Excerpt from Winning Orations in the National Contests of the Intercollegiate Prohibition Association: Produced and Delivered by College and University Men and Women The successful public speaker in this, the twentieth century, when the newspapers are supplying such a mass of information and misinformation, is the one who can interpret this stream of events in the light of the social' currents beneath. If he can do this in an attractive and interesting way, he is popular. If not, he is useful any way. The old type of orator who mixed his metaphors with the sunlight and his arms with the ethereal heavens above is passing - has passed. The public speaker who gets results in this business age when so few men have more than ten minutes at a time to think of one subject, is he who can appeal to the emotions, yes, to a limited degree in its proper place, but who must first convince the judg ment and that with facts as they exist now, not as they were last year. The true orator has always been the one who can take a subject, to his hearers unpopular, and win them to his way Of thinking. Conviction must be not merely for the moment, while the people sit charmed by his expression and logic, but also for their cool - headed judgment and actual conduct the next day. Does this imply that the day of the orator has passed? Rather that the demands placed upon him who would succeed have doubled. He must know his subject thoroughly and by experience, as well as be able to talk about it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.