116.  Geographic advantages of this locality.

117.  Results of irrigation.

118.  How the farmer controls world prices.

119.  Relation between some distant event and the price of some article in the corner store.

120.  New businesses in America with their reasons for existence.

121.  The latest improvement in this locality.

122.  Why certain cities are destined to increase in population.

123.  Model homes.

124.  Housing the inhabitants of large cities.

125.  The operation of a subway.

126.  Automobile trucks instead of freight trains.

127.  How Lincoln became President.

128.  Why Webster did not become President.

129.  The dead-letter office.

130.  The Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of Great Britain.

131.  How the United States secured Porto Rico.

132.  A free trade policy.

133.  Commercial reciprocity.

134.  The protective tariff.

135.  Explain the application of some tax, as income, single, inheritance.

136.  How the constitutionality of a law is determined.

137.  How laws are made by Congress.

138.  The Congressional Record.

139.  The Monroe Doctrine.

140.  The attitude of foreign nations toward the Monroe Doctrine.

141.  Differences between the Chinese and the Japanese.

142.  The failure of the Hague Tribunal.

143.  The part of the United States in a league of nations.

144.  Reasons for the conditions in Mexico.

145.  Our country’s duty toward Mexico.

146.  The so-called Yellow Peril.

147.  Trans-oceanic air travel.

148.  Evolution of the airship.

149.  The geodetic survey.

150.  The census bureau.

APPENDIX B

Additional Exercises in Argumentation

1.  Find in a magazine or newspaper some article in which conviction is the prime factor.

2.  Find in a magazine or newspaper some article in which persuasion is most used.

3.  Give examples from recent observation of discussions which were not argument as the term is used in this book.

4.  Explain how arguments upon a topic of current interest would differ in material and treatment for three kinds of audiences.

5.  The education of the American negro should be industrial not cultural.

6.  To the Cabinet of the United States there should be added a Secretary of Education with powers to control all public education.

7.  Separate high schools for boys and girls should be maintained.

8.  It is better to attend a small college than a large one.

9.  Women should be eligible to serve as members of the school board.