25. THE SQUARE PEG IN THE ROUND HOLE.
“The Job, the Man, and
the Boss,” Katherine
Blackford and Arthur Newcomb.
26. THE DECAY OF ACTING.
Article in Current Opinion,
November, 1914.
27. THE YOUNG MAN AND THE CHURCH.
“A Young man’s
Religion,” N. McGee Waters.
28. INHERITING SUCCESS.
Article in Current Opinion,
November, 1914.
29. THE INDIAN IN OKLAHOMA.
Article in Literary Digest,
November 28, 1914.
30. HATE AND THE NATION.
Article in Literary Digest,
November 14, 1914.
APPENDIX C
SUGGESTIVE SUBJECTS FOR SPEECHES[36]
With Occasional Hints on Treatment
1. MOVIES AND MORALS.
2. THE TRUTH ABOUT LYING.
The essence of truth-telling
and lying. Lies that are not so
considered. The subtleties
of distinctions required. Examples of
implied and acted lies.
3. BENEFITS THAT FOLLOW DISASTERS.
Benefits that have arisen
out of floods, fires, earthquakes, wars,
etc.
4. HASTE FOR LEISURE.
How the speed mania is born
of a vain desire to enjoy a leisure
that never comes or, on the
contrary, how the seeming haste of
the world has given men shorter
hours off labor and more time for
rest, study, and pleasure.
5. ST. PAUL’S MESSAGE TO NEW YORK.
Truths from the Epistles pertinent
to the great cities of today.
6. EDUCATION AND CRIME.
7. LOSS IS THE MOTHER OF GAIN.
How many men have been content
until, losing all, they exerted their
best efforts to regain success,
and succeeded more largely than
before.
8. EGOISM vs. EGOTISM.
9. BLUNDERS OF YOUNG FOGYISM.
10. THE WASTE OF MIDDLE-MEN IN CHARITY SYSTEMS.
The cost of collecting funds
for, and administering help to, the
needy. The weakness of
organized philanthropy as compared with
the giving that gives itself.
11. THE ECONOMY OF ORGANIZED CHARITY.
The other side of the picture.
12. FREEDOM OF THE PRESS.
The true forces that hurtfully
control too many newspapers are not
those of arbitrary governments
but the corrupting influences of
moneyed and political interests,
fear of the liquor power, and the
desire to please sensation-loving
readers.
13. HELEN KELLER: OPTIMIST.
14. BACK TO THE FARM.
A study of the reasons underlying
the movement.
15. IT WAS EVER THUS.
In ridicule of the pessimist
who is never surprised at seeing failure.
16. THE VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL.
Value of direct training compared
with the policy of laying broader
foundations for later building.
How the two theories work out in
practise. Each plan can
be especially applied in cases that seem to
need special treatment.