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Show ILMiieCaimkie JOKL "C. J." PARKER, 310 North Main Street, Houston, Texas, became a member of the Breakfast Association, a group of business busi-ness men that gets together for breakfast every Wednesday morning and has Craft talks. There being fifty-five members, each of them has charge of one meeting a year. Daring "C. J.'s" first year he was nervous but he manaaed to talk about two minutes, then turned on a projector to show a film. This, of course, got him oft his feet. About a year later he conducted the meeting in exactly the same manner as the year before, talked about two minutes, then fell back on that movie projector again. , When C. J.'s turn came up for the third time at the Breakfast Club, he looked forward to the oppor-- oppor-- tunity of taking charge. There was no month of agony before that morning, as had been his first two experiences, and his wife could not believe that rkttwntv his attitude had changed so completely. The meeting CARNEGIE day came; he got to his feet, spoke and had a grand time. Knowing It must have been a success since several of the fellows spoke about It later. What brought about the change? He says it was nothing but the practice and dulling he got from joining a class In public speaking where he did night after night what he was afraid to do. |