| Show TRAINING A MODERN DEMOSTHENES A Statesman's Early Schooling In the Art of Oratory There Is an almost unknown circumstance circumstance circum circum- stance In the life Ufe history of Speaker Champ Clark that deserves es to rank with the ever green story of Demosthenes Demosthenes Demos Demos- thenes who cultivated clear speech with a mouthful of pebbles Speaker Clark bears the reputation of having the clearest enunciation In the house of ot representatives and of being the most easily understood speaker sneaker In that body When I was a boy in Kentucky said the speaker in explanation of his clear diction my father determined to train me to talk without mouthing or mumbling my words so he cut a little piece of ot wood Just lon long enough to stand endwise between my teeth when my Jaws were werl well wen opened Then with that Impediment to the time movement mo of ot my lips I 1 was required to practice articulation The treatment treatment treatment treat treat- ment was heroic but It taught ht me nw plain speaking Washington Star |
