HEADS WIN!

Taranaki Daily News, 2 October 1920, Page 10 (Supplement)

HEADS WIN!

The other day in a street corner, two little newsboys wore seen matching pennies, when on of them shouted, "Heads win!"

That little ragged urchin did not realize that he was proclaiming a great truth., But he was.

Time was when money was looked upon as being the chief factor in every branch of life. The capitalist was looked at with- envy, and sometimes with fear. People know differently now. It is headwork that wins to-day'. In the great world war ft was not the money, the men, the tremendous amount of ammunition, the submarines, which won. It was brains. If the enemy proprod ace a gas more deadly than the the opposing forces were set to work to produce a gas more deeadly than the other. When the submarines began to take their daily toll of ships sunk and destroyed, the allied nations realized . that they must think out a way to get rid of these reptiles of the sea. And they did it. The magnificent brain of Foeh and his generals planned a campaign which wore down the German hosts and in the end accomplished their defeat. Brains did it, not guns. Heads ■won. In the industrial world it is not the man with the biggest muscle that gets to the top. It is not the man with massive arms and iron hands, who can lift a hundred-pound weight with ease, who gets the most money in the pay envelope at the end of the week. It is the man whose brain is active, who thinks and plans and studies the best way to do a ,job. It is the man of power. And power does not mean brute force. Power conies from constructive thinking, cumulative thought or in the parlance of the street, "using your head." i

Next time you hear a man grumble over the amount he gets in his pay envelope, tell him the story of the newsboy who unwittingly emphasized the great truth, "Heads "win."