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...Blessed is the man who does not bellyache." said the late Elbert Green Hubbard long before he died but well after he had made $75,000 selling soap. Had he been alive last week to read the news of his Roycrofters he would have had little to bellyache about...
Surrounded by a capitalist world deep in Depression, the printing and bookbinding plants which Elbert Hubbard founded on a profit-sharing basis in 1895 reported they were working on two shifts 24 hours a day. His son, Elbert Hubbard II, now head of the Roycrofters in East Aurora, N. Y., made the surprising announcement. He admitted business had not been quite up to last year's standard until a recent flood of rush orders promised continuous work for several months for the 175 Roycrofters. Socialistic, outdoor man like his father, Brother Hubbard saw the end of Depression, fell into...
...Founder Elbert Green Hubbard was known in his day as the Hero of the Simple Life. Playboy, philosopher, publisher, poseur, he founded the Roycrofters in 1895 from an idea he picked up at William Morris' hand-made-book works in England. When he returned to the U. S. he was downcast by the shoddy vulgarity of the 1890's, developed his own creed of beauty & culture. Everyone, he believed, wanted to create something beautiful and useful with his hands. The Roycroft Shops gave anyone who went to East Aurora material with which to work...
Gloomy because good religious art is rare in Protestant churches of the U. S., because too much dependence upon preaching "has resulted in a sad impotency in many areas of Protestant church life,'' Dr. Elbert M. Conover, director of the Methodist Bureau of Architecture, made a startling suggestion when he addressed the Methodist Board of Home Missions and Church Extension last week. Fond of stained glass, altars, reredoses, Dr. Conover said that few church officials can tell whether or not a blueprint is good, that too many churches are built like theatres and auditoriums, that Protestant church structures...
...President James Augustine Farrell, onetime wire drawer, dictates the financial policies of United States Steel Corp. no more than did the late great Judge Elbert Henry Gary. The Ruler of Steel is its finance committee. Member John Pierpont Morgan was absent in England when Steel's finance committee met last week in the unadorned Steel Corporation offices at No. 71 Broadway. But present were his partner Thomas William Lament, Committee Chairman Myron Charles Taylor and Banker George Fisher Baker Jr. Just as in 1921 the finance committee lowered wages over the protest of Judge Gary, last week in effect...