THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES.
Wn,i, WiheijKSS Kill Oratory? “General Dawes argues that broadcasting will be the death of hectic oratory. The future tribune of the people will have to forswear histrionics and purge- himself of rhetoric and live .by clear logic. In a world which cannot he bothered to go to listen to oratory, which takes its speeches over the-wireless, the only orators who cut any ice will be those who make no appeals to the emotions, but fsume that they are talking to intelligent and reasonable people. It is dreadful to think of the hosts of politicians who would he thrown out of employment. But wo need not linger over the sad vision. There is no fear of its liecoming real in our day. This i.s not the first time that oratory has been threatened. The invention of newspapers was a more dangerous blow than broadcasting. To read a speech, General Dawes will admit, is to submit it to more searching criticism than to listen to it- over the wireless.” —“Daily Telegraph” (London). “ No-Rubbing Laundry Help,” the great economiser of time, mopey and labour. A Is packet does seven washings perfectly —Adt t.
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 September 1926, Page 2
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194THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES. Hokitika Guardian, 21 September 1926, Page 2
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