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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 1953.

THE APPARENTLY IMPOSSIBLE

World Copyright by arrangement with the Manchester Guardian.

SUCCESS

by

LORD

BEAVERBROOK

T has been said that money is the

root of all evil. That is nonsense. If it is sometimes made the servant of a wicked purpose, then the muster

and not the servant is. to blame.

the

I am sometimes regarded as apostle of pure materialism. The descrip- tion is false. Humbly do I recognise the existence of values othan than money values. Even so, I have never noticed! that the crea. for of an artis- tic nchieve. inent becomes downcast if it also proves to be a financial success.

The maker of "money" ias "be" come unjustifi- bly suspect in recent times, not. Jeast in the eyes

cf men and

womon

who

would make

money if they could,

To win

sweepstake at s

blg dividend on

SECOND extract

from the famous

book of advice to

ambitious youth.

LORD BEAVERBROOK-from the portrait by Graham

Sutherland.

Youth and strength are given

THE MAN WHO

MADE THE EVEREST FILM

By Ronald Boxall

Was

HE story behind the smile was always there when 1

fliming of the Mount wanted it." Everest conquest is But the life of a camdramas only slightly less dramatic the end of a long day's climb," 13, not always at easy on "AI than the film itself.

he said, "when the thing Wanted most in the world whi Aside from the technical a cup of tox, I had to unpack difficulties, the biggest my etruipment and film the problem was to find a man other members of the Expedi- eapable of shooting the film. tion having tea!"

This man hud to

Blobart have

one of the first exceptionally High qualifica- that Hillary and Tensing had men in the Expedition to know tions of body and mind. reached the summit of Everest. Obviously he had to be He described how, with other an experienced cameraman. members, waiting anxiously for And, just as important, he the result of the final assault, had to be a mountaineer, leave the upper camp and mart he saw Hillary and Tensing capable of holding his own down the momtain. with the best.

Stobart set off alene to meet But, apart from these them with Instructions from vital technical and physical Colonel Hunt to wave a cost f qualifications, he also had when Stobart met the silmber attempt had been successful. to possess rare mental coming down and told them of qualities. For the high this, they said that they woulli altitudes in which the Ex- rather break the news them. pedition would be working cives-and in personi. ̧ have been known to play strange tricks with a man's

"Went Mad"

temperament. A normally The party continued down the easy-going type might be. mountain until the camp chine come an irritable grouch on into aight. Then Stobart, ix the higher slopes of though directing a im in B

Everest.

Experience

flo

by

·

studio, asked Hillary and Ton- wing to delay their return for a lew minutes while he got into a suitable position, out of sight. to film their welcome. Such a man was Tom Stobart. us to use in that first struggie.His mountaineering

The scene was one of the most and a man must feel those carly began at the age of seven, when flint. The other

experience dramatie

over committed to deals right down to the pit of

members of his explorer-father took him on the Expedition were his stomach if he is going to be

by this his first climb. Later, he be time convinced that the assault a great man of business. They came the president of Shefeld had falled; they had been must shake the very abre of University's mountaineering club, coat waved in triumph his being as the conception of a

and began serious clumbing In Stobart. pleture shakes an artist.

the Swiss Alps.

But the first ten thousand mode, lio can advance with greater freedom and take aftairs in his stride. He will have the confidence of experience, and con paint with a big bruth De- cause all the details oi affairs are how familiar to his mentality, ~ with this Besturen tecanique! nothing will check the career.

SUPREME BRAIN

But when they heard the This experience was allied to news "they went mad." And an expert knowledge of the in- tucked away Behind A rock, tricacies of cine-camera work. Stobart calmly recorded the In 1941, Stobart was a Major in

whole scene. the Indian Army in charge of training films. Five years later ho went to the Himalayas with the Nun Kun Expedition AS | cameraman.

Back in Britain with time to reflect, Stobart offers one word of advice to future expeditions of which colour Alms are to be made.. It is this: don't dress in This alone would probably drab coloured clothes. hava boon enough to convince The British Everest ExpeOA)- the producers of the Everest him len wore dark blue, And t that Tom Stobart was their man. made life a lot harder for If they needed additional proof Stobart, who wanted bright of his suitability, it was pro- colours to offset the afernal vided by the fact that Sinbart white of the snow. filmed the 1040-50 Norwegian- But he had

no complaint Such in effect is the career of British-Swedish Antarctic ex- about the hats worn by the the great captains of industry, pedition and had accompanied British climbers. "The varlets Yet the man who attains, by the explorers into Central Australia was incredible," he said. Hillary practice of these rufos, a great and the African jungic.

wore his famous striped "bee" fortune, may fall of real achieve-Stobart couldn't be found. The wore a rather extraordinary" There was only - one snag keeping"・ hát. Colonel Hunt meht and happiness. He may producers started a private man- headgear, and another not be able to recognise that the hum and Anally

their of the Expedition sported, a qualities of the aspirant are not quarry to earth in a London straw hat, "which gave him the

exactly the hospital.

appearance of an Italian indle driver."

The first £10,000

will

decide...

qualities of the man who arrived. The senso of всп eral responsibility murt supersede the spirit of pri- vate adventure.

Recovery

rah

He had been laid low by an amoeble infection of the Ilver,

caught in tropical Ausiralis,

In mid-December, his doctors doubted whethèr' hè `would bc which out of hospital before the Ex- striven for pedillon left, let alone be in a brings with it theft condition to go climbing in

Money

real qualities in the Himalayas. But Stobart life.

Here are thought otherwise. He accepted

the pools is considered justified, tax should have no terrors for for conquest-if the neequnt the counters which mark charac-the mission and began to work but to amass a fortune by hard the millionoire.

work

which erentes appar- tunilica of life

and.

happiness for thousands is con- sidered wicked by silly poll ticlans. There is a lot of hypocrisy •-talked and written

about money.

In reality money carries with

jualifies the enterprise.

ter and brains. The money brain cut the details in his hospital la, in the modern world, the bed.

The value of money is, there- Too many men apend their supreme brain, fore, first in the striving for It time in laying down "pipelines" and then in the use of The for future profits

which may

Why? Because that which the ambition itself is a fine one-but not arrive or only arrive for some produce the fiercest competition greatest men strive for will

newcomer who has taken over of intellect.

how is it to be achieved?

I would lay down certain de-

it only two qualities of value: the finite rules for the guidance of character it creates in the mak- the young man

who, starting ing: the self-expression of the from scratch, is determined to go Individuality In the use of it, on to great achievement, when once it has been made.

MONEY MASTER

the business.

Politics are for the tow: they There is nothing like sticking are a game, a fancy, or an in- Expedition's medical to one line of business until you heritance. have mastered it. A man who

hns learned how to conduct a

The first key which opens

conquered the

the

obstacles which

-

Back at work, he recovered doctors more rapidly than his had dared hope. By Christmas enough, at least, to run up five he was comparatively St--At

fights of stairs as a preilmezary to more arduous exercise,

All that remained was for the advisor, Lord Horder, to

pass him t most enough to undertake the gruelling climb in the world. And this he did in the middle of February, less than a month to leave Britain.

And what of the job itself? Stobart sums it up thus: "Com- pared with working on Everest, filming in the Antarctic is a piece of cake.”

door of success is the stand in the way of success lu a man to cut a very respoclable before the Expedition was

ading instinct, the knowledge the larger world of enterprise. und sense of the real value of

The art of making money any article. Without it a man implies all those qualities-- neel not irouble to enter

resolution, concentration, business at ol, but if he

Leaving out the dr single industry at a proft has genius who flares out, perhope once or twice in a century, the amount of ability which

enables figure in a Cabinet is extra- ordinarily low, compared with that demanded in the world of industry mi finance. The politician will never believe this but it is so.

THE BIG TEST

.bconomy, self-control - which possesses it even in a rudiment-

make for success red happiness. The power of using it makes a form he can cultivate it in 3-Do not try to cut with too man who has become the captain the early days when the mind

wido 4 Swath. This last is still plastic until it develops rule is the most

important of NO PENSION HERE

of his own soul in the process of beyond all recognition. The all. Many promising young men

also the master quirement

practice of valuing articles in have fallen into rub from the of

which circumstances

commerce becomes * sub- feurround him. He can shape

neglect of this simple principle. conscious habit, Pls immediate world to his own Uking,

T ED

the

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Human Interest

But Stobart was not concern- technical with . making a The battles of the marktet-

record of the Expedition. His place are, real duels, on which rosities of life and death and itd., wanted a full-length colour producer's Countryman Films, It is so cay for premature fortune or poverty and even of alm that would interest the The young man who will walls ambition to launch men out into fame depend. Hermes ordinary cinemageer as well, as through Life developing the Apart from these two faculties, capacity for determining value, have neither the resources nor not a perdon of £2,000. At the ingredient needed fo

during schemes for which they with precipiter. Behind the the expert. Human interest was character in acquirement, power, and then correcting his judg

raise in use, money has little value, ments by his information, will the experience.

The young men who go down and-just as likely, to be a curse help himself on

to that press must win their the film from a straightforward the way that

tam *feature a blessing. For this reason leads to success in business.

Acquire the knowledge or by no town's favour. But documentary money master;

youth camelumph; It has the capable of competing at the values, practise economy, and resolution when the inhud is all borsófice

süper- little for leaving vast wealth;

learn to road the minds of ruch, plastle to gain that judgment colossal productions of Holly-

and your technique will that to which experience giver,

wood.

Stolari, found... his human 2-But supposing that a young wider folds. The insupot for of today is simply this: Mosty is culty. He spent hours learning

perfected and ready for use in My advice to the young men interest, but not without diff man han acquired is dense valuce, the habit of economy, the nothing but the fruit of resolt the Nepalese for "Don't Jook of values, he may yet ruin him- technique of business are only len and intellect applied to the into the camera," only to find, Wealth without either the self before he comes to the then formis - of

sherpas, that they responded by the uppemo affairs of the world. To whom he came to dining the

will opposa no bar

WORLD COPYRIGHT, RESERVAD obligingly turning their backs.

There was no difficulty with Tensing, Speaking es a direttor well cttheraman, Stobart Tensing bike a frost& derful presence and his sandus|

to his descendants. He knows

that they would be better men struggle, with no inheritance but for going down stripped into the that of brains and character.

ONE LINE

wish, the brains, or the power fruition of his tax if he will quality of that judgment which là unshakable resolution fortatie to use it is too often the medium not practise economy, and BLOOTER. through which men pamper the

Cottots.

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