The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-02-27
Word has been sent out from Wash

out the country. This will be goot
news to the publishers and the public
will have lost. nothing. With the
multiplicity of bureaus and commits
z sions, created in the past few years
there has been an increase in the
number of periodicals sent out which
filled the editors desk. and subse-
quently filled his waste basket. Ninety
per cen of this matter was entirely
valueless from a news standpoint and
there was a legitimate demand, and
proved a source of annoyance to the
publishers of the country.
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While there are those who gain
some comfort from the fact that the
prohibition law is not enforced as it
should be-, there is every reason to
believe that the condition will be
remedied, from year to year, as the
stocks legally held at the time pro-
hibition went into effect disappear.
M%oonshine booze is going to be about
as popular as a beverage, with people
generally, as coffins are for over
coats. 1t, however, is increasing the
popularity of the coffin. With a ma
jority Of the American people demand
ing the enactment of the prohibition
law, conditions will gradually work
around to a point where the demand
for enforcement will be something
near general.
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The Wallace Press-Times is more
or less right when it criticises highly
educated men for stressing the fOibles
of successful business men, rather
than pointing out their good quail
ties. The man who has made a sue
cess through his ability and his eff
forts, without trampling down or de-
frauding his fellow man, is deserving |
of credit.
A GOOD WORD WE'LL DESERVED
Here is a good word for the Ameri-
can business man. He has had many
an i'll word spoken of him in recent
years by a public unable to discrm-
mate between the honest merchant,
who is the majority, and the profiteer.
American wholesale prices now
average Sc per cent higher than pre-
- ,ooord;pn 70 n,,,e
British wholesale prices average 81
per cent higher than in July, 1914.
Prices in the United States have
faster than in any other
country.
That is a big thing to say of any !
nations store keepers these times, be- =
sides it speaks well for the country a
Weekly. s
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JUST SAMPLES h
What a country editor doesn't have ~
0 go up against hasn't been invented a.
ct, but we're expecting it to be any ts
ay. 10
Every person expects the editor TO ST
ave a real mind and to use it and his cl
ditorial column to support said per- IS
particular views for every per- y,
On knows that his own opinion is tie m
My right one, and naturally expects p1
lie editor to put the stamp of public III
cnroval on it. fr
For instance: This week we have tic
zen asked by a fertilizer company
help it prevent Henry Ford getting M
I'D of Muscle Shoals, and Henry my
is asked us to boost FOR him and
e Dearborn Independent. We have pe
zen expected to sympathize with the do,
or devil who had to pay a dog tax, un
d with Marshal Bob Wilson for mi
wing to collect it. The sheep men ttlnt'
mt us to help get Otto Jones' goat, fea
d Otto wants us to help him hand
, sheep bunch whatfor. The public FE
Ilities wants us to help make the
ilroads behave, and the railroads
Mt us to help knock the tar out-of ~,
p.u.c. We've been asked to stop can
paper, and to keep the good work its
ng; to tell how the packers lost hua
last year, and how they ma
robbing the producer; to adver- B
) "hootch," and support Volstead- MAJ
{; to cut out politics, and to hand uuc
republicans more of what they vid;
d; to go to church, and to go fish sons
!; to ~patronize home merchants, II
to buy from mail order houses; ins
Iuit it, and to keep on. These are IF
: a few samples of one week in quir
there a hundred others. have
a great life-if you don't d,s se