Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-29

serving it as a live monument. People have
told me that I am submerging my own per-
sonality 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 for himself.
THE Roycroft community should go on in
his way until something better can replace
it-and I believe that is a 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 favorite axioms, and he played with tn
idea in all sorts of epigrams, such as Happy
is that man who has found his work"
But though Hubbard regarded all work as
sacred, he was discriminating enough to real
ize that creative work is more interesting
and satisfying than purely mechanical proc
esses. So when he started his craft shop he
installed machinery for only the serious
processes. For the rest he believed the old
simple ways of doing craftswork were best.
Works by Hand
Men and women were set to work making
things by hand, spending as much time as
necessary on their bookbinding, saving, or
modelling with no strict factory rules to drive
them on.
Hubbard further sought to insure content
ment and industry by making his factory
cooperative. If workman had a share in
the profits he figured that there was moth
ing to fear from capital-labor difficulties.
The shops he built of stones. which the
farmers were glad to sell for dollar load.
They are low, we'll designed buildings, set in
green lawns and partly covered with vines.
Hubbard set out to make his shops attractive
as another means of contenting his workers,
especially the boys and girls of East Aurora.
He disliked to see the young people growing
up restless at home on the little farms. Yet
he disliked still more to hear that this one
or that had left for the city. So, from the
time of the first little shop with its eigh:
workers, Hubbard encouraged and made pos
sible artistic surroundings.
The power Of suggestion was reverenced
by Hubbard, and it is everywhere employed
to keep East Auroraites min dful of their
possibilities. Notices for every emergency
and emotion are found about the Roycroft
buildings. Such thoughtful sayings as "The
Mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is
rust, and the real life is love, laughter and
work. may be followed by more ironical
warning as "Your eyes and your ears in
form you, not your tongue
The final psychological factor in Hubbards
project was that he took vital interest in
every phase of the worka He was always
eager to experiment with new benefits for
his Roycrofters. The shop gradually expand
ed from one small room to cluster Of build
1nSS. AN Inn naQ TO De Du1lL TO take care
of visitors. A bank was started to encourage
the Roycrofters to save their money.
Ebert Hubbard II, is, he himself says,
more of a business man than a. literary genius
on pioneer. He finds enough to do simply
carrying on. He does not indulge in inter
esting experiments as his father delighted to
do. In the first Hubbards day, Roycroft
was cumulative project, always broadening
and branching out. Now it seems to be adj
vancing straight ahead. '.-.