The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-01-12
Ebert HUBBARD,s LECTURE.

1t was mighty uncomfortable night,
but very much gratified body Of Phil
| istines that listened to the nearly two
hours long talk of the Royoroft leader
last evening. Harmonic hall was well
filed when at 8:15 o'clock Fra Elbertus
began his lecture on the work of the
Roycroft shop at East Aurora. He re-
ferred to the prevailing epidemic Of la
grippe as having taken hold Of him,
but none remembered it as he proceed
ed. He described the town Of Sun Up
as twenty miles southeast Of Buffalo
and their bookmaking as a natural
evolution, East Aurora being horse
breeding town, and holding the trotting
record of the world, and so naturally a
bookmaking town.
The work of the Roycrofters he de-
scribed as natural growth in book
making, the attempt to do work we'll
and for the love of it. not how cheap,
but how good We do not have now to /
advertise our books They are sold as
fast as printed. The world wants beau
tiful books. We published twelve books
at $100 each and had orders for twenty
five. The product Of love and handi-
work Work is for the worker 1t Is
valuable for it's effect on the worker,
and so of all handiwork. Not done I'M
der pressure, looking to Saturday night.
but for the joy Of work. They strive at
East Aurora to make not only beautiful
books, but to enjoy the days as they
pass. The beginning of the shop
work was by the lecture and one boy
in the printing Of the Philistine six
years ago. Now 200 are employed and
the Phiistine has circulation OF near
ly hundred thousand month.
Mr.. Hubbard held his audience spell
bound as he sketched the various
phases Of the problem Of work for the
joy Of it, as they practiced 1t in Roy
croft. Here we are doing work in book
making that pleases the most elegant
people in Europe, and our workers are
boys and girls who never had any edu-
cation in art, nor indeed, education of
any kind. We are trying there to apply
the Froebel method to our everyday life
and work To apply the golden rule.
not as in Chicago, to do somebody for
but to do something for
somebody. We have piano in each
room, and they do say my touch on the
pianola is very fine and artistic. Here
we find work for any one In the town
who wishes it. At first the young peo-
pie, boys and girls, specially the boy
who has been expelled from school,
And we never enquire or care for a Z
recommendation or reference. What he
Is or will do, not what he has done or
vas. We give prizes for best work
svery Christmas, and the one who was
Joted it year ago as being most trusty
Ind helpful was two years ago con-
7ict in Auburn state prison.
Let us be kind. Let us do our work
Is best we may. Old as well as young.
Never turn the old workers off. I have
been all through the harsh experience
n many sides Of life. T have worked
or dollar day, and I have bossed
sreat gangs Of men, turning them off
When work was scarce or they were sick
n injured-never paying dollar for
ickness or injury-but now I will do
he better way. If they are injured or
II or too old to work they shall still be
n our payroll. Let US be kind, and not
'e afraid. God is good, and we are all
lis children. We are all working out
UT own salvation, and thus do we see
low it is very plain that Rusl1in was
light when he said that the man who
makes the thing is of far more import
nee than the man who buys it. Work
J for the worker What the world does
r says about you is really no matter,
ut what you think and what you do
re questions vital as fate. No one can
arm you but yourself. We may never
each the ideal world, but here the sub-
RIBS are very beautiful. Let us do our
'ork and be kind-be kind.
At the close Of the lecture MI. Hub
ard was rapturously cheered by the
iithful ones present, and an informal
eception was given by him to a few
ho could not be present later.