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Show THE MIDVALE JOURNAL Thursday, September 10, 1931 MIDVALE JOURNAL Vernon Gray ········-········································-------------------------Publisher Term of subscription, per year (in advance) ------------------------------$1.00 -. ·~ ,.,. .Do \ ADVERTISING RATES Display, per column inch .... ·--·-····-----------------····-·········-······-·····-··-·-$O.~g Readers, per line ------------·----------------·--------------·------------------------------- . All business corrP.spondence should be addressed to the Midvale Journal, 136 N. Main St., Midvale, Utah. Phone Mid. 178. ARIZONA COPPER TARIFF COMMISSION ANALYZES METAL ' ~ Much is heard nowadays about foreign trade. Foreign trade might be vital for other industries, but not for our copper mining. There is little chance for American copper to figure in foreign trade. It is doubtful that even with proper tariff protection, much American copper would find its way into foreign trade, because our production of copper and our consumption of the metal are about balanced. Expected usual increase in this nation's use of the metal, which increase and use has been anri is the world's greatest, indicates that the United States under normal conditions would be importing copper to supplement all that which could be mined ln this country by existing operating mines. This fact explodes the p•:l theory of opponents to a copper tariff, which theory presumes that a tariff would be of no benefit to American copper mining because this nation is an exporter of the metal, that a surplus production of the metal must be sold abroad. According to the "exportable surplus" theorists, the domestic price of a metal is fixed by the price which the exported metal brings in world trade. Those who believe this forget that the American copper-mining industry was nurtured and prospered under the wing of a protective tariff; that under such a tariff this .nation became a successful copper .exporter, and that the high price which then obtained in this country for copper was not affected by the price which was received for it in world trade. The principal cause of the collapse of the copper-mining industry of this country is foreign competition. During recent years, developments of vast deposits of rich copper ores in Africa and other lands have been vigorously advanced. Cheap labor, low transportation costs, richer ores, extensive, easily worked deposits, and lower taxes, of countries lacking In public improvements and general weiface institutions long deem necessities in the United States, give the foreign producer of copper decided advantages. The foreigner is able to set a selling-price for copper so low as half of what it costs to produce it in this country. In the absence of any tariff barriers, low-priced copper from these foreign fields has been and is entering the United States and displacing in our own factories the metal formely supplied by domestic mines. The development of vast foreign sources of copper supply has brought about a condition of world over-produC'tion of the metal and, as a consequence, a gigantis struggle Is in progress for the control of the world's copper markets. Strong evidence that the copper-mining industry in the United States sorely needs tariff protection lies in the fact that our mines were the first to feel the effects of this over-production. In April, 1929, when copper sold for more than 19 cents a pound, production of the metal •in this country began to diminish, and since that time has continued to decrease. Mines in other parts of the world did not begin to be affected until November of the following year. At the present time, with the price of copper at 8 cents and lower, copper production in the United States ~s curtailed fully 65 per cent. Few, if any, copper mines in this country can operate without a loss with the metal at such a low selling price. In direct contrast with this, the Union Miniere de Haut Katanga, the big African copper producer, may be noted. This company is earning profits at present prices. It is the opinion of some authorities that copper from several large foreign fields can be delivered, at a profit, to our Atlantic coast seaports for as low a selling-price as 6 cents a pound. With such strong competition American mine operators and worke~s, rating better working and living conditions than foreigners, are unable to hold even the copper market of this country, which market, ironically enough, is the best in • the world. Another fallaciofls notion is that the large stocks of the metal above ground must be consumed before any results can be realized from a tariff. It is interesting to note that the major part of the copper stocks in this country consists of foreign copper. A tariff would have kept this foreign copper out of the country and normal domestic demands would have consumed the Clomestic component of these stocks. Of what benefit to Amerfcan copper producers is curtailment of American production, if foreign copper is not kept from continuously building up stocks in this country? If world-production is the result of foreign developments and if the larger part of our stocks on hand is of foreign copper, it seems unreasonable that American producers alone should curtail production in order to bring about a retrenchment in the world's copper production. This is the very thing that was done. In the early part of this year, it was announced that a world cartel of copper interests had effected a 16 per cent pro- WITTICH'S Lock, Gun and Novelty Repairing. All kinds of repairing, Keys and Sharpening. WE BUY GUNS Midvale, Utah M No. Ma1n St. duction curtailment in 1930. In 1929, as much copper was produced in the United States as was produced in all the rest of the world combined. It ~ay be true that a world-wide reduction of 16 per cent was effected but the whole truth is that American producers curtailed more than 32 per cent while the rest of the world curtailed less than 1 per cent. In brief, the United States did all the curtail• ing. Curtailment of production in the LJrutea ~t:ates does notnmg tor aomescic m1rung conaitwns ou~ to snut aown mmes, tnrow mmers out ot work ana prevent the payment or ruviCieneis. Unless foreign illilles are tnaae to curt&J.l proCiuccwn, tot·e1gn copper wiH continue to be dumpO:l<l aete. Neither over-production nor stocks on hand can oe reauced by sucn a one-s1ded procedure. The only equitable curtailment is one in which au the producers in the world participate, each making the same propordonate reduction. Another contention of tariff opponents is that a tariff would aggravate over-production conditioru. by making it posstble to develop lowgrade oodies that otherwise coulcl not oe developed. 'The proponents of such a contenuon lose s1ght of the fact that a SIX-cents-a-pound tariff would perimt only of the continuous overacwn of weH established mines. A sixcent tariff margin would not facilitate the bringing in of any additional lowgrade ore oodies. lt is doubted by :;orne that a six-cent tariff is even sufficient to give adequate protection to all of the well established wines which up to the immediate past have been producing. The cry that the remedy for the American copper-mining industry may be found 1n an increased and more diversified use of copper becomes hollow when it is considered that not only is the copper demand in .he United States greater than that of all the rest of the world put together, but that the demand here is increasing at a rate six times greater than the rate of any other country. To advise that American copper producers ought to improve marketmg methods is vague admonition. Were it not that such advice harbors subtle suggestions that an improv~m~nt in marketing methods necessanly mcludes a readjustment of the world's production and distribution of copper, this matter would not warrant consideration. But, such readjustments ental curtailment of production, and recent experiences have taught that when curtailments are to be effected, American copper mines are the only ones that do the effecting. Foreign competition is the cause of America's copper-mining trouble. Paradoxical as it may seem, a consi.derable number of the major copper producers in this country are not in a position to do anything about this competition because they have become tied up with one or anothe~ of several international copper combmations These combinations are fighting one another for control of the copper markets of the world, and the most attractive of these is the market in this country But copper-production costs in the United States are relatively high International combines logically close down their highproduction-cost mines here in ~avor ?f their low-production-cost mmes m other countries The ultimate result soon will be-if nothing is done about it-the idling of American copper mining Demands of American factories will then be satisfied with foreign copper. American copper mmes are now being urged to make further reductions. Those who bear. the br~;~nt of such readjustments of production are those American mine owners and mine operators who have not associated themselves with any international copper combine, Ameri~~ mine worl{ers, American commumtles and institutions. This international trend of the American copper-producing industry is not unique. It is the same general course being sailed by many other American industries and which leave in their wake momentous economic, social and governmental problems to vex the American people. Ameri<?an mines are making way for foreign mines. Mills and smelters have already been erected in foreign parts. Fires are being quenched in our furnaces. The near future will see the construction of copper fabricating factories on distant soils. American copper manufacturing plants i~ our industrial east will then begm to close their doors, and Connecticut Valley will be a meaningless term in . . the copper world. American managenal ability and American technical genius created and developed the American copperproducing industry into th~ great~st in the world. Many American = e managers and engineers have realized that their livelil}ood Is now to be found only abroad. But with the mine worker, it is a different story. There is no demand for his labor wlien the cheaper labor of primitive peoples is close at hand. That there is no considerable open opposition to demands for a copper tariff is not swprising. Those American producers that have become h:;xvolved internationally, know there lS no real argument against tariff protection if the American industry is to live. An open controversy would compel them to disclose facts and figures proving the very opposite of CHEVROLET RECALLS FORMER HIGH PRICES larger than any Chevrolet since 1922, when four different models listing above $1,000 were built on a 110wheelbase. A standard Chevorlet passenger car listing at $2,500! That message, if heralded from billboards or the advertising pages of newspapers today, would cause considerable wonderment and speculation among the millions of present Chevrolet owners. Yet it was a more or less familiar sight back in 1913, when the company was getting into its second year of operation, and actually priced one model at that figure, the .nighest at which a standard Chevrolet has ever sold. This 1913 car, an ancient prospectus says, had an average road weight of 3,700 pounds less passeng-ers, and a wheelbase of 120 inches. ~\lith its gleaming brass headlamps and its touring-type body mounted high above the wheels, it bore little resemblance either lD size or appearance to the modern output of the company. Although in 1912, the first ~ull year of production, the car tnen bemg built also listed above $2,000, no Chevrolet since that date has ever listed as high as $1000. 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It takes those cood. old CARTER'S LITTLE LIVER PILLS to cet tbeH two pounds of bile flow!n11 freely and make you feel "up and up." They contain wond~ul, harmless, ~ntle ve&:et;ahle ext"!'eta, amumc when it comes to malrinc the bile flow freely. But don't aak for liver pilla. Al!k for Carter'• Little Liver Pills. Look for the name Catter'a Little Liver Pilla on the red label. Resent a aubatitute. 25e at all atorea. C 1931 C. ld. Co. SPEC IAL .................................. Finger Wave and Shampoo ............ $1.00 Pee-Wee Permanent .............................. $1.00 f!.horov•i/.; C4••jl•• ::NOii..,.Ol'I.a.u...;;,) !f'HAT some sp-eCles-ofWHd ducks nesti nthe hollows-of :old' tre~t; ~ The photograph lhows 'a wood duck In Northern Alberta_surve>:•ng ..,.,_w.,~l-:1 from~~"~doorWI)'. <~Lhls•. tree·~tump hom"!) their present subtle contentions. The full truth of the scuttling of a basic American industry for the profit of a few international financiers, the cause of distress to American workers, the reason for the disappearance of dividends for investors in American mines, the inhumanities perpetrated on primitive peoples forced to work foreign copper properties, ~ould cause a nation-wide protest agamst the use of the foreign metal in the United States These few dictators of industry and· finance possess the facts in the case. It is extremely difficult, probably impossible, for a few small independent mine owners and operators or any group of workers to pry into the secrets of Wall Street and Lombard Street or to investigate labor conditions in Africa; but, unmistakable symptoms indicate clearly the character of the cause of the trouble. RIVERTON Mr. and Mrs. George Whetman and children of Draper, and Mr. and Mrs. Hans Nielsen ' and family of South Jordan formed a party at Black Rock and enjoyed picnic luncheon and bath- 0 (for children) Permanent Waves ......$6.50-$5.00-$4.00 Orchid Beauty Salon Phone 117J Veda Hansen, operator. ~~--~~~--~r-~--~~~ ~~~--~~----~-- ~~ Sunday. lastand ingMr. Mrs. Frank Nossack had lr,~~ as their guests last week Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Christensen of Vernal. William Bishop and Mr. Towe of Castlegate spent Tuesday and Wednesday at the Nossack home. Mr. and Mrs. N. H. Silcock and Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Callicott spent Sunday at Morgan. Mr. and Mrs. Mahonri Butterfield entertained at dinner Monday in honor of Mrs. Butterfield's sister, l\fiss Bought Body and Soul ••• For a Woman's Whim! Hattie Bills, of Dillon, Mont. Covers were laid for Mr. and Mrs. Rex Hamilton and Mr. and Mrs. Ether Stocking. Mr. and Mrs. Gwynne Page and Star of "Office Wife," in Her Most Daring Role-family spent Monday at Preston, Ida. Mrs. Alma Dansie, Mrs. Thomas Brown and Mrs. Mahonri Butterfield were hostesses to the members of the Second ward Relief society Tuesday at the ward house. The following program was enjoyed: Story, Mrs. Roy Glazier; dance, Verda Butterfield and Betty Durfee; reading, Mrs. Franklin Peterson; song, Miss Butterfield, Miss Durfee and Miss Lucile Lloyd; musical With JOEL McCREA, NED SPARKS, CLARA KIMBALL selection, Miss Lloyd. Following the program, luncheon"'was served. YOUNG, BRYANT WASHBBURN Melvin Peterson and Fred B. May, teachers at the Second ward Sunday school, entertained their classes at a weinie roast and melon bust in Butterfield canyon, Friday. Twenty-five enjoyed the party. Mrs. M. J. Tischner entertained at a quilting party and dinner at her home last Thursday. Covers were laid for Mrs. Ole Peterson, Mrs. H. S. Crane, Mrs. Aaron Densley, Mrs. Elmer Seal and daughter Elma, Mrs. Frank Nossack and Mrs. Z. T. Butterfield. Mrs. Tischner was assisted by her daughter, Miss Oneida Tischner. Mr. and Mrs. Zach T. Butterfield had as their guests during the week .,, Mrs. Ross Hardy and daughter Olive &.AUlA LA PLAMTI LEW CODY of Baggs, Wyo., Miss _Katherine JOAN M AISII Hardy, Mrs. Hardy and M1ss Luella Harrr Mru• Hardy of Salt Lake. Oirecled .br Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Densley enA. Lulie Puree A COLUMIIA PICTUII tertained at chicken dinner Tuesday Prochud llr at their home in honor of Mr. and C~r Mrs. Eugene Crump and Mr. and Mrs. Leland Freeman of Los Angeles, Calif., Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Densley, Mr. and Mrs. Golden Densley, Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Densley of Midvale, and Mr. and Mrs. Ross McMullin of South Jordan, after which progressive games were played. .. .. .... Friday and Saturday, September 11 and 12 LISTEN! ALL YOU MEN!- ••• ARE YOU SLAVES OR HUSBANDS? DOROTHY MACKAILL Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Howard returned to their home at Los Angeles, Calif., after visiting with relatives and friends for the past two weeks. Prior to their leaving, a dinner party was held in their honor at the home of Miss Ruth Howard, where covers were laid for the guests of honor and Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Park, Mr. and Mrs. Ren Howard, Mr. and Mrs. Jet Bills, Mr. and Mrs. Wilford Crane, r. and Mrs. Ross Newman, Earl Park, James Crane, Miss Leone Park, Mrs. J. A. Park, and Misses Ruth and Mary Howard of Riverton, Mr. and Mrs. William E. Bills, Mr. and !drs. Allison Bills, Mr. and Mrs. Sh1rley Cantonwine, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Norton of Salt Lake, Mrs. A. P. Rasmussen and daughter Faro!, and Vern Lester of Midvale. Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Garside, Lionel Garside and Miss Laura Stokes of Texas, who is visiting with relatives here for several weeks, spent last Wednesday at Mirror lake and enjoyed picnic luncheon. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Huggins had as their guests Wednesday, Mrs. Nan Kirkham and Mrs. Georgia Kirkham and daughters, of Ashton, Idalio. The Second ward M. I. A. officers entertained at a party Saturday at Saratoga in honor of the ward and stake M. I. A. officers and teachers and the bishopric, where luncheon and bathing were enjoyed. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Roy Glazier, Mr. a.nd Mrs. Eugene Miller, Mr. and Mrs. Jet Bills, Mr. and Mrs. Ren Howard, Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Ferrell, Mr. and Mrs. Leo Bills, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Callicott, Miss Beth Smith, Franklin Smith Miss Ruth Howard, Arnold Butte~field, Miss Vesta Frost, Joseph Butterfield, Fred May, Miss Jennie May, Joseph Smith, Miss l'!'elda Peterson, Elias Butterfield, M1sS Zelma Butterfield, Mrs. Milton Crane, John Steadman, Thomas Butterfield and Dora Agaard. Mr. and Mrs. Ezra L. Bills had as their guests during the week Mr. and Mrs. Joe Morton of Salt Lake, Mr. and Mrs. Elton Bills and children of Herriman, ·and Mr. and Mrs. Eli Webster and son of West Jordan. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Newman announce the birth of a son last Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Madsen and daughter Emily, of Poca.tello, Idaho, visited during the week wxth Mr. Madsen's father, Carl Madsen, and other relatives. ~'Its Mrs. Gordon Densley entertained at a party at her home ~riday in ho?-or of the Mi-Kan-Wee gxrls of the F1rst How pleasant to chat ward. Games were played and a with out-of-town friends by midnight supper was served to Misses It's next best telephone. Myrle Green, Ruth Hamilton, Lola to actually seeing them. Bills Thelma Peterson, Gladys Bills, Typical day station-to-staLorn'a Crump, Thora White, Ruby tion rates: Bills Leici Freeman, Lavon Lloyd, from MIDVALE to-Milli~ Codell, Florence Wiberg, and Tooele -----··--·-········--·-···20c Velma and Amy Newbold of Draper. 45 E k Mrs. Densley was assisted in enterure a ------------------------ C taining by Mrs. John I. Wiberg and ~cker. 11ft. . Calli bTu4aumber lowqh& ,.._ .,..me Mrs. Joseph D ens1ey. Mr. and Mrs. Reuben S. Hamilton ~C411 Lon$ DisftJIICtl ~ and Mr. and Mrs. Elmo Hamilton left ~ ~Nullbtr Please?' Monday for Fish Lake. Mr. and Mrs. Meredith Page and children Mr. and Mrs. John I. Wiberg I: I: 1'"1 and family, Miss Evelyn Butterfield, ______ ::z: Miss Leicl FreeJnan, Billy Freeman, _ _ _ _ _ _ _-_ _ Kept Husbands Sunday and Monday, September 13 and 14 .. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Sep. 15-16-17 SHE GAVE HIM UP TO THE OTHER WOMAN BECAUSE SHE LOVED HIM! -Mother of his five children, she could not give him the inspiration to succeed th3;t the Other. Wom~n could !-so she stepped aside that he might reach his destiny! How many wives would do that? Would you? Don't decide until you've seen the sensational dramatic smash- Good to Hear. Your Voice!" ® yrLrp• •oNr-=:- With JOHN BOLES, GENEVIEVE TOBIN, LOIS WILSON, RAYMOND HACKETT, ZASU PITTS, AND OO'HERS IRIS THEATRE \ |