The Art of Public Speaking Part 57

1. MOVIES AND MORALS.

2. THE TRUTH ABOUT LYING.

The essence of truth-telling and lying. Lies that are not so considered. The subtleties of distinctions required. Examples of implied and acted lies.

3. BENEFITS THAT FOLLOW DISASTERS.

Benefits that have arisen out of floods, fires, earthquakes, wars, etc.

4. HASTE FOR LEISURE.

How the speed mania is born of a vain desire to enjoy a leisure that never comes or, on the contrary, how the seeming haste of the world has given men shorter hours off labor and more time for rest, study, and pleasure.

5. ST. PAUL'S MESSAGE TO NEW YORK.

Truths from the Epistles pertinent to the great cities of today.

6. EDUCATION AND CRIME.

7. LOSS IS THE MOTHER OF GAIN.

How many men have been content until, losing all, they exerted their best efforts to regain success, and succeeded more largely than before.

8. EGOISM vs. EGOTISM.

9. BLUNDERS OF YOUNG FOGYISM.

10. THE WASTE OF MIDDLE-MEN IN CHARITY SYSTEMS.

The cost of collecting funds for, and administering help to, the needy. The weakness of organized philanthropy as compared with the giving that gives itself.

11. THE ECONOMY OF ORGANIZED CHARITY.

The other side of the picture.

12. FREEDOM OF THE PRESS.

The true forces that hurtfully control too many newspapers are not those of arbitrary governments but the corrupting influences of moneyed and political interests, fear of the liquor power, and the desire to please sensation-loving readers.

13. HELEN KELLER: OPTIMIST.

14. BACK TO THE FARM.

A study of the reasons underlying the movement.

15. IT WAS EVER THUS.

In ridicule of the pessimist who is never surprised at seeing failure.

16. THE VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL.

Value of direct training compared with the policy of laying broader foundations for later building. How the two theories work out in practise. Each plan can be especially applied in cases that seem to need special treatment.

17. ALL KINDS OF TURNING DONE HERE.

A humorous, yet serious, discussion of the flopping, wind-mill character.

18. THE EGOISTIC ALTRUIST.

Herbert Spencer's theory as discussed in "The Data of Ethics."

19. HOW THE CITY MENACES THE NATION.

Economic perils in ma.s.sed population. Show also the other side.

Signs of the problem's being solved.

20. THE ROBUST NOTE IN MODERN POETRY.

A comparison of the work of Galsworthy, Masefield and Kipling with that of some earlier poets.

21. THE IDEALS OF SOCIALISM.

22. THE FUTURE OF THE SMALL CITY.

How men are coming to see the economic advantages of smaller munic.i.p.alities.

23. CENSORs.h.i.+P FOR THE THEATRE.

Its relation to morals and art. Its difficulties and its benefits.

24. FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS.

Mordecai's expression and its application to opportunities in modern woman's life.

25. IS THE PRESS VENAL?

26. SAFETY FIRST.

27. MENES AND EXTREMES.

28. RUBICONS AND PONTOONS.

How great men not only made momentous decisions but created means to carry them out. A speech full of historical examples.

29. ECONOMY A REVENUE.

30. THE PATRIOTISM OF PROTEST AGAINST POPULAR IDOLS.

31. SAVONAROLA, THE DIVINE OUTCAST.

32. THE TRUE POLITICIAN.

Revert to the original meaning of the word. Build the speech around one man as the chief example.

33. COLONELS AND Sh.e.l.lS.

Leaders.h.i.+p and "cannon fodder"--a protest against war in its effect on the common people.

34. WHY IS A MILITANT?

A dispa.s.sionate examination of the claims of the British militant suffragette.

35. ART AND MORALS.

The difference between the nude and the naked in art.

36. CAN MY COUNTRY BE WRONG?

False patriotism and true, with examples of popularly-hated patriots.

37. GOVERNMENT BY PARTY.

An a.n.a.lysis of our present political system and the movement toward reform.