Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1963-06-19
The Book
OF The
Month
The Road to Huddersfield
James Morris The Road To

The Road to Huddersfield
James Morris The Road To
Huddersfield, "a birds eye
view Of the revolution of our
time" is the Book-of-thc-
Month Club Selection for Mid
/ summer, 1868.
Clifton Fadiman, describing
the book to Club members.
calls 1t "a minor miracle of
reporting, as instructive as it
is entertaining"
Underdeveolped nations eve
ryWhCrc, Mr.. Morris notes.
find themselves nowadays ION
the road To- HuddcrSficld."
Supplied with suitable leader
ship and provided with adC-
qua,c funds. they need no
longer remain undcrdevclop-
| ed.
Mr.. Morris uses the English
town of HuddcrSfield as
I Symhol of the process. Hud-
dcrSiiCld was once a primitive
crossroads farm village on the
/ Yorkshire moorS. Then, i'm the
| 18th century. the first winGS
I of the industrial! revolution be-
/ gan TO stir. HuddcrSficld soon
became what it has been ever
since: one of England'S busiest
| manufacturing towns, living
by steam coGS, iron and en-
| glnC-grcaSC."
UndCrdcvclopcd areas arc
Mr.. Morris concern as he sur
vcyS the modern world. Above
all, Mr.. Morris is concerned
with the World Bank, which
was established nl944 to en-
courage and help just such
areas and which until recently
was headed by its founder.
the American banker Eugene
r. Black.
Mr.. Blacks institution. il
has been said. operates on two
simple principles: IT wants It's
money used well. and il wants
its money back. InduStrialiZ1-
ton takes money, and money
means a bank, and world in
naturalization means a World
Bank tits formal title is the
International Bank for Re-
construction and Development
has become one of the chief
CatalyStS of the revolution of
our time"
The Road To Huddersfield
is not a book about high fin
ancc. Mr.. Morris is not a fin
ancier or an banker. A young
English ncwSpapCrman, he is
already something of legend
in London and Manchester be-
cause of his skill as Il jour
naliSt and a writer of travel
books. He has written on sub
jcCtS as diverse as Arabian
society. South African politics.
and the climbing of Mt. Ever
est In his latest book his pur-
pose is To describe the trans
formation of five widely sep
aratcd areas where the World
Bank has been at work - Eth
iopia, Siam, southern Italy,
Colombia and Punjab.
Ethiopia, for example -
with its fucdal Emperor, lis
gaudy history, its arachaic
look - is being changed rs
World BanklOanS help trans
form its communications syS-
TEN. In Siam, the World
Banks millions have made
possible the Yanhec Dam on
the Ping River. The country is
being changed because of the
hydroclcctric power supplied,
and throngs of Siamcse work
ers will soon be threading the
path to the mills"
will mndcrnizatiOn. West
crnization," make the Siamcsc
and other peoples happier?
Whether or not il will is not
hiStory's business" Clifton
Fadiman remarks In his re-
view. The countries evident
ly have no choice. All roads
today lead TO Huddcrsficld.
Even southern Italy, where
/ poverty, degradation and the
dead hand Of tradition work
! against Huddcrsficld, is sue
cumbing to- the revolution,
stimulated by seven World
Bank loans although Mr..
Morris, who knows this coun-
try we'll. doubts that Naylcs
will change its character is an
other fifty years"
l..