Public Speaking



Characters of speakers - the indolent ones

Harbingers of hate

One breed of propagandist employs brazen methods aimed at tearing down program taboos with methodical speech outlines prepared to disseminate discord. Introductory remarks about hate being the ugliest weed in the garden of life can go far in abating the venom in their messages. Mention that the roots of hatred spread much as crabgrass does. Hate is a common sin, even those who take pride in having hoed it from their hearts keep a few names handy for the day they change their minds!

The indolent one

It’s been booted about that our speaker is a “lazy executive”-then he’s the type we’ll enjoy. Some of our greatest inventions are the result of lazy people seeking an easy way to do something difficult. The first man to ride a horse must have been too lazy to walk, and the one who dreamed up the wheel, probably wanted to take the load off his back. It was the burden of John Browning’s ammunition belt that prompted him to conceive the machine gun. Not until Thomas Edison tired of holding stereopticon slides did he invent moving pictures; and not ’til Henry Ford wearied of pedaling his racing bike did he put the world on four wheels.

Ole Evinrude rowed across the Kinnickinnic so often during his courting days that he became inspired to create the outboard motor. The chap who developed the spray gun was too impatient to paint and too proud to whitewash … so he schemed up a method of applying paint more slickly and quickly. Today’s harried executives frequently give the biggest production problem to the laziest man in the plant; he’ll figure out the easiest way to do the toughest job.
We benefit in like manner-for that very technique gives our speaker time for this visit.

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