1953-08-08 — Page 11

Third extract from the famous - book

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SUCCESS

ASTING auccess in the modern world de- mands moderation. The days of the bril llant debauchee are over. Politicians no longer retire for good at 40' to nurse the gout.

The antagonists en-

countered in these gruel- ling times

are too for

By Lord Beaverbrook

NOTHING

is so bad as

CONSISTENCY

THE CHINA' MAIL"‘SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 1958.

midable to be met and over- opening its rough edges there in the palliation for some notorious

caro a jot for the failure. And this is natural:

come by the rolstering furono nood to

Interests or susceptibilities of

playing habits of an carller others.

sre.

The man who is consistent must be out of touch with reality.

For every pedestrian the The modern inen of action young man tramples on in the

There is no consistency understand that a

successful of his sacrifice of arrogance

career n, hundred enemies will the course of events, spring up to dog with un im- fory, in the weather, placable dislike the middle of the mental attitude of hin life..

health is a sacrifice of years und that every year is of valuta. They protect their constitutions an the anal bulwark against the assault of the enemy.

Moral courage springs ax much from the nerves or the stomach us from the brain. And without such courage politician or. business man ls worth unything. Moderation is, therefore, one neret of success,

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A fault of manner, a deal prossed too hard in equity, the abruptness by which the old gods are tumbled out to make room for the now-all these are treasured up against the success- ful newcomer.

In the very host of the strito men tatoo no more account

POWER RUN RIOT of these things tham of a flesh

Above all, I would urge on ambitious youth the absolute necessity of moderation in alcohol,

wound in the middle of a hand do-hard battle. It is the later recollection on tho part of the vanquishindi that bre-cdn the sulkin resentment rankling bgainst fire arrogance at the

COMIKYUCTOR,

Room to have

I am the Just man to favour tho regulation of the social habits Years afterwards, wwbcn. DM of the people by law. But is thao things much is certain: no man can passed away, ohu the very ne achieve success who is not strict collection of them is chim in the with himself in the matter; nor mind of the young man, he will in bad thing for an aspiring paddonly be struck by an un-

business

loaked-for blow kicoft from gürange, от SVITY 赫 friendly, quarter.

man of tectotaller.

to be

It is the complexity of modern life which enforces moderation, Science has created vast popula, tions and huge industries, and also given the means by which slagle minds can direct them, Invention gives these gifts, and compels man to use them.

He w* Stoeger, * though hit from behind -'with a stone, and exmaku: "Why did this man hit me muddenly from the 'dark?” Then searching banks the will re- member some long past place of

in

in his- or in one's

fellow men. The consistent tran means that he intends to apply a single foot-rule to, all the chances and changes of the universe.

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He does not know, he not Joarned, that it is essential to make at all times an adjust- mont of thought or action to circumstances.

JARA

The successful man wiR hot adhere to consistency, but wil deal with each situation as it arises, and

with cach change as his ever fresh judg- ment may suggest. (WORLD COPYRIGHT RESERVED)

NEXT SATURDAY: Four CAN be conquered.

Evening Standard

Lord Beaverbrook... going for a trip in a helicopter.

SHOULD STEVENSON HAVE

TAKEN THE RISK?

arrogance conceived at the The book of his speeches

of

time mencity as an everlibr doghluta porvar and ability-

Man is as much the slave as and he will calice that he

the master of the machine, as paying in maturity for the in- he turns to the telephone or the discretions of his youth, telegram, the soundscriber, the

wire recorder.

In this fierce THE IRON RING turmoil he can only keep his

judgment Intact, his

nerves

sound and his mind secure

the

by

Then there

prejudice, That,

process of self-discipline, too, is a symptom of a which may be equally defined as moderate altitude, restraint, control, or moderation.

This is the price which must bo Prejudice Jr worse than arrb- paid for the gifts the gods gence, for it comes before the confer.

nge of achievement, which may give progance some excuse. It

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reveals some flaws in the phrases that rang round the world

H

By ROBERT BLAKE

On

they pick a President, and then for four years they pick on him." the class that had been with him at College: "It I look lo you the way they looked to 'me, I wouldn't vote for me."

On electioneering I have beert tempted to malce a proporal to our Republican friends that If they would stop selling Hes about us, we would stop telling the truth aboub Aber.".

On General. Eisenhower: The

cended to the baser arts of .was electioneering, and who not afraid to stand up for what he considered to be right, even though he lost votes by doing 30. His speech justifying him- self for having testified favour- ably in court about Alger Hias's of its reputation is a model. kind.

As Lincoln said,

OW surprising is the campaign of last year he gained General who started out with a

great reputation as en las new broces, kas ended upon between £ discrepancy

telligent, sophisticated, witty old broomstick and he is sur the written und speaker, who endeavoured to rounded by a vintage colleston I would also enjoin upon is imbibed with one's mother's spoken word. Burke's the Rane (al. Arnericno, of ghosts, an young men the need to cultivata mik, Korvilled by o ome's moderation in their attitude to youthful surroundings, and only speeches read magnificently election.oeing above that of mers mut slinging to a level of serious even today, but in his own discussion on the real issues of Three speeches a day little boy who had stubbed he

wards themselves and thels brojoen through. If a: null, by

time he was regarded as a staka crashing bore, and was nicknamed

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histul, ölec-

And mont of us, however hard-hearted, cannot help feel- at his admirable ing, emotion conduct in defeat. His remark when asked bow his felt after It was all over will long be re- membered:

"I was reminded of a story that a follow townsman or outs to tell-braham Lincoln. ed

bow he felt They asked once after an tion. He sald He felt like a

toe in the dark. He said that achievements, Particularly would experience of the world and a

was too old to cry, but it hurt I warn them against that deliberatio mental effort.

Prejudico 1, indeed, a wice in

dinner Most English commentator Yet despite these fushes it-too much to laugh."

to maintain the most serious sense of the bell owing to the speed contrasted this with the attitude would be flattery. Berm. It is mone damnginst

with which he emptied the General Eisenhower who was that Mr Stevenson shows carroding in its effects

depicted as

uttering banalities his speeches any very profound most of the evik habits which are

House of Commons us concocted by com

of ghost or original thought. It would be usually described by thað kem. soon as he rose to his feet, writers, and who, it was claimed, odd, if he did when we remem What is arrogance? To begin

Conversely Mr Gladstone did nothing to discourage the ber that his recorded speechies. In It is destructive of judgment with, it is the besetting vice of and devastating in its effect on

chormed theusanels by Bly outrageous alonders which has alone amount to some 250

months, three young men who have begun to the mentality because. # creates oratory, but to read his collected supporters levelled at the leads the course of

ing Democraly,

le, about three a day, and this prosper by their own exertions arrowness of outinos on the specches is rather like reading a in

the takes по account of in the affairs of the world. world. The an who can learn croes between. Henry James and in the Jess Jueld

numerous speeches of which no It is not pride, which is п to outlive prejudice has brojon Proust

dron ring which gangs. The man who permits

record remalne. moro or less just estimate of through

his speeches to be printed is, car's own power and responsi- binds the mind,

then, tilting something of a risk. bulties.

immodcrate attitude. known arrogance.

ARROGANCE

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not vanity

an

than

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Prejudice can harden an concelt, which consists in consistency. And nothing pluming oneself exactly on the sʊ bad as consistency. There qualities one does not posseSE, exists no more futilo person Arrogance is something of far than the man who rezurks: tougher fibre than conceit. It is "Well, you may say what you

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He was witty

The publication of Mr Seven son's speeches comes this view of bis talents for some extent but by no means entirely, He cer Cindy was capable of some enjoyable phrases.

in

When it came to discussing Mr of policy, major points Stovenson was almost në vague as General Eisenhower, and on On the Old Guand of the occasions almost as platitudi. Republican Party: "They're the nous. Referring to the Demo- men who don't want anything cratic Party and the "working done for the first time,"

people of America," he said:

How far bor Mr Adini Seven- the sense of ability and power like, but at any rate, I have son summoned these dangers in run riol; the feeling that the been consistent" This DFKU" the scinction of his speecher just On election year: “You know Wo baih bolleve in equal world is an oyster, and that in ment is generally advanced as published? During the election, how it is in an election

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BUT NO, GENTLEMEN, I ASSURE YOU IT

HASN'T GIVEN ME WRITER'S CRAMP......

PEACE AND RUMOURS OF PEACE

your-rights for all and special privi- leges for none. We both, believe that the objective of

our country and, ila Government is to achieve human decency, to meet human needs, and to fulfil human hopes."

BILGER BETTER SIGHINGS

Unexceptionable sentimends 10 doubt. But after all, does any politician want to achlove humen indecency, ignora human needs, and dash human hopes? And even if he did would be my wo?

It was alleged by some that Mr Stevenson lost the election because he talked over people's heads. He himself repudiates such u sumgestion. "I doubt if I could have talked people's heads even I had foolishly. wanted to."

Time for change

The. book bears out his con- tention. He said nothing that was beyond the understanding of ordinary men and his defeat Foɑnnot be put down to excessive (zualism. It was - due

to the great persona prestige of

·of hiu

his opponent, relative obscurity of Air Ste- VEELDOTY himpal the wido• spread feeling that the Demto- crata had been in lông enough, and (that lit/was) tinë, for change

}: What does emerge from reade ing Mr Stevenson's spoocháu ša bin "own" chuzierter, de inl) envi Highland, is competentious, ·

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