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Show Public Speaking Aided Former ' Church Head" ' Public speaking campaigns were highly effective in securing solid support for the policies of Brig-ham Brig-ham Young, it was averred Tuesday Tues-day by Dr. Halbert Greaves, member mem-ber of the Utah State Agricultural college speech department faculty who reviewed his Ph. D. thesis, "Public Speaking in Utah, 1847 to 1869," on the convention program of the Western Association of Teachers of Speech in Salt Lake ' City last weekend. USAC was represented at the professional speech conference by Dr. Greaves and Dr. John M. Hadley, member of the college's psychology and speech departments depart-ments who discussed techniques for prevention of speech defects before convention delegatse from ten western states. Both made material ma-terial on the respective studies available Tuesday. Dr. Greaves, who received his doctorate in speech last spring at University of Wisconsin, pointed , out in the review work that ora- j tory of Brigham Young and his fellow church leaders helped shape the early history of Utah to a great extent. "Largely because of effective public speaking campaigns," cam-paigns," the Latter Day" Saints were solidly behind their leader when he resisted the "Utah Army" of 1857, when he urged the Saints to stay away from the gold fields of California, when he resented the appointment of unsympathetic non-Mormon territorial officials, when he encouraged the federal government to build a railroad to the Pacific coast and when he counseled the Mormons to civilize educate and convert the Indians." Dr. Greaves cited. He attributed the fact that there was probable less Indian trouble in Utah during that period per-iod than in any other region of the United States to the L D S Policy of feeding rather than fighting the Indians, which was advocated primarily by a preaching preach-ing campaign in church meetings. , Dr. Hadley, who Saturday spoke before a session devoted to the problems of the elementary and the secondary teacher, emphasized in his paper that teachers' of Speech and speech correctlonist 3uld direct their attention to the "Problem of the prevention of defective de-fective speech rather than to be entirely occupied with the more spectacular problem of correction of alrbady existing problems. "The Majority of these speceh problems , could be prevented if parents and teachers were aware of the basic 'Principles of speech hygiene and "Would apply them to children's speech development," he declared. |