Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-03-10 | Page 38 | William H. Johns Elected President

' WILLIAM H. JOHNS ELECTED PRESIDENT Smxeeds George Batten as Executive Head of Well Known WeEitern Advertising Company. Tin' re'-cut dc;i! ii of (irurc But ten, prtsitleiit of (ioorn lintlru ronipany, I in, , u pionrer of tho advertising liusi-m;sy liusi-m;sy jiiid for many years one oi- Us most prominent representatives, lias been followed fol-lowed liy the election of William H. Johns lo the presidency of the eompany founded by -Mr. Hat ten. There con Id be no mure logical successor suc-cessor (haii Mr. Johns to the responsibilities responsi-bilities loiiLT held by Mr. Batten arf chief of one of the erentest. advertising agencies agen-cies now in the field, 1'or the business nssocia I ion of the two men covers a i period of thirty years. In iSS'8, when Mr. Tlatten wan advertising manager for Funk & "Wagnnlls, Mr. Johns was a solicitor in his department. In .189! Mr. Batten .started the company which bears his name, and Mr. Johns was one of his first employees. He became a partner when the business was incorporated, incor-porated, in .1004, and had been its vice president since that time. That .Mr. Johns is recognized as one of the most prominent men in the ad-vertising ad-vertising field today is indicated by his recent appointment as chairman of the division of advertising of the committee on public information, the division having hav-ing been created by executive order of President Wilson, ''The business of George Batten company,' com-pany,' ' said Mr. Johns, in speaking of I his new responsibilities, "was founded by Mr. Batten on the high ideals of ab-I ab-I solute honesty, and of placing tho in-i in-i terests of tho client always before those 1 of the company. To maintain unswervingly unswerv-ingly these ideals will bo my aim.-"