Every form of investment and enterprise in Shanghai is dependent, for its success of failure, upón the Iuture of this city. It would be readily seen, therefore, that it is of vital interest to every businessman to sound out and gauge what lies ahead. Should such reasoned and forward visioning show the way to be dark or reveal it to be bright, it could prove nothing but beneficial m either case to be apprised of it. If the road leads to an impassable barrier, ignorance of it is a blissful evil, If, on the other hand, the ack brings to the "promised land, then great-heartedly we should take our present punishment.
It is the first function of management to form a policy, and so each of us who has roots in this unique metropolis must needs, more than ever before, now when everything seems to be tumbling about our ears, sense the true direction, Whither Shanghai? No one can know this of a certainty, but it is possible to gauge, with more than mere speculation and, guesswork, what is to be, The Worst of chaotic conditions must resolve themselves finally into orderly cours As to when that is to occur—the time element—it is also of prime importance,
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