Show I AE am and j Am America ric Linked Lahke t r. r 1 0 By a Worlds World's L Latest Radio Service w i A i Har Harvey y s. s Firestone Jr Sends First Message From Liberia To Rubber Company's Own s Station In Daily Daily t-Daily Reports On J Rubber Growth To Follow Mr and Mrs Harvey S. S i s LIre LIre- irestone ire ire- stone atone Junior now in tile the African j uncles jungles today the first message sent from the special radio radio radio ra ra- dio station recently erected on the Firestone rubber plantation in the Interior of Liberia on on the West Coast of Africa The message was received at a similar station on the roof of the Firestone factories factories factories fac fac- tories at Akron Ohio This marks a new era of communication com corra com communication with the interior of in inaccessible inaccessible In in- accessible ible countries Heretofore the method used was to send foot m messengers through h 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 A tl Rubber Co a great grut ad advantage advantage van tage in developing its million acres nl pf ru rubber lands that were secured from the Liberian government A Although t there eFe properties are lo located located lo- lo over miles mile from the Firestone headquarters at Akron Ohio it will now be possible to send reports every day by radio from the Liberian plantations to Akron Acrea Auel 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 cooperating co co- ol operating with Firestone in the company c company's s 8 great undertaking to tomake tomake make makl iberia one of the tt important rubber robber countries of the world Mr Ur Firestone said that during the f lint first year two acre plantations had been ben laid out one on the tha Du Lu river and the other ir 0 in mil miles i Its s south of the Du on the Cavalla rivet river Firestone engineers in the same time had constructed ov over r 75 76 miles of roads and had built and established established established headquarters headquarter on the two plantations with facilities for the resident staffs staff's of Americans Power plants for fot the development of electric power light and refrigeration hn had lower been built as well as hospitals and trade stores for the benefit of the Americans and also to supply the needs of the natives who are employed in clearing the jungles jungles jun jut and panting planting rubber robber trees hL 1 r E Durin During the past year according to Mr r Firestones Firestone's first radio report report report re re- port over rubber trees have been I planted anted on a total of over acres acrea of cleared jungle lands This This' is a record in rubber plantation work It is st number of trees set out and acres planted by any single company in inthe inthe the same length of time And Mr Firestone stated that the rate of progress in clearing land and planting rubber trees is being constantly constantly constantly con con- increased Mr Firestone reported that the steamship sent over for service had bad been placed in commission along lone the Liberian coast and is isnow isnow isnow now linking up the Firestone plantations plantations plantations plan plan- and the coast towns of Li Id- Id beria heria lIe He expressed the hope that Firestone will wil e soon have its own vessels operating directly between New York and Liberia making the Atlantic Atlantie passage in less than two weeks When hen this is done dune it will not only give Ive Firestone an nn I- I t of from two to five weeks in time as compared with other rubrn rubber rub rub- ber rn r countries but will RI alto also o greatly reduce type the cost of transportation to n Teach leach Natives Trades Great progress in the development development develop develop- ment of tIll uie Firestone trade schools was so al-so Mr I Firestone said that the natives were very anxious to learn under the instruction instruction instruction tion of ot the Firestone Fireston technical The hued dark-hued Liberians lire are being taught to be carpenters plumbers electricians automobile mechanics sanitary en en- soil experts and foresters Now that the Liberians for or the first time in the history of the country have a system of good roads they are suddenly becoming enthusiastic about motor transportation transportation trans trans- and they all aU want to ride in automobiles trucks or tractors As a result result Monrovia the capital of Liberia has established established a traffic squad quad to police the traffic on its Itlo principal streets When the Firestone company went into Liberia there were no roads in the country and only one auto 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 atthe atthe atthe the Du river plantation he was greeted as the Great White Chief by many thou thousands lands of Firestone Firestone Fire Fire- stone tone native employers employees who had erected a great arch of If leaves and ferns at the entrance of the property property prop prop- erty and lined the road on both sides tildes as he drove through eleven miles of the plantation to head head- quarters 1 Lean Uan an to Liberia Mr Harvey S. S Firestone Sr has successfully arranged a II 5 loan in America for the Ld erian government This places Liberia on a firm financial basis and permits the d of of roads schools and public buildings s. s The Americans R comprising the Firestone technical staff are helping helping help help- ing to organize the or more mare native Liberians and give rive them remunerative employment which had not been hitherto available available available avail avail- able in their own country The natives natives natives na na- tives are proving Ir very adaptable and will willing in to work in an organized organ organ- way This has as made possible the clearing and planting of such sucha a large acreage e d during ring the past year and has undoubtedly had a n avery avery very appreciable effect in the recent recent re re- cent reduction in the price of crude erode rubber European newspapers have Jun carried carried carried car car- ried many articles deriding Firestone Firestone Fire Fire- stone for going into Africa to plant rubber They claimed the soil soli was poor for tor rubber growing and that the natives would not work The British government now realizes that Firestones Firestone's LIberian Li LI LI- berian enterprise is anything but but I. I 4 0 14 p iN a s k a i 13 Harvey arvey 3 S. e Firestone Jr C Jo oe vow tar AME t tr tv v r- r a d y o iuro I YTA ION t z- z i f x s a aate as American Staff on I the Du Division s ate a 43 p y Ity it ti t Y x e Radio Operator Receiving First Message A YI r ti Aerial Atop Firestone Factory Akron Factory Akron a felly It is corce ed by everybody every every- bod body that Firestone has made the tile the greatest rubber deployment de er c accomplished b by any single Ingle company company com com- pany rany in the same length of time Liberia Iberia confronts the British and Dutch rubber growers as an on in increasingly increasingly in- in important competitor in-I in And now the British Parliament is seriously l considering the q question estion of abandoning or at least modify modify- I in inI in the rubber restriction tion polio The British British- colonies In the Middle Middle Mid Mid- dle hast East have vi vigorously expressed themselves along this line Ceylon Cey Cey- lon len has voted to abandon rubber restriction entirely In Singapore Straits Settlements 47 97 out of 7 72 rubber growers have voted to abandon rubber restriction or to modify it so it would not be ef ef- When Premier Baldwin brought up the tle Question oi eL l rub rub- ber br restriction in the British Par Part rubber was selling around 12 Cents cants a pound Within a few weeks it dropped about 18 cents a pound po Since a variation of 1 I cent ent a pound means a difference o of over a year to W to American Ameri Ameri- can rubber buyers the decline from 42 to 24 cents a pound will wili mean a n sa in saving of r year to America merica if the presen 1 j prue e is maintained |