Evening star., 1912-09-15

to him like shipwrecked man hanging to spar.
How do you manufacture applause Just tell me that,
and you can have anything I've got.'
"You don't end your sentences right, he explained.
"You begin a sentence with the of great man,
follow that up with what he did, and then close with
why he did it. That's all backward. Begin with what
he did, say why he did it, and then slap in his
the last word-after which you kindly keep silent in
expecant attitude that the audience may get in their
applause without inconveniencng you. The recipe for
applause is to end the sentence with George Washing
ton Lincoln or William Mckinley, and then wait You
don't get the applause, but the and the reputa
tions and the sacredness of those famous whom
everybody knows do the work for YOU
was humble beginner, and took all advice. l did
what he told me, and got the applause which had
never done before.
public speaking 1t is amazing to the layman to find
out how much there to learn about this art You learn
by degrees speech after speech and day after day
Another peculiar thing in this connection is the man.
in which you learn to have stage presence. When
you first begin the terrific business of placing your form
and your face in the view of thousands of people,
know that they are looking at yOu but you don't want
them to do it. 3Im very ordinary sort OF person.,
you tell yourself 3and can't why they want to
stare at me-" Then, in few days, you find yourself
ordering YOUR attitude and facial expression along
certain line
When you have got to the point where you can look
about calmly without blushing and persuade your
self that you neither awkward uncouth, you
beginning become hardened to the constant stare OF
many eyes, And you find yourself sitting down or
getting
stnctvely adopting attitudes that convey the idea OF
towering mentality unbounded patriotism, and I'M
pervious dignity At least if you don't get away with
all this you think you do and that helps you to make
strong speech
A LOT has been written to show that the Con
4 gresham who goes to Washington arrives there
pufed up with the idea of his Importance and Wis
dom. Such not the at all. know that from my
experience and from the experiences OF many Others
The conscientious sensible Congressman becomes
d,,1x a5 The 6a 0f
thing, he is too an article OF furniture IN
Washington for anybody to take any particular notice
of him. In the second place. unless he loses all perspec
tive he never forgets that he dependent the votes
of the people at home.
But it is big job, after ALL man represents the
people and the interests of big section of the country
and expected and does try to work for the welfare of
the entire nation. 1t has been my observation that any
member of the House who is given chance make
a chance, to reform improve some branch of the
Government and to accomplish really benecent results
buckles down to his job and works like farmland.
Most of such work done in silence and in the obscuty
of the committee room 1t is actuated by patriotism
and by the desire do good work. But the apprecia
ton of his value worker obterates his knoWl-
edge that he works by suffrage
| walking down Pennsylvania a-ave with Al
bert J. Beveridge who then Senator from Indiana.
/ was looking for information and asked him how man
set about becoming President of the United States
"A man gets to he President" Beverdge explained,
"bv painting his personality cloud and then floating
in on the publics imagination"
That sounded witty and like half-truth to then,
but now know that it wrong. You can get to the
presidency proportionately speaking, just you
get Congress- and that by doing honest work and
winning the confidence of the people Here IS something
learned long ago:
This country governed by the two three who
sit the porch after sundown put their feet the
railing smoke their plpes and clss and discuss every
body the neghborhood, including the parson and the
newspaper editor You often see it claimed that the
country editor is the biggest power in community poll
tics But the editor subservent to those two or
three leading citizens-they may be the county clerk
the county treasurer and friend of thers-who really
control and dominate the entire locality. They know
everything that's going from the death of Sam Jones
to the political ambitions of young John Henry