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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 25, 1953.

SUCCESS

EN do not dream the same dreams. The artist knows ono joy, the soldier an- other; what delights the business man leaxes the politician cold. But however much they may despise each other's am- bitions, they want their dreams to be fulfilled. In a word, they desire success.

The bitterest thing in life is fallure, and the pity is that it is almost always the result of some avoidable error or misconception. Thero need be no such thing as failure. Every man has a career before him, or, at least, every man can find u niche in the social order which he can successfully occupy.

The trouble in so many cases is that it takes time and, opportunity for a man to discover in what direction his natural bent lles.

divergence us that

Hence the misfits. This ill-fitting of men to jobs may not even embrace so wide between one kind of activity and business and another. A young man may be in the right business for him but in the wrong department. The employer, nevertheless, votes him no use, or at least · just passable, or second-rate, Much worse, the employer admits a failure, and by thụt very act of admission he has falled.

We are too apt to believe that if a man is clover at one thing or successful under one set of circumstances he must be equally clover at everything und equally successful under all ditions.

con-

by

LORD

BEAVERBROOK

FIRST EXTRACT from the famous book, Success, published 32 years ago but still important and timely in its advice to ambitious youth to-day. . .

JUDGMENT is the master key

man,

LORD BEAVERBROOK—at the time of his appointment as Minister of Aircraft Production, 1940.

might be the failure in the from the world what the mill must have grist on potent handmaiden of auc- other and vice versa. No world has to teach and then young

therefore, goes one better. Judgment, should be judged a failure. indeed, is the power to He may yet succeed in assimilate knowledge and to

use it. another venture.

Like all human affairs, But judgment may prove success is partly a result sterile if it is not accom- of predestination and partly panied by industry. The of free will. You cannot create genius, but you can either improve or destroy it. But what are the quali- ties which make for success? They are three: Judgment, yet prove himself an im Industry, and Health, and mense success...in another, the greatest of these is These broad distinctions at judgment.

ANYONE who has strayed in youth to the wrong professions and failed may

the top reach downwards

until the general, truth

ig In the affairs of the world

equally applicable to all the it is the supreme quality. subdivisions of business and Many men have brilliant even to all the administra- schemes and yet are quite tive sections of particular unable to execute firms.

them,

very

Through their brilliancy, unsupported by To take 1 practical Bound judgment, they instance: salesmanship re- stumble upon ruin. quiries, above all, the spirit

of optimism. That

same

Genius goes to the heart

spirit carried into the sphere of a matter like an arrow of finance might ruin a firm. from 'n bow, but judgment The success in one branch is the quality which learns

POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER

which to work. It is industry which pours in the grain.

The faculties, therefore, kept constantly must be alert.

A great opportunity may ive lost and an irretrievable error committed by a brief break in lucidity or in the train of thought. "He who would be Caesar anywhere," says Kipling, "must know everything everywhere." Nearly everything comes to the man who is always all there,

Men are not born either hopelessly idle or feverish ly industrious. They may move in one direction or the or circum- other will stances dictate, but it is open to any man to work Industry has to be applied

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Industry can be ac- cess. quired; it should never be squandered.

period of a man's career. What has been worked for in youth then comes to its fruition.

Never has Great Britain had greater need of, or offered Health is the foundation both more scope to, the man or woman of judgment and industry-and whom ambition stirs to make a therefore of success. Without success of life. Recovered from health everything is difficult, convalescence after her war-time Who can exercise a sound judg-sufferings, she now requires son

daughters who will work then in zat work hard and Intelligently. No arti the morning? Who can

ficial obstacles will Impoḍe them. lord if he is suffering from a

No bar now prevents poverty perpetual illness?

rising to the heights of wealth and power, it the man were found equal to the task.

The future lies with the people who will take exercise and not

too much exercisé.

Men are no longer born lato Cabinets and Cliy board room#. True, nepotism and favouritisz and privilege stal prevail But the ladder of education enables a man born in a cottage or alum to reach the zenith of success and power.

No ordinary man can hope to Eucceed who does not work his body la moderation, but the to dangs of the athlete is believe that in kicking a gool he has won the game of life. His

Judgment can be improved, in- object is no longer to be fit for dustry can be acquired, health work, but to be superat for play can be attained by those who Obsession with sport leads only will take the trouble. These are to failure, satiety, or impotence. the foundations on which to

The pursuit of pleasure is in the right direction-and equally ephemeral. Time and it is therefore the servant experience rob even amusement of judgment. "The true of a charm. and the night

not is

next secret of industry well ap before plied is concentration, and morning's headache. there are many ways of Practical success alone makes learning that art-the most middle-age the most pleasurable

worth

build success.

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'GOBBLEDYGOOKERY"

GOES

FROM STRENGTH TO STRENGTH

NSWERING questions

in the Commons the

other day, Chancellor

By MICHAEL CONNELLAN

at. the "business English" of "your esteemed favour to band of the 14th inst," but what of the girl telephone operator who

"Rab" Butler announced, availability", "inflationary There is no "food," only a Sir Ernest Gowers, formerly asked Sir Ronald Stoirs: "Have with studied casualness, "Sir disequilibrium", "optiraum "calorie intake" ("maximal" or Chairman of the Board of Ininnd you the requisite amount avall- Bernard Gilbert will sub- capacity" and "overall global the "intake is in the upper parently losing fight against the you the right money?"

"minimal" according to whether Revenue, has fought, an ap- able?" when she meant "Have sume the dutles performed targets."

income brackets" or "lower Jargonetes, the people who tise by Sir Edwin Plowden."

Income brackets - Le. rich or what ho has called "Gobbledy- 'If this process goes on, there Trade debates give us poor). One day the Minister of gook" In D campaign

of may be need to rewrite some of A ripple of uneasy mirth "maximal output," "minimal Food was challenged about a plainer English he has unearthed the most famous examples of passed over the Chamber. productivity." "redundant- "breakdown of current take-up," some griąly specimens. of Engilah in something more up-

Whitehallest. They

includo lo-date and elegant, ‹ How pain- Then forthright Dick ised personnel and

There are some tovely words remuneration for promolces" fully direct the Prime Minister Stokes, who always calls a tegrated labour capacity." ending in "-age" Beds, aro (pay, for better jobs), "eligible was to thunder this out to Par- spade a spade and not an What about Protection V. "beddoge" and output of electric for recivilianisation" (ready for lament bi June 1940: agricultural implement for Free Trade? It is now "au- current "outage" (not to be con- civil life).

fused with "throughput"). Then

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the integrated trituration of tarchic bilateralism" v. "in

the humus, asked with a tegrated multilateralism." "dosage" but I have yet to

faintly indignant airi

"For the enlightenment

of those of us who under-

stand only plain English,

has been talk of "plussage and know of an MP in his auocdot- age. Perhaps we shall soon hear, as London's taxis are u Parliamentary talking point, of You would think that simple "Integrated cabbage."

Jaw-crackers

What thrill!

"We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. Wo shell Oght on the beaches, we shall night an the landing- grounds, we shall nght in the We An amusing by-product of fields and in the streets, Whitehallese in the growth of shall fight in the hills; we shall fancy forms for ordinary jobs, never surrender." What did the BBC mean when

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Departmentally this would

another puff-pantry "Intra-structure Claims: "My dear, what optimum. «public service vehicle operaten now-ba-rovised:•!

So word was demolished too course, on the late, though, for the autopsy ties in of English in Whitehall.

a given "over-involvement,” Integration" and evan

aly

ment. The revolvement" re-

Ripe specimen

1.

what does 'subsume' mean?" soldiers, sailors and armen. After "hospitalization" why they advertised recently for a "Rab" Replied-demurely: would have no time for these not "pillage?" Doubtless when mobila, topicality assistant" (a "It can be replaced by two jaw-crackers. How wrong you Puffington arrives home from p Prusi-cutting reporter)?

would be? Defence debates in the Ministry and finds his wife is a "supervisory rodent, opera- English worda, 'take over" Parliament have produced still putting on buttons ho ex live" but a chiot rat-catcher,

but a bus driver," a logistic

"We shall prosecute, defensiva collecting ordinating refuse officer but a leading dustmany activity in our, domestic territory *** notwithstanding potential de There are no "porters" on clination. We shall be belli- only gerently activated on the sea- round "personnel circulating in One ripe specimen of jargon London's Udderground,

"station- Ward vorge-areas; we shall - ba the pipeline."

once got Sir Winston Churchill stationment *** and. into his most satirical vein. It Women's, no errand boys, only belligerently activated at air- around this pipeline, which is home. He referred lartly to Uomo

Discussions on food bumble was "accommodation unit for mobile provision trade assist craft positioning centres; wo no "mursorymen, only shall be belligerently aptivated often full of mysterious "bottles old song, Accommodation Unit orticultural consultant. And in the areas of basic agricultural what a thrill your fence will productivity and in the urbest ocks When there are too Sweet Accommodation Unit”

get when sho has a good-luck, thoroughfares, we shall be "klas at her, wedding" from "a belligerently, activated in the [="domiciliary, fluéologisi!”

schedulod marginini uplands; d)

Fossilised speech volves, as you might imagine,

It must be confessed that

the language of a set Farlig mentary Ministerial speech

is the most fossilised,

dehydrated form of English

many "bottlenecks there is a

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