Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1913-05-22
Fra Elbertus is Still for
Two Profitable Hours on
Stage at EIks' Theatcr
and Large Audience is
Better Therefor
NJ AKING A LIVING
AND HOW TO LIVE
Topic That Sage Uses is
Old, Forgotten, Disused,
But He Jogs Memories
With Easy Oozy Truths
He Slips Over
Making a living.

How much, yet how little a man
knows about that.
Ebert Hubbard, speaking to an audi
ence that could read between his lines
reminded them OF what they knew, but
didn't know they knew it, rather than
told them anything new. Yet what he
said was so commonsensical and ordi-
nary that it was amusing. Hubbard
was able to introduce his hearers to
many a good old joke, jokes they had
met years before. Yet failed to recog
nize as old friends, much had they
changed in appearance. Nothing was
startling in the lecture on Making a
Living 1t was such a talk as would
make a man exclaim, "Humph, I knew
that all the time" But he could not
remember having known it, unless his
memory had been logged as it was by
the Sage of East Aurora.
Making Living" was not advice.
1t was simply this statement admin
istered with proper admixture of un-
exercised truths to make it understand
able ITO make a living YOU must
acquire food. clothes. sheIter-and
love. The first three we struggle for
With our various nights. and the fourth
srayitates toward the worthy
How to gain food clothing. shelter
and love, in other words how to make
a living. is the problem with which man
is now occupied. And here is how he
is going about it. Following the many
cons of his birth stages, man entered
the fighting era He must then COM
bat his enemies or be fleet enough to
escape them. Then he began to attach
himself. and where his interests were,
he must stop: he could not flee some
times he was too weak to fight so he
must cajole. Then he occupied him
self with what the lecturer calls the
greatest task of earth, farming. Here
he was still further tied to his inter
ests. and he learned craftiness and
finesse. From this stage, man is Just
emerging into the cooperative state, in
which is a stage of mutuality. From
the savage, who discovered he could
float on a log to the Interstate COM
merce commission is a far cry, but in
the amusing words of the Sage, it is
but a step. for he looks a things from
a height that enables him to see them
in true proportion, and if the lograil
road train jump is a jump, Hubbard
is the man who can tell it.
|'This is an age of transportation"
said the speaker of exalted common
places Society is a vast system of
transfers and today every one does his
best to hold up his share of the bur
den.
Hubbard did not lose his chance to
hand it to the three dignified profess
sions, the law. the clergy and medi-
cine. But before he was through he
pardOned these old offenders against
his beliefs and excused them on the
ground that they had to make q liv-
ing, and We're doing it in the best way
that presented itself. His old state
ment that to be sick is indecent. ow-
ing to the fact that it meant something
in relation to his topic was slipped over
about as follows There is just so
much work to be done on earth. There
are so many to do it. If one man has
to toll from morning to night, every
day in the year. it is because someone
else never works at all. A sick man
does not work, he is a nuisance un-
loving and unlovable. He is detracting
from the usefulness of others. You
may not think it, but take this in
stance; Brown is i'll. Two doctors are
fussing over him and three nurses are
in attendance. Five people Then
fifty or hundred relatives are inter
ested and their attention is distracted.
But-undertakers also give their at
tention. Brown is rich, so an attor-
ney or two turns his willing ear and
his hopeful attention.
And now the preachers: CAS- long as
ignorance slumbers in the pews, fool
ishness viii occupy the pulpit" But
Hubbard also said that nowadays, the
ministers are adhering closer to the
doctrine of Here and Now" They
pay less attention to mansions in the
sky than to bungalows in-Phoenix,
for instance. AS for DOCTORS he would
subsidize them from the state and i'm
pose a salary loss on them for every
sick man. Prepare to live do not
prepare to die. The power that is with
us in life will not desert us when we
Gle. Science tells us where we came
from. The clergy tells us where we
are going. But we have a fact that no
one can take away from us and that
is the knowledge that we are here"
And so his creed of intense Here
and NOw-ness was expounded with
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