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Show THE CITIZEN fi for quick action, having been introduced and finally paSse(j single day. The county attorneys office also suggesied and pared a bill which was passed, providing punishment for falsJfit&'i personating an officer, for which prior to this there was to cover. By reason of careful investigation of evidence submitted t office before issuing complaints a great deal of money saved to the county in witness fees. Violators of the prohibition act arrested by the sheriffs. have been vigorously prosecuted by this office, convictions rei in the payment, since the first of the year, to the county o $12,000 in fines from this and other sources. All criminal prosecutions in the county, except misdenn involving the violation of city ordinances, are commenced is office. Since the first of the year complaints for one hundred cj for indictable seven felonies have been issued, eighty-nin- e demeanors have been issued and three hundred and twenty-fJ- j misdemeanors. The greater part of the time of the office force been required for the careful consideration of complaints before issuance and for the trial of cases upon the warrants issued. COUNTY OFFICIALS STRIVING FOR EFFICIENCY AND ECONOMY (Continued from page 6.) now has charge of the roads and bridges department of Salt Lake county. Mr. Burgon is very well pleased with the splendid cooperation he is receiving from the men under him in all branches of county road work and feels he is getting good results for every dollar spent. On account of the rentrenchment policy in allotting county funds, there will not be much money spent this year. The main work is in maintaining the roads already constructed and getting the earth roads in condition. .Clarence Cowan, Salt Lake county clerk, is the son of James Cowan, early settler and pioneer of Utah. Mr. Cowan is a native of Utah, born in this city September, 1879. He is an .ardent Republican and has taken, an active part in politics in every campaign in this state since he attained the age of 21. During the years of 1904 and 1905 he was the assistant secretary of the Republican Central Committee of this city. Mr. Cowan is a well known newspaper man, having been connected with the Salt Lake Herald for eight years as advertising manager. Upon leaving the Herald he filled the position of assistant advertising manager of the Salt Lake Telegram. In his chosen field of endeavor he made a wide acquaintance in Salt Lake. He is the first member of the Cowan family to be elected to a public, office. He has reduced the budget of his office for 1921 $35,000. Mr. Cowan takes great pride in the work of his office and is ever pressing upon the minds of his assistants that efficient service and economy be their forethought. Much praise is being received by Mr. Cowan for the courteous treatment and efficient service being rendered in his office. p This office suggested and prepared a bill for the legislature amending the vacancy act to include narcotic users, so that it is now possible to prosecute habitual drug addicts as vagrants. This hill met with such approval in the legislature that it holds the record prt Kii wit a E ter on km be cle on coi to tai thi sic a 3! oy nl . 16 m eg '&a m jo tr B Henceforth it will be permissible to judge a mans charact; the brand of cigarettes he smokes that are not sold in Utah. ' ti : Prohibition has a kick no less renowned than the saloon. "'iililli.liliiailBilllllllllllllllllllllllllli;i i;;ii:i Dont Quit n $ in We Specialize in Advertising There is one thing that will produce a panic in this country,- and that is for business men to get panic" stricken. There is business to be done, and the only way to do it is to get right after it. Keep your advertising going and you will find business much improved, declares the Ely Times. There are two seasons when adver-Usinis a good thing; when business is good, because then people can be Bingham - g easily induced to buy more;! when business is poor, because then we need' ail we can get. That is the system of one of the worlds greatest advertisers. When things began to slacken off during the present depression some concerns cut their advertising and shortened their expense accounts, but they made the mistake of considering advertising an expense. It is not, it is an investment, and one of the best Arthur E. Aloreton, county attorney, was born at Salt Lake City, Utah, August 18, 1868. His parents were also born in Salt Lake City. Grandparents were early Utah pioneers. Educated at University of Utah and Yale university, from which latter institution he graduated with the degree LL.B., 1909, since which time he has practiced law at Salt Lake City, with the exception of his term their reorganization. of mo W along county auditing activities consistent with the general of retrenchment and economy adopted by all the county officii Republican party pledges of efficiency and economy reduced the force to nine employees upon taking office. Since that time he has reduced his force of employees to the minimum of four. With this reduction of employees in this office of the county government considerable money will be saved the taxpayers of Salt. Lake county. the-assistanc- .bro Al. Harold W. Christopherson, the new Republican county surveyor, Air. is a native of Salt Lake City. Born December 13, 1989. Christopherson was educated in the schools of Salt Lake. He has followed the engineering profession for the past eleven years. The first engineering work done by him was in this city in 1910, in conIn the year 1918 nection with a local engineering firm. he was employed by the Sevier River Land & Water Company at Lynndyl, Utah, on an immense irrigation project in that territory. In 1920 he left the state, going to Twin Falls, Idaho, where he was employed as engineer on a $2,000,000 paving project of that city. Mr. Christopherson was detailed to plan and fix grades. He is a charter member of the local chapter of the American Association of Engineers. Under the Democratic administration previous to Air. Christophersons election to the surveyors office, there were nineteen employees. Air. Christopherson intended to live up to the of service in the army from August, 1917, until February, 1919. He served as an officer, first in the infantry and later in the air service. The activities of the county attorneys office during the early part of the present administration were directed largely to rendered the various departments in the legal phases of T a L,. Scott, county: auditor, is a native of Utah. He is tk of Air. and Airs. R. S. Scott of Tooele. He received an early ing in his profession and has had a most comprehensive experie his chosen line of work, which cannot but redound to the adva: of the county in his conduct of his special department. Bt this Air. Scott is bringing efficient and well- - trained assistants the fold as his work advances and everything possible is being . j e investments connected with any business. No item can be considered an' expense which pays for itself. Advertising, real advertising, will do this every time. There is just one condition; have the goods and tell the truth about them. Keep telling it. Dont let the advertising stop. .It is like stopping the circulation of blood it means business death. 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