Just Common Courtesy

There is a club-no, not yours; it is not even in your state or province, but there is such a club-before which a speaker dreads to appear. The members are all good fellows, pleasant to meet, fine entertainers, and carrying on com-' munity and welfare work in a wonderful way. But that club never can get the same man to speak before it twice.

There's a reason. Every time a speaker is to come before the club, things are so handled that he wil! never come agarn.

In the first place, a speaker needs to know in ad.vance how much time he will have, and at about what time of the meeting he will be called on. He must prepare his lpeech as to length and content, and make his own plans for the time after adjournment, with this in mind.

Perhaps the speaker is allotted an hour.. It may be forty minutes, or even less. Usually he will not mind that. He may be told that there will b-e two very brief speeches of welcome and response before he is called

Very good. The meeting begins. Perhaps it does not begin on 1lnls-56rns do not. The toastmaster takes his time and tells all the stories he can think of before he introduces the first man on the program. This man, instead of the five minutes he is supposed to occupy, hangs on for twenty minutes. The seiond one does likewise. Then it transpires that someone has persuaded the chairman of the program committee to.have two or three other

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PI.AIN OAK BIRCH men introduced, "not to make a speech but just to'say 'howdy."' And each of them yields to the weakness of the moment and takes up ten minutes.

By the time the principal speaker of the evening is introduced it is long past the hour when he had expected to have done. The meeting his slowed down, the enthusiasm is waning, the members are tired and beginning to peep at their watches. He faces the impossible task of inspiring and holding an exhausted audience which is already wishing he were through that it might go home.

What can the speaker do ? Perhaps one in a hundred can perform the impossible and lift his audience to the heights with him. The ninety-nine others must either cut the address extemporaneously and probably utterly ruin it, or plod through its entire length knowing it has been made a tallure.

The remedy lies with the program chairman. Let him have a schedule and adhere to it. Let him start on time, refuse any last-minute additions to the list, insist that his toastmaster confine his activities to a brief, snappy introduction, and put every preliminary through on the dot.

Only so can he hope to reach the principal speaker with an audience alert aiid ready to listen, and an orator who feels that his message is desired.

It is nothing but common courtesy to the man who has given of his time and energy to serve the club, and on it hangs the success or the failure of the meeting.

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