LONG HEADS OR SHORT

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 90, 13 October 1923, Page 14

LONG HEADS OR SHORT

BRITON AND TEUTON COM. PARED.

Brains are worth, more than waterpower, and scientific ingenuity will find a substitute for coal. The,fact, moreover, that England is as island, gives her a strength and security which she does not share with the Great Powers of the Continent. When we have made a reality of the. dream dreamed by Clark Maxwell, Lord Kelvin, Rutherford, and others, and have "harnessed the latent molecular and atomic energy in matter," we need'not fear the power of any adversaries. And, above all, we are long-headed, for which we may give humble thanks to God, and the Germans are round-headed. The shape of the German head has always been plain for the world to see, but before the war it had not been scientifically established. The pan-Germans had hitherto obstinately refused to collect or publish the evidence of the facts K.l^- ?■ «. Parsons has examined methodically the German prisoners of war, and has set forth the truth that even m Schleswig-Holstein the Germans are round-headed. There could not be better news than this, especially if we remember that though there are pockets ot .round-headedness in Great Britain we may^ boast as a race the longest heads m Europe. What, then, is the difference between the two heads? "The round head," says Dr. Parsons, "is slow, methodical, and unwilling to take nsks; the long head is adventurous, enterprising, and imaginative." Why should we repine when these simple tacts are put before us? asks.an En ff - hshman, writing in the "Daily Mail." With confidence we may pit our adventurous long heads against the slow, methodical round heads of Germany! bo long as enterprise and imagination are clearly maTked in our skulls we-need not fear the poor Teuton whose cranial angle will not permit him to take risks We may even regard witg equanimity our diminishing coal and our deficient water-power, and rest firm in the confidence that the future belongs, as does the present, to the. long-headed, enterpris ing, imaginative adventurer.