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Show RUBBER COMING TO0OOG0 OGDEN Tin- nml rubber men are doing business bus-iness under a new rnd, a r.ew dec-lai dec-lai it .ri of independence, and In the making of that declaration cities throughout the west are vying for honors hon-ors as the leading role-performer. Henceforth American rubber manufacturers manu-facturers can crook their fingers with impunity at the former importers' monopoly. There'll be no kick back from the monopolists. The monopoly Is all In. It's a "has been." And there's about as much danger of its coming back as there la of the former crown prince of Germany running for nre-njent on the prohibition ticket. W.ir did the ame thing for the monopoly mon-opoly that It did for the Hohenzollerns. Freedom of manufacturers from the clique of Importers who for more than a generation have monopolized the r;iu rubber trade of the world will mean that Pacific ports are to maintain main-tain their status gain ! during the war as the ports of entry' Of 75 per cent of the raw rubber output of the world. It means that a fleet of rubber rub-ber boats will ply regularly between Pacific ports and I he rubber zone of the tropics; that a strip of raw rubber rub-ber will stretch in box cars dally through Ogden. Rubber manufacturers of the eaat and west already are rushing their representatives to Sinpapore "The rubber capital of the world." Some h;ie fun. n l ir a.s to pun h.ise rubber rub-ber plantations in the equitorial regions re-gions of the Pacific English capitalists capi-talists have virtually held a monopoly on these plantations, as well as on the wild rubber forest, and prior to the war the world's supply of rubber had to pass through London, even while Ameilea was producing 7fi per cent of the world's output of rubber goods. Now. agents of American manufacturers manufac-turers on their way to Slngaporo or already stationed at the rubber capital, capi-tal, have instructions to ship direct through Pacific porta. Before the war. New York and London Lon-don shipping interests, operating in conjunction with English capitalists who owned virtually all of the rubber plantations of the world, shipped near- J ly all of the raw product to England. vh nee it was transhipped to the United Uni-ted States. Thus the New York-London importing and shipping monopoly caught the American manufacturer coming and going. Uncle Sam's rubber rub-ber industry' had to pay the freight from plantations of the Malay pcnln-l Mila, Am.,. elon. Hr;..il and the West Indies to England It was "stung again for the re -haul back across the Atlantic before and after manufacture. But when Hun subs declared an open season on shipping, and John Pull started to tu'hten up (,n all cargoes except food and war necessities, a little lit-tle raw rubber began drifting into the United States by way of Pacific ports, j And by the time America sat in on the war game every ounco of rubber entering this country came in through' these ports. The quantity was limited, boaever, by 'he. government's cargo COO rvation measures. Also, as a further conservative measure, the administration ad-ministration ilxed a price of 62 cents a pound on raw rubber at a timo when Slngapt n brokers were offering it at IS cents a pound without a bid for tho! enormous stores on hand. Th. . . wren the conditions prevailing when William Hohenzollern gave up the Job of vnr making and k-ilserlni; to devote more time to whiskers and solitude of the sawbuck. With the signing of the armistice' importation ban onxraw rur.lv; w.s lifted And with the approach of peace the New York -London Import I Ing monopoly looked over what was left of its once famoua rubber fleet. Contrasted with a real flet t of brand new . . I i, jilt in Pacific coii.-t yards and flying the Stars and .-.trip. ( whnf The l boats had spared of the old-tim. old-tim. rubber bottoms made a pitiful showing. ta4MrfbM ssrtefl m buy. and with Singapore docks creaking under the height of ton- ff rubber sheet, the market de eloped Into a regular bargain bar-gain sale. There were no British ships araJlablfl to carry this gum to England. Eng-land. There were pient of American bottoms ready to transport It to. America. Amer-ica. And to America Western America Amer-ica it started. W e ern America the Pacific slope cities -had 'put the rollers" under a as old a the rubbfi induaj- Forty p. r cent of the tires consumed consum-ed in the Pnlted States are used . t of the Mississippi river, because forty per cent of the automobiles are In that region Naturally, rubber manufac ti;r.r- air asking Whs then should not these tires be manufactured In the territory in which they are used" "If tho raw material comes to Amer-llca Amer-llca through llfic porta, why should the western consumers of that material mater-ial -the tire users go to Boston. Mass.. or to Akron. Ohio, to buy their finished products" 1'pon the cintmu-rd development of this Industry in the wet depends the permanencv of Pacific port.- as the ports of entry of thousands of tons of j raw rubber annually. |