d in idea, it is usually
better not to use more than two. Naturally when more than one
_that_-clause is used in the lead, all of the clauses must be gathered
together at the beginning; never should one precede and one follow the
principal verb. Here is an example of good usage:

| NEW YORK, Feb. 25.--That America is |
|entering upon a new era of civic and |
|business rectitude and that this is due |
|to the awakening of the moral conscience |
|of the whole people was the prophecy made|
|here tonight by Governor Joseph W. Folk |
|of Missouri.--_Chicago Record-Herald._ |

=4. Summary Beginning.=--This is a less formal way of treating the
indirect quotation beginning. It is simply a different grammatical
construction. Whereas in the _that_-clause beginning the principal verb
of the sentence is outside the summary (e. g., "That ... was the
statement of"), in the summary beginning the principal verb of the
sentence is the verb of the summary and the speaker is brought in by
means of a modifying phrase; thus:

| MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 1.--Both the free |
|trader and the stand-patter are back |
|numbers, according to Senator Albert J. |
|Beveridge of Indiana, who delivered a |
|tariff speech here tonight.--_Milwaukee |
|Free Press._ |

| Federal control of the capitalization |
|of railroads is the solution of the |
|railroad problem suggested by E. L. |
|Phillipp, the well-known Milwaukee |
|railroad expert, in the course of a |
|speech at the third annual banquet of, |
|etc.--_Milwaukee Free Press._ |

The summary beginning may be handled in many different ways and allows
perhaps more grammatical liberty than any other beginning. The summary
may even be given a sentence by itself as in the following. This kind of
treatment may easily be overdone and should be handled with great
caution:

| If you have acute mania, it is the |
|proper thing to take the music cure. Miss|
|Jessie A. Fowler says so, and she knows. |
|Miss Fowler discussed "Music |
|Hygienically" before the "Rainy Daisies" |