The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-09-27

crofters is Ebert Hubbard H. Ex-
ternally, Hubbard's son is sort OF
copy of him, but with some variations.
His hair is not long as his father,
Fra Elbertus, wore his. And the
younger Hubbard bears less of re-
semblance to William Jennings Bryan,
than his father did But young Ebert
Hubbard wears a homespun suit of
brown, comfortable shoes, and the
flowing black tie that his father
affected
This tie is a sort of Roycroft badge.
The young men who work in the
shops at bookbinding, metal work and
these flowing black or blue ties, partly,
we imagine as a concession to the
artistic temperament, but more as a
tribute to the departed leader.
Ebert Hubbard Il sits down to talk,
but he is interrupted every few min
utes by messages and consultations.
Obviously, he is no figurehead in the
plant.
Gilbert Hubbard left tae Roycroft
plant as a monument he explains,
land l am preserving it as a live
monument People have told me that
| | am submerging my own personality
| here, but / do not agree with them.
| | find satisfaction in bringing fathers
! work to other people, and | can do
/ things for him along that line that
| he never had time to do himself.
! ''The Roycroft community should go
| on in his way until something better
j can replace it-and | believe that is
! long way off He builded better
| than he knew"
| Hubbard's big idea, his son reminds
you, was work. He contended that
there is no such thing as mental
labor. He said, THE man that has a
| job is lucky" 1t was one of his fav-
orite aXioms, and he played with The
idea in all sorts of epigrams, such as
Happy is the man who has found his
! work"
But though Hubbard regarded al
work as sacred, he was discriminating
| enough to realize that creative worl
! is more interesting and satisfying thar
purely mechanical processes. So wheI
i he started his craft shop he installed
machinery for only the tedious pro
cesses. For the rest he believed ths
old simple ways of doing craftsworl
were best.
i Works by Hand
Men and women were set to worl
making things by hand, spending a.
much time as necessary on their book
binding, saving or modelling with N
strict factory rules to drive them on
Hubbard further sought to insur
contentment and industry by makinj
his factory cooperative. If a work
| hod Cd, IN h. G
ured that there was nothing to fea
from capital-labor difficulties.
The shops he built of stones, whic
2 the farmers were glad to sell for
c dollar a load. They were low, vel
dsigned buildings, set in green lawn
and partly covered with vines Hui
/. bard set out to make his shops a
l trative as another means of conten
ing his workers, especially the boy
t and girls of East Aurora. He dislike
$ to see the young people growing res
t less at home on the little farms. We
+ he disliked still more to hear tina
S this one or that had left for the cit,
d So, from the time of the first littl
S shop with its eight workers, Hubb2r
= encouraged and made possible arti
l. tic surroundings.
n The power of suggestion was reve
L enced by Hubbard, and it is ever.
a where employed to keep East Auror;
ties mindful of their possibilities
l. Notices for every emergency an
e emotion are found about the Roycroi
k buildings. Such thoughtful sayings q
S ''The mintage of wisdom is 10 'kno'
o that rest is rust, and that real life
e in love, laughter and work" may h
r followed by a more ironical warnin
e as your eyes and your ears inforl
L. you, not your tongue"
e The final psychological factor
S Hubbard's project was that he took
It vital interest in every phase of Ii
1t work. He was always eager to expeI
IS ment with new benefits for his Ro
S crofters. The shop gradually expan
ed from one small room to a clustt
" of buildings. An inn had to be bui