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Show OGDEN IS STRATEGIC POINT IN UPBUILDING OF INDUSTRY FROM RAILROAD CENTER STANDPOINT Leaders Anticipate Rapid Expansion of Trade Following General Depression Because of B&sic Condition' Freight Rate Sitna- I tion Will Be Y;tal Factor. According Ac-cording to Manufacturers I H Vtnh manufacturing dVlopmntJ conlorcil almost, entirely in the north- ern part of the Htatc. i making the I state n complete industrial common- wealth With the raw material at I hand, with a wide distribution possible pos-sible through railroads centering at i Ogden, with a demand that often - ceeds the supply of Utah products, the ; prosperity of the state from the i standpoint of manufacturing seems certain. This is the view of leaders In the f'tiih t'unners' association, the Ogden ; Grain lCxchange. the sugar, meal packing and other Industries As conditions con-ditions are coming to a nornv.il basis once more, revival of industrial activity activ-ity Is anticipated. Ugden and other j pnrn of I'tah, excepting tho;e affec1-' d by the mining Industry have not j suffered as severely from tho recent i depression as have other parts of tne I I nation. For that reason there is seen I oven greater cortalnty of rapid advancement. ad-vancement. UTAH SUPPLIES NEEDS. The time has pass 1 when t'tah! RllUt send away for the bulk of Its neede. This hi lyren accomplished! through n i o-opt-ratlv e buy at hwnie' spirit which hns hen fostered by all the leaders of the state. ' The published federal census figure! fig-ure! showing that the value of man- ufurtured articles, intituling miner- j als, produced in a year has Increased i from SCO. 000. 000 to $100 000 ooti In IS yean, mean little until the thought comes that $250,000,000 more monej i remains In the state each year than ! was the case IB yeara ago and that 'this amount of money will support j an added population of .'.', ono persons. per-sons. Manufacturing, according to economists, has a two fold bencficl ll effect on a community It acts like a daYn to hold wealth prodm ei from I the earth In a community and divert : it back Into local channels of trade. I It also serves like a magnet to draw ! wealth produced in other localities to the manufacturing center APPEALS BEAE rut IT. The repeated appeals of President Heber J. Grant and the t'tah Manj-; Manj-; E&Oturera association lvavc bcon heard. ' or iho adversity that has followed the w.ir has forced I'tah people to realise I the Importance of supporting homo ', Industry," m iUI John S. Enrloy, ex- ecutlve secretary of the manuf nctur- e:s association, "for there has devel- H oped In our midst during 1921 a wldf- H apread tendency to use t'tah pro- H The f.ii - work of the Utah Man- H utaotUfing association has embrace H tn fislds en educational campaign H to teach I tab people the vital necea- H sit . of supporting home industry, pro- l discrimination m their , lOgl al terrltOrj and mutual help and H ii Duragetnenl during period of de I ptes-'ion to face which has requlr-d H the utmost of courage. H Speaking ot the necessity of the H educational campaign, Yern A. Tra- tH c . former president of the easocin - HI Uon. said the history of development j iH in I'tah is similar to that of the early ; flf of industry in the United The vast wealth of a new world t H flowed In a steady stream across the H Atlantic ocean until a protective tar- H iff for, el people to use home-mad H goods. Goods were more expensive H bjl money stayed in tha I'nited States BH and accumulated and an unprecedent- BH el period of expansion ensued. Those I Infant industries have now become giants. They still cry for the protec- iH tlon of their Infancy, which may be KVfl Well and good. Certainly we do not desire foreign competition in Utah. L'Luh cannot raise a tariff. a want BJH something far better loyalty to each other. V io not i-ven us'.i i'tah peo- pie to sacrifice money. Our motto. I Buy Utah goods, price and quality being equal.' represents all the asso- H elation seeks." ' WOMJ DO THEIR PARI The association has made (he slo- BftVfl gan. Support the state that suppo I H you," known from one end of Utah H to the other. A long step in the tight direction was taken by the wo- I men of the "Payroll Builder," month- ly publication of the manufacturers' I association, the official organ of Qfjt H t'tah Pederetlona of Women's clu'.". Women of the state have done t - BB more than men, according to officer iH of tho association, in putting l i h I BJ goods on shelves of L'tah stores. B "During the war." says the Novem- BVB brr Payroll Builder, "a steady stream , of wealth wcot out of t'tah to sup- Bn I port the glgantl u H I of the nation. None of Ihls mOney I j came back to Utah, as It did to som- B l states. In addition, when he stop 'o BBH ; think of the money going out for BBJ ' i,o, nis. such as automobiles, clothes, HBBB machlnery which for a ion; BBBJ f.irno to come v.e cannot hope to pi., HBBJ duce the necessity of keeping every BBB possible dollar at home will be ftp- BBB BBH l'tah has been fortunate In Its leadi BBJ ership, Purlng the period of agri- cultural development under guidance BBJ of President Brigham Young, a new I ei -i in cultivation was ushered m which has since redeemed tho entire BBJ western part of the United States 0a BBB well as Utah. Vow, in the period 1 Of Industrial expansion, and esprcla ly Bfl in the last two years of depression. members of the manufacturing asso- tatioii c r 1 1 It the I .1 . i s i ; ;, , I , I dent Heber J Grant with guhllng In- BBB dustry through to brighter days. BBB rgely through his influence, tho I sugar Industry which, despite splcnd- BBJ Id crops, has faced ruin on account BBJ Of the collapse of the market for re- BBJ fined .sugar. Is now adequately flnnnc- I ed. f farmers had not received le f I checks for more than 100,000 tons ot' BLVJ beets in 1920 and 1920, times would BBJ indeed be hard for t tah oo BBBl |