The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-05-09

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Mr.. Iiubbard's intensity of feeling
and sympathy with the young was il
iustratnd by his vivid description of the
boy expelled from school an incident
he said which must he htimilating to
the teacher as 1t was d practical adj
mission that the boy Is bigger than the
| school housc and too big a problem
TO solve. The expelled boy is not bad
10y. lie is fun of impressions and en-
crgy which must have an outlet.
lie toll of real hoy in his own
! town tSlslled from school. who final
" became Il tramp, burglar mur-
Gcrcr and landed in the penitentiary.
| and ot another similarly started on
| u downward "trip who was brought by
his mother to the Roycroft shop and
given work at wood carving. which he
had previously been engaged in. only
with the difference of using the school
house desks for material In a year
the boy had bank account and was
| on the way to q noble manhood. He
had learned sclf~rcliance and found an
outlet for his energy in the ability to
do something for somebody and the
! one who does something for some
| body does most to help himself. In
! Wilkes Barre, the speaker remarked
he had been told this idea was re-
vcrsed to read "Do somebody for
something"
He then described The interior of
| that famous Roycroft shop. the water
colors and the walls. the pencil
sketches, the bits of bronze and mar
bic, He did not tell Of the prodigy he
has discovered from one of his ~
nerments," tho boy waif who like an.
other Michael Angelo. can endow mer.
hlc with soul Each room contains
a piano. palms. flowers, birds and
glimpses Of beauty. 1t is q wise in
vostment, as he has every reason to
believe The value of music, in par.
ticular, as u rest and a soothing power
Is not adequately understood.
The law Of the Roycrofters is the
abolition of fear. the thought that God
is on our side, and no one can harm
YOU but Yourself. John Riskin wrote
this; Morris predicted il; F'roebol de
monstrated ~ truth. IT is an aliirma-
tive shop. not a negative. and the idea
Of discipline is kept out of sight. There
are people who regard music as IL
plaSthing for women. They are the
ones who think Il kindergarten is a
TO get them out of the way. but rs
l'roebel said The world will recoE-
nizc in four hundred years that this
is Il philosophy forall grades. so, indeed.
, it will yet be seen that there is no
philosophy mightier than the kinder
sarton idea. and it should be carried
| through the university course. The
speaker emphasized the necessity of
manual training in the schools, the
doing something" with the hands and
at the same time receiving intellectual
culture. He described the John Dewey
experimental school in connection with
Chicago university and its odd paral-
lei in the back woods school left bless
edly unmolested by directors and truS-
tees, a condition he emphasized as
greatly to be desired. He believed
truancy and hoodlumism may be abol-
| i.hed by manual training in the public
schools.
He then gave a dramatic recital of
the story of his convict employe. the
man who had done time" but who
came and almost demanded his
'chance" at the hands of Mr.. Hub
bard. This is the man who last Christ
mas. when $4,000 was distributed in
prizes at the Roycroft shop, received
the grand prize of $500 by unanimous
vote Of all the little colony as being
the one who had most helped the bus-
ness by hls energy and faithfulness.
He was the man who at once knew
where things We're" the man who was
later intrusted with the combinatio
Of the safe, who was the reliable one
Of the shops. The girl whom nobody
wanted and who could not bring a let
ter of recommendation was another
who is Il valued employc. While ''old
young" people of 20 and moro con-
tribute to the success Of this unique
industry.
Perhaps no more interesting portion
Of the lecture can he recalled than