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Show THE POWER OF FXPRESSION A school teacher was complaining t'.io other day of tho Inability of her children to talk. On tho playground r.o limit existed to their volubility. Hut in school they could not oxpress themselvoi. It was not simply that they could not discuss matters that comu up In lesBona. Thoy could not htnnd up at tholr desks nnd Rlvo n connected account of a ball gatuo. It you ask them to dcscrlbo an excursion ex-cursion thoy had enjoyed, all tficy can say, Is, "It was great." And yet theso aro not tho days of "Children should be seen nnd not henrd." Young America 1ms tho floor und Is permitted to Interrupt his elders el-ders nt will. There are many muto Inglorious Mlltons in tho world, having great gifts of observation and penctrntlon. Tholr friends regret that they aro so littlo known and appreciated. Usually Usual-ly thoy lack somo gift of concentration. concentra-tion. They can't focus tholr roaming roam-ing genius nnd make It count. Thoy can't formulate logically tholr thoughts and plnco them connectedly boforo othor peoplo. It Is a vital thing In n school to dovolop this gift. Tho writing of essays nnd compositions Is usoful. Tlnplnmntlnn of sonin other person's Declamation or somo otner permum words helps toward self posesslon. Hut those exercises don't glvo rendl-noss rendl-noss of personal expression. In tho contacts df llfo, tho right word nnd Bcquenco of ideas must bo nearly Instantaneous. In-stantaneous. Probably debates aro tho most uso-ful uso-ful means of bringing out this Bllt. Somo peoplo think that tho power to think on your font, to dovclop thought as you go along, Is needful only to tho orator and statesman, nut every business man noeds it to sell his goods, ovcrv professional man noods guuiiB, uvuiy piuiuBBiuiiui iimn iiueua It to sell his Ideas. And there Is no easier way for tho person of hum-bio hum-bio position to rlso, to sell his services ser-vices to better advantngo, than to show a gilt for expressing Ideas connectedly con-nectedly and reasonably. |