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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JANUARY 8, 1951.
LOOKING AT 1951
IT'S TIME
STOP
TO LIVING AT
SECOND HAND
A
And the almost inevitable question: "Where do we go from here - If we go anywhere?"
NOTHER New Year
It is easy to be pessimistic about
There is tho prospects for 1951. polent, fatal "so-what-as-long-as-we-get- by" feeling in the air.
JOHN KEIR CROSS,
@
1
36-year-old author, radio and tele- vision scriptwriter and broadcaster, began work in an insurance office, became A
tramp and travelling busker, finally started to sell his work to editors, publishers and the B.B.C. His most recent books: "Blackadder" and "Glory," which (for children) appears in Britain carly this year,
A young man much younger than I, who should be less disillusioned, more full of enthusiasm said to me the other day:
And then it might be possible (And the same folk will tell "Why do I bother to train
a real film kind of for us to build up Can you they haven't any for school-teaching?
Industry, and a real radio and didly, I wouldn't, if my mental ability at all.)
T.V. industry, with creative folk to. parents didn't want me
Of course I gamble mysek, making pletures and plays that It's too much trouble. The like the rest of folk, and go to would help us to live and not- game's not worth the candle sports meetings; but I hate to
as is happening too ninch at the think of the whole thing getting moment help us to die... out of hand in this way, as It's So in danger of doing.
no money in the job and probably I'll be called up before I'm through. what's the use?"
Sweep It Away
ND this feeling is some- AND this feeling is some
ent from the last post-war
It has become a symptom of neurosis. People are living at only second and even third hand: yet one game of football -in a back yard that a man plays himself is worth 20 professional himself is wor
But I heard of a Cambridge-
organize to
tried
[1
'T'd like to see fewer books published-again despite the fact that I write them myself; and again not for economic or shortage reasons. The paper fewer the books the higher the standards. There would be more competition, as there should be in everything.
More Effort
generation's dancing-in-the- shire village where, Whatth dark, which I'm just old they enough to remember in its local football match, they could't later stages.
And one under-30 to play: the AND if all this put me out of a job in 1951-well, once It's infinitely more Binis- youths were, away at big mat-
tele- before I lived as a tramp; and if ches, or were watching for it expresses itself vision, or simply couldn't care it was uncomfortable, at least ler.
it was a training in depending less noisily.
on one's own resources..
less
So I'd like to see
less sport
It's a creeping paralysis bysteria, and less footing away of effort and intention; and of time, and more developing of unless it can be swept away the individual in himself and will. be lost. from himself and through his everything
be any own effort. There won't even "anywhere."
can
How
it be swept away? Personally, I would like to see more people liv ing-and really living, not taking life at second hand, not content to feel frus trated even if his job in frustrating.
Waste Of Time
in a big Industrial area of U
Scotland about a month agu I was appalled at the exor bitant waste of real private time that went into the unutterably complex business of working out football-pool permutations and combinations.
after
It Can Be Done
RUT of course I've only taken
sport as an example-and will get my ears bitten off for sneering at "the ordinary man's relaxation."
Well, bite them off-it would only mean I'd hear less of the folly that's talked about such things.
It isn't the ordinary man who achieves in any case there's too much bolstering up of this famous "ordinary" man. It's the extraordinary man who counts the man who has developed himself, individually as I be tieve we all could.
In short-again by a paradox I'd like, in 1951, to feel that in some of its aspects becoming more difficult and not
so Casy.
Ufe was
I don't only mean less State control--although that is plainly part of it-I mean the necessity for more effort to be made in everything we have to do. Then we might begin to value all the more those things we do achieve.
narrow
com-
Su It boils down to a destre to 2 re-establishment 01 see
Again "private enterprise." don't mean only in a don economic sense; I mean pletely and in every aspect of A man's own personality: so that we spin things out of ourselves, like silkworms, and don't have everything eternally provided, like grubs and parasites.
And I believe that, if this in-
did dividual development
be- come more universul, it would not make a man less of a social animal, but would restore a real would at least respect one sense of social comradeship. We
other more.
The trouble is that now
an-
we
American Newscope
So don't dine with the boss
From NEWELL ROGERS
NEW YORK. how do girl secretaries get into be directora
WALL STREET In
war has started a trend that way.
More and more women are being elected direc- tors of banks, insurance firms, and industrial cor- porations.
Macy's, the world's largest department store, now has its frat woman vice-president --Miss Beatrice Rosenborg, an employce for 32 years.
The Federation of Women Shareholders is giving the trend a big shove. At annual shareholders' meetings mem-. bere get up and
annoy the mate chairman by demanding scals.
"Why," pleaded An conse perated rallway chairman, "don't you go away and love another railway?"
Most women directors are ex-office secretaries. But
W.
J.
la
The first rule, any success woman Beatrice Vincent, in her new book for secretaries, "Make Mine Success,"
never, never go out to lunch with the (male) boss. If you do," tho other girls in the office will stunt your career
And with gossip, write polson-pen letters to the boss's wife.
COLDEST SPOT in shiver- Ing Americn these days la Lono Rock, Wisconsin-00 degrees of frost.
PAINTED ROSES adorn the toes and heels of the 1031 woman's shoes. Or, if she would like to go barefoot, she can buy adhesivo pinpoint size imitation diamonds for her toenails, perhaps
But authoress Vincent says nothing against women vice- Presidents talding male clerks to lunch.
THE RIGHTS to televise
baseball championship ganzes six years have for the next been sold to a razor-blado company for £357,000 a year. The company will advertise Its blades in between play.
But this is not the highest price paid for TV advertising. Another Arm paid over £2,- 800,000 Inst year to advertise its soap between varicly turns and love stories for the house- wlte.
IRROWN
GOODBYE to milk bottles 1 and the milk roundaman? They are already selling a tablet of frozen milk paste. When
the housewife adds water she gets fresh milk again-if the water from the top is pure and palatable.
BUSINESS: SHOW
Simmons
the La candidate 10 oppalite
Jean leadingy
play Rowena husband Stewart Granger's title role in Holly. wood's "Ivanhoe," . Debrn Partet is to be the heroine in film of Longfellow's "Evan- geline."
All the
New Irene Dunne's "Mudlark," The dissenter said: "A magni- ficent wax duramy."
York critles save one welcome
Says...
1951 RESOLUTIONS MUST BE BACKED BY ACTION
ance
London.
A year
Note well this extract from the "Current Affairs Journal" of the Peking Government:
"American superiority is only temporary. After the Commu- nist liberation of Western Europe the total steel produc-
tion of the Soviet Union and its allies will reach 67 million-odd tons, which means almost a parity with the amount pro-
fallen by something like 25 7HAT
1960 percent.
Three has been! At home
things have con- have geen an tributed to this fall, which we
a heavy addi- immense Labour preponder constitutes
in Parliament trans- tional tax on all forms of formed into the tiniest and income. most precarious of major-
The Arst is the devaluation ities, so that for the last 10 of the pound which the Chan- months we have been cellor, quite mistakenly, esti- duced in the United States." governed less by Socialists mated would hardly affect the
Fortunately the Americans or by Conservatives than cost of anything but bread. The
Is Government second
over- have not been stampeded into by Influenza!.
spending. The third is the im- putting all their eggs into the
basket. pact upon our economy of world Asian
The Atlantic conditions.
Powers have banded them- selves together to resist any World conditions are outside attack in Europe.
We have witnessed a continuance of the process of industrial recovery in the country as a whole.
There
our control. But the first two factors are not. On what we A Western Army is coming do on them depends whether into being, and it now has a But there are some very the present Inflation is to con- Commander-in-Chief in Gene- bad
patches especially tinue. Meantime the effect of ral Eisenhower. coal. That we should have the rise in prices has been to been driven by the failure wipe out the social security
gains of the last ten years. in coal output to import coal from abroad, as the condi- tion of keeping our fac- tories going and avoiding substantial unemployment,
are those especially in France--who fear
that any move by the West to defend itself will "provoke" the Rus- sians into an early attack. The short answer to this is that the Abroad
has West will not escape defeat by secured its greatest victory so refraining from defence! for. In Europe,
cleven
Communism
samo
is a striking comment on the countries had been brought under Russian control with a craziness of the times!
population of well over a hun- dred million souls.
sent
Russian policy envisages the occupation at Western Germany for its coal and steel, and with the Russians on the Rhine the poallion would become able to the French
unten-
Like a man I know a Scots man who began life as a rail- way porter. At the end of each Men crouched together n
day's work he walked six miles
But though industrial re- their hunkers at street corners in little tense groups, or mooned to and from a night-school class
covery has been marked,
And the dollar account for in solitude, hour
hour, 10 study.
Eventually, through scholar- all secretly hate each other. You we are still a long way from that has been balanced mainly night offer night, wielding penny ready-reckoners even using ships, he saw himself to univer- have only to watch a rush-hour standing on our own feet, because stockpiling has algebraic symbols--in a way sity and qualified as a minister. crowd to notice that.
even under present cond searing the price of many raw materials which the United that would almost do justice to Later he also became a Doctor Wnich the settled looks of tions, and still farther from States takes from the Far East. would be added to those of the of Philosophy and in his spare loathing on the faces of the being able to do so when Some people entertain the Russian-Chinese bloc, and that time a practising psychologist in struggling, fighting, pushing the sellers' market comea to will be somehow different from Americans in what is scheduled hope that Chinese Communism could spell defeat for the an end and we have to face the Russian brand. They should as the last stage of the world revived German and Japan- read Mao. ese competition.
"Communism is not love," he
ja has said, "Communism hammer which we use to crush deadlock. But the world is not the enemy."'
Einstein.
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one of the poorer districts of hordes, the scowls. of arim de- London.
termination to get there before And if you think the result the other man at whatever cost, gives a picture too earnest and whatever loss of self-respect. solemn for words, let me add that he is the happiest, wittiest and most companionable man I have over met--a thousand times more vital than those con- femporaries of his, from the same background, the same part of the country, crouching mourn fully at street corners with their football pool forms,
*
Symptom Of Life
R search your own heart. Does it not, rejoice in its pri-
troubles that have beset some
vate chambers as you read of the other human being or group of human beings? Is it not one of the reasons why. you read news- papers at all because you want to hear of death and destruction and read "sad stories of the death of kings"—and monore?
com-
we
China
And
rately,
The resources. of Europe
conflict-the Russian-American
war.
A
The world stands polsed in
on a
"Revolution is static, but dynamic. No dead- non; A great song-and-dance
not a dinner party, nor a paint- lock lasts for ever. was made, the other day ing, nor a piece of embroidery: I do not myself believe that |
over the announcement that it cannot be advanced softly, Mao, wants all-out war yet. conside. He has to consolidate his posl- we had balanced the dollar gradualy, carefully,
tion all over a vast Continent account with America.
politely, respectfully, plainly and
and to put modestly."
his regime firm basis. But it should be noted The use of open war to fur-
ther the world revolution has I do not believe that Stalin that "we" in this connection always been implicit and ex- wants all-out war-yet. What does not mean Britain. It plicit in Communist doctrine. he wants, as Churchill aptly is "the means the sterling area as Last year, in Korea, we have put it some time ago, make a great part of my
seen it applied openly for the fruits of victory without war." income from writing for
a whole.
first time.
It is for the West to
deny radio and television. But, by a Love one another. For in
him the "fruits of victory" and Last paradox, I'd like to think that the
year 500 million
to make a war too big a gam- end that is what folk were likely to latch less need most of all-and
Chinese and the whole of wimt I
For no one believes that the ble for him to undertake. to the radio and spend less time would like to feal above all else. Continental
have North Koreans launched their
Meanwhile all the difficultles before their television sets in might develop in 1951 and be been added to the bag. Be war without the knowledge, are not on our side of the Iron 1951. Here again there's the yond: a profounder cense of
Curtain. I do not believe that dreadful symptom of living at God's presence in our midst. tween one-third and one- consent, and probably instruc
half of the peoples of the tons of the Russians and the Russian human nature is essen-
Chinese.
tially different from ours. world now live under Com-
The United Nations had to munist regimes.
accept that challenge; failure to If those prices fell, the do so would have completely There must be an accumula- sterling area would again discredited it. be "in the red."
But it may well prove to be vonges throughout Eastern The problem of keeping the case that the real motive Europe and throughout Russia, behind the attack is to bog too, which make war pot a prices and wages stable has down the free world in a thing to be tried with or cost the health of one Chan- theatre of war far removed lightly undertaken.
and one in cellor of the Exchequer, and from the centre,
The reception Crat given to by the In the last few years the much more important moves at how deeply the regime was completely defeated another. which decision is difcult to the invading Germans
obtain, as the preliminary to Russians in the Ukraing showed
value of the pound has the centre.
second hand. We ought to make more of our own amusement---. our own real re-creation: as folk used to have to do.
Then, the rumours of war would be stifled at birth and could never grow into the wars themselves.
I'd like to see people going to the pictures less (and because All the small and foolish they want to go less-not be- examples I have cited above cause, economically, they must pale completely before that one go lens).
overwhelming desire.
If they did it would mean If only there might be a de- they were Anding more direct volopment of the wish to live their relations to each other, and wish, in the old word, is father pleasure in their own living, in more fully and directly for the less in the sugary escapism of to the thought—and the thought the shadow-folk on the screen. to the action..
POP
READY?
STEAL
GO!
A close thing!
tion of hatreds and desired re-
loathed. The Germans threw by their crucity in the
able value, the yearning of a people to be tree from oppres
ac, an asset of incalcul
Bion,
can
Qas often hears the question in conversation: "Well, what I do about this situation?” and comes across a feeling of fatalism and hopelesmem. But, I have noticed that it is usually the man who is doing nothing who feels that nothing can be donal
The active have no time for fatalism or hopelcamoss. And there are many fields of activity clamouring for active workers
Dow
Our atutudo at this time should be ogd of steady, refolu- [tion" and "t, condidence. In mo
valiter, which endured And