EXERCISES

Prepare and deliver speeches upon some of the following or upon propositions suggested by them.  If the speech is short, try to employ only one method of proof, but make it convincing.  Where suitable, add persuasive elements.

1.  Make a proposition from one of the following topics.  Deliver an argumentative speech upon it.  The next election.  Entrance to college.  Child labor.  The study of the classics.  The study of science.

2.  Recommend changes which will benefit your school, your club or society, your church, your town, your state.

3.  The Japanese should be admitted to the United States upon the same conditions as other foreigners.

4.  Men and women should receive the same pay for the same work done.

5.  All church property should be taxed.

6.  All laws prohibiting secular employment on Sunday should be repealed.

7.  The purely protective tariff should be withdrawn from goods the manufacture of which has been firmly established in this country.

8.  Large incomes should be subject to a graduated income tax.

9.  Employers should not be forced to recognize labor unions.

10.  Immigration into the United States of persons who cannot read or write some language should be prohibited, except dependents upon such qualified entrants.

11.  An amendment should be added to the Constitution providing for uniform marriage and divorce laws throughout the entire country.

12.  A city is the best place for a college.

13.  Military training should be obligatory in all public schools.

14.  Colleges and universities should reduce the attention paid to athletics.

15.  The negro in the South should be disfranchised.

16.  The number of Representatives in Congress should be reduced.

17.  Moving pictures should be used in schools.

18.  Street car systems should be owned and operated by municipalities.

19.  Education should be compulsory until the completion of high school.

20.  Athletes whose grade is below 75% should be debarred from all participation until the marks are raised.

21.  The Federal government should own and operate the telegraph and telephone systems.

22.  The state should provide pensions for indigent mothers of children below the working age.

23.  The study of algebra (or some other subject) in the high school should be elective.

24 The initiative should be adopted in all states.

25.  The referendum should be adopted in all states.

26.  All governmental officials should be subject to recall.

27.  The public should support in all ways the movement of labor to secure the closed shop system.

28.  Railroad crossings should be abolished.

29.  The Federal government should pass laws controlling all prices of foodstuffs.