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Show Published Every Saturday BY GOODWIN8 WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO., INC. ., A. W. RAYBOULD, ' BUSINESS MANAGER 8UB8CRIPTION PRICE: Including postage in the.Unitea 8tates, Canada .and Mexico, $2.50 per year, $1.50 for six months. Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal ' Union, $4.50 per year. Payments should be made payable to The Citizen. by;, Check, Money Order or Registered Letter j 1 ' ; - 1, " fi Address all communications to'The Citizen.; ' r f ! I'm second-clas-s June at Lake the as at 8alt Entered 21, 191$, mattdr, postoffice 1879. of Msrcji 3, City Utah, under the Act Ness Bldg. 8alt Lake City, Utah Phone Wasatch 5409 ' . M I . : 311-12-- L 13 GOOD COUNTY ATTORNEY The legal business of the county should always be in the hands f the so for been has men. It past four years under the competent able supervision of .County Attorney Arthur E. Moreton. He has not only brought the office up to the highest possible efficiency, but is. doing three times more business with over $3,000 less expenditures than was ever performed prior, to his administration. So far during the past nine months, Mr. Moreton has secured convictions the fines of which have amounted to over $64,000, and sad to say, much of this business is directly due to liquor traffic and violation of the prohibition act. Notwithstanding the great increase of business Mr. Moreton is equal to the task before him and because of his business acumen and systematic methods he is able to handle much business in a days routine. He was the father of the drug addict vagrant act which makes it possible for the police to pick up these hop fiends and peddlers and hold them for inspection. The work in the office at the present time has doubled from that of two years ago, and the big increase in crime will even add more work to perform in the future. It means that the taxpaying citizen should think well before casting their ballot for a new county attorney. It is so seldom that we have efficiency in office that we ought to rejoice in having such a man at the legal helm as County Attorney Arthur E. Moreton. Mr. Moreton was very anxious to start in business for himself but his friends prevailed upon him to run for another term and he consented, and he now asks his friends to support him solely upon the record he has made in .the office. He was born in this city ; went to school here and is a graduate of Yale and has been practicing law for fifteen years. When the war broke out, Mr. Moreton was one of the first to respond to the colors and he retired as an officer with great credit. Upon his return the people elected him to his present of.fle, which he has faithfully, fearlessly and courageously filled, showing favor to none, and administering justice to all. When the public is lucky enough to induct into office a man of this caliber, the people should also see to it that he is retained. A better man cannot be secured for this office and why make a change when the public has been so well served as has been done under the administration of Mr. Morton. He has a pleasing personality, and is always willing to meet those in trouble and ready to give aid where it justly and rightly belongs. Those who have had business dealings with Mr. Moreton arc for him because they know that he is the right man in the right -- W place. , j Men like Mr. Moreton should be' held in office regardless of paffy politics and party affiliations. He is for all the people and he has made a satisfactory county offcial. Why not save money for the taxpayers by electing him to the office he aspires? A business man lets well enough alone, and Mr. Moreton is the right man in the right place. OUR STATE FAIR It is a good thing that some state fairs are not an indication of the progress that has been made in their respective states. If such a thing was true, then the Utah state fair, just closed, clearly indicates that we have gone backward several years. Whats the matter with the fair this year? was heard from. all : . sides, and as one walked from building to building and inspected booth alter booth, they soon saw what was wrong. It was not a fair that our. people have been used to. It was a makeshift and a poor one at that. Several innovations were tried which proved a failure, the biggest mistake being the advance in the price of admission, which cut the attendance down about one-half over former years. The fair was not given the attention it should have. To make our fair a success, we must have a real promoter and a business manager who is on the job day and night. Such we did not have. Wm. D. Sutton, state treasurer, was also manager of the state fair, two departments that no one man can handle efficiently. If the state treasurer has so little work to do that he can give over most of his time to handle a big. institution as a state fair, then it' is time for the people to eliminate the state office and combine it with some other state office and save the money. But we know that the state treasurer has work to do, and in such capacity no man is big enough to do justice to the state fair by working both ends to the middle. It was very nice of Mr. Sutton to manage the fair without added compensation, but our fair has proved conclusively that it takes all of a mans time to make the fair a success. The fair has never been what it was during the days of J. G. McDonald, manager, and Horace Ensign, Secretary. Mr. Ensign worked 365 days in the year on the fair exhibits and attractions and then he was not able to perform his work during regular working hours but had to spend a great deal of overtime. But the people got results, and the people will not get results again unless they put into practice the business methods introduced by Mr. McDonald, who, the Citizen believes, was the best manager our state fair board ever had and Mr. Ensign the best secretary. This is not saying that we'eannot again secure competent men, but we must have men who give all their time to the promotion of the fair and it takes all of a year to promote a successful fair. They must be men who take pride in their success and they must be men who are not afraid of work, because it takes plenty of hard work to successfully promote a successful state fair. The price of admission was raised this year because it was cited that some fairs in the east had raised their price. It must be understood, however that where fairs charge admissions in the east, there are several big free shows for the people which arc worth more than the price charged. Many of the big eastern fairs charge no admission -- 7 |