ALL HANDS ON DECK

NZ Truth, Issue 1195, 25 October 1928, Page 6

ALL HANDS ON DECK

EVERY small boy at the age of .fifteen tells his beads of glowing ambition— "Tinker, tailor, soldier, etc.," arid, very much like the youth m those remarkable . examples '.of advertising persuasion conceived : by clever copy-writers of correspondence schools, he screws ; up his face before the mirror of future, and dreams : of managerial chairs and waiting stenographers. Later m life they creep into ; their vocational niches, some tinkers and still fewer soldiers; others become salesmen or advertising men, either of whom will persuade you that an oil drum and a clockwork spring will take you for a wonderful spin across the mountains. Eight years ago a sprightly young Colossus eased his frame through the doorway of the Charles Haines advertising house, raised his -unabashed head from a back-seat view and thought he liked the look of . those plush seats m the executive chairs. In the best correspondence-school manner he studied hard, kept his eyes

in ' the direction of the seats aloft — and is now general! manager and director of his company. Admittedly, this sounds rather like the man who acquired, a perfect memory m 24 hours; added five stone to his weight m as many days; became president of his company within , two .weeks, and several other phenomenal things- so dear to the pens of ..those who float homecourses f or urjgihg Americans; but .smiling David Cody DOES represent one of:the too few cases where such . remarkable conclusions might reasonably be expected. Cody -has tasted of most' things / which life to offer the avid : palate of youth—achievement, travel, fighting, sport, adversity, while even ill -health has fallen to him. - Two or three months agb r we heard of his being threatened with a serious collapse- m health, but it is now pleasant to learn that wisdom prompted him. to slip away from the stresses of labor, that he 'might woo the return of bodily strength^ Congrats, Cody! ..