Show LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Collegians Should Know How to Is Claim Last October a group of Salt Lake business men formed Speaker's for the purpose of overcoming stage All of the members of this club are successful business and the majority of them are university In spite of their education and their apparent business these men feel handicapped because they cannot speak before an Among the 25 we find a a school teacher and several buyers from wholesale One member of the club said to don't expect to become a I just want to have the ability to express my ideas before an I've spent all my life avoiding any situation that would require me to give a At the age of I'm trying to learn what I should have been taught in His statement is a challenge to our education Students are allowed to graduate from college when they cannot speak in Society demands fluent the business world demands leadership through The value of speech cannot be The idea is not a new and it is not a radical In the Bible we by thy words thou be and by thy words thou be William Jennings Bryan ability to speak effectively is an acquirement rather than a Woodrow Wilson ear of the world must be tickled in order to be made attentive force and beauty of style are absolutely necessary to one who would draw men to his way of to anyone who would induce the great mass of mankind to give so much as passing heed to what he has to The time has come when the university must correct this educational As students we have the right to demand a complete educational In order to accomplish the requirements of Lower Division must be Every student should be required to present 12 hours of speech before Speech I should be a prerequisite to every other speech course because Speech I presents the fundamentals of public If this program is university graduates will no longer shun discussion but they will be prepared to present their opinion in an intelligent What good is an education if it is to die under the strangling cloak of In a the educated people should be for they constitute the backbone of the Let's straighten up the national backbone by better speech for a better Jane |