Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1918 — Speakers Bureau of National Security League Arouses People to Patriotism [ARTICLE]

Speakers Bureau of National Security League Arouses People to Patriotism

By MRS. T. J. PRESTON.

Formerly Mrs. Grover Clevelaad

The speakers’ bureau of the . National’ Security /league is not work of my choice, but, in assuming its duties as the successor of my husband, Doctor Preston, BMWSafrfl fl' w, *o organized it two years ago, lam guided by the principle by which I believe w? should alj be actuated 1 '2* “fly in taking up work of this character. It seems to be for , . the moment the thing'for me to do. fl kWL Jt ls Wlth noUttle tre P id^tion but ’ ow w ite W great importance, with great interest and enthusiasm 1 WTB that 1 , "" I,l,ake this work ’ lam eager to maintain ■' ? ‘-and carry out tha admirable organization which I find here, arid to extend, as the exigencies of this crucial time in the propaganda of patriotism demand, the opportunity to reach every possible listener and to increase the. numbers of speakers whom we can send out with the guaranty of the National Security league—speakers who, since the bureau has been in existence for a considerable period of time, have been thoroughly tried outs and who are all kept up, to the propaganda of the hour in these *swiftly changing times. Our speakers form an ever-growing group of overseas soldiers, statesmen, writers and' hundreds of other effective speakers not so well known, all selected for ability to arouse audiences to- patriotism. We are arranging for local meetings and routing speakers all over the United States as far as the Pacific coast. ■ • We are equipped to furnish to every type of meeting, from the large mass meeting to the small groupj clubs, banquets, shops, stores, schools, halls, churches, etc., and such open-air meetings a? for one reason or another are not covered by the “flying squadron,” an organization brought into the National Security league to look after out-of-door meetings, for which.it has a corps of especially trained speakers. We are able to supply speakers in twenty different languages. Our meetings nuipber more than ten a day. I shall give painstaking attention to the details of meetings, to the qualifications of our speakers and to fitting the right man or woman to the appropriate audience, and continue to employ the absolutely business methods of routine which I find prevailing.