Evening star., 1933-06-19

/ I said, but they tell me 1t was all right'
The liability Of spoken speech is ex-
actly the necessity for continuance at
the same rate. without time out" for
anything. That is why SO many
speeches are prepared in advance. That
Is some help!
Eddies and rapid currents of thought,
arising mysteriously as one goes along.
! seize upon the tongue. 1t wags away
at great rate, taking its helpless owner
| he knows not where exactly.
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| That he usually comes out all right,
| in the end, speaks very well for him.
! but it does not help soothe the feelings
of the quiet man who, watching all this,
wonders what it has to do with the
truth of his chosen subject
The truth is, in one very small phase
of the subject, for instance, that what
the man is saying is the purest hocum,
or buncombe, but, of course, he could
not admit that aloud!
Therefore, while everybody at the
| gathering knows that what the man Is
saying is the purest hocum, they, too,
must pretend that they do not know 1t
/ is nothing but the bunk"
1t is here as it was that time at the
! dinner given in honor of a gentleman
trust.
| His comrades and associates were met
| to felicitate him. The dinner was good,
but then came the entertainment. y
One portion of 1t consisted of dapper
young gentleman with a ukulele. He
advanced among the tables, singing one
of the most absurd love songs OF that
| season, or any season.
The song had nothing at all to do
with the spirit Of the occasion, when
men Of brains were met to felicitate a
man Of even more brains, but it was
| the customary thing to sit quietly when
such entertainment" was offered. The
fact of public meeting precluded any
thing but attentive listening until the
suffering was over. If any man there
had SHE'D a dish at the offender, or
had loudly protested the act" he would
have been regarded as a dinner hereto
of the worst sort. So no one did. No
one could. 1t was the penalty one paid
for attending meetings.
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At every meeting you attend, if you
look attentively, you see few men In
agony, looking as if they wished to
throw dishes at the speakers head, or
at the walters head, If at tables, or at
the so-called entertainers.
Know that these are quiet persons
who are not "joiners," and who never
have any business attending gatherings
Of any type, for the good and simple
reason that they do not belong there.
They are out of their element.
They should stay away, and be them
selves, Just as those who "eat up" such
assemblages go in huge throngs, all
over the land, and are entirely them
selves at them.
1t is not always recognized that thou
sands of persons fear solitude and are
never as happy as when surrounded
by other human beings. To be by
themselves is to be lonesome, indeed.
To join in the hurly-burly of public
debate-even at the bridge table-is
their meat and drink.
Well and good, for them, but not for
the men and women who somehow are
freed, in mind and spirit, from the dire
human necessity Of attempting to bully
rag others into set plan of thinking.
A program is a necessity, otherwise the
meeting would not get along; but the
net result is that you follow the leader,
or get out and start your own program.
And that is so confusing that many
never join anything. They stay in the
background, as interested as any, but
held back, shall We say by sense of
humor, from publicly joining with the
others. Here is an old German woman,
buying her little zebra fish at the deal
ers. She does not belong to any aqua
rum society, but We believe she helps it,
tust the same.