October i8, IQ17 
LAND & WATER 
T7 
In Command 
By "BLACK WATCH." 
War has its virtues no less than peace — whatever anti- 
militarists may say. The present war, in particular, has been 
wonderfully productive in the direction of developing, in quite 
a multitude of men, abilities a:id even talent which otherwise 
would have remained unsuspected. 
Take, for example, the officers of our new armies. Drawn 
from all sources, trained at high pressure, and "put to it" by 
the force of circvmistances, the\' are proving, with few excep- 
tions, a credit to the best traditions of the Armj*. They have 
developed the ability to command ; and that is an ability of 
superlative value, for without capable command the efficiency 
and discipline of an army is wasted. 
What is true of a body of men is equally true of the 
individual. Many a man of excellent abilities fails simply 
because he is unable to assume full command of those abilities. 
He is not truly the master of himself, and cannot therefore 
give effective expression to his own potentialities. This vital 
fact is forced very emphatically upon the student of Pelmanism, 
and with ver\' excellent consequences. It would be difficult to 
say how many men have, through the medium of the Pelman 
Course, been brought to recognise that their failure hitherto 
has been due not to lack of opportunity or even of capabihty, 
but to their inability to command and direct their own best efforts. 
Doubtless this has a greajt deal to do with the boundless 
popularity of Pelmanism in the 'Army and Navy. It would, 
moreover, seem to be fairly evident that the higher an officer's 
position and the more onerous his responsibilities, the more 
fully he is alive to the importance of self-command as the first 
step to real efficiency. , 
Pelmanism, as an effective contribution to the successful 
conduct of the war, should be a theme to inspire some of pur 
ablest writers. The more I learn of its achievements in the 
Serv'ice, the more I am impressed with the desirability of making 
the Pelman System an integral part of every officers' training. 
Hy no other plan can full efficiency — intelligent efficiency — be so 
surely and so quickly attained. 
That thirty-four generals alone are "Pelmanists" affords 
eloquent evidence of the justice of this statement. It should 
b(> remembered that the discovery- of Pelmanism as an aid to 
military and naval efficiency stands to the credit not of the 
Pelman Institute itself, but to the Army and Navy. Up to 
the period of the war Pelmanism had been advocated as a 
means to business and professional efficiency. But officers of 
both services from 1914 onwards were quick to realise that it 
was equally potent to promote success in a military or naval 
career ; hence the present amazing number — somewhere near 
10,000 — of officers and men who are studying and applying 
Pelman principles at the front, m training camps, bases, etc. 
The late Lord Roberts was much interested in the Pelman 
system, and whilst in South Africa frequently referred to the 
enefits to be derived from it^n which the great field-marshal 
liowed his usual prescience. And, like other "ideas" of his, 
he day has come when the Army and the Empire in general 
[Appreciate the justice of his conclusions. 
As a system, Pelmanism is distinguished by its inex- 
haustible adaptability. It is this which makes it of value to 
be University graduate equally with the salesman, to the 
(reman of leisure and to the busy financier, to the Army officer 
md to the commercial clerk. The Pelmanist is in no danger 
of becoming stereotyped in thought, speech, or action ; on the 
contrary, individuality becomes more pronounced. 
Every reader of Land & Water— whatever his position 
and whatever his aims and interests— should read Mind and 
Memory, in which the Pelman Course is fully described and 
explained. A copy will be sent, gratis and post free, to any 
reader who sends a post card to The Pelman Institute, 
39, Wenham House, Bloomsbury Street, London, W.C.i ; and he 
will thus be placed in possession of the simple facts of the case 
and be enabled to judge for himself the extent to which 
"Pelmanism" would forward his efficiency and ambition. 
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