The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-04-24
HUBBARD'S
PHILOSOPHY
FamOus Fra EIbertus Pleased
Many Last Night
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Draws Lesson From the Life
Of 4 Bee

UfaWS Lessen from inc Lie
Of 4 Bee
Probably one Of the most helpful
and ~philosophic addresses that has
been heard in the city in some time
was the lecture Of Ebert Hubbard,
sage, author, editor and philosopher,
delivered before a good sized audience
at the Grand theatre last evening on
the subject Modern Business, Known
to the world as Fra Elbertus, the au-
thor of the famous Little Journeys
and A Message to Garcia, stands as
one of the foremost writer's of America
and has done much through the medi-
UNI of his magazines, The Phiiiistine
and The Fra, toward the betterment of
social standards and to awaken every
man to the highest possibilities Of the
Individual.
Fra Elbertus made several compli-
mentary mentions OF The Forum in
his discourse last night and in a pri-
waite conversation yesterday afternoon
mt the Gardner hotel, he commented
upon the unique manner in which a
number OF advertisements were gotten
up,
aThat is one of the most novel
schemes I have ever seen," said the
Fra. "I purchased ever paper I could
get here at the hotel stand and sent
them away to some big advertisers In
the country. 1 am q writer Of adver-
Using n a writer Of literature-and
/ admit it."
Needed No Introduction.
The Fra appeared before his audi
ence at the Grand theatre last night
~unintroduced as it was felt that q
speaker and writer OF his renown
needed no introduction to any audi
ence. He has many friends and ad-
mirers In the city who greeted him
with loud applause when he came on
the stage wearing the famous windsor
tie and his hair cut in the well
known quaker oats" style, so fa-
miliar to the American public.
'If 1 were asked what the greatest
book that has been written in the last
ten years" began Fra Elbertus, II
would say it was Maurice Maeter-
linck's Life of a Bee. The proposition
as brought out In the book is that a
bee four miles away from the hive is
lost. 1t has no intelligence. 1t can
make no honey. The bees know the
secret of sex, though they have no
doctors, no lawyers and no preachers.
The problem of the American social
system is that it does not know how
TO discard the drone.
sMan alone, like the bee away from
the hive, has no intelligence. When he
beparates from his kind his mind de-
clines and his reason reels. He only
Wucceeds when he helps others to sue
coed.
Honesty in Business
Honesty in business is q new prop
osition. In days agone the purchase
Of a pair of trousers was an all day
AFFAIR. You went to the store and after
talking the matter over considerably
and haggling with the merchant and
he with you over the price OF the
trousers, you finally got him down to
the point where you were willing to
buy the trousers he had bundled up
for you and paid for them going home
feeling you had beaten he merchant,
especially when he told you how much
he had lost in letting them 80 at that
price. And remember you surprise
when you undid the parcel at home
and found he had slipped in another
pair of trousers instead OF the mes
you had selected.
Nov the one price business stand
ard and business honesty dominate the
commercial system. Nothing else oes
but the truth. A girl of 10 years may
trade in any department store OF Far
90 with as much safety as the ex-
perienced buyer. When you make a
sale In his age you make a friend.
The life OF business depends on friend-
ship.
jefferson and Lincoln.
.Tn the hotel lobby this evening I
mat a man who heard IAncoln's Sec
ond inaugural address. 1t seems
strange that in all my travels around
the globe I should never before have
met a man who heard Ldncoln's sec
ond inaugural address and should find
him here in Fargo. That was only
f-orty-seven years ago. The son OF
Abraham Lincoln is president OF the
Pullman company, but Lincoln never
rode In a Pullman car nor an autorno-
bile, he never used a telephone nor a
typewriter nor. a typewritist, two very
beautiful things.
THOMAS jefferson was q democrat.
When he died his party died with him.
He was the only president OF the
United States who had red hair and
when you stop and notice 1t the man
from the forty-second parallel whose
hair is Redeemed with the crisp winds
OF the north, who has made the prog
ress OF this country and Of others 1t
has been the Scotch ard the Irish. and
what a beautiful cross, together with
the Briton and the Scandinavian who
have stirred the conditions Of America
to bring it that prosperity and en-
ergy it possesses today.
Religion in Every Day Life.
much Of the period from Constan-
tine to Dante organized religion had
fun sway for 1000 years. it had its
inning and the world slept and forgot
to laugh. But men are learning now
to mix their religion and their bust
ness. Don't save your religion UP for
Sunday, or Billy Sunday. Don't keep
your religion to yourself. Catch up
with Lincoln. He could laugh, smile,
weep. He was human.
aTagt week the world wept over
the loss Of the Titanic, but the loss
OF that feviathan brought us was all
m.re closely together and the world
has taken a lesson. Its lesson Is that
heats must be u and operated BY
a wr1iok. 49, prt%o~f~ $3.50