Area of Action (1964)

e [Music] where we live most of the world's peoples have always lived an area of great cultures great ideas Great accomplishments today making fresh advances in many fields we are moving forward in an area of [Music] action Australia continent of the unbounded future where much of the national wealth has always been sheep 10,000 sheep are waiting to be Shor down close and neat and the boy will sweep the locks away from round the Ringer's feet they'll class it and they'll bail it so the auction sail it seas and men from all the lands on Earth will bid for the Golden Fleece Wang homestad New South Wales and Mr John Watson managing director of this family-owned sheep property marinos Golden Fleece the finest spinning quality in the world so precious that to let a live Marino out of Australia is a criminal offense at wagang hard work and scientific search has turned unyielding land into pastures of bounty wagang has made itself a model property where new approaches to grazing and management techniques have steadily increased the annual wool [Music] yield like all modern sheep men Wang's owner and his overseer Brian Pearson are farmer breeder businessman in one young management trainees are always encouraged to try their skill sometimes techniques turn out to to be more difficult than they appear but learning is part of the job every sheep property has one exciting area of action the shearing [Music] shed the keep your BL boys keep your BL I can do a respect when I like Toy they know me around the country asck from G I Ed them with the wol and i' rushed with BOS too shaved them in the GRE Lads with a grass SE to through but I never slummed a pen me Lads whatever it might contain when sheer and for old Tom patteron on the one key man in the shed the classifier he classes the fleece by length and finess of fiber and so measures a year of the skill and effort classed bailed weighed and branded official tallies for the wool book in the morning room of the homestead a pot of tea is welcome after a long day yet there's paperwork [Music] still one last conference for Brian and the owners then up early tomorrow to follow the wool into Sydney for the auction and as it turns out to order a new cream pitcher in the store rooms of the great Sydney brokerages W buyers of the world gather to look over the opened bales the Wool Growers are there to look over the buyers Mr prize lots are noted on the margins of catalogs and catalogs become the key to the auction 100,000 bales of wool each bail classed recorded identified by special symbols to speed the always frantic p of the bidding 500 Bales go under the hammer every hour 81 half is Australia the excitement mounts and so do the sales2 82 P one three p one half three Drapers time and accuracy are of prime importance brokerage houses rapidly convert Auction Sales to summary form like a magnet The Familiar Metropole Hotel attracts sheep men for The Growers the moment of relaxation a chance to renew old friendships for the brokerages a halfway point time to rush their sales data across the city to be processed with highspeed accuracy while sheep men compare growing flocks and families computers go to work [Music] as evening wears on the humans Tire the machines do not by early morning 200,000 separate items have been summarized value of wool sold tallied at32 million grading auction printed results have run full circle in 24 hours service Keystone of the wool brokerage house get it in sell it Let The Growers get back to their [Music] sheep A busy life of good life in Australia Center of wool production for the world [Music] early morning the island of [Music] Taiwan to heaven to home to his ancestors his name is Sue he is 63 years old he lives in a small house which he shares with his 32 descendants a small place but his own no one to boss him but his grandchildren many of whom attend the new government School across the road suo sugar can for sail to a nearby Mill another farmer Lee his daughter-in-law teaches Sue's grandchildren at the new school Lee and Sue are typically individual each with his own way of life yet sugar can binds their lives together as it does the rest of the thousands of independent farmers who work the fertile Countryside a common dream a good crop so they can buy more land meanwhile they all work and can afford small trees and perhaps an extra water buffalo from everywhere on the island each Farmer's Harvest is sent to the Great Mills Every shipment numbered and accounted for [Applause] Taiwan is the home of the world's largest sugar Corporation with Mills that can grind nearly 58,000 tons of sugar a day more than one in 10 of the Island's inhabitants depend on sugar for their livelihood sugar exports account for 60% of taiwan's total foreign exchange with constant Improvement of cane growing techniques modernized equipment and careful management taiwan's annual sugar output is steadily on the [Music] climb from the corporation's 25 Ms that March from the center of the island to its southernmost end comes a steady flow of centrifugal sugar that is both raw sugar and white in recent years the Island's product because of its Purity has found increasing customers among the major sugar consuming countries of the area without exaggeration this developing industry is one of modern Asia's biggest success stories built as it is on the effort of 150,000 contract Farmers the world's largest sugar Corporation piles up mountains of paperwork since sugar matures only once each 15 months recordkeeping is long-term and complex the sugar Mills Advance low interest loans for extra help fertilizers and Equipment these transactions go on the farmer's account along with total crop selling price and his share of profit plus how much sugar he has left to sell in the local market to save valuable space time and money new ways of processing records have been found a means to handle complicated bookkeeping details in days instead of months so that nothing will hold up delivery of sugar to the market that market is a large part of the world every season nearly 800,000 metric tons of sugar is bagged and transported to the docks of kaung for export the Mills deliver their sugar and through Modern business techniques keep paperwork at a minimum so that farmers Sue and Lee and a thousands like them receive their statements and their money on time [Music] [Music] jute fibers a commodity which India supplies to the world a generous plant from which grows an industry centered in the Delta region of Bengal Jude stocks are magic sticks from which come fibers of remarkable strength and usefulness so useful that this slender plant has over the years come to play a leading part in the economy of Northeast India [Music] at Community collection depos which dot the countryside the stripped fibers are dried in the Indian Sun lashed into Bales they are forwarded to a mill where jute becomes yarn to be woven into a variety of products bags canvas and carpet backing to circle the globe this is an industry determined to maintain leadership by adopting new methods and by finding New Uses in a market grown increasingly competitive it is an industry on which much depends vital to the growth of the country's International Trade vital to the destiny of some 10 million hardworking Indians whose livelihood is literally interwoven with juk the huge Mills operate on a heavy schedule three shifts a day 7 days a week many processes stand between the raw fiber and the end [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] product many processes and a great quantity of machinery before the strong fibers are finally Twisted into stronger [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] yarn a new phase begins many more machines on the line to be watched and serviced as yarn moves forward to the Looms [Music] many machines 1,500 looms breakdowns are inevitable suppose replacement parts were not immediately at hand production stopped wasted time lost [Music] time it must never happen and it needn't inventory details for 30,000 separate parts have been taken over by Business Machines which give warning of shortage before they [Music] occur replacement parts can be located within minutes in any Mill a total program so production never [Music] falters using modern business methods to solve problems of inventory together with payroll and accounting is just one part of a long range program of modernization to meet increasing competition the Mills have set rigid quality control procedures for themselves and at the industry's own research institute quality control becomes a science experiments to improve the natural characteristics of jute fiber may open entirely new avenues for the decorative use of gay colored jute fabrics for homes and offices Beauty backed by strength [Music] supported solely by industry funds this forward-looking Center and its dedicated scientists are seeking a new future for J from The Busy Mills of India to far ports of call go today's end products the bags the canvas the long rolls of carpet packing flexible versatile juk destined for the great cargo ships of many nations from the magic stick magic fibers gift from India to the [Music] world from the 13th century ngoya has been a pottery and Porcelain Center of Japan today an honored art is Big Business Ceramics have helped ngoya become the nation's thirdd most prosperous City the Nori company pioneered the use of advanced business methods in Japan more than 40 years ago today while a skilled Artisan perforates a teapot a skilled office worker punches production control cards efficient teamwork means a more profitable business application of the latest computer technology to tradition craftsmanship helps make norat tuy the world's foremost producer of dinner wear every production step is programmed and controlled by number an efficient system that makes it possible to produce any one of norat Taki's thousands of shapes and patterns for any customer at any time for instance an order for one cream pitcher shattered in distant Australia without interrupting the regular mass production schedule the single replacement item is put in work and takes shape flawlessly all according to number from among possible combinations of over 400 shapes and more than 3,000 [Music] patterns in the midst of the day's smooth flowing production run one piece ordered by number for an Australian customer Nori's Advanced business procedures result in an output of over 20,000 complete sets of dinner wear per month when it finally takes its place alongside the thousands of other items turned out this day the picture for Australia in itself symbolizes a minor miracle of production control Japan has always been a land of contrast Center of heavy industry for all of Asia it is also the home of countless one-man Enterprises millions of Craftsmen contributing to Japan's age-old reputation for Artistry turning up delicate clo Jade ivory and masterful lacquerware in both the social and financial structure of Japan these millions of small businessmen share importance with those of the great corporations because so much Capital originates in bank loans it is vital that banking procedures be streamlined individual transactions of the clo and lacquerware Artisans each deposit or withdrawal however small are re recorded and forwarded without delay to Japan's Financial Center the marinucci District of Tokyo where the nation's banks have established their main [Music] offices Tokyo headquarter banks are unique beautiful and models of efficiency the vast network of branches that a Japanese Bank serves may be scattered over every corner of the islands to the transactions of the parent Bank are added all the data from the various branches by teletype and fast Courier pouch so that records can be summarized on a daily basis this complexity means paperwork that threatens to mount as high as famous Mount Fuji and only the most efficient business procedures are equal to cope with with [Music] it some banks find it necessary to process 60,000 individual transactions a day to keep the flow of information accurate and immediate for study by top management and there's no end in sight banks that today Serv as 1 million accounts expect to add a million new accounts each year for the next four years the economic growth of Japan has been the most spectacular in recent history a fine example of what a system of free economy can accomplish with wise planning determination and hard work Japanese Bankers are forward-looking men they make it their responsibility to visit plants throughout the world where they can observe the manufacturer of new model equipment learn about new developments on a constant search for the latest advances in business technology not content with knowing what a business machine can do but also how and why at home and abroad they pursue new ideas they know that every speed up in banking procedures will benefit not only big business and heavy industry but equally important the millions of small and very small depositors as each citizen makes his money available for fresh Enterprises people in every Walk of Life are better able to produce to purchase to enjoy the basics that make living worthwhile and make their individual contributions to an expanding colorful area of action we know as New Japan n [Music] [Applause] [Music] the Temple of the Dawn gives quiet welcome to the sun tand where many spend their lives in the peacefulness of prayer yet ancient Bangkok is the center for an activity which may change the way of life of the entire Eastern Pacific and this young woman is part of that Grand Design [Music] she is one of a group of dedicated people whose work is reaching into the future of a region that extends for thousands of miles in all directions from where she [Music] lives while she is very much a part of her own culture her thoughts interests span a great many other countries as well as her [Music] own e cafe economic commission for Asia and the Far East here men of good faith and many faiths ga together to lay the foundations for United Nations projects to revolutionize agriculture harness rivers map trade routes and in general promote further economic development of their part of the world this young woman is Miss chat chavarin chief of her section in a statistical office of eafe together with her assistance she is responsible for programming computer instructions for the the retrieval of vital un data and information the Tai National statistical office has made its computer system available to eafe on a part-time basis for the first time in this area it has become feasible to collect information in a dozen languages and through the use of computers standardize the data in accurate statistical form currently Miss Chavin is compiling facts and figures for reports that will be used as platforms of action at International Trade Branch sessions these reports are compendiums of important information for continuing studies on the wool industry of Australia the jute industry of India the sugar industry of Taiwan and a thousand particulars on the trading habits of more than half of the world's population never before have the countries of this vast and important region gathered together for systematic analysis of their common economic problems in the hands of these UN members trade reports become building blocks in the structure of Hope for lasting world peace through world trade in a quiet area of action a grand design for economic strength and stability in the vast region of the world known as Asia Pacific trade a fountain head of progress new ways many nations one world one future man helping man [Music] all for