New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 31, 1928, Page 15

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 1923 that the scheme involves the con- trol of LiBeria by American officials is untrue and mischievious. Thepe is under the :oan agreement, as has already been pointed out, but one official, the financial adviser, designated by the president of the |city is spending her vacation at her | United States upon the request of | home in this city the government of Liberia, and even ! this designatiou is not final unless| James J. Butler of 4 Highland acceptable to the president of |street, who has been spending the Liberia, past two weeks at Sound View beach Liberia, like every other country, | has returned to his home. He expects has suffered from an unemployment | to spend the weck-end at Hampton problem. The Firestone operation | Beach, N. H. was an opportunity seized with alacrity by the Liberian laboring classes. The government has had no occasion whatever to coerce |labor and reports seem to indicate that, far from suffering from a dearth of laborere, the Firestope plantations are suffering from an embarrassment of riches JTIBERIA WAS NOT ** IOERCEDBY 0..A * President Denies Statements Made At Williamstown (By D. B. KING, President of Liberia ) Monrovia, Liberia, Aug. 31 (P— I have noted with surprise the al- lzed statements made, in an ad- dress delivepgd at the Williamstown Institute of Politics by Professor Faymond D. By:ll, particularly the s, stion made therein Phis proposai did not meet with the approval of congress and the tentative agreement which had been reached by the two governments lapsed nevertheless th need for re- organizing Liberian finances still existed and Liberia, like other states in similar circumstances, took ad- vantage of the opportunity offered by the American money market. No Departmental Action In the negotiations between the government of Liberia and the fi- nance corporation of America there was no participation by the depart- ment of state and the only reference in the agreement to the government of the United States is the provision for the designation by the president of the United States of a financlal adviser Up to the present the effect of that the |this loan in additisn to stabilizing home of Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Penny of 52 Lincoln street fer the past week. Mrs. Stone was formerly | Miss Betty Townsend of this city. 1 BLAIR & BRODRIB GOLD Miss Ruth Penny of New York Charles E. Sharpe, Jr. of Stanley street has returned from the state Y M. C. A. camp at Camp Hazen, Chester, where he has been a tent leader. Mr. and Mrs. James Haplick and Liberian government was coerced by | OUr finances has been to give great- the United States department of state in the matter of the Firestone er internal strength to the govern- |ment of Liberia and to avert alien respect. Nothing in the Firestone agree- ig this | family of 20 Cabot street are on an automobile trip to Canada. 3)in Miss Anne H. Chester of 159 o labor for the | Daley avenue will spend the week- RULES FOR CONTEST end at the Arabella Inn, Ocean Beach, New London. ment obligates the government of | Liberia, to impress company even should an occasion to do S0 present itself. On this point the government of Liberia would welcome an investigation on the spot by an impartial commis- | sion. This apparent attempt to “ring Liberian affairs in an unfavorable light before the American people,| Miss Linnea Anderson of Arch | las a factor in the present political | Street and Miss Kathryn Cavanaugh controversy, is much to be regret. |Of 160 Tremont street will spend the ted. Most interesting to me is the | Week-end in Sound View. | fact that Prof:ssor Buell is able to predict Liberia's future and impugn | 3 the soundnees and integrity of its ]\ ter, Mary, of 547 East street will r_e- statesmen after a visit of only fif. |tUrn tomorrow after an automobile teen days during which he couls |'oUr of New England and New York have scen but few of our high |State | officials and leading citizens. Fubber concession and the seven |intervention in our domestic affairs Per cent loan of 1927 |upon grounds which imperialists This suggestion is without any |usually advance for this purpose. foundation in fact. The approach The country generally is satisfied 10 the agreement was made “y the | With the policy which has been pur- Private enterprise of Mr. Firestone (sued by the administration. Besides end neither directly nor indirectly |this, there would seem to be his- “as any influence brought to bear |torical fi ennst sai 17nl upon the government of Liberia by |torical fitness in a financial project the department of state or any other |Which links up fiberia with the ““partment or official of the United |United States. Siates compelllng the granting of | There have been erises in our the Firestone concessions relations with the French govern- The fact that the negotiations be- [ment, growing out of undetermined tween Mr. Firestone and the Liber- |frontiers, but these have never been government were protracted |represented to us by the United over a period of two and a half |States department of state as a vears should conclusively show that | “menace” nor was the Firestone | there was no coercion, but ratiier | project represented to the govern- that full consideration was given to !ment of Liberia by that department Questions Group 1 Miss Agnes Rakoweki of 27 Nash There will be five questions each street and Miss Helen Drank of 39 day for eight days. Nash street wil! spend the week-end — in Bridgeport, | Five questions are to be answered e 1—What song is used in connection with each day. Presidential Nominee Gov. Al Smith? Brought to store by person or mail, answers in ink on white paper, write Mrs. Fred Van Gorder and daugh- on one side of paper only 2—Give three good reasons why music is a necessary element in every home. No one under eighteen years of age will be eligible. You may come in the store and look the views of each party by the [as the means by which the menace | could be removed. On the eontrary, when in certain quarters opposed other. In respect to the loan of 1927, | Mies Peggy Burke of 72 Garden street will have as her house guests over the holidays, Misses Helen and for information—but no clerk will be allowed to answer any questions re- Personals internal economic conditions grow- to the Firestone scheme it was sug- ing out of the World War dictated gested that the United States - to the government of Liberia the | partment of state was behind the M.s. Fred Ehrler, Mr Propriety and necessity of finding | Firestone proposals the secretary of | Otto Lenz of 179 Hart its indebtedness and reorganizing its state of the United States took oc- | Mrs finances. It was this which led to |casion formally to notify the gov- | the offer of the United States gov- |ernment of Liberia that the admin- Sylvia Melitscher of St. Albane, L. 1 garding contest. Miss Florence Prelle of Tremont street will spend the week-end vis- 3—Name six selections from the musical comedy “Good News.” | Employes or employes’ family can- not enter this contest. and Mrs street and | iting in Long Island | Louise Schriltz of 658 West e Main street, will leave tomorrow to HAS 50 GRANDCHILDREN 1isit relatives in Astoria, L. I, and Paget, Bermuda, Aug. 31 (UP)— | ernment in 1921 to make available |istration was neither directly nor|Newark, N. 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