CHAPTER VIII
A. Explain the faults in the organization of the following stories:
WILSON SPEAKS TO DAUGHTERS OF THE REVOLUTION
Washington, Oct. 11.—The Daughters of the American Revolution applauded what they regarded as a gallant compliment to his fiancée uttered by President Wilson in his speech on national unity at Continental Hall this afternoon.
In that part of his speech in which he served notice that he purposes to administer the discipline of public disapproval to hyphenated Americans, the President remarked:
"I know of no body of persons comparable to a body of ladies for creating an atmosphere of opinion."
Immediately afterward he said smilingly:
"I have myself in part yielded to the influence of that atmosphere."
The official White House stenographer inserted a comma in his transcript of the President's speech at the foregoing utterance, but the members of the D. A. R. thought the President had come to a chivalrous period. They looked over the President's shoulders to one of the boxes where sat his fiancée, Mrs. Norman Galt, with her mother, Mrs. Bolling, and they applauded tumultuously.
Several seconds elapsed before the President, whose face had flushed, could wedge in: