Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 139 June to November 1919 . THE ORE MARKET—CLEVELAND Prophets and Pattern-Followers HOW GREAT INDUSTRIES PLAN FOR THE NEXT GENERATION BY ROBERT R. UPDEGRAFF Author of Obvious Adams1. >T is related that duringthe Russo-JapaneseWar, at a time whenthe Russian and Japan-ese armies were in thethick of the most de-cisive Manchurian war-fare, a newspaper correspondent cameupon General Kuroki fishing in a streamnear Japanese army headquarters. GeneralI exclaimed the correspond-ent, you dont seem to be worryingmuch about the battle! No, replied the fisherman upon
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 139 June to November 1919 . THE ORE MARKET—CLEVELAND Prophets and Pattern-Followers HOW GREAT INDUSTRIES PLAN FOR THE NEXT GENERATION BY ROBERT R. UPDEGRAFF Author of Obvious Adams1. >T is related that duringthe Russo-JapaneseWar, at a time whenthe Russian and Japan-ese armies were in thethick of the most de-cisive Manchurian war-fare, a newspaper correspondent cameupon General Kuroki fishing in a streamnear Japanese army headquarters. GeneralI exclaimed the correspond-ent, you dont seem to be worryingmuch about the battle! No, replied the fisherman uponwhose shoulders rested the principal re-sponsibility for the Manchurian cam-paign, this battle was fought two yearsago in Tokio. The prophets of the Japanese armyhad foreseen the Manchurian campaign;they had planned where and how theenemy should be met. On the day whenthe general was fishing in the littlestream his army machine, made up ofthousands of pattern-followers, was fol-lowing the pattern of the battle. Theysaw nothing but the enemy guns andsoldiers before them and the almost im-possible task of overcoming them. Theywere too close to the pattern and toobusy following it to see beyond. Thegeneral, sitting
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