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Episode 34: Suggestive Subjects for Speeches; Hints for Treatment - The Art of Public Speaking · The Art of Public Speaking

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Section thirty four, Appendix C Suggestive subjects for speeches. Footnote it must be
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remembered that the phrasing of the subject will not necessarily serve for the title,
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with occasional hints on treatment. One Movies and morals. Two The truth about
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lying, the essence of truth telling, and lying lies that not so considered
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the subtleties of distinctions required examples of implied and acted lies. Three Benefits that
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followed disasters, Benefits that have arisen out of floods, fire as, earthquakes,
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wars, et cetera. Four Haste for leisure? How the speed mania
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is born of a vain desire to enjoy a leisure that never comes. Or
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on the contrary, how the seeming hate east to the world has given men
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shorter hours of labor and more time for rest, study, and pleasure.
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Five Saint Paul's message to New York. Truths from the Epistles Pertinent the great
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cities of to day. Six, Education and crime. Seven Loss is the
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mother of gain. How many men have been content until losing all. They
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exerted their best efforts to regain success and succeeded more largely than before. Eight
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Egoism versus egotism nine, blunders of young phogeism. Ten the waste of middlemen
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in charity systems, the cost of collecting funds for and administering help to the
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needy. The weakness of organized philanthropy as compared with the giving that gives itself
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eleven. The economy of organized charity the other side of the picture. Twelve
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Freedom of the press. The true forces that hurtfully control too many newspapers are
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not those of arbitrary governments, but the corrupting influences of moneyed and political interests.
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Fear of the liquor power, and the desire to please sensation loving readers.
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Thirteen. Helen Keller Optimist fourteen Back to the Farm, A study of
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the reasons underlying the movement. Fifteen It was, ever, thus it ridicule
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of the pessimist who is never surprised at seeing failure. Sixteen The vocational high
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score value of direct training compared with the policy of laying broader foundations for later
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building. How the two theories work out in practice. Each plan can be
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especially applied in cases that seem to need special treatment. Seventeen All kinds of
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turning done here a humorous yet serious discussion of the flopping winderbill character eighteen.
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The egoistic altruist Herbert Spencer's theory, as discussed in the Data of Ethics nineteen.
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How the city menaces the nation. Economic perils in massed population show also
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the other side sign of the problems being solved. Twenty The robust Note in
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modern poetry. A comparison of the work of Gauldsworthy, Masefield, and Kipling
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with that of some earlier poets. Twenty one. The Ideals of Socialism twenty
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two. The Future of the small City. How men are coming to see
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the economic advantages of smaller municipalities. Twenty three Censorship for the theater, its
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relation to morals and art, its difficulties, and its benefits. Twenty four
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For such a time as this, Mordecai's expression and its application to opportunities in
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modern woman's life. Twenty five is the Press a venal? Twenty six Safety
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First twenty seven, Means and Extremes twenty eight, Rubicons and Pontoons. How
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great men not only made momentous decisions but created means to carry them out.
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A speech full of historical examples. Twenty nine. Economy a Revenue thirty the
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patriotism of protest against popular idols thirty one Savonarola the divine outcast thirty two The
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true politician revert to the original meaning of the word built the speech around one
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man of the chief example thirty three. Colonels and shells, Leadership and cannon
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fodder. A protest against war in its effect on the common people thirty four
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Why is a militant a dispatched that examination of the claims of the British militant
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suffragette thirty five Art and Morals The difference between the nude and the naked in
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art? Thirty six Can my country be wrong? False? Patriotism and true?
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With examples of popularly hated patriots thirty seven Government by Party, An analysis
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of our present political system and the movement toward reform thirty eight The Effects of
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fiction on history thirty nine, The effects of history on fiction forty The influence
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of war on literature forty one Chinese Gordon a eulogy forty two. Taxes and
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higher education? Should all men be compelled to contribute to the support of universities
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and professional schools? Forty three. Prize cattle versus prize babies is eugenics a
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science and is it practicable? Forty four. Bedevolite autocracy is a strongly paternal
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government better for the masses than a much larger freedom for the individual forty five
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secondhand opinions. The tendency to swallow reviews instead of forming one's own views forty
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Parentage or power. A study of which form of aristocracy must eventually prevail,
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that of blood or that of talent forty seven. The blessing of discontent,
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based on many examples of what has been accomplished by those who have not let
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well enough alone forty eight. Corrupt and contented A study of the relation of
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the apathetic voter to vicious government forty nine. The moluch of child labor fifty
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every man has a right to work fifty one, charity that fosters pauperism fifty
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two. Not in our stars but in ourselves destiny versus choice fifty three,
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environment versus heredity fifty four. The bravery of doubt doubt not mere unbelief,
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true grounds for doubt. What doubt has led to examples the weakness of mere
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doubt, The attitude of the wholesome doubter versus that of the wholesale doubter fifty
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five. The Spirit of Monticello, A message from the life of Thomas Jefferson.
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Fifty six. Narrowness in specialism. The dangers of specializing without first possessing
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broad knowledge. The eye too close to one subject. Balance is a vital
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prerequisite for specialization fifty seven. Responsibility of labor unions to the law fifty eight.
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The future of Southern literature. What conditions in the history, temperament,
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and environment of a Southern people indicate a bright literary future? Fifty nine Woman
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the hope of idealism in America sixty The value of debating clubs sixty one.
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An army of thirty millions in praise of the Sunday's Score sixty two. The
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Baby, How the Avenue Baby holds mankind in unselfish courses and saves us all
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from going lastingly wrong sixty three. Low the Poor Capitalist, His trials and
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problems. Sixty four. Honey and Sting, a lesson from the b sixty
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five. Ungrateful Republics Examples from history sixty six. Every man has his price.
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Horace Walpole's cynical remark is not true now, nor is it true even
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in his own corrupt era of what sort? The men who cannot be bought?
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Examples sixty seven The scholar indiplover see examples in American life sixty eight.
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Locks and keys. There is a key for every lock. No difficulties so
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great, no truth so obscure, no problems so involved, but that there
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is a key to fit the lock. The search for the right key,
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the struggle to adjust it, the vigilance to retain it. These are some
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of the problems of success sixty nine. Right makes might seventy rooming with a
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ghost influence of the woman a graduate of fifty years before on the college girl
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who lives in the room once occupied by the distinguished old grad seventy one.
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No fact is a single fact, the importance of weighing facts relatively seventy two
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is classical education dead to rise? No more? Seventy three invective against Nietzsche's
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philosophy seventy four Why have we bosses? A fair minded examination of the uses
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and abuses of the political leader? Seventy five, A plea for settlement work
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seventy six. Credulity versus faith seventy seven, What is Huber? Seventy eight?
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Use and abuse of the cartoon seventy nine, The pulpit in politics eighty
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Our college is growing too large eighty one, The doom of absolutism eighty two.
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Shall woman help keep house? For town, city, state, and
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nation? Eighty three, The educational test for suffrage eighty four, the property
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test for some of Fridge eighty five, The menace of the plutocrat eighty six,
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The cost of high living eighty seven, the cost of conveniences eighty eight,
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waste in American life eighty nine, The effect of the photoplay on the
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legitimate theater ninety room for the kicker there are no numbers ninety one to ninety
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nine one hundred. The need for trained diplomats one oh one. The shadow
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of the Iron Chancellor one o two. The tyranny of the crowd one oh
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three. Is our trial by jury satisfactory? One oh four? The high
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cost of securing justice one oh five. The need for speedier court trials triumphs
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of the American Engineer one oh seven. Girthles and gorgas one o eight.
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Public education makes service to the public a duty one oh nine. Man owes
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his life to the common good end of Section thirty four.