The Barnwell people-sentinel. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1925-current, March 22, 1928, Image 6
THfc BARNWELL PEOPLE-SENTINEL, BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA
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THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 1928.
THE FUMBLE FAMILY
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Harvey S. Firestone, Jr., Sends First Message
From Liberia To Rubber Company*s Own
Station In Akron—Daily Reports On
Rubber Growth To Follow .
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey S. Fjxe^
itone, Junior, now in the African
jungles, today broadcasted the first
message sent from the special ra
dio station recently erected on the
Firestone rubber plantation in the
interior, of Liberia, on the West portation, and they all want to
gineers, soil experts and foresters.
Now that the Liberians, for the
first time in the history of the
country, have a system of good
roads, they are suddenly beco'ming
enthusiastic about motor trans-
Coast of Africa. The message
was received at a similar station
on the roof of the Firestone fac
tories at Akron, Ohio.
This marks a new era of com
munication with the interior of in
accessible countries. Heretofore,
the method used was to send foot
messengers through jungle trails,
taking days to get in touch with
the -outside world. Broadcasting
by radio direct from one continent
to another thus gives the Firestone
Tire & Rubber Go. a great advan
tage in developing its million acres
of rubber lands that were secured
from the Liberian government.
Although these properties are lo
cated over 5,000 miles from the
Firestone headquarters at Akron,
Ohio, it will now be possible to
send reports eveVy day by radio
. from the Liberian plantations to
Akron.
100,009 Acres Laid Out
Mr. Firestone, Jr., has been in
Liberia since* early January. In
his first report by radio today, he
said that the Liberian government
officials were enthusiastically co
operating with Firestone in the
compan/s great undertaking to
make Liberia one of the important
rubber-growing countries of the
world. Mr. Firestone said that
during the first year two 50,000-
acre plantations had been laid out,
one on the Du river and the other
150 miles south of the Du on the
Cavalla river.
Firestone engineers in the same
time had constructed over 75 miles
of roads and had built and estab
lished headquarters on the two
plantations, with housing facilities
for the resident staffs of .118
Americans. Power plants for the
development of electric power,
light and refrigeration had been
built, as well as hospitals and
trade stores for the benefit of the
Americans and also to supply the
needs of the 15,000 natives who
are employed in clearing the jun
gles and planting rubber trees.
1,500,000 Trees Planted
During the past year, according
to Mr. Firestone’s first radio re
port, over 1,500,000 rubber trees
nave been planted on a total of
over 15,000 acres of cleared jungle
lands. This is a record in rubber
plantation work. It is the largest
number of trees set out and acres
planted by any single company in
the same length of time. And Mr.
Firestone stated that the rate of
progress in clearing titnd ~arTd~
planting rubber trees is being con
stantly increased.
Mr. Firestone reported that the^
steamship sent over for service
had been placed in commission
along the Liberian coast and is
now linking up the Firestone plan
tations and the coast towns of Li
beria. He expressed the hope that
Firestone will soon have its own
vessels operating directly between
New York and Liberia, making the
Atlantic passage in less than two
weeks. Wtyen this is done, it will
not only give Firestone an advan
tage of from two to wrecks in
time as compared with other rub
ber-growing countries, but wi*k
also greatly reduce the cost of
transportation.
Teach Natives Trades
Great progress in the develop
ment of the Firestone trade schools
was also reported. Mr. Firestone
said that the natives were very
anxious to lea,m under the instruc
tion of the Firestone technical
staff. The dark-hued Liberians
are being taught to be carpenters,
blneksmiths, plumbers, electricians,
aotomobile mechanics, sanitary en-
ride in automobiles, trucks or
tractors. As a result, Monrovia,
the capital of Liberia, has estab
lished a traffic squad to police the
traffic on its principal streets.
When the Firestone company went
into Liberia, There were no roads
in the country, and only one auto
mobile. This was owned by the
President of Liberia, who had very
little occasion to use it because of
the absence of good roads.’
When Mr. Firestone arrived at
the Du, river plantation, he was
greeted as the “Great White
Chief” by many thousands of Fire
stone native employees who had
erected a great arch of leaves and
ferns at the entrance of the prop
erty and lined the road-on both
sides as he drove through eleven
miles of th^ plantation to head
quarters.
$5,000,000 Loan to Liberia
Mr. Harvey S. Firestone, Sr.,
has successfully arranged a
$5,000,000 loan in America for the
Lioerian government.' This places
Liberia on a firm financial oasis,
and permits the development of
roads, schools and public buildings.
The 118 Americans comprising the
Firestone technical staff are nelp-
ing to organize the 2,000,000 or
more native Liberians and give
them remunerative employment
which had not been hitherto avail
able in their own country. The na
tives are proving very adaptable
and willing to work in an organ
ized way. This has made possible
the clearing and planting of such
a large acreage during the past
year and has undoubtedly had a
very appreciable effect in the re
cent, reduction in the price of
crude rubber.
European newspapers have car
ried mai.y articles deriding Fire
stone for going into Africa to
plant rubber. They claimed the
soil was poor for rubber growing
and that the natives would not
work. ^ The British^ government
now realizes that Firestone’s Li
berian enterprise is anything but
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a folly. It is conceded by every
body that Firestone has made the
greatest rubber development ever
accomplished by any single com
pany in the same length of time.
Liberia confronts the British
Dutch rubber growers as an in
creasingly important competiwr.
And now the British Parliament is
seriously considering the question
of abandoning or at least jnodify-
ing the rubber restriction policy.
le British colonies in the Mid-
East have vigorously expressed
iemselves along this line. Cey
lon has voted to abandon rubber
restriction entirely. In Singapore,
Straits Settlements, 47 out of 72
rubber growers have voted to
abandon rubber restriction or to
modify it so it would not be ef
fective. u .
When Premier Baldwin brought
up the question of modifying rub
ber restriction in the British Par
liament, rubber was selling around .
42 cents a pound. Within a few
weeks it dropped about 18 cents
a pound. Since a variation of 1 c
cent a pound means a difference of
over $8,000,000 a year to Ameri
can rubber buyers, the decline
from 42 to 24 cents a pound will
mean a saving of $150,000,000 a
year- to America if the present-
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