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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 1950.
GOING CONCERN
Yesterday's article was¡ about the more
or less for gotten theories of Sir H. J. Mackinder on the struggle between the "Heartland" of Europe and Asia, and the maritime countries of the "Rimland".
Mackinder threw out in his writings a great many other ideas which shine a revealing light on our own times. It would be a good thing If these ideas token out and examined from time to time.
were
One of his central concepts in writing about politics was that of
book "Democratic Ideals
Tape." The perfect example of
new habits may need to be im- was, posed by force, by discipline, Mackinder's administrator say, the Chinese mandarin in the Mackinder traces this typleat Ming dynasty or Manchu dynasty. development of events in both the French and Russian Revolutions. In Russia in 1917 the Going Con- Revolutiona cern had broken down. The such as we have known in our interlocking of productive habits time means simply that vast num-broke down step by step; Russia's
But there are times, such as our own, when the Going Concern undergoes change.
"}
By "Windrush' Special Correspondent
the mind of the idealist, for he would move man in brigades and must therefore have regard to material limitations, whereas the idealist appeals to the soul in each of us, and souls are winged and can sour
The Democratic
Goody
U.S. to postpone peanut imports Idealist barely tolerates the State as a necessary evil, for it limits from China freedom."
You can take it as Red that
Do Mackinder's ideas At the Washington does nut want to history of the Chinese Revolu- shell out any Mao dollars than tion? Remarkably closely, The necessary.
old Chinese society was a going
concern. Sun Yat-sen, Kong Yu- kel,
and all the Western thinkers who influenced China, were the Idealists who caused such a fer- ment that men in China aban- doned part of their traditional ways, and the old society fell into unarchy Chiang Kai-shek at- the "creative tempted organiser" who started up the But Going Concern once more.
new he failed because in his organisation he did not embody enough of the new ideas to satisfy modern China. By force alone he Now Mao could not succeed, Tse-tung has his chance.
"Huka
offensive." Yes, saya Quirino, they are-very.
Trying to dodge the Red bond salesman at Shumchun,passengers were apparently chased down the railway line by a completely loco
condition was like that terrible sinte of paralysis when the mind still sees and directs, but the nerves fall to elicit any response from the muscles. History shows
motive. some other no remedy but force upon which
to found
fresh nucleus of disci- pline in such circumstances. Muckinder would certainly not have been surprised to see the, development of the ruthless, iron rule of Stalin. He is the "erea- tive organiser." nich
the "Going Concern". In his bers of men are changing their,
traditional habits. Why do they Reality" which was published in do so? Usually, says Mackinder, 1919, he describes the Going Con- in the first place, because of the cern as follows "Society is
influence of idealists-of a Marx, is a going concern.
or a Rousseau, or Society reposes on the fact that bookish harbinger of change. man is a creature of habit. By
the New ideas, produced at interlocking the various habits of
right moment, may have tremen- any men, society obtains a strue-dous force. They may disorganise ture which may
completely the Going Concern. with that of a running,
being. At such times, society faces one Let any one try to realise what of its great crises, would happen to himself if all you! those on whom he depends-the postmen, rallwaymen, butchers, bakers, printers and very many others were suddenly to vary their acttled habits and routine; he will then begin to appreciate in how great a degree the power of modern man -over nature is due to the fact that society is a going enough to throw men's habits out concern. Stop the running long of gear with one another, and society would quickly run down to the simple reality of control die in consequence." by nature. Vast numbers would
Creative organiser
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From this crisis, it is saved as a rule by a type of person very different from the idealist. This is the creative organiser. The creative organiser in the leader who decides what new habits should be imposed on men in place of the old habits which the idealist has caused them to renounce. These new habits must correspond at least partly, though certainly not wholly, to the teach ing of the idealist who first caused the Going Concern to change and falter in its steps.
And these
CHANGING ECONOMIC ORDER
Change is no remedy of it- self. It falls into two types- change for the sake of change under the urge of theory, and change dictated by the sole consideration of practical im- provement. Communist
What does this mean? The change belongs to the first organisation of society, on which American everybody's well-being depends, category
results more from men's inherited change technological ad- habits, truditions
and customs vance and mass production-than from planning or regulation
But Mackinder; to the other. Too often the by government.
was not an out-and-out anti- first of these represents a planner. In fact in his own day
I call him The Man Who change for the worse. True, he wanted far more planning than it wipes out the capitalists, was then regarded as desirable. Knows. And he does.. Things Liberal, he about the underworld that but creates a privileged politi-Though he was a
criticised the liberalism of his day cal class without in any way because he thought it left things never get into print, facts improving the lot of the com- too uncontrolled." But he did about big robberies mon people. Russia and the emphasise that the raw material United States still stand for on which planning was to operate the two extremes of economie society, and that this Going Con- condition among the modern cern had an immense momentum States.
of its own, quite apart from gov-
ex-
as
(
was
"Going Concern" the
ernment.
Different types
of
Could Mao Tse-tung have better text than Muckinder's con- The trouble about the organiser cluding words? "We need logical about man such as Stalin is thought, but practical, cautious that he thinks entirely in terms action, because we have to do of ways and means and not of with a mighty Going Concern. It ends. He organises simply for
you stop it, or even slow down Its running it will punish you re- the sale of organising. If he is allowed supremacy too long. helentlessly. If you let it run with- out guidance, It will take you over becomes on Insufferable tyrant.
the cataract. You cannot guide Idealist vs. organiser it by setting up mere fences, Mackinder describes as fellows because this Going Concern con- sists of hundreds of millions of the contract between the idealist,
human beings who are pursuing who precipitates the change in
happiness, and they will swarm the Going. Concern, organiser, who sets the Concern over all your fences Hike an army. of ants. You can only guide going again. "The organiser in-
Humanity by the attraction of evitably comes to look upon men as his tools. He is the inverse of ideals."
ond the
Britain's No. I burglar
"I'd put him down as Britain's; jewellery he is going to steal and No. 1 burglar, and the slickest gather a lot of useful, working information about the lay-out of jewel thier we've had for years, His foot in the past 12 months Its owners's country house,
"He must spend weeks, possi- must tot up to something around that the £100,000 mark.
bly months, watching the move. ments of the family and the on- His timing has tire household. got to be right, to the very se cond.
startle the country every now and again. Among them, of course, big jewel robberies.
know
these
It is his Job to things, to probe deep beneath the surface of burglaries and the like. Not as a pollee detective, but as what is known as an as- "loss sessor or in some cases a adjuster."
He is one of the experts who, in cases of burglary, fire, and the the in- uke, assess what loss surance companies will pay. He works independently, and one of his functions concerns the track- ing down of stolen property and the carrying out of any negotia- tlons that may be necessary itself.
its recovery.
Next, Mackinder described the different types of people who in the course of the history of dif- ferent countries have operated on, and modified, the Going Concern Over considerable tracts of time in human history there has, it is true, been little modification. The Going Concern has with little change taking place. The managers of the Going Con- cern, those who at such times of stability keep it ticking over, are the Administrators.
run
for
"He hasn't, of course, carried out every country house robbery
-By- Parry Miller
of the past year. But we haven't much doubt of the ones he has been responsible for.
"He's much too smart to leave behind any clues as to his ident!- ty
But it has been possibię ta build up a picture of what might call his crime personality." "Pretty nearly every crook has his own individual way of work- ing..
coup It stamps whatever
his trade- he brings off with mark, though not a single tangi- ble clue may be left behind.
"You see, he has got to know Just where the jewels are at the moment he enters the house, and to be as certain as he can be that he will not be disturbed for the few minutes he needs to take them.
"He works with great speed and sureness, doesn't take just enough any jewels, but knows to select only the best, and never enters a house except by a first floor window.
Like other controversial goods, Sercise was delivered to his wife in a plain van.
Speaking in Melbourne, the Red Dean says Russin wants peace.
also Australians insist they want peace-from the Red Dean.
•
In Britain, says a local report, there is "renewed pressure for a wage increase by upwards of 50,000,000 workers."
One should nought go million · about like that, especially in print.
If a man reaches into a hat and pulls out a rabbit, it's magic. 11
woman
reaches into her handbag and pulls out a door key, it's a miracle,
Small boy swallows coin, so his family summon the fire brigade. Myrtle, a great filmgoer, thinks it must have been hot money.
Was
¿ whlatla swallowed by a schoolboy
removed In causing him na hospital after discomfort.
In fact, for a ilme he had
friends entertained
with bird imitations when pressed.
"Japanese Reds capitalise on economic chaos."
Surely it would be more in character for them to collectivise?
Myrtle thinks a mandate is a male escort.
During the recent change of Notes on the rate of the Russian rouble, the British Government pointed out that the price of white bread in Britain is 6d a kilo compared with five roubles (8/9d) in Russia. Sugar in
"Having once got away with Britain ild a kilo and in
the jewels, his methods for dis- Russia it is more than 20
posing of them are just as slice times as much. Potatoes cost
as the rest of the operation. Tu the police say the only chance nearly nine times as much as
A '1950 Raffles'
have of bringing this prince of in Britain, eggs 16 times as
Now there have been quite s
burglars to book is to catch him "In this business you become red-handed. And he knows that much, butter 20 times
number of big jowel robberies of
trade- Country house expert in reading those
na well as anyone. That's why much and tea about 30 times
Of them, Mackinder says, "In recent months.
ralded, rich loot marks, in getting a pretty good he works alone. That way he
with as much. These disparities the work of the Administrator, have been
chances of baffling working picture of the crook re- has eliminated the apply also to rents, travel and pure and simple, there is no idea whisked away
being given away by a confeder Civen. & certain eclency. By whom remains the sponsible. ideal fuel. An,
I'd say this one, to start ate careless enough to get caught. designed of progress.
organisation, eficiency is his ideal toughest riddle the police have
nbout with, always works entirely "One other point
this sincerely enough by. Its perfect smoothness of working. been set for years.
As a man on the inside track alone-save perhaps for. A
It lone jewel thief. Not only has
Some girls show a generous authors and its believers to His characteristic disease is Red
of all the investigations that have ceiver; thinks out each detall of been found impossible so far to
tho- lay hands on him, but not the lure; others show how generous uplift the
been going on, police and other each raid with unburrled common people
assessor
friend has roughness; carries out each coup, slightest trace has been found of nature has been, come to some startling conclu- with the cool level-headedness what has happened to-his-loot."- My assessor friend lit a cigo- that makes sure there is going sions.
"There's a lone wolf jewel to be no tiny forgotten clue left rette. "A good story," I com- the education | mented. "How about the other thiet at work." he told me. "A Lehind; and has
jewel robberies 1950 Raffles who has made a and social presence that enables country-house speciality of ralding country him to mix in good circles. the ones this lone wolf doesn't houses. And he's had a good "That last is important to him. carry out?'
It enables him to mark down the
"there year.
A
-and-remove-great-inequali-blockade-of-a-great-port-likewise, my
ties, succeeds in practice only Shanghai would create in reducing all except the crisis whatever the regime. privileged officials to a com-But it would have been mon level of harassed and nothing like as bad as it is persistent poverty.
if the authorities had been Many people who have less exacting in their de- recently left China have mands and more enterprising commented on the effect in supplying raw materials upon the Chinese of the rush from the interior to keep in- to the shops of the New Rus-dustry going. Indeed, sians. It is hardly true to say rapacious have been the de- they came in rags, but they mands, both in taxation and were certainly down-at-heel, in compulsory contributions especially the women. They to the so-called Victory Bonds are paid in United States that there would have been a dollars, and in the North at crisis even without the any rate they bought their blockade.
to be
to
SO
Britain neglects
Canada
By James Ross
out to convince
TO-
many
an areo
"Leopold offer creates new situation."
He's lucky. It's not always that displaced royally Ands another job so quickly.
Turboprop plane in Copenhagen
Copenhagen, April 16. The world's first turboprop British Vicker airliner, the
"Well," was the reply, are at least three or four skilled gangs specialising in this type of robbery at work. They, like our new Raffles, go into action only after 'making the most careful Viscount. arrived at Copen- plans.
hagen's Kastrup airport today "Carrying out the actual rob-
on a demonstration flight,” bery may mean work for 85 many as four men-two to enter The plane travelled from Lon- the house and get the stuff, one don to Copenhagen in three hours to act as look-out, one to drive and 10 minutes."
the getaway car, In addition.
other men-and perhaps women "Sir Hew Kilner, Deputy Chair- have been employed man and Managing Director of will gathering information about the Vickers Armstrong Limited, said mansion and its occupants, both the Viscount made a perfect fight family and staff,
despite bad flying weather most [of the trip.
"All arrangements
win have
дя
The Viscount will leave Copen- hagen for Stockholm on Wednes day. From there it will go to Oslo and Amsterdam and then back
the Bolshevik Revolution the additional discoveries of oil in Coal, iron, copper, gold, uran- There's a reason for that. Down is 500 miles per hour. The main-
05
tha
That British industrialists! Canadian capital and industrial are missing the boat so far as interests round to their way of suits and dresses and other Under the Common Pro- Canada is concerned is be- thinking, and are lined up to do
a deal wherever they can. articles of clothing in Ameri-| gramme private enterprise coming more obvious every
Too.cautious! can notes. The prices they was to have been given a day. The Investment Brokers'
Canadians on a nation are too were ready to pay were quite fair chance, at least until the Association of America have cautious to take oven mild risks,
Same technique fantastic. One tailor, ques-transition period full just set up a special committee and the British seem far mera tioned by our informant on Socialism was over. Actual- to study the investment situa- interested in turning jungle into been made with a receiver before the matter, admitted he ly the Communists aption in Canada. Their ex-industrial and agricultural centres the coup ik ever attempted. Once than in Canadian Investments. the jewellery has been obtained charged them U.S.$250 a suit. pear
going full perts have informed them that A few years ago the United the whole aim will be to get it to London. It was paid without a protest. speed ahead on the maximum there is convincing proof that States seat a private survey team to the receiver as quickly
In a few hours the British European Airways will The truth is that decent programme already; taxation frontier development is still into British Columbia to investi- possible,
pass
through arrange two demonstration flights clothes, except uniforms, are appears to be designed both characteristic of Canadian life. gate the area
that les between stuff will often Alaska Highway and
the three or four hands, and the re- tomorrow. Representatives of the unprocurable in Russia, and for revenue and for expro- There have been ample exam the
Reports were kept ceiver will probably not have the British Embassy and the Danish if they were, they would pro- priation; and the pace set is ples of this recently-the specta-West coast.
vited. the actual thieves. bably be more expensive causing alarm not far from cular, investment possibilities of secret, but suficient information slightest idea of the identity of and foreign Press, have been in-
the prairie oil discoveries, 150 people that here was
"The technique for the rob- even than the price mention- panic among those most af- ore Ands in Labrador and
bery 15
is always the sumeentry The Viscount is built to carry that surpassed anything yot dis-
first-floor ed....
window, 40 passengers. Its average speed through a fected. In the early days of titanium-bearing oro in Quebec.
Expert opinion contends that covered. One of the topics banned in China today Is private en same reckless pace brought Western Canada,.
475,000 lum and scores of valuable metals stairs window are usually shut at tenance costs are very low and
dow
left open.
And terprise. A merchant told us about so severe a crisis that square miles are
It's in economical than ordinary piston
engines-Associated Press. "By and large, the dinner tried to show how certain machine in reverse and intro- as it appears to be, the Canadian railway through the centre
If this opinion is well founded, have made. an
of is the danger period-say
in the measures in that direction] duce what he called the Industry will
this part of British Columbia. tween seven and nine require hugo would be more profitable, the New Economic Policy to pre-amounts of new capital. It is they do so they will have con-
evening. Then the family is
TRAGIC HOLIDAY expansion of trol over the development of ye in the dining room and the official brought the discus-vent a complete collapse of estimated
Canadian production 16 в сара-
paanoiher large, silce of
Canada,
staff busy with the meal, leaving. sion to an immediate close. economy,
are almost the upstairs rooms tolerably free. Antigua, Leeward Islande, uma And coupled with this de-
Apakah April ́ 17, The phase was merely act of around 400,000 barrels So far oil and iron
require expenditure of completely in their hands. votion to the Marxist doc strategic retreat, and it was about £350,000,000, which a Tribune," la top-rate pas
In can editorial recently the Seems to vanish'
A holiday crowd,, caught in a might be raised in „equal parts
"From the gang's... points of sudden tropical rain usi
equall trine is a refusal to attribute replaced later on by the first from operations and from capi per in the Western States, ad- view the whole robbery is timed stampeded for cover, through any of the blame, if things Five Year Plan. But after tal marketa,
vised Canada that her future lay like a military operation, with narrow-gate here and . trampled - whine to death 10-people, including six Oll. is not the only attraction with the U.S. and that it was each man knowing just go wrong, to the system it many of these plans and, to
Achildren. Eleven others were self.
Mo be honest about it, after a The many by-products of natural useless to pin her faith to Britain he has got to do and given "People's great and devastating war in the West offer great, wash of receding history." It was sometimes seconds, 11-which to jured.
"that island left in the back- definite number of minutes, taken to hospital serqualy ||im= portunities to the chemical In- Daily" blames the Imperialist the condition of the Russian dustry So much greported not a challenge, but an almost do what happens to the Jewel An estimated 2,000 picknickers Powers, the landlords and the people is as poor as ever, being in reserve that the Al contemptuousyrit turn out to fery was my natural, question, rusbed for the narrow, gate of Ch bureaucratic capitalists for And it wasn't very much berts Government think that Canada may well
some of it could be exported by be the industrial and economie It decima, to vanish into thin old citadel on Bromastone Hil the present chaotic econo better even before the war. pipe-line to the West coast and centre of the future. If the air, the assessor sighed, mat SL Kitay when the rain began. mic conditions in China, What is incomprehensible is ine: Eastern Provinces. Outlays does it will not be because of means of course, that somewhere especially in the big cities that this has sa little influence involved are more than 250,- The help the Intelling from Bri- or other in this country one, or like Shanghai Undoubtedly on the passionate faith of the 900,00
American business interests are Governinmatane si
the other day that when he Lenin himself had to put the prospective all classided "as and minerals abound in this tor. evening or night, bodroom win- the turbo-prop motors are more
The Peking
000,000
that
territory.
ritory, Now the US, authorities | bedrooms the jewellere do I fou
there is a certain usulication now devotees of Marx in nosumpaing any brinem dzinie, dem PyAKORGANET for this excuse, since the
offer build in
to
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