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Show FREIGHT RATE THREATENS TO KAYOCANNERS Sales Manager of Big Packing Pack-ing Corporation Sees Great Curtailment UTAH PLANS HELD UP .Governor Mabey Is Principal Speaker at Annual Banquet Unless there is relief from the present pres-ent freight rate situation, the canning industry of Utah and other western states is threatened with great curtailment, curtail-ment, R L. Pratt, assistant sales manager man-ager of the California Packing corporation cor-poration told Utah canners at the closing clos-ing session of their Twelfth annual convention Saturday afternoon at the Weber club Mr. Pratt said only 20 per rent of the product of western factories Is consumed at home To sell the re-mnlning re-mnlning 80 per cent the western canners can-ners must enter the field in w hi. h they have for competitors the eastern canrnr. STTr-xTinv Vivr rmrr:iiT But the eastern canners. he said, have the decided advantage In fr'-lghl rates, with the result that the situation for the western dinner Is hot bright. The freight rates situation Is such that the Utah canners will make no definite plans for the 1922 campaign until the freight rate situation is clar-' If led. W J Parker, the new piesldent of the Ut.ah Canners association. ap- j pointed a committee to work with the. National Canners association commit-1 tee to obtain relief from tho Inter- I state Commerce commission. This' committee consists of the following: ! 11. L. Herrlngton. James Anderson i W J Purker and Ilonald Wudsworth i The annual convention was concluded con-cluded last evening with a successful dinner and dancing party at the c- ! ber club PACK CURT ILLD. The pack for the United Stales fori 1921 was about 30 per cent of normal, speakers declared In 1920 the pack; for the country was almost H. 000,000 cases of tomatoes alone as compared; With 4,017,000 for 192 1. A shortage in potatoes was predicted predict-ed by R. L. Pratt He stated that the stock on hand would be gono by March. This will also Include all of j the tomatoes now stored In factories! In various parts of the country. CONSERVATISM TO PUKVAIL. Conservative policies will be adopted adopt-ed by all i tab cqmpanlea during the 1922 campaign, it was agreed. Reduction Re-duction in the cost of production, efficient ef-ficient organization, reduction In gen- I eral expenses Including labor, and i cheaper freight rates which will enable en-able the producers of this section to I compete With those of other sections iyore some of the needs outlined. Although prices on nearly all commodities com-modities dropped during 1921 the prices of cans exceeded those of 1920. it was brought out. Orvul AV . Adams, vice-president ana managing director of the First Nati onal on-al bank addressed the canners on ' Tho Financial Situation." Mr. Adams said tho ebb in the business world had been reached and that business of all kinds will si.-p forward during the present yoar Ho OUtlllU d briefly tht Conditions ill Ogden and other sections of the Unit-1 (Continued on Pago Two.) FREIGHT RATES HURT CANNERS Annual Convention Ends With Dinner and Dancing Party at Weber Club (Continued from l'ngt? One) ed States. This city has stood the test and stood It well, he said. BETTER timi s SKEW. He concluded by stating that the canning industry as well nn others would Join the ranks of the. progressive progres-sive business of 1922 and expressed his belief that normal conditions would soon prevail A. C. Kempton of San Francisco delivered a short address on "Canning Problems.'' He spoke in place of Og-den Og-den R. Soils president of the National Canning Machinery ami Supplies association as-sociation of Buffalo, N. Y.. who was unable to attend. He emphasized the fact that all of the eanned goods would soon be sold out due lo the small pack of 1021, ono of the smallest ever recorded. re-corded. Canned Foods Week will be held March 1 to 8 It was deeided. RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED, Resolutions a err adopted, expressing thanks for the addresses delivered bj Mayor Frank Francis, President Frank Driggs of the Weber club. Fred G. Taylor. J. Edward Taylor, A. L. Wilson, Orval W. Adams, A. Kempton and Impromptu talks bv J G. Leonard Leon-ard and J. A. Reeves, A vote of thanks to the American Can company for tho theater party of Friday evening, to tho press, to the retiring officers of the organization, t .) the A. L SCoVllle press for the dona tlcn of tho program, to Secretary V V. Rockefeller of the Weber club. Resolutions of condolence to the fam ily of William Craig were also adopted. adopt-ed. President W. J. Parker of Ogden presided at tho afternoon and evening even-ing sessions. Resolutions of thanks were extended extend-ed to the committee on arrangemi nti romdstlng of II L. HerrlnKton. Ronald Ron-ald Wadsworth and James A. Anderson. Ander-son. GOVERNOR SPEAKS. "The faith we lost then (during the great war) is the faith wo need now " In these words Governor Matvw prescribed to the Utah Canners' association as-sociation und Its banquet guests last eening the essential policy necessary for the rejuvenation of business and the renewal or Industry In the i nlted States The governor was the chief speaker at the annual banquet given bj tho Utah Canners' association In the Weber club bnnquet room. Two hundred and fifty persons were present at the banquet, the largt Bl ever screed at the Weber club rooms at BUCh an SVent Included In this numtcr were the canners, their wives nn.l other mi mlir, ... , r .,im... Cannery employes, Jobbers, wholesalers, wholesal-ers, hankers railroad men and otheM direct!) md Indirectly interested In the Industry. W J P;itker who war elected president presi-dent of the association yesterday, presided pre-sided BJ tOastastor, being Introduced by Richard Strlngham. former president, presi-dent, MISS W ARE SINGS. During lhe serving of the dinner An I's orchestra furnlrhed music and yjf Mildred Ware, Oyden's contralto w nt .sang. President Parker brlSflj Introduced Governor Mabey. salng thut it was the first time that the governor of 1 tah had attended a canners" banquet. In responding, the governor recalled that while he had not uttended a banquet ban-quet of the canners previously while governor, he had ten years ago been a speaker and a participant In ono of tho Utah association's first annual m e ngs "1 un glad that I have come here for man) reasons. One of thern Is the splendid spirit thai pervades this gathering.' said the governor. "It Is the spirit of co-operation." Then he i ompared the cannery situation of ten years ago with that of today, the growth and development of the Industry Indus-try as one of Utah's fundamentals. 'You have had many problems to face and to sole Just as other Industries In-dustries havo had them. Among lhe.se havo been financial problems. As governor gov-ernor I have realized these problems, perhaps my having been a banker In B canning community has helped me to realize them. I have done every- ... .... . (-.. ...... Vi en up the achlnery so as to help you aolvo these problems " Th" novernor tol'l of the recent conference of five western governors regarding high freight rates and the protest to the interstate commerce! commission, saving that this would be followed up by the gocrnors in an en deavor to holp the Intcrmountaln states. RECLAMATION IS TOPIC. Then he spoko of reclamation, the possibilities of harnessing tho Colorado Colo-rado rivers flow for power and irrigation irri-gation and the development of markets mar-kets In the west for the west's nro- ducts. Tainting a word picture of the world war. briefly bringing back to memory the Important phases of the great conflict. Governor Mabey Bit -tured the loss of faith In mankind, or In much of It, that occurred dur-'lng dur-'lng that time and then I llmaxed his talk with the words: "Tho faith we lost then Is the faith we need now." He declared that only through the revival of faith In humanity and faith In God, as well as works to uphold that faith, could normal condition-- be restored for this country and for other, lands That, he said. Is the one chief clement now larking ANDERSON SPEAKS. James Anderaon. head of the Morgan Mor-gan Canning company. waa Introduced Intro-duced as the representative of the canners and In u brief humorous talk referred to the bankers, the railroad man, the Jobbers, the can manufac-i Hirers and others associated with the Industry. Presentation of a "shield" and "sword,'" tho one made from a serving serv-ing trav and the other of tin. to President Presi-dent Parker us his weapons for the Battle of the Union Pacific" and the "Battle of the American Can." formed the hosts for a humorous talk by Fred G. Taylor, which caused much amuse- i raent D. R. Gray, assistant general freight ' i.igeoi in un ue-uii ai'i'ii n- Iplylng to a toast on behalf of the railroads, rail-roads, aald that ho did nut believe! anyone could rightly accuse tho rall-i roads of attempting to hold back the states through which they passed, that; Instead they were an upbuilding force. Ho called attention to the growth of I'tuh's canneries and aald ; that the railroads 'hrough provision of adequate distribution facllltlea had aided materially In this upbuilding. Referring to the rate case, he aald ih.it jhe and other railroad officiate werel glad It was now in the handa of the Interstate commerco commlaalon. BR. F.DOW KPF. KS. An optimistic vlaw regarding the future of the Utah canning Industry was given by A. P Rlgelow. cashier j1 of the Ogden State bank. In a brief, jtalk. He commended the convention h plan of the canners and the Inter-i change, of Ideas that resulted. Thle ho enld w-ould aid toward the bringing bring-ing of normal conditions. Tho can-nera can-nera have passed through a severe financial fi-nancial condition successfully and may now expect to havo their business continue con-tinue on a profit-making baais, tho banker said Economy and labor are essentials toward this accomplishment, he said, but the recovery to normal will come even though slowly. Following the banquet, the banquet hall was cleared and a dance hrld. This feature closed tha cannora' convention, con-vention, although a number of out-of-town vleltors will remain in Ogden over todav 1 |