Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-02-19
Inter Mountain
Editorial Hilites

Editorial Hllltes
Selected for Western Newspaper Union
Service by II. A. C. and c. b. w.
Those knee-high skirts are bound to
put lot of free rubber on the mar
ket. Ferry idaho Gazette.
1t often happens thar the first time
You doubt thing is when you hear Il
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 lnsidcs of their stomachs
sbarbered.- -Elko (Nev.) Free Press.
The man whose telephone Is 202l
complains because his chances OK get
ting the wrong number are just about
20-to-1,- Nampa (Idaho) Free Press.
Senators talk about lot Of things
not germane to the question. The
other day they were discussing the
coal business and drfted into an argu-
ment on "common honesty" Whine
mucea (Nev.) Star.
The Lucy Page CASTOR who asks
Harding to shun cirgarets probably
uses rouge, chews gum, eats shrimp
salad and wears short skirts, y-eut
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
win endeayor to emulate his criminal
career.-Sparks (Nev) Tribune.
Even the standard aathority, Noah
Webster, made his mistakes. He de-
fined the British pound sterling as
having worth OF S4S4. Wall street
The final authority, says the value is
a dollar less. --Fallon (Ney) Standard
On the ground that they carry dis
case germs, mule 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 tIdaho) Examiner
Certain senators, even from the
~estern states, are taking the Japan
ese question with 1ocular lightness.
Their successors will walk In On an
exclusion platform as soon as the home
state farm lands begin to change
hands--Twin Falls Gduho) Times.
Rumor has 1t that the proprietor
or one Of our best Known dstilleries
drank an overdose Of his white mule"
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-ealled sportsnen We're
given the privilege" by some cattle
outfit on Antelope island to shoot the
buffaloe,I 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 Jdaho) Tribune.
Metchnikoff, philosopher, said IA
people would drink 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 nnards.--Logan (Utah)
Journal.
This is thu best country on the face
of the globe. It has the best govern
ment, but that government. like hui
man beings, has some faults, admit
tedly. II couldn't be conducted by hui
man beings and be otherwise. Yet
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 Qdaho) Republican.
This week has been freezer" and
a "refrlgerator"--'nuf to make any
body want to go to ----l or some sunny
cline where no ice or snow exists.
We've burned enough coal to feed the
engines of the battleship Utah on a
trip to South Africa, but still we are
shiverlng with the cold. No snap TO
run printing office In the winter
time we'd rather be skinning algators
In st. Augustine, Fla.--Gari1nd (Utah)
Globe.
The fault of social life is that its
favors are unevenIy distributed. The
popular girl with her pretty face and