Republican wives Brigham
City (Utahl Journal.
If the cornhelds and wheatields
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. --Prlee tUtah) 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 Its constructive value
Idaho Falls Udahol Times Register
The price of crude oil, from which
gasoline Is made, has been eat in two.
But you haven't noticed any such drop
In the price of gasoline. Here and
there the reflners have Topped off
cent or two, but In the main you are
paying the old high prices Salt Lake
Telegram.
It behooNss anyone who II In tile
habit Of circulating rumors false or
true about the standing Of banks TO
refrain, ms 1t is reliably reported de-
tectiyes are on the ground for the
purpose of locating the source Of such
rumors. The penltentiary Is not im@
possible unless you prove what You
ay.--Myton tUtah) Free Press.
While a good many olo toppers IN
Montana are not satisfied even now
the state has adopted the Volstead
act, they still are of the opinion that
there is merit In the old axiom, that
"half loaf is better than no bread"
and consequently pint OF hooeh
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 credir
to Democrat, even so generally rs-
spected and long departed as Thomas
| jefferson, we must admit that no Re-
publican ever uttered d greater truth
| than he did when he said that the peo~
| pie who were tire least governed We're
the best governed -BuhI ddaho) Re-
publican.
The tarring and featherlng OF two
Nonpartisan League organizers &C
Great Bend, Kan, may drive those
two propagandists out OF Kansas, but
| ii will not drive out the doctrine II
came to teach. There Is no mora
logic in a coat OF tar than there Is In
d hemp rope. HALEY Udaho) Times
| News-Miner.
Public ownership of railroads IA
| coming, and how much better II would
be If Ii had come when 1t was first
| absolutely necessah'y-~-in 1917, Our
| foolshness and foolish fear of all
legged sociaIistic ideas increased the
present panic and win cost MS event
ually between three and five billions
In direct railway expense. Ashton
(Idaho) Enterprise.
Some Of the local people had IN ex-
perlence with the much-talked-of
"crime wave last week, when tho
party refreshments disappeared from
the back step. However they had a
good time without Ice, cream and a
number Of the denizens Of the under
world were on the sick list the next
day so why punish them fnrtherl--
Aberdeen Qdaho) Times.
AT the present time more attention
Is being given TO mining In western
Nevada than since the bonanza days.
The uncovering Of new lodges and
prospects In this end Of the state Is
receiving attention from some Of the
best known mining men. While they
are not making public statements, the