‘IT’S THE BRAIN THAT COUNTS’

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 September 1943, Page 4

‘IT’S THE BRAIN THAT COUNTS’

The noted surgeon, Dr. Charles Mayo, of the famous Mayo Clinic, in addressing a convention of youth, said in part: “You can get along with a wooden leg, but you can’t get along with a wooden head. The physical value of man is not much. Man as analysed in our laboratories is worth about ninetyeight cents. Seven bars of soap, lime enough to whitewash a chicken coop, phosphorus enough to cover the heads of a thousand matches, is not so much, you see.

“It is the brain that counts; but in order that your brain may be kept clear, you must keep your body fit and well. That cannot be done if one drinks liquor. “A man who has to drag around a habit that is a danger and a menace to society ought to go off to the woods and live alone. We do not tolerate the general use of morphine or cocaine or opium, and we should not tolerate intoxicating liquors, because, I tell you, these’things are what break down the command of the individual over his own life and his own destiny. “Through alcoholic influence a man loses his co-ordination. That is why liquor is no advantage to the brain. You hear people tell how they had their wits quickened for the first half hour by liquor; but they don’t tell you how later the body could not act in coordination with the brain.

“Keep yourselves free from all entangling habits. Remember, It’s the Brain That Counts.”—Advt.