The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1902-03-14
GRANGE DEPARTMENT.
Conducted by w. F. Alexander, r r.
D. No. q, Owosso.

COUNTY GRANGE CALENDAR.
owosso Townships First and third Tuesday
in each month at 1880 p. m; Richardson's hall
Owosso.
New Lothrop: Second and fourth Tuesda7
afternoon in each month.
Bennington: First and third Saturday after
noon In each month.
Hazel Green: First aud third Friday of each
month; Henderson.
Burns: Every Tuesday evening, Knaggs'
Bridge.
Union: Each Alternate Friday evening;
Chapin, next meeting March Il.
At the next meeting of Owosso Town
ship Grange Charles Shepard will pre-
sent a paper on THE cultivation of the
corn crop" A discussion of the paper
will follow Worthy Lecturer c. P.
Reynolds invites each member to make
pointed suggestion for the good of the
order in general and Owosso Township
Grange in particular
Union Grange, of Chaplin, so named
because its membership is made up
from-two or more counties, has paid
up membership of 100 and is still grow
ing. Lee Arther is master Mrs. Julia
Sawyer, Secy; Mrs. Eva Pierce, lecturer;
Mrs Lottie Capen, Cor. Secy.
We would like reports of lecture work
and other items of interest from each
Grange in the county.
TALKS WITH LECTURERS.
From American Grange Bulletin.
AS lecturer of your Grange, You have
more to do than to prepare programs
and listen to essays, debates and formal
speeches. Sometimes you have to pre-
pare speech or help diffident member
get ready for his first or fourteenth
attend your meetings. You have had
sufficient experience to teach you that
good speech or a good essay is not a
matter of luck or chance, but the re-
suit of preparation. You do not expect
to make an effective address without
hard work. This work of preparation
may seem to be less than it really is If
you are to speak ON subject that has
long been familiar TO you, little time
need be spent in gathering facts. What
you are to say is at hand-almost on the
it is different matter. You need to
plan how to present your facts and
arguments, how to set forth your ideas,
how to make your hearers see with your
eyes, as it were, and understand as you
understand. And this is no easy matter.
When man has something TO say
and when he has an opportunity to say
it, there are four methods of making a
speech for him to select from, says
Professor Brander Matthews in his little
book, Notes on Speech making. Briefly
stated, these four methods are: To
write the address and read it from
manuscript; to recite the written speech
from memory; to write and memorize
the opening and closing sentences and
extemporize the rest; and to extemporize
the whole. You, as an experienced
lecturer, are not looking for the easiest
way to make good address, but for the
best way Most people are looking for
the easiest way You can get some
comfort for yourself and only a little
for the others out of Professor Matthew's
statement that leach requires about an
equal expenditure of time and trouble"
1t is necessary to work to win.
DIR. Lyman Abbott, the noted
preacher, says the best manuscript
address sis more admired; the best
extemporaneous address is most effec-
tive" The preparation of the latter, he
thinks, will take quite as much time as
the preparation of written address.
Those who can think on their feet and
are willing to make the necessary prep
aration do well to speak extemporane-
ously; those who can not do so much
take the time to write what they would
say Having written, they may memor-
ize or read. Practice is necessary If
either method is to be really successful
that is to say, you must read your
paper over and over again if you would
read it well and effectively before your
audience; you must speak your piece"
many times if you would be master of
it and your audience.
There is always danger that the ex-
temporaneous speech will be imperfectly
prepared and badly delivered will be
discreditable to its author and llnprofit-
able to his audience. But it is TO be
remembered that country audiences
generally prefer the extemporaneous
speech. Having this fact in mind,
lecturers will generally do well to per-
suade their youthful speech makers to
try both methods. Let them write one
address for the training in logical
arrangement, and let the next be
thought out and delivered in such words
az come to the speaker on the floor.
But be on your guard for yourself and
for others against a flow of words with
out ideas. There are takers who can
90 on forever without saying anything
worth hearing.
Experienced speakers must bear
patiently with the inexperienced; for
the Grange is training school. But it
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