Arizona republican., 1919-12-02
Talk and Work

We expect much of Lady Astor NJ. P. She knows very essential thing that legislators never learn or learn it too late in their You don't talk much if you want things done" "Electioneering" she adds, lis one thing and legslatng is another That by way serving notice that her spectacu- lar career on the musings had ended when the votes were cast, and it not to be expected that she would attempt electrify the House Of Commons as she had the muttudes.
 There is nothing fatal to one desiring to enter public life than the gift of oratory without the accompanying gift of discretion. Many young con gressman has early committed suicide with his sup posed talent as an orator. He fully apprecative Of his powers a local He had been told that he was silver tongued and he believed it. He would be another Webster a Haynes Clay. Those great men were pictured him talking all the time whereas their speeches comparatively few, but they speeches. If they had spoken much more often their remarks would carried less force.
 A female fox reproached loness because she bore only one young a time. while she herself produced a litter.
 But" replied the lioness. that one is a lion."
 In the whole history of the American congress; in the history of all parliamentary bodies been recorded comparatively few great speeches, though the pygmy efforts have been as the sands
  dunes. In congress, do not believe that within the last generation the fate of any pending measure has been changed by a speech for it against it. We do not believe a single has been changed in that time Speeches in the open sessions have only contributed to the expensive delay of ton already resolved upon by powerful leaders in the seclusion and silence of the committee room in still more secluded quarters. The open session only formally ratfies what has been definitely and ire vocably agreed upon We do not mean that com- mittee action is always ratified But ratified if it is expected to be. Committees always know whether it will be ratified There no sur prises and no changes in consequence of oratory.
 In almost every community there is local orator He is cultivated by the community. He is selected to speak on all occasions and all subjects At first he is regarded prodigy and later as bore but he is still the community orator. You recognize him for you have him wherever you have been He ultimately becomes joke The mere an nouncement that he is going speak" starts grin
 When we see of these locally encouraged orators think of of the practices of the canni- bals Their selected victims are furnished the most delicious foods and plenty of them And when they have arrived satisfactory degree of faness they are roasted. That is the fate which comes also of or the broader field of national legislation
 over-much public speaking either in the community
 We have in mind only the habituaI the chronic the in and out of public speaker There is another and useful field every community for the purposefu public speaker in behalf of community movements in which the people could not otherwise become interested For such use oratorv or rather forceful style of public speaking should be cultivated