CAPITAL V. BRAINS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3021, 7 March 1917, Page 5

CAPITAL V. BRAINS

WILL POWER. THE GREAT FORCE.

"I am fully convinced," said Mr. Stewart Dawson (head of the great jewellery business that bears his name) in tho course of ah interview, "that neither iron chains nor lac?c of capital will hold hack tho man who has got the 'Do or Die' in him. I might add that the financial aspect (capital) in my own early beginning-had to fill a very small role, but beginners should, remember that capital stands subservient to brain service, yet it is really wonderful what even a small capital can do in the hands of the nian who knows how to relay it out quickly to advantage, and when he joins this method up. to a 16-hour work day, which in my case meant 16 hours of pleasure, his Course is resolute, and he is then probably partner, buyer, and salesman by day, and after business hours ho may elect to find amusement, in tho way that formed my own pastime, and become student.. artist, and architect, and even carry his imaginative faculties into tho dreams of night;' no copv or cringing imitation will satisfy the ambition or fill, the dignity of sunh a man's mind.

"Tho material well-being and prosperity of nations arc invariably forged in their "workshops and factories, but tho priceless gems of imagination and originalitv that precede manufacture, and which have fathered and created in the world its present advanced slate of discovery and industrial develooment were all forged in that region of higher mentality, through centuries of individual insistent investigation. ,|>.nd completed achievement, filling their sphere oF every stage in Urn great scheme of civilisation and world-wide possibilities." ■ • ..T-, r