Show Lincoln's Few Appropriate Remarks Most of uS is grow up believing that President Lincoln made mado his greatest speech at Gettysburg with little or no preparation that on the train ho he jotted al a fow notes on an envelope or a scrap of paper Many also believe that newspapers ignored the speech These beliefs are aro in It a magazine article A A Few Appropriate Remarks at Gettysburg by Tom Mahoney in an American November Legion u l Magazine article ar- ar condensed ill in the November Readers Reader's Digest Neither belief is correct All who have hae trouble finding the ri ht words can take comfort in knowing that President Lincoln worked at intervals for more than two weeks on the 10 immortal sentences that ho he spoke years ago this November 19 lIe Ito wrote half of them in Washing Washing- Washington ton completed n a draft the night before in Gettys- Gettys Gettysburg Oett s- s burg and finished another the next day just before g going ing to to the tho battlefield lie He changed this we may in all propriety do to the tho more forceful it it is altogether fitting and pro pro- proper proper per that we should do this lie Ho mn made o changes oven as s lib hb sp spoke IQ forgetting poor in our poor power and adding under God for a total of words Of these DO 90 are arc syllable lie He spoke less than five inin tes N Newspapermen can take pride in the fact that nn an Associated Press reporter stood just in front of Lin- Lin Lincoln c coln ln borrowed copy that he held ill in his hand and telegraphed the tho complete text all allover over the country Many fany papers big hig find and little published the tho speech in full the tho next day |