Evening star., 1913-12-07
MPsNANErIERAuL. y
PARLIAMENTARY LAW

art as has DR.. Anna Shaw. president Of
the national association. DR.. Shaw knows
there is a great deal more to making
a speech than knowing what to say. 1t
is equally necessary to know when and
where to say 1t. DR.. Shaws subject is
How TO Interest an Audience
Il have often sat on platforms with
DIR. Shaw and watched with admiration
the keen and penetrating gaze she al
ways turns on the crowd before her. She
never makes a mistake in her survey.
She knows before she rises to speak ex-
actly what kind of a public she is to
face. how ii averages in intelligence,
what kinds of arguments it will respond
to and what aspects of the question it
wants TO hear. No public speaker should
miss tn lecture.
Mrs. Robert NJ La Toilette will lecture
on How to Reach the Rural Voter in a
Suffrage Campaign Mrs. La Toilette has
done a great deal of successful work in
the country districts of Wisconsin, and
her experience will be of immense value
to women from states where campaigns
are now in progress. u will be remem-
bered that the rural vote carried Cali
fornia for suffrage.
Street speaking and outdoor cam
paigns are new in most localities" con-
tinued Mrs. Dorr. land many women
are timid about going into them. But
these campaigns are quite necessary,
and, when we'll conducted, are i'm
mensely interesting and successful.
The man in the street represents the
huge public that will vote on the suf-
frage amendment in every state in the
Union. He rarely goes to an indoor
lecture. He almost never reads suf-
frage literature. He knows nothing
about suffrage. But he is ready to
listen to good street-corner speech.
Two speakers of national reputation
will lecture on Methods of Conduct
ing Street Meetings and Automobile
Campaigns Mrs. Susan Walker Fitz-
gerald of Boston. recording secretary of
the national association, has campaign
I'd through New England for weeks at
a time. When she came to Washing
ton last August. on the occasion of the
Senate presentations in favor of the
suffrage amendment. Mrs.
beautiful face was tanned
with exposure to sun and wind, after a
whirlwind campaign through Massa-
chusetts. She was one of many women
who travelled TO Washington in motor
cars, speaking in towns and cities along
the way.
Emily Pierson, who is to talk on the
phase. especially among
factory workers. is state organizer for
One of Miss Persons
most brilliant achievements was the
famous yoiceless speech. now used all
over the country, in shop windows. on
noisy corners and other places where
the ordinary suffrage speaker is at a
Disadvantage.
The ..voiceless speech was instituted
by Miss Pierson for use when the per-
NIT which gives women leave TO speak on
the streets assigns them to a specially
noisy corner, as is frequently done. She
uses fifty or more huge placards about
the size of an opened newspaper, and
upon each is printed. in glaring type,
which can be seen long distance away.
one pertinent sentence or argument in
favor of woman suffrage.
Two women with tall easel take their
station on the street or corner and every
few minutes change the placard for
new one High above the heads of the
passing crowd these signs tell the story
by noise or traffic. Some