The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-10-20
HEARD Mr.. HUBBARD
FAMOUS FOUNDER OF RoYCROFT
SHOPS AT PARK CONGRE-
GATIONAL CHURCH
HIS IDEA OF EDUCATION
Learn to "overcome Disadvantages
of Civilization and How to
Always Do Something
for Someone.

Fully 800 people last evening embraced
the opportunity of listening to a lecture
in the Park Congregational church by
the celebrated Ebert Hubbard, IRA
Elbertus" of the Roycroft shops at East
Aurora, N. Y. The lecture was up TO
Mr.. Hubbard's high standard, and was
delivered in his we'll known effective
manner. Several times he had the audi
ence in commissions of laughter, and was
compelled to wait for them to become
quiet, only again to start them laugh
ing by sudden turn of wit or drolIery
of expression.
His subject was the work that he is
doing among the poor. uneducated boys
and girls at East Aurora and vicinity
The principle that he works upon is a be-
lief that no good can possibly come from
charity and philanthropy as it is shown
IN giving to beggars and tramps. He
will not give a. dollar to any man who
does not expect to return a dollar in
value. The man who goes to his door
expecting aims is apt to be turned away
empty-handed, but the man who goes
there seeking aid and expecting to return
value received will receive that which he
seeks
The work that Mr. Hubbard is doing
at the Roycroft shops is well known to
all. He is engaged in printing good books,
In all this work he employs the labor
OF those whom he has trained in his own
shops, and who were prior to that train
Ing the poor, uncultured children of his
village. They are paid ordinary wages
for their labor and, in addition, at Christ
mas time, they share in the profits of
the institution. He carries out the idea
of mutual participation, which he thinks
does more good for mankind than philan-
thropy or charity.
AS TO EDUCATION. ~
In speaking of education. Mr.. Hubbard
said that the idea that to get an educa-
ton was all that is needed to fit a boy
for the paths of life is erroneous. In
fact, the learning of the day is not di-
rected for the most part in the right
way, and the man who comes from col
lege with his degree is not always the
man who can go out in the world and
make the greatest success of life. True
education is that training which best fits
a man for earning a livelihood in the
path of life that he chooses to follow.
That is the principle that is carried out
at Roycroft. The boys and girls are ed
ucated to do the things that will be of
most use to them in life. He said that
even the children of the rich are being
sent to industrial schools to learn to do
the very things that are taught at Roy
croft-"to learn to overcome the disad-
vantages of civilization
Mr.. Hubbard places explicit confidence
in the honor and truthfulness of every
man. He says that he cannot go through
life setting people straight. If man
manifests a desire to engage in honest
labor and to earn a living by the sweat
of his brow, it matters not what may
have been his past, he will find a friend
in Mr. Hubbard. He mentioned the case
of man who had served a five-year SEN
tence at Auburn, and who, when his
time was out, came to Roycroft to find
work. He was employed, and for several
years has been one of the most faithful
and helpful men at the place. He spoke
of other cases where the shops had aided
those who had fallen in life and were
unable to find recognition and employ
ment in other places.
The people at Roycroft are all happy.
They labor certain number of hours
each day, but it is happy labor. They
close each day with a consciousness of
having done something for someone. Mr..
Hubbard said that the only way to be
happy is to do something for someone
mot to do someone for something