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FRIDAY, July 22, 1938.
re-
One of the most powerful men in
Britain:
SIR CHARLES CRAVEN, ARMAMENTS-MAKER
NC
This was in 1006. The following
His
friends are
mostly
TCAT
HE is a good and friendly
talker, noted in the admirals or near admirals and big
Mayfair circles he likes to dine in business men.
for his linbit of talking down to the He has bought an Elizabethan ruling classes.
house with soventy acres of grounds His talk is high-spirited and rather in Surrey. It has a garden old colloquini, but you can't get anything enough to be really good, which he out of him that it would suit him likes but knows nothing about. better not to say.
He doesn't see much of it, for ho All the same he says some sur doesn't take much time off often prising things.
Croan-examining works a seven-day week. He meant him during the 1934 Arms Inquiry to take a week at Easter, but ho Sir Philip Gibbs sold: "You do not couldn't got away. think your wares are any more
dangerous than boxes of chocolate
or candy?"
Retorted Sir Charles: "NO, or novels."
Lake District; usually takes a month. For holiday-making he likes the
He was there last year.
ON Na typical day he leaves He used to play golf, but nowadays
mention of Sir He was a submarine commander
Like most successful men, he has at twenty-two. The boss when most
n high-speed recreation- speedboat- Craven in men are junior clerks, Charles
ing. He also does a bit of salting. the recent front page
his flot at 9 to 9.30 and is what with occasional gout, he doesn't story about the employers' year he married his smart, attrae-
tive wife.
driven to Vickers House, Broadway, feel so much like it. bring
In 1912 he left the Navy and Westminster,
Diimler. in a hireit plan to
He looks a bridge player, but: He rends about le dresses fairly formally-black is one of those "Oh, anything I can
women
Iworkers into the arms fae. Joined Vickers as a technical adviser. (Four chauffeurs take it in weekly "not intelligent books a week;
tories.
com-
He got on well. He knew his job turns to drive him). inside out, he was ambitious, and got un well with the men up above. coat,
He was a coming young man when triped trousers, black homburg lay my hands on, I forget the name"
Alde on
sort of readers.
loose dark overcoat. But he had plenty to do with
Hia room at Vickers House that plan. For he is the most the war broke out, and he went
back to the Navy in the submarine preposterously large; there is n
LIE has
am no political HE 'manu- important armaments
miniature board room set up, table service.
bitions. But if you are facturer of the lot.
But he was more valuable build- and chairs tucked away, lost in one ruling the lives of 70,000 familles ing submarines than using them, end of it, Sir Charles Craven is chief of so he was sent back to Vickers in There is a chest of drawers down you find yourself mixed up in poli- of one
which he throws his tics whether you like it or not. the £20,000,000 Vickers-Arm- 1918 to supervise construction
Armament manufacturing is one and connected submarines and airships at Burrow. hat in the morning. The drawers of the most highly skilled games strong company
After the war he travelled all
are full of mapa and cherts.
there are. For instance, It takes with twenty-one other
over the world, pulling off several Just to give an idea of what big about eight months to make a 4.7 panies. Salary probably £16,- really big foreign contracts; and business he dents in: one chart la in. gun, and the smallest error at
getting less technical, more com- several feet
feet square and each fuch 000-120,000. In fact, one of the
meretal every year. He Was the of graph means half a million pounds. stage may lead to the whole
thing being scrapped, most powerful men in Britain.
brain, the authority, the key man. He Ands it easy to concentrate, The men who make the guns need
And finally, at forty-seven,
to forget work in his spare seven 1931, he was appointed managing time, He smokes a lot while he is
Is not sus experience, so
on to len director of all Vickers-Atinstrong working (Virginian ten for Cd.). works and shipyards.
believer in talking He is a good square lunch, o shrewd way. In the depth of the twenty-six which he usually takes at the Carl- siump he started Д inrge-scale A fifty-four,
years after leaving the ton or the United Service Club. Navy, he still corries himself with He gets away about seven if he be ready for better times. the disarming boyistuess they cul- can, but he is not clock-eyed. He'll
arrive home at 7.30 to eight. stand tivate in the Navy.
CIEL-
23.1
By for the largest private ployer in this country, he rules more
twice thum 70,000 men-about
Imperial many
employed try As Chemical Industries (though it is said that Lord McGowan, of Imperial Chemicals, gets more
twice Craven's salury).
Seventy thousand careers or fall fargely by the decisions he mukes, the chances he takes.
in
easy
business over
it
that the
be values most in a man units.
He
deals with labour problems in
scheme for training apprentices to
Says he, "I cannot think of any→ thing more awful than putting Inbourer earning 45%. a week on the IS fat is in stald-looking streets for ten or twelve days in HIS
Wellington Court (built August avithout pay, I we don't
You don't read much about cent business me and not just a sex bod-rooms, dressings better get us in industry we had
attract it
he
has three
13
But you can't run his big job on dearming boyishness. You've got to be a really first-class, 100 per
figure juggler but a ruler.
out of it. lim because, while
Craven rules the Vickers direc- room, a dining-room, a drawing- "If you have a strike either the avoids publicity, he doesn't
tors as the clerk rules u bench of room and two bathrooms. It is managing director or the trade union by making himself ก
magistrates. mystery man of the Zuhuroff school. ay
What he says furnished in a comfortably functional leader wants the sack." usually goes and he doesn't mind way and run by three sensible-look- That is the life and philosophy of
maids, Nonly every room over- Sir Charles Craven. ing m Napoleonic is the word for Craven, saying it.
He doesn'! approve much of looks the Park. The rent is £900 but he has none of the semi-comic characteristics that make Napoleon boards and committees: "Cho see
Lady Craven and their tall, thin, the klol of so many mental patients. no hope for the future of Industry
if it relies on committees.
All quiet son (he has a small business He is tall (over six fuol), dark, business started
an individual of his own) are on
often there more handsome, and friendly looking basis. The chief of each concern than he is. He doesn't do much Clean-shaven, loosely knit. His hair took full responsibility, and follow- entertaining there. The guests recedes well back from his forehead, ed out a definite line of policy." usually business men. Most prominent features-his deter- mined chun and clear, alert eyes. Altogether a
elderly Gary Cooper,
sort of
ດ
year.
arc
Anthony
Cotterell
What Are Your Prospects?
LET PUNISHMENT FIT THE CRIME
For some inouths past Hong- kong authority has been waging a ceuseless war against narcotic distribution and from the Leo Reisman's Orch ports of proceedings in the nugistracies it is apparent that Leo Reisman's Orch. | heroin-that deadly derivative of opium-is supplanting the less hurmful drug us a popular Leo Reisman's Orch poison. In every raid on divans.
Revenue Officers find these little so .Fatts Waller's Orch pink pills, so cheap and
deadly, in large quantities. Every day divan operators who F.T... Bunny Berigan's Orch. [are selling this slow douth are being convicted, and fined, with the option of imprisonment or not. And still The traffic flourishes. Judges and magis trates alike condemn the evil business trade, and have punished the
factories. |"dope" dealers severely, although they appreciate as well as any one else that the men who are being prosecuted are only pawns in the game. Still, because it is impossible to reach the men behind the scenes, the operators Some of the locals have been The first essential for success is to known to go na far os shaking your know what you desire to achieve? of the wholesale narcotic busi-hand if you have been talking to But make sure that your aim, what- nesses, it is necessary to be him; he is an honorary freeman of ever it is, is sound. severe with
someone if the slightest success is to be obtain- ed. Unfortunately, it seems that the present system of fine and
is imprisonment
not sufficiently drastic to curb this run-away vice industry.
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He works on
By A Psychologist
If you want to ring him up you'l find his name in the telephone boult, But you'll only find him there usually on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thurs VERY large number of success- days. For he is no Park-lane big-A ful people have no strikingly the outstanding ability. Probably one spot, travelling round to his various reason for their success lies in the fact that they realised in time and acted necordingly.
score well in 1 are likely to succeed. something which is hopelessly out of ing up on one's prosent prospects of Most people elther strive after Indeed, it is a good means of check-
their success, so far as one's own mental knowledge of oneself is vitally im- make-up js concerned. And this
portant! Jot down your answers.
His
He spends more time al the Vickers Armstrong works at Bar row-in-Furness than anywhere. official house is there. He is by way of being the uncrowned king Barrow, because he brought prosperity after the slump.
the town,
them
their reach, or fritter ilway and then another, instead of working chances by attempting first one thing steadily towards a clearly defined
Obviously, If you are not too sobust physically it is hopeless to fix as your IS background is conven-goal success in some branch of effort
tional
His which entails severe physical strain. enough. father, Jones Craven, It
Д you are weak at figures and And Manchester lawyer, died when he it Impossible to get really interested was fourteen, leaving hils
mathematics, then clearly ac- family in
countancy is not your sphere, and pretty modestly off.
so on.
Young Charles went to Rosali School, joined the Navy in 1898, A Searching Test learned his trade in H.M.S. Britannia and at the Royal Naval College,
Greenwich,
The type of Chinese who operates the heroin divans has no great fear of prison. If his
He took five firsts in passing tor fine is paid it does not come out lieutenant, and went in for the of his pocket. Moreover, it is increasingly important and
| paid submarine branch,
more than likely that the divan keeper who suffers in "the cause"
beller-
is "looked after" by his prin- deter others who risk the same cipals, in much the same way as penalties. And if any one de- were the sellers of bad whiskeyserves really hard punishment it and gin in the United States is these people. The law has a during the days of prohibition. weapon in the birch or the "cat",! In fact, it is not inconceivable
which it useg perhaps too that in such a well organised
sparingly. Why these death business us this narcotic traffick dealers should be kept in prison ing seems to be there aro
for long periods of time at the rowards and bonuses for good
expense of the Government, service just as there are in many when in all probability the legitimate enterprises. There punishment does not fret them fore, to effectually suppress it
at all, is a question for authority the punishment should more to consider seriously. Brief suitably fit the crime,
confinement and a liberal dose Narcotics can kill just as of the erring school-boy's medl- surely as any other poison, and cine might do much more to in the process of killing they keep them out of mischief than are npt, to drive their users to months of hard labour-which, crime and all sorts of other remember, is probably rewarded forms of degeneracy. Since the when they regain their freedom. divan kooper is the only mem-Let them taste a little of the ber of this trade who can be tormont-only a fraction of the reached it is upon him that the torture they cause others by wrath of the community must their beastly trade, and perhaps fall, and it must fall heavily to Hongkong shall have found a deter him from further parti- remedy for the narcotic evil. cipation in the business, and to We certainly have none now.
The following test covers the ground fairly thoroughly; those who
1 Have you already formed a clearly-defined goal?
2 Can you think of at least three things you can do to help yourself towards your goal-three steps an the way?
3 Are you interested in other people, and do you habitually note: their habits, peculiarities, and so on?
4 Supposing you' lost your job to-morrow, or your business sus-
6 Is your family life happy? 7 Are you prepared to pay the price which the effort to reach your gout may involve-hard work, con- centration upon every aspect likely to help, study, and so on?
Could the criticism of others cause you to give up doing anything. upon which you have embarked, and which, in spite of the criticism, you believe to be sound?
Do you welcome responsibi- 11ty?
10 In your recreation, or in any social work you perform, would you rather carry out some task un- der the guldunce of others than an. organising one?
11 During the last twelve months have you saved regularly, how.. ever small the amount?
12 Do your intensely dislike be- ing alone?
tained a savere loss, could you Grudge Against Life
weigh the situation calmly without giving way to depression?
6 Have you any secret worry-- the kind of worry that is not shared with anyone else?
GRIN AND BEAR IT
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By Lichty
“I'm 'so tired I can hardly keep my mouth open!"
13 Do you feel that up to now you have never had a fair deal? In other words; have you
grudge against life?
Jurking
14 Are you so taken on succeed- Ing that you can get as interested In your work as you can in your
recreation? Invourite
16 Do you feel jealous of others who are promoted above you, or of business rivals who beat you in. competition?
10 Since you left school have you had many close friendships which have, however, not lasted?
17 Are you prepared to cut out all recreation in order to work or study?
18 Do you and any work which involves co-operation with others, irritating?
19 Are you given to day-dream- ing rather than working to get re-, guito?
20 Having, in answering these questions, learned a lot about yourself do you still feel that given: reasonable effort, you can attain your goal?
For each "Yes" to questions 1, 2, 3, 4, 0, 7, 9, 11, 14, and 20 give yourself
five points. For each "No" to ques tions 5, 8, 10, 12, 13, 15, 10, 17, 18, and 19, odd five points.
If your score is low it should be à matter of guidanco rather than dis-. will know+ couragement for you where your weak points lie and be. able to remedy them.
Any score less than 60 suggests: that your present outlook and mental: make-up aro more suited to routine work than to anything involving: responsibility; a score of from 60 to 70 is encouraging, and indicates a measure of promise which is worth developing.
More than 70 roveals a mind and outlook which, given effort, shoulds go for.