The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-01-24
is CLINIC FOR
SPEECH DEFECTS
Relief Afforded Victims
Of Stammering and
Suffering.
BY MARGERY REN

NEW YORK, Jan. 23.-Pocts are
born, not made. SO are sufferers.
Poetic genius musy be developed, bu'
6tuttering talent must be discouraged
II its owner is to go through life un-
handicapped, undfraid and perfectly
normal, equipped TO engage In the
various competitions that make up
existence.
The vocal tract is one OF the finer
mcChanlsms of the human body. In
order TO make this function properly
1t is necessary that the less delicate
mechanism be normal. Physical
education and musucldr Co-ordina-
tion are followed by the recovery
Of a steady control Of the vocal
organs.
Unattended, uncared for. the slut
tcring and stammcring voice may
make "A child backward i'm school
embarrassed to the point of quitting
his education, fitted only for manual
labor, and in many cases making Of
him a delinquent. finally "A criminal.
These are the conclusions of Dr.
James Sonnet Greene, u physician
who, after years Of study both here
and abroad. has founded the New
York clinic for speech defects, at
No. l36 East Thirty seventh street
\ House of Magic.
Tho visitor to the clinic comes
away brcathless. enchanted with this
house of magic. 4 Noritablc chamber
OF the wonders presided over by this
genial, enthusiastic young man, who
gives new personalities to suffering
humanity.
1t Lacks the institutional air. The
detestablo aura OF charity" Is not TO
be found. No riCkety pine benches.
but comfortable armchairs and open
book shelves invite the patient who
waits.
when the tongue tangled, de-
spondent young ana old, enter that
door they go into "A new world
From life where they were social
outCasts through their affliction they
come here and meet others who have
likewise suffered and have been
cured
Bashful awkward babies who have
wrung the hearts Of their parents
through their pitifu efforts and
tailure TO speak not only learn speech
but reading here.
Business men, falling because of
lack of poisc and scif-confidcnce,
all due to faulty speech, leave the
clinic with newborn souls, able to
go to employees who never will guess
that their brisk, efficient new sales
Boys who have left college be
cause of the taunting of their mates
return to their studies with new
courage and now tongues
Among the patients Or. Greene
has cured, Is Albert Bigelow Paine,
the biOgrapher OF Mark Twain. who
stuttcred for many years and was
cured In day.
Suffering and StammCring.
There Is a general misunderstood
ing about suffering and stdmmor-
ing, says DR.. Greene. ITO stutter
In speech means 10 hesitate and re-
peat Stammcring IL mutilation Of
speech, garbling up OF sounds so
as TO be uniutclligiblc.
FOR multilation Of speech we
have 10 give correct position to the
vocal organs
In the case OF fdlsetto voices in
adults, one Of the most doplurablo Of
defects, We must lengt hen the vocal
cords IN order 10 lower the voice.
This condition develops in pc
culiar way sometimes. Al about the
age Of fifteen, when a boys voice
begins 70 change, he finds ne liz
taking half high ana half low. he
realizes TINS sounds queer and un-
usual lie shrinks from the jibos Of
his relatives and friends.
The larynx is growing al this
time 10 produce a lower sound and
an adult pitch i'm voice. But the
youngstcr who wants to keen the
voice that he Is used 10 hearing holds
the voice pitch up by force OF will
lie strives to keep 1t high and so, as
an adult he Will have child's
voice