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Neither of us was blessed with an unusual amount of brilliancy, but we got by" in our new jobs well enough to hold them. 66 As educator, lecturer, executive, traveler and author few men are so well equipped by experience and training as Dr. Law to teach the art of effective speaking. His Mastery of Speech" is the fruit of 20 years active lecturing and instruction in Eastern schools and colleges preceded by an education at Oxford Academy, Amherst College, Columbia University, The Teachers Col lege Brown University, and New York University. holds the degrees of A.B., He A.M. and Ph.D. Dr, Law is the author of two novels, two books of poetry, and editor of six school textbooks, At present he is lecturer in English in New York University, Lecturer in Peda. gogy in the Extension Work of the College of the City of New York, Head of the Dept. of English in the Stuyvesant H. S. and writer of the Weekly Lesson Plans for The Independent. "I'll tell you just how it happened, George, because you may pick up a pointer or two that will help you. "You remember how scared I used to be whenever I had to talk to the chief? You remember how you used to tell that every time I opened me my mouth I put my foot into it, mean- I got into trouble? of the Western By GEORGE RAYMOND asked to present him with the loving "The first thing I did was to buy a number "A few weeks later, just as I was about to give up hope of ever learning how to talk interestingly, I read an announcement stating that Dr. Frederick Houk Law of New York University had just completed a new course in business talking and public speaking entitled 'Mastery of Speech.' The course was offered on approval without money in advance, so since I had nothing whatever to lose by examining the lessons, I sent for them and in a few days they arrived. I glanced through the entire eight lessons, reading the headings and a few paragraphs here and there, and in about an hour the whole secret of effective speaking was opened to me. "For example, I learned why I had always lacked confidence, why talking had always seemed something to be dreaded whereas it is really the simplest thing in the world to 'get up and talk.' I learned how to secure complete attention to what I was saying and how to make everything I said interesting, forceful and convincing. I learned the art of listening, the value of silence, and the power of brevity. Instead of being funny at the wrong time, I learned how and when to use humor with telling effect. "But perhaps the most wonderful thing about the lessons were the actual examples of what things to say and when to say them to meet every condition. I found that there was a knack in making oral reports to my superiors. I found that there was a right way and a wrong way to present complaints, to give estimates, and to issue orders. "I picked up some wonderful pointers about how to give my opinions, about how to answer complaints, about how to ask the bank for a loan, about how to ask for extensions. Another thing that struck me forcibly was that, instead of antagonizing people when I didn't agree with them, I learned how to bring them around to my way of thinking in the most pleasant sort of way. Then, of course, along with those lessons there were chapters on speaking before large audiences, how to find material for talking and speaking, how to talk to friends, how to talk to servants, and how to talk to children. "Why, I got the secret the very first evening and it was only a short time before I was able to apply all of the principles and found that my words were beginning to have an almost magical effect upon everybody to whom I spoke. It seemed that I got things done instantly, where formerly, as you know, what I said 'went in one ear and out the other.' I began to acquire an executive ability that surprised me. I smoothed out difficulties like a true diplomat. In my talks with the chief I spoke clearly, simply, convincingly. Then came my first promotion since I entered the accounting department. I was given the job of answering complaints, and I made good. From that I was given the job of making collections. When Mr. Buckley joined the Officers' Training Camp, I was made Treasurer. Between you and me, George, my salary is now $7500 a year and I expect it will be more from the first of the year. "And I want to tell you sincerely, that I attribute my success solely to the fact that I learned how to talk to people." ******* When Jordan finished, I asked him for the address of the publishers of Dr. Law's Course and he gave it to me. I sent for it and found it to be exactly as he had stated. After studying the eight simple lessons I began to sell to people who had previously refused to listen to me at all. After four months of record breaking sales during the dullest season of the year, I received a wire from the chief asking me to return to the home office. We had quite a long talk in which I explained how I was able to break sales records-and I was appointed Sales Manager at almost twice my former salary. I know that there was nothing in me that had changed except that I had acquired the ability to talk where formerly I simply used "words without reason. I can never thank Jordan enough for telling me about Dr. Law's Course in Business Talking and Public Speaking. Jordan and I are both spending all our spare time making public speeches on war subjects and Jordan is being talked about now as Mayor of our little Town. 99 So confident is the Independent Corporation, publishers of "Mastery of Speech," Dr. Law's Course in Business Talking and Public Speak ing, that once you have an opportunity to see in your own home how you can, in one hour, learn the secret of speaking and how you can apply the principles of effective speech under all conditions, that they are willing to send you the Course on free examination. Don't send any money. Merely mail the coupon or write a letter and the complete Course will be sent, all charges prepaid, at once. If you are not entirely satisfied send it back any time within five days after you receive it and you will owe nothing. On the other hand, if you are as pleased as are the thousands of other men and women who have used the Course, send only $5 in full payment. You take no risk and you have everything to gain, so mail the coupon now before this remarkable offer is withdrawn. FREE EXAMINATION COUPON Independent Corporation Division of Business Education, Dept. 2311, 119 West 40th Street, New York Publishers of The Independent (and Harper's Weekly) Please send me Dr. Frederick Houk Law's "Mastery of Speech," Course in Business Talking and Public Speaking in eight lessons.. I will either remail the Course to you within five days after its receipt, or send you $5. Name...... Address...... .L.D. 11-23-18 The British Empire is famed for its tradition that her craftsmen have excelled in the mechanism of watches and clocks, thus adding many laurels to horological achievement. Under the direction of a commission appointed by the Government, Canada has adopted watch inspection regulations upon her three transcontinental railroads, as well as all other lines under governmental supervision. It was a signal honor, then, and a tribute to excelling merit, when Canada gave to Waltham watches supremacy upon these great transcontinental routes and subsidiary railroads. Indeed, there are three times as many Waltham watches in use upon the railroads of Canada as all other makes of watches combined. The Canadian Government also selected Waltham watches as its standard for polar expedition work and in the Topographical Survey Department. And the Waltham Deck Clock and Chronometer were chosen as standard for naval use-all very good reasons why your choice of a timepiece should be a Waltham. The Vanguard is the world's finest railroad watch. WALTHAM THE WORLD'S WATCH OVER TIME The Vanguard The World's Finest Railroad Watch 23 and 19 jewels PUBLIC OPINION (New York) combined with THE LITERARY DIGEST Published by Funk & Wagnalls Company (Adam W. Wagnalls, Pres.; Wilfred J. Funk, Vice-Pres.; Robert J. Cuddihy, Treas.; William Neisel, Sec'y), 354-360 Fourth Ave., New York Vol. LIX, No. 8 New York, November 23, 1918 Whole Number 1492 AR - OF THE DAY TOPICS OF BOLSHEVISM THREATENING THE WORLD SHUDDER runs through the Western nations as they watch the millions of Central Europe plunge from autocracy to anarchy, and our publicists begin to ask if we must fight again against the new foe. "Must we save the world from anarchy?" is on every lip, and the fact that such questions as these are being asked everywhere is proof enough, as The New Republic (New York) notes, that "the war does not end when the enemy surrenders." ExPresident Taft, calling attention in the Philadelphia Public Ledger to the sweep of Bolshevism through Germany and Austria, declares that this new movement may "stop short of ernment of Germany is aiming at an understanding with Russia, and one correspondent hears that "some of the German and Russian Bolsheviki go so far as to talk of a common resistance to the Western Powers." Other dispatches tell how thousands of German soldiers, without orders and unrestrained by their BEFORE AND AFTER. The Imperial ruler and Friedrich Ebert, the Socialist tailor, who succeeded him 'respectable, thrifty, educated, or decent,"" which The Call thinks the ex-President would form against the "mob." Yet some of our most representative editors, as they watch the progress of the German revolution, are by no means certain that the war for democracy is not to be followed by a war against anarchy. Press dispatches tell us that the all-Socialist Gov officers, are filling the long troop-trains and coming back to the German cities over which the red flag now floats. If Germany's "wild men succeed in enlisting in their support the brutish elements of the German Army" it will be a serious thing for the world, the New York Globe believes. Bolshevism, this New York daily warns its readers, is not only "antidemocratic and autocratic, but is aggressive," and "if the power that remains with Russia and Germany is hurled at the democratic world in a new enterprise of conquest, the peace may not be of long duration." Mr. Frank H. Simonds, the conservative and well-informed military critic of the New York Tribune, turns his attention from problems of strategy to those of peace, and comes to the similar conclusion that there is no sound reason for indulging in "immediate expectations of a return to old conditions of peace and quiet." He notes the parallelism between the early events of the respective revolutions in Russia and Germany, and reminds us that the Russian revolution was brought about by German influence "and based upon the ideas of the German Socialists." He further recalls the fact that in both countries the basis of revolution was "hunger, aggravated by DHE First National Bank, of Kalamazoo, Michigan, is one of the many recently erected Banking Institutions whose toilets are equipped with ONLIWON HYGIENE ONLIWON HYGIENE RECISTERED US PATENT OFFICE is the system specified by Architects-recommended by Physicians-demanded by Health Authorities and installed by Banks, Office Buildings, Hospitals, Sanitariums, Modern Factories and Homes because it is so Sanitary, Attractive, Efficient and Economical. 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THE LEXICOGRAPHER'S EASY CHAIR In this column, to decide questions concerning the current use of words, the Funk & Wagnalls New Standard Dictionary is consulted as arbiter. Readers will please bear in mind that no notice will be taken of anonymous communications. "J. K.," Williamsburg, N. Y.-The word coterist to which you refer is a nonce word coined by a writer possib.y ignorant of the fact that it was unnecessary, inasmuch as the correct word is cotirean. which was in use before de War of the Revolution "B. I. G.," Sea Cliff, N. Y.-"Can you tell me the author of the following quotation Get thy spindle and distaff ready and God will send the flax'?" The quotation is a paraphrase of verses 13 and 19 of Chapter xxxi of the Book of Proverbs "B. F. B.," Augusta, Ga.-"In the Established Church of England, the Archbishop of Canter bury is called Primate of all England and the Archbishop of York Primate of England. In what respect does the jurisdiction or authority of the Archbishop of York differ, from that of the Archbishop of Canterbury?" For Church purposes, England is divided into two sections, northern England and southern England. The authority of the Archbishop of York is exercised over the northern section, and that of the Archbishop of Canterbury over the southern section, but in addition to his functions as Primate over the south of England, the Archbishop of Canterbury exercises certain authority also over the northern section. "G. K. G.." Chattanooga, Tenn.-"In speaking of the breakfast food grits, does good usage regard the word as singular or plural?" The term grits is correctly used when the intention is to describe "grain much like coarse corn-meal mush." 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