Williams news., 1918-08-30
r. W, PERKINS FOR
 JUDGE Of THE
 SUPERIOR COURT

for Court.
 Judge Perkins is the present incumbent of that important, office, and his supporters point to- his splendid record for the past six and one-half years as the best evidence of his qualifica- tions.
 He was Deputy Clerk of the United States District Court at Kansas City for some years and later served as Clerk of the Court and as United States Cir cult Court Commissioner for five years.
 He read law with one of the leading law firms of Kansas City for four years He is a graduate of the St. Louis Law School of the Washington Uni versity. He was admitted to practice and practiced law sue cessfully in Kansas City for many years.
 Judge Perkins moved to Flag staff in 1903 and for two years was in the banking business, after which he practiced law until he was elected Judge of the Superior Court in the fall of 1911. Until elected Judge, he was Referee in Bankruptcy for this District. His practical ex- perience in the business world, as we'll as the practice of his profession, has peculiarly fitted him for the solution of the var jed and perplexing problems that a judge of the Superior Court of this State is called up on to solve.
 Judge Perkins has always ta- ken a lively interest in every movement for the welfare of the community in which he lives and for the State at large He served four years as a mem Der of the Board of Education Of the Northern Arizona Nor nal School, during which time the Normal School grew from a small beginning to a large and thriving institution.
 For five years he served as one of the Trustees of the Flag staff Public Schools, and his untiring work in the interests of the schools produced splen-- did and lasting results.
 Judge Perkins has the conf dence and esteem of the bar of the entire state. He has rarely heen disqualified to try cases in this county, and has been called into many counties in the state to try cases for other judges and has been called upon to sit as a judge of the Supreme Court in cases where one of the judges of that court has been disqualified. During his six and one-half years on the bench he has the creditable record of having had only four cases ap- pealed from this county, all of which were affirmed, and of having but two cases reversed during his entire term of office.
 Judge Perkins practical ex- perience as an accountant and business man especially fit him for the duties of the probate department of his court.
 His interest in the schools and his experience in the hand ling of boys and girls and his kind and sympathetic nature have peculiarly qualified him to solve the problems of the .iuve- nile department of his court, while his business experience his years of practice in the courts and his careful study of the law involved in each case, have won him a most enviable reputation as a jurist.
 He has shown no sympathy for the bootlegger and has done everything possible to enforce the prohibition laws of the state.
 Our Legislature has made the office of Judge of the Superior Court a non-partisan one, and the supporters of Judge Per kins feel that the voters of Co., conino County, regardless of politics, could do no better than "let we'll enough alone" and retain him as Judge of the, Superior Court for another | term