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Show MORE THAN AN HONOR. A short time ago the John Fritz Gold Medal, highest honor in the engineering en-gineering profession, was awarded to Daniel C. Jackling, president of the Utah Copper company, for "notable industrial achievement in initiating mass production of copper from low-grade low-grade ores through application of engineering en-gineering principles." At first glance, that merely seems as if a famous American industrialist had received a well-earned award. But it means much more than that. It means that employment was given to thousands of men, that the progress of whole states was accelerated, that a thousand other related industries prospered because a man set to work to reclaim copper, the royal metal, from ores of so low a grade that others had passed them by as being worthless. That was a great achievement and one that was felt particularly in the west. -Men who can transform the valueless into the valuable are few in any time, and their contribution to civilization is always of major importance. |