Republican News 1918

[Logi]

November 15, 1918
Independent Report, also authored by Mr. Wisdom


Its seems, as one looks around, that the country is at war. Men are mobilized to the workforce with their entire families. Children sit in shops making ammunition, husband and wife work together side by side. The Government directly the efforts of the industry.

That country is at war. It is at war against backwardness, decadent, corruption, negligence, idleness... The Nation is at war for its survival. Although this war is not physical, it is a war nonetheless.

If we can count on every citizen's efforts, we will win this war unscathed.

[Logi]

November 25, 1918
Independent Report, Mr. Wisdom

There are three main problems facing the Republic of China.

First, the industrialization of the country and the fact that the key factor in industrialization is the development of the Prime Production, which produces all other industries and ensuring the greatest possible speed of this development.

Next, the fact that the rate of the development of our heavy industries lags extremely behind the rate of our agricultural developments.

Thirdly and lastly, the cultural resistance to progress and the lack of communication from government to citizen.

1) The Rate of Development of Industry

It is known that in order to ensure a fast rate of development of industry in general, we need to achieve a fast rate of development of the Prime Production. Such can only be achieved through the industrialization of the entire country. Such is necessary to transform our national economy into a more vibrant and powerful one.

What does Prime Production involve? It is the maximum capital investment in basics of industry. All industry, down to its simplest form, consist only of the worker and the machine. Workers are easy to find in the Republic of China, but machines are not. A machine comes down to only machine parts; all machines, no matter how different the appearance, are made of the same simple parts. Thus Prime Production must be the industry that produce these simple parts.

Thus to industrialization the country, we must spread out and build these Prime Factories. This will ensure we have the parts necessary to build more complex machines. From there, we can build an ever larger industry.


2) The Heavy Industry Problem

The weakness of the nation as a whole can be contributed for the excessive lack of heavy industry. China is not lacking in other respects. Rather it is this lack of heavy industry which has forced China to be treated as a second-rate country. Although there is an abundance of steel, iron, coal, and other necessary materials for heavy industry, there are too few steel mills, coal mines.... heavy industry to use the material.

This can be attributed to the backwardness of the system of industrialization employed by China. In order to industrialization, we must work from the bottom up, unlike the top-down approach of the current government. Instead, due to this top-down approach, the government wastes exorbitant amounts of money pressing already heavily taxed heavy industries. To build heavy industry, we must, like for general industry, star with the Prime Production. That is not to say we would use the same methods. No, no... The Prime Production for Heavy Industries resides within the worker and the raw material providers. Thus we must start by increasing the output from mines and metals by providing them with more workers. With an increase in manpower, we can direct these forces to the construction of more mines and fill those mines with more workers. We this increase, we can export for profit and use that profit to construction more mills.


3) The Lack of Government-Citizen Communication

That these plans for greater efficiency have not been implemented can be attributed to the lack of communication between the governing and the governed. It becomes impossible to coordinate such mass efforts in the Great Expanses of China without communication. Then it becomes inevitable that the administration of the country is left to the spiraling waste of bureaucracy. Such as it is, there can be no improve in China.

To combat that, we must raise govern awareness of its citizens, and not just those in the city, but those in the rural areas as well. How can this be done?

We must raise build radio receivers in every major village. This way the government can speak directly to the people. Then we rely on word of mouth between traders stopping at each city to pass newly distributed information. Then we establish a workforce who will go out into the countryside and build schools, fix machines, to elevate the position of the masses. Then we will introduce two-way communication, allowing not just the government to speak to the people by the people to speak to the government.


These three hurdles are not small, but they are not insurmountable. We must understand that a strong building is only possible on a sturdy foundation.

[Logi]

December 6, 1918
Victoria Bay, Hong Kong

The "1st Competition of Aeronautical Designs" has begun, all designs are accepted.

[Logi]

December 31, 1918

The RRC-sponsored Aeronautical Competition yielded little results, mostly from locals. With such a negative response, the government decided to not pursue further "Competitions" in the future.

The year turned on the Georgian Calender.