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ELBERT  HUBBARD  n.  Editor-iii-Chief 


FELIX  SHAY.  Editor 


Bntered  at  the  PcMt-OIBce,  Bait  Aurora,  N.  Y.,  a«  Matter  of  the  Second  dmm.  Botered 
as  Matter  of  the  Second  ClaM  at  the  Post-OAce  Department  of  Canada.  Regtotered 
U.  S.  Patent  Office.  Copyrifht,  Nhietocn  Hundred  Seventeen,  by  The  Roycroftert. 

Vol.  I         SEPTEMBER  1917         No.  1 


Introducinfif  the  **  Roy  croft' 


ADIES  and  Gentle- 
men,  pennit  us  to 
present  to  you  our 
new-bom  diild,  ROY- 
I  CROFT.  This  baby 
may  be  rightly  called 
the  illegitimate  offspring  of  The 
Philistine  and  the  direct  descendant 
of  The  Fra. 

In  relegating  The  Fra  to  a  high  shelf 
in  the  history  of  our  publications, 
we  do  so  with  a  profound  respect  and 
et  goodly  amount  of  appreciation  for 
its  beautiful  service.  Yet' the  occa- 
sion is  devoid  of  sorrow  and  mourn- 
ing «»  «» 

We  liken  tiie  terminatyxi  of  this 
magazine  to  the  passing  of  a  life 
whidi  has  fulfilled  ijts  mission,  done 
its  work  well,  and  endeared  itself 
to  tiie  hearts  of  its  friends.     '«  :  '/' ' 


'TIS  only  natural  that  we  shed  a 
tear  for  The  Fra  as  we  might  in 
hanging  in  the  closet  a  cloak  which 
has  warmed  our  body  and  been  a 
faithful  garment  for  years — ^but  now 
to  become  of  another  age  and  to  be 
supplemented  by  a  new  style,  more 
becoming  and  cut  to  a  more  perfect 
fit  «»«» 

Primarily  The  Roycrofters  are 
pamphleteers.  Our  success  has  been 
achieved  through  the  printing  of 
millions  of  pamphlets,  booklets, 
preachments. 

We  have  always  liked  the  small 
puUication,  the  10-cent  booklet.  It 
has  a  wider  appeal,  not  only  to  the 
pocketbook  but  to  the  minds  of 
many  kinds  of  people. 
Its  size  is  strongly  in  its  favor.  It 
flips  inta  tjhe  'pocket  ea»ly  and  is 


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read  wherever  one  may  have  a  few 
moments  of  leisure — on  the  train 
or  trolley,  or  while  waiting  outnde 
for  the  Busy  Man  to  admit  you  to 
his  Private  Office.  You  can  not 
hurry  him;  he's  probably  reading 
the  ROYCROFT,  and  will  not  be 
disturbed  «»  «» 

The  price  of  10  cents  will  tempt 
curious  people,  with  a  mind  to 
experiment,  to  try  it — once  anyway. 
Thus  are  converts  more  easily 
gained  and  our  influence  increased. 
a  ROYCROFT  will  contain  80  per 
cent  as  much  as  The  Fra  and  at  a 
cost  to  you  of  less  than  one-half  «» 
We  believe  that  in  the  smaller  maga- 
zine our  influence  can  be  spread  to  a 
greater  number  and  if  that  influence 
be  of  an  uplifting  character  then  will 
our  misdon  be  of  bigger  benefit  and 
service  «»  «» 

For  two  years  The  Fra  has  forged 
ahead — ^beoi  a  splendid  success.  So 
we  fed  that  in  this  change,  we  are 
taking  no  undue  liberties,  but  are 
in  every  sense  of  the  word,  appro- 
priately designing  for  you  a  maga- 
zine with  larger  potentialities  and 
broader  scope. 


ROYCROFT  will  be  radical  with- 
out  being  rambimctious;  outspoken 
without  being  indecent;  critical 
without  being  imfair:  applauding 
without  being  subsidized:  in  all,  a 
periodical  for  folks  with  ideas,  un- 
afraid to  hear  them  discussed  and 
willing  to  grant  the  other  side  a 
hearing  «»  «» 

But  after  all  we  know  that  the  size 
or  the  cover  of  a  magazine  does  n't 
make  it  a  success.  The  proof  is  in  its 
text.  Its  editors  must  take  the 
blame  or  credit. 

ROYCROFT  shall  be  its  own 
answer.  It  shall  be  an  individual 
publication.  Do  not  imagine  that  it 
is  The  Philistine  because  it  happens 
to  wear  the  Philistine's  garb.  That 
littie  magazine  was  Elbert  Hubbard 
and  his  pen  is  stilled. 
But  ROYCROFT  can  and  will  ex- 
pound the  ideals  which  Elbert  Hub- 
bard stood  for  and  for  which  The 
Roycrofters  now  stand. 
With  the  kindly  co-operation  of  our 
readers  and  a  spirit  of  fair  criticism 
we  hope  to  make  ROYCROFT  a 
power  for  good  and  the  most  inter- 
esting periodical  in  America. 


f[  Write  us  a  letter  on  this  First  Issue  of  the  ROYCROFT. 
Tell  us  what  you  think  of  it;  whether  you  like  it  as  well, 
or  better  than  "  The  Fra,''  Give  us  your  criticisms,  your  sug- 
gestions— your  approval,  if  you  decide  we  deserve  it.  Tell 
us  WHY,  so  that  we  may  better  understand.  We'll  appreciate 
a  word  from  yjo^z.  .-.  •••••:  ;••::/  THE  ROYCROFTERS. 


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Oversleeping  and  Overeating 

Thomas  A.  Edison 

Edison's  Text:  Humanity  will  never  reach  its  ultimate 
development  until    it  cuts  down  Sleep  and  Food! 


I VERYTHING  wfaidi  de- 
creases the  sum  total  of 
man's  sleep  increases 
the  sum  total  of  man's 
capabittties.  There  re- 
ally is  no  reason  ^x^y 
men  should  go  to  bed  at  all,  and 
the  man  of  the  fixture  will  spend  far 
less  time  in  bed  than  the  man  of  the 
present  does,  just  as  the  man  of  the 
present  spends  far  less  time  in  bed 
than  tiie  man  of  the  past  did. 
As  a  matter  of  fact,  a  very  simile  bit 
of  arithmetical  figuring  win  show  that 
liy  and  t^  humanity  will  have  to  live 
in  double  shifts,  so  that  there  may  be 
room  upon  the  earth  for  all  the  pepfde. 
The  day  of  life  in  double  shifts  vniX 
come  in  spite  of  war.  Medical  science 
win  save  more  Uves  this  year  than 
war  win  take,  no  matter  how  terrif- 
ically murderous  that  war  may  be. 
In  the  old  days  man  went  up  and 
down  with  tiie  sun.  A  million  years 
firom  now  he  won't  go  to  bed  at  att. 
Reany,  sleep  is  an  absurdity,  a  bad 
habft.  We  can't  suddenly  throw  off 
the  thraldom  of  the  habit,  but  we 
shan  throw  it  off. 

Humanity  can  adjust  itself  to  almost 
any  ctrcumstances.  Not  so  veryjc^ 
ago  we  had  a  good  deal  of  troubldl^^e 


in  the  factory  while  we  were  trsiof  to 
perfect  the  disk-record  for  our  phono- 
graphs «»  Bight  of  us  then  started 
iqpon  tiie  work  witii  very  drflnitr 
intentions  of  wasting  jiM  as  ttttle 
time  as  possible.  For  five  weeks  we 
put  in  firom  145  to  150  hours  a  wedc 
each  at  tiw  job.  One  hundred  fifty 
hours  a  wedc  means  more  than  21 
hoursaday — and  we  att  gained  weight. 
€1  The  man  who  sleeps  too  mudi  suf- 
fers firom  it  in  many  ways  and  gidns 
nothing  firom  it.  The  average  man 
who  sleeps  seven  or  eii^  or  nine 
hours  daily  is  continually  opprest 
liy  lassitude. 

I  have  never  overslept,  and  I  have 
never  had  a  dream,  good  or  bad,  so 
far  as  I  know,  in  my  life. 
Nothing  in  the  world  is  more  dan- 
gerous to  the  efficiency  of  humanity 
than  too  much  sleep,  except,  perhaps 
stimulation.  The  dlmination  of  att 
stimulent  would  be  a  fine  thing  for  the 
race.  The  temperance  movement's 
advance  ought  to  be  a  subject  for 
general  congratulation.  Presently 
we  diaU  be  cutting  out  tobacco, 
tea  and  coffee,  and  we  shaU  be  bet- 
ter for  it. 

I  ^consjune  five^  ounces  to  a  meal, 
atMt  timesVd^  fadudhig  the  water 


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in  the  food.  I  drink  lots  of  water. 
The  man  engaged  at  hard  phyacal 
labor,  ^ose  work  tnakes  the  engine 
of  his  body  require  more  fuel  than 
mine  does,  could  get  on  perfectly  well 
with  ei^t  or  ten  ounces  to  a  meal, 
although  he  might  find  the  achieve- 
ment of  the  habit  difficult. 
On  the  average,  men  would  get  on 
better  if  they  reduced  their  food 
consumption  t^  two-thirds.  They  do 
the  work  of  three-horsepower  eng^les 
and  consume  the  fuel  which  should 
operate  50-horsepower  eng^les. 
If  the  world  would  cease  its  over- 
eating, it  thereto  would  do  away  with 
poverty.  Stop  and  think  this  matter 
out.  We  now  are  consuming  as  food 
600,000  bushels  of  wheat  to  accom- 
plish a  result  which  would'  be  accom- 
plished better  by  the  consumption  of 
200,000  bushels  of  wheat. 
This  is  wasteftil  in  more  ways  than 
one.  It  wastes  the  wheat,  and,  by 
making  the  supply  short,  makes  it 
expensive  and  decreases  the  power  of 
each  aere  of  land  to  support  life. 
In  the  second  place,  it  increases  the 
death — and  illness — rate  of  those  who 
overeat.  Putrefaction'  of  foodstuffs 
in  the  lower  intestines  is  the  cause  of 
most  diseases. 

Humanity  will  never  reach  its  ulti- 
mate development  imtil  it  cuts  down 
sleep  and  food.  I  consider  this  the 
most  important  condunon  which  I 
have  come  to  during  my  years  of 
hard  and  constant  ttfofi:  \  *   "-  •,  * 


From  the  Top  of 
Mt.  Sinai 

Bert  Moses 

HY  not  circulate  birth- 
contrcd  literature  among 
potato  bugs? 
A  genius  often  appears 
to  be  nothing  but  an 
ordinary   "nut"  when 

you  are  dose  up. 

Before  grasping  an  opportunity,  be 

sure  you  know  what  an  opportunity  is. 

The  first  lesson  in  oratory  is  to  learn 

what  to  do  with  your  hands. 

The  little  end  of  the  horn  is  ^x^ere 

the  noise  comes  from. 

Perfumes  cover  a  multitude  of  smells. 

Eating  com  off  the  cob  lowers  or  lifts 

us  all  to  a  common  social  leveL 

Take  hold  with  your  bare  hands.  Kid 

gloves  weaken  your  grip. 

Hell's  reputation  depends  altogether 

upon  its  high  temperature. 

Always  maintain  a  big  exit  for  your 

grouches. 

God  help  the  man  ^x^o  does  not  know 

what  it  is  to  laugh  1 

Hating  the  devil  is  fine  up  to  the 

point  where  you  make  a  living  out 

of  it. 

Life    consists    largely    in    wanting 

things  you  can't  get. 

It  would  be  interesting  to  know  how 

many  people  God  trusts,  particularly 

people  who  daim  to  trust  God   «» 

Love  lays  down  and  quits  when  the 
'^limiRi  of  assimilation  are  overstepped. 


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The  Ever-Pf esent  Landlord 

Scott  Ncarintf 

Nearing's  Text:  The  Frontier  has  gone  and  the 
Landlord  has  taken  its  place  in  American  Life, 


frontier  was  the 
I  economic  shock-ab- 
sorber of  the  early 
American  democracy.  It 
made  a  place  for  the 
adventuresome,  aggres- 
sive, discontented  spirits  that  foiled 
to  find  a  place  in  the  more  dosely 
knit  society  of  the  older  worid.  The 
frontier,  like  the  ocean,  was  open 
and  free. 

So  long  as  there  was  twenty  of  uncul- 
tivated land,  the  man  oTenergy  and 
thrift  could  secure  a  piece  of  it  for 
himself,  and  by  dint  of  hard  work  and 
care,  he  could  obtain  a  living  for  his 
family  in  fairly  direct  proportion  to 
the  amount  of  work  wfaidi  he  was 
willing  to  do.  When  aU  of  the  desir- 
able pieces  of  Mother  Earth  are  taken 
into  individual  possession,  the  direct 
relation  between  effort  and  income 
gives  i^ce  to  an  indirect  rdation  in 
which  land  ownership  becomes  a 
source  of  income,  irrespective  of  any 
effort  expended  upon  it.  Land  scar- 
city enables  the  man  who  owns  a 
piece  of  it  to  exact  a  rent  from  the 
man  who  wishes  to  use  it.  Rent  can 
exist  only  where  the  amount  of  de- 
sirable land  is  limited.  If  the  land 
were  as  abundant  as  air  and  sunshine, 


the  landkvd  might  wait  to  eternity 
before  his  land  woukl  yiekl  him  a 
penny. 

The  frontier  has  fooe  and  the  land- 
lord has  taken  its  place  in  American 
life.  The  landlord  is  here,  there  and 
everywhere.  The  increase  of  land 
vahies  is  inevitable  hi  the  United 
States.  The  total  amount  of  land  is 
limited.  Badi  increase  in  the  popu- 
lation of  the  country  makes  a  greater 
demand  for  land.  Badi  progrtsrivc 
advance  in  dviUxation  which  leads  to 
new  uses  for  the  products  of  land 
tnakes  a  greater  demand  for  land. 
Step  by  step,  the  people  of  the  United 
States  are  moving  forward  and  iq>- 
ward  along  the  path  of  devdopiog 
civilization.  Step  by  step  they  are 
adding  to  the  total  value  of  the  re- 
sources iqpon  wfaidi  that  civilisation 
depends. 

The  inexorable  character  of  this  in- 
crease in  land  values  beoomct  more 
evident  if  sdected  areas  of  land  are 
considered.  The  facts  are  patent  in 
the  case  of  an  Illinois  farm,  which 
9(Ad  in  1880  for  $25  per  acre,  and  in 
1910  for  $250  per  acre.  The  farm  land 
(without  buildings)  of  Iowa  was 
valued  at  $1,256,751,980  in  1900,  and 
at  $2,801373,729  in  1910.  The  land 


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OD  wfaidi  Boitoo  itaiidi  was  worth 
$340,404^5  in  1889  and  m  1913, 
$716,435,800.  Qreoter  New  York 
reported  a  land  vahiation  of  $4,643,- 
414,746  in  1915.  The  choice  portions 
of  the  land  of  tiw  United  Stales  are 
rising  in  vahie.  Eadi  year  adds  to  the 
power  vAikh  their  owners  have  over 
cofTiinniMty  earnings. 

MUCH  has  been  said  and  written 
regarding  the  increase  in  city- 
land  values.  It  is  insignificant 
vifben  compared  with  some  of  the 
increases  in  fiarm-land  values.  Com- 
pare, for  example,  the  increase  in  the 
land  values  of  New  York  City  with 
the  increasing  land  values  of  the 
grain  States  of  the  West  North  Cen- 
tral group.  The  population  of  New 
York  City  is  just  under  five  millioo; 
of  Iowa,  North  Dakota,  South 
Dakota,  Nebraska  and  Kansas  the 
total  rural  population  is  almost  ez- 
actiy  the  same  as  the  populatkxi  of 
New  York  City.  During  the  years  for 
whichfigures  are  available(1906-1916) 
the  land  values  of  New  York  rose 
from  $3367,000,000  to  $4,643,000,000. 
— an  increase  of  more  than  one  third 
in  ten  years.  The  total  value  of  the 
farm  lands  in  the  States  named  was, 
in  1910,  seven  and  a  half  billions  of 
dollars.  In  1900,  this  same  land  had 
beoi  valued  at  two  and  a  half  Inllioos. 
In  the  interval  of  ten  years  it  had 
increased  almost  exactly  Jive  bUlions 
of  doUars  (about  200  per  cent).  The 


total  value  of  farm  lands  in  these  five 
States  is  now  one  and  one-half  times 
the  total  value  of  land  hi  New  York 
City,  and  the  rate  of  increase  in  the 
value  of  the  land  is  four  times  the  rate 
of  increase  in  New  York  City. 
And  tiie  end?  The  end  is  not  ytt. 
House  tenant,  farm  tenant,  store 
tenant,  office  tenant — all  wait  upon 
the  landlord  with  doddike  regularity 
and  acknowledge  his  sway  with  a 
weddy  or  a  monthly  payment  made 
tyy  one  man  to  another  man  for  the 
privilege  of  using  a  little  patdi  of  an 
earth  whidi  neither  of  them  had  the 
sH^est  share  in  creating. 

Do  you  remember  the  flowers  you 
sent  me,  when  at  thai  crowded 
assembly  you  could  neither  speaknor 
extend  your  hand  to  me?  Half  the 
night  I  was  on  my  knees  before  those 
flowers,  and  I  regarded  them  as  the 
pledges  of  your  love. 
Everything  passes  away;  but  a 
whole  eternity  could  not  extinguish 
the  living  flame  which  was  yester- 
day kindled  by  your  lips,  and  which 
now  burns  within  me.  She  loves  me! 
These  arms  have  encircled  her  waist, 
these  lips  have  trembled  upon  hers, 
^he  is  mine!  Yes,  Charlotte,  you 
are  mine  forever! 

I  do  not  dream,  I  do  not  rave. 
Drawing  nearer  to  the  grave,  my 
perceptions  become  clearer.  We 
shall  exist;  we  shall  see  each  other 
again. — /.  W.  von  Goethe. 


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A  LoiV'-Broiv^s  Confession 

Strickland  GilUUn 

Gillilan's  Text:  I  like  best  the  people 
who    say  things  I  can  understand! 


: 


I  AM  stupid.  This  it  partly 
natural  and  partly  from 
choice.  I  have  cultivated 
stupidity  somewhat  be- 
cause I  aUior  looe- 
Hness. 

I  do  not  understand  a  lot  of  stuff 
pulled  tyy  peo|^  who  in  many  ways 
aeem  no  fari^iter  than  lam. 
I  know  peof^  who  rave  over  Rabin- 
dranath  Tagore,  and  I  would  go  bail 
they  know  nothing  ix^tever  as  to 
what  he  m^ans  liy  most  of  \(^t  he 
says. 

Why»  th^  don't  understand  it  any 
more  than  Rabindranath  himself  does  I 
When  r  lose  my  oonsdenoe  entirely 
and  become  absolute  nuts  on  the 
subject  of  attracting  attention  at  any 
cost,  I  am  going  to  wear  a  turban  that 
lodes  like  an  did  pants-leg,  a  puri^ 
night-shirt  that  is  too  long  for  me, 
and  whiskers.  Yes,  and  bedroom 
slii^>er8. 

Any  person  who  does  those  things  can 
start  a  cult  or  a  new  reli^on  in 
fifteen  minutes.  Of  course  he  has  to 
move  away  from  among  the  people 
who  know  him  best,  or  he  would  get 
credit  for  nothing  except  having  gone 
I^umbbug. 


If,  in  addttkn  to  the  above  prq^ara- 
tioos,  one  cultivates  tiw  habit  of 
writing  and  saying  stuff  that  nobody 
can  understand,  the  whole  problem 
becomes  as  eaqr  as  pushing  Etde 
chickens  into  the  water. 
It  is  wdl  also  to  have  lots  of  pictures 
taken  wtdi  a  fellow's  profile  against  a 
background  of  gray  sky  and  distant 
sea.  That  is  mighty  okl  stuff,  but  it  is 
as  food  as  ever. 

Anybody  with  a  bad  disposiUoo  and  a 
wport  towel  to  wn^  around  his  bean 
can  lock  like  Maladii  tiw  prophet; 
whereas  if  he  wore  regular  dodies  and 
drove  a  garbage  wagon,  there  would 
be  nothing  remarkable  about  his  map. 
€1  Just  because  you  don't  understand 
athing,dont  jumptothecondusion 
that  that  thing  is  deep.  Opaqueness 
does  n't  mean  depth — niadel  You  can 
see  the  bottom  of  some  perfectly  pure 
q)rings  that  are  a  himdred  feet  deep. 
And  when  a  horse-trade  lull  of  water 
is  muddy,  you  can't  possibly  see 
bottom.  So  a  tiling  we  cant  frithom 
may  be  deep;  it  may  only  be  muddy. 
I  like  best  the  people  who  say  things 
I  can  understand. 

I  don't  like  what  sounds  like  a  pied 
page  from  the  dictionary. 


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Continuez  tnes  Enfants 

Bolton  Hall 

Hall's  Text:  Saith  the  Lord  God:  "  Be  as  unreasoning 
Gild  as  unreasonable  as  you  choose;  but  although 
hla:,pheming  in  my  name  —  *Do  Something!  '"  :>p^  r.«» 


■ 


|OU  remember  the  story 
of  Bougereau,  the  paint- 
er. Every  morning  he 
used  to  stand  behind 
the  pupils'  easek  at  the 
ftudio  and  look  long 
and  earnestly — ^but  he  sddom  gave 
any  advice  except — "Continuez,mes 
enfants;  continuez." 
"  Keep  on,  my  children,  keep  on — " 
Not  atting  down,  nor  reflecting,  nor 
doing  the  right  or  wise  way ;  butdoing. 
C  People  think  that  things  are  about 
right  in  "our  great,  free  country" 
because  the  police  don't  bother  them. 
Business  goes  on  as  usual  and  they 
get  no  experience,  nothing  to  express, 
no  reason  for  expresang  it.  Then 
their  god  drives  them  to  war — there 
is  something  doing,  they  get  thrills  of 
horror,  of  triumph,  of  comradeship, 
of  hate,  of  grief.  They  find  for  instance 
that  "liberty"  is  understood  to 
mean  merely  (as  Teddy  said)— ^  do 
unmolested  what  the  law  allows. 
Then  we  begin  to  learn. "  Continuez, 
mes  enfants,  continuez,"  saith  the 
Lord  God,  ''Be  as  unreasoning  and  as 
unreasonable  as  you  choose;  but 
although  blaspheming,  in  my  name 
'  Do  something.' " 


The  weight  of  taxes,  the  disruption 
of  business,  the  increased  growth  of 
fortunes,  the  necessity  for  resort  to 
land,  the  extortions  of  war-fedmonop- 
oly,  Ibrce'men  to  some  action  and 
even  to  some  thought. 
Taxes,great  incomes,land-use,  monop- 
oly profits,  conscription  of  wealth, 
are  live  subjects  now. 
That*  s  the  reason  I  like  the  Great 
Adventurers,  wrong-headed,  trying  to 
push  their  anarchist  ideas  in  one  place 
and  thdr  Single  Tax  party  plan  in 
aaother;  they  are  discontent  anyhqw 
with  the  slow  progress  that  has  no 
certain  direction — and  they  have 
their  hearts  in  action. 
So  these  times  seem  to  me  (giving  due 
weight  to  all  the  aooompanying  set- 
becks    of   militarism,    beaurocracy, 

legislation,  etc)  to  be  great 

times  to  live  and  learn  and  act. 

Nothing  happens  to  any  man  which 
he  is  not  formed  by  Nature  to  bear. 
The  same  things  happen  to  another, 
and  either  because  he  does  not  see 
that  they  have  happened,  or  because 
he  would  show  a  great  spirit,  he  is 
firm  and  remains  unharmed.  It  is 
a  shame  then  that  ignorance  and 
conceit  should  be  stronger  than 
wisdom. — Marcus  Aurelius. 


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Children  as  Individuals 
—Not  as  Sausanfe-Links 

Winifred  SackWllc  Stoner 

Stoner's  Text:  How  can  we  expect  two  children  to  be  so  much  alHu 
that  the  same  methods  of  Education   will  produce   re^Nlls  lor  each  . 


who  can  ouradvcs 
'Natural  Bducatknial- 
I  ists,"  are  not  foOowera 
I  ci  any  mediod.  We  are 
working  to  make  effi- 
I  dent  beingii  thioui^ 
treating  eadi  duld  as  an  Individual 
and  not  as  a  link  in  the  sausage- 
madiine  of  life.  We  know  that  no 
two  leaves  on  a  tree  are  exactly 
alike  and  how  can  we  expect  two 
cdiildren  to  be  so  much  alike  that  the 
same  method  of  education  will  pro- 
duce results  for  eadi  diikL 
We  bdieve  that  education  does  not 
conast  in  working  for  a  sheq)8kin  but 
in  aiming  to  become  a  useful  being 
and  we  see  no  reason  why  education 
should  be  given  in  iht  form  of  work 
when  play  will  bring  the  same  results. 
We  argue  that  "  Work  is  for  an  end 
but  play  is  the  very  end  itself."  By 
play  we  refer  to  occupation  for  some 
big  aim  and  occupation  where  tht 
Fairy  Interest  is  present.  Work  is 
accompanied  by  the  gnome  Drudge. 
Men  like  Edison  play  and  accomplish 
great  things.  Tramps  work  at  the 
woodinle  and  accomplish  little  «»  It 
is  ouMiope  to  make  shining  lights 
of  the  constructive  geniuses  rather 


than  tht  destructive.  The  construc- 
tive must  be  taui^t  in  the  cradle  and 
parents  should  not  sow  seeds  of  war 
by  giving  diildren  toy  swords  and 
pistoband  by  singing  hi|^iest  praise 
to  soldiers  in  nursery  days. 
Some  so-called  educators  preach 
"Banidunent  of  Fairies."  We  are 
fighting  to  preserve  these  same 
fairies.  There  are  fairies  in  the  hearts 
of  all  good  and  great  peof^e.  Fairies 
whisper  to  us  to  do  good  deeds  and 
fairies  are  the  creative  power  which 
has  caused  the  painting  of  great  pic- 
tureSf  composmg  of  great  mustc* 
building  of  great  structures,  etc 
We  have  many  games  in  Natural 
Education;  games  to  teach  the 
sciences,  games  to  teach  the  arts  and 
we  begin  to  teadi  diildren  how  to 
play  in  the  earliest  babyhood  days. 
In  fact  we  bdieve  in  prenatal  in- 
fluence of  play  and  urge  our  mothers 
to  be  happy  and  playful  before  the 
birth  of  thdr  diildren  and  to  begin 
the  mental-physical-spiritual  training 
as  soon  as  the  diild  b  bom.  There  is 
no  fear  that  the  child  will  be  injured 
in  being  kept  busy.  As  long  as  Fairy 
Interest  is  present  no  harm  can  be 
done. 


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Gerald  Stanley  Lee 

Lee's  Text:  The  churches — quoting  from  the  Presi- 
dents of 'Steel  Corporations  instead  of  the  Apostles. 


|H£  other  day  inpaMtng 

I  tfarouch 1  found 

I  myadf  looking  every 
time  I  passed  under  a 
I  churdi  steeple  at  a  big 
placard  posted  up  on 
the  house  of  the  Lord.  The  placards 
all  had  on  than  bits  of  good  advice, 
spiritual  counsds  quoted  from  big 
business  houses.  On  one  street  I 
heard  a  diurdi  sasring,  Rrotnotion 
aniy  to  Total  Abstainers  in  the 
Carnegie  Sted  Works."  On  another 
I  saw  this  seardiing  question  ad- 
dressed to  everyone  passing  the 
House  of  the  Lord,  "flT^  do  theUfe 
Insurance  Con^anies,  etc.,.^?'*  And 
another  one, ''  Why  do  the  Railroads, 
ete..^.?" 

It  seemed  to  me  a  very  pretty  agl^t, 
to  see  everywhere  as  I  passed  through 
the  dty,  the  churdies  trying  to  get 
people  to  be  good  as  they  went  by — 
and  quoting  firom  the  Presidents  of 
Sted  Corporations  instead  of  the 
Apostles,  and  shoving  out  in  front  of 
people  one  big  business  after  the 
other,  that  people  ought  to  notice 
more,  govern  their  lives  by  more  and 
try  to  be  like. 

It  may  seem  a  little  odd  at  first  to  see 
the  churdies  in  this  way,  gravdy. 


hopefully  setting  Big  Business  to 
doing  thdr  preadiing  for  them  to 
the  people. 

But  as  the  way  that  real  people  learn 
real  things  is  eight  hours  a  day — 
through  the  way  they  are  employed, 
and  as  the  daily,  hourly  spiritual 
interests  of  the  world,  and  tiie  virtues, 
sincerity,  service,  effidency,  mutual 
interestsofallthe  people,  have  all  been 
placed  in  business  men's  hands,  the 

sight  I  saw  in the  other  day 

b  but  a  forecast  of  the  new  detailed 
spiritual  revdation  that  is  already 
coming  to  the  world  from  the  masters 
of  materials,  from  the  employers  of 
labor  and  the  experts  in  himian  re- 
lations, now  being  called  for — and 
now  being  supplied  under  the  con- 
ditions of  successful  budness  in 
modem  life. 

Whatever  may  happen  in  the  way 
of  getting  the  churches  in  America 
to  be  rdigious,  and  there  are  days 
when  one  is  discouraged  about 
them,  the  business  world  from  to- 
day on,  in  America,  is  gcnng  to  l>e 
rdigious.  It  could  not  keep  from 
bdng  rdigious  if  it  tried.  The  ruling 
modem  business  man  is  g(»ng  to  be 
religious  because  he  has  got  to  be 
dramatic  in  order  to  get  things  done. 


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Bvcry  stupendous  business  problem 
is  a  dramatic  problemandit  can  only 
be  worked  out  by  what  might  be 
called  a  rdigious  drill  or  ^  spiritual 
feat  the  men  at  tiie  top  have  to  put 
themselves  through,  in  seeing  and 
combining  the  points  d  view  d 
others.  Those  who  put  themselves 
throng  of  tiieir  own  accord  win  get 
throng  first  and  tiie  emj^oyers  who 
have  to  wait  to  be  forced  to  see* 
things  by  others,  are  falling  bdiind 
in  the  race. 

The  problem  of  American  business 
life  is  tile  problem  of  dramatising 
capital  to  labor  and  of  dramatising 
labor  to  capital  so  that  th^r  win 
boith  be  able  to  keq>  their  eym  on 
each  other  and  kttp  eadi  other 
straiglht  and  have  a  sound  rock-bed 
basis  for  honest  lojral  team-work  »^ 
ThetrouUe  aU comes  from  keeping 
the  fact  dark.  Everybody  knows 
that  an  honest  inventive  ten  thou- 
sand dollars  honesdy  earned  and 
honestly  invested  and  honestly, 
shrewdly  administered  works  as 
hard  with  its  brains  in  a  stupend- 
ous business  age  nke  this  as  any 
man  could  or  ever  did  with  his 
hands  «»  s^ 

The  only  posnble  way  to  make  the 
man  with  the  pick  reasonable  to- 
wards the  man  with  the  ten  thou- 
sand dollars  is  to  find  some  way  of 
letting  him  be  right  alongside  and 
see  how  that  ten  thousand  dcdlars 
works.  The  man  with  the  ten  thou- 


sand dollars  and  oie  man  wiui  the 
pick  have  got  to  be  got  together. 
I  saw  two  men  yesterday  driving  in 
a  spike  on  a  railroad  track.  One 
raises  his  sledge  one  second  and 
drives  down  on  the  spike  and  the 
other  raises  his  sle(^  the  next 
second,  and  drives  down  on  the  spike 
the  next.  There  they  both  are  as  a 
matter  of  fact — the  ten  thousand 
dollar  bin  and  the  raOroad  hand  it 
has  given  the  job  to,  swinging  away 
together  every  minute  on  the  same 
spike  and  an  that  has  to  be  done  to 
make  them  loyal  to  each  other  and  to 
make  them  work  hard  for  each  other 
and  with  each  other  is  to  find  some 
way  of  dramatising  the  fact  to  the 
workman  that  the  ten  thousand 
dottar  bUlis  there. 
The  whole  problem  of  getting 
capital  and  labor  straii^t  and  of 
making  them  do  efficient  team-work 
seems  to  narrow  down  eventuany 
into  a  dramatic  proUem — a  prob- 
lem of  picking  out  words  and  actions 
that  win  make  men  see  eadi  others' 
work. 

Of  course  I  admit  that  what  I  am 
saying  only  applies  to  an  honest 
ten  thousand  dollar  bin.  I  do  not 
deny  that  if  the  average  ten  thou- 
sand dollars  was  lined  up  to  work 
on  the  track  with  the  average 
laborer,  with  the  idea  of  having  the 
laborer  see  how  ten  thousand  d<d- 
lars  could  sweat,  the  ten  thousand 
dollars  would  get  the  worst  of  it. 


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Henry  George 

Henry  George's  Text:  Only  in  broken  gleams  and  partial 
light  has   the  sun  of  liberty  yet  beamed  upon  men! 


INLY  in  brc^Ecn  glcanis 
and  partial  lii^t  has  the 
sun  of  Liberty  yet  beam- 
I  ed  upon  men,  but  all 
piX)gre8s  hath  she  called 
forth. 

Liberty  came  to  a  race  of  slaves 
crouching  imder  Egyptian  whips,  and 
led  them  forth  from  the  House  of 
Bondage.  She  hardened  them  in  the 
desert  and  made  them  a  race  of  con- 
querors. The  free  spirit  of  the  Mosaic 
law  took  their  thinkers  up  to  heights 
where  they  behdd  the  unity  of  God, 
and  insinred  their  poets  with  strains 
that  yet  phrase  the  highest  exalta- 
tions of  thought.  Liberty  dawned  on 
the  Phemdan  coast,  and  ships  passed 
the  Pillars  of  Hercules  to  plow  the 
imknown  sea.  She  shed  a  partial  light 
on  Greece,  and  marble  grew  to  shapes 
of  ideal  beauty,  words  became  the 
instruments  of  subtlest  thought,  and 
against  the  scanty  militia  of  free' 
cities  the  countless  hosts  of  the  Great 
King  broke  like  surges  against  a  rock. 
She  cast  her  beams  on  the  four-acre 
farms  of  Italian  husbandmen,  and 
bom  of  her  strength  a  power  came 
forth  that  conquered  the  world.  They 
glinted  from  shields  of  German  war- 
riors,  and  Augustus  wept  for  his 


lemons.  Out  of  the  night  that  fol- 
lowed her  edipee,  her  slanting  rays 
fell  again  on  free  dties,  and  a  lost 
learning  revived,  modem  dvilization 
began,  a  new  world  was  unveiled;  and 
as  Liberty  grew,  so  grew  art,  wealth, 
power,  knowledge,  and  refinement. 
In  the  history  of  every  nation  we  may 
read  the  same  truth.  It  was  the 
strength  bom  of  Magna  Charta  that 
won  Crecy  and  Agincourt.  It  was  the 
revival  of  Liberty  from  the  despotism 
of  the  Tudors  that  glorified  the 
Elizabethan  age.  It  was  the  spirit  that 
brought  a  crowned  tyrant  to  the  block 
that  planted  here  the  seed  of  a  mighty 
tree.  It  was  the  energy  of  andent 
freedom  that,  the  moment  it  had 
gained  unity,  made  Sp6in  the  might- 
iest power  of  the  world,  only  to  fall  to 
the  lowest  depths  of  weakness  when 
tyranny  succeeded  liberty. 
See,  in  France,  all  intellectual  vigor 
dying  imder  the  tyranny  of  the 
Seventeenth  Century  to  revive  in 
splendor  as  Liberty  awoke  in  the 
Eighteenth,  and  on  the  enfr-anchise- 
ment  of  French  peasants  in  the 
Great  Revolution,  baang  the  wonder- 
ful strength  that  has  in  our  time 
defied  defeat. 
Shall  we  not  trust  her? 


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No  Annexation  and  No  Indemnity 

David  Goldberg 


Goldberg's    Text:    Witness    the    insistence    of  Revolutionary   Russia 
that   small  nationalities  have  their  own  right  to  shape  their  destiny. 


|HE  objective  point  of 
view  is  the  property 
of  the  dis-interested 
party.  It  is  only  the 
super-man  that  can 
n>aintain  an  altruistic 
attitude  towards  a  struggle  which 
is  decidedly  his  own  »^  The  human 
way  is  the  subjective  way,  curbed 
and  narrowed  by  our  own  interests 
in  the  struggle  t^  Time  was  when, 
leonling  before  the  horrors  that 
followed  in  the  wake  of  the  Russian 
Revolution,  ,we  nevertheless  termed 
it  sublime.  For,  in  so  far  as  it  was 
posable  for  us  to  view  the  situation 
objectivdy,  it  was  easy  to  under- 
stand how  the  liberation  of  one 
hundred  and  eighty  miUions  from 
the  chains  of  Kossackdom  would  in 
course  of  time — and  the  objective 
mind  of  necessity  must  reckon 
with  the  course  of  time — bring 
ample  returns  for  the  awfiil  price 
paid  for  such  liberation. 
But  destiny  so  willed  it  that  we 
should  no  longer  be  permitted  to 
view  the  struggle  with  the  self- 
comi^acency  of  an  out^der.  Russia 
is  our  ally.  No  longer  the^  destiny  of 
Russia  that  counts  for  our  anxiety. 


but  it  is  cur  destiny  as  bound  up 
with  that  of  Russia.  We  have  lost 
the  tranquility  of  the  objective 
mind.  Our  point  of  view  now  is  de- 
fined by  our  interests,  and  we  ad- 
judge ourselves  in  the  ri|^t  or  in  the 
wrong  according. 
There  is  a  bit  of  tragedy  in  this 
shift  of  the  point  of  view,  but  it  can 
not  be   hdped,   for  it  is  human. 

GRANTING  that  a  separate 
peace  between  revolutionary 
Russia  and  autocratic  Prussia  is 
a  parodoK,  that  Russia,  therefore 
will  remain  our  ally  until  the  su- 
preme decision  is  reached*  the 
question  uppermost  in  our  mind  is: 
How  wiU  the  formula  of  "  No  An- 
nexation and  no  Indemnity,"  as 
speUed  by  revolutionary  Russia, 
affect  our  own  interests?  This  I 
shall  briefly  discuss. 
First  as  to  the  meaning  of  the  term. 
I  believe  it  was  Professor  Samuel 
Harper  of  the  Univernty  of  Chicago 
who  first  called  the  attention  of  the 
American  reader  to  the  material 
difference  in  the  meaning  of  the 
term  as  used  by  the  Russian  and 
as  imderstood  by  ourselves.  I  should 


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like  to  emphawtr  it  by  tayiag 
that  the  word  "  indemnity "  is 
plainly  a  mistranalation  of  the 
Ruitian  coniributsiya.  The  Rusnan 
has  a  way  d  his  own  in  handling 
foreicn  words,  namdy,  one-nded» 
and  without  reference  to  the  root 
and  etymc^ogy  of  the  word.  He 
borrows  a  technical  term  or  phrase 
from  some  foreign  tongue  for  a 
ir^c(^c  purpose  and  continues  to  use 
it  in  a  specific  sense,  in  the  sense 
first  employed,  and  with  total  dis- 
regard for  derivatives.  Thus,  the 
word  AMsimUiatsiya  (Assimilatioa) 
to  the  Russian  merdy  designates 
the  fudon  of  a  minor  national 
group  with  a  major,  of  an  indi- 
vidual within  the  group,  but  it 
designates  nothing  else.  Unless  he 
be  a  linguist  the  Rusnan  would 
not  understand  such  an  expression 
as  "  the  assimilatioa  of  food." 
Similarly,  coniributsiya  designates 
to  the  Russian  but  one  thing, 
namely,  the  extortionate  sum  levied 
by  the  conqueror  on  the  conquered, 
such  as  the  five  billion  francs  ex- 
torted from  France  after  the  Franco- 
Prussian  war.  To  the  act  of  con- 
tributing  the  Russian  invariably 
attaches  a  sense  of  humiliation,  as 
anything  done  through  coercion  and 
sheer  oppression.  It  would  never 
occur  to  him  to  speak  of  a  voluntary 
contribution,  while  such  an  expres- 
sion as  "  charitable  contribution  " 
he    would    consider    unthinkable. 


Certainly  he  would  not  associate 
contributsiya  with  what  we  under- 
stand by  the  word  "indenmity," 
which  is  essentially  the  act  of  justly 
compensating  for  hurt  or  damage 
UAJustiy  inflicted. 

Therefore,  the  rendering  of  *'Bei  An- 
nexatsiyi,  Bex  Contributsiyi ''  into 
"without  annexation,  without  in- 
demnity "  is  incorrect.  Even  as  re- 
gsrds  the  term  **  annexation  "  it  is 
important  to  know  that,  in  the 
Russian  usage  of  the  word,  it  would 
not  exclude  such  rearrangement  of 
boundaries  as  may  be  affected  with- 
out imposition.  Witness  the  insis- 
tence of  Revolutionary  Russia  that 
small  nationalities  have  their  own 
right  to  shape  their  destiny. 
Hence  the  Russian  formula  in 
reality  coincides  with  our  own 
formula  a9  voiced  by  President 
Wilson.  I  refer  to  his  famous  '^Peace 
without  >^ctory  "  dedaratioo.  The 
prindple  underlying  both  of  these 
slogans  is  that,  in  the  final  settle- 
ment of  affedrs  the  dement  of  right, 
as  based  on  the  wish  of  the  people, 
should  alone  be  the  deciding  factor, 
and  that  no  dement  of  conquest 
should  be  taken  into  consideration. 
We  should  dedare  before  the  whcde 
world  our  solemn  adherence  to  the 
"  No  annexation  and  no  imposed 
contribution  "  formula,  not  merdy 
a  matter  of  condstency,  but  as 
something  that  will  justify  our  en- 
trance into  the  war  at  aU. 


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What  is  a  Pacifist? 

Richard  D.  Kathrcnt 

Kathren's  Text:   The  Pacifist  is   never   a   cringer 
nor  a  poltroon  nor  a  molly-coddle  nor  a  pussy-foot. 


of  might  recognite  the  rights  of 
others,  and  he  has  found  the  way  to 
curb  and  control  ruthless  power. 
The  Pacifist  is  never  a  violator  of 
law,  but  is  rather  a  stickler  for  its 
observance  and  enforcement. 
The  Pacifist  is  never  a  cringer  nor  a 
poltroon  nor  a  moQy-coddle  nor  a 
pussy-foot.  These  are  epithets  cast 
by  the  slaves  of  custom — ^e  boot- 
lickers and  the  syoof^iantic  mud- 
slingers, high  and  low,  who  are 
conspiring  to  overthrow  our  De- 
mocracy and  to  establish  a  political 
Aristocracy  in  this  Country.  The 
present  day  Pacifist  is  a  man  of 
Peace,  who  abhors  war,  and  would 
studiously  avoid  tiie  occasions  of 
war. 

He  is  not  one  who  can  not  fight,  or 
will  not  fight;  neither  is  he  one  who 
is  "  too  proud  to  fight  " — simply 
one  who  believes  there  is  a  better 
way. 

The  man  who  can  not  fight  is  a 
weakling;  the  man  who  unU  not 
fight  is  a  coward. 

Briefly;  the  Pacifist  b  one  who 
woiM  rather  not  fight,  but  can  fight 
and  fights  Uke  a  Spartan,  when 
he  realises  that  no  other  alter- 
native remains. 


|OR  some  reason,  not 
eanly  explained,  the 
Peacemaker  has  rardy 
ei^qyed  a  fair  measure 
of  popular  approvaL 
This  fact  involves  a 
strange^anomaly,  when  it  is  con- 
mdered  that  practically  all  that  is 
worth  while  in  our  civilization 
has  been  wrought  by  Pacifists  »^ 
All  artntrary  authority  is  based 
upon  the  twin  fietllades;  "might 
makes  right  "  and  "the  end  justi- 
fies the  means."  The  Pacifist  has 
always  stood  squardy  against  these 
dangerous  doctrines,  and  has  con- 
tended that  they  are  immoral,  that 
they  are  subversive  of  order,  and 
that  they  are  destructive  of  human 
rights;  and,  whatever  of  freedom 
and  independence  exists  in  the 
world  to-day,  the  credit  bdongs  to 
the  patient  and  persistent  patriot- 
ism of  the  Pacifist. 
The  Pacifist  has  ever  been  the 
balancing  power,  and  the  real 
conservative  force  in  the  affairs  of 
men;  and  his  essential  labors  and 
advice  and  example  have  furnished 
the  safe  menstruum  for  the  final 
solution  of  our  social  and  economic 
problems.  He  has  made  the  men 


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JRallah  of  tIPtitngpB!  UnoUin 

Francois  ViUon 


FLIES  in  the  milk  I  know  fuU  weU : 
I  know  men  by  the  dothet  they  wear 
I  know  the  wahiut  by  the  shell : 

I  know  the  foul  sky  from  the  fair : 
I  know  the  pear-tree  by  the  pear : 
I  know  the  worker  frtxn  the  drone 

And  eke  the  good  wheat  frtxn  the  tare  : 
/  know  aU  save  mys^  alona. 

I  know  the  pourpoint  by  the  fell 

And  by  his  gown  I  know  the  frere : 

Master  by  varlet  I  can  spell : 

Nuns  by  the  veils  that  hide  thdr  hair : 
I  know  the  sharper  and  his  snare 

And  fools  that  fat  on  cates  have  grown : 
Wines  by  the  cask  I  can  compare : 

/  know  all  save  myself  alone. 

I  know  how  horse  from  mule  to  tell ; 

I  know  the  load  that  each  can  bear : 
I  know  both  Beatrice  and  Bell : 

I  know  the  hazards,  odd  and  pair : 

I  know  of  visions  in  tiie  air : 
I  know  the  power  of  Peter's  throne 

And  how  misled  Bohemians  were : 
/  know  all  save  myself  alone. 

BNVOI 

Prince,  I  know  all  things :  fat  and  spare, 
Ruddy  and  pale,  to  me  are  known 

And  Death  that  endeth  all  our  care : 
/  know  all  save  myself  alone.] 


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Bmlttmoru  tiu<l  i.fhm  Katlrnacl.  Aii  tiriJ^ACi- 
ixQT  wEth  a  ojiHunKl  vtiium  4  trcnimi- 
douB  i^unvtrDrtife  fore?.  On*^  o(  tt>4 
Ittronj!  men  gf  tbti  nutlnEi.    AppiiirjtcLl  tiy 


[ji'i^ii.  Hj  loflinr.  urnUir  ^mifhiiIi  W'trvT, 
KhbbI  (It  Ti><ii|itf»  Hfth  hi  Siw  Vi-^H 
C'LEVi    iJlt'^IJ  J.^E*V,  A  Ihilit    i<t    Wi)f.it\v*nm\i 


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nPTON     SISCLA;  11- Author     nJ     Tht 
Jungtf  mill  niaijy  Iji^fikft  and  »rt3<:Le*  <i^u 
Bofltltinn   Olid   hlnlrt'rt  piib|LTti.  PrpJ> 
flhly    thti    Jlrjr*    writer     iu     itiinrlfji.    A 
flKUlflJ.!!  toTph.  An  UtiStiRlkh  irutM. 

WILLIAM      TL      tJltUOKS-FroltBtor, 
uatCfDirHimL^r,    lL^E:lurc:r.    ^iAray^rai    of  :;7 
rbidtidr  iiior«  thRti  any 'utLiT  ri villi  flB 
tri»uuniffTr  JJiaruTyrrd  LAifiif  thtim  wtth  a 

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''  I  speak  Truths  not  so  much  as  I  would,  but  as  much 
as  I  dare;  and  dare  a  httle  more  as  I  grow  oider^ 


Felicitations 


Felix  Shay 


Compensations  and 
Indemnities 

f>H  WALDO  EM- 
ERSON, the  sage  of 
Concord,  in  his  Essan 
on  Condensation,  gave 
us  hope  for  far-reach- 
ing benefits  to  come 
a  result  of  the  world  war  t^ 
Sorrow  and  hapi»ness,  selfishness 
and  the  kindly  heart,  war  and 
peace,  death  and  life,  are  spawned 
of  the  same  seed.  One  is  sequent 
to  the  other.  As  sure  as  the  tides 
flow  and  ebb,  the  day  breaks, 
reaches  perihelion,  and  fades,  the 
pendulum  swings  and  swings  back, 
the  experiences  of  man  shall  travel 
from  Nadir  to  Zenith,  and  the  dark- 
ness and  turmcnl  and  tragedy  of  the 
abyss  is  but  to  heighten  the  joy,  the 
exhilaration,  the  exuberance,  of  the 
upward  dimb.  If  this  reasoning  is 
fundamental,  and  so  it  seems  to 
me,  what  then  can  be  the  benefits 
the  World  War  will  bring  to  the 
world?  What  can  be  the  compen- 


sations and  indemnities  to  dvili- 
satioD  for  this  wanton  wastage  of 
men  and  materials?  What  guaran- 
tee have  we  that  the  race  of  men 
is  making  head?  What  balm  to 
mitigate  the  grief,  to  soothe  the 
•ore  hurt?  What  comfort  that  the 
loved  ones  dead  did  not  die  in  vain? 
AH  written  here  rises  from  the 
belief,  the  hope,  the  wish,  that 
Germany  wiU  be  defeated.  Should 
Germany  win,  the  future  promises 
but  slavery  to  a  brutish  automaton 
without  a  soul. 
Germany  shall  not  winl 
Germany's  ruthlessness,  frightful- 
ness,  her  frenzied  hatreds,  her  over- 
bearing mode  of  conduct  and  gov- 
ernment; her  militarism,  her  gross 
ambitions,  needed  to  be-shown  up  as 
a  menace  to  progress,  a  hindrance, 
a  handicap  to  mankind  »^  Peace 
could  not  crush  this  monstrous 
anachronism  1  »^  War  was  needed, 
terrible  war,  to  make  men  suffer. 
Out  of  heartrending  anguish  comes 
the  desire  for  the  peace  that 
passeth    all    understanding. 


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What  form  peace  win  take  may  not 
be  comi^etely  anticii>ated;  only  in 
part.  Surely,  we  believe,  these  will 
be  tome  of  the  blessings  and 
benefits  to  come  as  a  reward  for 
the  siqn-eme  service  dieerfully 
rendered  by  the  common  people 
of  all  nations,  even    unto   death. 

WE, the  common  people,  have 
learned  a  lesson  in  geogra- 
phy. We  have  learned  who  inhabits 
this  earth  and  how  he  lives;  his 
civilization,  his  religion,  his  habits; 
what  he  produces.  We  have  learned 
who  holds  the  gateways  of  the 
world  and  for  what  purpose.  We 
have  learned  why  some  nations  de- 
sire to  dominate  and  rule  over  other 
nations;  and  what  dass  in  these 
nations  dedres  this  dominance,  and 
who  takes  the  profit  t^  We  have 
tapped  the  caves  of  the  world- 
robbers  and  listened  to  their  quar- 
reling over  booty.  This  is  "practical" 
education,  and  we  shall  not  forget. 
We  have  learned  our  first  lesson  in 
the  Brotherhood  of  Man;  and  laid 
the  foundation-stones  of  a  world 
democracy;  we  have  learned  that 
common  men  of  all  races  are 
equally  brave,  essentially  the  same 
in  virtue  and  fault;  that  men  of 
twenty  nations  can  serve  as  allies 
and  live  together  in  amity,  and 
work  together  for  a  common  cause; 
that  a  difference  in  language  is  no 
barrier  to  co-operation;  that  money- 


lust  and  autocracy,  oppression, 
perverted  education  and  ignorance, 
are  the  insidious  enemies  of  us  all. 
C  We  have  learned  the  fundamen- 
tals of  the  wrongdoing  of  kinss 
and  emperors.  This  cruel  war  has 
dissipated  the  myth  of  their  good- 
ness and  benevolence  t^  In  the 
flaming  light  of  burning  homes,  we 
have  seen  the  kings  and  court- 
loafers,  the  titled  aristocracy, 
as  bandits  of  the  middle  ages, 
who  have  stolen  the  land,  cor- 
rupted the  law;  pauperixed  the 
citizenry  by  levies  of  our  sustenance 
in  form  of  regal  taxes.  We  see  the 
self-styled  upper  dasses  as  para- 
sitic bugs  feeding  off  the  unwashed 
bodies  of  the  poorl 
We  have  learned,  as  private  soldiers, 
that  man  's  machines  of  destruction 
have  overpowered  man's  resistance. 
The  machine  is  the  hero  and  the 
sole  survivor  of  the  battlefidd! 
Who  wins  this  war  will  walk  to 
victory  over  millions  and  millions 
of  the  common  people  slain  1 
Those  who  survive  go  back  to  the 
graves  of  their  starved  children;  to 
ruined  fields  and  embers!  The  price 
is  too  great  to  pay.  We  will  have  no 
more  of  war,  because  we  will  hav^ 
no  more  of  preparation  for  warl 
We  have  broadened  our  patriotism 
to  include  the  honest  people  of  aU 
nations;  our  flag  is  tiie  flag  of 
Humanity.  We  know  that  secular 
governments    are    not    infalliUe, 


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least  of  an  the  most  efficient  gov- 
cmmeiits*  Taerefofc  we  unoerstsiid 
the  Future's  need  for  the  distri- 
butiofi  and  curtaiuneiit  of  power. 
''That  gDvemment  is  best  wliidi 
governs  least." 

Whe^  the  World  Constitution  is 
written,  the  referendum,  the  right 
of  the  whole  dtisenry  to  vote  on 
Hie  and  death  problems,  shall  have 

We  have  learned  to  identify,  to 
re^)ect  the  true  representatives  of 
the  common  people,  the  social 
revolutionist*— those  who  in 
peace  times,  the  aristocratic  gov- 
ernments of  the  world  named 
anathema  «»  This  war  crisis  finds 
Liebknccfat,  the  German  Socialist, 
the  one  government  official  of 
Germany,  honored  outside  thiit 
country;  finds  Kerensky,  the  Rus- 
sian Revolutionist,  the  strong  mux 
of  the  Near  E^ast.  We  shall  not 
be  confused  or  misled  again.  These 
defamed  and  vilified  fighters  against 
dass  and  caste,  these  men  who 
risk  fiwedom  and  life,  we  shall 
not  forget  them.  The  epithets  studc 
on  them  last  year  shall  be  the  badge 
of  greatness  neztyearl 
Hencefortii,  we  will  sdect  our 
leaders  firom  the  men  of  the  people. 
Even  so,  thdr  good  intent  we  shall 
judge  by  their  wiltingness  to  serve 
one  term,  and  then  resign.  We  want  ^ 
no  more  profesnonal  politicians  «»  ^ 
We  have  learned  of  the  fisilure  of^ 


the  Christian  Churdi.  We  have 
watched  it  forsake  its  God  who 
mmmands,  "Thou  shah  not  killl" 
and  enlist  under  all  flags  to  wage 
bloody  war.  We  have  seen  none  of 
the  wpixit  of  the  martyrs  in  these 
gross  materialists.  We  have  watdied 
the  joke  they  have  played  on  the 
Prince  of  Peace,  prajring  to  him  in 
a  doaen  tongues  under  a  doaen  flags 
for  "victory" — and  we  are  ashamed  I 
The  new  rdigion  shall  be  one  of 
enlightenment,  of  service,  love, 
fisith,  and  mutual  reipect,  and  of 
this  woeldl 

We  have  sounded  the  depths  of 
human  kindness  and  scanned  its 
boundless  shores.  With  this  over- 
whdming  wiU-to-fl^ve  dominatii^ 
the  race  of  men,  there  is  hope  for  a 
civilisation  that  will  provide  against 
disgraceful  wealth  and  degrading 
poverty. 

We  have  decided  that  the  world 
vision  in  bunness  will  guarantee 
both  peace  and  prosperity.  We  do 
not  quarrd  with  our  ctistomers,  or 
make  war  on  them.  Provincialism 
is  the  fisther  of  patriotism.  Once 
acquainted  with  the  men  of  other 
nations;  once  we  begin  to  under- 
stand them,  to  share  their  successes 
and  sorrows,  we  will  never  want 
to  kill  themi  All  countries  should 
trade  with  aU  other  countries/reeZy. 
Prosperity  must  not  be  segregated! 
We  have  learned  self-reliance  and 
thrift.  From  now  on,  a  home  shall 


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indude  sufficient  land  around  it 
for  a  garden.  Each  family  shall 
rival  its  neighbor  in  being  self- 
sustaining.  The  family  garden-plot 
shall  be  a  social  center  and  work  in 
it  shall  be  eminently  respectable. 
The  hoe  shall  outclass  the  scepter 
and  the  golf-stick.  Employers  of 
labor  shall  move  their  plants  to 
villages,  where  living  is  something 
more  than  six  in  a  bedrooml  The 
society  magazines  shall  print  the 
pictures  of  the  grand-dames  who 
put  up,  in  glass,  a  sufficient  quantity 
of  fruit  and  vegetables  for  the  fam- 
ily need.  Ladies  who  overdress,  and 
carry  loot,  shall  be  outcast. 
A  law  shall  be  passed  to  commit 
and  convict  male  wastrels,  gamblers 
of  all  lands,  including  brokers,  and 
those  society  Ferdies  who  spin  but 
do  not  workl 

We  have  learned  the  value  of  land, 
the  productive  value;  we  are  set 
against  the  monopoly  of  natural 
resources  for  private  gedn;  against 
all  large  private  holdings.  We  have 
learned  the  relation  of  land  produc- 
tion to  food  costs";  we  will  permit 
no  man  to  hold  idle  land,  waiting 
increase  in  values.  He  must  cultivate 
it.  If  it  serves  better  the  interests 
of  the  people,  his  land  shall  be 
divided  and  sold  to  small  farmers! 
We  have  learned  the  necesaty  for 
each  man  to  contribute  his  share  of 
useful  work. 
We  have  learned   that   woman  is 


man's  equal  even  in  war-time  9^ 
She  has  adroitly  demonstrated* 
beyond  the  doubt  of  the  hard- 
headed  ignoramus,  that  not  even 
war  can  be  conducted  without 
women.  She  is  dvilisatibn's  most 
urgent  need.  Women  have  taken 
over  the  industries  of  Europe;  they 
are  saving  for  us  what  remains  of 
their  mangled  men.  Woman's  right 
to  vote  on  all  subjects  is  to  be  the 
first  great  reform  1 

We  have  learned  that  to  "get 
there"  quickly  is  not  nearly  so 
advantageous  as  a  pleasant  journey. 
We  will  think  less  of  the  mad  rush 
for  money,  the  sweating  of  other 
men,  than  we  do  of  safeguarding 
the  race.  We  will  think  less  of 
national  and  reli^ous  and  patri- 
otic education,  and  more  of  con- 
structiveness  and  hdpfidness; 
more  of  beauty  and  happiness, 
more  of  justice  and  liberty. 

Marilla 

and  Cannibalism 

lELLOW  SAVANTS 
and  Ford  Owners; 
I  rise  on  personal 
privilege  to  put  this 
question:  "Do  you 
know  Marilla  ?  " 
No?  then  fie  and  for  shame  I  I  bite 
my  thumb  at  your  pretences.  You 
are  an  aggregation  of  dumdoodles. 
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Hampshire:  Manila  Ricker,  Dover, 
N.  H.  She  was  a  fighting  exponent 
of  equal  suffrage  when  there  were 
just  three  suffragettes  in  America. 
Susan  B.  Anthony  was  one;  Marina 
was  the  other  two. 
Once  on  a  time  she  nominated  her- 
sdf  Governor  of  New  Hampshire, 
and  went  down  to  the  polls  on 
election  day  and  cast  the  vote 
she  received.  Yes,  she  didl  N.  H. 
got  very  wrathy  about  it,  but  what 
could  one  poor  state  do  when  Ma- 
nila had  made  up  her  mind?  That 's 
the  problem^ — what  could  a  poor 
rural  state  like  New  Hampshire  do  ? 
Marilla  was  "a  lawyer  and  a  good 
one"  back  in  1882.  She  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  bar  of  the  Supreme 
Court  of  Washington,  D.  C,  that 
year.  In  1891  she  was  admitted  to 
the  bar  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the 
United  States! 

In   1890  she  filed  a  petition  and 
forced  the  bigwigs  to  admit  women 
lawyers  to  practise  before  the  bar 
of  New  Hampshire. 
Marilla  doesf 

For  thirty  years  she  has  befriended 
prisoners,  and  handled  their  cases 
in  the  courts  without  charge.  She 
has  fought  numberless  just  cSises, 
without  remuneration  I  t^  To  her, 
justice  is  a  sacred  word. 
Other  than  justice,  liberty,  equal 
opportunity,  and  a  few  such  selec- 
tions, there  are  not  many  sacred 
words  in  her  vocabulary.  She  is  a 


Freethinker — ^bless  srou,  yett  She 
disbelieves  fervently. 
Marilla  is  77  years  on  earth.  She 
wears  her  hair  short  for  convenience, 
and  because  it  is  her  privilege  to  do 
so.  Her  head  is  that  of  a  Roman 
Senator.  She  talks  with  her  eyes  on 
you  and  her  mind  on  the  subject. 
€L  Throughout  the  year  she  amuses 
hersdf  exposing  the  shtnaniganisms 
of  Teddy,  the  near-Migor-Oeneral, 
and  Billy  Sundayt  the  almost- 
prophet.  She  sends  her  stuff"  to 
the  newspapers.  They  print  it;  be 
sure  of  that.  It 's  warm  "  copy." 
Marilla  uses  the  logical  method 
exclusively.  She  forsook  the  emo- 
tional and  sentimental  appeal  in 
her  early  youth;  about  the  time 
Abraham  Lincoln  was  thinking  of 
going  into  politics. 
Once  each  year  she  writes  a  book. 
Marilla  says  of  herself,  "  I  have  a 
suave  tongue  but  a  trenchant  pen." 
Aye  verily!  "/  Don't  Know  Do 
You  ?  (The  Roycrofters,  $1.50 — 
thank  you!)  is  a  straightaway 
expose  of  the  fallacy  of  belief.  If 
you  read  Marilla  you  11  never  be 
the  same  ag£un.  I  guarantee  it! 
Marilla  is  a  Bible  student,  Oyez! 
Oyez!  She  has  the  full  morroco  hide 
of  the  Holy  Edible  tacked  safely  on 
her  barn-door  at  Dover,  N.  H.  t^ 
A  night  long  ago  I  heard  her  say: 
"The  Bible  is  a  mess  of  oU  religous 
belief!  I  can  prove  any  religion, 
true  or  untrue,  by  the  Bible!  " 


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"How 'bout  cannibalism?"  queried 
Ali  Baba  far  back  in  the  group; 
straining  and  disguising  his  voice 
through  his  whiskers. 
**  Don't  hide,  Baba — I  know  you. 
Come  out  in  the  lightl  Try  to  be  a 
man.  Yes,  I  can  show  you  where  the 
Bible  approves  cannibalism  I" 
Forthwith  she  quoted  him  Bzekiel, 
Chap.  5,  Verse  10:  "  Therefore  the 
fathers  shall  eat  the  sons  in  the 
midst  of  thee,  and  the  sons  shall  eat 
their  fathers;  and  I  will  execute 
judgments  in  thee,  and  the  whole 
remnant  of  thee  will  I  scatter  into 
all  the  winds." 

"But,"  she  continued,  "You're 
safe,  Baba.  Even  the  Lord  Ood 
would  hesitate  to  command  peofde 
with  dull  teeth  to  feast  on  a  tough 
old  rooster  like  you ! " 
VTithout  a  word  Baba  »dled  off  the 
porch  and  eased  into  the  night  I 
Sometime  you  must  read,  or  hear, 
or  meet  Marilla!  t^  She  's  a  grand 
Old  Rebel! 

The  Sagamore  Report 

|HE27to29  of  Jxme  I  was 
the  guest  of  George 
Coleman,  and  the  hosts 
of  the  Sagamore  Con- 
ference at  Sagamore 
Beach,  Massachusetts, 

at  the  Tenth   Annual  Sociological 

Conference. 

On  the  list  of  "  Friends  of  the  con- 


ference "  you  will  find  names  which 
^ymboliae  tfaoof^t  and  actioa 
widely  divergent.  I  dte  3rou  a  fiew: 

lyfax  Bastman 

Prof.  W.  H.  P.  Paunce 

Charles  H.  Ingersol 

Edith  Wynne  Motthison 

Senator  Robt  LaFoOette 

Gerald  Stanley  Lee 

Louis  K.  Liggett 

J<^m  KGtcheU 

Scott  Nearing 

Chas.  Edward  Russell 

Josei^  Schaffher 

JchnSpargQ 

Roger  Babsoa 

Nathan  Strauss 
These  peofde  though  strong  expo- 
nents  of  variaUe  theories  of  the  art 
of  living,  are  not  cursed  with 
closed  minds.  They  well  understand 
that  a  getting  togedier,  a  free  ez- 
diange  of  ideas,  is  essentki  to 
democracy! 

Some  twenty-four  men  and  women, 
mostly  of  Massachusetts,  contribute 
each  $100  a  year,  as  I  understand  it, 
to  a  fund  for  as  interesting  a  purpose 
as  you  can  imagme.  They  invite  to 
meet  at  Sagamore  on  designated 
dates,  as  guests  of  the  Conference, 
assorted,  hand-incked  radicals 
from  the  four  comers  of  the  world. 
These  foregather  peacefully  for  a 
better  understanding. 
Radical  anarchists;  radical  in- 
ternationalists; radical  socialists ; 
radical   college  professors;    radical 


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M.  D.'t;  radical  oo-operatknittt; 
radical  sdbool-teadiert,  radical 
trade-umonists;  radical  middle- 
of-the-roadert;  radical  writers; 
radical  capitafists;  radical  tem- 
ers;  radical  non-believers;  radical 
ministers  of  the  gospel;  tfaey  meet 
for  three  dasrs  and  under  the  be- 
neficent influence  and  pacifistic  wit 
.  of  Idndly  George  Coleman,  they  try 
their  gcd  damdest  to  get  together  t^ 
There  are  three  meetings  a  day;  at 
each  meeting  one  speaker  addresses 
the  assemUage  for  forty  minutes. 
^  Afterward,  for  an  hour,  the  audi- 
ence puUs  the  speaker  and  his 
doctrine  into  pieces,  into  tittle 
teeny  pieces;  then  they  post- 
mortem and  cremate  the  remains  «» 
Only  one  rule  holds,  namdy  abso- 
bite  courtesy  to  the  speaker  when 
you  attempt  to  verbally  assassinate 
him.  Absolute  courtesy  to  the 
gentleman  with  the  Van  Dyke  beard 
at  the  other  end  of  the  hall,  who 
pronounces  with  caustic  directness 
that  your  attack  on  the  aforesaid 
9pcaiket  missed  its  objective,  and 
why.  Also — also,  mind  you — that 
your  brain  seems  to  be  rattling 
'round  inside  your  spacious  skull  t^ 
Of  course  he  does  n't  say  quite  that, 
in    so    many    words.    There 's  an 

^  inference;  a  subtle,  soul-shriveling 
inference.  Though  you  susfncion 
he 's  right,  you  hold  your  temper. 
When  in  rebuttal,  a  learned  econo- 

^     mist  rises  in  his  place  and  scores 


heavily,  the  chairman  invites  him 
up  front "  and  s^vcs  him  ten 
minutes.  When  he  closes  his  perora- 
tion, with  a  sweep  of  logic  and  a 
flow  of  statistics,  m  oriental  m- 
archist  throws  a  tomato-can  bomb, 
wrapped  in  rag  carpet,  at  Mm  head, 
— and  the  knock-down  and  carry- 
o«it  is  renewed  ad-infinitum. 
Two  hundred  people  are  present; 
there  are  two  hundred  different 
angles  to  all  subjects. 
Peace?  There  is  no  peaoel 
When  one  man  finishes,  you  say 
to  yoursdf,  *'W»  argun^nt  is 
irrefutablet"  It  is— 'tiU  the  next 
man  or  woman  gets  through  with 
him!  Not  any  theory  or  practise 
seems  sacred  or  secure!  Thanks  bel 
Along  about  second  bed-time  you 
begin  to  doubt  the  infaUibitity  of 
your  own  favorite  ism  or  ology. 
Rif^t  there  the  Sagamore  Sociologi- 
cal Conference  has  accomplished 
half  its  work!  The  work  is  com- 
plete when  you  say  to  yourself 
confidentially,  "Maybe  I  'm  wrong, 
and  maybe  he 's  right — ?** 
The  last  day  of  the  conference  a 
committee  is  chosen  "  to  prepare  a 
written  statement  of  what  we  have 
accomplished;  to  discover  on  what 
we  can  agree!  *^  I  happened  to  be 
drawn  on  that  committee. 
The  chairman  was  the  Rev.  Nich- 
olas Van  der  Pyl  of  Oberlin,  Ohio. 
The  committee  was  composed  of 
one    uncompromising    intemation- 


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alist,  one  socialist,  one  statistician; 
one  conservationist;  one  trades- 
unionist  (a  woman);  two  ministers 
of  the  Christian  Chtirch;  one  author; 
one  employer  of  labor;  one  child- 
educator;  one  effidency  engineer; 
one  law3rer;  one  Cape  Cod  farmer; 
one  professor  of  Wellesley  Onlege 
(a  woman);  one  R.  R.  freight-con- 
ductor; one  financier,  etc. 
And  the  question  before  the  meet- 
ing, my  masters,  was,  **  On  what  can 
we  agree!**  That,  and  nothing  morel 
Please  remember  the  Conference 
had  discussed  with  more  or  less 
vigor  and  competence  and  com- 
pleteness, some  two  hundred  sub- 
jects. A  dozen  and  a  half  propa- 
gandas were  excellently  well  repre- 
sented on  the  committee.  Most  of 
them  antagonistic.  What  ho? 
The  Rev.  van  der  Pyl  and  the  Rev. 
Jump  of  Manchester,  N.  H.,  won 
me  to  a  new  liking  for  progressive 
dergsrmen  (though  I  think  they  're 
in  a  bad  business)  by  the  way  they 
gave  and  took.  Certainly  the  chair- 
man used  a  full  supply  of  that  well- 
known  Hblical  humility,  in  ad- 
justing differences,  and  't  is  not  on 
the  records  that  he  abandoned 
either  his  dignity  or  justice  in  the 
mdeel  We  were  agreed — 
'T  would  take  too  much  space  to 
tell  you  here  of  all  the  things  on 
which  we  agreed — ^and  disagreed. 
Eventually  seventeen  of  us  signed 
the   Report.   Four  refused;    good- 


naturedly,  to  be  sure,  but  obsti- 
natdy.  They  knew  their  prindples 
and  rights. 

I  signed-up  for  one  or  two  things 
that  would  make  you  smile  if  I 
confessed.  In  retrospect  they  make 
me  smile.  'T  was  the  s^nrit  of  the 
thing  that  got  me.  No  one  was 
shoving!  Several  others  abandoned 
predous  opinions  I  know  in  the 
interest  of  amity  and  brotherly  love! 
Whidi  goes  to  prove  what? 
Simply  this:  That  there  is  generally 
a  middle  ground  where  intelligent 
people  can  meet  and  agree,  provided 
there  is  an  honest  desire. 

Hoch  the 
German  Republic 

|HE  very  first  step  in 
making  **  the  world 
safe  for  democracy " 
IS  to  overturn  the 
Prussian  Kaiser's 
throne,  oust  the  Prus- 
sian military  clique,  ostracize 
the  junkers.  A  concerted  action  by 
the  Germans  and  German-Ameri- 
cans in  the  United  States  to  effect 
this  reform  will  save  a  million  casu- 
alties. Already  there  are  ^gns  of  a 
break-up  in  the  German  Govern- 
ment. Von  Bethmann-Holweg  is  told 
he  blocks  peace.  He  resigns.  The 
Rdchstag  refuses  to  vote  another 
war  credit  xmtil  the  Kaiser's  govern- 
ment declares  its  policy  as  to  peace. 


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These  disagreements  are  more  po- 
tential than  they  are  important  of 
themsdves.  These  are  only  the 
warming-up  exercises.  When  the 
Reidistag  defies  the  Government* 
commands  it,  they  are  simply  prac- 
tising their  prerogatives,  testing  the 
temper  of  the  German  people.  They 
want  to  know  whether  Public 
Opinion  is^behind  them,  in  an  un- 
qualified demand  for  peace — and 
peace  immediatdy.  These  prdimi- 
n£uy  disputes  are  to  line  up  fiiends 
and  enemies  of  democracy. 
Once  the  German  people  understand 
that  a  Kaiser  and  an  autocratic 
class  is  and  must  be  inimical  to 
th^  best  interests,  the  crash  of 
revolution  win  resound  along  the 
Unter  den  Linden,  and  this  beastly 
war  win  come  to  a  sudden  dose! 
How  to  hasten  the  formation  of  the 
German  republic  is  the  problem! 
The  democrades  of  the  world  win 
not  consent  to  continue  the  quarrd 
twenty-four  hours  against  a  demo- 
cratic German  Government  of  the 
people.  Once  the  Kaiser  is  in  chains, 
or  shot  against  the  waU,  the  war  win 
automaticaUy  end. 
Already  there  is  a  Sodety  formed 
in  America  caUed,  Friends  cf  the 
German  Republic,  with  ofiices  at  32 
Union  Square,  New  York  City. 
The  common  people  of  Germany 
are  fed  on  pleasant  lies,  and 
stimulated  with  falafied  reports 
of    victory.    They  must    be   told 


the  truth,  and  asked  to  hdp  «» 
Only  the  thinkers  of  Germany 
realise  the  real  situation.  Only  those 
who  have  measured  the  revolution 
in  Russia  and  marked  the  mming  of 
the  United  States  into  the  struggle, 
know  posttivdy  the  dioicelies  be- 
tween grim  and  terrible  defeat,  or 
the  quidc  and  deanly  amputation  of 
the  ssrphilitic  Kaiser  and  his  dream 
of  conquest  from  the  healthy  Ger- 
man body.  There  is  no  safe  way  out. 
There  can  be  no  compromise.  The 
choice  must  be  made.  The  sooner ^t 
Is  made,  the  more  lives  wiU  be  saved. 
Always  in  war-time  there  are 
"  underground  railways,"  "  pri- 
vate mail  routes,"  codes  and  d- 
I^ers,  ways  of  distributing  informa- 
tion. This  bdng  so,  each  German- 
American,  or  American,  with  a 
friend  or  relation  in  the  Fatherland, 
should  write  a  "code"  letter,  explain 
the  facts,  and  ask  that  he  or  she 
do  aU  in  his  or  her  power  to  further 
the  revohitkm, 

TeU  your  friends  the  day  the  Kaiser, 
his  princes  and  generals  are  put 
under  arrest,  and  the  fact  so  an- 
nounced to  the  Allies,  the  war  ends! 
The  elimination  of  one  man  wiU 
save  the  lives  of  a  mStkm  men  t^ 
To  fiirther  this  propaganda  the 
allies  should  draw  up  and  mutuaUy 
agree  to  and  sign  a  Proclamation 
of  Ovilization,  the  same  to  guaran- 
tee liberty  and  the  right  to  self- 
government    to    aU     nationalties. 


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indudiiig  the  amaller  ones;  indud- 
ing  those  held  in  bondage  l^  the 
Alfies  thcmadvet. 

Hoiv  to  Live  a 
Hundred  Years  After 
You  're  Dead 

is  the  Little  School 
Master  of  Printers* 
Ink,  my  friend,  S. 
Roland  HaU,  distin- 
guished himself.  Be- 
yond that  he  is  the  one 
man  in  America  to  successfully  pass 
from  the  abstract  to  the  concrete. 
He  left  the  International  Corres- 
pondence Schools  of  Scranton,  to  join 
with  the  Alpha  Portland  Cement 
Company.  To  prove  't  was  no  fluke, 
he  but  recently  executed  a  back- 
flip  to  the  abstract.  He 's  now  sell- 
ing>  "  His  Master's  voice." 
I  wrote  him  congratulations  on  his 
new  afifiliation.  Suggested  that  he 
proceed  to  put  a  Victor  Phonograph 
in  each  and  every  Ford,  the  one 
thing  needed  to  complete  the  joys 
of  American  Farm  Life  ! 
He  admonished  me  for  levity. 
Thereupon,  in  self-defense,  I  make 
him  this  second  suggestion,  and 
appeal  to  the  large  and  growing 
clientele  of  this  magazine  to  vouch- 
safe approval. 

To  date,  the  only  positive  hope  of 
life  eternal  is  the  Eastman  Kodak 


Company's  constructive  and  subtle 
suggestion,  **  There  is  a  photog- 
rai^ier  in  your  town."  This  is  not 
enough!  There  is  no  motion,  no 
vivadty*  no  real  representation  to  a 
photograph.  You  might  better  be 
done  in  cast  iron  in  a  park. 
There  it  a  better  and  more  complete 
method  of  projecting  ycnxc  person- 
ality toward  the  infinite. 
The  Victor  Company  should  estab- 
lish 5,000  agencies  in  America, 
equipped  in  this  fashion:  A  notary's 
office  to  the  left  of  the  door  as  you 
enter;  to  the  right  a  perfume 
department.  Deep  inside  a  sump- 
tuous studio  equipped  with  a 
receiving  Victor,  and  a  newly 
patented  Victor  movie  machine  1 
These  agencies,  once  installed, 
double-page  advertisements  in  The 
Saturday  Past,  and  the  ROY- 
CROFT, should  invite  the  populace 
to  participate  in  the  first  demonstra- 
ble advance  toward  life  eternal. 
Of  course  the  large  number  of 
customers  would  come  firom  the 
ROYCROFT  clientele,  for  our 
firiends  are  open  to  consider  revo- 
lutionary ideas.  They  understand  a 
propaganda  on  presentation.  Even 
so,  ordinary  minds  must  not  be  over- 
looked or  slighted.  Potentially, 
they  are  almost  as  important. 
You  enter  the  eternal  life  estab- 
lishment, turn  to  the  left,  address 
the  notary  and  arrange  to  make 
your  will.  One  dause  to  provide  for 


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ft  fircc  MWiTMil  iiinncft  cscb  ycsr  for 
fifty  or  one  hundred  yeart»to  one 
hundred  of  your  wpmfM  friendsl 
^o  take  place  after  you  are  defunct, 
denitedf  iPMie»  dfanteyated*  To  be 
paid  for  in  lull  with  ymxt  funds. 
Tickets  transferable. 
You  then  pass  over  to  the  perfume 
counter.  Place  a  perpetual  order  for 
ten  gallons  a  year  of  your  favorite 
acent,  and  ten  giant  atotnisers,  to 
disburse  the  sweet  aroma  over  the 
deagnated  guests  at  the  annual 
dinner  heretofore  mentionedl 
Then,  into  the  studio,  where  a 
movie  is  taken  of  you- in  familiar, 
and  characteristic  costumes,  atti- 
tudes, and  pursuitsi  AH  to  be 
finished  off  with  you  at  the  head 
of  a  banquet-table  ddivering  a 
qseedi  of  welcome;  with  pundi  and 
pep,  verve  and  perq;)icuity. 
After  whicfa  jrou  ddiver  the  same 
pdhidd  speech  into  the  ^Hctor, 
with  well-proportioned  nuances, 
light  and  shadow,  declamatory 
pauses.  At  the  dose  dycnxc  speech 
the  supers  of  the  studio  produce  a 
bedlam  of  applause  on  the  rain- 
fiyvf.t^ntylfr  madune. 
You  then  rise  again,  (on  request) 
bowing  to  right  and  left,  and  sing  a 
foolidi  little  diocker  or  a  senti- 
mental tear-squeeier  or  make  a 
few  bri|^  and  too  personal  re- 
marks— and  let  it  go  at  that. 
Shut  3^our  eyes  now  and  viskn  the 
future,  a  century  hence;   yoursdf 


no  more  and  yet  omnipresent.  Qone, 
turned  to  dust,  you  appear  peren- 
nially and  deliver  the  some  speech 
with  the  same  joyous  inspirational 
appkmb-^ike  all  great  ment 
Picture  the  halcsron  occasion! 
Observe  the  guests  arriving  for  the 
Samud  Smearcase  free  annual 
bmquet.  Not  a  vacant  place ;  you 
remember  the  banquet  is  free  and 
the  tkkets  transferable. 
Twenty  Oreco  -  Americans  pump 
the  atomisers.  The  mixture  with 
a  friendly  "stick"  in  it  suffuses 
and  saturates  the  air;  a  pleasant 
memory  of  the  time  when  the 
country  was  not  dry.  Those  present 
smdl  ycnxc  very  breath,  as  it  were. 
4lBe  ddi^ited  with  the  laughter, 
the  merriment,  the  little  paper  hats, 
the  dever  taUe-talk,  tiie  food,  the 
viands,  the  good-will. 
One  guest  whiqxrs,  a  trifle  ambig- 
uously to  be  sure,  "Sam  never  were 
aHve  more  'n  he  is  toni^t!" 
"  That 's  right— good  old  Sam-^ie 
ain't  any  deader  'n  he  ever  were!" 
So  the  wit  and  humor  rolls! 
Prom  the  thin  tinned  soup  to  the 
adipose  post-prandial  irats,  the 
assemblage  wallows  in  and  soaks  t^> 
your  forethoughtful  hosfntality  «» 
On  toward  midnight  a  darion 
voice  is  heard  to  call,  "  Smearcase,- 
speech!  Smearcase,  speech!^  'T  is 
the  loyal  party  mentioned,  rewarded 
and  instructed  for  this  service  in 
Clause  Seven  of  your  will. 


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The  operator  signals  ready.  The 
toastmaster  takes  his  cue,  rises  to 
announce  in  his  inimitable  fashion, 
with  many  a  waggish  suggestion 
and  soto  aside,  **  We  are  fortunate 
in  having  with  us  tonight,  Jones- 
ville's  prominent  citizen,  Samuel 
Smearcase  —  1" 

The  lights  go  off.  The  movie  flickers. 
Your  countenance  beaming  above 
your  best  white  shirt  appears  on  the 
sheet.  You  tug  at  your  cuffs.  The 
Victor  behind  the  screen  slides 
noiselessly  mto  high. 
"  My  friends,"  (you  begin)  "  and 
you  are  my  friends  I"  (applause) 
Is  n't  it  a  good  idea? 
Very  modem  don't  you  think? 
Aren't  we  Americans  progressive! 

La  Follette  Again 

A  FOLLETTE  was 
elected  to  the  Senate 
of  the  United  States 
some  twelve  years  ago. 
His  fortunes  there  have 
been  variable.  He  has 
forced  many  reforms.  For  a  time, 
as  the  leader  of  the  senatorial 
progressive  element,  he  looked 
like  the  next  president  of  the 
United  States.  Then,  his  Phila- 
ddphia  speech  and  Roosevelt's 
well-timed  "  Return  from  Elba," 
put  the  omnipresent  smiling-one 
up  and  LaFollette  down. 
But  just  for  a  little  minute  1 


He  is  no  opportimist;  his  concern 
is  with  fundamentals.  He  invariably 
seems  willing  to  sacrifice  himself  for 
the  cause  he  espouses. 
His  high  courage  and  fair  intent 
commends  him  to  the  people;  to  his 
constituency  espedaUy,  but  largely 
to  the  whole  people. 
America  believes  Robert  LaFoUette 
to  be  an  honest  man. 
Again  he  is  a  storm  center.  His 
speech  on  America's  entrance  into 
the  World  War  is  a  masterful 
document.  You  may  disagree  with 
it  to  the  nth  degree,  but  you  wiU 
admit  he  talks  as  one  well  informed. 
He  said  all  the  things  "  patriots  " 
are  supposed  not  to  say.  He  elimin- 
ated the  flap-doodle  and  balderdash 
and  aspired  to  logic  He  gave  the 
reasons  for  his  conclusions. 
He  even  went  so  far  as  to  suggest 
that  senators  and  congressmen 
were  elected  not  to  "  get  behind 
the  preadent,"  but  to  represent  the 
people  who  dected  them.  Could 
anything  be  worse  than  that? 
He  mailed  this  treasonaUe  Speech 
broadcast. 

He  goes  further.  In  LaFotteite's 
Weekly,  he  cautions  us  against 
dangers  more  in^dious  than  war. 
Anathema  1  He  makes  us  think  1  «» 
We  almost  entirdy  disagree  with 
Robert  LaFollette's  anti-war  at- 
titudes. We  believe  war  with  Ger- 
many is  necessary  to  "  make  the 
world  safe  for  democracy."  Never- 


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thdess,  we  recognize  him  as  the 
fiery  oppoeition  without  which 
democracy  at  home,  is  not  safe. 
We  Ufoni  discussion; 
We  need  discussion. 
Robert  LaFoUette's  open  and  an- 
tagonistic stand  for  what  he  believes 
is  right,  better  serves  the  future  of 
the  American  people,  than  a  hun- 
dred quiescent  patent-medidne  tes- 
timonials from  as  many  soggy 
generals,  uniform  contractors, 
and  munition  manufacturers. 
That  he  is  gaining  support  is  indi- 
cated by  Senator  Borah's  recent 
speech,  and  by  a  marked  reaction  in 
our  Houses  of  Parliament  away 
from  helter-skelter,  slam-bang,  ill- 
considered  legislation,  toward  con- 
sideration, investigation,  moder- 
ation and  commonsensel 
Maybe  from  now  on  we  may  expect 
fit>m  certain  senators  and  congress- 
men, more  of  "  I  want  to  know  " 
and  less  of  "  me,  too!" 
The  American  peof^e  will  yet  pay 
homage,  yield  honor  to  Robert 
LaFc^ette,  the  little  big  man  from 
Wisconsin.  If  not  for  00  his  Ofnnions, 
at  least  for  00  of  his  courage. 
He  speaks  the  brave  word  at  a 
time  when  freemen  are  stampeded 
and  the  word  "  Shh  "  is  heard  for 
the  first  time  in  Americal 

THERE  is  a  potent  clause  in 
the  Constitution  of  the  United 
States,  written  therdn  by  wise  and 


fearless  men  sore  fixMn  contact  with 
kings.  I  quote  you  this  me  wage 
from  the  fathers  of  our  freedom: 

Congress  shatt.  make  no  law 
respecting  an  esiabUshmeni  of 
reUgion,  or  prohibiting  the  free 
exercise  thereof;  or  abridging  the 
freedom  of  speech  or  of  the  press; 
or  the  right  of  the  people  peacedbig 
to  assemble,  and  to  petition  the 
government  for  redress  of  griev* 
ances. 

If  we  lack  enthusiasm  for  this  war, 
it  is  not  because  we  never  had  it,  but 
because  this  clause  of  the  Constitu- 
tion has  been  mal-treatedt 
We  are  accustomed  to  free  speech; 
we  are  accustomed  to  settling  our 
differences  by  free  debate.  We  are 
accustomed  to  a  free  press!  We 
want  Hearst  and  Munsey  and 
Cottier's  and  The  Masses,  the  So- 
cialists'— aye,  the  Enemy's  Sheets — 
to  tell  us  what 's  the  matter. 
They  can  not  corrupt  us.  We  are  a 
free  people,  accustomed  to  thinking 
out  our  problems,  making  our 
decisions.  We  emphatically  want  to 
to  hear  aU  the  arguments. 
This  is  not  faithlessness,  or  wilful- 
ness, or  pemidousness,  it 's  the  way 
of  a  democracy!  We  like  a  difference 
of  opinion.  We  almost  demand  it. 
That  there  is  a  difference  over  this 
war  no  one  doubts.  Let  us  out  with 
it.  Talk  is  the  safety-valve.  Give  us 


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the  iM^ioletonie,  ii^iole-Maled,  sane 
and  friendly  philoeophy  of  T^incoln, 
that  cheerfully  welcomed  and  ac- 
cepted  cnticiaDiy  ui^ott  cnticisin  s^ 
We  want  to  fight  this  war  to  a 
l^oriout  finith.  Then  we  want  to 
look  back  and  say ;  *"  Wdl»  it  was  a 
dean  fight  we  fought^  and  we  ac- 
complished what  we  set  out  to 
accompfish— if  emocraq^/  " 
The  war  is  not  the  thing! 
The  purpose  is  the  thingl 
Under  the  United  States  Constitu- 
tion we  have  the  right  to  free  speedi, 
free  press andpeaceful assembly, and 
we  insist  it  is  a  rightl  We  're  not 
dangerous.  We  simply  want  to  be 
partners  in  this  war;  not  employer 
and  employee. 

In  this  fight  for  freedom  of  the 
people  of  the  earth,  the  necessity 
for  the  individual  to  have  a  say  in 
his  own  destiny,  let  this  great 
democracy  show  by  example  as 
well   as  precept  and  prodamatioo. 

Get.Up— Whoa! 

HAVE  straddled  a 
drosky,  jiggled  in  a 
jauntin'-car,  thump- 
thumped  a-camel- 
back,  and  gBded  in 
gondolas.  I  have  ugh- 
ugh-ughed  on  an  American  dump- 
cart,  bumped  along  on  a  sleepy 
b^rro-ass.  I  have  broiled  in  the  sun 
in    a    mile-an-hour    ox-cart,     and 


skirted  the  start  when  a  piebald 
broocho  tried  his  skill  at  "  sun- 
fishinV  I  have  hit  the  high  road  in  a 
coach-and-four  and  tooled  tiie 
ribbons  while  the  wheders  pranced; 
and  loafed  across  the  hUls  a-top  a 
load  of  hay.  I  have  worked  my 
gixsard  loose  bdiind  Dexter  Junior 
in  a  joggin'-cart. 

I  have  gone  a-calling  on  Sunday 
afternoons  in  a  side-bar  buggy 
with  red  running-gear,  when  Jerry, 
the  Hambletonian,  was  in  perfect 
form,  and  all  the  worid  flowed  by 
me  as  a  duggish  streaml 
I  have  driven  a  pair  of  roan  cob 
tandem,  to  a  high,  high  ydXow- 
wheeled  cart,  and  nonchalantly 
flicked  the  leader's  left  ear,  when 
adolescence  stopped  and  stared  its 
admiration. 

I  have  hit  the  breese  with  two  wild 
ponies  to  a  budc-board,  get-out- 
the-wayl  — ^hdl  for  leatherl 
You,  saturated  with  gasoline,  lodng 
ycnxc  figure  on  the  back  seat  of  your 
thingamajig  auto-caboose»  are 
probably  not  aware  that  there  is  a 
horse-vehide  for  every  mood. 
There  is,  I  assure  3^ou;  from  the 
water-wagon  to  the  blade  Marial 
There  is  only  one  pleasure  more 
soul-stirring  than  driving  a  timid, 
shy,  unsophisticated  colt  on  a  calm 
Spring  morning  toward  a  sunrise; 
and  that  is  driving  an  English 
market-cart,  behind  a  knowledg- 
able   horse,    down   a  quiet  dusky 


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coantry  road  oo  a  Smnmer  even- 
iiiS»  toward  nowhere* 
My  only  otjection  to  a  hobo  it  that 
he  walks,  or  ridea.  the  bompert  «» 
He  lada  imagliiation;  the  poetic 
temperament  «»  No  wonder  the 
Gfypsy  of  old  claimed  royal  fore- 
bears. He  drove  and  dealt  in  hortet. 
A  man  with  a  horse  is  a  King,  and 
his  Camp  is  a  Kingdom. 
If  you  have  the  love  of  a  horse,  3rou 
travel  the  road  tohiQ>piness;  aU  the 
peaceful  hilltops  belong  to  you; 
the  lazy  valleys,  the  cool  springs 
and  camping-grounds,  where  the 
grass  grows  lush,  where  the  horses 
ddight  to  browse  and  rolL 
Otherwise  you  must  stay  on  the 
brick  and  keep  your  eye  peeled  for 
the  motor-cyde  cop.  Even  so,  there 
are  posnbilities  on  the  brick. 
When  I  go  to  New  York  once  a  year, 
I  haMen  away  from,  the  tazi-stand 
out  to  the  Avenue,  and  stand  and 
wait.  I  know  mine  own  win  come  to 
me.  **  Here  he  is  now!"  Out  of  the 
grandeur-that-was,  clipper-dop- 
per,  drives  an  <dd-st3^e  coachman 
with  a  red  tomato-nose.  Ifis  green- 
black  great-coat  bespeaks  an 
Ancient  (Hory.  The  very  horse  has 
memoties.  He  was  once  the  spank- 
ing bay  that  wheded  Aaron  Burr  to 
the  dueling  ground,  where  Alex- 
ander Hamilton  awaited  him.  Inade  ' 
the  dd-four-wheder  are  six  indies 
deep  of  broad-doth  cushions,  and 
a  smdl  of  lavender  and  dd  lace,  and 


musty  bam  lofts.  We,  the  equip- 
age and  I,  are  one. 
"TotiieBiltmore  f'Wlthwhat  dignity 
he  touches  his  berulBed  dd  top-hat. 
No  haggling  over  fares  if  you  please. 
Gentlemen  and-  gentlemen's 
gentlemen  never  do  that  We  under- 
stand cacn  other  perfectly. 
Then,  after  the  theater,  a  walk  of  a 
blodc  or  two,  and  maybe,  Imdk  with 
us,  we  chance  on  Peter  Stuyvesanf  s 
ex-coachman  and  dd  Silver-Leg's 
open  baroudie.  Thin  and  gray  and 
wispy,  the  driver;  the  horse  a  little 
over  in  the  knees,  to  be  sure — but 
we  *re  in  no  hurry. 
"  Down  the  Avenue  to  Washington 
Arch  and  return;  drive  slowly 
pleasel"  Is  n't  that  droD,  "Drive 
slowly — !  "  Back  we  loU,  place  our 
feet  on  the  Htde  comfort-cushions, 
and  the  deserted  Avenue  and  star- 
strewn  sky  bdcng  to  us  1  The  Arch 
before  the  Square  outlines  the 
statdy  entrance  to  the  Promised 
Land.  The  end  of  the  Avenue 
seems  the  end  of  the  Worid.  And 
a  pleasant  ending  too,  such  as  all 
good  New-Yorkers  must  have. 
•    •    •    •    • 

Peace  in  East  Awofjf — 

An'  you  so  far  away — 
The  hiUs  are  shtnin'  glory — 

/  wish  you  near  today. 
I  'd  like  to  take  you  canterin' 
An'  give  and  hear  some  hanierin' 
An'  guide  you  down  a  Quiet  Road 

An'  stay,  an'  stay,  an'  stay! 


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Abaft  the  Ship's  Bar 

I  HE  winter  of  1912  the 
S.  S.  Berlin  bound 
from  Qibralter  to  New 
York,  roughed  it  quite 
a  bit  on  the  westward 
passage.  Somewhere 
near  the  Azores,  the  gale  blew  the 
ship's  engine  to  a  standstill;  for  five 
hours  we  made  no  progress  1  Racing 
waves  doused  the  decks  and  smacked 
against  the  bridge.  The  canvas  sides 
were  up;  the  movables  were  battened 
down;  the  first  cabin  company  lay 
in  its  berth  and  groaned. 
There  were  just  three  Sailors 
aboard,  among  the  passengers.  Only 
two  reported  for  meals.  A  huge, 
bulbous,  fat  man,  who  maintained 
there  was  too  much  of  him  to  be 
affected  by  a  mere  ocean  1  And  mel 
Would  an  ez- Jack  Tar  of  the  Ameri- 
can Navy  capitulate  in  the  presence 
of  German  Reservists?  Not  on  your 
Star  Spangled  Banner  1 
Each  of  us  was  served  by  the  twelve 
stewards  in  the  dining-salon,  three 
times  a  dayl  They  plied  us  with  the 
food;  they  wanted  to  put  us  \mderl 
Would  we  have  **  some  nice  Schen- 
chen  und  Sauerkraut?" 
"Sure!— And  don't  forget  the 
Brown  Gravy,  the  Munchuener  and 
the  Ice  Cream!" 

We  ate  up  two  of  the  Kaiser's 
dividends,  and.  demanded  morel 
After    meals    we    retired    to    the 


smoking-room,  abaft  the  ship's 
bar,  to  join  the  third  invincible. 
She  was  a  white-haired,  little  old 
lady;  say,  seventy.  Only  one  oppro- 
brium attached  itself  to  her;  she 
drank  brandies  and  sodas  by  the 
hour,  and  smoked  and  inhaled  large 
black  cigars. 

Mild  mannered  and  conservative, 
almost  mid- Victorian  she  seemed; 
yet  her  tongue  was  tipped  with 
adder's  blood. 

She  disapproved  of  many  people. 
"  I  have  my  doubts  about  that 
couple  in  504 — !  They  don't  look 
respectable  to  me." 
**  Did  you  notice  that  thin  one 
in  306?  She  seemed  to  be  traveling 
alone—?  "  "—If  I  had  a  girl  Uke 
that  I  'd  keep  her  home!  " 
Nothing  much  y'  know.  Just  the 
usual.  But  for  a  time  it  got  the  fat 
man  and  me  a  thinking  that  first 
cabin  should  be  mvestigatedl  We 
concluded  it  would  n't  help  our 
chances  any,  should  the  ship  go 
down,  to  go  sloshing  up  to  St. 
Peter's  gate  in  such  a  company. 
Then  we  adjusted! 
"Ain't  it  strange,"  said  the  fat 
man  to  me  in  my  cabin  late  one 
night  after  we  had  helped  the  B.  A 
S.  Samaritan  down  the  grand 
Staircase,  "  how  the  vaporings  of 
one  concupiscent  old  woman  can 
poison  an  acre  of  air?" 
"  Where  in  H —  do  you  think  she 
learned  to  smoke  cigars?" 


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ELBERT  HUBBARD  n,  Editor-ln-Chicf 


Bntsrod  st  the  Post^OffioSt  BMt  Anrora*  N*  Y*»  m 
M  Matter  of  the  Second  dmm  at  the  Port-Ofioe 
U.  8.  Patent  OlBoe.  Copgrrii^btt  Nineteen. Hmdfid 


FELIX  SHAY,  Editor 


oC  the  Seeond  CUm.  Entered 
el  dwedei  Regietered 
8eventeen«  by  The  Roycroi  ter  • 


Vol.  I 


OCTOBER  1917 


No.  2 


The  Other  Man's  Help 

Bert  Hubbard 


|N  the  past  there  was 
supposed  to  exist 
among  most  employers 
a  certain  amount  of 
courtesy  in  the  matter 
of  hiring  each  other's 
help.  However,  it  never  was  uni- 
versjal,  and  some  employers 
less  scrupulous  than  others  would 
seek  out  competent  workers  from 
the  ranks  of  other  institutions  *^ 
It  is  much  easier  to  hire  boys  or 
iprls  who  have  been  trained  to  their 
tasks  than  it  is  to  teach  them.  This 
is  a  pernicious  method  and  unfair 
both  to  employer  and  worker  alike. 
Yet  some  concerns.  The  Ford  plant 
for  instance,  have  a  rigid  rule 
never  to  hire  men  who  have  jobs  «» 
Very  often  it  happens  thiit  a  worker 


brought  up  and  trained  in  a  certain 
shop  or  office  has  learned  the  wasrs 
and  methods  of  thiit  job,  ^i^ch  are 
peculiar  in  themselves  and  do  not 
coincide  with  the  policies  and 
methods  of  a  similar  shop  or  office. 
Then,  when  that  worker  is  hired 
away  for  a  little  higher  wage»  it  may 
develop  that  he  is  n't  suited  to  the 
new  job,  altfaoui^  the  duties  may 
seemingly  be  the  same.  He  either  is 
found  to  be  wanting  and  is  let  out, 
or  is  obliged  to  begin  at  the  bottom 
and  work  up  again. 
No  employer  can  rightly  object  to 
an  employee  making  a  diange  and 
going  elsewhere  if  he  can  better  his 
porition.  The  employee  has  a  good 
moral  right  to  do  this.  But  the 
employer  who  goes  into  the  work- 


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rooms  of  another  and  deliberately 
hires  away  his  help  is  neither  just 
nor  courteous. 

It  has  always  been  a  motto  of  many 
high-class  concerns  to  train  their 
workers  from  the  bottom  up  and 
then  hold  tkenu  Under  normal  con- 
ditions this  can  be  done  successfully, 
but  today  the  demand  for  competent 
workers  has  become  so  great  that 
there  seems  to  be  an  absolute  lack 
of  scruples  among  emj^yers  in  the 
matter  of  hiring  other  folks'  help. 
Probably  the  greatest  factor  in 
creating  this  condition  is  the 
government  work  and  the  fabulous 
wages  paid  by  concerns  working  for 
the  government.  The  munition, 
automotnle,  and  airplane  plants  are 
scouring  the  small  towns  and  small 
shops  for  men.  The  wages  they  offer 
make  it  impossible  for  the  smaller 
concern  to  compete.  And  now  the 
railroads  and  large  stores  are  doing 
the  same  thing. 

Girls  are  filling  the  places  of  the 
men  who  have  gone  into  the  army. 
Wages  seem  to  be  limitless. 

Tn  the  past  few  weeks  employment 
■^  agents  frt)m  the  dty  of  Buffalo 
have  seemingly  found  in  the  Roy- 
croft  Shops,  in  peaceful  Bast  Aurora, 
an  oasis  in  the  desert.  Here  are 
hustling  country  boys  and  girls  who 
have  learned  their  trades  and  lived 
at  home.  Their  wages  have  been 
good  and  they  have  been  paid  while 


learning.  But  the  call  of  the  dty  and 
wages  that  are  out  of  reach  are 
strong  appeals. 

So  there  has  been  a  migration  of  a 
number  of  Roycrofters  to  the  Curtiss 
Aeroplane  Corporation,  The  Pieroe- 
Arrow  plant.  The  Pennsylvania 
Railroad,  and  other  dty  concerns. 
Some  few  have  come  back  again ; 
glad  to  get  out  of  the  dty  and  back 
into  an  environment  more  con- 
dudve  to  health  and  happiness; 
More  will  come  back  later. 
But  any  boy  or  girl  who  leaves  the 
Rpycroft  Shops  goes  with  our  bless- 
ings and  best  wishes.  If  they  don't 
come  back  to  us,  why,  that's  all 
right.  Ours  will  be  the  satisfaction 
of  having  hdped  them  on  to  higher 
planes,  and  assisted  in  supplying  the 
world  with  competent  workers.  It  is 
of  course  inconvenient  for  a  time  to 
lose  our  folks,  but  these  changes 
give  opportunity  to  others  who  are 
content  to  stay  in  the  country  «» 
After  all,  one  of  the  Roycroft  prin- 
dples  has  been  to  teach  the  bojrs  and 
girls  of  this  vicinity  how  to  become 
effident  workers.  We  have  never 
made  a  practise  of  going  outside  our 
own  community  for  hdp. 
In  all  probalMlity  there  will  come  a 
time  before  long  when  the  demand 
for  labor  will  be  less  acute.  When  it 
does,  and  conditions  are  more  nor- 
mal, I  hope  to  see  among  employers 
a  greater  respect  for  each  other  re- 
garcUng  hiring  of  trained  workers. 


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BcrtHabtaM 

Hubbard's  Text:  We  all  are  what  we  are- 
only  more  so     ^     *^     »^     »^     »^     *> 


OBABLY  one  hun- 
dred vititort  a  day  are 
shown  through  the 
Rpycroft  Shops.  They 
come  from  everywhere* 
They  go  back  to  every- 
where, carrying  with  them  various 
impresnoQB  mostly  good* 
Some  people  come  here  with  queer 
ideas  about  the  place — come  to  nse 
us  up.  And  while  they  are  taking  our 
measure  we  are  taking  thdrs.They 
are  often  so  greatly  surprised  that 
their  expressions  mdicate  a  precon- 
ception of  RoycroftfWhich  if  voiced 
freely  would  be  anything  but 
complimentary. 

How  easy  it  is  to  give  away,  by 
indirect  inference,  our  innermost 
thoughts,  when  our  expectations  are 
surprised  on  the  right  sidel 
But  the  migority  of  people  who 
visit  Roycroft  have  a  fine  apprecia- 
tion of  what  it  stands  for. 
It  is  necessary  for  us  who  are  here 
all  the  time  to  get  the  viewp<»nt  of 
people  from  afar.  And  I  don't  know 
of  any  greater  satisfaction  than  to  be 
visited  by  men  and  women  who  are 
molding  the  affairs  of  the  world  «•> 
In  the  past  week  four  distinguished 
people  have  been  here  to  see  us. 


They  had  no  spedal  mission  at  all, 
but  just  came  because  of  that  some- 
thing about  the  place  that  appeals 
to  tbrir  finer  sfntfti  Likely  the  Tnatn 
thing  is  that  they  would  dosdy 
associate  themselves  with  the  atmos- 
phere in  ^i^iich  the  founder  of  Roy- 
croft Hved  and  worked.  To  them 
Blbert  Hubbard  was  somrthing 
more  than  a  mere  man  and  his  fife 
had  impressed  them. 

TWO  of  these  people  were  Scott 
Hearing  and  his  wife.  Both  are 
extreme  radicals  and  socialists. 
Having  much  in  conmion  with  the 
ideals  of  Blbert  Hubbard,  they  were 
much  interested  in  the  shops  and 
the  work.  But  somehow,  as  I  walked 
through  the  workrooms  with  them, 
I  could  not  help  feeling  that  back  in 
thdr  minds,  perhaps,  was  the 
thought  that  the  Roycrofters  rep- 
resented too  much  accumulated 
wealth.  Did  they  believe  the  business 
was  a  rich,  moneyed  concern  oper- 
ated for  the  benefit  of  the  few  and 
at  the  expense  of  the  many?  Or  did 
they  know  that  the  earnings  of  the 
past  twenty  years  had  been  put 
right  back  into  the  place  andintothe 
pay  envelopes  of  its  workers?  Well, 


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I  didn't  ask  them.  But  srou  tee 
Soott  is  tudi  a  bdievcr  in  liocialiring 
the  wealth  and  powers  of  the 
country,  I  just  natully  got  to 
wondering.  They  are  big  folks 
frhnaigh,  and  certainly  do  stir  up  the 
thinkeries  of  subjective  people  «•> 

aw  of  the  other  visitors  was 
lieutenant  John  J.  hynch,  late 
of  the  United  States  Army  and  later 
of  the  Royal  Flying  Corps  of 
England.  He  used  to  do  banking 
with  Elbert  Hubbard,  Banker,  by 
mail,  and  every  month  sent  in  one 
of  those  blue  and  gray  government 
pay-checks  fu*  deposit. 
F<»-  the  past  two  years  he  has  been 
flying  over  the  battle-fields  of  the 
Western  Front.  He  is  the  last  of  a 
group  of  ten  American  boys  who 
went  out  with  the  Canadians.  And 
as  I  listened  to  his  descriptions  and 
stories  I  had  to  rub  my  eyes  to 
realize  that  here  in  front  of  me  stood 
one  who  had  been  down  into  hell 
(or  perhaps  up  into  it)  and  yet  had 
come  back  to  "  the  floor  "  with  two 
legs,  two  arms,  two  eyes,  and 
perhaps  nz  senses,  to  tell  us  about 
it.  He  viewed  the  Battle  of  the 
Somme  from  overhead,  directed  by 
wireless  the  cannon-fire  of  the 
British,  swooped  down  to  within  a 
hundred  yards  of  earth  and  played 
his  machine-gun  on  Fritz's  hidden 
batteries;  bombed  the  enemy's 
roads;  encountered  and  dispatched 


as  many  as  deven  Qerman  flyers, 
and  did  all  those  impossible  things 
we  read  about.  It  did  n't  seem  reaL 
But  Lynch  is  n't  a  boaster.  I  had  to 
drag  it  out  of  him.  These  fellows 
who  have  really  "  done  it "  don't 
seem  to  care  about  telMng  their 
story. 

What  an  ezperiencel  And  no  seri- 
ous injury  I  Only  a  shrapnel-wound 
in  the  arm  in  two  years  of  real 
air-fighting. 

OyR  other  visitor  of  note  was  no 
less  a  personage  than  Samuel 
Gompers,  himself,  the  little  big  man 
who  has  promised  the  country  to 
maintain  the  existing  standards  of 
labor  throughout  the  war.  My  old 
friend,  Duncan  McLeod,  brought 
him  out  from  Buffalo.  The  Red  One 
showed  them  through  the  shops — 
because  I  was  out  making  nine  holes 
of  golf  on  the  new  links. 
I  used  to  think  golf  a  crazy  game  for 
a  man  with  muscles  to  play.  Qolf 
was  n't  for  athletes — so  I  thought. 
But  I  have  discovered  that  more 
muscles  come  into  action  when 
playing  golf  than  I  ever  thought  I 
had.  I  've  alwajrs  been  proud  of  my 
muscles,  too  I  Now  I  know  and  like 
golf  enough  to  realize  how  plumb 
da£^  some  men  can  go  over  it. 
Sam  Gompers  doesn't  play  golf, 
says  he  has  n't  time.  Of  course  not, 
because  one  finds  time  to  do  only 
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got  the  bug  yet  like  Duncan  McLeod 
and  I  have.  Mac  is  Scotch  and  comet 
by  his  golf  naturally.  He  uaed  to 
think  golf  interfered  with  his  busi- 
ness, but  finally  decided  he  would 
quit  the  business  if  it  kept  on 
bothering  «•>  «•> 

Gompers  tdd  me  he  loved  my  £Kther 
^and  that  they  were  good  firiends. 
"But  your  daddy  didn't  under- 
stand the  labor  situation,  or  the 
laboring  man's  pomtion,"  said  Sam. 
I  had  always  thought  he  did  under- 
stand it  but  I  did  n't  argue  it  out 
with  my  friend.  There  were  two 
reasons:  Sam  could  talk  me  to  a 


standstill;  besides,  he  came  here  to 
visit  our  shops  and  not  to  have  his 
ideals  shattered. 

However,  I  tdt  that  the  little  man 
sounded  a  note  as  of  iQjured  fedings 
in  his  reference  to  the  subject.  Alter 
he  had  gone,  I  recalled  an  artide  by 
BIbert  Hubbard  whidi  appeared  in 
the  February,  1909,  Ffo.  I  have  just 
read  it  again,  and  now  I  know  why 
Gompers  said,  "  He  did  n't  under- 
stand." You,  reader,  dig  up  your  old 
Fra  and  read  the  article.  For  my 
part  I  'm  agin'  the  unions  and 
believe  in  the  gospd  of  the  M€$$ag€ 
to  Garcia. 


A  Standardized  People 

Ed  Howe 

Howe's  Text:  A  cast-iron  intelligence  will 
invariably  produce  rigid  thinking!    «».    ^ 

|B  are  becoming  a  stand-      The    same    publication 


I  ardised  people;  we  have 
I  standardised schoolsand 
colleges,  and  on  leaving 
them  to  begin  the  real 
1  business  of  life,  we  are 
an  about  alike  so  far  as  our  public 
opinions  are  concerned. 
Our  newspapers  are  so  completdy 
standardised  that  one  would  do  for 
aU.  The  Literary  Digest,  a  standard- 
ized weekly  of  great  circulation,  and 
which  prints  a  summary  of  news- 
paper oinnions,  declared  latdy  that 
"  the  war  can  not  be  fought  without 
the  y.  M.  C.  A." 


says    the 

"  Boy  Scouts  will  feed,  on  land  at 
present  uncultivated,  half  the  army 
raised  by  the  first  draft."  A  plan 
by  which  the  United  States  army 
win  be  furnished  with  millions  of 
pounds  of  balanced  rations  on  a  few 
hours'  notice,  through  the  co-opera- 
tion of  the  Boy  Scouts,  is  also 
revealed.  "  Boy  Scouts  all  over  the 
country  will  be  instructed  in  scien- 
tific methods  of  preserving  the  sur- 
plus food-products  of  their  gardens," 
the  Digest  says.  "They  will  be 
taught  how  to  prepare  a  balanced 
ration  in  one-pound  packages  espe- 


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daUy  for  army  uae.  One  of  these 
packages  wiU  be  sufficient  to  feed  a 
soldier  for  one  day,  if  oq  short 
rations.  Normallyt  a  soldier  would 
eat  one  at  a  meaL  The  food  will  be 
compact*  and  a  marching  soldier 
could  carry  several  days'  provisions 
in  his  knapsack.  Millions  of  these 
one-pound  packages  of  food  wiU  be 
stored  by  Boy  Scouts  under  the 
direction  of  the  scout-masters.  When 
the  government  needs  the  food  for 
its  soldiers,  the  War  Department 
will  communicate  with  the  Boy 
Scout  headquarters.  Telegrams  will 
be  sent  to  scout-masters  all  over 
the  country.  They  wiU  at  once  ship 
the  rations  from  their  districts  to  a 
central  distributing  pdnt  named  by 
the  government  ••»  Within  a  few 
hours,  rations  enough  to  equip  a 
great  army  wiU  be  pouring  in."  «•> 
A  large  nugority  of  the  people  may 
betieve  both  these  statements  to  be 
absurd,  but  if  Prendent  Wilson 
should  accept  the  opinion  of  The 
Literary  Digest  that  the  war  can 
not  be  won  without  the  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
and  the  Boy  Scouts,  and  issue  a 
proclamation  urging  the  people  to 
give  a  biUion  dollars  to  aid  these 
private  organizations,  the  standard- 
ized newspapers,  almost  without 
exception,  would  favor  it.  Y.  M.  C. 
A.  and  Boy  Scout  specialists  would 
go  into  every  newspaper  office,  and 
conduct  a  campaign.  Exactly  the 
same  methods  would  be  used  from 


Maine  to  California.  In  a  recent 
money-raising  campaign  of  national 
scope,  one  powerful  newspaper 
grumbled  viciously  on  a  certain 
Wednesday  because  a  certain  branch 
house  had  ^ven  nothing,  although 
the  parent  house  in  Chicago  had 
given  UberaUy.  This  grumbling  con- 
tinued on  Thursday  and  Friday,  and 
became  a  little  more  vicious;  and  the 
fdlowing  Saturday  the  same  news- 
paper announced  with  glee  that  the 
branch  house  had  "  come  across  " 
with  twenty  thousand  dollars. 
This  paper  printed  a  threat  if  a  cer- 
tain man  did  not  send  in  a  sub- 
scription ''  by  tomorrow  night,"  his 
name  would  be  made  public. 
These  methods  were  widely  used  in 
standardized  newspaper  offices;  in 
many  cases  the  editors  did  not  ap- 
prove, but  were  over-awed  by  stand- 
ardized specialists  conducting  the 
campaign.  The  danger  is  that  such 
methods  may  asrist  in  making  the 
war  very  unpopular;  they  may 
develop  an  opposition  that  wiU  hurt 
when  we  need  aU  our  resources.  The 
people  have  a  way  of  submitting  a 
long  time,  but  grumbling  in  private, 
and  finaUy  revolting.  And  when  they 
revolt,  they  engage  in  aU  sorts  of 
excesses.  You  may  recaU  that  the 
people  of  Russia  for  many  years 
pretended  to  love  the  Czar,  and 
caUed  him  their  Little  Father  in 
public,  but  privately  they  were 
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IF  the  war  can  not  be  won  without 
the  Y.  M.  C.  A.;  if  "  when  the 
government  needs  food  for  its 
soldiers,  the  War  Department  will 
communicate  with  Boy  Scout  head- 
quarters" (I  quote  The  Literary 
Digest),  what  will  the  government 
do  with  the  tnllioos  of  money  it  has 
raised?  If  the  war  is  to  be  won,  and 
the  army  fed,  by  private  subscrip- 
tion, why  has  public  taxation  so 
enormously  increased? 
But  as  a  matter  of  fact,  the  govern- 
ment is  taking  good  care  of  its 
scddiers  from  public  funds.  General 
John  J.  Pershing,  in  coounand  of  the 
American  force  in  France,  says  in 
the  NatioTud  Geographie  Magazine 
for  May,  that  an  official  of  one  of 
the  private  organizations  wrote  him 
while  he  was  in  Mexico,  and  asked 
what  the  organization  could  do  for 
his  men.  He  sasrs  ''  tiwre  was  not 
reaOy  anything  that  we  needed,"  «•> 
I  believe  that  if  any  private  organ- 
ization is  performing  a  work  im- 
portant and  necessary  in  the  war, 
it  should  be  put  under  government 
controL  The  money  raised  for  these 
organizations  is  a  mere  bagatelle 
when  we  consider  the  funds  raised 
by  taxation  or  the  sale  of  bonds,  but 
raising  some  of  these  funds  causes 
more  annoyance  and  grumbling, 
and  takes  up  more  time,  than  did 
subscribing  the  Liberty  Loan  «•> 
Whatever  constituted  authority 
says  is  my  duty  I  will  accept;  but  I 


rebel  when  side  issues  are  added  by 
private  individuals,  and  millions  of 
others  feel  as  I  do  about  it. 
There  was  hdd  at  Chautauqua, 
N.  Y.,  latdy,  a  school  to  more 
thoroughly  standardise  orators;  and 
the  spedal  business  of  these  orators, 
it  is  confessed,  will  be  to  educate 
the  people  in  regard  to  the  war  «•> 
The  teachers  were  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
^)ecialists,  Chautauqua  specialists, 
and  specialists  from  other  similar 
organizations  at  home  and  abroad. 
The  standardized  governors  in 
every  state  appointed  delegates  to 
this  ,  training-school;  twenty-four 
were  appointed  frt»n  my  state  «•> 
Nearly  all  were  professors,  editors, 
preachers,  politicians,  lawyers:  not 
a  single  real  man  of  the  people 
was  named,  so  far  as  I  am  able  to 
judge  from  reading  over  the  list.  A 
very  large  minority  have  held  office, 
and  are  amdouS'to  beat  back. 
Several  hundred  of  these  men  at- 
tended the  training-school,  and  were 
taught  new  tricks,  which  they  will 
use  at  nearly  every  public  gather- 
ing to  be  held  in  the  immediate 
future  «•>  «•> 

I  venture  to  say  that  at  this* 
school  the  expert  teachers  did  not 
say  a  word  to  thdr  pufrils  about  the 
unprecedented  extravagance  which 
now  characterizes  our  public  affairs; 
on  the  contrary,  the  pupils  were 
taught  new  methods  by  which  the 
minority  may  control  the  nugority. 


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OF  the  nmxly  ten  million  yoang 
men  who  reipstered  for  the 
draft  in  purtuance  of  law,  fifty- 
eight  per  cent  claimed  exemption; 
that  is,  a  minority  of  thoie  eq)ected 
to  do  the  fighting  declared  in  the 
most  forcible  manner  possible  that 
they  did  not  wish  to  become  soldiers, 
and  fight  in  a  foreign  war.  Of  those 
who  had  no  reasonable  ground  of 
exemption,  and  said  nothing,  prob- 
ably a  large  number  do  not  wish  to 
engage  in  the  present  war;  certainly 
none  of  them  enlisted  vduntarily. 
So  speaking  of  migority  rule,  we 
absolutely  know  that  a  migority  of 
our  young  men  between  the  ages  of 
twenty-one  and  thirty-one,  do  not 
believe  in  war.  What  is  the  opinion 
of  the  older  people?  We  only  know 
positively  that  Preddent  Wilson 
was  re-elected  because  he  kept  us 
out  of  war. 

Therefore  it  b  at  least  a  fair  pre- 
sumption that  a  nugority  of  the 
people  do  not  believe  in  our  venture 
into  foreign  politics.  But  not  a 
word  was  said  about  it  in  that 
training-school  at  Chautauqiu,  N. 
Y. ;  on  the  contrary,  the  pupils  were 
taught  new  epithets  to  denounce 
those  who  believe  in  peace. 
I  am  not  challenging  the  wisdom  of 
President  V^lson,  I  am  only  pointing 
out,  for  future  consideration,  that  in 
this  case  the  minority  did  not  rule. 
And  if  migority-nile  is  a  good  thing, 
here  is  a  matter  that  should  be 


attended  to.  And  if  a  migority  of  the 
people  are  of  a  certain  oinnioo,  I 
can  not  understand  that  it  is  just  for 
the  minority  to  club  them  into  a 
contrary  opinion. 

For  many  yearslhave  protested  in  a 
feeMe  way  against  the  over-wroui^t 
sentiment  which  characterises  the 
people  of  the  United  States  in  their 
public  affairs.  I  am  as  far  removed 
from  a  revolutionist,  anarchist  or 
New  Thought  advocate  as  it  is 
possible  for  a  man  to  be;  I  have 
always  said  that  everything  honestly 
due  patriotism,  religion,  socialism, 
trade  unionism,  female  suffrage,  etc., 
should  be  ^ven  in  full  measure.  But 
as  sure  as  the  sun  shines  we  have 
made  many  ventures  in  these  things 
that  are  misdiievous.  Overwrought 
sentiment  is  threatening  us  more 
today  than  any  other  one  thing;  it 
has  finally  reached  a  pcnnt  where 
our  opinions  are  made  for  us  in 
Chautauqiu  training-schools  and 
editorial  offices. 

I  do  not  wish  to  do  or  say  anything 
that  will  hamper  the  administration 
in  the  conduct  of  the  present  great 
trouble;  I  thoroughly  dislike  a  man 
who  is  only  active  as  a  critic.  While 
I  think  it  imfortunate  that  we 
engaged  in  the  war,  I  am  not  certain 
that  our  action  will  not  result  in 
more  permanent  peace  than  the 
world  has  ever  known;  it  may 
finally  result  in  the  world  peace 
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The  American-Jewish  Congreu 

Stephen  S.  WIm 

Wise's  Text:  The  Amer dan- Jewish  Congress  will 
work  for  equal  rights  for   the  Jew  everywhere! 


IE  American-Jewish 
I  Congress,  ndiicfa  it  to  be 
I  hdd  inNovember,  1917, 
I  could  not  have  been,  if 
I  therehad  been  noWorid 
|war.  A  Congress  of 
American  Jews,  for  which  the 
oligarch-ridden  masses  in  Jewry  had 
long  clamored,  would  have  come  to 
pass  in  time.  But  the  War  is  indis- 
putably the  occarion  for  the  Con- 
gress, albeit  the  need  thereof  has 
long  been  felt  by  all  save  the  hand- 
ful, ^R^  have  dealt  with  American 
Israel  as  a  little  prindpality,  to  be 
ruled  in  kindly  and  even  generous 
fashion,  but  to  be  ruled. 
The  Congress  will  mark  the  emer- 
gence of  a  great  segment  of  the 
Jewish  people  from  the  most  intol- 
erable of  Qhetti,  builded  by  their 
own  hands,  or,  to  be  more  accurate, 
a  Ghetto  which  they  have  suffered 
their  rulers  to  erect.  It  will  mark  a 
revolution  in  the  affairs  of  nearly 
three  million  Jews,  who  by  virtue  of 
the  Congress  declare  themselves  to 
be  Jewishly  free  and  self-governing. 
<l  No  conspiracy  against  the  free- 
dom and  democracy  of  the  many 
had  been  framed  by  the  few  in 
American  Israel,  but  various  dr- 


cumstanoes  bad  combined  to  create 
a  Jewish  House  of  Lords  rather 
than  a  Senate  without  the  dieck  and 
balance  of  a  House  of  Commons — 
and  these.  Lords  in  the  main  of  the 
realms  of  things  phis  their  ssroo- 
phantic  servitors.  The  Congress  will 
mark  not  the  emasnilation  but  the 
abolition  of  the  Jewish  House  of 
Lords  in  this  land,  and  the  substitu- 
tion of  a  House  made  up  of  Repre- 
sentatives of  all  the  people. 
What  win  the  Congress  do?  For  one 
thing,  it  win  be — and  to  have 
brought  it  into  being  is  to  have 
wrought  no  mean  adiievement  on 
behalf  of  the  people  of  IsraeL  At  the 
Peace  Congress  of  1878,  in  Berlin, 
the  interests  of  Israel  were  repre- 
sented rather  than  completely  safe- 
guarded, by  one  who  could  not  do 
more  than  act  vicariously,  for  he  had 
at  birth  ceased  to  be  of  the  House  of 
Israel  though  he  was  not  unmindfrd 
of  its  welfare.  At  the  Peace  Congress 
that  is  to  be,  Israel  wiU  be  heard — 
with  that  reverence  which  the  world, 
led  by  the  American  democracy  and 
its  Allies,  is  prepared  to  yield  to 
Jewish  aims  and  daims.  That  equal 
rights  are  to  be  the  portion  of  the 
Jew  in  aU  lands  need  hardly  be 


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Stated,  the  struggle  and  the  triumph 
of  the  Allies  guarantee  that  end.  But 
over  and  beyond  that,  the  Peace 
Congress  wiU  deal  seriously  and 
justly  with  the  aspiration  of  the 
Jew  to  create  a  legally  secured 
Homeland  in  the  land  of  his  fathers. 
<l  President  V^lson,  the  world's 
foremost  figure  today,  has  said  of 
the  American- Jewish  Congress,  that 
he  is  "  persuaded  that  it  wiU  wisely 
and  prudently  serve  Jewish  interests 
and  that  its  deliberations  and  policies 
will  be  in  accord  with  and  helpful  to 
the  aims  and  policies  of  the  Ameri- 
can Government."  «•>  Memorable 
words — destined,  it  may  be,  to 
become  prophecy! 
Whatever  the  American- Jewish 
Congress  may  achieve,  it  wiU  owe 
in  no  smaU  part  to  him,  whose 
advent  into  Jewish  life,  some  years 
before  his  elevation  to  the  Supreme 
Court,  marked  the  end  of  the 
old  regime  and  the  beginning  of 
that  epoch  of  Jewish  self-reverence 
and  self-dependence  which  is  to 
culminate  in  the  Congress.  Much, 
too,  wiU  it  owe  to  one  other,  the 
Chairman  of  the  Congress  Execu- 
tive, Nathan  Straus,  whose  philan- 
thropies, a  sea  without  shore,  have 
not  withheld  from  him  the  under- 
standing of  the  truth,  that  the 
ultimate  need  of  a  self-respecting 
and  honorable  people  is  the  states- 
manship which  lies  in  common 
counsel  «•>  «•> 


England's  Clumsy 
Thumb 

George  Bernard  Shaw 

|HB  British  Government 
and  the  Vatican  may 
differ  very  vehemently 
as  to  whose  subject  the 
Irishman  is  to  be;  but 
they  are  quite  agreed 
as  to  the  propriety  of  his  being  a 
subject.  >  Of  the  two,  the  British 
Government  aUows  him  more  lib- 
erty, giving  him  as  complete  a 
democratic  control  of  local  govem- 
•  ment  as  his  means  wiU  enable  him 
to  use,  and  a  voice  in  the  election  of 
a  formidable  minority  in  the  House 
of  Commons.  ♦  ♦  ♦ 
But  if  he  dared  to  daim  a  voice 
in  the  selection  of  his  parish 
priest,  or  a  representative  at  the 
Vatican,  he  would  be  denounced 
from  the  altar  as  an  almost  incon- 
ceivable blasphemer.  *  *  *  Nothing 
but  gross  economic  oppression  and 
religious  persecution  could  have  pro- 
duced the  strange  phenomenon  of 
a  revolutionary  movement  not  only 
tolerated  by  the  Clericals,  but,  up 
to  a  certain  point,  even  encouraged 
by  them.  •  •  •  That  violent  external 
force  is  the  clumsy  thumb  of 
English  rule.  If  you  would  be  good 
enough,  ladies  and  gentiemen  of 
England,  to  take  your  thumb  away 
and  leave  us  free  to  do  something 
else  than  bite  it.  *  *  * 


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Where  Are  My  Children  ? 

Marie  Nelson  Lee 

Lee's  Text:    When  Wintry  winds  blow 
cold  across   the  human  heart  «»  *^ 


I  AM  alone.  €L  My  dul- 
dren  have  left  me. 
The  little  apartment 
that  squeesed  about  us 
so  ti^tly  has  expanded 
[  and  grown  cavernous 
and  empty.  €1 1  no  longer  bump  into 
the  furniture.  It  has  shrunk  into 
unaccustomed  order  and  become 
pious  and  strange. 
The  inano  is  asleep.  Its  usual  cover- 
ing of  tumbled  sheets  of  music  is 
ranged  carefully  in  the  cabinet,  the 
door  of  which  does  not  stand  ajar  «•> 
Everything  is  in  order. 
The  rugs  lie  flat  and  unwrinlded  «•» 
None  of  the  draperies  are  loosened 
or  askew.  The  shades  hang  straight 
and  trim  and  at  the  same  level 
across  the  windows. 
On  the  desk  the  blotthig-pad  is 
unspotted.  The  pens  and  pencils  lie 
primly  in  their  little,  wooden 
grooves.  The  erasers  and  paper- 
knife  are  properly  placed.  The  ink- 
bottles  are  covered. 
The  shears  and  scissors  hang,  each 
pair  on  its  peg,  like  children's  hats 
in  a  school  closet. 

The  colorful  fruit,  inled  high  in  the 
basket,  yesterday  glowed  a  wanton 
invitation    to    quick    destruction. 


Today  it  is  untouched,  precise,  and 
virtuous.  Bversrthing  is  in  order  «•> 
The  morning  paper  is  neatly  folded. 
41  The  couch-pillows  are  plump 
and  undented. 

No  finger-prints  blur  the  polished 
sides  of  the  bookcases.  The  books 
stand  straight  and  austere,  in 
formal,  unfriendly  exactness;  not 
one  leans  familiarly  across  to  hob- 
nob with  his  neighbor. 
In  the  darning-basket,  the  stockings 
do  not  tumMe  in  a  cari-colored  heap, 
dripping  over  the  edge.  The  dimin- 
ished contents  lie  compact,  sober- 
hued,  and  dignified. 

On  the  "  boys'  table  " 

Two  old  pipes  and  a  half-filled  box 
of  tobacco,  a  writing-pad  on  which 
are  a  pencil-sketch  of  a  dog  and  a 

bridge-score 

The  rocmi  is  suddenly  filled  with 
memories.  I  am  oppressed. 
Tiptoeing,  I  back  through  the  door- 
way, close  the  door  quickly,  and 
stand  leaning  against  it,  panting 
and  with  clenched  hands. 
I  am  alone. 

My  children — my  little  one 
AU  at  once — they  were  men- 
My  diildren  have  left  me. 
I  am  alone. 


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Cubist  Art 

ThomM  Hsrmtt 

Hyatt's  Text:  This  is  rather  difficult 
to  explain — you  know  what  I  mean! 


LDER  folks  who  have 
not  kept  in  touch  with 
advanced  art  move- 
ments; who  have  been 
busy  merely  earning  a 
living  and  raising  a 
family  and  enough  money  to  pay 
their  debts;  enough  to  buy  a  gradu- 
ation-dress for  Margaret;  supply 
Jack  with  a  little  change  occasion- 
ally; and  perhaps  send  Bill  away  to 
8chool--these  folks  do  not  always 
just  understand  what  Cubist  Art 
is  or  what  it  means. 
I  am  going  to  try  and  make  the 
matter  perfectly  clear,  so  that  the 
most  old-fashioned,  bread-winning 
parent  will  understand  the  matter 
exactly  and  appreciate  the  finer 
pdnts  of  Cubist  Art. 
You  see;  it  is  this  way. — I  was  going 
to  say — what  I  mean  is — that  the 
matter  is  perfectly  plain  if  you 
understand  it.  Now  we  will  suppose 
that  you  are  an  artist — you  under- 
stand-'-an  artist  who  wished  to 
represent  on  canvas  a  woman 
ascending  a  ladder — as  I  was  saying 
an  artist  who  wished  to  represent — 
as  I  put  it — a  woman  climbing — 
going  up  a  ladder — ^you  understand 
what  I  mean? 


Now  suppose — let  us  put  it  this 
way — for  instance— ^ou  remember 
when  you  were  in  high  school  and 
you  copied  one  of  the  Qibeoo  draw- 
ings— yes,  Charles  Dana  Gibson — 
exactly— everybody  remembers  the 
Gibson  Girl  (two  capitals).  You 
remember  you  coined  it  line  for  line 
(perhaps  you  did  it  through  waxed 
paper,  but,  if  you  did,  you  did  n't 
tell  anybody  that)  and  everybody 
thought  it  "  perfectly  lovely  *'  and 
"  just  as  good  as  the  artist  could  do 
himself  ** — you  follow  me? — ^you 
understand  what  I  mean?  You 
remember,  mother  wanted  to  get  it 
framed.  What?  She  did?  Yes,  I 
remember  now.  Thcii  you  read  about 
Gibson  receiving  one  thousand 
dollars  for  each  drawing.  You  read 
the  mail-order  school  advertising, 
"  Learn  to  draw.  Be  an  artist.  Many 
artists  receive  $100  per  drawing. 
Earn  $500  per  week."  You  were 
perfectly  sure  that  shortly  you  would 
be  a  famous  artist— -drawing  CaS" 
mopoHiian  covers;  and  have  your 
name  on  the  same  advertising  page 
with  R.  W.  Chambers — you  remem- 
ber?— ^you  know  what  I  mean,  I  am 
sure.  You  understand  I  don't 
blame  you  a  Ut.  Everybody  gets  it 


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at  that  age.  I  did  mj^telf.  If  every- 
body who  gets  the  erase  at  that  age 
really  did  go  to  New  York  to  study 
Art  (with  a  capital  A)  there  would 
be  nobody  left  at  home  to  do  such 
oommofi  things  as  raise  children  and 
enough  money  to  buy  a  peck  of 
potatoes  now  and  then.  You  under- 
stand what  I  mean? 
Yes,  I  know  that  I  am  getting  away 
from  the  subject  of  Cubist  Art  (with 
two  capitals)  but,  you  see,  if  I  spread 
this  out  enough  I  may  be  able  to  get 
the  nine  hundred  words  aUoted  to 
me  used  before — you  see — of  course 
I  understand  Cubist  Art  (two  cap- 
itals, this  is  seven  more  words) 
perfectly,  but  it  is  a  little  intricate — 
a  little  difficult  to  make  plain.  But 
to  go  on — suppose  that  you  had  had 
the  art  sduxd  bug;  and  your  fond 
and  confiding  parents  had  been  so — 
ah — well — ah — lenient  as  to  send 
you  to  an  art  school,  and  suppose 
that  you  had  spent  months  and 
months  at  dabtnng  perfectly  good 
paint  on  perfectly  good  canvas  and 
having  perfectly  gorgeous  Bohemian 
studio-feeds  and  dances  and  so  on — 
you  understand  what  I  mean?  And, 
in  the  meantime,  dad  had  been 
coming  across  with  the  money  that 
should  have  been  buying  new 
clothes  for  mother  and  passing  off 
the  mortgage  on  the  home  place — 
you  understand  what  I  mean? 
And  suppose,  finally,  that  dad 
really   couldn't   Iceep   it    up   any 


longer;  and,  wbUc  the  art  dealers 
thought  that  your  paintings  were — 
ah— ^weO—displasred  great  abilitsr— 
even  perhaps  genius — but  they  had 
so  many  paintings— of  course  srou 
would  understand  how  it  was.  In 
plain  words,  your  stuff  was  punk. 
You  know  what  I  mean? 
How  would  3rou  explain  matters 
with  dad  and  the  rest  of  the  family? 
You  would  do  Cubist  Art  «•>  You 
could  put  it  across  just  as  easy. 
Do  Cubist  Art.  Hang  it  up  in  a 
gallery.  If  the  critics  criticised  it, 
3rou  would  tell  them  that  they  never 
saw  anything  like  it  before  (which 
they  would  n't  have),  and  therefore 
they  had  no  right  to  criticise  some- 
thing they  knew  nothing  about.  You 
follow  me?  Lorgnetted  dowagers 
would  say,  "  How  wonderful  " — 
because  that  b  the  extent  of  their 
vocabulary  at  an  alleged  art  exhibit. 
The  Sunday  papers  would  ^ve  you 
long  write-ups.  Anything  freakish 
helps  to  sen  papers.  Soon  you  might 
be  called  The  Leader  of  the  New  Art. 
You  would  dip  these  items.  Send 
them  to  the  home  papers.  Home 
papers  copy  them.  See?  Understand 
what  I  mean?  Then  you  could  go 
home.  By  the  time  things  had  blown 
over,  people  would  have  forgotten 
that  you  ever  went  to  an  art  school. 
You  could  marry  the  guy  that  had 
carried  your  books  home  firom  school 
for  you — unless  he  had  married 
Mary  in  the  meantime. 


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Introducing  Henry  Louis  Mencken 

Samuel  Tait,  Jr. 


TaiVs  Text:  A  reasonable  appeal — directing  your 
faltering  mind  to  a  fundamental  thinker  «»  £•> 


FBBL  but  the  ardor 
bred  of  eztreine  ooofi- 
dence  in  introducing 
Mr.  Henry  Louis 
Mencken.  I  have  read 
practically  all  of  his 
published  writings  firom  that  ad- 
mirable little  George  Bernard 
Shaw,  His  Flags,  of  1905,  to  his 
critical  article  in  the  last  issue  of 
the  Smart  Set.  Even  Huneker  can 
not  raise  one  to  such  heights  of 
clear  and  unprejudiced  thinking; 
even  he  can  not  impress  one  so 
frequently  with  the  wealth  of  raw 
material  behind  the  bald  state- 
ment. Indeed,  in  the  last  thirty 
years,  he  has,  apparently,  read 
every  worth-while  book,  heard — 
and  even  played — every  worth- 
while musical  compomtion,  seen 
every  worth-while  painting  and 
piece  of  sculpture. 
Back  in  the  dark  ages  when  Anthony 
Comstock  was  the  only  American 
literary  critic  known  to  the  rabble, 
Mencken  gained  a  hearing  by  daring 
to  lay  the  rails  for  that  delightful 
immoralist,  Bernard  Shaw,  and,  in 
1905,  he  wrote  the  first — and  by  far 
the  most  penetrating — analsrsis  of 
the  plays  of  that  platitudinous  but 


revolutionary  Irishman.  He  had 
much  to  do  with  the  bringing  to 
America  of  Youth,  Folk,  Lard  Jim 
and  the  other  monumental  works 
of  Joseph  Conrad.  He  early 
recognised  and  i^praised  intelli- 
gently the  revolutionary  features 
introduced  into  the  drama  by  Ibsen; 
he  edited  the  best— the  Player's— 
edition  of  the  Norwegian's  plays; 
and,  more  important  still,  he  was 
the  first  American — if  not  the  first 
person  of  any  nation— to  declare 
what  is  today  recognised  as  a 
platitude — that  ultimately  Ibsen 
the  playwright  will  sink  or  swim 
upon  the  fate  of  his  social  dramas. 
Long  before  Dr.  Phelps  (once  an 
intelligent  man;  now  a  Plymouth 
Rock  Christian)  preached  the  genius 
of  the  Russians,  this  critic  had 
wdghed  Gorky,  Dostoyefsky,  Tche- 
koff  and  Andreyev.  He  was  really 
the  importer  of  the  two  most  note- 
worthy Qerman  literary  artists  of 
today— Hauptmaim  andSudermaim 
— and  the  first  to  explain  their 
parallel  philosophies.  Further,  he 
has  written,  among  other  volumes, 
an  introduction  to  the  philosophy  of 
Friedrich  Wilhelm  Nietzsche  that 
has  done  much  to  offset  the  effect  of 


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the  silly  damnings  by  Sunday-school 
superintendents  who  hide  in  the 
robes  of  our  "  unprejudiced  "  na- 
tional criticism.  What  a  pleasure  to 
encounter  a  work  Uke  this  after  the 
bunk-slinging  of  The  French  Ptff lor 
Philosopher  and  Johnny  Dewey  I  «•> 
And  Twain  and  Dreiser?  Mencken 
was  the  first  critic  to  discover  them  I 
Oh,  yes,  I  know  that  Professor 
Phelps,  long  years  ago,  admitted 
that  Twain  was  a  great  novelist; 
but  the  Professor  rated  the  author 
of  Huckleberry  Finn  as  a  vaudeville 
joker;  it  was  Mencken  who  first 
proclaimed  him  as  a  follower  of 
Rabelais  and  Swift  in  seeing  life  in 
all  its  naked  horror.  I  know 
that  Edward  Gamett  early  declared 
that  Sister  Carrie  was  a  great  novel; 
but  Gamett  is  only  a  superficial 
observer:  he  spoke  of  Sister  Carrie 
in  the  same  breath  with  The  Rise  of 
Silas  Lapham  and  the  sunshine- 
novels  of  Booth  Tarkington.  It  was 
left  for  this  critic  to  defeat  all  the 
attempts  of  Puritanical  lady-re- 
viewers, male  and  female,  to  dispose 
of  Dreiser  as  a  mere  teller  of  smutty 
stories,  and  to  place  him  upon  a 
level  with  such  other  first-rate 
imaginative  writers  of  his  time  as 
Conrad,  Sudermann  and  Andreyev. 
Henry  Mencken  is  not  "just  a 
critic,"  he  is  (Oh,  rarest  of  rarities 
in  this  damnably  barbarous  cen- 
tury 1)  a  possessor  of  genuine  in- 
telligence. Mencken  is  of  that  long 


line  of  thinkers  who  find  in  life 
neither  a  neat  system  of  rewards 
and  punishments,  nor,  still,  an 
understandable  f?t^iwK^  of  ''w^ifft 
and  effects.  Instead,  they  sense  it 
as  disordered,  as  a  striving  without 
an  attaining;  they  realise  the 
tragedy  ever  beneath  the  surface; 
and  they  condude  that  life  is 
essentially  meaningless. 
So  in  reality.  But  in  almost  any  age 
there  is  some  restless  philosof^ier— a 
Christ  or  a  Nietssche,  for  instance — 
who,  shrinking  from  the  absrss  of 
doubt,  invents  a  system  of  iR^iys  and 
wherefores  to  explain  it  awajr — who 
founds  a  religion.  After  sudi  an  one 
trail  the  masses — intellectually  en- 
slaved, through  fear  and  ignorance, 
to  the  philosophical  buncombe — and 
abjectly  repeat  the  prayers  of  their 
half-mad  Kaisers. 

But,  also,  there  appears  occasionally 
upon  the  waves  of  life  a  man  of  such 
great  intellectual  power,  and  such 
respect  and  daring  in  the  face  of 
reality,  that  he  can  view  intrepidly 
the  fact  that  the  only  answer  to  the 
riddle  of  the  universe  b  that  there  b 
no  answer;  and  that, therefore,  life b, 
"  a  tale  told  by  an  idiot,  signifying 
nothing."  In  the  band  of  these 
immortal  realists  are  most  of  the 
great  literary  geniuses — the  Greek 
writers  of  tragedy,  Shakespeare,  and 
Ibsen,  Hauptmann,  Sudermaxm,  all 
the  great  Russians,  Conrad,  Twain, 
and  Dreiser  «•>  «•> 


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WiUiam  II 

Nicholas  Klein 
(yntti  apolociet  to  Col.  IngertoU) 


LITTLE  while  ago,  I 
stood  in  the  dty  of 
I  Berlin — a  magnificent 
I  dty,  built  by  the  brain 
I  and  musde  of  peaceful 
I  men — and  gazed  upon 
an  army  marching  into  "Unter  den 
Linden  ";  men  marching  out  rest- 
lessly, and  eagerly,  to  slay  and  kill 
other  human  beings.  Later  I  saw  a 
pile  of  human  corpses,  burnt  by 
quicklime  and  I  thought  of  the  iron 
man  at  Potsdam,  a  man,  whose 
amotion  was  the  match  to  the 
powder-barrel  of  Europe. 
Through  this  man,  I  saw  Belgium 
raped — ^France  invaded — the  Ser- 
bian nation  despoiled — ^hdpless  men 
and  women  and  children  murdered. 
I  saw  him  order  the  Rdchstag  to 
vote  an  enormous  war-budget;  I  saw 
him  suppresdng  the  German  press; 
I  saw  him  on  the  Western  front 
surrounded  by  the  rotting  bodies  of 
human  beings;  I  saw  him  ruthlessly 
conquer  Belgium.  I  saw  him  de- 
stroy the  Louvain  Cathedral  «•>  I 
saw  him  plan  and  premeditate  the 
massacre  of  the  Lusitania, 
Then  I  saw  him  in  the  frightful  fidd 
called  "Europe,"  where  the  Allies 
and  the  Americans  combined  to 
wreck  the  fortunes  of  this  foremost 


egotist.  I  saw  him  at  bay,  in  defeat 
and  disaster — driven  by  a  million 
bayonets  back  upon  the  Rhine, 
back  to  Berlin.  I  saw  the  Qerman 
people  revolt. 

I  thought  of  the  orphans,  widows 
and  cripples  and  human  wrecks  he 
made — of  the  tears  that  had  been 
shed  for  his  glory,  and  of  the  Qer- 
man people  who  thought  him  the 
hotd  of  Creation,  and  who  now  have 
pushed  him  from  thdr  hearts. 
And  I  said  I  would  rather  have  been 
a  Bavarian  peasant  and  worn 
patched  dothes.  I  would  rather 
have  hved  in  a  hovd  with  a  cherry- 
tree  growing  near,  and  the  vines 
throwing  purple  shadows  in  the 
light  of  the  dying  sun.  I  would  rather 
have  been  that  poor  peasant  with 
my  loving  wife  by  my  side,  spinning 
as  the  day  died  out  of  the  sky,  with 
my  babes  upon  my  knees  and  their 
sweet  kisses  upon  my  face;  I  would 
rather  have  been  that  man,  and 
have  been  unseen,  unheard,  un- 
known, and  gone  down  to  the 
tongudess  silence  of  the  dreamless 
dust,  than  to  have  been  that 
imperial  impersonation  of  rape, 
murder  and  massacre,  that  blood- 
thirsty monster  of  the  Twentieth 
Century,  known  as  William  II. 


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Utirhi'itur.  N.  V,  I  ii  Vim  La  r  ii  T  t  li  if  KtiiLptk. 
'S'liv  liritli  WllO  TTJAiiP  U  ^Itlljlt^  fMf  yiitl 
tM   'E»teHR  KODAK  wkh  jcnj  ",^  Wiirlfl 


liu  I'VPTlrU'rl  fiir.  ii4^i<rii44lt'l4-4l  >ita  M4eiIi»  Kl 


JCtlltwr  N^w  Vorli  Smtr  IB! a  14.  Eilllur 
Mt!W  Vurt  Trftiinp  iJui.^  ItsfcTir  Tbo  m*n 
whofie  propLftkuL  mid  irititiaJ  wrEtLii^i 

tftry  I'lrrk'i   tit     q   duiteii   ronnlrliri    to 


1  iradE'tsmpti'-  t'Ui>lFM-lA^  tnA  purpttufel 
BTl>3triiickr  tii^twi-'i^n  t^^pitot   ati^l  Labor; 

ui4fi   tnr  tbu  cornmnii  bdckI  uf   botb.  A 
new  turc:^!  LlL  (If  niQcrMi:;. 


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A  f4]uti^  mjiij  with  ifrrbl:  ri:fi[J4J]iilj|]MlLy, 
tiitLl  tkie  nrft^^   t'j  KQ  Aft  FT  irri'JitHr  quhb. 

u&puHe;  KA  Wi'  ^o  tn  pru«l.  n  I.Tbpt&Tu  111 
Miti  U,  B,  Aritijr-  IJaD(i  luck  und   ^{ituty 


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'*  I  speak  Truth,  not  so  much  as  I  would,  hut  as  much 
as  I  dare;  and  dare  a  little  more  as  I  grow  older. ^^ 

Felicitations 


Felix  Shay 


Scott  Neating^s 
Fundamentals 


l-Bi: 


ICOTT  NEARINQ 
wired  mefromHoboken 
one  night  this  past  week 
I  that  he  would  be  in 
East  Aurora  the  next 
I  morning  for  a  talky 
talk.  That  was  good  news.  Nearing 
is  my  idea  of  a  man.  Makes  me 
think  of  that  red-haired  revolution- 
ist»  or.  Jefferson. 

Nothing  special  y'  know.  He  and 
Mrs.  Nearing  were  on  their  way  to 
DetrcMt.  There  are  so  many  prob- 
lems to  mull  over  these  days;  the 
general  attitude  is  so  much  shut  up 
and  "get  behind"  something  or 
somebody,  it 's  a  soul's  ease  to  meet 
up  with  one,  who  will,  without  agony 
or  hypocrisy,  intelligently  consider 
the  other  fellow's  conclusions. 
Thank  God,  it  rained;  which  drove 
us  indoors,  'round  the  blazing  log 
fire!  A  dark  day  and  a  bright  com- 
panion; a  crackling  fire,  and  snap- 
ping argument.  There  's  a  sporty 
setting  for  you. 


The  hour  waicrowded  with  subjects. 
HDr.  Nearing  taught  at  Bishop 
Vincent's  Chautauqua  this  summer. 
He  was  denied  the  public  platform 
there  because  the  Qoveming  Board 
declared  the  gathering  was  "  avow- 
edly patriotic."  Nearing  is  a  scien- 
tific investigator;  he  wants  to  know 
"why."  So  he  was  ruled  off.  One 
who  asks  "  why? "  is  always 
dangerous!  «»  «» 

He  did  conduct  classes  in  Sociology. 
€lThe  single-admission  fee  to  his 
classes  was  thirty-five  cents.  Near- 
ing drew  two  or  three  hundred  to 
each  session.  The  people  are  tired  to 
death  of  bunk;  tired  of  being  "  pro- 
tected," and  manipulated.  Th^ 
may  disagree  with  the  speaker,  but 
they  love  to  hear  an  honest  man. 

WE  discussed  Socialism  and 
Internationalism — outrages 
committed  by  I.  W.  W.'s  on  society 
and  outrages  by  society  on  the 
I.  W.  W.'s;  how  the  contagious 
spirit'to-'kill  sets  the  white  man  mas- 
sacring the  black  in  East  St.  Louis — 
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white  in  Houston,  Texas.  Not 
orderly  nationalised  killing;  but 
vulgar,  indiscriminate,  barbaric  kill- 
ing. We  decided  that  logical  con- 
duct produced  some  queer  results  «» 
I  presume  to  differ  with  Dr.  Nearing 
on  sundry  subjects,  albeit  reverently 
respecting  his  attitudes,  and  doubt- 
ing myself  before  I  doubt  him.  He 
digs  for  his  reasons.  Oftentimes 
when  a  cocky  person  is  crowing  on 
his  own  dunghill,  Nearing  explodes 
a  bed-rock  fact  under  him;  drops 
his  dunghill  into  a  cavernous  pit  «» 
"Dr.  Nearing,"  I  addressed  him, 
"  I  question  the  immediate  benefits 
of  Socialism,  though  I  am  intensely 
sympathetic.  I  question  the  wisdom 
of  agitating  'class  consciousness.'  I 
believe  the  real  work  is  to  draw  the 
bottom  and  the  top  together;  not 
to  drive  a  wedge  and  split  them 
apart  irreparably  «»  For  instance, 
though  I  observe  Henry  Ford  works 
within  provoking  limitations,  I 
think  his  '  plan '  will  be  the  way 
out  in  America." 

"Of  course,"  he  answered,  "you 
recognize  Ford's  method  as  benevo- 
lent feudalism.  Though  it  probably 
is  the  next  step  if  American  bu^- 
nessmen  are  wise.  If  they  are  unwise 
—well,  they  will  simply  hasten  jus- 
tice. The  weakness  of  the  present 
system  is  that  American  business 
institutions  are  monarchical;  each 
boss  rules  supreme  in  his  own  little 
kingdom.   The  American  form  of 


government  is  supposed  to  be 
democratic.  Monarchies  can  not 
endure  inside  a  democracy;  or  if 
you  prefer  it  the  other  way,  a  de- 
mocracy can  not  endure  as  a  democ- 
racy, when  its  constituent  parts  are 
monarchies.  Business  must  become 
a  participatioTL  Power  must  be 
distributed.  Both  the  top  and  the 
bottom  must  have  an  effective  say 
in  the  management." 
"  Will  not  that  kiU  off  ambition?" 
I  came  back.  "  Jim  HQll  died  a  mil- 
lionaire, and  while  I  admit  his 
millions  add  nothing  to  his  accom- 
plishment, by  fair  or  unfair  means, 
he  did  open  up  the  Northwest. 
What  of  him?" 

"Oh,"  said  Nearing,  "he  simply 
forced  a  growth  '  under  glass  '  as  it 
were,  for  his  own  profit.  Another  10 
or  25  years  and  that  Northwest 
country  would  have  opened  up 
naturally.  When  the  real  need 
exists,  the  people  perform  the  task 
easily  and  well.  Be  sure  of  one  thing: 
we  don't  need  the  .^  Hills— the 
Government,  the  people,  must  own 
the  means  of  transportation.  They 
must!  They  will." 
"  Well,  then,  Dr.  Nearing,  I  dose 
with  this  corollary,  I  know  a  mil- 
lionaire, bom  a  i>oor  boy,  who  died 
a  year  or  so  ago,  leaving  $50,000,000. 
Is  n't  it  something  for  America  to 
produce  the  opportunity  for  a  man 
like  that.  Almost  illiterate  —  he 
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"  Oh,  that  fellow!  To  produce  him 
was  the  tragedy  of  this  dvilisation. 
He  perniciously  underpaid  the  girls 
who  worked  for  him,  and  served 
self  rapaciously.  When  he  died  he 
left  nothing  but  his  money.  Even  his 
business,  to  which  he  gave  his  life, 
was    discreditable.    He   sold   only 
cheap     and    tawdry,    servictiess 
merchandise.  America  would  have 
been  better  had  he  dug  in  a  ditdi, 
a  work  for  which  his  coarse  nature 
was  better  qualified;  a  work  which 
would  have  brought  him  more  happi- 
ness. When  wealth  came  to  him,  he 
did  not  know  what  to  do  with  his 
leisure.  He  lurched  around  making 
others  unhappy.  He  died  20  years 
before  his  time,  because  of  ignorant- 
ly  over-eating  and  over-drinking  1 " 
Continued  Nearing: "  The  theory  of 
money-making  is  to  bring  us  the 
leisure  for  the  finer  things;  literature 
and  paintings,  music  and  sculpture, 
education  and  the  sciences,  human 
justice ;  LIFE,  in  a  word,  and  liberty 
and    the    pursuit    of    happiness. 
Instead  it  has  made  us  hypocritical 
slaves.  To  excuse  our  grossneas  we 
say,    '  Business   is   business! '    We 
have  created  a  materialistic,  profit- 
grabbing  civilization,  the  whole  of 
which,  say  the  whole  of  Manhattan 
Island  and  what  it  symbolizes,  is 
not  worth  one  Greek  statue  and 
what  it  symbolizes. 
**  To  save  ourselves  from  being  the 
Comic  Supplement  of  Valhalla,  the 


worse  than  joke,  we  must  take  hokl 
and  prove  we  have  not  lost  the 
meaning  of  life.  We  must  turn  from 
sdfish  gain,  and  consider  the  ulti- 
mate good  of  the  race. 
"  We  must  learn  what  we  really 
want,  and  in  what  proportion  for 
personal  use.  Now  we  worship 
numbers  (millions)  and  sisel  We 
need  to  understand  qwdUy,  re- 
straint, the  joys  of  enough,  and 
the  acquisitiveness  of  giving." 

An  old  man  bears  the  same  rclalion 
to  conscription  that  an  exploded 
shell  does  to  a  bufile.  He  may 
LOOK  V/ARLIKE,  but  he  can't 
GO  OFF, 

Mr.  Muiuey  Accuses 
Robert  Louis  of 
Plagiarism 

[HE  September  issue  of 
Munsey's  Magazine 
shows  ardor  in  attempt- 
ing to  convict  of  pla- 
giarism, the  author  of 
Stevenson's  BotUe  Imp. 
This  pseudoliterary  criticism  runs 
unsigned,  so  such  honor  as  there  is, 
of  attacking  Robert  Louis  the  Well- 
Beloved,  belongs  to  Mr.  Munsey, 
himself;  whom  we  recognize  as  a 
newspaper-huckster,  an  acrimonious 
broker  in  publishing-plants,  not  as 
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of  literary  knowledgeaUeness  «»  «» 
There 't  a  sacrilege  here! 
Munsey's  seeks  to  prove  what 
R.  L.  S.  cheerfully  admits,  that  in 
1823  a  10-20-30-centthespian,whom 
Stevenson  styles  "  the  redoubtable 
B.  Smith  "  played  as  a  drama,  The 
BotUe  Imp,  "  a  very  unliterary 
product."  This  same  BotUe  Imp  was 
an  old  tale  of  probably  Teutonic 
source  originating  back  in  dim  time. 
CFind  an  authorized  edition  of 
Stevenson's  Works;  therein  Robert 
Louis  unfailingly  gives  credit  for 
the  idea  either  to  the  **  redoubtable 
B.  Smith"  or  to  an  "old  melo- 
drama." Here 's  a  Scotch  conscience 
for  you,  and  not  the  sweet  insou- 
ciance that  Mr.  Munsey  pictures  1 
About  1890,  Stevenson  first  vamped 
the  BotUe  Imp  for  the  Samoan,  a 
Polynesian  publication.  In  1891  the 
N.  Y.  Herald  published  it  as  a  serial. 
C  The  story  of  the  BotUe  Imp  is  a 
simple  one:  The  phial  contains  little 
black  devils.  The  owner  of  it  may 
command  from  it  whatever  worldly 
possession  he  desires.  Should  the 
owner  die  with  it  in  his  possession, 
his  soul  goes  straight  to  Hell.  That 
is  part  of  the  contract.  The  phial 
may  be  sold,  but  always  for  less 
than  was  paid  for  it! 
That  skeleton  outline  was  the  frame 
on  which  the  German  story-tellers 
hung  their  breathless  tale;  on  which 
the  redoubtable  B.  Smith  sus- 
pended his  suspenseful  melodrama; 


on  which  Stevenson  draped  his 
graceful  English,  dressed  his  story. 
C  Plagiarism!  If  that  be  plagiariam 
then  Herodotus,  Plutarch,  Plato, 
Christ,  Mohammed,  Csesar,  Cicoxi, 
Shakespeare — and  all  writers  of  aU 
ages  have  been  plagiarists.  These 
gentlemen  stole  from  the  past,  and 
from  eadi  other.  The  modems  can 
not  help  but  steal  from  them. 
Plagiarism?  Folderol  and  fiddle- 
sticks! Mr.  Munsey  is  again  found 
guilty  of  being  absurd. 
Plagiarism — what  is  plagiarism?  «» 
I  will  tell  you  what  it  is  not! 
Itis  not  plagiarism  when  the  second 
man  tells  the  story  better  than  the 
first  man. 

You  may  choke  and  turn  red  and 
howl  over  this;  't  will  make  no  dif- 
ference. Posterity  will  save  the  most 
interesting  version  of  the  most 
interesting  tales;  not  at  all  par- 
ticular about  consulting  the  calen- 
dar to  see  who  got  there  first. 
Robert  Louis  will  still  be  the  Well- 
Beloved  when  the  redoubtables,  B. 
Smith  and  F.  Munsey,  have  linked 
arms  and  goose-stepped  off  into  the 
dusty  silence. 

Faithlessness  denotes  a  weak  and 
pernicious  character.  Be  careful 
how  you  trust  one  who  secretly 
betrays  another. 

Epigrams  are  not  only  "Half 
Truths;"  they  are  also  ''Half 
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The  Houghton  Line's 
Line  of  Thought 

£R£  lives  and  works 
I  and  thinks  and  writes, 
in  Philadelphia,  one 
who  is  the  forerunner  of 
a  better  kind  of  Busi- 
jness  American  «»  Ifis 
name  ;H.  is  Charles  £.  Carpenter. 
Superficially,  his  job  is  President 
and  General  Manager  of  £.  F. 
Houghton  &  Co.  £Qs  real  duty  and 
divernon  is  to  edit  the  Houghton 
Line,  a  house-organ  with  a  jass 
band-attachment. 
I  venture  that  as  President  and 
Greneral  Manager  of  the  Houghton 
Company  only.  Carpenter  would 
have  gurgled  out,  unwept,  un- 
mourned,  submerged  beneath  his 
smooth  and  salubrious  Oils  and 
Greases;  wrapped  in  a  shroud  of  his 
own  VIM  leather!  Such  is  the  fate 
of  the  average  businessman — which 
of  course.  Carpenter  knew.  Out  upon 
oblivion  1  He  introduced,  initiated, 
inaugurated,  became  the  Houghton 
Line,  a  publication  with  a  punch,  a 
business-getter  with  the  courage  to 
speak  up,  an  honest  opinion  on  all 
subjects  tender  and  true  served 
alongside  his  solicitation  for  your 
order.  Damned  be  subsidy  1 
Between  ourselves,  the  typical,  mutt 
house-organ  is  a  very  sick  sheet. 
Originally,  the  nefarious  purpose 
was  to  '*  get  up  something  that  will 


interest  the  trade."  The  vainest  man 
in  the  organisadoo  was  made  editor. 
He  was  bright  and  original,  knew  all 
the  latest  stones,  created  his  own 
slang,  did  a  little  writing  on  the  side 
— and  diqwraged  the  Smart  Set 
when  they  reftised  his  contri- 
butions. Bismilah,  the  kid  was 
dever.  They  made  him  editor. 
Only  being  an  editor  is  n't  a  stunt 
or  an  in^)iration;  it's  an  eight- 
hour  union  job.  When  the  bell  rings, 
the.  dajr's  work  begins.  Therefore 
the  fifth  issue  of  a  house-organ 
usually  finds  Ye  Editor  completely 
surrounded  by  shears  and  |^hie-pot, 
in  lieu  of  ideas.  After  that,  the 
house-organ  sinks  and  sinks  to  the 
equiggy,  squggy  depths  of  innocu- 
ous desuetude,  'til  the  vulgar  waste 
of  good  paper  and  printers'  ink  is 
the  one  conspicuous  feature. 
The  editor  who  can  hold  an  audience 
week  after  week,  month  after  month 
is  not  to  be  picked  off  a  high  stool,  or 
found  adolescing  among  the  junior 
salesmen.  No,  not  frequently  «» 
Especially  this  applies  to  house- 
Organ  audiences  who  receive  the 
publication  free. 

Editorial  ineffidency,  and  the  Boss's 
vain  endeavor  to  have  the  editor 
write  interestingly  and  exclusively 
of  lard,  or  soap,  or  underwear,  or 
sewing  machines — only  that  and 
nothing  more — is  a  pathetic  phase 
of  our  commercial  literature.  It 
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TUt  anonmloai  dtuatioii  oomet  o« 
heavy-handed  men  of  gooey  wite 
•lothing  'round  in  the  pubttcatioQ- 
bufineM,  which  at  best  it  a  difficult 
one  to  sound,  and  more  so  to  sense. 
€L  Once  upon  a  time  when  "  Bfike 
Kinney— Teamster "  edited  The 
Gimlel— Shepard-Norwell  A  Co.'s 
(St.  Louis)  House-Organ,  the  circu- 
lation ran  so  high,  they  finaUy 
charged  for  it,  to  cut  off  the  curios- 
ity seekers,  to  keep  the  little  maga- 
zine inside  the  hardware  trade  «» 
This  well-schemed  psychological 
adjustment  had  a  most  unexpected 
result.  On  a  pay  basis  the  circulation 
exceeded  all  previous  figures.  When 
the  subscribers  were  asked  to  pay 
they  realised  at  once  The  Gindei 
was  worth  something,  so  of  course 
they  could  n't  do  without  it! 
Mike  Kinney's  was  intensdy 
HUMAN.  That  appealed.  There  are 
so  few  human  people.  He  styled 
himself  a  Teamster.  He  wrote  of  life 
as  he  met  it  on  the  shipping-plat- 
form. His  world  views  were  seen 
from  that  elevation!  Mike's  methods 
were  strictly  speak-ea^y,  with  a  soft, 
wheedling  eloquence  to  his  brogue. 
The  second  conspicuous  house- 
organ  success,  but  on  a  more 
authoritative  and  impressive  basis, 
is  the  Houghton  Line,  with  Charles 
E.  Carpenter,  the  President  and 
General  Manager,  the  head  of  his 
firm,  as  diief  contributor,  enlight- 
ener,  and  offender. 


CHARLES  E.  CARPEMTBR  is 
the  highest-salaried  editor  in 
the  world,  not  excepting  Brisbane. 
He  admits  it.  He  U  the  Bdain 
Oaxob  of  a  miOioa-doUar  business, 
buih  up  by  his  two-by-twice  maga- 
sine,  the  HoughUm  Une.  He  fixes 
his  own  salary. 

The  ''  Q.  M."  as  he  signs  himadf, 
talces  full  responsibility  for  aU  the 
articles  in  his  publication.  He 's  a 
businessman  with  opinions,  whidi 
he  prefers  to  share  with  his  custom- 
ers; even  when  they  object.  It  seems 
to  him  *' to  be  the  honest  and  decent 
thing  to  do! " 

Carpenter  hits  hard.  You  never 
mistake  his  meaning.  He  tackles  all 
the  timely  subjects  with  courage 
and  precision.  He  makes  friends  and 
enemies;  nor  do  they  influence  him 
a  whit.  He  counts  them  all  good, 
and  takes  counsel  from  himself  #» 
He  charges  50  cents  a  year  for  his 
publication,  which  goes  to  big 
business  executives.  His  circulation 
skirts  'round  the  100,000  mark  #» 
The  HoughUm  Line  carries  text  and 
advertising  pages.  The  advertising 
pages  incture,  describe,  price,  and 
sell  the  Houghton  Une  of  Oils, 
Greases,  and  Leather.  The  text 
pages  are  to  give  the  "  G.  M.'s  " 
views  on  Billy  Sunday,  Vacdnation, 
Equal  Suffrage,  Child  Labor,  Birth 
Control,  Conscription,  or  whatever 
enters  his  head. 
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modify  hit  copy.  He  never  i  em  Ilea 
it  himself.  Therefore,  the  HoughUm 
Line  is  one  intelligent  man's  opinioii 
as  18 — take  it  or  leave  it — but  keep 
your  solemn  or  sassy  letter  of  dis- 
agreement to  yourself.  The  "  Q.M." 
IS  not  interested. 

There 's  an  innovation  to  baffle 
"  Old  Subscriber  " !  Carpenter  never 
reads  the  letters  that  complain. 
"  Wot  ycu  say  about  Bitty  Sunday 
ain't  sot  "—Carpenter's  Secretary, 
a  bored  young  gentleman,  like  Puzsy 
Wuzzy,  wh6  does  n't  care  a  damn! — 
reads  these  complaints  and  mails 
the  belligerent  Form  28, 

"Mr.  Carpenter  asks  me  to  present 
his  compliments  and  to  advise  you 
that  he  is  perfectly  witting  that  you 
should  have  your  opinion.  The 
article  which  you  criticize  was  his 
opirdon.  It  is  not  to  be  expected 
that  two  superintettects  would 
arrive  at  exactly  the  same  condu- 
sion — **  etc. 

Lord  love  ye,  I  say  it 's  a  grrrand 
and  glorious  privilege  to  be  a  mil- 
lionaire and  a  radical  editor  at  one 
and  the  same  time! 
"  You  did  n't  like  that  article,  eh? 
You  think  you  '11  cancel  your 
subscription,  do  you  ? — ^Alright, 
alright  11  Please  consider  it  canceled. 
(You  snub-nose  collection-taker, 
what  do  you  know  about  literatoor  I) 
Just  drop  your  resignation  in  that 
clothes-basket,   as  you  pass  out  I  " 


CHARLES  B.  CARPENTER'S 
work  if  important,  besrond  any 
value  he  may  pot  on  it.  He  has 
acoomi^ished  more  in  the  past  ten 
years  from  his  back-bedroom  office 
in  Philadelphia  than  has  the  com- 
bined faculty  of  the  University  of 
Pennsylvania  in  the  same  time  «» 
Carpenter  has  induced  100,000 
American  businessmen  to  volun- 
tarily ask  for  a  magazine  that 
preaches  and  practises  free  speech. 
These  100,000  businessmen  are 
taking  a  lesson  in  catdi-as-catdi 
thinking  from  a  successful  business- 
man; a  fellow  just  like  themselves. 
<lWere  Max  Eastman,  or  Sam 
Oompers,  or  Emma  Goldman  to 
write  the  same  sort  of  stuff,  the  same 
businessmen  would  call  the  author 
"  a  long-haired  crank  "  or  demand 
that  he  or  she  be  jailed. 
In  the  same  period  the  University  of 
Pennsylvania  has  accomplished  just 
one  act  that  attracted  the  attention 
of  the  World— and  that  the  getting 
rid  of  Scott  Nearing,  a  professor  who 
believed  that  education  should  be  as 
free  as  posnble.  Nor  all  the  sands  of 
time  will  ever  efface  the  blot  on  the 
scutcheon  of  this  same  Univernty. 
<l  There 's  no  particularly  good 
reason  why  American  bunnessmen 
should  be  fed  on  predigested  slush, 
is  there?  Yet  they  are!  Pick  up  your 
business-magasines  or  trade-papers 
and  mark  the  attitude.  Either  an 
inferior  addressing  a  superior  or  a 


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teacher  admonithing  a  atudent.  The 
man  with  the  money  teems  to 
inspire  a  terrible  awe. 
Fact  is,  the  average  businessman  is 
a  very  approachable  agigger;  he 
welcomes  the  opportunity  to  talk 
with  an  equal,  especially  when  the 
equal  wants  nothing  but  courteous 
consideration.  The  Houghton  line 
gains  and  holds  attention  not  only 
because  Carpenter  shows  skill  in 
writing  and  thinking;  not  only 
because  of  his  character  and  courage 
— ^but  because  he  talks  the  kind  of 
talk  executives  understand.  Not 
"  young  man  you  can  make  a 
fortune  ";  not  stenog'-talk  or  book- 
keeper-talk; not  the  bluster  of  a 
young  advertising  man  afraid  of 
himself,  or  the  theories  of  a  greasy 
grind,  but  the  man  to  man,  "if  you 
don't  like  it  you  go  to  heW  of  some- 
one who  is  just  as  good  as  you  are — 
I  say  again,  'tis  invaluable,  and 
much  to  be  commended,  that  one 
businessman  in  America  is  not 
afraid  to  write  all  his  views  on  all 
subjects  openly  to  his  customers 
and  to  stand  behind  them  fearlessly; 
views  on  religion,  on  politics,  on 
this  war,  on  love  and  marriage,  on 
education,  on  social  betterment — all 
his  views — fearlessly  1 
Usually  the  gentleman  says  "  Of 
course  I  believe  that,  but  there 
are  '  business  reasons '  why  it 
should  not  be  published! " 
Pax  vobiscum* 


SnEEngettt 
And  Suffragettes 

IDENTIAL  Elec- 
tion of  1872,  Susan  B. 
Anthony  cast  a  vote, 
which  she  claimed  was 
her  right  and  privilege 
under  the  Fourteenth 
Amendment  to  the  Federal  Consti- 
tution. Promptly,  she  was  arrested 
and  fined  $100.  Promptly  she 
refused  to  pay  it.  Nor  is  it  paid  to 
this  day,  though  the  immortal 
Susan  B.  is  eleven  years  dead  «» 
This  was  not  a  mere  act  of  defiance. 
Her  course  was  premeditated;  its 
worth  to  "  The  Cause  "  weighed  and 
estimated  beforehand.  Whether  she 
voted  or  not  was  unimportant; 
whether  the  women  of  America 
secured  the  vote  was  a  cause  to  die 
for.  American  men  had  died  for  the 
same  cause — "  Taxation  without 
Representation."  «»  «» 
Susan  B.  Anthony  was  a  school- 
teacher. She  cast  that  presidential 
vote  to  provoke  and  promote  dis- 
cussion; to  educate. 
They  called  her  crazy  and  boo*d  her. 
C  The  '*  ladies  of  quality  "  swept 
'round  her  with  lifted  skirts.  She 
was  a  shameless  thing,  she  was 
indeed — this  saintly  woman,  this 
undaunted  foe  to  ignorance. 
She  lived  to  see  the  intelligent  West 
all  "Equal Rights";  to  see  American 
men   generally   awakening   to  the 


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simple  truth  that  a  democracy  is 
not  a  democracy  where  half  the 
people,  of  ii^tever  sex,  are  denied 
the  vote;  thatrepresentativegovem- 
ment  is  a  sham  and  a  lie  when  only 
the  male  members  of  society  vote. 
Wherever  inteOigenoe  thrives,  the 
question  has  long  since  changed.  No 
more  is  it,  "  Whether  the  women 
should  have  the  vote!"— but  "Can 
the  men  hold  on  toCIVILIZATION 
without  women's  hdp?  " 

BBLVA  A.  LOCKWOOD  was 
another*  schocd-teadier;  she 
lived  and  worked  up  the  road  just  a 
piece  firom  Susan  B.  Anthony. 
Susan  lived  and  taught  in  Rochester, 
N.  Y.,  Belva,  in  Lockport,  Qains- 
villc,  Oswego,  N.  Y. 
Belva  A.  Lockwood  was  the  first 
woman  permitted  to  practise  before 
the  bar  of  the  Supreme  Court  of 
the  United  States. 
Twice  this  woman  was  nominated 
1^  the  Equal  Rights  Party  as  a 
candidate  for  the  Presidency  of  the 
United  States;  the  only  woman  ever 
so  honored. 

She  died  this  spring  in  Washington, 
D.  C,  a  national  figure. 
Left  a  widow  at  24,  with  a  small 
child,  she  received  $4  a  week  for 
teaching  school  in  her  home  town  of 
'  Royalton,  N.  Y.  This  was  in  1854  «» 
She  protested  to  the  Methodist 
minister's  wife  that  this  starvation 
wage    was    unfair.    "  I    know    it. 


oeaiie,  answered  the  ■ 
**  but  I  can  not  he^  yon;  yon  can 
not  hdp  yourselfl " 
«Wdl— in  be  damnedlt"  said 
Belva,  or  words  to  that  effoct. 
Forthwith  she  started  a  fifty-year 
fight  for  Bqual  Rights;  especially  to 
open  the  so-called  ''learned  pro- 
fossioos  "  to  women. 
Do  the  political  gentlemen  of  the 
opposition  believe  that  Bdva  A. 
Lockwood,  a  woman  of  her  arumwi 
and  capabilities,  thought  she  could 
be  elected  President  of  the  United 
States  in  1884. 
You  know  she  did  nottt 
Then  why  did  she  toss  away  the 
time  and  give  herself  the  trouble  and 
wpokd  her  hard-earned  substance  to 
secure  the  nomination?  For  the 
notoriety?  BoshI  That 's  the  answer 
of  an  addle-pated  i4jit. 
She  wanted  to  stir  up  the  issue,  to 
set  tongues  a  wagging.  To  have  the 
question  asked  and  argued  again 
and  agahi— ''  Whg  shaiM  rft  a 
woman  6#  PttMmU?  ** 
Thirty  days  in  jail,  starvation  or 
forceful  feeding,  $100-fines  and  all 
the  rest  of  the  respectable  and  un- 
impressive legal  trumpery,  will  not 
stop  women  of  that  temperament 
from  picketing  the  gateways  <^  the 
world,  and  creating  a  disturbance 
to  gain  a  discussion  of  and  an 
answer  to  that  imperative  question, 
"  It  there  any  sane  and  Just  reason 
why  women  shouid  not  vote? ''  «» 


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The  Champion  Mixer 
ofThem  AllI 

INQ  to  the  Chicago 
Conventioii  of  the  As- 
sociated Clubs  of  the 
World,  in  1915»  the 
PILGRIMS  of  Borton 
ran  their  special  train 
into  Bast  Aurora  for  the  day.  Say 
150  in  the  party.  Carroll  Swan  in 
command  «»  #» 

Carroll  is  a  graduate  of  **  deah  old 
Ha'vard/'  only  it  didn't  take.  He 
cut  Harvard  to  fit  his  style,  and 
Harvard  never  ironed  a  wrinkle  out 
of  him.  He 's  a  prosperous  business- 
man of  Boston  who  has  not  forgot- 
ten how  to  frolic.  He  is  the  cham- 
pion mizer  of  them  alL 
This  is  said  with  full  respect  to 
certam  pronunent  members  of  the 
DuQuesne  Club  of  Pittsburgh;  the 
Press  Club  of  Chicago;  the  Sam 
Club  of  Syracuse,  and  certain  fun- 
manufacturers  ol*  the  Pacific  Coast. 
CCarroll  wired,  "Will  you  turn  out 
the  Roycroft  Band  to  meet  us?  "  #» 
"  Betcherlifel  "  we  wired  back. 
"  Clayt',  uniform  the  entire  band  to 
meet  a  special  at  3.15,  and — say — 
add  a  dozen  wooden  horns,  to 
impress  Carroll! " 
There  were  fifty-two  Roycroft 
musicians  with  brazen  frxmts,  assas- 
sinating the  air,  when  the  Boston 
Special  arrived.  Only  a  few  were 
supest  9^  «» 


Carroll  came  down  the  line  like  a 
Drum-Migor,  lined  up  his  100 
prominent  Boston  businessmen — 
many  of  them  grayhaired — "  Com-, 
pany  front."  Very  snappy.  White 
shoes,  white  trousers,  white  straw 
hats  with  blue  bands  with  the  word 
"  Pilgrim  "  in  gold.  Dockstader— 
only  better! 

You  should  have  seen  the  R.  R. 
Station  yokels  trying  to  puzzle  what 
it  was  all  about! 

"  Gentlemen!  "  commanded  Car- 
roll, "  Shake  hands  with  Bert  and 
Feliz! " — and  we  stood  alongside 
the  company  captain,  like  gillies, 
while  each  of  the  100  Bostonians 
solemnly  clasped  his  oum  hand  and 
ezdaimed,  "  Pleased  f  meet  jal  " 
€1  Then  we  had  the  Pee-rade! 
Then  the  Roycroft  Girls  played  the 
"  World's  Champions  "  from  Boston, 
a  game  of  baseball.  Since  then  the 
championship  belongs  in  B.  A.  «» 

T  FIRST  met  Carroll  half  a  dozen 
-^  years  ago  in  the  ballroom  of  a 
Dallas,  Texas,  hotel.  Not  at  a 
ball.  A  number  of  middle-aged  boys 
were  conducting  the  impresnve 
initiation  ceremony  of  the  Society 
of  the  White  Rooster  and  the  Purple 
Cow;  impressive  for  the  candidate 
for  membership.  I  was  a  candidate. 
Carroll  was  master  of  ceremonies.  I 
was  stripped  to  the  chassis. 
I  lived  through  it,  and  lived  to  help 
rub  down  with  cracker-crumbs    a 


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prospective  member  of  the  Britiah 
Parliament,  who  was  next  in  line  «» 
Carroll's  jollification-stuff  isanart — 
and  equal  to  any  occasion.  Not  the 
usual  overstrained,  egotistical  stuff  I 
He  is  a  specialist  only  in  the  broader 
meaning  of  the  word.  I  have  seen 
him  "  put  on "  an  impromptu 
minstrel  show,  after  a  20-minute 
rehearsal,  that  ddightfuUy  enter- 
tained 5,000  people  for  40  minutes. 
<lAt  the  Convention  <^  the  Associ- 
ated Advertising  Clubs  in  Baltimore 
in  1913,  we  entertained  ddegates 
from  a  dozen  foreign  countries;  more 
than  we  expected.  Some  special 
affair  had  to  be  given  in  their 
honor.  We  decided  on  a  dinner.  But 
for  when?  Each  hour  of  each  day 
was  allotted.  Desperately  we  re- 
served on  a  midnight  dinner. 
Very  ultra,  y*  knowl  Bxtra  qwdal 
invitations  1  Placed  a  tnt  ezdunvdy  1 
So  of  course  everybody  invited  was 
bound  to  attend,  though  they  were 
tired — tired! 

Ahl  The  dinner  paid  for,  the  crowd 
arranged  for!  What  to  do? 
Not  a  man  in  Baltimore  but  was  too 
busy  to  think,  to  create.  Then  some 
genius  suggested,  "  Get  Carroll  to 
be  toastmaster.'* 

He  graciously  accepted  the  appoint- 
ment, working  under  the  instruction 

''Anything  you  d please! "  «» 

The  Editor  of  the  Edinbarough 
Gazette  (a  fake)  told  what  he 
diought  of  American   advertising. 


Mudi  he  said  was  the  truth;  all  be 
said  was  witty.  His  burr  was  the 
real  rumble-bumble!  He  nearly 
provoked  a  riot — before  he  removed 
his  whiskers. 

Next  President  Wilson  sent  a  qwdal 
message  to  the  Foreigners,  firom 
Washington,  D.  C,  by  a  marathon 
runner,  or  so  Carroll  announced.  A 
fat  gentleman  from  Boston,  weight 
250  lbs.,  ludicrously  and  actually 
named  Bran, "  carried  the  message." 
He  rolled  into  the  banquet  hall, 
exhausted,  in  a  suit  ci  B.  V.  D.'s 
with  a  towd  wound  'round  his  head. 
He  dripped  perspiration — (api^ied 
generously  in  the  hall  outside)— and 
fen  panting  at  the  toastmaster's 
feet.  You  should  have  seen  tbotc 
Foreigner's  faces!  And  then  the 
"  presidential "  message?!!! 
Next  Carroll  rose  and  said  "  I  want 
to  introduce,  for  a  short  impromptu 
speech,  the  man  who  has  been  of  the 
greatest  credit  to  this  Association, 
the  man  who  has  done  most  for  the 
good  of  Advertising  "  etc.  Five  men 
stood  up  to  make  that  speech. 
Carroll,  the  rogue,  had  prompted 
each  to  stand  when  the  introduction 
"  the  man  who  has  done  most "  was 
given.  He  failed  to  tell  his  victims 
that  he  had  invited  five  to  rise,  and 
not  one/ 

Next  he  called  the  President  of  the 
Baltimore  Advertising  Association 
and  with  "  a  few  fitting  words  of 
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with  the  gentleman's  own  Mcarf-pin, 
which  had  been  niftily  lifted  from 
his  tie,  earlier  in  the  evening. 
Three  hours  of  this! 
Oh,  yes,  the  "  Foreigners  "  enjoyed 
the  revel. 

ONCE  Carroll  was  invited  by  the 
Boston  Common  Coimdl  to 
take  charge  of  a  jollification,  to 
"  put  over  something  1 "  Carroll  didl 
€1  Toward  the  end  of  the  dinner,  a 
well-known  Coimcilman  was  an- 
noimced  to  sing  Sweet  Alice  Ben 
Bolt;  a  gentleman  who  was  not 
known  to  be  a  singer.  Through  the 
side  curtain  entered  a  gorgeous 
"  lady  "  in  a  red  wig,  and  an  orange 
velvet  dress.  "She"  sang  Ben  Bolt; 
was  encored  vodfei'ously  and  sang 
Annie  Laurie;  and  then.  Believe  Me 
If  M  Those  Endearing  Young 
Charms.  Not  in  a  McCormack 
voice,  but  in  a  Galli  Curd  voice!  «» 
'Twas  wonderful,  but  'twas  not 
Bill.  On  that  the  guests  were  agreed. 
"  Come,  Carroll,  who  is  it?  " 
"Bill!"  says  CarroU! 
Then  he  called  "  Oh,  Bill!  "  and  the 
same  "  Lady "  returned  through 
the  velvet  curtains.  Red  wig,  orange 
velvet,  beauty-patch  under  left 
eye— aU! 

"Bill,"  mourned  Carroll,  "these 
Wiseheimers  say  you  ain't  you." 
(Bill  teetered,  smirking;  behind  an 
ostrich-feather  fan,  with  just  the 
proper  number  of  wrinkles  in  his 


elbow-length  white  gloves!)  "  Bill, 
will  you  please  imdress?  " 
Thereupon  Bill  obliged,  and  to  the 
consternation  and  amazement  of 
those  assembled,  it  was  BUI!!! 
That  is,  the  party  who  came  out  the 
second  time  was  Bill^  so  it  leaked 
out  after  a  while.  The  first  party, 
the  singer,  is  still  unknown.  It  is 
freely  admitted  Bill  and  the  Prima 
Donna  both  were  made  up— and 
made  up  to  look  exactly  like 
"  sisters."  ^ 

I  am  not  at  all  sure  this  rambling 
yam  will  interest  you— *but  I  'm 
thinking  of  Carroll  this  morning. 
Someone  tells  me  he  has  joined  his 
regiment,  the  "  Cadets  "  of  Boston. 
He  is  a  Lieutenant  or  Captain;  was 
before  the  war.  One  of  these  dasrs 
he  '11  take  his  capacity  for  fun  and 

work  over  to  Prance . 

Be  sure  of  thb,  Carroll  is  a  natural- 
bom  leader.  He  not  only  gets  the 
respect  of  men,  he  gets  their  admi- 
ration and  affection;  a  combination 
a  Kaiser's  soldiers  can  not  defeat  «•• 
I  say  the  world  could  better  loose 
a  1000  dull-minded  Germans,  than 
Carroll,  touched  by  the  magic 
wand  of  merriment,  endowed  with 
joyousness,  gifted  with  the  sublime 
faculty  of  making  others  happy. 
Abas,  these  dreary  thoughts!  What' s 
going  to  happen  is  this:  Along  next 
fall,  Carroll  will  "put  on"  a 
Minstrel  Show  in  the  Berlin  Opera 
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the  funny  end-men.  You  can  always 
depend  on  Carroll  to  secure  the  inck 
of  the  talent. 

When  my  Friend  tells  me  "  what 
they  said — "  and  "  what  she 
said — /'  /  simply  wonder  that  my 
Friend  would  stand  by  and  let  such 
Stuff  go  unchallenged. 

General  Charlefli  Miller 
Deliver!  a  Sermon 

IROTHBR  ANDREWS, 
the  Friar  Tuck  of  the 
Rpycroft  Inn,  brought 
over  a  visitor  to  The 
Shops  yesterday. 
**  This,  Felix,  is  General 
Miller ;  he  operates  a  trig  stock-farm, 
and  a  print-shop  bigger  'n  The  Roy- 
croft,  an'  he  owns  a  lot  of  oil-wells, 
an'  he 's  president  of  a  railroad,  an' 
he 's  been  Superintendent  of  the 
Sunday  School  of  Franklin,  Pa.  for 
forty-five  years,  an'  he 's  my  friend. 
He  says  he  reads  your  stuff  each 
month  an'  he  wants  to  meet  youl  " 
€1 "  Well,  General  Miller,  come  in— 
and  welcome.  I  suppose  the  "  Gen- 
eral "  signifies  general  utility,  gen- 
eral ability,  or  general  all-around 
success,  eh?  Come  in!  " 
While  he  was  pleasantly  sasnng  that 
he  could  always  count  on  finding 
**  something  "  in  my  stufiF— "  that 's 
why  I  read  it  " — only  he  expected  to 


find  me  gray  and  grisiled,  I  took 
note  of  a  bit  of  brii^  ribbon  in  Us 
buttooholel 

"General,  do  I  identify  the  ribbon?" 
€1  "  Yes,  the  Legion  ofHooor.  The 
French  Government  decorated  me. 
I  was  born  in  Alsace,  thougjh  I  came 
to  this  country  as  a  smaU  boyt "  «» 
And  then  no  more  talk  on  IM  sob- 
jectl  Instead  we  talked  the  hdUsh 
Deutsdi,  horses,  and  business! 
Said  the  General,  "  I  'm  seventy- 
four,  but  I  've  offered  my  services 
to  the  Government  witii  the  under- 
standing that  as  a  test  I  am  willing 
to  outwalk,  or  outride  any  sizty- 
3rear-6ld  officer  in  the  U.S.  Service." 
€1  I  partook  of  Us  enthusiasm.  He 
seems  in  A-1  condition,  and  tvXi  of 
life  and  gol  I  tdd  him  I  wanted  to 
be  there  at  the  "test"  to  cheer  ^ 
Then  he  preadied  me  this  sermon: 
"  Some  time  ago  I  called  in  Harring- 
ton Smerson,  the  Bffidency  En^- 
neer,  to  talk  to  my  executives. 
Mr.  Emerson  discussed  integrity, 
intelligence,  apjriication,  concentra- 
tion, vision,  consecutiveness,  and 
the  power  to  command,  as  elements 
of  an  executive's  success.  A  most 
interesting  talk.  He  said,  'These 
qualities  when  found  in  an  executive 
insure  success.'" 

"Then,"  said  the  General,  "I 
questioned  Mr.  Emerson  I  Suppose 
a  man  possesses  all  of  these  qualities 
and  other  and  greater  ones,  could  he 
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Mr.  BmenoQ  answered,  "Emphoti- 
caUy,  I  should  say  '  NO  M  " 
"  Well  then,  sir,  I  cite  you  Napoleon 
and  the  Battle  of  Waterloo.  Napo- 
leon failed  because  he  did  not 
'  back-check '  on  his  ordersl 
"On  the  17th  of  June,  1815, 
Napoleon  wrote  Marshal  Ney,  that 
the  Pruss  were  routed,  fleeing  toward 
Namur.  Who  said  so?  Who  gave  this 
information?  Actually  the  Pruss 
were  retreating  toward  Wavre,  in 
communication  with  Wellington  «» 
"  Napoleon  sent  33,000  men,  imder 
Grouchy,  to  follow  the  Pruss  and 
annihilate  them.  Did  he  arrange  for 
a  trusted  aide  to  report  on  the 
success  or  failure  of  Grouchy's 
work?  Apparently  not!  Ten  o'clock 
the  night  before  battle,  in  a  dris- 
sling  rain.  Grouchy  realised  he  had 
lost  the  Pruss. 

"Napoleon  had  the  Battle  of 
Waterloo  well  won,  when  the  Pruss, 
who  had  circled  'round,  arrived! 
Grouchy  remained  '  lost ' — and  so 
was  Napoleon's  Empire  lost! 
"  To  succeed,  an  executive  must 
give  the  right  orders,  and  then  so 
organize  his  system  of  '  back 
checks' — that  his  orders  will  be 
executed  as  given! 


The  Love  that  passeth  all  under- 
standing is  based  on  an  intelligent 
realization  of  the  rights  of  the 
individual  .^  ^ 


The  Public  Prosecutor 
If  Found  Guilty! 

N  1897  Oscar  Vmde,  but 
a  short  while  released 
from  Reading  Gaol, 
addressed  a  communi- 
cation to  the  London 
DaHy  Chromde.  A  cer- 
tain Warder  Martin,  who  had  been 
kind  to  WUde  and  other  unfortunate 
men  in  the  prisoa-hell,  had  been 
dismissed  summarily  by  the  Prison 
Commissioners  for  giving  sweet 
biscuits  to  a  hungry  little  duld. 
Against  this  unfair  dismissal,  against 
judging  an  act  of  nmple  human 
kindness,  a  crime,  Wilde  passion- 
ately protested. 

"They  had  just  been  convicted, 
were  standing  in  a  row  in  their 
prison-dress,  carrying  their  sheets 
under  their  arms,  previous  to  their 
being  sent  to  the  cells  allotted  them. 
They  were  quite  small  children;  the 
one  to  whom  the  warder  gave  the 
biscuits  being  a  tiny  little  chap  for 
whom  they  had  evidently  been 
unable  to  find  clothes  small  enough 
to  fit."  «»  ^ 

These  prisoners  were  tiny  little 
children;  England's  tiny  little  chil- 
dren sent  to  Reading  Gaol  to  live 
with  cruelty  and  crime,  degradation 
and  starvation;  sent  for  a  little 
child's  "  crime  "—God  knows  what! 
<l  Tlus  was  the  state  of  enlightened 
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the  14th  Ce&tur3r--iii  1997.  I  hope 
it  has  improved  since,  but  nothing 
less  than  100  per  cent  improvement 
in  law-court  management  will  suf- 
fice in  either  England  or  America  «» 
The  method  in  America  of  treating 
those  charged  with  crime  is  oD 
wrong  1  The  basis  for  judging  them  is 
wrong.  The  system  of  ascertaining 
their  innocence  or  guilt  is  wrong. 
Not  corrupt,  but  ignorantly  planned 
and  wrongly  carried  out. 
I  would  like  to  discuss  LAW  Courts 
vs.  Courts  of  JUSTICE.  In  some 
issue  I  may.  This  observation, 
sol^y  concerns  itself  with  the  work 
of  the  Public  Prosecutor;  what  he 
gains,  and  what  the  public  loses  by 
his  misdirected  enthusiasms. 
iMlayer  C.  Goldman  of  the  New  York 
Bar  but  recently  published  a  book. 
The  Public  D^enier,  (O.  P.  Put- 
nam's Sons).  Here 's  a  tremendous 
subject.  Mr.  Goldman  asks  this 
question:  If  the  State  and  the  Law 
hxAd  a  man  to  be  innocent,  as  they 
do,  till  he 's  found  guilty,  why  does 
the  State  engage  a  ccdlar-and-dbow 
orator  ^th  a  red  face,  to  prosecute? 
€1  Goldman  is  very  mild.  He  simply 
suggests  that  a  Public  Defender  as 
well  as  a  Public  Prosecutor  be 
engaged.  One  to  protect  the  inno- 
cents while  the  other  runs  down  the 
crooks.  That  suggestion  is  all  right, 
but  it  falls  50  per  cent  shortl 
Only  one  man  is  necessary;  that  one 
a  Public  Defender.  A  real  out  and 


out  crime,  must  damage  someone. 
Let  that  someone  find  the  ftmds  to 
prosecute  the  one  suspected.  We 
want  more  acquittals  and  fewer 
convictioDs.  If  immature  lawyers, 
witii  the  floccus  still  upon  them, 
must  be  assigned  to  imfrfnge  against 
hard  and  seasoned  prosecuting 
attorneys,  let  their  defeats  be  on  the 
side  that  win  help  to  keep  a  man 
mil  of  jaiL  There  are  not  more  than 
tiiree  crimes  that  are  worth  sending 
a  man  to  prison  for! 
When  we  bum  down  the  present 
prisons,  tragic  relics  of  the  Middle 
Ages,  and  substitute  model  farms, 
where  the  men  detained  live  in  the 
open,  regain  their  health,  doing  sim- 
plework,and  are  then  taught  trades, 
and  given  at  least  common -sdiool 
education,  held  on  indeterminate 
sentences  until  they  are  ready  to 
take  the  positions  which  will  be 
found  for  them;  when  we  make  of 
prisons  recUdming  centers,  and  not 
crime  manufacturing  fiUmts — then 
and  only  then  may  we  be  careless  as 
to  whom  we  send  to  jaiL 
I  imagine  that  to  be  accused  of  a 
crime  and  suffer  the  vulgarity  of  the 
court  ordeal  must  be  more  of 
genuine  punishment  than  a  year  in 
prison.  One  would  rather  die  in 
a  dungeon  and  be  biuied  in  a 
prison  yard  in  quicklime  than  to 
Uve  as  "  Harry  Thaw."  We  need 
not  fear  that  theguiltywill  "escape." 
CNo  one  will  deny  that  society 


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pumet  an  aocoaed  peraon  as  a  pAck 
of  hounds  runt  down  a  jack-rabbit. 
The  Proaecutor's  job  Is  to  firosecuU. 
Wm  next  electian»  his  next  appeal 
for  votes,  win  be  based  on  the 
number  of  his  "  convictions."  If  the 
accused  is  without  money  to  pay  for 
an  able  and  prolonged  defense,  he 
gets  a  quick  trial  and  is  "rail- 
roaded" and  the  Prosecutor  is 
praised  for  saving  the  State's  money. 
€IA  Prosecutor  has  too  much 
power.  IrresponsiUy  he  may  compel 
a  poor  prisoner,  not  3ret  proven 
guaty  to  stay  hi  jail  till  he,  the 
lordly  Prosecutor,  gets  good  and 
ready  for  the  trial;  one  week,  two, 
tiiree,  as  it  pleases  himi  Then  sup- 
pose the  accused  is  found  innocent? 
Our  laws  do  not  compensate  for  the 
ui^ust  imprisonment:  or  in  anjrway, 
outside  the  bare  and  inadequate 
acquittal,  remove  the  stigma  of  jail 
and  supposed  guilt  from  the  helpless 
victim  of  society's  mania  for  revenge  1 
€1  The  Public  Prosecutor  holds  the 
respect  of  the  Court,  and  the 
indorsement  of  the  People,  because 
he  is  supposed  to  convict  only  those 
whom  he  believes  to  be  gtiUty.  He  is 
supposed  to  absolve  and  refuse  to 
punish,  those  whom  he  believes 
innocent.  That's  the  theory  I 
How  difficult  is  the  pracUse! 
Given  the  murder  of  a  prominent 
individual  tomorrow,  with  another 
prominent  person  accused  of  the 
crime,  and  without  question  there  11 


be  a  six  months*  uproar;  and  the 
Prosecutor  will  see  his  name  and 
picture  in  the  newq>apers  100  times. 
€1  The  Prosecutor  is  not  to  blame, 
ifis  job  demands  a  certain  kind  of 
conduct.  To  get  votes  he  must 
accomplish  and  prate  of  the  usual. 
The  "prosecuting"  policy  needs 
to  be  turned  around  and  pointed 
the  other  way.  Better  release  1,000 
clever  criminals  with  something 
better  than  a  square  deal,  than  to 
send  one  honest  man  to  prison.  The 
Law  should  protect  sodety,  not 
appall  it.  Let  us  elect  Public 
Defenders  and  re-elect  them  on 
their  number  of  acqyiUd»! 
The  present  system  of  court  pro- 
cedure is  a  carry-over,  a  survival  of 
the  baronial  desire  to  frighten  and 
prey  on  the  helpless.  In  countries 
where  the  5  per  cent  rule  the  95  per 
cent,  "justice"  must  be  quick,  sure 
and  fearful.  Now  and  then,  inno- 
cent or  guilty,  someone  must  be 
sent  away  for  a  "  good  "  examplel 
€IA11  this  is  terribly  depressing. 
Sometime,  somewhere,  in  some 
enlightened  coimtry,  in  some  sane 
and  ennobling  srear,  the  Public 
Officers  will  be  given  constructive 
worktodo  and  notdestructive  work. 
In  the  name  of  Patriotism  and 
NationalHonor,the  organised  forces 
of  the  Nation  will  be  set  to  building 
up  the  weak,  not  to  breaking  them 
on  the  wheel,  and  thrusting  them 
face  down  into  the  mud. 


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Annapolis 

Bert  Httbbmrd 


lY,  Jimmy-the-Artist 
]  and  I  have  just  made 
a  visit  to  Annapolis, 
Maryland,  that  historic 
old  town  in  ^x^ch  the 
officers  of  our  navy 
have  been  made  for  the  last  seventy 
years.  Aside  from  the  Naval  Acad- 
emy, Annapc^  has  nothing  to 
boast  of  except  the  romance  of  its 
history.  There  is  no  manufacturing 
or  special  industry,  and  the  main 
business  of  the  town  is  to  furnish 
wasrs  and  means  for  the  students  of 
the  Academy,  their  families  and 
friends,  to  spend  their  money.  It  is 
just  a  typical  mid-southern  old 
town — althou^  distinguished  as 
the  capital  of  Maryland  «»  As  we 
roamed  around  the  streets  in  the 


evening  looking  for  a  picture  show 
or  some  other  form  of  in-door  sport 
— sintable  to  the  whims  of  a  good 
Methodist  deacon — we  were  shown 
the  Capitol  building.  The  street 
lights  were  out  Giine  o'dock)  and 
our  imagination  had  to  pierce  the 
darkness  to  get  a  mental  picture. 
The  Roycroft  Inn  in  midwinter  has 
more  bright  ligfats. 
There  is  a  very  busy  little  business 
section,  at  least  it  was  busy  then, 
Saturday  night  «»  We  mixed  with 
the  marketers  and  bought  fruit; 
were  joshed  a  bit  by  colored  boys 
and  i^ls.  There  is  great  respect 
among  them,  though,  for  the 
Academy  unifbrm. 
Sixty  per  cent  of  the  population  is 
colored  «»  «» 


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But  we  did  n't  go  there  to  make  a 
study  of  the  town.  Our  object  was  to 
induce  the  powert-that-be  to  let  The 
Rpycrcrfters  publish  the  Lucky  Bag, 
the  year-lxx^  of  the  graduating 
dass  of  the  Academy.  To  publish 
this  book  b  a  big  proposition,  but 
wholly  witiiin  the  ability  of  The 
Roycrofters.  No  ooUege  annual 
compares  with  it  in  size,  make-up 
and  quality.  We  shall  be  proud  of 
the  job — and  so  will  the  Navy 
Department «»  9^ 
The  courtesy  shown  us  by  Midship- 
men Stevens,  Qriswold  and  Thurber 
was  genuine.  They  didn't  exactly 
turn  the  place  upside-down  in  our 
honor,  for  you  must  know  they 
can't  quite  do  things  like  that  at 
Annapdis.  But  we  were  especially 
favored  9^  «» 

The  football  game  between  the 
Navy  and  West  Virginia  was  a  rare 
treat.  Cy  thought  he  would  n't  at- 
tend. Football  is  against  his  scruples. 
But  by  the  end  of  the  first  half  Cy 
was  all  but  a  cheer-leader.  They  say 
football  is  brutal,  and  perhaps  it  is. 
Cy  forgot  about  that  and  ycUed — 
**  Get  that  man  Rogers,  get  himi  " 
Rogers  was  full-back  on  the  West 
Virginia  team  and  a  dangerous  man. 
But  the  Navy  did  n't  "  get  him," 
and  he  carried  his  team  to  victory 
7  to  0.  Only  three  men  in  all  were 
helped  away  from  the  fidd — so 
I  don't  bdieve  it  was  such  a  brutal 
gamel  *^  9^ 


IN  the  evening  there  was  a  hop  at 
Carvd  Hall,  the  famous  old  hotel 
where  Winston  Churchill  laid  the 
foundation  for  his  book  Richard 
Carvd.  'Tis  no  wonder  he  got  an 
inspiration  here.  I  remarked  at  the 
beautiful  showing  of  color  and  the 
many  pretty  i^ls.  **  Does  Annapolis 
furnish  them?  "  "  Oh,  no,  there  are 
only  a  few  eligibles  from  town; 
the  rest  come  from  Baltimore  and 
Washington."  Of  course  they  were 
properly  chaperoned  and  introduced. 
But  the  gosaps  say  that  Carvel  Hall 
is  frequented  by  fathers  and  mothers 
with  an  only  daughter  for  whom 
they  would  insure  a  future.  Every 
midshipman  is  a  great  potenti- 
ality— and  are  n't  they  the  pick  of 
the  land?  What  place  offers  a  bet- 
ter fidd — fifteen  himdred  boys  in 
immaculate  uniformsl  There  surdy 
is  something  very  attractive  about 
a  uniform. 

NEXT  morning  was  Sunday.  I 
was  impressed  with  the  peace 
and  quiet  of  the  place.  There  was 
no  show  of  war.  I  could  only  look 
upon  it  all  as  a  ooUege  where  boys 
were  sent  for  an  education,  to  learn 
navigation  and  become  strong  men. 
The  ultimate  purpose  of  it  all 
seemed  far  away,  and  I  could  not 
make  mysdf  bdieve  that  here  tiiese 
boys  were  being  rushed  on  to  possi- 
ble destruction,  and  being  taught 
to  instruct  other  men  in  the  art  of 


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killing.  But  so  it  is,  for  when  a  boy 
enters  the  Naval  Academy  he  be- 
comes a  part  of  the  navy  for  life 
— that  is,  if  he  makes  good  and  is 
not  sent  home  for  inefficiency,  poor 
health  or  demerit.  Those  who  com- 
plete the  full  course  are  given  per- 
manent appointments  as  Ensigns. 
And  the  road  from  this  to  Admiral 
is  a  long  one.  Not  a  battleship,  de- 
stroyer or  other  war  vessel  was  in 
the  harbor.  They  are  all  busy  some- 
where. Out  in  the  mouth  of  the 
Severn  River,  just  as  it  dumps  into 
the  Chesapeake,  is  anchored  one  of 
the  Spanish  battleships  captured  at 
Manila.  This  is  used  as  a  training 
ship  and  detention  ward.  Boys  who 
come  in  with  a  bad  breath  are  likely 
to  get  ten  days  in  the  old  cruiser  «» 
There  is  no  common  interest  between 
Annapolis  within  the  walls  and  the 
world  of  civil  life  outnde.  The  first 
step  of  training  is  to  make  the  boy 
forget  his  past  environment.  He 
comes  from  a  life  of  ease  and  free- 
dom, and  is  thrown  at  once  into  one 
of  strict  order  and  discipline.  His 
day  is  mapped  out  for  him,  and  he 
must  forget  that  he  has  a  will  of 
his  own.  Two  years  of  this  and  he 
becomes  a  part  of  it  all.  On  "leave" 
back  into  civil  life  he  then  is  out 
of  his  dement — he  does  n't  fit  any 
more  than  I  did  "  within  the  gates." 
€1  At  ten-thirty  the  bu^e  sounded 
call  for  formation  for  chapel.  And 
instantly  there  came  pouring  down 


the  stairways  of  Bancroft  Hall  a 
throng  of  boys,  all  on  a  trot  None 
walked.  All  were  orderiy.  There  was 
no  confusion,  no  nervous  hurrying 
— ^3ret  there  was  rapid,  sure  move- 
ment. In  just  eight  minutes  fifteen 
hundred  boys  had  formed  in  line  on 
the  terrace  outside. 
To  us  printers  who  are  so  unfamiliar 
with  discipline  like  that,  the  sight 
was  inspiring.  "  I  wish  we  could 
give  orders  to  our  boys  and  have 
them  carried  out  like  that,"  said  Cy. 

^T^  HBN  came  the  short  march  to 
-^  chapel.  We  followed  along  and 
took  our  seats  in  the  balcony.  As  I 
listened  to  the  service  and  the  sing- 
ing of  that  great  body  of  men,  I 
realized  that  this  is  a  very  neces- 
sary part  in  military  training  9^ 
Military  success  depends  on  unison 
of  thought  and  action.  The  impres- 
siveness  of  a  solemn  service  surdy 
does  temper  men's  minds. 
After  chapd  we  had  the  great 
pleasure  of  meeting  the  Comman- 
dant, Captain  Louis  M.  Nulton.  He 
is  a  man  of  probably  forty-eight 
(my  guess),  slender,  face  serious, 
large  cold  blue  eyes,  very  pre- 
cise, dignified  and  military,  yet 
extremdy  courteous  and  a  gentle- 
man. How  could  the  Commandant 
of  Aimapolis  be  anything  dse?  I 
found  him  most  interesting  and 
congenial.  Neverthdess,  I  fdt  every 
second  as  if  I  were  in  the  presence  of 


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a  man  who  commanded  and  was 
obeyed.  We  talked  afaop  (his  shop). 
He  told  us  how  boys  coming  to 
Annapolis  might  be  likened  to  iron 
ore  from  the  mines  just  entering  a 
smelter.  They  must  be  put  through 
a  crusher,  blast  furnace,  made  into 
an  ingot,  and  then  mdded  and 
shaped.  Many  do  not  stand  the  test, 
and  only  about  two-^iirds  are 
graduated.  I  was  surprised  at  this. 
Nor  did  I  know  that  a  man  expelled 
from  Annapolis  for  demerit  loses 
his  dtisenship  for  four  years.  Cap- 
tain Nulton  outlined  his  position 
briefly,  and  I  ceased  to  wonder  at 
the  earnest  look  on  his  face  when 
in  repose. 

He  said  it  might  be  as  two  football 
teams  with  himsdf  on  one  team  and 
fifteen  hundred  boys  on  the  other. 
His  job  is  to  suppress  initiative  yet 
encourage  it,  to  eradicate  the 
individual  and  mold  all  into  one 
great  body,  yet  at  the  same  time  to 
recognize  and  develop  individuality. 
He  must  be  an  example  of  all  he 
demands  in  his  men.  He  must 
repress,  restrict,  refuse,  reprimand, 
and  still  command  respect  and  friend- 
ship. To  him  goes  the  credit  for  the 
splendid  discipline  and  morale  and 
simit  of  Annapolis. 
We  did  n't  meet  the  superintendent. 
Captain  B.  W.  Bberle,  although  we 
caught  sight  of  him.  I  imagine  he 
is  a  different  sort  of  man  from 
Captain    Nulton — perhaps  less  of 


a  strict  disciplinarian  and  maybe 
more  of  a  jovial  sort.  He  is  older — 
and  therefore  should  I  say,  wiser? 
ifit  diaracter  is  a  quiet,  underlying 
influence  in  the  morale  of  the  boys 
— though  they  seldom  come  in  con- 
tact with  him.  He  is  directiy  respon- 
sible to  the  Secretary  of  the  Navy. 
Both  Captain  Nulton  and  Captain 
Eberle  are  men  of  hii^  standing  in 
naval  drdes.  They  have  commanded 
battieships  and  cruises.  I  presume 
that  with  the  impending  general 
engagement  of  our  navy  in  the  war, 
these  two  men  must  chafe  imder  the 
monotony  of  things  at  Annapolis. 
They  would  rather  take  a  batUe- 
ship  and  join  in  the  big  row  that  is 
sure  to  come  off  over  across,  sooner 
or  later.  It  is  up  to  the  United 
States  Navy  to  dean  up  the 
German  submarine  base  at  Zee- 
brugge  and  to  engage  the  German 
Navy  even  if  they  have  to  go  in 
after  them.  England  can  not  spare 
the  ships  that  iKdll  surdy  be  lost  in 
d<Mng  this  work. 

Now  that  I  look  back  on  our  little 
journey  to  Annapolis,  I  must  say 
that  I  am  still  thrilled  with  tiie 
spirit  of  it  all,  and  only  regret  that 
I  'm  not  sixteen  instead  of  thirty- 
odd.  I  never  saw  a  more  splendid 
body  of  young  manhood  than  that 
regiment  of  midshipmen,  and  if  I 
had  a  boy  to  send  to  college  I  would 
be  proud  to  have  him  in  their 
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The  Russian  Revolutionists^  Proclamation 
of  Freedom 

Text:  Rules  and  Regulations  to  extinguish 
Capitalists — and  then  what?      •.      .#.       •- 

6*  Freodocn  of  micratioo  md  of 
oocupatioa. 

7.  The  abolition  of  [poUtical]  djwKt 
and  the  granting  of  full  and  equal 
rii^ts  for  all  dtisent  of  either  tex 
and  of  whatever  creed,  race  and 
nationality. 

8.  The  right  of  every  part  of  the 
population  to  receive  an  education 
in  its  native  tongue,  provided  at  the 
expense  of  the  state,  with  a  full 
equipment  of  all  the  necessary  in- 
struments of  sdf -government;  the 
rii^t  of  every  dtisen  to  txprcM  him- 
sdf  in  his  native  tongue  in  all  public 
assemblages;  the  introduction  of  the 
native  language  on  an  equality  with 
that  of  the  sUte. 

9.  The  rii^t  of  self-assertion  for  all 
nationalities  that  enter  into  the 
composition  of  the  state. 

10.  The  rii^t  of  every  individual  to 
bring  legal  proceedings  against  any 
local  offidaL 

11.  The  election  of  judges. 

12.  The  abolition  of  the  standing 
army  and  the  establishment  of  an 
armed  nation  in  its  stead. 

13.  Separation  of  church  and  state 
and  of  school  and  church. 

14.  A  free  and  compulsory  general 
and  vocational  education  for  every 


IIS  is  the  program  of 
I  the  Russian  Social 
Democratic   Labor 
I  Party. 

1.  Sdf-govemment  by 
I  the  people,  namdy,  the 
concentration  of  all  the  supreme 
powers  of  government  in  the  hands 
of  a  legidative  assembly  of  one 
chamber  made  up  of  representatives 
of  tlie  people. 

2.  The  right  of  universal  equal  and 
direct  balloting  in  the  election  of  all 
members,  whether  in  the  supreme 
legi^tive  chambers  or  in  all  local 
instruments  of  government  by  citi- 
zens and  dtizenesses  who  diall  have 
attained  thdr  seventeenth  year ;  tiie 
use  of  the  secret  ballot;  the  right  of 
every  dector  to  dection  in  any 
representative  assembly;  a  two-year 
life  of  parliament;  salaries  for  na- 
tional representatives. 

3.  Broad  local  sdf-govemment; 
provincial  self -government  in  local- 
ities in  which  special  conditions  of 
life  and  of  population  exist. 

4.  Inviolability  of  person  and  of 
domicile. 

5.  Unlimited  freedom  of  consdence, 
speech,  press,  strikes  and  organiza- 
ti(m. 


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diild  of  either  tex  up  to  sixteen 
years;  the  supply,  at  the  expense  of 
'  the  state,  of  food,  dothing  and  text- 
books to  poor  diildren. 

F>R  the  devdoptnent  of  the 
working  dass  in  physical  and 
moral  regeneration  and  also  for  the 
devdopmentof  its  abilities  to  wage 
war  for  liberation,  the  party  de- 
mands: 

1.  The  limitation  of  the  work-day 
to  dght  hours. 

2.  The  establishment  by  law  of  a 
weekly  rest  period  of  twenty-four 
consecutive  hours  for  all  wage- 
earners  of  dther  sex  in  every  branch 
of  our  national  industry. 

3.  The  rigid  prc^bition  of  over- 
time labor. 

4.  The  prohibition  of  night  labor 
(from  9  o'dock  in  the  evening  until 
6  o'dock  in  the  morning)  in  every 
branch  of  our  national  industry, 
with  the  exception  of  those  occupa- 
tions where  it  is  made  obligatory  by 
technical  considerations,  and  in  such 
cases  only  with  the  approval  of  the 
labor  organizations  involved. 

5.  The  prohibition  of  child  labor 
during  school  age  up  to  the  sixteenth 
year,  and  the  limitation  of  the  work- 
ing hours  of  minors  (sixteen  to 
eighteen  years)  to  six  hours  a  day. 

6.  The  prohilntion  of  the  labor  of 
women  in  any  branch  of  industry  in 
which  labor  is  ix^urious  to  women; 
the  prohibiticm  of  women's  labor  for 


a  period  of  four  weeks  before  and 
six  weeks  after  bearing  a  child,  with 
the  payment  of  the  normal  wage  due 
for  the  entire  period. 

7.  The  establishment  in  every  in- 
dustrial institution,  factory  or  other 
enterprise  where  women  work,  of 
nurseries  for  nursing  and  other 
minor  diildren;  the  liberation  from 
work  at  three-hour  intervals  and 
even  less  of  every  nursing  woman 
for  a  period  of  half  an  hour. 

8.  State  insurance  of  workingmen 
against  old  age  and  partial  or  com- 
plete disatnlity  from  a  spedal  fund 
to  be  derived  from  a  tax  on  capital. 

9.  Prc^bition  of  the  withholding  of 
wages  earned  on  whatever  condder- 
ation  and  in  whatever  form,  such  as 
fines,  deducting,  etc. 

10.  The  appointment  of  a  sufficient 
number  of  factory  inspectors  in 
every  branch  of  national  industry 
and  the  extension  of  factory  inspec- 
tion to  every  enterprise  employing 
hired  labor,  not  exduding  public  and 
domestic  labor;  the  appointment  of 
women  inspectors  in  branches  where 
women  are  employed;  the  partidpa- 
tion  of  dected  workmen  and  paid 
state  representatives  in  the  inspec- 
tion of  factories,  and  also  in  matters 
involving*  wage  lists,  the  recdpt  and 
the  rejection  of  material  and  the 
valuation  of  the  output  of  labor. 

11.  Inspection,  by  the  officials  of 
local  sdf-govemments,  with  the 
partidpation  of  dected  workmen,  <^ 


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the  sanitary  cooditiofi  of  dwdling- 
places  provided  by  employera,  with 
a  view  to  the  internal  arrangement 
and  condilion  of  those  dwdling- 
I^aces  and  the  terms  of  thdr  occu- 
pation, and  also  to  prevent  any 
interference  of  emplpsrers  in  the 
lives  and  activities  of  emplpsrees  as 
private  citizens  and  individuals. 

12.  The  establishment  of  a  wdl- 
regulated  sanitary  inspection  in  all 
employments  by  means  of  sanitary 
and  medical  *bodies  entirely  inde- 
pendent of  the  employer;  free  medi- 
cal bodies  entirdy  independent  of 
the  employer;  free  medical  aid  to 
workers  at  the  expense  of  the  em- 
ployer, with  support  of  the  workman 
during  the  time  of  illness. 

13.  The  complete  and  supreme 
responsibility  of  employers  for  any 
vi<^tion  of  the  law  governing  labor. 

14.  The  establishment  in  every 
branch  of  national  industry  of  courts 
made  up  equally  of  representatives 
of  labor  and  of  employers. 

15.  The  obligation  <^  the  authorities 
for  local  self-government  to  estab- 
lish offices  for  the  engagement  <^ 
local  or  of  outude  workers  in  every 
branch  of  industry,  with  the  partici- 
pation in  their  administration  of 
representatives  <^  the  labor  organi- 
zaticms  9^  9^ 

WITH  a  view  to  the  abolition 
of  the  remnants  of  feudalism 
which   are   weighing   heavily    and 


directly  upon  the  peasants,  and  in 
the  interest  of  the  free  devdopment 
of  the  struggle  of  the  classes  in  the 
villages,  the  Russian  Sodal  Demo- 
cratic Labor  Puty  demands; 

1.  The  abolition  of  all  daas  pressure 
upon  the  person  and  the  property  of 
the  peasant. 

2.  The  abolition  of  all  imposts  and 
obligations  imposed  upoa  the  peas- 
ant class  and  of  all  peasant  obliga- 
tions of  a  daas  character. 

3.  The  confiscation  of  church, 
monasteiy  and  state  lands  and  their 
transfer  to  the  local  authorities  in 
order  that  these  lands  togetiier  with 
forests  and  water  of  importance  to 
the  state,  shall  be  surrendered  to  the 
control  of  the  democratic  state. 

4.  The  confiscation  of  privatdy 
owned  lands,  with  the  exception  of 
the  small  holdings*  which  shall  be 
I^aoed  at  the  diqxMal  of  demo- 
cratically dected  local  officials,  the 
minimimi  standard  of  exemption 
from  seizure  to  be  fixed  by  the 
superior  local  authorities  of  self- 
government. 


Pete  Dailey  used  to  say,  as  he 
came  on  the  stage  as  if  from  a 
banquet  hall  in  which  some  hon- 
ored guest  was  being  cheered  to 
the  roof,  "  Gay  dogs,  those  stage- 
hands." 


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The  Second  Liberty  Loan 

Hon.  W.  G.  McAdoo,  Secretary  of  the  Treasury 

Text:  An  appeal  to  all  of  the  people  to  help 
a  cause  which  includes  us  all  ti^  &^   b^   &^ 


ERHAPS  it  if  impor- 
tant  that  the  reasons 
why  we  are  at  war  with 
Germany  should  be  re- 
stated as  often  as  pos- 
sible^  There  are 


noisy  a^tators  and  disloyal  writers 
in  this  country  who  have  persist- 
ently endeavored  to  confuse  the 
issue  and  to  carry  on  a  seditious  and 
subtle  propaganda  for  the  purpose 
of  producing  discontent  among  the 
people  and  of  giving  aid  and  en- 
couragement to  the  enemies  of  the 
United  States  «»  A  large  part  of 
this  propaganda  was  imdoubtedly 
financed  by  the  German  Govern- 
ment directly,  from  the  outbreak  of 
the  European  war,  August,  1914,  im- 
til  America  entered  the  war,  April  6, 
1917.  Much  <^  this  same  propaganda 
has  probably  been  carried  forward 
since  America  entered  the  war  by 
German  money  left  in  the  United 
States  for  that  purpose  by  Von  Bem- 
storff,  the  adroit  and  malevolent 
German  ambassador,  before  he  was 
dismissed.  With'  that  money  and 
with  money  provided  by  German 
sympathizers  and  certain  disloyal 
elements  in  the  United  States  the 
propaganda  has  continued,  but  in  a 


modified  form.  It  would  be  difificult 
to  ascertain  exactly  how  mudi 
money  has  been  expended  for  this 
purpose,  but  some  <^  the  recent  dis- 
dosures  by  the  State  Department 
indicate  how  active  were  Germany's 
own  representatives  while  in  this 
country.  It  is  well  for  the  American 
people  to  realize  the  hypocrisy  and 
dislojralty  of  all  these  efforts,  and  to 
determine  to  stamp  them  out  rdent- 
lessly  and  remorselessly,  because  the 
interests  of  the  Nation  must  at  no 
time  be  imperiled  more  by  the 
traitors  within  our  walls  than  by  the 
enemies  without. 

It  has  been  repeatedly  stated  that 
America  entered  this  war  to  make 
liberty  and  democracy  secure 
throughout  the  world.  While  that 
is  true,  it  must  always  be  remem- 
bered that  America  entered  the  war 
for  a  more  immediate  reason.  Noble 
and  idealistic  as  is  her  champion- 
ship of  universal  democracy,  she 
entered  this  war  primarily  because 
of  the  persistent  insults  and  aggres- 
sions of  Germany,  the  wanton  dis- 
regard of  American  rights  within 
our  own  borders  as  well  as  upon  the 
high  seas,  the  contemptuous  viola- 
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ruthless  destruction  of  American 
life  and  property. 

She  has  destrcyyed  merchant  vessels 
on  the  high  seas  without  warning, 
IdlHng  noncombatant  men,  women, 
and  children  without  mercy  and  in 
the  most  brutal  and  ruthless  fashion, 
in  defiance  of  all  international  law 
and  every  accq>ted  rule  of  humanity 
and  dvilization. 

But  this  is  not  all.  Germany,  while 
professing  friendship  for  America, 
and  while  her  ambassador,  her 
representatives,  and  her  dtisens 
were  epjoying  our  hoqxtality  and 
receiving  our  protection,  was  plot- 
ting against  the  domestic  security 
of  the  United  States  by  blowing  up 
munitioos  plants,  fomenting  strikes 
and  disturbances  in  the  labor  world, 
disseminating  false  information  and 
poisoning  the  minds  of  the  American 
people  against  their  own  Govern- 
ment, plotting  its  downfall,  and 
seeking  to  influence  our  Congress,  as 
evidenced  by  Von  BemstorfiTs  dis- 
patch of  January  22,  .1917,  to  the 
Beriin  foreign  office,  in  which  he 
said:  **  I  request  authority  to  pay 
up  to  $50,000  in  order,  as  on  former 
occasions,  to  influence  Congress 
through  the  organization  you  know 
of,  \i^ch  can  perhaps  prevent  war." 
And  while  Von  Bemstodf  was  busy 
upon  our  own  shores  with  intrigue 
through  his  spy  system  and  through 
the  corrupt  use  of  money  to  influence 
public    opinion    and   the   national 


policies  of  the  American  people, 
zammcrniann,  the  foreign  secretary 
in  BerUn,  had  sent  a  dispatch  to 
Mezioo  urging  her  to  make  wari^KMi 
the  United  States  and  begging 
lyf  ezico  to  invite  Jwcpm  to  join  her 
in  this  dastardly  work,  promising 
Mexico  that  CaUfomia,  Ariaona, 
New  Meiioo,  and  Texas  would  be 
restored  to  Mexico  in  the  event  of 
success.  What  more  perfidious  con- 
duct could  have  characteriied  the 
government  of  any  nation  with 
which  we  were  at  peace?  What  must 
be  the  judgment  i^kmi  a  govern- 
ment capable  of  such  infamies? 
And  3ret  there  are  those  who  under- 
take to  defend  Germany  and  to  say 
that  the  American  people  did  not 
have  sufifident  grounds  upon  which 
to  enter  this  war  1  .  .  . 

ROUGHLY  ^>eaking,  and  after 
allowing  for  the  amount  of 
revenue  to  be  raised  by  taxation  for 
the  fiscal  ytar  ending  June  30, 1918, 
we  diall  have  to  raise  by  additional 
bond  issues  between  thirteen  and 
fourteen  billions  of  dollars.  It  is 
estimated  that  $5,000,000,000  will 
represent  additional  loans  to  the 
allied  Governments,  which,  in  turn, 
win  give  us  their  obligations  bearing 
interest.  This  $5,000,000,000  will 
not,  therefore,  represent  expendi- 
tures; it  win  represent  loans  based 
upon  the  good  faith  and  honor  of 
these  fordgn  Governments — Sloans 


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which  will  ultimately  be  repaid  to 
the  American  people.  But  as  we 
must  finance  these  loans,  they  are 
an  integral  part  of  our  general 
financial  operations.  To  raise  ^lir- 
teen  to  fourteen  billions  of  dcHlan 
on  or  before  the  30th  of  June,  1918, 
by  the  sale  of  bonds  in  recurring 
installments  seems  to  some  people 
an  impossible  task.  It  is  a  stu- 
pendous imdertaking,  but  it  is  not 
impossible  for  America.  It  is  not 
easy,  but  it  can  be  done  «»  Our 
resources  are  adequate;  our  win  is 
perfect;  our  spirit  is  indomitable! 
and  our  success  is  certain.  We  have 
only  to  pull  together— bankers, 
lawyers,  doctors,  manufacturers, 
farmers,  wage-earners,  laborers, 
men  and  women  alike,  Girl  Scouts 
and  Boy  Scouts,  and  every  other 
dass  of  our  people — and  we  can  do 
the  job.  Already  we  have  demon- 
strated what  a  united  people  can 
do  when  partisanship  is  subordi- 
nated to  patriotism;  when  love  of 
country  becomes  supreme.  I  look 
forward,  therefore,  with  confidence 
to  the  success  of  the  recurring 
campaigns  we  must  make  for  the 
sale  of  liberty  bonds,,  and  I  am 
comforted  by  the  reflection  that  the 
Government  has  the  solid  and  un- 
swerving support  of  the  patriotic 
men  who  compose  the  American 
Bankers'  Association. 
The  new  bonds  bear  4  per  cent 
interest  and  are  exempt  from  all 


State,  municipal  and  local  taxation, 
except  estate  and  inheritance  taxes, 
and  all  Federal  taxes  except  super- 
income  taxes,  excess-profits  taxes, 
and  inheritance  taxes.  They  are 
convertible  into  another  issue  of 
bonds,  if  authorized  by  the  Con- 
gress, bearing  a  hi|^er  rate  of 
interest  than  4  per  cent.  I  shall  not 
enter  into  the  details,  because 
Treasury  circulars  and  regulations 
will  explain  them  fully.  I  do  desire* 
however,  to  advert  briefly  to  the 
taxation  feature  of  these  bonds. 
The  first  liberty  bonds  bore  3  1-2 
per  cent  interest  and  were  exempt 
also' from  supertaxes.  These  bonds 
did  not  make  the  widest  appeal. 
To  be  successful  with  recurring 
issues  of  liberty  bonds,  it  is  necessary 
that  they  should  appeal  to  the 
masses  oi  the  people. 

At  times  one  would  almost  appear 
to  detect  a  sign  of  dispute,  hesi- 
tation, recoil.  .  .  .  Does  a  winged 
council  debate  the  necessity  of  the 
departure?  Of  this  we  knoio  noth- 
ing, .  .  .  We  have  discovered 
that  this  exodus  is  neither  in- 
stinctive nor  inevitable.  It  is  not  a 
blind  emigration,  but  apparently 
the  well-considered  sacrifice  of  the 
present  generation  in  favor  of  the 
generation  'to  come.  .  .  .  Where 
is  the  fatality  here,  save  in  the  love 
of  the  race  of  today  for  the  race  of 
tomorrow ? — Maeterlinck* s  ''Bees. " 


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Who  Was  the  First  Suffragette  ? 

Hon.  Mmrilla  Bicker 


Text:   The  Fight  is  nearly  three  hundred 
years  adoing — and  not  yet  done!    *^     .♦. 


mfAm 


IF   my   memory 

me — and  it  usually  does 

— Mistress      Margaret 

I  Brent  came  upon  the 

scene  on  June  24th  at 

L  Mlj  K  I  ^  theMaryland Assembly 
oi  1647*48,  whidi  was  in  session  and 
discussing  the  affairs  of  the  province* 
and  demanded  both  voice  and  vote 
for  hersdf  in  the  Assembly  by  virtue 
oi  her  position  as  Governor  Calvert's 
attorney.  Alas  for  Mistress  Brent 
and  her  appreciation  of  the  rights  of 
her  sex!  The  Governor  promptly 
and  ungallantly  refused  her.  And 
history  tells  us  that  the  injured 
lady,  as  her  only  means  of  retalia- 
tion, protested  against  all  the  acts 
of  the  session  as  invalid,  unless  her 
vote  was  received  as  well  as  the 
votes  of  the  male  members. 
By  this  action,  Margaret  Brent  un- 
doubtedly i^aced  herself  on  record 
as  the  first  woman  in  America  to 
make  a  stand  for  the  rights  of  her 
sex.  It  is  surprising  to  find  how  little 
this  fact  is  known.  In  so  compre- 
hensive and  authoritative  a  work  as 
the  History  of  Woman  Suffrage 
edited  by  Susan  B.  Anthony,  no 
mention  is  made  of  this  extraordi- 
nary woman.  In  fact,  it  is  there 


stated  that  a  Revolutionary  dame, 
Bfrs.  Abigail  Smith  Adams,  wife  of 
John  Adams  of  Massadiusetts,  was 
the  first  diampion  of  Woman  Suf- 
frage in  America. 

In  Mardi,  1776,  Mistress  Adams 
wrote  to  her  husband,  then  at  the 
Continental  Congress  in  Phila- 
ddi^iia*:  "  I  long  to  hear  that  3rou 
have  declared  for  independency,  but 
I  desire  that  you  should  remember 
the  ladies.  If  particular  care  is  not 
paid  the  ladies,  we  will  not  hold  our- 
sdves  bound  to  obey  laws  in  which 
we  have  no  voice  or  representation.*' 
<l  We  are  not  told  how  John  Adams 
replied  to  this  epistle  from  his  fair 
spouse,  but  we  do  know  that  in  the 
famous  Dedaration  of  Independ- 
ence, where  all  men  are  dedared 
free  and  equal,  the  women  received 
no  more  consideration  than  did 
Margaret  Brent  nearly  one  hundred 
and  fifty  years  before. 

The  road  to  success  leads  through 
the  valley  of  humility,  and  the  path 
is  up  the  ladder  of  patience  and 
across  the  wide  barren  plains  of 
perseverance.  As  yet,  no  short  cut 
has  been  discovered. 

— Joseph  J.  Lamb. 


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History  Repeats  Itself 

F.  Foster,  M.  D. 

Text:   The    bloodthirsty    Clergy    demand  an  unmoral 
exemption  from    the  general  obligation     &^     »^     »m. 


in  the  Rq;mblic  to  the 
south,  so  in  Canada  we 
hear  tiiat  the  Clergy 
are  to  be  exempt  from 
Compulsory  Military 
Service —  exempted 
from  a  moral  obligation  demanded 
by  the  State. 

There  is  no  legal,  moral  or  ethical 
reason  why  divinity  students  should 
be  exempt  from  military  service  any 
more  than  the  medical  students,  or 
any  other  kind  of  a  student,  or  the 
day  laborer.  .  .  . 

There  is  no  legal  passage  in  our 
statutes  exempting  divinity  stu- 
dents, and  the  day  that  our  govern- 
ment places  it  there  or  sets  free  that 
body  from  compulsory  service,  the 
Church  will  be  the  loser.  .  .  . 
We  have  listened  for  nearly  three 
years  now  to  the  clergy  beating  at 
the  Throne  of  God  asking  for 
Victory.  We  have  listened  to  the 
hypocritical  and  sanctimonious  ut- 
terances that  have  fallen  from  the 
lips  of  the  clergy  at  many  a  churdi 
parade  before  our  boys  sailed  over- 
seas; and  now  when  the  supreme 
test  comes,  when  they  are  asked  to 
sacrifice  their  own  lives,  if  need  be, 
in  this  war  to  bring  about  Victocy 


and  lasting  Peace  to  the  human  race, 
they  stand  ginlty  before  their  God 
and  mankind. 

They  now  stand  apart  from  the  lay- 
man as  traitorous  Judas  did  from 
the  Christ.  They  have  betrayed  the 
boys  who  have  enlisted,  and  every 
one  of  that  innumierable  army  of  the 
dead  that  lies  somewhere  over  there 
has  taken  his  way  to  Golgotha  alone, 
betrayed  and  crucified  by  a  pack  of 
religiousPharisees  that  wish  to  have, 
as  of  old,  "  a  law  unto  themsdves." 
<l  If  these  apostles  of  rdigion  and 
apostates  from  God  do  not  bdieve 
in  war,  why  do  they  not  come  for- 
ward and  say  so?  If  they  do  not 
believe  in  war,  why  do  they  tdl  us 
as  laymen  that  it  is  glorious  to  die 
for  one's  country?  .  .  . 
In  Canada  we  are  getting  together 
as  never  before,  impressed  with  a 
stdn  sense  of  duty,  and  with  faith 
in  that  unity  of  purpose  that  will 
usher  in  victory  and  lasting  peace. 
<l  The  only  dissenting  voice  we  hear 
among  us  today  is  that  of  our  clergy 
asking  to  be  exempted  from  con- 
scription M»  M» 

It  matter  snot  how  a  man  dies,  but 
how  he  lives. — Samuel  Johnson. 


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Upton  Sinclair  Resigns  From  the  Socialist 

Party 

PsMdena,  Cal.«  July  17«  1917 


To  the  Members  of  Local  Pasadena 
of    the   Socialist    Party,   Comrades: 


•  ftdopdon  by  atwdve 
one  vote  by  the 
I  membersfaip  of  the  So- 
cialist Party  of  the 
so-called  "migority  re- 
I  port"  on  the  sabject  of 
the  war  brings  me  to  a  painful 
dedston.  Except  for  two  or  three 
periods  of  continued  residence 
Abroad,  I  have  been  a  member  of 
the  Party  for  sixteen  srears,  and 
during  that  time  have  given  practi- 
cally all  my  energies  to  the  task  of 
hdping  to  build  it  up;  but  now  I 
find  myself  so  far  out  of  agreement 
with  the  membership  on  the  most 
important  of  all  immediate  issues, 
that  for  me  to  remain  in  the  party 
would  be  to  misrepresent  both  the 
party  and  myself. 

During  the  whole  period  of  my 
membership  I  have  been  an  agitator 
against  war.  Nine  years  ago  I  issued 
a  manifesto  on  the  Subject,  in  which 
I  urged  that  the  Socialist  Parties  of 
the  world  should  make  opposition 
to  war  their  leading  motive,  adopt- 
ing a  program  of  insurrection  and 
general  strike,  either  to  prevent  a 
declaration  of  ww,  or  to  break  the 


back  of  a  war  after  it  was  begun.  It 
was  my  idea  that  membership  in  the 
party  should  be  equivalent  to  a 
pledge  to  such  a  course;  the  working 
dasses  of  the  different  nations  con- 
cluding, as  it  were,  treaties  of  peace 
among  themsdves. 
The  reception  of  this  proposal  by 
the  movement  brought  me  a  deep 
disappointment.  In  America,  the 
only  socialist  of  any  prominence  who 
was  willing  to  sign  the  manifesto 
was  Charies  Edward  Russdl.  The 
party  officials,  without  exception, 
were  opposed  to  it;  I  recall  that 
Morris  ICllquit  expressed  his  idea 
that  it  was  in  bad  taste  for  Ameri- 
can Socialists,  who  stood  in  no  dan- 
ger of  war,  to  seek  to  influence  the 
policy  of  their  European  comrades. 
I  pleaded  that  the  very  fact  that  we 
^were  so  fortunate  as  to  stand  aloof 
from  the  inherited  jealousies  and 
suspidons  of  Europe  gave  us  the 
opportunity  and  even  the  duty  to 
mediate;  but  I  pleaded  in  vain.  I 
note  with  bewilderment  that  the 
very  men  who,  nine  years  ago,  op- 
posed an  agreement  for  a  mass  strike 
as  a  means  of  avoiding  war,  are  to- 


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day  willing  to  vote  for  and  defend 
a  "  majority  report,"  which  calls  for 
even  more  extreme  proceedings — 
and  this  when  their  country  is  in- 
volved in  war,  and  when  it  has  been 
made  perfectly  evident  that  the  So- 
cialists of  the  enemy  countries  have 
no  remotest  intention  of  resorting  to 
such  anti-government  methods. 

THIS  was  the  argument  I  encoun- 
tered when  I  sent  my  manifesto 
abroad,  nine  years  ago.  The  social- 
ists and  labor  men  of  England  were 
interested  in  it,  and  took  it  up  and 
circulated  it  to  the  extent  of  him- 
dreds  of  thousands  of  copies;  and 
so  with  the  sodalists  and  syndicalists 
of  France  and  Italy;  but  in  one  coun- 
try no  interest  was  manifested, 
nothing  whatever  could  be  done — 
that  coimtry  being  Germany. 
I  went  to  Berlin,  to  see  for  myself, 
and  thresh  out  the  subject.  I  was 
still  keen  for  a  general  strike  as  the 
great  weapon  of  internationalism; 
but  talking  with  the  German  party 
leaders,  I  foimd  radicals  and  con- 
servatives alike  in  agreement  that 
the  party  would  be  powerless  to  pre- 
vent a  war  which  the  rulers  willed; 
any  effort  to  prevent  it  would  mean 
suicide  for  the  party  organization — 
it  would  be  wiped  out  in  twenty-four 
hours.  I  pointed  out  what  this 
meant — that  the  rest  of  Europe  was 
compelled  to  arm  against  Germany; 
and  this  they  admitted.  The  best 


they  could  answer  was  that  after  a 
war,  and  especially  <tfier  an  unsuc- 
cessful war,  their  time  would  come. 
I  call  attention  especially  to  the  last 
sentence,  whidi  I  quote  literally 
from  a  letter  of  Germany's  intel- 
lectual leader — "  espedatty  after  an 
unsuccessful  war."  If  the  German 
party  leaders  object  to  my  attitude 
at  the  present  moment,  I  tell  them 
that  I  am  merdy  standing  on  the 
program  which  they  themselves  out- 
lined to  me  in  the  summer  of  1913. 

ONLY  a  few  days  ago,  in  a  gather- 
ing in  this  dty,  my  wife  was 
challenged  by  a  German-American 
woman  to  justify  her  statement  that 
before  the  war  the  expression  of 
opinion  was  less  free  in  Germany 
than  in  England. "  What  could  your 
husband  say  in  England  that  he 
could  not  say  in  Germany?  "  asked 
this  woman;  and  this  in  face  of  the 
fact  that  in  England  I  had  denounced 
the  government's  policy  during  the 
bitterest  labor  fight  in  Ens^ish 
history,  and  had  not  merdy  been 
allowed  to  speak,  but  had  been 
reported  in  the  capitalist  press; 
whereas  in  Germany  one  of  my 
books  had  been  suppressed  for 
Majestaetsbeleidigung,  I  had  been 
forbidden  to  take  part  in  political 
and  labor  discussions,  and  the  pub- 
lication of  my  anti-war  ideas  had 
been  prevented  as  high  treason  1 
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Berlin  with  a  young  German  poet,  I 
had  ventured  to  laugh  at  the  ardii- 
tecture  of  the  kaiser's  innumerable 
white  marble  ancestors;  my  com- 
panion had  caught  me  by  the  deeve 
and  whispered  to  me  to  be  silent — 
it  was  the  custom  of  cab-drivers  to 
turn  their  vehides  and  drive  such 
ridiculers  of  kaiseriiche  ardutecture 
to  the  nearest  police-stationl  .  .  • 
I  say  that  this  war  must  be  fought, 
until  there  has  been  a  thorough  and 
complete  democratization  of  the 
governments  of  Germany  and  Aus- 
tria; and  I  say  that  any  agitation 
for  peace  whidi  does  not  indude  this 
demand  is,  whether  it  realizes  it  or 
not,  a  pro-German  agitation.  The 
argument  that  we  have  no  right  to 
say  imder  what  institutions  the 
German  people  shaU  live,  seems  to 
me  without  force.  The  Germans  did 
not  scruple  to  make  war  upon  the 
French,  and  to  set  up  a  republic  in 
that  country.  They  did  this  because 
they  bdieved  that  a  republic  would 
be  less  formidable  from  a  military* 
standpoint;  and  it  is  now  on  the 
cards  that  the  world  shall  do  the 
same  thing  for  the  Germans,  and  to 
the  same  purpose. 

FOR  these  reasons,  comrades,  I 
can  not  follow  you  in  your 
dedaration  that  this  is  "  the  most 
unjustifiable  war  in  history,"  or  in 
your  policy  of  mass  opposition  to  the 
draft.  But  I  would  not  have  you 


think  that  I  have  gone  over  bag  and 
baggage  to  the  capitalist  system.  I 
bdieve  that  there  is  a  work  of  enor- 
mous importance  to  be  done  by  the 
forces  of  radicalism  in  the  present 
crisis.  We  have  to  compd  a  dear 
statement  of  peace  terma  by  the 
Allies,  and  to  see  that  those  terms 
contain  no  trace  of  the  imperial- 
istic programs  of  the  aristocrades 
of  England,  Italy  and  France.  We 
have  to  fight  the  efforts  of  our  own 
exploiters  to  saddle  the  costs  of  the 
war  upon  the  working-dasses  of  the 
next  generation  by  means  of  an 
enormous  bond  issue.  We  have  to 
fight  for  decent  tetms  of  labor. 
I  have  done  what  I  could  within 
the  party.  I  pleaded  against  the 
migority  report — but  I  could  not 
even  be  heard.  The  Appeal  to 
Reastm,  a  paper  to  whidi  I  have 
been  a  continual  contributor  for 
sixteen  years,  refused  to  allow  me 
to  put  my  ideas  before  its  readers. 
...  I  intend  to  go  on  working  for 
socialism  as  hard  as  I  can;  and  when 
this  crisis  is  past,  when  the  break- 
down of  the  Prussian  caste  system 
seems  to  me  to  have  progressed  far 
enough,  I  may  come  back  and  ask 
you  to  take  me  in  again.  You  will 
then  dedde  whether  or  not  you  care 
to  do  so. 

UPTON  SINCLAIR 

No  man  is  happy   who  does  not 
think  himself  so. — Publius  Syrus. 


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Fred  Niederhaiiier 


Text:  An  act  of  kindness  will  accomplish 
more  than  an  army  with  banners    ^    »^ 


mm^ 


T  was  in  a  letter  that  I 
indeed  up  from  the 
center  table  at  the  Old 
Homestead* 
My  mother  and  father, 
who  are  nearing  the 
eightieth  guidepost  on  the  open 
road,  had,  a  month  or  so  before,  cde- 
brated  their  Golden  Wedding  aimi- 
versary. "  Write-ups"  inmany  papers 
had  appeared,  with  photographs. 
The  letter  I  found  on  the  center  table 
was  written  in  a  prim  and  slightly 
nervous  hand,  but  you  wouldn't 
have  guessed  that  it  had  been 
penciled  by  a  woman  of  ninety. 
I  noticed  it  was  addressed  to  my 
mother  and  at  first  gave  it  only  a 
casual  glcmce,  but  when  I  read  the 
brief  letter  I  was  filled  with  a  won- 
derful joy  and  satisfaction. 

Dear  Lady: 

Very  recently  I  saw  the  notice  of 
your  Golden  Wedding,  and  although 
you  probably  long  ago  forgot  me,  I 
wish  to  congratulate  you  on  the 
happy  event. 

I  remember  you  as  a  sweet  and 
lovdy  young  girl  and  have  thought 
of  you  and  the  sweet-williams  you 
brought  to  school  the  last  day. 


Your  picture  in  the  paper  looks 
as  though  your  life  had  been  peace- 
ful and  happy. 

I  trust  the  remaining  years  will 
be  full  of  joy  and  peace. 

Very  sincerdy  your  friend. 
Charity  Southworth  Ensign. 

A  bunch  of  sweet-williams,  an  in- 
significant act  of  Idndness,  had  been 
a  factor  in  the  life  of  Charity  South- 
worth  Ensign,  and  after  a  period  of 
sixty  years,  during  whidi  she  had 
married  and  reared  a  family,  the 
memory  of  that  bouquet  had 
caused  her  to  write  my  mother, 
whom  she  had  not  seen  in  the  mean- 
time, a  most  appreciative  letter. 
Here,  in  this  simple  act  of  this 
inunigrant  schoolgirl  in  the  long-ago 
backwoods  of  northwestern  Ohio^ 
is  involved  the  very  thing  that  mil- 
lions of  others  besides  mysdf  have 
been  searching  for. 
An  act  of  kindness  that  gives  joy, 
growing  spontaneously  out  of  pure 
love  without  a  money  reason,  with- 
out any  hope  of  reward,  whc^y 
without  selfish  purpose:  that  b  the 
most  divindy  himian  thing — ^that, 
my  friends,  is  the  greatest  thing  in 
the  world. 


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y  I  speak  Truths  not  so  much  as  I  would^  but  as  much 
as  I  dare;  and  dare  a  little  more  as  I  grow  older. ^^ 

Felicitations 

Felix  Shay 

The  Way  to  Berlm  is 
Through  the  Air 


IDMIRAL  Peary  states, 
I  with  pnper  emphasis, 
the  way  to  Beriin  is 
through  the  air.  This 
time,  we  believe,  public 
I  oi»nioQ  will  not  compel 
the  ancient  mariner  to  submit  his 
"proofs"  to  the  Universtty  of 
Copenhagen,  Denmark. 
Examine  the  possibilities,  the  poten- 
tialities, c^  a  program  of  that  sort 
9Dd  you  will  wonder  ix^iat's  the 
matter  with  American  brains,  that 
it  is  not  confirmed  largdy,  and 
acted  upon  instanter.  The  ufoy  to 
BerUn  is  through  the  air!!! 
A  new^>aper  headline  reads.  War 
Secretary  Newton  Baker  says  we 
ouff^^  to  have  20,000  Aeroplanes 
this  Year— HV  we  need  -20,000 
aeroplanes  this  year;  or  if  we  're 
good  and  go  to  bed  early,  some  one 
may  surprise  us  with  20,000  aero- 
pUmes  this  year. 

'This  quotation  is  not  exact,  but  the 
figures  are  exact— i.  e.,  "  20,000.*' 


They  stick  in  the  memory,  because 
diey  seem  pitiably  inadequate,  the 
opportunity  considered. 
Ah,  yes,  we  know  the  counter 
arguments.  Know  you  this  too — 
there 's  a  generous  adulteration  of 
Class  B  bunk,  in  all  the  sententious 
reports,  touching  on  and  appertain- 
ing to  aeroplane  construction,  and 
the  instruction  of  pilots  1  Just  sol  m» 
"  You  see,  the  wings  are  made  of  a 
npexAaX  kind  of  catgut,  which  is  only 
yidded  by  Manx  tailless  cats.  The 
engines  need  to  be  light;  oh,  very 
light.  They  are  made  of  thin  tin — 
oh,  extra  thin.  All  the  tin  used  is  cut 
from  the  upside  side  of  Underwood's 
DevUedHam.See?" 
No,  we  don't  1 

We  believe  aeroplanes  are  as  easy 
to  make  as  automobiles.  We  bdieve 
it  is  no  more  difficult  to  make  an 
aeroplane  than  to  make  a  Ford  auto. 
We  believe  Henry  Ford  will  take  a 
contract  to  deliver  ZSftOO  aero- 
planes  a  month,  the  first  delivery  to 
be  made  sixty  days  hence.  We 
bdieve  John  Willys  will  guarantee 
to  produce  almost  that  quantity. 


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The  Packard,  Pierce,  Cadillac,  and 
such  plants  could  be  put  to  work  on 
the  more  powerful  machines. 
Until  this  war  is  over,  no  more 
pleasure  automobiles  should  be 
permitted  to  be  made  in  America. 
The  markets  of  all  the  cities  are 
glutted  with  serviceable  second- 
hand cars.  Suppose  we  use  up  these 
second-hand  cars — and  give  over 
the  automobile  factories  to  the 
production  of  machines  to  end  the 
war,  i.  e.  aeroplanes  1 
Confiscate  all  aeroplane  patents, 
turn  them  over  to  the  American 
automobile  manufacturers  free,  for 
the  period  of  the  war. 
There  are  lives  to  be  saved  and 
no  time  for  legal  quibbling. 
One  protracted  raid  of  500,000 
aeroplanes  over  Germany  wtU  end 
this  war.  Give  us  then  the  neces- 
sary 500,000  airshipsl 
Let  us  not  shilly-shally  with  con- 
sidering the  so-called  Humane  Laws 
of  Nations.  Germany  has  ignored  or 
set  aside  these  Laws;  decided  them 
obsolete.  Let  Germany's  decision 
standll  M»  M» 

WHEN  the  typewriter  was 
new,  the  Remington  people 
thought  they  needed  expert  pianists 
to  play  this  delicate  instrument; 
when  the  automobile  came  in,  we 
were  told  only  a  Union  Mechanic 
could  make  it  perambulate.  Now 
we  learn  one   must   take  a   very 


young  man,  imder  30  years,  and 
revolve  him  violently  in  a  swivel 
chair,  and  shoot  a  pistol  by  his  ear, 
and  pass  on  him  for  lumbago,  before 
he  may  become  an  airship  pilot  ^ 
Bunkl — Simply  bunk! 
Like  taking  tax  months  to  drill  a 
bimdi  of  sand-lot  American  ball- 
players—"  l^^hf  foot!  Left  foot! 
Halt!  Left  dress!  Front!  Saiute!  " 
Drilling  these  ball-i^ayers  to  march, 
when  they  are  going  over  into 
trenches  to  stand  still,  or  go  stum- 
bling (broken  order)  over  shell  holes 
to  throw  bombs,  or  stick  in  a 
bayonet  and  twist  it  '*  Company 
Attention!*'  Will  Braddock,  or 
Wdlington,  or  Marshal  MacMahon, 
please  rise  from  the  dead  to  inspect 
these  drillings,  or  are  they  diver- 
sions? Someone  ought  to  tdl  the 
master  drill  sergeant  that  this 
trench-warfare  is  a  brawl!  The  rules 
of  personal  deportment  are  only  to 
be  learned  on  the  spot. 
Any  youth  of  apparent  intdligence, 
who  can  pass  the  phjrsical  exami- 
nation into  the  Regular  Army,  and 
who  is  not  afraid  to  go  up,  is  a  first- 
class  candidate  to  drive  an  air-car. 
Thirty  days  will  be  plenty  to  let  him 
learn  the  motor,  to  give  him  a  few 
spins  as  a  passenger;  then,  on  his 
own!  After  that,  depend  on  the 
first  law  of  nature,  and  Yankee 
ability  and  adaptability. 
Abas,  the  Black  Magicll 
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Behind  the  French  lines,  along  about 
May  Ist.  1918,  can  be  gathered 
500,000  aeroplanes.  Fill  than  to  the 
gunwales  with  exflonves.  Start  than 
in  flocks  of  10,000  «»  Send  away 
10,000  every  hour  for  10  hours.  Have 
them  sail  at  a  certain  hei|^t  going 
out;  the  return  flight  at  a  higher 
altitude.  Bach  "  Aero-Gunner  "  to 
swear  to  drop  his  expiosives  before 
he  diesl  Give  each  aeroplane  a  desti- 
nation. Send  them  oyer  a  wide 
area.  Sdiedule  10,000  of  the  largest 
for  Berlin  «»  m» 

IHd  Cc^ond  Watterson  say  "To 
Hdl  with  the  HohenzoUems "? 
Well,  this  method  puts  a  literal  in- 
terpretation to  the  Colonel's  words. 
Let  100,000  aeroplanes,  within  ten 
hours'  time,  drop  their  cargoes  of 
explosives  on  Germany,  and  most  of 
the  inhabitants  of  that  dduded 
country  will  go  either  to  Hell  or 
Heaven — but  go  quickly. 
Demoralization  of  the  enemy's 
military  would  be  so  great,  I  venture 
the  death  rate  among  the  aeroplane 
occupants  would  be  no  larger  than 
in  an  ordinary  infantry  attack!  m» 
Once  past  the  enemy's  trendi-line 
the  danger  would  be  minimized  m» 
Seventy-five  per  cent  of  the  aero- 
planes would  return  all  right,  ready 
and  eager  for  another  rojcf.  Then 
before  the  enemy  could  get  set, 
send  a  second  100,000  as  before. 
And  repeat  till  someone  hollered 
"  QUITS!  "—and  meant  iti!! 


Any  plan  that  will  end  this  war  in 
thirty  days — and  this  plan  will  I — 
is  not  brutal!  It 's  kindly  and  beati- 
fic and  brotheriy  lovely. 

Most  Appropriation  iitll^  classiiij 
like  cans  of  soup-~plain  hi^^cls  an  I 
mysterious  irisides! 

Wliat  George  Bernard 
Sliaiv  Learned  from 
Oscar  Wilde 

lERE  are  those  who 
contracted  Bemard- 
sh^witis  a  dedade  or  two 
ago.  Henry  Mencken, 
for  example;  he  who 
seettis  to  be  an  inevit- 
aUe  high  private  in  the  front  rank 
of  the  appredators  of  literary  ezpert- 
ness.  He  wrote  a  panegyric  captioned 
George  Bernard  Shaw — His  Plays, 
published  in  1905;  the  American 
edition  of  which  Brentano's  tdls 
me  was  quickly  sold  out. 
Myself,  I  escaped  Shaw's  influence 
till  but  recently.  I  remember  wdl 
the  flurry  when  Arnold  Daly  played 
Candida  m»  I  remember  when  the 
actors  and  actresses  were  arrested 
in  bawdy  old  New  York  for  present- 
ing Mrs.  Warren^s  Profession  m» 
'T  was  all  so  absurd,  I  dismissed  it 
as  a  press  agent's  masterpiece,  with 
the  judge  receiving  four  paste- 
boards for  the  following  Saturday 
matinee  as  pay  for  his  part  in  the 


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travesty  on  the  Higher  Morality.  .  . 
I  remember  reading  the  Doctofs 
DUemma  on  a  dull  and  dreary  voy- 
age across  the  ocean,  and  finding 
it  an  equally  dull  and  dreary  book; 
almost  ecclesiastical  in  its  windi- 
nessl  ...  I  saw  Fanny's  First  Play 
and  still  escaped  the  Shaw  germ  »» 
Only  recently  I  got  to  know  Shaw, 
and  it  came  about  eccentrically  in 
^s  fashion. 

Oscar  Wilde's  plays  amuse  and  dis- 
tract; they  hold  my  mind.  Oscar's 
depths  may  have  sounded  Hell's  pit, 
but  his  heights  pierced  the  blue 
round  Heaven's  throne.  His  in- 
spired wit  made  all  England  laugh, 
before  they  crucified  him,  and  this 
laughter  is  preserved  in  red  morocco, 
and  irony.  When  oppressed  with  dull 
companions,  I  read  Wilde's  plays; 
they  divert  and  entertain  me. 
All  of  us  are  creatures  of  om*  own 
theories.  We  develop  a  theory  and 
then  go  searching  about  for  data  to 
substantiate  it.  I  got  the  idea  that 
Shaw,  a  sour  and  dour  denizen  of  a 
London  hall  bedroom,  saw  with  his 
Mephistophelean  eye  Oscar  VHlde, 
a  fellow  countryman,  achieve 
glorious  success,  by  politely  and 
charmingly  chafiing  English  snob- 
bery. To  me,  Shaw  seemed  to  divine 
that  Wilde's  modus  operandi  could 
be  turned  in^de  out,  to  Shaw's 
profit;  that  for  him  to  patronize 
imperiously,  scorn,  scoff  and  criti- 
cize to  a  blister  this  same  English 


Society,  might,  paradoxically,  pro- 
duce a  more  substantial  and  per- 
manent success  than  V^de'sl 
That  was  the  theory;  an  idly  falla- 
cious one,  be  assured.  Whidi  fact  in 
no  way  diminished  my  zeal  in 
attempting  to  justify  itl 

OSCAR  WILDE  and  George 
Bernard  Shaw  were  bom  in 
the  same  city,  Dublin,  Ireland,  in 
the  same  year,  1856. 
Oscar  was  the  son  of  ^r  William 
Vnide,  a  famous  and  infamous  Irish 
surgeon.  The  lad  was  sent  to  tiie 
best  schools,  to  Trinity  College, 
Dublin,  and  thence  to  Oxford. 
Little  George  Shaw  was  the  son  of 
the  son  of  a  Kilkenny  sheriff.  He  got 
himself  a  job  when  he  was  fifteen. 
C  Oscar  at  twenty-three  was  wear- 
ing velvet  knee-breeches  and  silken 
stockings,  in  London  a  pampered, 
lauded  society  pet;  while  George 
Bernard  Shaw  was  working  for  the 
Edison  Telephone  Ccnnpany  down 
the  street,  attending  Fabian  So- 
cialistic meetings  in  the  evenings, 
or  knowingly  discussing  the  un- 
knowable with  Annie  Besant,  or 
matching  his  opinions  on  Art-a»-is 
against  those  of  \^^iam  Morris  «» 
There  's  the  fundamental  difference 
why  Shaw's  best  stuff  is  fibrous  and 
hard  to  break  through,  while 
Wilde's  best  is  downy  fluff  whidi  will 
blow  away  if  touched!  Shaw  is  a 
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and  but  an  incidental  performer; 
wlule  \^de  was  a  conscious  and 
sdf-congratiilatory  performer,  and 
but  an  incidental  thinker.  Shaw 
came  up  hand-over-hand,  while 
IXnide  was  puffed  up. 
Shame  on  me  for  thinking  George 
Bernard  Shaw  learned  a  trick  or  a 
trait  £rom  Oscar  ^^de.  Yet,  in 
extenuation.  Irishmen  have  a  habit 
of  borrowing.  What  fits  one  usu- 
^y  fits  another  «»  Wilde  learned 
how  profitable  were  Smart  Society 
Comedies  from  that  other  brilliant 
Irishman,  Richard  Brinsley  Sheri- 
dan, who  wrote  School  for  Scandal, 
Wilde  learned  from  Tom  Moore  to 
make  pretty  little  half-love  speeches 
to  the  protected  and  pretty  little 
dames  c^  Encash  Society^ — ^from 
Tom  Moore,  who  composed  his  own 
love  ditties,  and  played  the  harp- 
adiord  and  sang  them  to  Milady, 
and  made  eyes,  when  nobody  under- 
stood but  she  and  hel 
Moore  and  Sheridan  both  gained 
tiUes  thereby — Sir  Thomas  and 
Sir  Richard;  and  why  not  WHdt? 
d  Of  course  Wilde  nussed  the  real 
lesson  to  be  learned.  English  So- 
ciety made  a  vain  fool  and  drunk- 
ard out  of  precocious  Sheridan;  he 
never  wrote  a  worth-while  Une 
after  he  was  twenty-seven.  Too 
dose  assodation  with  English  So- 
dety  caused  the  Irish  people  to 
doubt  and  distrust  Moore's  loy^dty, 
and  the  doubt  is  not  yet  stilled.  Ton^ 


Moore's  memory  is  doudcd  by  the 
accusation  that  he  was  a  traitor. 
ilNatiiless,  Irdand  has  produced 
but  one  Shaw,  and  he  still  lives,  a 
great  and  fearless  philosopher,  a 
searcher  after  truth,  a  stem  and 
wise  diagnostician  of  sodety's  deep- 
ing sickness,  a  foe  to  incensed 
hjTpocrisy,  an  exposer  of  respectable 
depravity  and  National  and  Inter- 
national guile — one  of  the  few 
authors  who  will  come  out  of  this 
War  unashamed  to  meet  his  soul  in 
alighted  room. 

Oh,  the  God's-quantity  of  writers 
who  have  committed  artistic  and 
moral  suidde  in  tiie  tiiree  srears 
past  because  they  feaied  to  sUmd 
alone.  They  were  and  are  afraid! 
When  this  war  is  over,  and  people 
become  sensible  again,  the  ante- 
room of  the  Andent  Order  of  Judas 
will  be  overcrowded  with  cowardly 
candidates  of  the  inkslinging  per- 
suasion, who  betrayed  the  People 
and  themsdves. 

Give  me  another  week  and  I  will 
have  finished  all  Shaw's  published 
works;  his  Plays,  Satires,  Essays, 
Critidsms-^alll 

Now  I  know  the  Spirit  of  the  man, 
and  his  Heart's  Desire.  "  I  shaU 
not  look  upon  his  like  again." 
I  have  consumed  the  complete 
works  of  many  a  writer  like  t^s,  but 
none,  I  sincerely  and  earnestly  be- 
lieve, who  yidded  me  as  much  of 
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life ;  free  from  cant,  free  from  pre- 
dispositions, predatory  persuasive- 
ness, and  learned  ignorance. 
VTHdc  amuses  and  distracts  me; 
Shaw  thrills  and  awakens,  and  makes 
me  want  to  live  more  and  better. 
C  When  this  war  is  over,  God 
willing,  I  promise  myself  a  pilgrim- 
age to  London,  to  knock  on  the  door 
of  George  Bernard  Shaw. 

In  choosing  opponents  we  ask  for 
Intelligence;  Ignorance  and  Ortho- 
doxy are  too  depressing  for  good 
sport  p^  .■•. 

What  the  People's 
Council  Wants 


AM  in  sympathy  with 
any  party,  or  party-to- 
be,  that  will  give  us  a 
live  issue,  an<X  anti-pro- 
fessional office-holders 
to  vote  for  in  1920. 
We  need  a  National  dean-up,  to  en- 
force the  retirement  of  the  several 
dozen  of  third-rate  gentlemeh  who 
have  cluttered-up  public  life  in 
America  for  all  too  many  terms, 
d  More  than  half  the  representa- 
tives of  the  people  of  the  United 
States  are  more  than  half  a  century 
behind  the  People's  Thought.  These 
suspected  and  much  soiled  ter- 
backer-chewing  Haswassers  will  not 
retire  voluntarily.  They  must  be 
retired.  So  welcome  19201! 


The  Farmers  Non-Partisan  League, 
the  Peof^e's  Council,  and  similar 
organizations,  interest  us.  Are  ttey 
potential?  To  what  degree?  Is  the 
leadership  honest,  progressive?  How 
sound  is  the  "  idea  "? 
We  want  to  know. 

HERE  'S  a  communication  from 
the  Peof^e's  Council  just 
received.  They  seem  to  be  afraid — 
they  seem  to  be  afraid  of  their  own 
opinions.  They  wish  to  qualify  them, 
to  modify  theml  To  equivocate,  to 
sidestep,  to  shufflel 
They  say  "  The  Council  is  anti- 
militarist  and  utterly  opposed  in 
principle  to  conscription — 1  " 
But  the  Council's  "  purposes  and 
practises  are  not  to  interfere  in  any 
way  with  the  military  preparation 
of  the  Government,  or  the  military 
conduct  of  the  Warl  " 
They  say  they  have  been  misin- 
terpreted. They  ask  for  fair  play!  9^ 
Oh,  pshaw,  if  they  are  right,  they 
should  gather  strength  and  compd 
fair  play.  There's  no  reason  or 
profit  in  whimpering. 
They  then  add,  **  We  hold  that  the 
Peace  Conference  should  be  con- 
vened at  once  upon  the  principles 
contained  in  the  Pope's  message  and 
the  President's  reply:  (1)  No  dis^ 
memberment  of  Empires;  (2)  No 
punitive  damages;  (3)  Equal  right 
of  aU  peoples  to  freedom,  security 
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patian  upon  fair  terms,  by  cU 
peoples,  in  the  economic  oppartuni" 
ties  of  the  world;  (5)  A  concert  of 
the  nations  based  vpon  the '  Rights 
<^  Peoples,  not  the  Rights  of  Govern- 
ments,* and  agreeing  to  '  disarma- 
ment,' setting  up  'arbitration  in- 
stead of  force/  '  reconstitution  i^ 
smaU  nations,' " 

These  Peace  Terms  are  very  inter- 
esting.  We  are  sure  the  intdligent 
people  of  the  worid  are  in  sympathy 
with  them,  and  quite  in  agreement. 
We  are  sure  the  Peof^e's  Council  of 
America  dictated  them  in  good  faith, 
free  of  all  German  influence. 
How  I  hate  that  rabid  jackal  cry 
"  Pro-German,"  whenever  an  Amer- 
ican happens  to  disagree  with  a 
jingo- American. 

But  w?io  will  represent  the  German 
Nation  at  the  Conference  Table 
when  these  Terms  of  P^ce  are 
negotiated?  The  German  Kaiser, 
and  the  Members  of  the  German 
Military  Caste? 

The  answer  to  jrour  Peace  proposi- 
tion then  is  "  NO!  "  We  refuse  to 
negotiate  with  MURDERERS!  «» 
Right  there  you  have  the  cause  for 
the  perpetuation  of  this  War.  All 
your  fine  reasons  can  not  get  round 
one  fact:  Bill  Kaiser  and  His  Gang 
are  thugs  and  murderers  of  frail 
women  and  helpless  little  children — 
unrepentant  murderers  I 
The  civUiied  world  insists  they  must 
he  punished.  No  matter  how  wise  or 


just  your  Pfeace  Terms  may  seem  as 
abstract  humanities,  for  the  present 
we  have  no  way  of  reaching  the 
German  people — and  we  refuse  to 
discuss  Honorable  Terms  (apart 
from  the  moral  consideratioo,  be- 
cause such  a  discussion  would  be 
most  absurd  and  ridiculous)  with 
Liars,  Word-Breakers,  Betrayers, 
and  Murderers  of  the  UNARMSDI 

That  Pointe  Claire 
Telephone 

INTE  CLAIRE,  Que- 
beCf  is  located  some 
forty  minutes  outside 
Montreal  on  both  the 
Canadian  Pacific  and 
the  Grand  Trunk  rail- 
roads. The  village  proper  is  a  mile 
or  more  from  the  railroad  station. 
Close  by,  say  100  yards  distance,  is 
the  beautifully  appointed  Beacons- 
field  Club  and  Golf  Links  with  a 
large  membership. 
Is  that  "  War  Map  "  clear  to  you? 
tlThe  station  agent  at  Pointe  Claire 
is  a  grouchy  and  garrulous  old  Wise- 
heimer,  with  a  figure  that  has 
slipped  down  into  his  belt,  to 
burden  the  arches  of  his  feet.  His 
principal  trouble  is  he  has  held  his 
job  too  long.  He  acts  like  the 
Proprietor,  not  like  the  Agent. 
I  miscalculated  a  train,  and  with  an 
hour  to  wait,  I  watched  this  Gorgon 
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watched  the  bees — curiously — trust- 
ing to  learn  something. 
He  seemed  to  be  a  pure  type  of  the 
Man-  Who-GetS'Nowhere! 
I  was  not  mistaken. 

ON  the  door  of  the  ticket  office 
was  a  hand-lettered  sign,  pro- 
fessionally executed,  framed  in  oak, 
under  glass.  It  read  "  Please  do  not 
ask  to  use  the  Tdephone;  it  is  abso- 
lutely private" 

Probably  that  sign  cost  a  dollar  or 
two  to  make;  I  venture,  out  of  the 
agent's  own  pocket.  Its  purpose  was 
to  inconvenience  and  exasperate 
customers «»  tm 

I  could  picture  a  rainy  day,  an  im- 
portant engagement,  a  hurry-up 
jitney  from  the  Golf  Club  to  the 
train — to  miss  it  I  The  necessity  of 
getting-in- touch  immediately  1  The 
jitney  returned — gonel  No  tele- 
phone nearer  than  the  Country 
Club,  a  hundred  yards  away  through 
the  rain.  And  then  to  thankfully 
observe  the  agent's  telephone  inside 
the  window,  to  rush  around  to  the 
wicket  and  .  .  .  .'  go  slap  face  to 
face  with  that  muddle-headed  sign, 
"  Please  do  not  ask  to  use —  "  «» 
I  thought  how  an  agent  with  even  a 
modicum  of  brains  could  have  used 
the  dollar  or  more  he  spent  on  the 
sign,  to  call  up  the  manager  of  the 
Telephone  Company  every  day  for  a 
month;  to  tell  him  he  MUST  install 
a   Pay   Station  at   Pointe   Claire. 


There  must  be  a  demand  for  a 
telephone  there,  else  why  the  sign? 
CBut  what 's  the  use  of  reasoning? 
The  agent  belongs  to  that  oppressive 
group  of  perverse  or  stupid  men, 
high  and  low  in  business,  who  spend 
nine-tenths  of  their  time  figuring 
How  the  Thing  Can't  be  Done   «» 

Breathy  Stuff 

I  CAN  this,  m'  masters, 
reverently  clipped  from 
the  pages  of  the  Out' 
look — a  New  Bnfi^and 
Spinster  now  languish- 
ing and  pale,  nnce 
T.  Rf'^the  formidaUe  ejc-candidate, 
turned  his  vociferous  editorial  atten- 
tions to  a  buxom  Western  Leddy  «» 
"A  dispatch  from  Rome  informs  us 
that  in  the  -midst  of  the  fighting  and 
at  a  time  when  the  Austrian  barrage 
fire  was  at  its  height,  Signor  Arturo 
Toscanini  (for  some  time  conductor 
at  the  Metropolitan  Opera  House) 
led  his  Band  to  one  of  the  advance 
positions,  where,  sheltered  only  by  a 
huge  rock,  he  conducted  a  concert 
which  did  not  stop  until  word  had 
been  brought  to  him  that,  inspired 
by  his  Band,  the  Italian  soldiers  had 
stormed  and  taken  the  Austrian 
trenches." 

I  read  that  aloud  to  four. 
''Dam'  Lie  I"    snorted  the  Head- 
Pressman. 
"  BaklerdashI  "  said  The  Red. 


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"  Hog  Waahl  "  from  AU  Baba. 
"  Rather    breathyl  "   olMerved  the 
Professor  «»  m» 

What  then»  we  wonder,  do  the 
hibematiiig  "  Intdlectuals  "  on  the 
subscription  list  of  the  OuUook  call 
sudi  twaddling  puffery? 
Can  not  Signor  Toscanini  be  hired 
or  fired  at  the  Metropolitan,  de- 
cently, on  his  merits  as  a  musician, 
without  tiie  Oudooh--ay,  the  Out- 
look— ezpo«ng  his  fat  flanks  to 
Machine  Gun  perforations  on  an 
Alpine  Peak? 

This  is  the  apogee  of  Press  Agentry, 
unless  we  are  to  assume  the  Out- 
took  has  suddenly  turned  silly. 
"  Shdtered  only  by  a  huge  rock  " — 
"  Inspired  by  his  Band—  "  "  Did 
not    stop    until    word    had    been 
brought  to  him— I  " 
Oh,  I  say,  I  call  that  richl 
I  can  see  the  agile  Courier,  leaping 
lightly  from  crag  to  crag,  to  shut  off 
tile    Toscanini    Toscaninians,  over 
there  bdiind  the  rockl 
"  Gooda  boy,  ToscaninM  We  wona 
da  batM   Da  Austrian  hear  your 
mooaic— he    runa,    and   runa    lika 
Hdll  VivsL  r  ToscaninM  Toscanin', 
de  Generale  he  say  come  have  some 
^gbet'  on  heemll " 

ALREADY  the  American  people 
are  in  a  most  unsatisfactory 
psychological  state.  They  have 
ceased  to  believe  about  99  44-100 
of  the  matter  published  for  their 


benefit,  the  stuff  the  **  leaders  of 
thought "  wi^  them  to  believe  tm 
They  openly  distrust  the  news- 
papers, and  they  are  becoming  very 
shy  of  certain  ancient  and  honorable 
periodicals.  Honorable?  Ay!  Were 
not  Brutus  and  Cassius  honorable? 
€1  They  dislike  to  be  manipulated, 
or  to  have  their  credulity  overtaxed. 
€1  Their  mental  stomachs  are  re- 
volting at  overdoses  of  nauseous 
slobber  sudi  as  Toscanini,  his  Band, 
and  his  exposed  position. 
A  Free  People  deserve  more.  They 
deserve  clean,  clear,  bold,  exact 
statements.  They  deserve  Pacts!  «» 

Acres  of  Diamonds 

lUSSELL  CONWELL  is 
^  Baptist  Minister  of 
Philadelphia,  Pa.  Other- 
wise, he  seems  to  be 
I  a  100-per-cent  man  «» 
I  pleasantries  aside, 
whether  we  believe  what  Russell 
Conwell  believes  or  not  is  of  small 
importance;  we  do  believe  in  him «» 
Should  that  well-advertised  last 
Day  of  Judgment  keep  its  engage- 
ment with  us,  I  believe  Russell  Con- 
well's  chance  of  passing  gloriously 
into  the  Forever-Bver  Land  will 
shape  up  .quite  a  little  better  than 
yours  or  mine.  I  go  you  one  further; 
I  believe  Russell  Conwell  has  served 
his  time  and  generation  as  well  as 
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the  least  of  hit  aocompliahments  is 
that  he  has  practised  what  he 
preached  tm  tm 

I  have  followed  his  career  for  years. 
I  have  read  his  Life,  He  is  an  old 
man  now;  some  75  years  have  passed 
over.  Whether  you  watched  him 
buckle  on  his  sword  in  '61,  a  Boy- 
Captain  at  18,  to  march  away  from 
his  Massachusetts  village,  to  fight 
for  the  preservation  of  the  Union,  or 
whether  you  mark  his  painfully 
rheumatic  step  as  he  cheerfully 
keeps  a  lecture  date  in  1917,  you 
find  him  serving  others. 
You  will  recognize  Russell  Conwell 
as  the  man  who  has  given  the 
lecture  Acres  of  Diamonds  more 
than  5,000  times;  earned  more  than 
$4,000,000  in  so  doing.  The  associate 
of  Osawatomie  Brown,  Wendell 
Phillips,  Ralph  Waldo  Emerson, 
Oliver  Wendell  Holmes,  Henry 
Wadsworth  Longfellow,  Henry  Ward 
Beecher,  he  outlives  them  all  to 
give  us  demonstrated  proof  that 
there  were  giants  in  those  days  I 
Fifty  years  on  the  Lecture  Platform, 
with  just  one  engagement  missed. 
That  night  he  stopped  a  runaway 
horse,  with  women  in  the  wagon, 
and  so  he  went  to  the  hospital 
instead  of  the  lecture  hall  t^  Was 
there  ever  such  constancy,  such 
fidelity,  such  faithfulness  to  duty? 
C I  have  scanned  his  '*  Simmier 
Vacation "  speaking  schedule  for 
the  year   1915;  the  year  he  was 


seventy-two.  From  June  24th  to 
August  29tli,  he  lectured  every 
night,  and  preached  every  Sunday. 
For  fifty  years  he  averaged  200 
lectures  a  year. 

For  fifty  years  he  has  worked  16 
hours  a  day:  eight  for  himself  and 
eight  for  Johnnie  Ring,  a  home-town 
boy,  Conwell's  orderly,  who  died 
in  saving  Conwell's  Presentation 
Sword,  when  the  Confederates 
made  a  surprise  attack  on  the  Union 
Camp  at  Newbem  in  '64. 
Over  Johnnie  Ring's  cofifin,  Conwell 
resolved  to  live  two  men's  lives,  to 
do  two  men's  work,  Johnnie  Ring's 
and  his  own.  Conwell  was  an 
atheist  and  John  Ring  was  a 
Christian.  Conwell  became  a  Chiis- 
tian,  and  a  Christian  minister,  to 
better  fulfil  this  sacred  obligation  «^ 
More  's  the  man,  I  sayl 
Russell  Conwell  has  helped  some 
88,000  workers  to  the  kind  of  edu- 
cation they  needed;  whether  aca- 
demic or  vocational.  £Qs  Temple 
University  in  Philadelphia  teaches 
Millinery  and  Cooking,  as  well  as 
Latin  and  Greek. 

Whenever  ten  students,  or  prospec- 
tive students,  will  petition  for  a 
certain  class  at  a  certain  hour,  the 
class  will  be  arranged  for  that  hour, 
from  8  A.  M.  to  10  P.  M.  This 
University,  which  he  started  in  one 
room,  has  graduated  nearly  100,000 
young  men  and  women  into  better 
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pauperizing  one.  They  earn  their 
way  at  Temple  University. 
When  Russell  Conwell  receives  his 
lecture  dtieck  firom  the  Committee 
in  Your  Town,  he  deducts  his  actual 
expenses,  and  before  he  turns  in  for 
the  night,  writes  his  own  check  for 
the  balance,  and  mails  it  to  a  boy  or 
girl  somewhere  struggling  against 
hardship  for  education  and  personal 
betterment.  He  commands  them  not 
to  thank  him,  but,  on  their  honor,  to 
pay  it  back  in  unselfish  service  to 
the  world!  «»  «» 

The  $4,000,000  he  earned  with  his 
lecture  Acres  of  Diamonds  went  to 
educate  Young  America.  Figure  his 
score  for  yourself.  Tell  me  another 
man  since  time  began  with  a  record 
to  equal  this.  Yet  in  Philadelphia, 
they  lament  that  Russell  H.  Con- 
well  is  not  famous.  I  know  a  few 
front-page,  Who's-Who  Philadel- 
phians  the  world  could  better  spare. 
The  record  of  a  service  lives,  long 
after  a  press-agent's  work  is  for- 
gotten. Dr.  Conwell  is  the  president 
and  creator,  the  organizer  and  the 
inspiring  sinrit  of  two  hospitals,  the 
Samaritan  and  the  Garretson.  There 
some  35,000  have  been  healed  and 
comforted.  Each  was  charged  ac- 
cording to  his  means.  Neither  the 
rich  nor  the  poor  were  discriminated 
aeednst  «•»  «» 

His  church  seats  upward  of  3,000 
and  Dr.  Conwell  fills  it  whenever  he 
preaches,   and  he   preaches  every 


Sunday  he  is  in  Philadelphia.  He  is 
the  true  type  of  inspirational  leader. 
Certainly  I  must  agree  with  him 
that  his  Heaven  is  in  the  skies 
above  the  stars. 

Whether  we  all  go  out  to  glory,  or 
go  out  like  candles,  in  no  way  re- 
flects on  the  fact  that  this  man 
serves  a  humane  God  humaneiy  «» 

IN  his  always-in-demand  lecture 
Acres  f^  Diamonds  he  preaches  a 
philosophy  that  mii^  well  be  read 
by  our  eitreme  Socialistic  breth- 
ren. Doctor  Conwell  daims,  and  I 
believe  him,  that  it  is  more  to  be 
desired  to  bring  the  bottom  up  to 
the  top,  than  to  pull  the  top  down 
to  the  bottoml 

He  says  there  are  **  diamonds  "  in 
your  back  yard;  all  you  need  do  is 
to  decide  to  find  them.  He  quotes 
three  score  of  cases  where  men  got 
rich,  on  the  same  ground,  in  the 
same  house,  the  same  business,  that 
other  men  had  abandoned.  He 
preaches.  Go  thou  and  do  likewise! 
CoQwdl  has  influenced  ten-thou- 
.  sand-times-ten  successes.  He  sends 
people  sourying  on  thdr  way  to 
wealth.  People  who  were  without 
hope  or  ambition,  who  believed  that 
all  fortunes  were  made  in  New  York, 
or  London,  wake  up,  look  around, 
take  stock,  and  begin  to  produce!  «•» 
He  reasons  that  the  successful  man 
or  woman  is  the  "  best "  of  the 
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have  achieved  success,  must  in  the 
process  of  adiievement,  attain  to 
wisdom,  self-restraint,  self-respect, 
courtesy*  and  an  understanding  of 
fair  play.  That  a  man  or  woman 
with  a  business  on  Main  Street  and 
a  paid-for  house  in  the  suburbs  has 
given  bond  for  good  conduct,  and  is 
an  asset  and  not  a  liability. 
He  states  and  emphasises  that  suc- 
cessful people  are  neither  tricky, 
dishonest,  or  grasping;  that  their 
reward  is  for  good  work  well  done, 
for  sacrifices  made,  for  industry  and 
intelligence;  that  these  qualities  are 
always  rewarded! 

"  Where  these  successful  people 
have  gone,  you  can  go — ^yes,  YOU ! " 
Conwell  assures,  "  but  stand  not 
upon  the  order  of  your  going — 
GO !!''«»  «» 

The  jorbidden  fruits  oj  smugness, 
vanity,  sloth,  gluttony,  envy,  covei- 
ousness,  and  lust  for  position,  all 
grow  on  the  "  Famibj  Tree." 

LaiTv^breakers 

LASS:  Ponies  to  be 
driven  and  ridden  by 
children  under  sixteen 
l/eaTs  «•»  Three  ponies 
came  into  the  Show 
Ring.  One  was  a  tyincal 
Merrilegs,  fat  and  lazy,  of  no  par- 
ticular quality.  One  was  a  mean- 
dispositioned  fellow;  he  kicked  over 


the  dash-board  twice,  his  first  time 
round  the  ring.  His  neck  was 
straight,  his  tail  lay  flat;  there  was 
no  manner  or  personality.  But  he 
was  driven  l^  a  beautiful  little  girl 
with  flaxen  hair.  The  third  pony  was 
clean-cut,  high-life,  bred  in  the  deep 
purple.  His  neck  was  arched,  his  tail 
was  arched,  and  he  picked  up  and 
put  down  his  feet  as  thoui^  he 
realized  the  Band  played  for  him. 
C  There  could  be  only  one  V^nner; 
we  knew  which  't  would  be.  Jaunty 
Boy!  All  the  Grand  Stand  knew!  «•» 
When  the  Band  speeded-up  so  did 
Jaunty  Boy;  he  pranced  a  little,  and 
pussy-footed,  and  showed  an  incli- 
nation to  waltz.  Every  child  in  the 
Grand  Stand  had  both  eyes  on  him. 
Then  thQr  passed  out  the  Ribbona. 
The  Mean  One  got  FIRST;  fat 
Merrilegs  SECOND,  and  Jaunty 
Bpy  THIRD. 
Oh — such  a  mistake! 
Because  I  love  a  horse,  because  I 
want  them  to  get  Fair  Play,  I  went 
down  to  the  gate  of  the  Show  Ring 
to  ask  WHY? 

Why?  Because  Jaunty  Boy  pranced, 
when  he  should  have  waikedl 
He  broke  the  law — 
So,  all  afkemoonl 

In  the  Combination  Class  (to  drive 
and  ride)  I  saw  a  tubercular,  flighty, 
nervous  mare,  with  a  cut-off  tail, 
win  over  a  BlackGdding  of  beautiful 
conformation,  of  sweeinng  lines  «» 
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behdd  a  brute  take  first,  which  so 
behaved  in  the  empty  ring,  the  same 
morning,  that  it  was  necessary  for 
his  trainer  to  administer  half  a 
broomstick  vigorously.  A  treacher- 
ous, vicious  becist  I 
I  noticed  the  prizes  were  handed 
out,  as  they  are  too  often  dis- 
tributed in  LIFB;  for  manners,  for 
deportment,  for  obedience,  for  style. 
But  not  for  character,  or  brains, 
initiative  or  ability. 
Not  once  in  all  the  afternoon  was  a 
Hmse  judged,  nor  did  any  Hcrse 
receive  a  Prize. 

In  the  Horse  Ring,  I  saw  a  prize 
even  to  a  Pretty-Littie-Girl,  with 
flowing  curls.  I  saw  a  Sweet- Young- 
Thing  of  twenty,  with  large  and 
prayerful  eyes,  get  a  prize.  I  saw  a 
swanking  young  Society-Matron, 
who  knew  everybody,  and  knew  how 
to  "wear"  riding  clothes,  get  a 
prize.  I  saw  a  selfish,  grasping  Old 
Millionaire,  with  too  much  power 
and  pull,  get  a  prize.  I  saw  the  Head 
of  a  Large  Breeding  Establishment 
win  a  prize — ^because  he  wouldn't 
show  next  year  if  he  did  n't. 
All  afternoon  at  a  Horse  Show — and 
not  one  horse  judged  1 
Not  onci  I  give  you  my  word. 

Some  Criminals  are  in  Jail;  some 
are  hanged,  and  buried  in  Quicklime 
—and  some  gamble  in  Food  for 
the  Poor,  and  make  Speeches  at 
Patriotic  Rallies. 


Making  the  World 
Safe  for  Englishmen 

ALK  along  Broadway 
at  night,  this  fall,  and 
you  will  be  struck  by 
the  number  of  Street 
Comer  Orators,  set- 
tling, once  and  for  all, 
the  World's  Great  Problems.  At 
Thirty-seventh  Street  the  Irish  hold 
session.  Needless  to  say,  England 
receives  a  lambastin*.  The  Irish 
are  an  untamed  and  untrammeled 
race.  They  learned  to  reason  at 
Donnybrook  Fair  with  shillalahs. 
COne  night  last  week,  the  Irish 
Meeting  opened  with  the  Chair- 
man rising  in  his  might  on  his  soap 
box,  and  declaiming  thusly: 
"  Gintiemin:  'T  is  an  honor  and 
privilege  I  hov'  to  interdooce  to 
ye  a  gin-oo-ine  Irish  Pathriot — 
young  Patrick  Francis  Rooney, 
who — God  bliss  the  bhoyl — but  a 
while  back,  on  Sackville  Street, 
Dublin,  wit  his  arrms  to  the 
ilbows  in  the  tr-reacherous  blood 
of  the  English  oppressors — 11  etc. 
Ar-r-r— 111"CHEERS1 
Young  Patrick,  lean,  lank  and  elo- 
quent, with  blue  Irish  eyes  and 
blue-black  curly  hair,  delivered 
himself  fervently  and  well.  Only  it 
required  the  Irish  policeman  on  the 
beat  to  understand  the  speech  was 
not  treasonable!  Patrick  cursed 
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John  o'Gfoat;  accused  the  corpu- 
lent old  gentleman  of  all  the 
crimes  from  baby-snatching  to 
egg-sucking  1  Cheers  broke  in  like 
musketry  on  his  arraignment — 1 «» 
When  yoimg  Misther  Rooney  had 
done — ^and  the  applause  had  stilled 
the  rattle  of  the  surface  cars,  the 
Chairman  resoomed:  " 'T  is  a 
pleasure  I  hov'  to  say  to  ye,  that 
as  a  spishil  favor,  this  gr-rand 
Young  Patiiriot  will  answer  any 
questions  you  may  addriss  to  him 
— arr-r— !  " 

One  question,  and  another ! — 
— ^Was  answered  1 

— ^When  an  unmistakably  English 
voice  piped  up,  "Aw — Mr.  Cha'r- 
man,  I  should  like  to  awsk  Mr. 
Roo-nay,  who  gets  the  American 
Money  contributed  to  the  cause 
of  Irish  Liberty  .  .  ." 
Before  the  question  was  finished, 
an  undersized  red-haired  Mick  with 
a  pug  nose,  swung  upon  the  English- 
man from  the  side,  and  dropped 
him — and  straddled  him  when  he 
went  down.  Several  other  Bully 
Boys  "  guv'  him  the  boots  "!!  The 
Irish  Cop  casually,  and  with  no 
haste,  sent  in  an  ambulance  calll 
C  After  the  poor  chap,  with  two 
broken  ribs,  no  front  teeth,  both 
eyes  completely  closed,  had  been 
bundled  into  the  ambulance  and 
sent  away  .  .  .  the  Chairman 
inquired  "Are  there  any  other 
questions?  "  «»  «» 


Rome  Betrays  Quebec 

|S  Misth  er  DooIqt  is  wont 
to  say  to  Mr.  Hinnessy, 
"  I  see  be  the  paapers  " 
there  's  a  feeling  in 
the  Province  of  Quebec 
that  Conscription  in 
Canada  is  the  finger  of  scorn 
pointed  at  the  Little  Canuck. 
Maybe — maybe  1 

The  casual  references  to  the  sit- 
uation, in  American  newspapers, 
tmouthy  half-truths  as  usual,  served 
simply  to  pique  my  curiosity.  So 
when  I  was  in  Quebec  Province  a 
week  or  so  ago  to  bring  home  my 
Canadian-bom  little  son,  I  decided 
to  stop,  look,  listen. 
I  saw  the  round-hatted,  black  night- 
gowned  priests  standing  in  groups 
doing  nothing,  and  I  knew  instanterl 
C  The  trouble  is  the  oldest  ailment 
of  nations,  namely,  the  Church 
usurping  the  power  and  prerogatives 
of  the  State.  The  Roman  Catholic 
Church  played  the  same  little  game 
she  plays  whenever  she  is  permitted 
to,  i.  e.,  educate  the  proletariat  as 
she  pleases  and  produce  a  subjec- 
tive, ignorant  people;  feed  them 
on  flimsy  and  frightful  superstitions 
and  promises  of  Heaven  and  Hell, 
take  away  their  money  and  their 
power  to  think,  and  keep  them 
in  impotent  poverty;  scare  them 
with  idle  suspicions,  and  set 
them    up    against    their   Govem- 


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ment — 1  Weaken  everybody,  every- 
thing, so  long  as  THE  Church  is 
kept  strong! 

To  permit  the  Roman  Catholic 
Church  real  power  in  a  country,  to 
permit  any  Church  to  stand  between 
the  State  and  the  Peoi^  requires  a 
Government  favorable  to,  or  fearful 
<^,  the  influences  of  that  Church. 
Or  hesitant  1  Or  vacillating  1  Hedge 
their  sort  <^  Government  round 
with  Ministers,  Priests,  Denomi- 
natiooal  Schools  and  plenteous 
religious  education,  Religious  Secret 
Societies,  and  dirty,  gossiping  re- 
ligioua  publications — and  the  holy 
stench  will  rise  to  heaven,  an  insult 
to  the  nostrils  <^  men  who  think. 
That 's  what 's  happened  in  Canada. 
C  When  War  broke  out,  all  of 
Canada,  especially  Ontario,  volun- 
teered, and  proudly  went  mardi- 
ing  away  to  save  the  Empire.  All  but 
Johnnie  Canuck.  The  priest  whis- 
pered a  cautious  word  or  two  to 
Johnnie,  and  Johnnie — lit  his  pipe — 
and  smoked  1 

Yeal  Right  then  and  there,  the 
Rdigious  Issue,  the  oldest  and  the 
most  meaningless  known  to  man, 
was  dragged  in.  Protestant  Canada 
had  a  say  to  say.  The  fanatics  were 
not  all  on  one  side.  Oh,  no  I  The 
Orangemen  and  the  Sons  of  England 
held  indignation-meetings  and 
passed  the  hot  word  hotly.  They 
were  anti-Catholic,  anti-Rome-rule, 
and  they  wanted  it  so  understood! 


Yea!  To  make  the  case  stronger 
against  the  Quebec  Catholic  Priests 
and  Nuns,  the  unmentionable  and 
unsubstantiated  was  mentioned 
and  substantiated  by  irresponsible 
parties.  Such  is  the  diief  diaracter- 
istic  of  the  reUgous  zealot,  i.  e.,  to 
prove  the  man  of  another  laith  a 
scoundrel,  and  a  riotous  rogue,  and 
his  women  bawds. 
Of  course  the  Priests  of  Quebec  were 
not  helpless  or  wordless.  To  oust  the 
HxAy  Roman  Church  from  Quebec 
meant  the  loss  of  their  jobs  and  their 
power.  So  they  played  the  game 
Roman  Catholic  Priests  always  play 
in  a  tight  comer.  They  lined  up  the 
Roman  Catholic  Power  against  the 
Country  that  harbored  them,  exact- 
ly the  same  as  they  did  in  France 
before  they  were  kicked  out. 
Sir  Wilfrid  Laurier,  that  master 
statesman  who  imderstood  the 
plain  people  of  bath  sides,  smoothed 
over  many  difficulties  and  accom- 
plished much  to  improve  the  general 
situation.  But  what  can  one  man 
do  when  the  Orangemen  of  Ontario 
are  organized  and  making  stump- 
speeches  against  the  "Catholic 
Menace  " ;  and  the  Priests  of  Quebec 
are  working  both  sides  of  the  road, 
for  the  honor  and  glory  <^  the 
Mother  Church?  Religious  intol- 
erance, the  curse  of  any  country 
that  has  tolerated  it,  was  at  work 
in  Canada. 
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Ifdi^oHf  that  breeds  Hate  and 
broods  over  it  1  What  an  abeurd  and 
ridkuloiis  diffefence--over  imagi- 
nary roads  to  a  problematic  heaven  1 

THE  Conscription  issue  tight- 
ened up;  Quebec  threatened. 
No,  not  really  Quebec — Rome !  tm 
Cardinal  Begin  of  Quebec  issued  a 
ukase-proclamation  that  his  young 
men  were  all  Soldiers  of  God  and  the 
Roman  Cathc^c  Church,  with  no 
time  to  fight  for  Canada  and 
Humanity.  Or  so  I  remember  it  «» 
This  was  not  pro-German  or  anti- 
Ally  1  Nonsense  I  «»  The  Catholic 
Church  "  rises  above  **  nations. 
This  was  plain  pro-Pope  stuff,  pro- 
easy-money,  and  anti-anybody- 
interfering  with  the  priests'  graft  1 
Protestant  Englandl  What  could 
Rome  expect  from  her?  Atheistic 
France  that  chased  the  priestly 
grafters  out  10  years  agol  There  was 
short  shrift  in  that  direction.  What 
was  Rome  to  do?  Rome  knew  what 
to  dol  Set  up  an  ill-timed  and  poorly 
equipped  Internal  Revolution  that 
would  be  crushed  out  in  a  day 
(witness  Ireland's  Revolution)  and 
leave  the  combatants  enemies  for- 
ever, and  Rome  secure  1 
Oh  yes,  Rcnne  learned  the  rules  of 
the  game  from  Mr.  Niccolo  Machi- 
avelli  of  Firenze,  who  played  both 
ends  against  the  middle,  and  the 
sides  against  the  bottom  and  top  «» 
All  in  all,  with  an  eye  on  the  future. 


I  am  glad  the  Premier,  Sir  Robert 
Borden,  a  gentleman  of  sound 
character  and  pditical  courage, 
assisted  l^  the  Canadian  Parlia- 
ment, had  the  nerve  and  the  innards 
to  call  the  Rt.  Hon.  Cardinal's 
bluff,  and  bluff  it  wasl 
The  next  move  is  to  excommuni- 
cate the  R.  C.  Churdti  from  Canada, 
and  while  they  are  about  it  the 
Church  of  England  and  the  Orange- 
men, Inc.,  and  all  the  other  tdood- 
suddng  religious  organisations  as 
well;  an  ignorant,  heritage  from  a 
gloomy  and  morbid  ancestry. 
Emile  Combes,  Prime  Minister  of 
France  in  1906,  the  year  the  Roman 
Cath(^c  Church  was  so  eloquently 
and  abruptly  separated  froai  that 
State,  wrote:  "This  reform  is 
directed  against  a  formidable  power, 
the  mysterious  forces  of  the  Church 
of  Rome,  which,  after  having  seen 
monarchies  tremble  before  them, 
have  spread  unreasonable  fears 
among  Republican  Governments 
and  used  them  to  enslave  the  minds 
and  hearts  of  the  people.  The  law 
itself  has  been  obliged  to  retreat 
before  it.  Republican  France  by 
means  of  reform  legislation  is  pre- 
pared for  a  future  that  shall  be  free 
from  the  servitude  of  the  past."  «» 

The  Thinkers  have  never  been  too 
far  in  front  of  the  World — but  the 
World  has  often  been  too  far 
behind  the  Thinkers. 


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ELBERT  HUBBARD  EL  Editor'-in-Chlcf  FELDC  SHAY,  Editor 


Botared  at  tte  Pbat-Ofloe, 

m  Ifattar  oT  tiM 

U.  &  Pateat  OOet.  Oopfriilit, 


br  TIm  Koysfofttrt 


Vol.  I  DECEMBER  1917         No.  4 


A  Hotel  With  a  Soul 

Bert  Hubbmrd 


,g^"^  OWN  at  AsheviUe^North 
■  ■  Carolina,  on  the  moim- 
J^^^^  tainside  Jtist  beyond  the 
city,  is  a  hotel,  self- 
styled  "The  finest  resort-hotel  in 
the  world."  Surely  there  is  nothing 
wrong  in  an  institution  sdecting  the 
QK)tto  or  standard  by  which  the 
world  is  to  recognize  it.  For  at  the 
last  we  set  our  own  standards  and 
the  world  accepts  us  at  our  own 
estimate  «•»  «» 

Grove  Park  Inn  was  built  by  Fred 
L.  Seely,  and  after  he  had  it  finished 
he  had  to  operate  it.  There  was  n't 
any  one  else  to  do  it.  Sedy  was  n't  a 
hotel  man,  but  being  a  businessman 
he  knew  that  a  hotel  needed  only 
the  application  of  scientific  business 
prindples.  To  run  a  hotel  success- 


fully is  no  more  difficult  than  to 
run  any  other  business. 
Sedy  had  been  the  dominating 
spirit  in  a  big  business  in  St.  Louis. 
Also  he  had  owned  and  edited  a 
newspaper,  the  Atlanta  G€orgiarL 
During  his  newspaper  career  in 
Atlanta  he  waged  war  on  the  oon- 
vict-labor-lease  system,  with  the 
result  of  its  being  wiped  out.  He 
planned  and  brought  about  other 
reforms  well  known  to  Atlanta 
folks  «•»  «•» 

He  had  a  wide  business  experience 
before  he  attempted  to  run  a  hotd. 
He  knew  how  to  manage  men  and 
get  them  to  do  his  work.  So  he 
knew  he  could  run  a  hotd.  And  he 
runs  it.  Qrove  Park  Inn  is  Fred 
Sedy  from  top  to  bottom. 


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^^  HE  hotel  is  built  of  ttone  and 
^5  concrete — absolutely  fire- 
proof. It  is  large  and  spacious  and 
lacks  all  aspect  of  ever  being  crowded. 
C  Yet  it  is  filled  to  capacity  nearly 
an  the  time.  In  the  spring  months 
as  many  people  are  turned  away  as 
are  taken.  The  reason  is,  that  Seely 
knows  how  to  get  people  there  and 
how  to  please  them  afterward. 
The  policy  of  Grove  Park  Inn  is  to 
supply  in  service  all  the  guest  can 
want.  Every  desire  is  anticipated. 
Of  course  the  guest  pays  for  it — why 
should  n't  he? 

Sedy  reasoned  it  out  like  this:  The 
tired  businessman  wants  rest,  and 
comfort.  He  demands  quiet «»  He 
must  not  have  to  think  about  his 
needs,  they  must  be  automatically 
taken  care  of. 

So  complete  is  the  ser^ce  that  one 
finds  nothing  to  kick  about. 
One  day  a  woman  asked  Mr.  Sedy 
why  he  had  no  suggestion  or  com- 
plaint box.  "Nobody  would  ever 
use  it,"  said  Sedy.  Furthermore, 
she  was  t(^d  that  she  might  have 
her  board-bill  cancded  at  the  end 
of  a  week  if  she  found  anything 
distasteful  in  the  service.  Saturday 
night  she  paid  her  bill  and  withdrew 
the  suggestion.  Pretty  independent 
stand  for  a  hotd-keeper  to  take — 
but  fine  advertising! 
At  Grove  Park  Inn  they  have  re- 
versed the  Statler  slogan,  "The 
guest   is   always   right."    It   isn't 


exacdy  printed  and  posted,  but  one 
feds  it  in  the  atmosphere.  The 
management  is  independent,  and 
makes  the  guest  fed  it.  But  there  is 
no  complaint.  Every  request  made 
of  a  guest  is  a  reasonable  one.  No 
sensible  person  can  object.  The 
striking  thing  about  it,  however,  is 
that  a  hotd  can  be  sdf-assured  and 
make  demands  on  its  guests  and  get 
away  with  it. 

CROBABL  Y  no  other  business 
feds  obliged  to  accept  abuse 
in  the  way  that  a  hotd  mtist  «•» 
And  perhaps  the  average  hotd  has 
it  coming.  Nevertheless,  some  people 
seem  to  fed  it  their  privilege  and 
duty  to  ride  up  and  down  the  necks 
of  hotd-keepers.  The  man  who  can 
screw  up  courage  enough  to  pay  the 
rates  at  Grove  Park  Inn  finds  his 
selfishness  overcome  and  antici- 
pated. Should  he  by  the  remotest 
poesilnlity  demur  at  the  service,  I 
fancy  it 's  because  he  really  does  n't 
need  all  he  is  getting. 
Grove^  Park  Inn  caters  to  the 
people  who  want  what  G.  P.  I. 
service  gives  them,  and  if  they  don't 
want  it  they  need  n't  have  itl 
For  instance,  in  the  elevator  is  a 
notice  which  reads,  "  Perhaps  some 
people  do  not  require  all  the  quality 
of  service  we  give.  We  do  not  care 
for  their  patronage."  OuchI 
Every  employee  has  rubber  beds 
on  his  shoes.  Sedy  is  going  to  ask 


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the  guests  to  let  him  put  rubber 
heels  on  thdr  shoes  free  of  charge. 
€i  Here 's  another  one  you  will  see 
in  the  elevator:  "  Please  remember 
there  are  other  guests  in  the  house 
who  may  want  to  retire  early.  Ab- 
solute quiet  in  the  corridors  and 
sleeping-rooms  is  requested  from 
ten  to  dght  in  the  morning." 
Throughout  the  hotd  one  is  im- 
pressed with  the  elegance  of  the 
furnishing.  Nothing  in  expense  has 
been  spared,  yet  withal  the  sim- 
plidty  is  marked — no  gaudy  trim- 
mings, fancy  bric-a-brac,  or  harsh 
color-schemes,  ^gnity,  sanitatioa, 
cleanliness — Inever  sawsuch  a  dean 
place.  There  are  no  carpets,  but 
very  beautiful  soft-toned  rugs  «•» 
Guests  are  reminded  that  the  rugs 
are  costly,  and  that  damaged  rugs 
are  of  no  use.  In  the  drawer  of  your 
writing-table  is  a  little  slip  which 
says:  "Children,  a  bottle  of  ink, 
and  a  rug  are  a  bad  combination. 
We  are  sometimes  compelled  to 
ask  a  guest  to  pay  for  a  spoiled 
rug."  «•►  *• 

In  all  rooms  is  a  connection  for 
electric  curling-irons.  I  don't  use  a 
(nirling-iron,  for  my  hair  has  a 
natural  kink.  But  those  who  do  use 
one  are  reminded:  "  There  is  a  dish 
on  the  dressing-table  in  which  to  lay 
the  iron.  If  you  prefer  to  put  it  on 
the  table  we  presume  you  will  not 
object  to  paying  for  the  damage  if 
the  taUe  is  burned?"  Wowl 


At  your  place  in  the  dining-room 
each  evening  is  your  home  paper  «» 
Of  course  some  of  these  things  may 
appear  extreme,  and  they  are.  But 
the  utmost  attention  to  details  is 
the  charming  element.  Perhaps  they 
overdo  it,  you  say.  I  don't  think 
so.  Those  slightly  sarcastic  notices 
here  and  there  do  not  offend,  but 
instil  in  the  guests  an  appreciation 
of  an  interest  in  their  comfort. 

H  PIPE -ORGAN  RECITAL 
every  afternoon  and  evening, 
a  moving-picture  show  at  nine  every 
night,  a  Very  sporty  golf-course, 
bowling,  mountain-hikes,  horseback- 
riding,  tennis — why,  you  can  't  get 
in  the  dumps  if  you  tryl  They  have 
no  bar,  and  therefore  no  rough  stuff. 
The  i^ce  is  lacking  in  the  ultra- 
fashionable — women  are  not  allowed 
to  smoke  cigarettes.  As  to  the  meals, 
they  can't  be  described.  You  have 
to  eat  them  to  understand. 
Now,  I  'm  just  plain  country  folks. 
I  hate  the  city.  Resort-hotels  bore 
me  with  the  unnatural  atmosphere. 
A  dinner-coat  and  stiff  shirt  make 
me  peevish.  Small  talk  and  cards 
get  my  goat.  I  go  to  bed  early  and 
sometimes  see  the  sun  rise. 
But  I  can  go  to  Grove  Park  Inn,  do 
as  the  rest  do,  meet  big  folks  on  a 
plain  basis,  play  golf  for  a  quarter  a 
hole  (just  to  make  it  interesting) 
and  at  the  end  of  a  week  wonder 
where  the  time  went  I 


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George  Jean  Nathan  and  Henry  Mencken 

Text :  Swiped  Jrom  "  Pistols  for  Two/'  a  pair  of  bedroom 
and  before-breakfast  biographies  of  the  above-named 
gentlemen,  written  by  them  and  artfully  and  craftily 
credited  to  Owen  Hatteras,  to  secure  more  readily  the 
free  advertising    which    they    desire — and   get.    Amen 


GEORGE  JEAN  NATHAN 
was  bom  in  Fort  Wayne, 
Indiana,  February  14  and 
15  (the  stunning  event 
occurred  precisely  at  12  midnight), 
1882.  He  was  educated  at  Cornell 
University  and  the  University  of 
Bologna,  in  Italy. 
He  is  a  man  of  middle  height, 
straight,  slim,  dark,  with  eyes  like 
the  middle  of  August,  black  hair 
which  he  brushes  back  a  ta  fran- 
cmse,  and  a  rather  sullen  mouth  «» 
On  the  walls  of  his  apartment  are 
the  pictures  of  numerous  tooth- 
some creatures.  He  is  at  the  present 
time  occupied  in  writing  a  book 
describing  his  sentimental  adven- 
tures among  them. 
He  has  published  the  following 
books:  Europe  After  8:1S,  in 
collaboration  with  Mencken  and 
Mr.  Willard  Huntington  Wright; 
Another  Book  on  the  Theater, 
Bottoms  Up,  and  Mr.  George  Jean 
Nathan  Presents, 

He  dresses  fike  the  late  Ward 
McAllister  and  wears  daily  a 
boutonniere   of   Uue    cornflowers. 


C  He  dislikes  women  over  twenty- 
one,  actors,  cold  weather,  mayon- 
naise dressing,  peoi^  who  are 
alwasrs  happy,  hard  chairs,  invi- 
tations to  dinner,  invitations  to 
serve  on  committees  in  however 
worthy  a  cause,  railroad  trips,  public 
restaurants,  rye  whisky,  chicken, 
daylight,  men  who  do  not  wear 
waistcoats,  the  sight  gf  a  woman 
eating,  the  soundof  a  womansinging, 
small  napkins,  Maeterlinckt  Ver- 
haeren,  Tagore,  Dickens,  Bataille, 
fried  oysters,  German  soubrettes, 
French  John  Masons,  American 
John  Masons,  tradesmen,  poets, 
married  women  who  think  of  leav- 
ing their  husbands,  professional 
anarchists  of  all  kinds,  ventilation, 
professional  music  lovers,  men  who 
tell  how  much  money  they  have 
made,  men  who  affect  sudden 
friendships  and  call  him  Qeorgie, 
women  who  affect  sudden  friend- 
rtiips  and  then  call  him  Mr.  Nathan, 
writing  letters,  receiving  letters, 
talking  over  the  telephone,  and 
wearing  a  hat. 
In  religion  he  is  a  complete  agnostic. 


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and  views  all .  detgymen  with  a 
sardonic  eye.  He  does  not  believe 
that  the  soul  is  immortaL  What  will 
happen  after  death  he  doesn't  know 
and  has  never  inquired. 

KS  detests  nieeons  pcopie^  even 
on  business,  and  swears  every 
time  a  caller  is  announced  at  The 
Smart  Set  office.  He  never  receives 
a  woman  caller  save  with  his  secre- 
tary in  the  room. 
He  wears  an  amethyst  ring. 
In  his  waistcoat  pocket  he  carries 
an  elegant  golden  device  for  snai>- 
ping  off  the  heads  of  cigars. 
He  has  his  shoes  shined  daily,  even 
when  it  rains. 

Like  the  late  McKinky,  he  smokes 
but  half  <^  a  dgar,  depositing  the 
rest  in  the  nearest  spitbox.  Like 
Mark  Twain,  he  enjoys  the  more 
indelicate  varieties  <^  humor.  Like 
Beethoven,  he  uses  neither  morphine 
nor  cocasn.  Like  Sitting  BuU  and 
General  Joffire,  he  has  never  read 
the  Constitution  of  the  U.  S. 
Hie  bought  Liberty  Bonds.  He  can 
eat  spinach  only  when  it  is  chopped 
fine.  He  knows  French,  Latin, 
Italian,  and  German,  but  is  ignorant 
of  Greek. 

He  plajTS  the  piano  by  ear. 
€1  In  his  taste  in  giris,  he  runs  to  the 
dend'tasse,  I  have  never  heard  <^ 
him  showing  any  interest  in  a 
woman  more  than  five  feet,  or 
weighing  more  than  105  pounds. 


He  has  no  interest  in  any  epott, 
save  tennis  and  fencing,  and  never 
plays  cards.  He  never  aooepta  an 
invitation  to  <Bnner  if  he  can  avoid 
it  by  Ising.  He  never  goes  to  wed- 
dings and  knows  few  persons  who 
marry  j»  j» 

Heoooe  told  me  that  he  had  no 
use  for  a  woman  who  wasn't  sad  at 
twilight «»«» 

Nathan  has  made  many  trips  abroad 
and  has  lived  at  dilferent  times  In 
Ftance,  EniJand,  Germany,  Italy, 
Austria,  the  Argentine,  India,  Japan 
and  Algiers. 

He  fdl  in  k>ve  at  first  sight  fai  1913 
with  a  flower-girl  In  the  Luitpold 
Cafe  in  Munich,  bat  the  hussy  was 
distant  tm  tm 

He  would  rather  have  Lord  Dun- 
sany  in  The  Smart  Set  than 
William  Dean  HoweUs  a  hundred 
times  9m  «» 

Wit  often  writes  sentences  so  In- 
volved that  he  confesses  he  himself 
does  n't  know  what  they  mean. 
He  admires  MazBeerbohm,  Conrad, 
Dr.  liewellys  Barker,  Bdosart,  the 
Fifth  and  ^Hnth  Sjonphonies  and 
the  songs  ^  Oh,  Boy,  sardines, 
ravioli,  Havdock  BUis,  chocolate 
cake,  Molnar,  Hauptmann,  Roy- 
akon  cigars,  Anatole  France, 
SimpUcissimus,  E.  W.  How^s 
Monthly,  an  eiderdown  blanket  and 
a  hard  pillow,  a  thick-toothed  comb 
and  a  stiff  brush,  Schnibder,  bitter 
almond  soap,  George  Ade,  Richard 

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Strauss,  Pilsener,  Huneker,  Florenz 
^ecfdd,  Edwin  Lefevre's  stcxy. 
Without  End,  the  quartette  in  the 
Piccadilly  in  London,  the  Cafe  Viel 
in  Paris,  the  overcoat  shop  in  the  Stef- 
ansplatz  in  Vienna,  the  strawberries 
in  the  Palais  de  Danse  in  Berlin. 
He  believes,  politically,  in  an 
autocracy  of  the  dect,  for  the  elect, 
and  by  the  elect. . .  His  father  was  a 
Democrat  «»  «» 

IN  1904  he  won  the  Amsler  gold 
medal  for  proficiency  with  the 
foils  *^  He  studied  fencing  under 
Lieutenant  Philip  Brigandi,  of  the 
Italian  cavalry,  and  Captain  Albert 
Androux,  the  celebrated  French 
master  of  foils. 

He  knows  more  about  the  modem 
foreign  theater  than  any  other 
American  *^  *^ 

He  never  accepts  a  dinner  invitation 
until  invited  three  separate  times, 
and  then  usually  sends  his  regrets 
at  the  last  moment. 
The  living  Americans  who  most 
interest  him  are  Josephus  Daniels 
and  Frank  A.  Mtmsey. 
He  never  visits  a  hoxise  a  second 
time  in  which  he  has  encountered 
dogs,  cats,  children,  automatic 
pianos,  grace  before  or  after  meals, 
women  authors,  actors.  The  New 
Republic,  or  prints  of  the  Mona 
Lisa  «»  «» 

He  is  not  acquainted  with  a  single 
clergyman.   Congressman,  general. 


or  reformer.  He  has  never  met  any 
of  the  ^nce-Pre8idents  of  the  United 
States  «»  t^ 
He  is  free  <^  adenoids. 
His  knee  jerks  are  normal. 
He  has  never  been  inade  a  church. 
€lHe  has  been  writing  dramatic 
criticism  for  thirteen  successive 
years,  and  in  that  time  has  aeen 
more  than  3000  plays  in  America, 
400  in  England,  and  1900  on  the 
Continent.  He  has  simultaneously 
syndicated  critical  articles  to  as 
many  as  forty-two  newspapers,  and 
has  served  as  dramatic  critic  to 
seven  metropolitan  magazines. 
He  once  observed  that  the  reason 
the  galleries  of  our  theaters,  as  our 
theatrical  managers  lament,  are  no 
longer  filled  with  newsboys  is  that 
all  the  newsboys  are  now  theatrical 
managers  t^  t^ 

He  regards  camping  out  as  the  most 
terrible  diversion  ever  invented  by 
man  t^  t^ 

Accused  by  certain  of  his  critics  of  a 
flippant  attitude  toward  the  drama, 
he  In  reality  takes  the  drama  very 
seriously.  The  theater,  on  the  other 
hand,  he  regards  four  out  of  five 
times  as  a  joke. 

The  Paris  journal,  Le  Temps,  fre- 
quentiy  translates  his  critical  articles 
and  quotes  from  them  cofnously  «» 
He  owns  an  autographed  photo- 
graph of  the  Rusaan  mystic, 
Rasputin,  presented  to  him  by  the 
latter  six  years  ago. 


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He  dislikfn  all  forms  <^  pubUctty. 
He  has  an  aversion  to  self-advertise- 
ment that  amounts  almost  to  a 
mania.  He  believes,  with  Mencken, 
that  whom  the  gods  would  destroy, 
they  first  make  popular. 
He  has  n't  the  slightest  intentioQ  of 
ever  getting  married. 
The  only  author  he  ever  invites  to 
his  o&cc  is  Harry  Kemp.  He  detests 
Kemp  s  poetry. 

In  1900  he  fought  a  dud  with 
pistols  outside  <^  Florence,  Italy, 
and  was  wounded  in  the  left  shoul- 
der. He  is  stiU  a  trifle  lame  from 
the  wound  *^  *^ 

His  valet's  name  is  Osuka  F. 
Takami.  The  latter  has  a  penchant 
for  polishing  Nathan's  patent- 
leather  boots  with  the  sofa  pillows. 

*^^  ATHAN  likes  chop  suey,  spa- 
^— t  ghetti,  French  pastry,  horse- 
radish sauce,  Welsh  rarebits,  oysters 
a  la  Dumas,  raw  tcmiatoes,  stuffed 
baked  potatoes,  green  peppers, 
br<»led  lobster,  halibut,  mushrooms 
cooked  with  caraway  seeds,  and 
chipped  beef. 

The  claret  he  ccMnmonly  serves  to 
his  guests  costs  eighty-five  cents  a 
gallon,  in  quarts.  He  buys  the 
labels  separately. 

A    friend    presented    him    several 
years  ago  with  a  set  of  O.  Henry, 
which,  try  as  he  will,  he  can't  get 
rid  of  «»  «» 
He  has  been  denounced  in  the  New 


York  newspapers,  during  his  career 
as  dramatic  critic,  by  three  play- 
wrights, five  theatrical  managers, 
eight  actresses,  twenty-two  actors, 
and  almost  cvtrycat  connected 
with  vaudeville. 

He  Hkes  garlic,  but  refrains  from 
eating  it. 

He  has  read  Max  Beerbohm's 
Happy  Hypocrite  thirteen  times  «» 
He  has  said  that  "  cleverness  "  con- 
sists merdy  in  sa3dng  the  wrong 
thing  at  the  right  time. 
Among  his  dosest  friends  in  Europe 
are  BalHngton  Booth,  Jack  Johnson, 
and  M.  Philippe  Cartier,  in  charge 
<^  the  malt  department  on  the 
Orient  ECzpress. 

His  most  ingenious  piece  <^  dramatic 
criticism  was  his  criticism  of  the 
writings  <^  Augustus  Thomas,  in 
which  he  proved  that  Thomas's 
plays  would  be  better  if  they  were 
played  backward. 

He  wrote  articles  on  the  theater  f or 
the  old  Harper's  Weekty  for  four 
years  t^  t^ 

For  the  last  two  years  he  has 
recdved  weekly  anonymous  letters 
from  some  woman  in  Bridgeport, 
Connecticut,  who  signs  herself  with 
the  initials  "  L.  G." 
He  owns  six  bdts,  one  <^  them 
presented  to  him  by  Qabride 
D'Annunzio  and  made  of  wolf  hide. 
€1  He  pronounces  his  middle  name, 
not  in  the  French  manner,  but  to 
rhyme  with  bean. 


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Shall  We  Make  Soldiers  of  Men  in  Prison? 

No.  28890,  San  Quentin  Prison,  California 

Text :  A  patriotic  appeal  by  an  educated  man,  who 
thinks  and  writes  clearly,  under  difficulties    *»     *» 


^^^0^  HERB  is  a  question 
A  ^^  which  is  aggravating  a 
^L^M  good  many  patriotic  in- 
^^^^  mates:  Is  the  prisoner 
going  to  be  given  an  opportunity 
to  "  do  his  bit "  in  this  world-wide 
crisis?  The  government  has  allowed 
his  money  to  be  collected  for  the 
Liberty  Bonds  and  right  cheerfully 
and  willingly  have  prisoners  i^ven 
of  their  last  small  amounts  for  the 
Red  Cross,  but  for  the  life  of  me,  I 
cannot  see  or  understand  the  con- 
sistency <^  accepting  thdr  money 
and  not  their  services. 
If  the  government  is  to  refuse  every 
man  who  has  committed  some 
wrong,  then  it  will  have  to  conscript 
the  women  and  children  to  make  up 
the  number  wanted.  I  fail  to  see  the 
distinction  between  those  who  have 
and  have  not  been  caui^t.  Nor  can 
I  understand  why  a  man  in  prison 
can  not  be  as  loyal  and  patriotic  as 
the  man  in  the  street. 
Pacifists  are  trying  to  persuade  men 
not  to  enlist.  Par  and  near  the  cry  of 
the  Conscientious  Objector  is  raised 
with  excuses  a  mile  wide.  Every 
device  that  can  be  employed  to  get 
men  to  volunteer  for  service  has 
been  and  is  being  used. 


•  y  rXl^  this  time  there  is  a  class 
jJL^  of  men  who  are  available  and 
willing,  with  the  true  si»rit  of 
Patriotism  quickening  in  them  in 
vain,  for  no  one  in  authority  has 
lifted  up  his  voice  on  thdr  behalf— 
because  they  have  the  stigma  of 
having  been  caui^t. 
Prisoners  have  proved  they  can  be 
loyal.  They  have  proved  good 
fighting  men,  for  both  England  and 
France  speak  highly  of  their  services 
in  the  present  war.  Of  what  dass  of 
men  is  the  famous  brave  Fordgn 
Legion  <^  France  composed?  It  is 
mainly  recruited  from  the  so-called 
"  Criminal  Class."  Are  people  able  to 
p(»nt  to  a  single  instance  where  any 
of  this  dass  displayed  the  white 
feather  in  action?  No,  it  is  the  re- 
verse, for  writers  are  unanimous  in 
describing  them  as  gluttons  for 
fighting  and  their  bravery  is  seomd 
to  none  in  action.  Russia  very 
recently  proved  the  same,  and  in 
one  instance  two  regiments  asked  an 
ez-convict  to  become  their  officer. 
€1  There  are  hundreds,  yes,  thou- 
sands of  men  in  American  prisons 
who  realise  the  seriousness  of  this 
war  to  posterity.  V^th  tlie  migority 
of  them,  at  present,  their  lives  are 

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of  no  use  to  themselves  or  to  any 
one  else.  They  are  wOlhig  to  admit 
having  done  wrong,  and  only  ask 
the  opportunity  to  do  someoung 
whidi  win  maketheir  lives  of  use  to 
humanity.  In  looking  at  this  request 
common  sense  sasrs,  no  good  is  being 
accomplished  by  continuing  as  a 
burden  upon  the  taxpayers  when  a 
use  can  be  found  for  them.  So  why 
not  use  them  if  willing  to  be  used? 

dQTOMB  one  will  say  they  only 
^-^  want  to  get  out  of  serving 
their  term.  That  some  one  does  not 
bcgm  to  understand  their  position  in 
our  economic  system.  That  person 
has  not  felt  the  love  <^  Country, 
and  Humanity  in  general  courting 
through  his  veins,  causing  him  to  be 
filled  with  that  intangible  qnrit 
termed  Patriotism,  lifting  his  heart 
so  high  in  enthuaasm  tiiat  he  had  to 
volunteer  his  services  to  his  Country. 
No,  sir,  that  man  will  be  found  in 
the  ranks  <^  the  "consdentious 
objectors." 

Of  the  men  in  prison  who  would 
volunteer  for  service,  some  of  them 
would  have  only  a  matter  of  a  few 
months  when  their  time  would  be 
finished.  Others  would  have  yenn 
yet  to  serve,  and  these  are  the  ones 
who  would  i^ve  of  thdr  best,  for 
many  <^  them  prefer  death  to  the 
years  ahead. 

No  man  who  oSen  himself  for 
service  knows  what  the  individual 


outcome  will  be.  The  picture  of 
lying  in  a  foreign  grave  is  restful  to 
some,  for  knowledge  of  duiif  done 
by  giving  all  one  can.  Us  lile,  in 
expiation  of  a  misdeed,  is  a  pcace- 
fiil  one.  Then  thece  is  the  toQ  oi 
the  wounded  and  malmrd,  not  a 
pleasant  vision  for  any  one  to  think 
ci,  but  these  conditions  are  the 
effects  of  war.  So  any  man  volun- 
teering from  prison  is  earning  his 
freedom,  being  willing  to  take  the 
risks  hundreds  of  thcwisands  of  his 
fellow  men  are  trsring  to  avoid 
taking,  when  he  could  remain  safe 
in  prison  t^  *m 

There  are  many  men  in  prison  wlio 
have  had  military  training  of  one 
kind  or  another  and  it  would  take 
very  little  drilling  to  "  set  them  up  " 
again  tm  *m 
Give  us  a  diance  to  do  our  bitl 

Old  philosophers,  as  well  as  modern, 
claim  successful  men  are  rogues, 
whereas  the  reverse  is  nearer  the 
truth;  it  is  the  successful  men  who 
push  the  world,  the  country  and 
the  community  along  s^  The  best 
man  in  your  community  is  the  man 
who  does  most  for  it,  since  in 
seven  cases  out  of  ten  he  is  also 
the  man  of  most  industry,  of  the 
best  morals;  his  faults  arid  weak- 
nesses are  numerous,  but  not  so 
numerous  as  the  faults  of  those  who 
envy  and  misrepresent  him, 

— £.  W.  Howe. 


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Rabbi  Joseph  Leiser 

Text :  A  sane,  thoughtful,  impartial,  balanced  man 
calls  attention  to  an  unbalanced  condition  *^  5^  *♦ 


^■^^■^HB  other  day  the  news- 
M    ^^  papers  reported thestrike 
^L^^of    a    group  of  boiler- 
makers  at  an  important 
inland  city — which,  like  our  Atlantic 
seaports,  must  not  be  identified — 
who  demanded  an  increase  of  $2 
per  day  of  eight  hoiirs  *^  In  other 
words  their  present  scale  of  $8.27 
per  day  would  have  to  be  raised  to 
$10.27.  This  demand  was  rejected. 
They  struck. 

I  am  a  Union  man  and  believe  in  the 
theory,  the  justification  and  policy 
of  trades-unionism.  I  have  been  a 
victim  of  its  tyranny  and  its  benef- 
icence and  hence  I  award  even- 
handed  justice  to  the  organization 
and  get  behind  it. 
"  Modem  business  is  a  war&re," 
sa^  Clarence  Darrow.  "Modem 
bu^ess  is  monarchical,"  says  Scott 
Nearing.  Whatever  appertains  to 
the  rules  of  war  or  whatever  is 
sufiPered  in  modem  business,  estab- 
lished like  monarchies  by  ''  God  in 
his  infinite  wisdom,"  holds  true  in 
trades-unions.  Therefore  if  it  is 
right  and  proper  for  capital  to 
organize  in  order  to  maintain  the 
dynasty  of  business,  it  is  right  and 
proper   for   labor   to   organize   to 


establish  the  divine  right  of  man's 
imconquered  soul.  Labor  is  not  a 
mere  commodity.  Labor  is  a  man's 
life  and  all  things  will  he  give  for 
love,  but  not  for  bread.  He  will 
fight  for  it  and  he  does. 
But  $10.27  is  a  pretty  good  day's 
wages.  I  am  not  keen  on  math- 
ematics, but  let  us  say  the  afore- 
mentioned boiler-makers  earn  sixty 
dollars  a  week.  This  -means,  let  lis 
say,  $250  a  month  or  $3,000  a  year, 
according  to  the  law  of  averages 
which  the  great  insurance  moguls 
declare  is  the  gospel  of  their  pro- 
fession t^  «» 

Three  thousand  dollars  is  a  tidy  sum 
that  any  man  would  feel  proud  to 
shove  inside  his  jeans,  and  I  am  not 
saying  the  boiler-makers  do  not 
earn  every  penny  of  it.  I  know  a 
gang  of  miners  who  earn  one  half 
and  deserve,  for  all  the  hazards  they 
risk,  twice  as  much.  But  if  boiler- 
makers  begin  to  earn  $3,000  per 
annum,  how  long  will  it  be  possible 
to  retain  men  in  professions  who 
earn  half  as  much — such  as  school- 
teachers, ministers,  the  average 
barrister  or  the  average  physician, 
the  average  professional  man  in  any 
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chefnl8try»  laboratDiy  rctcarch, 
agricultural  investigation? 
A  glib  reply  would  soon  aetde  the 
problem:  we  can  dispeme  with 
the  bunch  of  intdlectual  paramtes, 
the  mental  pariahs,  the  academic 
leeches,  the  pundits  and  pompous 
inteUigeniia  who  are  unable  to 
earn  their  living  at  anything  dse. 
This  is  the  ready  answer  <^  the 
thoughtless  and  short-visloned  *^ 
Unless  conditions  alter  and  a  recog- 
nition of  professional  training  and 
expertness  counteracts  the  present 
regime,  it  will  come  to  pass  that  we 
are  all  reduced  to  a  state  <^  stand- 
ardization wherein  men  are  inter- 
changeable with  machines. 

^YVBN  in  i^ofessions  are  not 
iJ-?  kmg-suffering.  They  will  be 
asking  for  financial  recognition  or 
increase  <^  wages  and  being  denied 
it  on  the  grounds  that  labor  costs 


so  much,  men  wiU  forego  the  pct>- 
fessioDs  and  enter  the  ranks  <^  labor, 
leaving  teaching,  science,  art,  the 
administratioo  of  law,  medicine, 
ethics  and  religioo  in  the  hands  of 
the  utterly  incompetent  or  abandon 
them  all  together.  That  is  to  say, 
we  shall  invite  a  condition  of 
universal  stupidity,  unenlighten- 
ment,  stagnation  such  as  the  middle 
ages,  in  which  no  one  will  produce  a 
noble  poem,  or  work  of  art  or  a 
scientific  law.  To  concentrate  on 
the  material  and  merhanlral  and 
utterly  forsake  the  spiritual  is  to 
put  an  embargo  on  art,  research, 
religion,  which  is  a  clamor  of  the 
soul  for  life  and  life  abundantly. 
€1  Are  we  not  apt  to  lose  our 
balance  in  this  striving  for  more 
wages?  The  professions  must  be 
saved — that  is,  art,  science,  religion, 
lest  the  nation  perish  for  lacking 
vision  *^  *^ 


f^OR  men  are  wiser  than  they  know.  That  which  they 
^  hear  in  schools  and  pulpits,  without  afterthought,  if 
said  in  conversation  would  probably  be  questioned  in 
silence.  If  a  man  dogmatize  in  a  mixed  company  on 
Providence  and  the  divine  laws,  he  is  answered  by  a 
silence  which  conveys  weU  enough  to  an  observer  the 
dissatisfaction  of  the  hearer,  but  his  incapacity  to  make 
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If  I  Should  Write  a  Book 

Karl  W.  Ketder 

Text:  Mr,  Kessler  seems,  to  the  Editor,  to  be  mistaken  in  his 
conclusion  »^   Ordinary  things  and  people  invariably    succeed 


IP  ever  I  should  write  a  book, 
it  would  be  about  ordinary 
people.  I  would  have  no 
soulful,  despairing  eyes  in  it, 
nor  would  my  hero  be  six  feet  six  in 
his  stockings  and  handsome. 
I  tell  you,  without  the  slightest 
reluctance,  that  I  would  not  (Uscuss 
sez,  nor  would  I  give  time  to  ideals 
of  any  description. 
I  would  write  about  the  people 
whom  you  and  I  know — those  we 
meet  on  the  street,  in  the  shops,  on 
the  cars  t^  t^ 

My  hero  I  would  find  in  the  furnace- 
room  of  some  great  steel  plant.  He 
would  be  an  ordinary  fellow,  rou|^, 
brawny,  unafraid  of  grime,  hard 
work  and  sweat,  and  he  would  be 
honest  with  himself  and  his  fellows. 
41  My  heroine,  if  I  had  one,  would 
be  drawn  from  those  workers  whose 
day  begins  at  five  and  ends  when 
they  have  mended,  washed  and 
ironed  their  own  clothes  after  the 
whistle  has  blown. 
She  would  not  be  beautiful  of  face. 
Perhaps  her  figure  would  be  attrac- 
tive; at  least,  it  would  be  sub- 
stantial *^  *^ 

I  would  have  my  hero  meet  the  prl 
in  a  most  ordinary  way — at  the 


movie,  perhaps.  They  would  be 
attracted  to  each  other  by  a  dean 
and  decent  thing:  appreciation,  let 
us  say,  <^  each  other's  ability  to  do 
good  work  and  do  it  welL 
Their  romance  would  be  lasting.  I 
would  i^ve  to  the  man  those 
qualities  which  endure;  and  to  the 
girl  diat  sweetness  <^  disposition, 
kindness  of  heart,  and  quality  <^ 
mentality,  the  depth  and  honesty  of 
which  would  assure  her  success  as  a 
worker^  a  wife  and  a  mother. 
My  tale  would  be  extremely  ordi- 
nary. It  would  be  <^  everyday  life 
•—of  the  life  all  <^  us  know  ulti- 
mately, the  life  we  live. 
There  is  only  one  reason  why  I  do 
not  write  such  a  book:  publishers 
would  not  accept  it,  and  if  they 
did  the  public  would  not  buy  or 
read  it  «»  «» 

The  man  that  hails  you   Tom  or 

Jack, 
And  proves  by  thumps  upon  your 
back 
How  he  esteems  your  merit, 
Is  such  a  friend,  that  one  had  need 
Be  very  much  his  friend  indeed 
To  pardon  or  to  bear  it. 

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Isabel  Irene  Elterich 

Text:  That  neither  an  Ethiop,  nor  a  citizen 
of  East   St,   Louis,   can    change   his    skin 


^0^^^  HE  litde  ebooy-hued 
M  ^^  piece  <^  humanity  wpy- 
m  W  ing  me  ordering  some 
^^^  loaves  at  Himmds* 
popped  in — no,  glided,  for  the  de- 
ports herself  like  an  African  Prin- 
cess— and  said*  "  Please,  mam,  du 
yu  want  some  cologne?  They  ah 
ten  cents.  Yu  know  whose  I  am! 
I  am  Susie.  Suse-an,  Suse-an 
Baptiste,"  she  repeated,  dabo- 
rating  her  name  with  deliberate 
care.  Continuing  to  identify  herself 
— "I'm  Martha's  gran'diile.  t^ 
I  'U  get  somethin'  when  I  sell 
aU  this,"  and  she  hdd  up  .her 
package  which  she  was  trsring  to  get 
converted  into  dimes.  The  little 
package  was  again  hdd  up  for 
inspection  and  she  advanced  a  step 
nearer  as  she  said,  "  Do  you  need 
some?" 

<'Nol"  I  said,  using  my  best 
theatrical  voice,  smile  and  manner. 
For  here  was  a  chance  to  push  a 
think-seed  into  a  small  audience 
who  had  come  like  me  to  refill  their 
empty  bread-boxes.  Business  now 
was  at  a  standstill — clerks  and 
customers  stood  idle,  listening — I 
had  the  center  <^the  stagel  Shaking 
my  head,  looking  straight  at  Susan, 
I  repeated  my  "  no  "  and  added,  "  I 


never  use  perfume.  I  use  soap  and 
waterl  I  prefer  soap  and  waterl  "  «» 
While  the  silence  was  still  on  I  said, 
"  What  are  3^ou  going  to  get  when 
3^ou  've  sold  all  your  bottles  of 
perfumery? "  The  clerks  resumed 
their  order-filling  and  Susan  replied, 
"A  ring,  uh  flash  light." 
How  does  Humanity  love  Jewelry 
and  need  Light  I 

A  hundred  years  ago  and  more  her 
kind,  her  forebears,  had  been  lured 
on  vessels  with  beads,  gimcracks 
and  jewelry  and  borne  from  their 
homes  into  a  strange  land  and  there 
made  slaves.  Oh,  shameful  lure ! 
Then  I  remembered  the  words  so 
often  spoken  <^  her  kind,  spoken  in 
anger,  sometimes  in  fun,  by  men, 
women  and  children — "  nigger," 
"WadE,"  "coon"— but  whatever 
the  word  or  however  spoken,  there 
is  ever  conveyed  scorn,  opprobrium, 
stigma,  discrimination. 
Far  back  in  history  some  one  stated 
authoritativdy  that  black  humanity 
descends  from  Ham  «»  A  Bible- 
Chronider  has  told  us  Noah  cursed 
Canaan  and  laid  upon  him  the 
serving  his  brethren,  and  this  as 
punishment  because  his  son  Ham 
had  displeased  him.  So  here  is  the 
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for  hating  black  folk,  for  using  them 
ill  and  holding  them  in  poor  esteem. 
"  Unrighteous  Hate! 
Su^oi's  last  words  had  been — "a 
ring,  uh  flash-light."  I  spoke — 
**  Come  to  my  house  tomorrow,  1 11 
give  you  a  ring  cmd  you  can  earn  the 
flash-light  for  your  sales." 
Next  day  promptly,  expectantly, 
came  Susan.  She  was  pleased,  and 
smiled  her  approval  as  she  admired 
the  gift,  holding  her  hand  extended 
on  a  level  with  her  eyes,  head  a-tilt. 
I  was  still  remembering  the  Bible- 
Story.  I  wondered  if  Susan  felt  bitter 
concerning  her  lot — ^her  proscription. 
I  thoui^t  of  this  and  more  as  I 
looked  on  the  little  black  face,  black 
hand,  black,  smiling  lips  disclosing 
fine  white  ivory-colored  teeth. 
Now  I  was  feeling  rebellious  for  her 
— it  was  all  so  wrong,  so  unjust.  I 
said,  "Susan,  I  think  you  are  a 
c<»nely,  attractive,  pretty  little 
black  child!  "  I  wanted  to  purge  the 
black  of  its  stigma.  I  wanted  us  both 


to  begin  a  new  way  of  thinking — to 
ignore  the  past  unjust  placement  of 
her  inferiority.  All  that  my  soul  fdt 
of  altruism  shone  through  my  eyes 
as  I  looked  in  hers.  I  continued — 
"  You  have  straight  limbs,  a  strong 
healthy  body— a  fit  encasement  for 
a  fine  soul.  Remembering  your  good 
fortunes  always,  you  must  not  be 
revengeful  nor  bitter  nor  disloyal 
nor  cowardly  nor — "  I  hesitated  an 
instant — as  if  divining  my  thoughts, 
anticipating  my  next  word,  she 
spoke,  **  I  already  promised  Gran', 
an' — "  here  she  touched  her  breast 
with  her  ringed  finger — "an'  Suse-an 
diat  I  'U  be  good  an'  kin',  always — 
always  kin',  cause  Gran'  allows  that 
ef  you's  chuck  full  uh  kin'ness 
there 's  no  room  for  no  kin'  uh 
meanness  nohow  I " 
Yes,  yesl  J\ist  so! 

Go  on,  little  Susan,  earn  your  Flash 
Lamp,  then  you  will  be  well 
equipped.  For  lamps  illuminate  the 
night  as  Kindness  does  the  Soul  tm 


My  Idea  of  Heaven 

Mary  E.  Dann 


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^^V^^Y     first     thought     of 

#^    ■     B  Heaven  is  that  I  shaU 

^L^M^W  be  fit  for  my  surroimd- 

^  ings.  Laugh  if  you  will, 

my  subject  is    a    cheerful 


I  shall  always  be  appropriatdy 
dressed.  Now  honestly,  is  n't  that  a 
pleasant  idea?  Then  I  shall  always 
be  physically  fit:  no  more  fatigue, 
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that  restless  devil,  Pain.  I  shall 
always  be  at  my  sawd\ist-best 
mentally;  that  bright  remark  comes 
on  time  now,  not  ten  minutes  late. 
Best  of  an  this — I  shall  always  be 
sinritually  fit  for  Heaven ;  that  is, 
imselfish,  slways  taking  the  smallest 
apple  in  the  dish;  not  from  a  heavy 
sense  of  duty,  but  because  it  is  such 
jolly  good  fim  to  see  The  Others 
enjoying  the  large  ones.  A  form  of 
selfishness  you  say.  Wdd,  a  fine  form 
of  it  and  somewhat  scarce  this  side 
Heaven  •»  t^ 

Being  in  every  way  fit  for  Heaven  I 
shall  forget  myself  in  work.  Mind 
you  I  said  "  work,"  not  labor.  My 
work,  something  which  suits  my 
capacity  and  training — perhaps  no 
one  else  can  do  it  as  well  as  I;  there 
will  always  be  work  a  bit  bigger  just 
ahead,  to  insure  reaching  and  conse- 
quent growth,  which  are  so  delight- 
ful; it  win  be  useful  work,  and  there 
win  be  Someone  who  cares.  That 
brings  me  to  the  next  thing,  com- 
panionship t^  t^ 

%  V  \  HEN  you  limit  me  to  two 
y^^  words  in  which  to  describe 
Heaven,  Mr.  Editor,  they  wiU  be 
"Work"  and  "Companionship," 
and  perhaps  the  latter  should  come 
first,  for  it  is  the  most  heavenly 
experience  I  know. 
There  win  be  the  old  friends,  of 
course,  but  I  can  not  talk  about 
them;   there  win  be  those  whose 


names  only  are  familiar;  Deborah 
and  Moses  and  Miriam,  David, 
and  Emerson  and  Louisa  Alcott  .  .  • 
how  joUy  to  know  them  as  I  know 
Mrs.  Jenkins  next  doorl  There  wfll 
be  new  people  too ;  I  like  to  make 
new  acquaintances,  such  plrashig 
uncertainty  about  what  one  is  to 
find  *^  *^ 

But  an  this  is  not  enough.  Heaven  to 
me  is  home,  and  no  duld  is  at  home 
because  she  has  crossed  the  thre^- 
old  <^  a  house.  This  is  the  way  giris 
or  bpsrs  go  home.  They  fling  open 
the  door  of  "  Our  House,*'  then  they 
yen  "  Mother!  Father!  "  and  when 
they  hear  the  welcoming  answer  they 
are  at  home. 

"  Some  day  the  ben  win  sound. 
Some  day  my  heart  win  bound, 

As  with  a  shout. 

That  schocd  is  out, 

And  lessons  done, 

I  homeward  run." 

Then  I  shan  push  open  the  easy- 
moving  door  and  can  "  Father."  A 
loving  voice  win  answer,  "Dear 
chUd,  welcome  home  " — and  I  shan 
be  in  Heaven. 

«     *     ♦     ♦     * 

'Tis  the  season  for  kindling  the 
fire  of  hospitality  in  the  hall,  the 
genial  fire  of  chanty  in  the  heart. 
— Washington  Irving. 

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€1  Getting  married  to  avoid  the  draft  merely 
closes  one  window. 

€1  To  allow  yourself  to  become  bored  is  the 
severest  measure  of  self -consciousness. 
41  Some  people  are  like  race-horses;  just  fast 
enough  to  lose. 

€1  Snoring  is  an  untidy  manner  of  being  a  nui- 
sance to  others. 

€1  A  professional  is  always  a  professional,  no 
matter  how  rotten;  but  an  amateur  is  always 
an  amateur,  no  matter  how  good. 
41  Love  is  a  feeling  of  being  miserably  happy. 
4L  Prove  to  any  one  that  you  are  his  equal  by 
being  better. 

4L  Look  out  that  your  acting  doesn't  become 
real. 

4L  Being  one  of  The  Boys  may  lose  your  iden- 
tity as  a  Man. 

41  Stubbornness  is  often  inability  to  know  just 
how  to  act. 

41  Never  back  up  a  situation  that  you  can't  face. 
41  The  cream  is  always  spilled  with  the  milk. 
41  An  ignoramus  is  no  worse  than  an  educated 
fool. 

41  Come  across  on  your  own  bridge. 
€1  The  Army  is  always  plotting  to  kill. 
41  There  is  always  a  goat  vdth  a  flock  of  sheep. 
41  All  high  board  fences  have  a  knot-hole. 


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as  I  dare;  and  dare  a  little  more  as  I  grow  older.** 

Felicitations 


Felix  Shay 


Those  Boys 


^^^yiATURDAY  afternoon  at  a 
&^|^  footlMdl  game,  we  tat  be- 
j^^y  hind  five  hundred  embry- 
^^■^  otic  U.  S.  Army  OfiBcen 
and  listened  to  their  tongs.  Not  West 
Pointers;  OfiBcert'  Training  Camp 
Bqsts.  They  tang  parodiet,  and  one 
finished  up,  "And  then  t^  gosh, 
we  11  all  go  to  Germany — poor  old 
Kaiser  Billt "  Ay,  but  they  put  gusto 
into  that  last  line! 
The  voices  of  them,  and  the  energy 
of  them,  and  the  good  humor  of 
them,  and  the  dean  young  manhood 
of  themi  If  for  no  other  reason  than 
creating  the  necessity  of  sending 
such  fine  young  fellows  away  to  be 
killed,  we  'd  call  sauerkraut-swilUng 
Bill  Hohensollem  an  enemy  for  life! 
For  a  space  of  five  minutes  Unde 
Sam  was  very  near  to  an  intro- 
duction to  another  recruit;  a  little 
bdow  grade  physically,  having 
atready  indulged  in  a  few  too  many 
combats,  but  of  instinctive  fighting 
sirirtt,  one  who  ever  enjoys  a  good 
dean  miz-op  fbr  a  good  dean  cause! 


Then  the  party  of  the  first  part  be- 
thought himself  of  his  numerous 
progeny,  his  apathetic  bank-balance, 
his  gray  hairs  and  flabbiness— so  he 
settled  back  and  wept  internally. 
€1  Those  bc^ys,  they  're  brginning  to 
shape  up  and  look  like  soldiers. 
Plain  to  see  they  are  the  First- 
Class  bo3^  of  the  Nation.  There  's 
initiative  in  their  actions  and  con- 
versations, as  they  meet  and  greet 
and  pass  on.  There 's  intelligmce  in 
tiidr  fooes.  Never  before  has  a 
nation  sent  sudi  high-^rade  men 
into  battle  as  "  common  "  soldiers. 
There 's  the  unfoimess  of  it>-Hhat 
we  must  trade  the  life  of  one  of 
these  forthright,  keen  and  sensible 
Americans  for  a  brutish  Hun's  life 
— a  Hun  of  bestial  impulses! 
While  I  sat  bdiind  these  bpys,  my 
heart  welling  with  admiration  and 
love  of  them,  I  made  this  resolution: 
Unta  this  UHxr  is  over,  I  Witt  not  write 
or  speak  one  word,  either  Just  or 
unjust,  thai  witt  dtecHy  or  indirect" 
ty  make  their  l^e  in  un^orm  a  bit 
harder  than  it  is;  than  it  witt  be! 
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criticiam,  imkat  criticism  will  help 
them,  I'will  ktep  silent. 
President  ^^(^Ison,  before  the  Ameri- 
can Federation  of  Labor  in  con- 
vention in  Buffalo,  said  that  until 
the  Kaiser  and  his  bloody  hordes 
have  felt  defeat,  mankind  and  his 
works  and  dreams  are  in  deadly 
danger.  What  then  does  it  profit  a 
headstrong  human  to  theorize  or 
selfishly  scheme,  or  criticize,  if  an 
iron  heel  is  to  eventually  crush 
him  and  his? 

Never  were  truer  words  spoken!  <^ 
Our  Army  goes  forth  to  conquer. 
They  must  have  the  Spirit  as  well 
as  the  Strength  of  this  Nation 
behind  them.  We  must  move  for- 
ward to  Victory  as  one  num. 
Grod  save  these  fine  American  boys, 
save  them  miraculously  from  the 
ravenous  Enemy,  and  bring  them 
'back  to  us — these  Sons  of  Liberty, 
these  Crusaders  of  Democracy!  <^ 
My  friends,  for  a  Christmas  toast, 
I  give  you  the  Stars  and  Stripes 
forever— and  Those  Boys! 

The  Barbizon  School 

^     r"  -  OWARD  the  end  of  the 
£^^  first  half  of  the  Nine- 

m  W  teenth  Century,  Jean 
^^^^  Francois  Millet,  a  peas- 
ant-bom painter  of  La  Hague,  was 
existing  in  Paris  in  desperate 
poverty.  His  style,  his  manner  of 
putting  on  the  paint,  was  crude. 


almost  coarse  <^  He  exposed  life, 
rather  than  portrayed  it.  Life 
in  the  raw  is  not  a  pretty 
thing  to  see.  To  the  French  Hie- 
orists,  the  Scho(d  of  Painters  who 
dominated  the  times,  this  dour 
peasant  with  mud  on  his  shoes,  and 
the  silent  agony  of  centuries  on  his 
palette,  was  a  boor  and  an  abom- 
ination <^  To  the  devil  with  the 
conmion  people  and  their  unwashed 
ways  of  living! 

Critics  and  connoisseurs  glanced 
at  his  MUk'Woman  and  Wirmower 
and  said,  "  Oh,  he  can  paint — mmn, 
yes! — powerful!  But  mon  Dieu,  who 
wants  to  oum  such  paintings?" 
Millet's  canvases  were  admired, 
but  they  did  not  sell!  You  see  he 
painted  from  life! 

Once  a  party  of  artists,  after  in- 
specting a  Millet  painting,  walked 
round  to  his  lodspbgs  to  declare 
their  faith  in  him.  They  found 
Millet's  wife  dead!  Of  starvation — ? 
Who  knows?  And  Millet  gone. 
He  had  fled  to  his  native  Cherbourg 
to  walk  among  the  peasants  there,  to 
live  and  mingle  with  God's  common 
people,  to  compose  and  confirm  his 
belief  in  the  infallibility  of  Art's 
infinite  relationship  to  Nature. 
After  a  while,  Millet  returned  to 
Paris,  but  finally  in  1848,  with  his 
discouragements,  his  painting-traps 
and  a  few  odd  francs,  he  gave  up  the 
artificial  for  the  reaL  He  went  to 
Barbizon,  not  to  return. 


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MiUet  believed  and  pfeacfaed  and 
practiaed  that  enduring  Art  must 
ezacdy  reproduce  Nature.  Only  the 
true  lives  on;  only  the  true  awakens 
a  true  reqxnse.  No  man  can  thrill 
another,  unless  he  himself  first  felt 
the  thrill.  An  artist  may  be  aUe  to 
dip  the  gcrfden  glow  of  a  reflected 
sonaet  from  his  own  soul,  and  some- 
how get  it  on  the  canvas,  but  never 
lived  an  artist  so  sensitive,  so 
receptive,  he  cottld  paint  a  sunset 
from  the  dcscripHon  of  one;  from 
what  some  one  told  some  one  of 


Parisian  painters  of  that  day  were 
theorists;  Millet  was  a  son  of  the 
soil.  They  Udktd  learnedly.  He 
knew.  That  made  him  an  outcast. 
<L  lyfillet  left  for  BarUzon,  a  typical 
French  village  near  the  Forest  of 
Fontainebleu;  a  tiny,  rural,  fragrant 
village.  One  principal  street  exhausts 
the  urban  pretensions  of  the  duster 
of  houses.  Millet's  domicile,  a  three- 
room,  story-and-a-half  structure, 
rests  flat  on  the  edge  of  this  main 
thoroi^thfare  <^  <^ 
There  followed  Millet  to  Barbison, 
Corot,  Rousseau,  DauUgny,  Diaz, 
Dupre,  Jacques,  Francais,  Har- 
pignies — the  most  potential  and  im- 
portant group  of  contemporaiy 
painters  the  World  has  ever  known. 

0TUDENTS     of     cooperative 
enterprises,  as  well  as  appreci- 
ators  of  innate  gentleness  and  un- 


selfish forbearance,  may  study  this 
Barbison  group  of  painters  wWtk 
much  profit  <^  They  instinctively 
obeyed  the  second  law  of  Nature; 
they  kept  off  each  other's  preserves. 
This  program  is  discreetly  recom- 
mended to  geniuses  who  intend  to 
live  together  in  pristine  simplicity 
ina  village. 

The  character  of  the  country  round 
about  Harbison  offered  no  very 
special  inducement  to  a  number  of 
painters.  Peace,  quiet — srest  <^  A 
golden-green  wood  of  lealy  cathe- 
dral aisles,  and  pools  of  sunshine! 
Domestic  and  farm-yard  animals, 
pastures  and  tilled  fields,  and 
peasants'  huts.  Heavy-faced,  heavy- 
handed,  silent  peasants,  men  and 
women,  awork  in  the  fields?  Only 
that  t  Where  then  was  the  inspiration 
— where  the  diversity  of  subject? 
€1  The  insfnration  was  the  challenge 
in  the  truth  of  the  scene.  They 
jound  their  subjects,  as  great  men 
wilL  Independent  one  of  the  other, 
never  intruding,  never  trespassing, 
unerringly  they  approached  their 
own.  In  consequence,  each  will  live 
as  a  master  tiU  Time  ceases  to  be. 
IkdSllet  painted  the  peasant.  He 
painted  him  as  he  worked,  or  rested 
from  his  work,  lyfillet  was  a  man  of 
very  serious  turn  of  mind.  There  was 
no  room  in  his  stem  le^con  for  the 
word  "frivofity."  ifis  work  is 
grave  and  grim,  almost  depressing. 
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GUaners,  Man  With  The  Hoe? 
WeU  there  are  a  score  of  otbers  after 
the  same  style:  Men  Spreading 
Manure,  BukeT' Making,  Women 
Shearing  Sheep,  Peasants  Bringing 
Home  a  Calf  Bom  in  the  Fields. 
This  kind  of  painting  ostracised 
KliUet  from  Paris,  but  brought  him 
everlasting  fame. 

Rousseau  painted  trees,  trees,  and 
more  trees.  He  painted  and  re- 
painted them.  He  loved  them  so,  he 
never  quite  knew  when  to  stop. 
Other  painters  would  drop  in  and 
comment  on  a  finished  painting — 
«  Very  good." 

**  Oh,  but  my  friend,  it  is  not  yet 
finished,  I  must  touch  it  here  and 
here  and  here! " 

His  intimates  would  remind  him 
that  it  took  two  to  paint  a  good 
picture,  especially  Rousseau's — 
"One  to  paint  it,  one  to  kiU  the 
painter  when  it 's  finishedl " 
**  Old  Captain  "  Daubigny  sailed  to 
River  Oise  in  a  glorified  catamaran 
and  painted  what  he  saw  along  the 
bank.  One  day  in  the  spring  of  1871, 
he  saw — ^what  do  you  think? — some 
Prussian  "  Huns  "  coming  down  the 
road  I  He  very  promptly  pulled, 
sailor,  pulled  for  the  shore,  where  he 
scuttled  his  comfortable  old  boat. 
When  the  War  was  over,  he  brought 
the  boat  to  the  surface,  and  pro- 
ceeded to  paint  more  river-scenes, 
more  ducks.  When  DauUgny  him- 
self liked  one  of  his  own  paintings. 


when  he  was  pleased,  he  alwasr^ 
added  an  extra  duck  or  two. 
Dupre  painted  douds;  splnwhcs  d 
redundant  color:  sunsets,  sunrises; 
storms — particularly  storms.  They 
gave  him  the  cross  of  the  Liegioo  of 
Honor  when  he  was  but  thirty-six 
Shears  old.  Most  of  the  members  of 
the  Barbison  Group  waited  until 
they  were  old  men,  and  past  caring, 
for  tiicir  honors. 

Diaz  of  the  wooden  leg  was  90 
mspired  and  moipressea  by  a 
Rousseau  painting,  which  he  saw, 
that  he  walked  down  to  Barbison 
to  beg  Rousseau  to  accept  him  as  a 
pupil.  Here  was  modesty.  For  al- 
ready Diaz,  though  poor,  was  a 
finished  painter  of  Oriental  fan- 
tasies t^  <^ 

Rousseau,  recogniang  Diaz's  genhis, 
agreed  to  instruct  him  in  the  Bar- 
bison method.  Afterwards,  Rousseau 
painted  outside  the  wood,  and 
Diaz  went  inside  and  painted  tree- 
trunks,  and  shimmering  rayv  of 
sunshine,  forest-moss,  and  bowers 
of  blossoms.  I 

Harpignies  painted  children  in  the  j 
outdoors — children  picnicking, 
children  plajnng  "  house  ";  children 
and  the  new  kittens,  children  in 
their  Sunday  suits  I  A  man  need 
never  want  for  material  to  work  into 
masterineces,  when  there  are  chil- 
dren nearl 

Corot,  the  beloved  Papa  Corot  of 
the  ateliers  and  studios;  he  wi» 


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gave  $10,000  to  the  starving  poor  of 
Paris  wbtD,  in  1870  the  Pross  were 
besieging  the  cttsr-iR^t  did  he 
paint  at  Barbison?  Wdl,  it  seems  as 
though  Corot  must  liave  arrived 
after  aU  Nature  was  divided  between 
Hie  painters  then  there.  Poor  Corott 
There  was  nothing  left  for  him? 
Nothing?  Wdl— a  very  littlet 
**  Corot,  you  may  have  the  worid 
before  breakfast  and  after  dinnertl 
Poor  Corott HetookiR^twasoffned 
snd  painted  graceful,  tender,  allur- 
ing Nature— Nature  going  to  bed. 
Nature  in  a  misty,  filmy  garment. 
Nature  sweet  and  shrinking,  half 
seen,  half  concealed.  Nature  taking 
a  morning  bath.  Poor  Corott  With 
what  was  left,  Corot  made  himself 
the  Master  of  all  the  masters  of 
Barbison  <^  <^ 

When  he  died  five  thousand  of  the 
Art  Students  of  Paris  wore  crepe  on 
their  arms  for  a  twdvemonth  for 
kyve  of  Papa  Corot. 

HNOTHBR  member  of  the 
Harbison  School  was  Barye, 
the  animal  sculptor;  the  forgotten 
Banre.  France  produced  but  one 
sculptor  of  his  power!  Even  so,  the 
fonnalists  refused  to  recognise  him 
and  not  till  he  was  seventy-two 
years  old  was  he  elected  to  the 
Academy.  Barye  would  rough- 
sketch  his  animal  friends  in  the 
Jardin  des  Plantes,  and  then  pack  up 
his  kit  and  go  down  to  Barbison  to 


work  up  the  klea  till  fit  to  be  done 
into  bffonse. 

Barjfe's  brooaest  They  breathe  I — 
they  Uvel  They  squirm  or  shrink,  or 
pounce,  or  stand  i 


musdeflezed— andpointl  Howcould 
honest  men,  let  looe  intdHggit 
artists,  have  refiised  them  honor 
and  i^ory? 

You  know  themt  You  never  saw  a 
fittle  bronse  of  an  animal,  whether  a 
rabbit,  a  dog,  a  crocodile,  or  a  Hon* 
that  made  yoa  gaq>  with  admira- 
tion tiiat  was  not  Barye's. 
When  yoa  fed  the  need  of  a  vaca- 
tion permit  us  to  recommend  an 
As>erican  pilgrimage  to  Baltimore, 
to  the  Walters  Gallery,  where  you 
will  &id  the  most  comidete  and 
interesting  exhibit  of  Barjre's 
bronses  in  this  country;  probably 
in  the  worid.  Mr.  Walters  knew 
Barye  and  loved  and  understood 
his  work.  There 's  ssrmpathy  and 
enlightened  appreciation  in  the 
collection  as  wdl  as  numbers. 
Qo  to  Baltimore.  Spend  a  day  with 
Barye's  bronses.  Learn  how  efitect- 
ivdy  difficulties,  disappointments, 
snubs  and  turn-downs  and  sneers 
work  up  into  imperishable  bronse. 
Make  the  acquaintance  of  the  for- 
gotten Barye,  one  of  the  Revo- 
lutionists of  '48,  who  hdped  reform 
the  Art  of  France,  which  means  the 
World  <^  <^ 

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XXXft  Xxxxip!! 

WlTH  your  permission 
I  would  like  to  lose 
my  temper  <^  Be- 
cause why?  Sit  with 
me,  kneecaps  to  kneecaps — and 
listen!  <^  <^ 

Like  you  I  am  a  patron  of  the 
Liberal  Arts;  the  Art  of  Spending 
Money,  the  Art  of  Bating  Pood,  the 
Art  of  Purchasing  Luxuries  for  My 
Children  and  Bare  Necessities  for 
their  Parents. 

I  read  advertisements,  and  they  in- 
fluence me.  It  is  scandalous  the  way 
they  influence  me.  Though  osten- 
sibly sophisticated,  antithetically, 
I  am  susceptible  and  guileless. 
I  read  magazine  advertisements, 
newspaper  advertisements,  printed 
circulars,  circular  letters  all  and 
everything.  Some  day,  somebody 
may  have  an  idea;  who  knows? 
Eternal  vigilance  is  the  price  of  all 
things,  except  those  things  that  are 
advertised  <^  <^ 

Other  than  the  IngersoU  Dottar 
Watch,  I  am  not  sure  of  the  prices 
of  three  advertised  articles  in  all 
America,  and  I  want  to  know 
"  Why  the  secrecy?  " 
Insoudantly  they  say  "  Only  $1.00 
a  week!"  for  this  stupendous  Book 
Bargain!  What  the  totaH  cast  is 
they  do  not  say  I 

They  tell  me  the  Bilkins  Motor  Car 
has  a  maximum  of  efficiency  and  a 


minimnm  of  cussedness;  that  it  is 
finished  in  bathroom  white  and 
boudoir  blue — ^but  never  a  word 
about  the  price  1 

I  lay  it  down  as  a  flat  and  une- 
quivocal statement  that  an  adver- 
tisement which  does  not  publish 
the  Price  of  the  article  advertised 
is,  in  the  language  of  the  copy 
department,  rotten. 
All  rightl  I  'm  interested  in  what 
you  have  to  offer!  While  the  mood  is 
with  me,  while  my  hand  is  reaching 
for  the  check  book,  how  much  is  it! 
€1  No,  I  have  n't  time  to  write  to 
Indianapolis  and  find  out  how 
much  it  costs!  Who  the  Devil  do 
you  think  you  are  anyhow? 

Circumjamesbirch 
and  Company 

ONE  of  the  regrettable 
mistakes  of  my  life  is 
this:  though  I  have  trav- 
eled much  over  the  world, 
I  have  never  traveled  quite  round  it. 
There 's  a  pared  of  land  and  water, 
somewhere  Bast  of  Sues,  that  as  yet 
awaits  the  caress  of  my  shoe-leather. 
This  north  and  south  strip  of  Hea- 
thenism is  the  cause  of  tiiese 
lamentations,  because  it  prevents 
me  from  joining  the  drcumnavi- 
gators^  Club,  the  only  dub  I  ever 
really  wanted  to  join.  "To  be 
eligible,  a  man  must  have  made  a 
circuit  of  the  Globe  longitudinally." 


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Besides  Ms  journey,  he  must  have 
achieved  some  worthy  work« 
Once  I  was  elected  chief  of  a  fire 
department  (God  knows  whyl — I 
hate  to  get  out  of  bed  at  nightt) 
Twice  I  was  proposed  and  approved 
at  g<^  clubs  (though  I  play  atro- 
cious g<^)  Outnde  bunness  inter- 
ests, this  has  been  the  entire  extent 
of  my  clubby  depredations.  As  a 
joiner  I  am  a  failure.  I  could  never 
run  for  Councilman  in  the  Fifth 
Ward  and  depend  on  the  Fraternal 
vote — nol  The  Secret  and  Benefit- 
on -Death -of- the -Deceased  Socie- 
ties know  me  not.  I  wear  no  subtle 

Now  the  Circumnavigators,  they  're 
different.  Bach  is  a  Super- World 
Traveler.  Bach  is  a  man  of  heart  and 
mind,  of  spirit  and  substance,  of 
backbone  and  innards.  Bach  thinks 
in  terms  of  Continents.  Bach  has 
accomplished  some  work  cf  im- 
portance  besides  the  purchase  of 
mileage.  "Bounders,  remittance  men 
and  other  haloed  Hooligans  are  not 
invited  to  join.  They  are  interesting 
only  on  the  horizon,  offensive  in  the 
middle  distance  and  impossible  in 
a  foreground.  Our  gatherings  are  all 
in  the  foreground."  Therefore,  I 
envy  them  their  fellowship. 
The  home  addresses  of  the  mem- 
bers, on  the  membership  list,  include 
New  Zealand,  Philippine  Islands, 
Scotland,  Australia,  Canada,  East 
Africa,  Argentina,  Cuba,  Turkey, 


Brasil,  KniJand,  China,  Soodi  Af- 
rica, United  States  of  America, 
Paraguay,  Germany,  Russia, 
Samoan  Islands,  Spain,  Portugal, 
France — wbat  you  please! 
The  membership  is  hand-picked  and 
very  much  Ltd.,  but  not  so  limited 
but  what  a  dosen  charming  gentie- 
men  will  take  the  time  and  prove  the 
inclination  to  get  op  a  Dinner  in 
3rour  honor,  wherever  and  whenever 
you  make  porti 

The  Circumnavigators'  Chib  has  no 
constitution  or  by-laws;  the  members 
meet  ^dien  there  are  enough  of  them, 
and  the  spirit  inspires.  Their  get- 
together  dinners  are  famous  the 
world  round,  because  they  know 
how  to  order,  and  ^dien  to  stop. 
"  The  ideal  of  the  perpetrators  of 
the  Circunmavigators'  Club  is  a 
gathering  of  Big  Hearts.  If  the  Big 
Hearts  beat  below  Fine  Heads  it 
shall  not  be  held  agahist  the  Heads 
— so  long  as  they  forget  it."  They 
address  each  other  as  Circun^ames- 
birch,  CircumbiUtaft  (yes,  he  is!), 
Circumwilliamjenningsbryan  (why, 
of  course!)  <^  <^ 

The  rotund  and  jovial  Robert 
Frothingham  of  New  York,  AAAl  ^ 
Executive,  Organiser  and  Adver- 
tiser of  International  Prominence,  is 
the  tng  pooh-bah  of  the  present 
semester  <^  <^ 

The  Reverend  Al.  Hart  of  Balti- 
more is  Abbot  of  the  Order,  Keeper 
of   the    Keys,    Custodian    of   the 


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Sacred  Vetads  and  Vestments, 
Pttitector  of  the  Faith.  The  Rev. 
Hart*  s  scientific  investications 
among  the  Zulu  have  brought 
forth  much  favorable  comment  from 
the  cognosoentL 

James  H.  Birch,  Jr.,  of  Burlington, 
New  Jersey,  is  the  Guardian  Angelt 
the  Offidal  Mixer,  the  Membership 
Committee,  the  Light  That  Neoer 
Pails,  the  Editor  of  The  Log,  and  is 
known  and  loved  as  a  little  Brother 
to  the  Wanderer,  from  Tokyo  and 
Cape  Town  to  Buenos  Aires. 
Of  this  latterly  named  gentleman 
I  would  say  more. 

JAMES  H.  BKCH,  Jr.,  is  the 
manager  of  the  export  business 
of  James  H.  Birch,  Burlington,  New 
Jersey;  manufacturer  of  Birch  car- 
riages, harnesses  and  jinrildshas.  If 
by  any  chance  you  feel  the  need  of  a 
rickshaw  to  bring  you  home  from 
your  arduous  office  duties  (before  or 
after  midnight)  just  address  your 
communication  Birch,  Burlington, 
U.  S.  A.  <^  <^ 

The  Birch  catalog  pictures  scores 
of  vehicles  peculiar  and  strange; 
two-wheeled  volantes  for  countries 
where  wheels  are  taxed;  strong 
cross-country  wagons  for  the  wastes 
of  iSouth  Africa,  with  water  tanks 
and  proidsion  compartments  slung 
underneath,  and  sleeping  apart- 
ments up  above;  Cape  carts  and 
bok    wagons;   Adelaide    expresses. 


Korean  cabs  with 
one  wheel,  propelled  fore-and-aft  t^ 
two  men;  Madagascar  pouse-pouses; 
four-wheeled  Indian  traps  with  a 
step  behind  where  the  ICndu  driver 
stands  on  one  leg;  rickshaws, 
Chinese,  Japanese  and  Zulu.  These 
are  but  a  few. 

Fourteen  languages  are  printed  oo 
the  Birch  export  catalog  envelope; 
English,  French,  German,  ^>an- 
ish,  Italian,  Portuguese,  Russian, 
Chinese,  Hebrew,  Norwegian, 
Swedish,  Dutch,  Aratrfc  and  Hindu- 
stani. The  catalog. itself  is  printed 
in  three  languages — English,  Fien^ 
and  Spanish!  This  export  business 
"  covers  "  the  world. 
Those  American  business  firms  who 
are  considering  an  export  bunnesa- 
getdng  campaign  for  the  period 
after  the  World  War  should  note 
the  next  paragraph  carefully. 
The  Birch  success  is  based  on  ti&is 
fundamental  principle,  this  invita- 
tion to  mutual  respect;  They  have 
never  tried  to  do  any  "  ndssknuory 
work."  They  have  never  attempted 
to  superciliously  explain  to  the 
heathen  that  what  he  used  was 
nodamgood  <^  <^ 
They  serve  a  known  demand. 
They  investigated  a  market.  They 
observed  the  vehicles  most  in  favor 
with  the  natives.  They  bought,  with 
hard  American  dollars,  the  best 
procurable  specimens  of  native 
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queer  foretga  vehides  back  to 
BurUngtoo,  New  Jersey,  where  their 
Yankee  workmen  took  them  mparU 
learned  their  secret,  and  put  tfiem 
together  again. 

Then  the  same  Yankee  workmen 
made  a  better  vehicle,  of  the  same 
style,  for  less  money.  This  improved 
vehide  the  Krch  peoi^  took  back 
to  the  country  that  needed  it, 
demonstrated  its  fitness,  its  superi- 
ority, and  grabbed  off  aU  the  orders 
ia  sight  9^  9^ 

Then  th^y  kept  up  the  quality, 
delivered  a  vehide  exactly  according 
to  specifications,  according  to  sam- 
ple, made  additiooal  improvements 
whenever  possiMe,  and  hM  mi  to 
Owbr  markets,  tfadr  advantages. 
Ba«y?  Of  course!  Of  coursel  You 
can  see  right  through  it?  Certainlyl 
You  can  alwaj^  see  through  a 
straight  success.  Only  the  crooked 
successes  are  devious.  Only  the 
stujHd  failures  are  involved! 
My  &iend  Birdi  explained  to  me: 
"  Ptople  would,  as  a  rule,  be  fods 
to  abandon  the  vehides  that 
they  have  found  best  t^  experience 
and  adopt  those  of  another  country. 
In  one  reckon  of  South  America, 
where  I  visited,  carts  with  enormous 
wheels  were  in  vogue.  This  style  was 
dictated  t^  utility.  The  carts  had  to 
he  drawn  over  wide  stretches  of 
soft-soiled  prairie  where  there  were 
no  roads.  The  large  wheels  were 
indispensable.  In  the  north,  carts 


were  in  use  with  wheels  set  dose 
together,  so  that  they  could  go  along 
narrow  mountain  roads.  In  some 
parts  of  the  south,  carts  were  built 
witii  unusually  k»g  aides,  the 
wheels  far  apart.  There  was  a 
necessity  for  this.  To  get  a  smooth 
tra^  the  carts  must  straddle  deep 
ruts  worn  t^  herds  of  cattle.  The 
safest  policy  is  to  make  what  the 
peoK^  know  and  use  and  want." 
€1  And  he  told  me  snmrthing  dse 
which  strudc  me  as  passing  strange, 
that  the  jinrikisha  is  an  American 
invention,  a  Yankee  thingami^ig. 
Bdward  Everett  Hale,  for  some 
reason  not  explained,  is  in  possession 
of  evidence  to  prove  that  the  jin- 
rikisha was  invented  t^  Albert 
Tohnan,  a  bladcsmith  of  Worcester, 
Mass.,  about  1864.  The  story  is  that 
Tolman  made  the  first  rickshaw 
for  the  lame  wife  of  an  American 
misMonary  who  was  stationed  in 
China  t^  t^ 

So  there  now,  never  again  let  me 
hear  you  say,  missionaries  accom- 
plish no  good. 

^^-^  HB  Circunmavigators  very 
V7  Undly  send  me  The  Log  as  it 
comes  off  the  press,  sometimes 
monthly,  occasionally  once  in  two 
months.  I  devour  it.  There's 
always  a  word,  a  letter,  a  ^cture 
from  one  of  the  World's  Outposts. 
There  are  so  many  polite  and  pretty 
and  petty  lAen,  it's  rather  exhll- 

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aratiiig  to  breathe  the  same  air  once 
in  a  while,  with  the  men  who  see  Big 
and  think  Big,  and  live  Big,  and  die 
Big  <^  <^ 

Here's  a  letter  dated  Central 
America,  from  an  eighty-two-year- 
old  adventurer  who  is  nearing  his 
last  port: 

"  I  received  yoar  communication 
inviting  me  to  the  Circumnavi- 
gators' Banquet. ...  To  be  more 
explicit,  I  am  eighty-two  years  of 
age  plus.  I  am  suffering  with  an 
ulcer  on  the  tongue  which  renders 
me  dumb  and  speechless.  I  have  an 
ulcerated  sore-throat  which  pre- 
vents me  from  swallowing  anything 
but  liquids  and  baby  food.  I  have 
not  a  tooth  left  in  my  head. ...  On 
my  demise,  which  will  probably 
occur  within  the  next  sixty  days  or 
so  (perhaps  less),  my  certificate  of 
membership  and  Circumnavigators' 
Button  will  be  delivered  by  Mr. 
Manuel  Alvarez,  in  person,  to 
prevent  their  falling  into  profane 
hands. ...  I  take  occasion  now  to 
state  the  pleasure  and  pardonable 
pride  which  has  been  mine  in 
wearing  the  Circumnavigator's 
Button.  It  has  been  a  constant 
reminder  of  halcyon  days  spent  on 
*  Old  Briny.'  My  life  thereon  com- 
menced eleven  days  before  I  reached 
the  age  of  sixteen  years. 
"  Dope  to  kill  pain  is  now  getting  the 
.  better  of  my  mental  faculties  and 
with  the  call  of  the  Order, '  Luck  to 


you,' 'I  am  faithful  unto  death."! 
€1  There 's  a  thrill  in  this  for  me. 
This  fine  old  spirit  going  out  arderiy;  I 
a  gentleman  true.  No  dutchins  £<»*  a  I 
Future  Life,  no  clinging  on  to  the 
Past!  "  Luck  to  you,"  and  "  Faith- 
ful unto  Deathl " 
That's  enough,  plenty  1 
On  another  page  of  The  Log  there  's 
a  communication  from  an  P.  R.  G. 
S.,  from  Australia;  together   with 
a  photo  of  himself  and  a   colored 
gentleman   in   a   breech   clout   j» 
The  black  savage  in  the  picture 
leans  on  a  cut  sapling.  One  leg  is 
shriveled  and  bent.  Where  the  knee 
should   be   there   is   a   deep    and 
ghastly  furrow.  Under  the  incture  is 
the  P.  R.  Q.  S.'s  message:  **  This 
nigger  went  to  kill  me  in  1895  and 
my  mate,  W.  Pollard,  shot  his  knee- 
cap off.  When  exploring  through  the 
same  country  in  1901 1  captured  the 
cuss   without  any  trouble."   Now 
how  and  why  do  you  suppose  that 
"  nigger  went  to  kill "  the  learned 
P.  R.  Q.  S.  far  off  m  the  Australian 
bush?  Well,  anyway,  it 's  damnably 
interesting  to  one  who  must  putter 
indoors  with  pencils  and  pens  and 
blotters.    "My  mate,  W.  iPc^lard, 
shot   his   kneecap  off — I  captured 
the   cuss   without   any   trouble!" 
Well,  I  never!— 

Once  upon  a  time,  there  was  a 
certain  Circumnavigator  who  helped 
me  out  of  Southern  Russia,  when 
passports  were  not  too  easy  to  get. 

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There  was  another  who  satis- 
factorily explained  matters,  when  I 
accidentally  insulted  the  entire 
Modem  world  and  Mohammed  in 
particular  in  the  old  Mosque  of  San 
Sophia  in  Constantinople  t  There 
was  a  Circumnavigator  in  Smjrrna 

who Well,   never   mind   that 

Httle  afflEdrt  You  would  not  be  in- 
terested in  thail 

Take  my  pledged  word,  accept  my 
testimony,  my  evidence — there 's 
never  a  doubt  "  'tween  heaven  and 
earth,  Horatio,"  that  the  Circum- 
navigators are  the  finest  fellows  that 
ever  breathed  the  breath.  That 
there  are  but  a  few  of  them  in  part 
accounts  for  their  especial  quality. 
Iswear  itl 

About  the  time  this  reaches  you,  a 
unique  and  unusual  Christmas  card 
will  come  to  me  from  Birch  of 
Burlington.  I  know  that  I  shall  get 
the  Christmas  card  because  Birch 
sends  me  a  card  of  his  own  creating, 
with  a  smile-provoking  or  heart- 
enlivemng  message  on  all  the 
regular  holidays  each  year;  and  like- 
wise on  one  or  two  special  holidays 
observed  to  honor  Saint  Salubrius, 
the  Patron  Saint  of  all  good  Cir- 
cumnavigators living  and  dead  I 
I  shall  get  that  Christmas  card  from 
Birch  and  will  warm  up  to  him  over 
the  miles,  as  I  always  do.  Then  I  will 
cuss  that  up-and-down  strip  of 
heathenland.  East  of  Suez,  where  a 
man  may  or.  may  not  raise  a  thirst. 


where  there  may  or  may  not  be  a 
Ten  Commandments  I  (I  cannot  say, 
I  have  never  been  there)— that 
skulking,  yellow-skinned,  no  ac- 
count, plague-ridden  piece  of  land 
which  prevents  me  firom  being  a 
Circumnavigator  <^  <^ 

I  WANT  to  quote  you  a  bit 
Richard  Harding  Davis  pub- 
lished in  OdUer's  Just  before  he 
died.  Firstiy,  because  it  is  simple, 
powerful  writing  of  deep  wdling 
heart-interest;  secondly,  because 
"Dickie"  Davis  too  was  a  Cir- 
cumnavigator, a  gentleman  adven- 
turer of  the  Seven  Seas,  a  Soldier  of 
Fortune  more  interesting  to  know 
and  "  read  "  than  aU  his  stories;  a 
quick  and  ready  companion  in 
fighting  and  funning;  loyal,  fair  and 
kind  <^  <^ 

As  the  ship  was  getting  under  way, 
a  young  man  in  white  and  a  sun- 
helmet,  an  agent  of  the  lighterage 
company,  went  down  the  sea-ladder 
by  which  I  was  leaning.  He  was 
smart,  alert;  his  sleeves,  rolled 
recklessly  to  his  shoulders,  showed 
sinewy,  sunburnt  arms;  his  helmet, 
I  noted,  was  a  military  one.  Perhaps 
I  looked  as  I  felt;  that  it  was  a  pity 
to  see  so  good  a  man  go  back  to  such 
a  land,  for  he  looked  up  at  me  from 
the  swinging  ladder  and  smiled 
imderstandingly  as  though  we  had 
been  old  acquaintances. 

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"  You  gcring  far?  "  he  aiked.  He 
spoke  in  the  toft,  detached  voice  of 
the  puUic-tchool  Englishman.  **  To 
the  Kongo,"  I  answered. 
He  stood  swaying  with  the  ship, 
looking  as  though  there  were  some- 
thing he  wished  to  say,  and  then 
laughed,  and  added  gravely,  giving 
me  the  greeting  of  the  Coast — 
"  Luck  to  you." 
"  Luck  to  you,"  I  said. 
That  is  the  worst  of  these  gaddings 
about,  these  meetings  with  men  you 
wish  you  could  know,  who  pass  like 
a  face  in  the  crowded  street,  who 
hold  out  a  hand,  or  give  the  pass- 
word of  the  brotherhood,  and  then 
drop  down  the  sea  ladder  and  out 
of  your  life  forever. 

There*  s  Another 
Citizen  in  Our  House 

HND  the  Mother  is 
doing  well,  very  well, 
thank  you!  The  In- 
fant EQUAL  (P.  D.Q.) 
SUFFRAGE  is  a  lusty  child.  Looks 
just  like  its  dad.  Please  congratulate 
the  whole  darned  family  1 
On  November  6,  1917,  the  men  of 
New  York  State,  by  ballot,  agreed 
that  the  women  of  this  State  had 
the  right  to  vote  on  all  issues,  on  a 
basis  of  absolute  equality  with  other 
enfranchised  adult  citizens.  With 
one  bold  and  noble  motion  of  their 
voting  arm,  they  doubled  the  free 


population  of  this  spectacular  StateJ 
€1  Henceforth  in  the  Empire  State 
not  only  "  all  men  are  bom  free  and 
equal,"  so  are  all  women! 
Ignorance  retreats  a  step! 
There 's  a  sort  of  backwoods  fac^er^ 
than-thou  obligatioQ,  self-acknow^ 
ledged  by  other  States,  that  required 
they  keep  ahead  of  Tammanj^ized 
New  York  in  all  wholesome  reforms. 
A  Constitutional  Amendment  for  s^ 
Frte  America,  ^ving  to  wonaen  ol 
ALL  States  the  vote,  cannot  bq 
denied  nowl 

There 's  no  need  for  further  dia-| 
cussion.  Already  we  have  too  widely 
advertised  our  ignominy  and  back- 
wardness. A  courageous  and  sennble; 
Congress  will  proceed  to  act. 

Success  Easier  than 
Failure 

^^^D  HOWE  is  a  grumpy  old! 
^^^J  codger,  as  old  as  Barbara 
^L     J  Frietchie    was.    He    lives 

^^^A  outside  Wichita,  Kansas; 
retired  on  his  money.  He  puUiahes 
a  Monthly  Newspaper  whidti  hej 
himself  writes,  "Devoted  to  In-; 
dignation  and  Information  1 "  For 
this  newspaper,  he  charges  ten  cents 
a  year,  three  years  for  a  quarter. 
His  is  not  a  money-making  propo- 
sition <^  <^ 

There 's  more  inspiration  cuid 
thoughtful  matter  in  one  issue  of 
Ed  Howe's  paper,  than  in  the  three 

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tumdred  issues  of  all  the  other  news- 
papers in  the  United  States  put 
togetlier.  He  is  past  the  place 
ecoaoniically  where  a  canceled  sub- 
scription makes  him  want  to  fife 
theKditor. 

He  writes  to  please  himself.  He  con- 
tracted the  wnting  habit  over  a  long 
period  of  year8;and  he  cannot  shake 
it  off.  That  you  happen  to  be 
reading  over  his  shoulder  is  your 
afEair»  not  his.  He 's  a  rare  '*  find  " 
for  thoae  who  like  free  writers. 
Of  course  he  offends!  Strange  to  say 
he  often  offends  when  he's  trying 
to  be  particularly  nice.  Only  a  little 
time  ago*  he  wrote  a  favoraUe 
review  of  Frank  Harris's  wonderful 
book.  The  Confessknu  of  Oscar 
WUde^  (Prank  Harris,  Publisher,  3 
Washington  Square  North,  New 
York  City.)  When  Frank  Harris 
read  that  review,  he  indited  another 
editorial  against  the  l*fight  Court, 
kicked  the  house-cat,  discharged  the 
cook,  and  went  out  into  Wadungton 
Square  and  threw  a  brick  against 
the  Washington  Archl 
Rumbles  of  this  catadysm  reached 
Bast  Aurora, 

I  wrote  Bd  Howe  and  asked  him  did 
he  not  recognise  the  truest,  fairest, 
best-written  biography  once  Bos- 
wdl'8  Johnson? 

What   defense  do  you   think  this 
grouty  6Ld  customer  offered? 
He     answered,     "Frank    Harris's 
book  was  a  wonder  to  me.  I  spent 


most  of  a  night  in  reading  it  with 
enthusiasm.  I  wrote  what  I  thought 
was  a  devilish  good  reviewl " 
There  you  are! 

Bd  Howe  used  the  same  letters,  the 
same  words,  but  he  writes  another 
language.  He  produces  curious  and 
unusual  effects.  His  underlying 
processes  are  different.  He  is  not 
propelled,  impdled  by  ordinary 
human  reciuirements  or  desires. 
His  past  life  has  satisfied  him,  he  is 
wdl  and  happy,  and  has  comfort- 
ably provided  for  the  ftiture.  Bven 
so,  he  is  lamiliar  with  the  Insurance 
Compansr's  average  tables  of  births 
and  deadis,  and  he  recognises,  with- 
out qualms,  that  he  's  approadiing 
joumesr's  end.  Wa  writings  are  a 
record  of  a  matured  and  able  mind's 
ruminations  and  findings.  He  has 
no  time  for  prefsces  or  sufiBaes,  by- 
your-leave's,  or  apologies.  Here 's  the 
earnest  and  sincere  message  of  an 
honest  man!  Take  it  or  leave  itl 
€1  ifis  firank  and  fearless  obser- 
vations, without  dther  sweeping 
apinxyvals  or  disapprovals,  values  all 
correctly  emphasised  and  placed, 
amase  one.  You  see,  most  of  us  have 
a  good  10  per  cent  of  hypocrisy  in 
our  make-up,  and  another  10  per 
cent  of  guile  or  diplomacy,  call  it 
what  you  wiU.  We  are  apt  and  agile 
in  fooling  ourselves.  Therefore  we 
call  Bd  Howe  an  enigma  or  ask 
"  What 's  he  at?  "  or  wink  an  eye 
and  tap  the  forehead  knowiogly  <^ 


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Ed  Howe  it  not  for  or  agamst  any- 
diing.  He  '8  a  tfaiiiker,  an  analjrst. 
Mofeover»  he  tmfAcyn  that  moet 
righteous  and  sensible  of  methods, 
he  reasons  from  his  own  experiences 
and  submits  his  conclusions  for 
what  they  are  worth.  Solomon  in  all 
his  wisdom  falls  quite  a  little  short 
of  the  Sage  of  Wichita.  Solomon  was 
a  king  and  therefore  out  of  touch 
with  the  everyday  lives  of  the 
mcgority  of  the  people;  Ed  Howe  is 
a  small-town  man  who  calls  his 
neighbors  by  their  first  names. 
Solomon  was  a  flowery  writer  after 
the  style  of  Richard  Le  Qallienne, 
and  often  sacrificed  the  truth  to  get 
a  better  balance  and  swing  to  a 
sentence;  Ed  Howe's  words  and 
sentences  are  prosaic  and  easy  to 
read.  His  essays  are  shy  of  epigrams, 
wise  saws,  and  smart  and  quotable 
sayings.  It  is  his  thought  that  turns 
you  over  and  spanks  you  where  you 
need  it  most. 

^vnrEARS  ago,  Ed  Howe  wrote  a 
(^  book  and  offered  it  to  the 
American  public;  a  very  audacious 
proceeding.  Up  to  that  time,  no  one 
located  west  of  Indiana  had  ever 
dared  a  literary  feat.  Massachusetts 
frowned  down  such  vain  and  mis- 
calculated benefactions.  The  learned 
professors  of  New  England  admitted 
there  was  a  place  for  everything,  and 
that  north  of  Boston-Town  was  the 
place   for   the   American   Writer's 


Guild.  The  scorn  and  calumny  the] 
rubbed  into  the  "  Indiana  School  o 
Literature"  never  quite  came  off 
Nevertheless,  Ed  Howe  way  out  it 
Kansas  defied  the  academic  nabobi 
and  wrote  and  published  The  Stoii 
of  a  Country  Town.  This  book  ran 
through    a    dosen-doeen    editions. 
You  will  find  it  on  most  of  the  pre- 
ferred lists  of  recommended  books. 
Its  position  in  American  literature 
is  secure;  a  very  great  book  because 
of  its  abiding  simplicity.  A  man  goes 
to  his  rest  content,  who  creates  one 
such  work  in  a  lifetime! 
This  year  Ed  Howe  produces  and 
puts  forth  another  book.  Success 
Easier  Than  Failure.  More  than  the 
overwhelming    defeat    of    Morris 
ifillquit.  Candidate  for  Ma3ror  of 
New  York  City  this  election,  Ed 
Howe's  book  will  create  a  reaction 
against  Socialism.  This  book  will 
one  day  rank  with  Thomas  Paine's 
Age  of  Reason,  and  Kari  Marx's 
Capital  as  a  disquieting  influence  1 
He  casts  aside  as  unnatural  the 
fatuous  share-and-share-alike  prop* 
agandas,   and   apimyves  intelligent 
and    high-minded    self-interest  He 
preaches  a  doctrine  that  common- 
sense  people  will  accept;  a  self-help 
doctrine,  healthy  for  the  race. 
My  sympathy  and  vote  has  ever 
gone  for  the  under  dog;  but  this 
calm  old  man  forces  me  to  admit  to 
myself  that  sympathy  is  not  justice 
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is  pixme  in  the  mud,  because,,  beset 
with  that  tired  feding,  be  h^qppened 
to  fall  asleep  therel 
Ed  Howe  presents  a  most  convinc- 
ing defense  for  success  and  the 
successful  man.  Only  it  is  not  a 
defense.  Neither  is  it  an  attack  on 
failure  or  failures.  He  claims,  simply, 
that  to  secure  enough  for  all  human 
requirements  is  easier  than  to  USL  to 
secure  it.  He  is  right. 
He  sayn  men  who  criticize  are  not  as 
good  as  the  men  they  criticize.  They 
would  be  better  employed  at  work. 
He  says  that  critics  are  usually 
writers  and  orators,  and  "organ- 
izers," and  other  semi-educated  or 
educated  misfits,  not  workers.  These 
critics  have  only  second-hand  griev- 
ances; which  serve  as  an  outlet  for 
their  vehemence  1  Their  impulses 
are  to  write  stinging  rebukes  and 
ringuog  prodamations  of  Freedom, 
and  to  make  firenzied  and  epigram- 
matic speeches  on  man's  ii^ustice 
to  man,  to  favorable  audiences  9^ 
They  want  to  lead  mobs,  not  to 
right  wrongs.  Idle,  moody,  "mis- 
understood geniuses  "  of  their  sort 
always  hate  industrious  men. 
Given  politeness,  an  appreciation 
of  the  rights  of  others,  industry, 
temperance,  and  the  saving  sense, 
and  a  plain  ordinary  individual 
can  not  escape  success,  and  insure 
a  comfortable  old  age  in  this 
United  States  (time,  the  present). 
That  '8  Ed  Howe's  doctrine. 


^2^  HERB  have  been  mOHoos  of 
V!i/  comfortable  small  fortunes 
accumulated  in  tins  country,  within 
the  past  five  or  fifty  years,  by  peopk 
not  at  all  identified  witii  the  trusts; 
the  ndi^hbors  of  the  "downtrodden" 
and  the  "  exploited."  These  fortunes 
were  earned,  and  laid  away  to  be 
eaioyed  in  good  season*  by  hon- 
est, industrious,  frugalt  temperate 
peopk  who  were  favored  neither  by 
chance  nor  patronage  1 
There  are  a  thousand  men  and 
more  in  America  who  will  accept 
any  village  you  may  name  and  go 
there  and  make  a  fortune  within 
ten  years;  make  a  fortune*  with  the 
opportunities  now  existing  there;  in 
spite  of  the  handicaps  that  hold 
back  weaker  spirits.  They  're  on 
their  way  to  these  villages  today, 
and  tomorrow  they  may  arrive. 
Politeness,  Pair  Play,  Industry, 
Temperance,  Thrift^-fMUS  sudi  in- 
tdligence  as  you  happen  to  possess 
— there's  your  receipt  for  the 
making  of  a  fortune. 
Before  you  doubt  these  statements, 
make  a  list  of  a  dozen  wealthy  men 
whose  history  you  happen  to  know. 
Be  fair  to  them,  as  fair  as  you  would 
be  to  yourself. 

Now  how  did  they  succeed?  What 
tamsutd  qutdides  do  they  possess 
that  you  too  do  not  command? 
The  answer  is:  Rich  men  are  in- 
variably the  very  plain  and  ordinary 
men  of  the  community.  They  played 


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the  game,  they  obeyed  the  rules,  the 
laws.  They  worked,  they  hustled. 
They  sacrificed  a  little.  They  got 
interested  in  thdu*  work,  and  found 
it  more  interesting  than  listening  to 
new  schemes  to  reform  the  world. 
A  successful  man's  life  is  not  wildly 
exciting;  there 's  mudi  of  routine  to 
it.  If  you  prefer  eidtement,  why 
then  join  a  Revolutiooary  Party. 
But  when  you  do,  be  good  sport 
enough  to  admit  you're  after  ex- 
citement, not  ''economic  justice."  s^ 
**  Class  IMstinction  "  in  America  is 
buncombe  and  bosh.  Of  the  thou- 
sands of  millionaires  of  the  United 
States,  less  than  a  doxen  are  known 
natkmaDy,  Ninety-nine  per  cent  of 
them  made  their  own  money. 
Most  of  them  were  poor  bojrs  who 
went  to  work  before  they  were 
fifteen.  Most  of  them  have  rendered 
a  direct  service  to  humanity  of  more 
than  equal  value  to  the  reward  they 
received. . . . 

May  I  suggest  that  you  send  Ed 
Howe  seventy-five  cents  for  the 
book,  Success  Easier  Than  PaQure, 
Whether  or  not  you  like  the  book 
will  not  matter  at  all  to  him.  Be- 
sides he  does  not  need  your  money. 
Address  him  Atchison,  Kansas. 
You  will  not  find  him  home;  last 
week  he  left  for  Florida  for  the 
winter.  He 's  a  man  of  means.  You 
see  he  lived  his  book,  before  he 
wrote  it. 


My  Very  Best  to  You 

^M  w  ERRY  Christmas  to 
m^  ■  M  you.  Good  Friends  of 
^  m  W  'Minitl  For  you  who 
^^"^^^^  have  accepted  my  of- 
ferings of  the  year  past  with  such  a 
kindly  qiirit,  I  have  only  the  fiteid- 
liest  thoughts  and  wishes. 
Was  it  not  a  tragic  season,  of  doubts 
and  distrusts,  of  dismal  portent,  and  i 
yet  not  so  bad  withal  as  we  swe^ 
into  another  year.  We  have  survived 
the  worst,  with  increased  confidence. 
We  have  kept  the  Faith. 
Brighter  days  are  coming.  I  fed  as 
you  fed,  that  though  deaths  and 
heartbreak  surely  separate  us  firom 
the  Ptece  we  all  desire,  that  it  is 
nearer  than  most  of  us  tiiink.  I 
give  it  to  you  with  my  heart  and 
head  and  hand,  that  before  another 
Christmas  comes  we  will  have  done 
with  tins  terrible  war.  The  Kaiser 
and  his  overlords  are  doomed. 
Another  few  months  of  dreary 
waiting,  maybe,  another  partial 
yielding,  perhaps,  to  the  Prussian 
Animal  in  his  death  agony,  then  next 
Spring  a  sure  thrustl  Then  Paactl 
God,  how  sweet  that  word  sounds, 
and  the  phrase  Peace  with  Honor 
is  nmpiy  irresistible. 
So  I  clasp  your  hands  afar  off  and 
tnd  you  be  of  Good  Cheer  and  Hi^ 
Courage.  There  are  sacrifices  to  be 
made,  ay,  truly — ^but  the  end  is 
nearer  than  it  seenu. 


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paper  for  this  issue.  Perhaps  before  the  next  issue  comes  out.  we  shall  hare  i/ucetn 
ment  control  of  the  railroads,  and  relief    let  us  hope. 

Roy  c  r  o  f  t 


ELBERT  HUBBARD  n«  Edltor-in-Chlcf 


FEUX  SHAY.  Editor 


Botcred  at  the  PoM-Oace.  BaK  Aorora.  N.  Y.,  m  iUttv  of  the 
m  IfMtcr  or  the  Second  Omm  ot  the  Poet-Oflee 
U.  &  Potent  OOce.  Copyright.  Nhwteea  Haadred 


Clo».Batered 


Seveateea.  hy  The  Roycrortore 


Vol.1  JANUARY  1918 


No.  5 


€L  ''A  Message  to  Garcia"  was  written  by  Elbert  Hubbard  in  1899.  We 
had  been  at  war  with  Spain, 

Again  we  are  at  war,  Marty  messes  to  Garcia  are  to  be  carried  s^ 
Human  nature  is  the  same  now  as  it  was  then.  It  always  wHl  be  the  same, 
i^  The  same  direct  **  message  "in  "A  Message  to  Garcia  "  is  as  much 
needed  bjf  the  country  today  as  it  was  then.  It  has  just  the  same  Mck  »^ 
The  soldier  needs  it;  the  businessman,  young  or  old,  needs  it;  the  ste- 
nographer, clerh— every  workman  and  employer  needs  it. 
It  has  already  been  reprinted  upwards  of  thirty  million  times.  It  stUl  is  in 
.  great  demand,  Duriiig  the  past  eight  months  I  have  been  asked  for  per- 
mission to  reprint  it  in  seventy-two  newspapers,  eighteen  Trutgatmes, 
thir^f  house-organs,  and  four  school  text-books, 

I  presume  every  reader  of  ROYCROFT  has  read  the  "Garcia"  several 
times.  Even  so,  I  commend  you  to  read  it  again  9^  You  need  it.  Read 
between  the  lines.  Pass  it  on  to  your  neighbor. — Elbert  Hubbard  II. 

A  Message  to  Garcia 

Elbert  Hubbard 


X^  all  this  Cuban  business 
there  is  one  man  stands  out 
on  the  horiz^i  of  my  mem- 
ory like  Mars  at  perihelion. 
When  war  broke  out  between  Spain 
and  the  United  States,  it  was  very 
necessary  to  communicate  quickly 
with  the  leader  of  the  Insurgents. 


Garcia  was  somewhere  in  the 
mountain  fastnesses  of  Cuba — no 
one  knew  where.  No  mail  or 
telegraph  message  could  reach  him. 
The  President  must  secure  his  co- 
operation, and  quickly. 
What  to  do! 
Some  one  said  to  the  Prendent, 


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"  There  is  a  fellow  by  the  name  of 
Rowan  will  find  Qarda  for  you  if 
anybody  can." 

Rowan  was  sent  for  and  giv^  a 
letter  to  be  delivered  to  Qarda. 
How  the  "fellow  by  the  name  of 
Rowan  *'  took  the  letter*  sealed  it 
up  in  an  oilskin  pouch,  strapped  it 
over  his  heart,  in  four  days  landed 
by  night  off  the  coast  of  Cuba  from 
an  open  boat,  disappeared  into  the 
jungle,  and  in  three  weeks  came  out 
on  the  other  side  of  the  Island, 
having  traversed  a  hostile  country 
on  foot,  and  delivered  his  letter  to 
Qarda — are  things  I  have  no  special 
desire  now  to  tell  in  detail.  The 
pcnnt  that  I  wish  to  make  is  this: 
McKinley  gave  Rowan  a  letter  to 
be  delivered  to  Qarda;  Rowan  took 
the  letter  and  did  not  ask,  "  Where 
is  he  at?  " 

By  the  Etemall  there  is  a  man  whose 
form  should  be  cast  in  deathless 
bronze  and  the  statue  placed  in 
every  college  of  the  land.  It  is  not 
book-learning  young  men  need,  nor 
instruction  about  this  and  that,  but 
a  stiffening  of  the  vertebrae  which 
will  cause  them  to  be  loyal  to  a 
trust,  to  act  promptly,  concentrate 
their  energies:  do  the  thing — 
"  Carry  a  message  to  Qarda." 
Qeneral  Qarda  is  dead  now,  but 
there  are  other 'Qardas.  No  man 
who  has  endeavored  to  carry  out  an 
enterprise  where  many  hands  were 
needed,    but    has    been    well-nigh 


appalled  at  times  by  the  imbedlity 
of  the  average  manr-Hhe  inability 
or  unwillingness  to  concentrate  on  a 
thing  and  do  it.  Slipshod  asdstance, 
focdish  inattention,  dowdy  indiffer- 
ence, and  half-hearted  work  seem 
the  rule. 

*W^OU,  reader,  put  this  matter  to 
(^  a  test:  You  are  dtting  now 
in  your  office — nx  derks  are  within 
calL  Summon  any  one  and  make 
tlus  request:  "  Please  look  in  the 
encydopedia    and    make    a    brief 
memorandum   for    me    oonoeming 
the  life  of  Correggio." 
Will  the  derk  quietly  say,""  Yes, 
sir,"  and  go  do  the  task? 
On  your  life  he  will  not.  He  will  look 
at  you  out  of  a  fishy  eye  and  ask  one 
or  more  of  the  following  questions: 
Who  was  he? 
Wbidi  encydopedia? 
Where  is  the  encydopedia? 
Was  I  hired  for  that? 
Don't  you  mean  Bismarck? 
What's  the  matter  with   Charlie 
doing  it? 
Is  he  dead? 
Is  there  any  hurry? 
Shan't  I  bring  you  the  book  and  let 
you  look  it  up  yoursdf  ? 
What  do  you  want  to  know  for? 
And  I   mil  lay   you  ten  to  one 
that  after  you  have  answered  the 
questions,  and  explained  how  to  find 
the  information,  and  why  you  want 
it,  the  derk  will  go  off  and  get  one 

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of  the  odier  ^rks  tohelp  Imn  try  to 
find  Garctft — and  then  come  back 
and  t^  you  there  is  no  such  man. 
Of  couve  I  may  lose  my  bet*  but  - 
according  to  tiie  Law  of  Average  I 
win  not.  Now»  if  you  are  wise,  you 
win  not  bother  to  exi^ain  to  your 
"  assistant  '*  that  Correggio  is 
indexed  under  the  C's,  not  in  the 
K's,  but  you  win  smile  very  sweetly 
and  say,  "  Never  mind,"  and  go 
kx>k  it  up  yourself.  And '  this  in-~ 
capacity  for  independent  action, 
Hus  moral  stupidity,  tins  infirmity 
of  the  '  win,  this  unwillingness  to 
dieerfiiUy  catch  «hold  and  lift — 
these  are  the  things  that  put  pure 
Sodafism  so  far  into  the  future.  If 
men  win  not  act  for  tiiemsdves, 
what  win  they  do  when  the  benefit 
of  their  effort  is  for  aU? 
A  first  mate  with  knotted  dub 
seems  necessary;  and  the  dread  of 
getting  "the  bounce"  Saturday 
night  holds  many  a  worker  to  his 
place.  Advertise  for  a  stenographer, 
and  nine  out  of  ten  who  apply  can 
neither  spdl  nor  punctuate — and 
do  not  think  it  necessary  to. 
Can  such  a  one  write  a  letter  to 
Garcia?  s^  s^ 

"You  see  that  bookkeeper,"  said  the 
foreman  to  me  in  a  large  factory  9^ 
"  Yes;  what  ab<mt  him?  " 
"  WeU,  he 's  a  fine  accountant,  but 
if  I  'd  send  him  uptown  on  an  errand, 
he  might  accomplish  the  errand  aU 
right,  and  on  the  other  band,  might 


stop  at  four  saloons  on  the  way,  and 
when  he  got  to  Main  Street  would 
forget  wbaX,  he  had  been  sent  for." 
.  C  Can  sudi  a  man  be  entrusted  to 
carry  a  message  to  Oarda? 

"VVrfE  have  recently  been  hearing 
^A/  much  maudWn  S3rmpathy 
expressed  for  the  "downtrodden 
denizens  of  the  sweatshop  "  and  the 
"  homeless  wanderer  seardiing  for 
honest  empk^yment,"  and  with  it  an 
often  go  many  hard  words  for  the 
men  in  power. 

Nothing  is  said  about  the  employer 
^1^10  grows  old  before  his  time  in  a 
vain  attempt  to  get  firowsy  ne'er- 
do-wens  to  do  intdligent  work;  and 
his  long,  patient  striving  after 
"  help  "  that  does  nothing  but  loaf 
when  his  back  is  turned.  In  every 
store  and  factory  there  is  a  constant 
weeding-out  process  going  on.  The 
employer  is  constantly  sending 
away  **  help "  that  have  shown 
their  incapadty  to  further  the  in- 
terests of  the  business,  and  others 
are  being  taken  on.  No  matter  how 
good  times  are,  this  sorting  con- 
tinues: only,  if  times  are  hard  and 
work  is  scarce,  the  sorting  is  done 
finer — but  out  and  forever  Wt  the 
incompetent  and  unworthy  go.  It 
is  the  survival  of  the  fittest.  Self- 
interest  prompts  every  employer  to 
keep  the  best — ^those  who  can  carry 
a  message  to  Garda. 
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parts  who  has  not  the  ability  to 
manage  a  business  of  his  own,  and 
yet  is  absolutely  worthless  to  any 
one  else,  because  he  carries  with  him 
constantly  the  insane  suspicion  that 
his  employer  is  oppresnng,  or  in- 
tending to  oppress,  him.  He  can  not 
give  ordiers,  and  he  will  not  receive 
them.  Should  a  message  be  given  Mm 
to  take  to  Garcia,  his  answer  would 
probably  be,  "  Take  it  yourself! " 
C  Tonight  this  man  walks  the 
streets  looking  for  work,  the  wind 
whistling  through  his  threadbare 
coat.  No  one  who  knows  him  dare 
employ  him,  for  he  is  a  regular 
firebrand  of  discontent.  He  is  im- 
pervious to  reason,  and  the  only 
thing  that  can  impress  him  is  the  toe 
of  a  thick-soled  Number -Nine  boot. 
COf  course  I  know  that  one  so 
morally  deformed  is  no  less  to  be 
pitied  than  a  physical  cripple;  but 
in  our  pitying  let  us  drop  a  tear,  too, 
for  the  men  who  are  striving  to 
carry  on  a  great  enterprise,  whose 
working  hours  are  not  limited  by 
the  whistle,  and  whose  hair  is  fast 
turning  white  through  the  struggle 
to  hold  in  line  dowdy  indifference, 
slipshod  imbecility,  and  the  heart- 
less ingratitude  which,  but  for  their 
enterprise,  would  be  both  hungry 
and  homeless. 


HI 


TAVE   I   put   the   matter   too 
,  strongly?    Possibly    I    have; 
but  when  all   the  world  has  gone 


a-slumming  I  wish  to  speak  a  word 
of  sympathy  for  the  man  who  suc- 
ceeds-*-^the  man  who,  against  great 
odds,  has  directed  the  efforts  of 
others,  and  having  succeeded,  finds 
there  's  nothing  in  it:  nothing  but 
bare,  board  and  dothes.  I  have 
carried  a  dinner-pail  and  worked  for 
day's  wages,  and  I  have  also't  sea  an 
employer  of  labor,  and  I  know  there 
is  something  to  be  said  on  both 
sides.  There  is  no  excellence,  per 
se,  in  poverty;  rags  are  no  recom- 
mendation; and  all  employers  are 
not  rapacious  and  high-handed, 
any  more  than  «11  poor  men  are 
virtuous  9^  9^ 

My  heart  goes  out  to  the  man  who 
jdoes  his  work  whei\  the  "  boss  "  h 
away,  as  well  as  when  he  is  at  home. 
And  the  man  who,  when  given  a 
letter  for  Garcia,  quietly  takes  the 
missive,  without  asking  any  idiotic 
questions,  and  with  no  lurking 
intention  of  chucking  it  into  the 
nearest  sewer,  or  of  doing  aught  else 
but  deliver  it,  never  gets  "  laid  off," 
nor  has  to  go  on  a  strike  for  higher 
wages.  Civilization  is  one  long, 
anxious  search  for  just  such  indi- 
viduals. Anything  such  a  man  asks 
shall  be  granted.  He  is  wanted  in 
every  city,  town  and  village — ia 
every  office,  shop,  store  and  fact^^y. 
The  world  cries  out  for  such:  h^.is 
needed  and  needed  badly — the  man 
who  can  "  Carry  a  Message  to 
Garcia."  9^  9^ 


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Something  ISiew  in  Restaurants 

A  Story  of  Butinets  Building 
Sam  Spalding 


BAVING  startledhisfnend 
by  these  seemingly  i>re- 
posterous  statements, 
Ad  Armitage  rapidly 
sketched  his  plan.  At  the  end  of 
fifteen  minutes  Tuttle  had  given 
an  unqualified  assent. 
The  next  morning  the  transformed 
Press  Restaurant  was  thrown  open. 
^  On  one  show  window  was  this: 

THE  PRESS  RESTAURANT 
TO  BE  RUN  "  TILL  FORBID  " 

"Till  ForWd,"  it  should  be  ex- 
I^ained,  is  commonly  used  by 
publishers  and  advertising  mei^  to 
designate  advertisements  which  are 
to  be  run  for  an  indefinite  time.  On 
the   other   window  appeared  this: 

THE  PRESS  RESTAURANT 

FRANK  TUi;prLE 

EDITOR  AND  PROPRIETOR 

ALL  THE  FOOD  THAT  'S  FIT 

TO  EAT 

HOURLY  EDITIONS 

The  glass-door  bore  the  words, 
neatly  printed  on  cardboard  by  Ad 
himself,  "If  You  Are  '  On  Space ' 
You  Can  FiU  It  Here  "—a  play  on 
words  based  on  the~  newspaper 
practise  of  employing  "  space-writ- 
ers,"   who,    instead    of    receiving 


regular  talarict,  are  paid  so  much  a 
column  for  the  space  their  work 
occupies  in  type,  after  it  has  been 
"  blue-penciled  "  by  the  editors  ^ 
The  window-spaces  contained  a 
curious  assortment  of  foods  and 
articles  to  be  found  in  newspaper- 
offices,  the  former  being  character- 
istically labeled.  The  center  of  one 
window,  for  instance,  was  occupied 
by  a  small,  old-fashioned  hand- 
press,  seemingly  fit  only  for  junk, 
but  on  which  the  first  edition  of  the 
pioneer  newspaper  of  the  city  was 
said  to  have  been  published.  This 
had  been  loaned  for  the  occasion. 
On  it  was  a  i^te  bearing  a  mold  of 
pressed  veal,  attractively  garnished 
with  green,  and  tagged,  "Pressed 
Veal,  Chicken,  Etc.,  a  Special 
Featured 

The  place  of  honor  in  jthe  other 
window  was  given  to  the  large, 
framed  original  of  a  particularly 
funny  drawing  by  one  of  the  most 
popular  of  the  city's  cartoonists. 
This  had  been  obtained  for  the  mere 
cost  of  the  framing,  the  drawing 
itself  having  been  donated  by  one  of 
Ad  Armitage's  numerous  friends 
among  the  newspaper  fraternity  «» 
Flanking  one  of  these  central  deco- 
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of  baked  hash,  the  ticket  on  it  read- 
ing, "Meat  and  Potatoes,  Etc., — 
Pied—lOc";  "in"  being  a  printer's 
tenn  for  a  lot  of  disarranged  type. 
A  platter  of  doughnuts  was  sur- 
mounted by  the  one,  expressive 
word,  "  Slugs," ^waa^ther  term  im- 
ported from  the  composing  room. 
There  were  other  examines  of  the 
good  things  to  be  had  within,  all  of 
them  more  or  less  amusingly  desig- 
nated, and  interspersed  here  and 
there  were  eye-shades,  pads  of 
"  copy-paper,"  ink-rollers,  blue 
pencils,  mallets,  electrotypes,  and 
other  tools  and  products  of  news- 
paperdom  «»  «» 

Pasted  on  a  black  "A "-shaped 
bulletin-board  which  stood  on  the 
ttdewalk,  was  a  large  sheet  of  news- 
paper-stock, with  flaring  headlines 
in  dose  imitation  of  the  style  of  type 
usually  employed  for  newspaper 
"  extras."  It  read: 

EXTRA! 

LATEST    NEWS    FliOM    THE 
INTERIOR 

Roast  Spring  Lamb    (Wall 

Street  Edition)    ....       15c 

Corned  Beef  Hash(Reprinted 

By  Request)        ....       10c 

Country  Sausage  (Clippings 
From  Our  Contemporaries)       1 5c 

Beef  Soup  (Old  Style)      .    .      10c 

Green  Peas  a  la   Cub   Re- 
porter     05c 


Cold  Slaw  ("Cut"  by  the 

City  Editor) 05c 

Strawl>erries  (Prom  Our 
%>ecial  Southern  Colres- 
pondent) 10c 

Ad  had  prepared  a  clever  invitation, 
setting  forth  humorously  what  news- 
paper workers  might  expect  to  find 
at  the  Press  Restaurant.  This  had 
been  printed  attractively,  and, 
thanks  again  to  Ad's  influence,  had 
been  distributed  in  the  various 
newspaper  offices  themselves,  only 
those  most  interested  being  reached, 
and  in  the  most  economical  manner. 
€L  In  response  to  it,  two  reporters — 
among  many  others — appeared  soon 
after  noon  on  the  opening  day.  We 
may  speak  of  them  as  Watson  of  the 
Retord'Express,  and  Foster,  of  the 
Globe,  As  they  started  to  enter,  the 
door  was  opened  for  them,  and 
Watson  nudged  his  companion  «» 
*'  Look  who 's  here!  "  he  said: 
Holding  the  door  wide  open,  and 
beaming  on  tiiem  delightedly,  was  a 
diminutive  negro  boy,  fantastically 
dressed,  on  the  breast  of  whose  gay- 
colored  coat  were  worked  the 
words,  "  Colored  Supplement/*  «» 
Entering  they  noticed  that  on  the 
long  side-walls  were  large,  framed 
engravings,  enlarged  photographs, 
etc.,  of  the  leading  lights  in  the 
local  journalistic  firmament,  past 
and  present,  as  well  as  such  national 
figures  as  Horace  Greeley»  Charles 


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A.  Dana,  the  elder  Bennett,  Henry 
Wattersoa,  and  others.  Here  and 
there  also  were  more  original  draw- 
ings, some  of  them  political  cartoons 
and  some  representative  of  the  hoit- 
known  of  tiie  various  C(dored-sup- 
plement  funny  series.  Two  con- 
siMcuous  wall  spaoes  were  occupied 
by  amusing  pictures,  etched  directly 
on  the  tinted  plaster  hy  a  couple  of 
friends  of  Armitage's,  who  drew  for 
prominent  dailies.  None  of  these 
unique  decorations  themselves  had 
cost  a  cent. 

And  eveiywhere  the  two  reporters 
turned,  their  glances  encountered 
Ad's  characteristic  signs,  all  lettered 
oo  cardboard  by  their  author. 
Foster  praited  to  the  wall  above  the 
table  nearest  the  windows. 
"  It  says, '  Preferred  Position,' "  he 
chuckled.  "  We  'd  better  take  the 
hint,  and  sit  there — there  are  a 
couple  of  empty  places.  Wd  can  look 
ardund  more  after  we  '  coal  up.' " 
CThey  took  the  seats  indicated, 
but  their  eyes  were  irredstibly 
drawn  £rom  ngn  to  ngn  down  the 
long  room,  and  they  kept  calling 
eadi  other's  attention  to  those  which 
struck  them  most. 
"  That 's  good!—'  M  Food  Served 
Here  Is  StricUy  Censored,' "  ex- 
claimed Watson. 

"And  look  at  that  oa<t—'M  Pie 
Double  Leaded,'  "  broke  m  Foster. 
€L  Thus  they  compared  notes,  laugh- 
ing until  they  were  obliged  to  wipe 


their  eyes.  Among  the  other  notices 
which  excited  their  rislbles,  one  bore 
witness  to  the  fiftct  that, '' ^v«n  Our 
ButUr  Is  Printed:'  Anodier  that, 
"  You  Choose  Yowr  Own  Assign- 
ment Here."  And  still  another 
offered,  "  Advice  to  the  Hungry  by 
Beatrice  Colfax  and  Dorothy  tdx '' 
—^he  two  waitresses  having  been  so 
nicknamed  after  the  reputed  authors 
of  columns  of  "Advice  to  the  Heart- 
Hungry  "  in  two  of  the  leading 
papers  of  tiie  dty. 

^^^  HERE  were  many  other  signs, 
\J  thepoints^of  most  of  them  be- 
ing apparent  only  to  one  familiar 
with  the  technical  language  of  news- 
paper offices.  Two  more  examines  of 
these,  however,  will  be  sufficient  9^ 
Over  the  cashier's  desk  was  the 
notice,  "  Business  Office,  Subser^- 
tions  Received.  *  Wants'  And  *  Lost 
And  Found'  AppetUe  ads  SoUdted." 
And  at  the  rear,  above  the  swing- 
door  leadingto  the  kitchen  were  two 
words  which  never  failed  to  bring  a 
smile, "  Composing  Room." 
Fc^owing  this  hint,  those  who  ate 
there  soon  began  speaking  of  the 
cook  as  the  "  compositor,"  and  of 
Tuttle  himself  as  the  "make-up 
man,"  since  to  that  newspaper  and 
magazine  functionary  is  entrusted 
^e  arrangement  of  articles,  adver- 
tisements, etc. — the  "  make-up  "  of 
the  publication.  Both  of  these  men 
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"  ticking,"  spotlessly  dean,  but  of 
the  kind  commonly  used  by  com- 
positors and  pressmen. 
When  Watson  and  Foster  finally 
turned  their  attention  to  the  table 
before  them,  the  first  thing  that 
caught  their  eyes  was  the  unique 
substitute  for  a  menu  card.  This  was 
in  the  shape  of  a  papier-mache 
"  mat "  or  matrix,  such  as  is 
common  in  newspaper  offices,  an 
impression  of  the  original  type  being 
taken  in  this  way  and  allowed  to 
dry  and  harden,  after  which  molten 
metal  is  poured  in  and  the  whole* 
page  cast  in  one  solid  plate.  These 
'*  mats "  are  tough,  thin,  paste- 
board-like shells,  on  which  the 
letters  appear  dther  raised  or 
sunken,  and  easily  readable.  In  this 
case  the  matrices  were  the  size  of 
an  ordinary  bill  of  fare,  and  the 
letters  were  in  relief.  Each  "  mat  ** 
was  framed  substantially  in  wood  «» 
**  By  George! "  exclaimed  Foster, 
"  that  *s  a  ccH-king  good  idea.  Now, 
^x^y  the  dickens  didn't  somebody 
think  of  that  befcwe?  " 
These  novel  menu-cards  gave,  of 
course,  only  the  regular,  ready- 
cooked  dishes,  which  were  supposed 
to  be  always  on  hand  at  all  seasons 
of  the  year,  together  with  the  usual 
special-order  articles.  Ad  had  headed 
them,  "  Standing  Matter,"  Not  an 
item  on  them  was  without  some 
newspaper  twist.  All  the  familiar 
dishes  were  given  new  names,  every 


one  of  Which  called  up  some  picture 
of  littered  desks,  clicking  type- 
writers or  rumbling  presses.  The  list 
of  "extras,"  and  other  special  or 
seasonable  dishes,  was  penciled  in 
blue  on  rough  sheets  of  "  cc^y- 
paper,"  such  as  reporters  use, 
attached  to  pasteboard  backers. 
These  sheets  were  changed  every 
day,  and  were  characterized  by 
peculiar  abbreviations,  punctuation 
marks,  etc.,  designed  to  make  the 
patrons  feel  at  home. 
The  comments  of  Watson  and 
Foster,  as  they  left  the  restaurant, 
were  tyiMcal. 

"  Well,  these  people  can  have  my 
small  change!  "  declared  the  former, 
enthusiastically,  "  They  *re  'in  the 
know '  all  right.  I  never  saw  any- 
thing slicker,  and  the  food  was 
mighty  good,  too." 
"  Same  here,"  agreed  Foster.  "  I 
never  got  so  many  laughs  thrown  in 
with  a  lunch  before.  And  the  blamed 
place  feds  as  comfortable  to  a  news- 
paper man  as  an  old  shoe.  The  only 
thing  I  missed  was  th^  smdl  of  ink — 
that  and  the  hullabaloo  of  the 
presses."  «»  9^ 

""^^HE  experiment  was  a  big  suc- 
^^  cess  from  the  start,  and  Tuttle 
did  a  business  the  first  day  which 
amazed  him  and  forced  him  to  send 
out  a  hurry-call  for  additional  sup- 
plies and  help.  Armitage  did  not 
appear  imtil  that  evening. 


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"Well,  Frank,  how  about  seUing 
out  now?  "  he  asked. 
"  SeUing  out!  You  could  n't  get  me 
out  of  here  with  a  Government 
mule-team,  Ad — that  is,  if  I  *m 
awake.  You  're  some  wizard,  if 
there  ever  was  one.  If  Hom  keeps  up, 
111  be  hiking  to  New  York  and 
tndding  in  the  Waldorf  to  run  as  a 
little  side-issue." 

**  You  're  satisEed,  tiien,  with  this 
rotten  location  and  the  day's  busi- 
ness? "  9^  9^ 

''111  take  it  all  back  about  the 
location.  Ad.  There  was  money  lying 
all  around  here  in  windrows,  and  I 
could  n't  see  it.  I  'U  take  off  my  hat 
to  you.  I  guess  I  did  n't  know  any 
more  about  business  than  a  sucking « 
pig.  It's  certainly  the  idea  that 
counts — ^I  've  got  that  hammered 
into  my  head  now.  Why,  say,  I  have 
fed  about  two  hundred  people  today, 
so  far,  and  have  taken  in  about 
sixty  dollars,  right  in  this  dark  hole. 
And  I  'm  looking  for  more  before  I 
shut  up.  But  that  is  n't  all.  Nottmly 
has  the  number  of  patrons  nearly 
trebled,  but  I  figure  that  the  average 
spent  by  each  one  has  risen  from 
ab9ut  twenty  to  thirty  cents."  «» 
"  That 's  fine,  Frank,  but  you  '11  do 
much  better  tiian  that  yet.  Hie 
thing  seems  to  have  tickled  the 
newspaper  people  mightily,  and 
there  are  still  a  few  himdred  of  them 
to  put  in  an  appearance.  You  had 
some  of  the  top-notchers  here,  too. 


I  just  met  Atkins,  the  managing- 
editor  of  the  Globe,  He  usually 
lunches  in  state  over  at  the  Criterion 
but  he  was  here,  and  I  never  saw 
him  so  stirred  up  over  anything.  He 
says  it 's '  a  strdce  of  genius,'  and  is 
going  to  have  it  written  up  at 
length  in  the  Globe.  It  will  make  a 
rattling  good  'story,'  and,  inci- 
dentally, bring  you  a  lot  of  curiosity- 
seekers.  I  told  you  we  'd  make  the 
Press  Restaurant  famous." 
"  I  guess  I  can  stand  the  notoriety. 
But  how  about  this.  Ad?  Several 
men  asked  me  today  if  I  was  gdng 
to  keep  open  all  night.  What 's  the 
answer?  "  «»  «» 

"  The  answer  is  Yes,  by  all  means, 
as  soon  as  you  can  arrange  to  do  it. 
A  number  of  the  saloons  in  this 
neighborhood  have  special  all-night 
licenses,  because  of  the  big  force  of 
night-workers  on  the  papers.  You 
can  easily  get  your  share  of  that 
trade,  and  many  a  man  will  thank 
you  for  giving  him  some  i^ce  to  go 
that  is  not  a  saloon.  I  must  move  on 
now,  but  first  the  Committee  on 
Ways  and  Means  is  ready  to  report." 
C'What  does  that  mean?  "  de- 
manded Tuttle. 

"  It  means,"  answered  Ad  Armitage, 
"  that  the  actual  money  spent  on  all 
these  '  extensive  improvements ' 
has  reached  the  grand  total  of — 
forty-six  dollars  and  seventy-seVen 
cents.  Here  *s  the  balance  of  your 
fifty  dollars." 


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An  Osteopath^s  Opinion  of  Chiropractic 

CUude  M.  Bancroft,  D.  O. 
Secretaiy  New  York  Osteopathic  Society 


^■^^ft^HS  buman  miiid  it  not 
M  ^^capaUe  of  recdving  the 
^L^^  facts  of  science  unless  it 
has  been'^'prepared  for 
their  reception  through  preliminary 
studies.  A  field  is  not  ready  to 
receive  seed  and  return  adequate 
crops  without  previous  tilling  and 
fertilising/  All  schools  of  chiro- 
practic accept  applicants  without 
reference  to  their  pievious  edu- 
cation; there  is  no  preliminary 
educational  standard.  Then  the 
attempt  is  made  to  i^ve  the 
applicant  a  satisfactory  education 
in  scientific  matters  within  the 
space  of  months.  The  chiropractic 
course  covers  a  period  of  days  or 
months,  as  the  case  may  be,  and  it 
Is  not  reasonable  to  suppose  that 
even  a  groundwork  can  be  supplied 
in  that  time.  This  is  conclusive 
evidence  of  the  fact  that  such 
institutions  **  grind  out "  men  with 
the  sole  purpose  of  imitating  certain 
moves  or  manipulations. 
Properly  it  is  the  function  of 
educational  institutions  to  give 
their  pufnls  a  foundation  of  facts 
upon  which  they  must  build  their 
own  theories  and  philosophies  as 
the  individual  case  may  require.  It 
must  be  true  that  the  chiropractic 


schools  are  primarily  and  abso- 
lutely concerned  with  the  teaching 
of  an  art — a  knack — and  not  a 
science.  Science  can  not  be  taui^t 
within  a  period  of  months. 

qr^ROM  the  summation  of  the 
^Xr^  knowledge  i^eaned  from  years 
of  experimentation  and  observation 
by  men  in  the  various  branches  of 
the  therapeutic  field,  a  few  facts 
beyond  controversy  are  now  known. 
These  absolute  facts  are  the  foun- 
dation stones  of  diagnons.  Diagnosis 
is  the  common  starting  point  for 
every  school  of  healing.  With  a 
limited  education  a  chiropractor 
must  be  circumscribed  in  his  aHlity 
to  analyze,  correlate,  diagnose.  In 
this  inability  to  diagnose  he  is  a 
menace  to  any  community.  Unpre- 
paredness  is  a  crime  whether  it  be 
in  a  military  sense  or  in  relation  to 
therapists  »^  Intelligent  treatment 
can  not  be  applied  tmtil  a  diagnosis 
has  been  made.  What'  does  it  mean 
to  a  community  when  incipient 
cases  of  tuberculous,  cerebro-spinal 
meningitis,  cancer  and  kindred 
conditions  are  not  discovered  early 
in  their  course? 

There  is  no  need  to  deny  that  chi- 
ropractitioners  have  accomplished 

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good;  tiie  same  may  be  said  of 
Christian  Sdenoe,  Swedish  move- 
mentSt  massage,  and  even  of  prac- 
titiooers  of  medicine.  There  need  be 
no  qaarrd  with  the  part&ular 
method  of  any  one;  time  and  the 
public  win  eventually  settle  sudi 
disputes.  No  sect  of  healers  can 
continue  to  exist,  can  stand  the  test 
of  time,  unless  its  members  are 
exponents  of  basic  truth.  Nothing 
but  the  truth  is  enduring,  and  if 
there  is  such  a  thing  as  a  diiro- 
practic  brand  of  trudi  no  man-made 
laws  can  eliminate  it.  However,  a 
man-^nade  law  enforced  by  the 
State  can  protect  the  unthinking 
public  while  search  is  bemg  made 
for  that  <diiropractic  brand  of  truth. 

'T^HE  ostensible  object  of  all 
^^  State  laws  govemmg  the 
practise  of  medicine  is  to  establiA  a 
standard  which  every  practitioner 
must  meet.  In  ^s  instance  "the 
IM-actise  of  medicine  "  means  the  use 
of  any  method  to  benefit  the  sick. 
The  fact  that  the  medical  precession 
has  used  State  examining  boards  for  - 
aggrandising  the  degree  M.  D.  does 
not  change  the  fairness  of  the 
orii^nal  concept.  The  same  edu- 
cation should  be  required  of  all 
schools  of  practise.  A  four-year 
high-school  education  should  be  a 
prerequisite,  a  reasonable  standard 
course  of  science  should  be  estab- 
lished which  every  sdioc^  of  thera- 


peutics must  reach.  Every  prac- 
titioaer  diould  be  compdled  to 
stand  the  test  of  a  standardised 
examination  in  fundamental  sub- 
jects, and  after  pasring  such  an 
examinatioQ  he  should  be  allowed  to 
practise  whatever  methods  he  may 
dioose,  and  to  call  them  by  what- 
ever ornate  name  he  wiU. 
At  the  present  time  State  laws 
demand  of  the  allopath,  the  homeo- 
path, the  edectic,  the  osteopath 
alike  a  minimum  education  of  eight 
yean.  This  is  divided  into  a  mini- 
mum of  four  years  in  high  school 
and  a  minimimi  of  four  years  in 
a  registered  and  regularly  State- 
inspected  college.  These  schools  are 
living  up  to  and  within  the  laws 
govemmg  them.  Is  it  fair  that  their 
graduates  should  be  subjected  to 
the  competition  of  those  who  spend 
one-eighth  of  that  time  in  prepa- 
ration? Is  it  fair  that  the  Stete 
should  make  standards  for  the  pro- 
tection of  the  public  and  then  fail 
to  extend  equivalent  protection  to 
those  who  meet  such  standards?  Is 
it  not  the  function  of  the  people,  of 
the  State,  to  demand  an  adequate 
education  of  chiropractors?  Or  is  it 
admitted  that  those  of  the  chiro- 
practic school  need  but  one-eighth 
the  education  required  of  licensed 
physicians  of  other  schools? 

Any  one  can  have  Money,  but  it 
takes  a  Genius  to  have  Ideas, 


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The  Worker  Plus  the  Land 

A.  M.  Sperry 


BUGLES  are  calling:  men 
are  marching;  women, 
brave  and  hopeful,  are 
silently  grieving.  The 
spirit  of  a  just  cause  sustains  our 
effort,  for  it  is  noble  to  struggle 
against  xmjust  fimitation. 
In  prepcu'ation  for  their  work, 
people  are  gathering  from  kitchen- 
gardens,  and  broader  fields,  the 
supplies  that  will  be  needed.  While 
our  soldiers  are  in  training  camps  or 
"  somewhere  in  France "  house- 
wives are  doing  their  "  bit "  to  win 
the  war  by  storing  and  preserving 
food  9^  9^ 

Never  .in  our  history  have  the  two 
essential  facts  concerning  human 
existence  stood  in  such  bold  relief. 
Man  and  land  are  evidently  prime 
factors  in  a  war  for  human  liberty. 
€1  We  need  not  underestimate  the 
ideal  qualities  of  bravery  and  patri- 
otic devotion  to  fully  appreciate  the 
necessity  for  material  things  pro- 
duced by  labor  applied  to  land  «» 
As  we  soberly  condder  the  subject, 
an  impression  is  made  that  the 
toiler  must  have  access  to  the  land 
if  materials  are  provided  to  carry  us 
through  to  victory. 
Public  attention  has  lately  been 
called  to  facts  shown  by  the  last 
census.  Of  the  twenty  million 
families  in  the  United  States,  only 


about  six  million  have  a  place  on 
earth  free  from  encumbrance,  and 
twenty  million  families  have  no 
homes  of  their  own.  Productive 
fields,  in  many  places,  are  neglected 
and  deserted.  People  are  crowded  in 
cities,  where  they  live  "  from  hand 
to  mouth."  Loss  of  a  job  would 
make  "  scrap  "  of  a  host  of  human 
*  beings.  Joined  to  the  land,  that 
same  host  would  become  an  irre- 
sistible force  in  the  world. 
Idle  and  unimproved  land,  as  a 
natural  factor  for  purposes  of  pro- 
duction, is  brought  into  proper 
relation  "with  the  human  factor — 
the  wcwker — ^by  a  v^^  simple 
process.  Natural  taxation  .  is  the 
method  by  which  desirable  results 
can  be  attained. 

Power  to  tax-  is  the  essential  power 
of  government.  When  products  <^ 
labor  are  taxed  the  price  is  raised  to 
cover  the  tax  imposed;  but  when  the 
tax  is  shifted  to  land,  its  price  is 
brought  down.  Production  is  dis- 
couraged by  taxing  articles  of  value 
resulting  from  industrial  ac^vity. 
The  door  to  natural  opportunity  is 
opened,  and  production  stimulated, 
by  taxation  of  land-values. 

IF  we  had  a  g\m  that  would  throw 
a    shell    from    New    York    to 
Berlin,  and  hit  the  "bull's  eye" 


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every  time,  terms  of  peace  would  be 
agreed  upon  before  Chri8tma8,1917. 
We  may  be  sure  that  the  productive 
energy  we  possess  will  accomplish  ' 
similar  results  if  it  can  be  freely 
applied  to  the  soil,  and  our  people 
can  get  to  the  land  without  mort- 
gaging their  future  for  a  chance  to 
work  upon  it. 

There  is  not  a  town  or  dty  in  this 
country  where  five  per  cent  of  the 
value  of  land  for  use  would  not 
provide  ample  funds  for  all  public 
requirements.  Such  value  in  land 
arises  from  presence  of  population 
and  general  activity.  Every  man, 
woman  and  child  in  the  community 
hdps  to  make  and  maintain  it. 
Land'Wdues  are  the  people's  capUtA, 
upon  which  they  are  entitled  to 
^mple  interest.  If  such  return 
could  be  made  to  them  through  tax- 
ation, there  would  be  ample  funds 
to  pay  all  community  bills  promptly, 
and  i>rovide  a  surplus.  Every 
individual  in  the  United  States  who 
owns  or  hcdds  a  portion  of  the 
earth's  surface  should  be  required  to 
make  payment  of  at  least  five  per 
cent  of  its  value  to  his  fellow 
citizens  each  year  that  he  enjoys 
such  exclusive  privilege.  We  can  not 
afford  to  grab  from  each  other  in 
these  timesi 

If  demand  for  such  payment  were 
made  and  met,  land  speculation 
would  cease,  and  t^e  evils  proceed- 
inJB   from  xmreasonable   land   mo- 


nopoly would  promptly  disappear. 
Restraint  of  individual  undertaking 
by  the  impositioo  of  taxes  would 
end.  Itwould  at  once  become  more 
profitaUe  to  produce  valuable  things 
than  to  trade  on  the  need  of  people 
to  have  land  for  use. 
The  men  of  America,  on  the  land  of 
America,  with  Uberty  to  exerdse 
their  powers  of  production,  are  to- 
day the  hope  of  the  world. 


Stand  upon  the  peak  of  some  iso- 
lated mountam  at  daybreak  .... 
and  watch  the  islanded  summits  oj 
lower  hiUs  «»  More  quiet  than  a 
windless  sea  under  the  moon  of 
midnight,  watch  when  the  first 
sunbeam  is  sent  upon  the  silver 
channels,  how  the  foam  of  their 
Ufuiulating  surface  parts  and  passes 
away,  and  down  under  their 
depths  the  glittering  city  and  green 
pasture  lie  like  Atlantis,  between 
the  white  paths  of  winding  rivers. 
.  .  .  You  shaU  see  those  scattered 
mists  rallying  in  the  ravines  artd 
floating  up  along  winding  vaUeys, 
tm  they  crouch  in  masses  irides' 
cent  with  tM  morrdng  light,  upon 
the  broad  breast  of  the  higher 
hitts,  whose  leagues  of  massy 
undulation  will  melt  Sack  into 
that  robe  of  material  lights  until 
they  fade  away,  lost  in  its  luster, 
to  appear  again  above  in  the 
serene  heaven, — Ruskin. 

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As  to  Christianity  and  this  War 

Garrett  Amos  Norton,  M.  P.,  B. 


IT  has  been  asked  for  the 
purpose  of  infonnatkm,  "Is 
it  true,  or  rightly  stated, 
that  the  European  nations 
are  Christian  nations? "  t^  The 
answer  is  that  the  prevailing  religion 
among.,  them  is  at  least  called 
Christian.  According  to  the  latest 
report  of  the  statistical  authority, 
Quattave  Sundbarg,  there  are  in 
Europe  at  the  present  time  382,500,- 
000  professed  Christians.  Forty-two 
millions  are  credited  to  the  United 
Kingdom  of  Great  Britain;  38,800,- 
000  to  France;  55,700,000  to  Ger- 
many; 44,400,000  to  Austria- 
Himgary,  25,000,000  to  Italy; 
18,608,000  to  Spam;  100,200,000  to 
Russia,  including  Russian  and  Greek 
Orthodox  Christians.  Of  these  Chris- 
tians, 179,100,000  are  Catholics, 
and  98,400,000  Protestants.  There 
are  also  in  Europe  9,950,175  Jews, 
8,200,000  Mohammedans,  and 
900,000  who  manage  somehow  to 
get  along  without  profesdng  any 
formal  religion. 

Since  this  one  overwhelming  world 
war  broke  out  among  Christians, 
there  are  many  who  say  with  no 
inconsiderable  show  of  reason,  if 
these  be  Christian  people  and  "  by 
their  fruits  shall  ye  know  them," 
then  better  no  religion  at  all  than 
such  a  religion  of  blood  and  butch- 


ery. But  let  us  view  the  case  in  the 
white  light  of  anthr<^xdogy  and  see 
if  we  get  a  point  of  view  satisfactory 
to  science  and  common  sense.  To 
him  who  has  studied  comparative 
religions  and  comes  out  of  the 
wUdenless  to  where  the  view  is  as 
dear  as  a  noonday  sun,  there  is  no 
mystery  about  this  worst  war  nor 
about  any  of  the  lesser  wars  that 
disgrace  the  pages  of  humfm  history. 
4  Thomas  Buclde,  in  his  History 
of  Civilization,  clearly  shows  that 
all  wars,  together  with  every  otiiier 
event  of  this  world,  are  results  of  an 
infinitely  long  line  of  antecedent 
causes  operating  under  inezcffable 
law.  Call  this  imiversal  law  what 
you  will,  is  it  not  better  to  give 
it  the  sd^tific  name  Energy  and 
thus  avcnd  any  more  religious  war^? 

..^•^HE  writer  has  thought  about 
v7  this  modem  butchery  among 
Christians,  according  to  the  four 
great  methods  of  reasoning;  the 
inductive  and  the  deductive,  the 
analytic  and  the  synthetic,  and  is 
in  no  way  disposed  to  lay  the  blame 
on  any  single  individuaL  It  is 
illogical  and  imsdentific  to  do  sa 
4  If  Jesus  was  reported  correcdy  as 
saying  "  I  come  not  to  bring  peace, 
but  a  sword,"  we  can  understand 
how  those  believing  in  him  can  con- 


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sistently  take  up  the  sword  and  do 
as  tbey  have  done  and  are  doing. 
There  are  only  three  classes  of  men 
whose  hands  are  not  red  with  human 
gore — the  ancient  Buddhists,  the 
Quakers  and  the  Agnostics.  Ever 
smcc  the  Christian  relii^on  was 
taken  over  by  Constantine,  who 
miirdered  his  own  mother,  and 
made  into  a  state  religion,  Chris- 
tianity has  been  a  disgrace  to 
humanly  and  the  laufl^iing-stock 
of  the  intellectual  world.  It  has 
sheltered  every  government  resting 
upon  the  divine  right  <^  kings,  and 
discouraged  every  form  of  intel- 
lectual advancement.  It  is  these  two 
that  predispose  a  nation  to  the 
barbarism  of  war. 

Clearly,  the  immediate  cause  <^  this 
war  is  monarchy;  monardiy  feeds 
upon  the  doctrine  of  the  divine  right 
of  kings,  and  the  Hebrew  scriptures 
teach  this  doctrine.  Draw  yoiu-  own 
lo^cal  conduaon. 
If  this  most  disgraceful  and  killing 
war  <^  all  history  will  result  in  the 
laying  aside  of  those  two  fighting 
bibles,  the  Hebrew  scriptures  and 
the  Koran,  and  the  taking  up  of  all 
good  literature  and  works  on 
modem  science  as  the  bible  of  a 
iHiited  world,  then  it  will  not  be  in 
vain,  but  will  be  well  worth  the 
awful  price. 

Let  all  liberal-mkxded  men  and 
women  see  to  it  that  this  reward  is 
forthcoming.  This  we  will  do.  Let 


us  kin  all  the  kings,  but  save  the 
men.  Let  us  so  spread  the  wo^p^ 
according  toQoethe,  Spencer, 
Huxley  and  Pftine  that  "grim- 
visaged  War"  will  find  no  more 
divine-right-of-kings  fodder  to  feed 
upon  t^  «» 

Truth  does  not  need  to  be  inspired, 
and  inspired  lies  never  told  the 
truth  $^  $^ 

It  is  great  to  live  and  learn.  Let  it  be 
known  that  there  never  was  a 
reasonable  religioo,  for  the  very 
reason  that  there  never  has  been 
any  great  demand  for  a  religion  that 
is  unobjectionable  to  the  rational 
faculty,  the  newest  of  man's  intel- 
lectual devdopments,  and  the  best. 
4  Tlie  age  of  reason  has  been  fondly 
dreamed  of  but  is  not  yet.  When  this 
best  of  all  dreams  comes  true,  this 
will  be  a  fine  old  world  with  heaven 
on  earth,  and  then  war  will  be  no 
more  »^  t^ 

Let  us  hope  that  this  war  will 
mark  a  great  turning  point  in 
human  history.  Let  us  as  champions 
of  hum^  rights  and  liberty  see  to  it 
that  never  again  will  the  lawless 
henchmen  of  medieval  dynastic 
despotism  throw  this  world  into  a 
war-fit  such  as  we  now  behold. 

A  New  Yeafs  Prayer. — May  this 
ivorld  cataclysm  terminate  speedily 
and  then  International  Peace  and 
Brotherhood  permeate  the  Uni' 
verse, — Joseph  J.  Lamb, 


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"  Lord  Lansdowne  oounsds  peace  J* 

— News  Item. 


Who  counsels  peace  at  this  momen- 
tous hour. 

When  God  hath  given  deliverance  to 
the  oppressed, 
^  And  to  the  injured  power  ? 

Who  counsels  peace,  when  Vengeance 
like  a  flood. 

Rolls  on,  no  longer  now  to  he  re-  . 


When  innocent  blood 
From  the  four  corners  of  the  world 

cries  out 
For  justice  upon  one  accursed  head. 

Woe,  woe  to  all,  hath  woe  and  end- 
less shame 
If  this  heroic  land. 

False  to  her  feelings  and  unspotted 
fame. 

Hold  out  the  olive  to  the  Tyrant's 
hand.  .  .  . 

Down  with  the  tyrant,  with  the  mur- 
derer down. 

— Robert  Southey. 


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AurhoF  tit  <irt'(:jf  K^*ir[liH]i(1 -a  tjfi 
teni  that  it  ltUiv\y  muiniiauUutL  fiU 
t h<j  otbt:' r  (>■  Bttm t  n n w  I'S ie hi  it" ci' 
than  2,(100  fwo  rr^pii-a  luli)  A  pnntJ 
cn\     iusplritinii     lo    th*^    Alut^ri4  tftk 

iirtpulB'^E,  KTbiTt  £Iul]Nari.t  fiiM 'if 
hiJal.  TliH  itarni.'^  Rri-ffii  mc^IJi!  Trt 
mi.^    UTid  til  Mil  BAH  J  a  4k{  t^hers    *IUtrt- 


m*;" (111 Milt,  >    VAIt. 


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FOLKS  NOT  AFRAID 
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**f  speak  Truthn  not  so  much  as  rwovid,  hut  as  much 
as  I  dare;  and  dare  a  little  more  as  I  grow  older  J"* 

Felicitations 


Felix  Shay 


The  Buffer-Bluffer 

"^^p^^^T  the  risk  of  inviting 
^L^M  anathema,  I  intend  to 
W  m  betray  an  Advertittng 
-^-^  ■*  Secret  «^*^ 
Once  or  twice  a  year,  I  viait  the 
advertising  caiMtals  of  the  world. 
New  York,  Chicago,  Philadelphia, 
Boston,  St.  Louis,  and  call  on  the 
Wonder-Workere.  Then  I  am  Am- 
bassador Extraordinary  and  Envoy 
Plenipotentiary  of  ROYCROPT,  the 
greatest  lil'  result-getter  on  earth. 
My  head  is  full  of  tactics,  **  How  to 
Approach  and  Gas  Ifim  While  in  a 
Sitting  Position" ;  my  mouth  is  full 
of  dijdomatic  suavity;  and  my 
pockets  full  of  rate-cards. 
Sometime^  I  get  some  businessi 
The  proceedings  develop  in  this 
fashion:  I  write  to  the  hundred 
Advertiang  Managers  of  as  many 
concerns,  most  of  whom  I  know,  and 
say  I  will  be  in  town  all  next  week 
to  solicit  business.  May  I  call? 
That 's  my  warning  I 
If  there's  anything  ^soming  to 
ROYCROPT  it  gives  the  A.  M.  a 


chance  to  shape-it-up,  tcv— ah! — 
psychologically  prepare  the  Boss's 
mindl  If  not,  well,  the  A.  M.  knows 
what  to  say  to  mel 
I  never  crowd  themi 
Generally  I  get  100  per  cent  replies 
on  my  note  of  warning.  Some  say, 
"  Pull  oi  war  orders."  Some,  "  No 
raw  material  till  the  war  b  over." 
Some,  "Come  on  down  and  prove  it 
to  me."  Some,  "  The  bank  she  bust, 
all  the  magazines  are  scheduled 
for  the  next  six  months — but  come 
over  anyway  and  report  in  on  Ali 
Baba's  general  conduct."  Then 
there 's  usually  one  or  two  from  the 
Rubber  Stamps:  "We  respectfully 
refer  you  to  our  agents — "  And 
usually  one  from  Mr.  Bimk:  "  You 
will  only  waste  your  time  and  mine, 
etc.  My  mind  is  made  up — !"  Of 
course  there 's  an  encouraging  repre- 
sentation from  the  Blessed  Boys  who 
write,  "  The  order  is  waiting  for  you, 
but  dam'  your  hide,  you  have  to 
come  get  it — and  besides  I  have 
something  I  want  to  say  to  you." 
Altogether,  it  is  rather  a  jolly  Little 
Adventure   in  American  Business. 


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Of  course  it  works  out  exactly  as 
planiied.  Unless  I  get  the  invitation- 
direct,  I  stay  away.  This  gives  me 
say  fifty  appointments  from  one 
hundred  prospects,  which  keep  me 
very  busy  for  a  weekl 
All  of  which  is  the  preamble! 
Last  month  I  was  out  on  such  a  trip. 
At  eleven  on  a  certain  morning, 
I  had  an  appointment  with  the 
Advertising  Manager  of  a  National 
Advertised  Commodity;  one  of  the 
ones  that  was  put  over  long  ago,  and 
stays  put  I 

I  arrived  early  and  sat  in  the 
Waiting  Room — ^a  disorderly  and 
impleasant  hcde,  by  the  bye — to 
arrange  some  memoranda  before 
sending  in  my  name.  There  were  a 
half-dozen  Advertising  Solicitors 
cooling  their  heels;  some  others 
came  and  went.  I  watched  the  play. 
^They  all  wanted  to  see  "Mr. 
Jenkins '' !  Mr.  Jenkins  was  the 
Important  Man!  Mr.  Jenkins  would 
see  them  in  27  minutes.  Mr.  Jenkins 
would  see  them  at  six  minutes  past 
four  next  Tuesday.  Mr.  Jenkins 
would  see  them  next  fall,  on  Sept.  1 1 
at  9:45.  Mr.  Jenkins  was  busy!  «» 
'T  was  quite  plain  that  Mr.  Jenkins 
was  very  much  the  Whole  Works. 
He  had  my  number,  I  was  scared 
cold,  and  I  did  n't  want  to  see  him  at 
all!  9^  9^ 

I  have  always  wanted  to  meet  an 
Important  Man.  He  is  the  chap  that 
appeals  to  me.  The  owners  of  great 


business  enterprises  are  invariably 
a  disappointment.  1  have  talked  with 
and  visited  Daniel  Willard,  Presi- 
doit  of  the  Baltimore  and  Ohio, 
and  F.  E.  Underwood,  President  of 
the  Erie  Railroad;  they  're  not 
important  men;  at  least  not  to 
judge  them  by  their  actions.  They  're 
plain  men.  William  Noonan,  Presi- 
dent of  the  Buffalo,  Rochester  and 
Pittsburgh,  invites  me  to  come  and 
"ride  a  real  saddle-horse — ^foronce!" 
He 's  not  important;  he 's  too 
approachable  to  be  important.  John 
H.  Patterson,  President  National 
Cash  Register  Company,  Ogden 
Armour  of  Armour  S:  Company,  and 
Hugh  Chalmers,  write  me  friendly 
letters  of  encouragement;  they  say 
that  ROYCROFT  is  a  reaTla-la-la 
Magazinelet.  But  would  you  call 
men  like  that  important?  Are  they 
chilly,  discourteous? 
I  want  to  know! 

Therefore  I  dedred  to  get  one  peek 
at  Jenkins-the-Great,  who  through 
a  glass  partition  made  strong  men 
weep!  I  got  the  peek  all  right — ^like 
this.  When  I  sent  my  name  in  to  Bill 

,  Advertising  Manager,  and  he  'd 

come  out  and  "  Well-wdl-wcll'd  " 
all  over  the  premises,  and  escorted 
me  to  a  padded  chair,  and  plied  me 
with  Cheroots;  and  Wrigley's  and 
Life-savers  when  he  learned  I  was 
off  the  noxious  weed  for  more  than 
five  months  (seems  like  five  years!), 
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whisper.  "Bill — wlio  is  Jenkins?" 
H  *'  Jenkins?  Oli,  be  'ft  my  Tim^'- 
Saver.  Just  a  kid  I  hired.  He  sees  all 
the  fellows  who  must  see  somebodyt 
and  gives  me  a  diance  togo  on  with 
my  job!" 

Then  ^11  patibed  a  buttoa  and 
Jenkins*  whose  very  name  thrilled 
me,  appeared.  Honest  he  did,  he 
wore  tliose  bull-bone^;>ectacles,  and 
he  was  serwus*  ^ms  i^ain  he 
^Ad  mastered  the  hi^ier  education. 
His  title  was  "Advertising  Man- 
ager." Bill  said  sol 
When  he  left  I  queried,  "  Whatde- 
yemean  Advertising  Manager—? 
Where  do  ycu  come  in?" 
"  Who,  me?  Oh,  I  ain't  got  time  for 
titles!" 

"  I  know,  but  does  the  kid  manage 
your  advertinng  these  days?" 
"  Manage  our  advertising?  Who,  the 
Idd?  Oh,  Helll  Gather  round  me, 
little  ones!  That  kid  costs  me  $25  a 
week  and  he  manages  that  Title,  his 
College  Dijdoma,  a  dean  Desk- 
Blotter  every  morning,  the  Daily 
Newspapers^  and  he  '  sees '  adver- 
tising Solicitors.'  He  's^the  Buffer, 
/'ma  bu^  man!" 
Then  I  told  it  to  him! 
"  Bill,  here 's  vi^iere  I  lose  your  sweet 
little  advertinng  order!  You're  a 
false  front  and  a  disgrace  to  Adver- 
tising. You  're  afraid  to  meet  your 
issues!  You  want  to  be  popular,  and 
so  you  don't  like  to  say  '  I  won't 
see  him! '  One  day  a  week  would  be 


enough  to  receive  all  the  worth- 
while solicitors!  Your  time  is  not  so 
goldamed  valuable  but  that  it 
would  pay  to  meet  the  Live  Ones, 
the  Comers.  You  'd  learn  a  whole 
lot  from  them,  I  tdl  yeu  that.  As  it 
is,  you 're  old  and  stale,  and  you  hire 
this  Johnny  Funnyface  to  protect 
you.  I  'm  going  to  donate  a  bed  in 
the  Bast  Aurora's  Old  Men's  Home, 
and  I  bet  you  a  five-cent  dgar 
you  11  be  around  to  daim  it  within 
five  years.  You  better  buck-up  1 
You're  beginning  to  settle  down 
into  your  pairts.  Gravity  11  get  yoa, 
sure!  You  ought  to  be  ashamed  of 
yourself  I  Advertising  made  you  and 
you  should  be  jealous  of  high 
standards  in  Advertising.  It  is  the 
newest  of  the  professions;  don't 
burlesque  it.  Give  it  a  chancel 
Many  very  able  men  have  come  in. 
They  are  proud  to  be  Advertising 
Managers.  And  here  you  give  this 
stiff-necked  Kid  the  empty  title 
of  Advertising  Manager  of  a  big 
whopping  business  like  yours,  and 
make  a  joke  of  dozens  of  yoimg 
fdlows  who  hold  down  real  Jobs. 
Think,  man!  Some  Prospective 
Advertiser  wilT  form  his  opuiion  of 
Advertising  after  a  talk  with  that 
betitled  office  boy  of  yours;  and  his 
oinnion  of  Advertising  will  be  as  sad 
as  mine  is  of  Jenkins.  Moreover, 
you  criminally  waste  the  time  of 
busy  salesmen,  when  you  fix  it  up 
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That-ovLt'there,  Either  you  should 
give  up  your  jo^,  or  fill  it!  Bill, 
I  *m  ashamed  of  youl  " 
"Well,   if  you   put   it   like   that, 
dam*  if  I  ain't  ashamed  of  myself  1  " 

There  She  Blows  I 

^^^■^^OR  y'ars,  and  y'ars,  and 
I  I  y'ars  and  y'ars,  that 
B^^^  ding-busted  old  shell- 
4^^^  back,  that  lobscoused 
and  slumgullioned  son  of  a  sea- 
cook,  Bill  Graham,  sailed  the  Briny. 
Some  say  he  was  Shipmates  with 
Cap'n  Flint  and  Long  John  Silver 
and  Billy  Bones.  (This  is  probably  a 
calumny  growing  out  of  the  fact 
that  he  is  now  in  the  Hotel  business). 
They  say  he  dropped  over  the  side 
of  the  Mary,  Mary,  Quite  Contrary, 
one  misty  night,  with  more  than  his 
share  of  the  booty;  hove  to  and  put 
to  shore  in  Cap'n  Flint's  dory. 
He  dropped  anchor  at  Blue  Point, 
Long  Island,  so  the  story  goes 
(though  there  doesn't  seem  to  be 
any  such  place  on  the  mapl)  Like 
Robinson  Crusoe,  he  built  himself  a 
domicile  from  wreckage  which  he 
found  on  the  shore.  He  named  the 
structure  Anchorage  Inn.  This  was 
to  signify  that  he  was  In  and  had 
Anchored  «»  «» 

"  Now,"  said  Old  Bill  Graham  to 
the  tattooed  parrot  on  his  left  arm, 
"  I  am  all  Hunky-Dory." 
Then  he  named  the  seven  days  of 


the  week  Friday,  and  proceeded  to 
sell  Fish  Dinners. 

Of  course   the   New   Yorkers   fell 
for  itl  «»  «» 

Imagine  an  old  sailor,  with  die 
reputation  of  Iseing  a  Pirate,  sittinit 
in  the  shade  of  an  upturned  dory, 
spinning  yams  to  himself  and  seem- 
ing to  enjoy  it.  The  Long  Island 
roads  were  blocked  ^th  Forty- 
Second  Street  toiuists,  gcnng  down 
to  try  to  overhear  what  Bill  was 
saying.  New  Yorkers  love  Pirates! 
Of  course  Bill  sold  all  of  them  fish 
dinners  at  so  much  per.  He 's  a 
knowin'  Old  Salt,  is  Billl 
Anchorage  Inn  is  now  the  only 
recognized  breeze  in  your  teeth, 
waves  across  your  deck.  Half-way 
House  between  Times  Square  and 
Davy  Jones'  Locker. 
There  the  Manhattanites  mingle 
with  the  Mermaids  I 

BILL  is  a  shrewd  and  observin' 
Old  Cuss.  One  season  when 
business  was  dull,  it  so  happened 
he  was  walking  up  and  down  the 
seashore  in  moody  silence.  Where 
a  wreck  was  washed  in  he  found  a 
cargo  of  1000  barrels  of  cement. 
Immediately  Bill  got  an  Idea.  He 
set  to  work  and  built  a  Cement  ' 
Sphinx  in  his  front  yard,  twice  as 
large  as  the  Egyptian  Hul  Why? 
Well,  shiver  my  scuttlebutts,  but 
you're  a  simple  one!  Hadn't  Bill 
seen    a    thousand    New    Yorkers 


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looking  into  a  Cellar,  to  tee  what 
they'  could  see?  To  boom  buaness. 
that  '8  why  Bill  built  the  Sphinx! 
Bill  put  a  sign  on  the  Sphinx  to  this 
c£EBCt,   "She  who  cUmbs    to  the 
^hinx's  Head,  A  mittUmate  wiU 
surely  wed!*' 
Sbades  of  Holeproof  1 
AH  the  c^ls  tried  it! 
Shades  of  McCallum! 
Blue,  Azure,  Piidc,  Taupe,  Lavender, 
Sea-GrreenI  «»  «» 

"  You  |,u8t  know  she  wears  them! " 
41  Of  course  these  days  Bill's  Front 
Yard  is  congested  with  watchful 
waiters,  and  people  who  are  not 
afraid  of  an  Idea! 

Once  a  year  Bill  Graham  gets  out  a 
copy  of  The  Log,  (not  mailed  on 
request;  Sumner  won't  hava  it!) 
which  prints  and  publishes  and 
makes  known  all  the  personal, 
private,  humorous,  witty,  pointed, 
and  dull  remarks,  that  have  been 
passed  out  at  the  Anchorage  Inn 
the  twelve  months  previous. 
Bill  sent  me  a  copy  of  the  1917  Log! 
^  Oh,  my  goodness! 
The  only  reason  in  the  world  that 
I  mention  this  to  you  is,  I  feel  we 
Original  Thinkers  should  know 
each  other.  "  Shake  hands  with  Bill 
Graham — ding  bust  'm! " 

Art  thou  a  Slave?  If  thou  art,  thou 
canst  not  be  a  Friend,  Art  thou  a 
Tyrant?  If  thou  art,  thou  canst  not 
have  Friends.^Nietzsche. 


Marsh  Wilder 
and  Bunny 

-I         -  ITTLB    Marsh   IVUder 

■  ^  is    dead;    so    is    John 

■  A  Bunny.  Yet  last  night 
^^^^^  I  saw  them^They  were 
playing  practical  jokes  and  having  a 
high  old  time  together.  Was  I 
dreaming?  Did  I  have  the  wooly- 
willies?  No — ^I  was  attending  the 
Movies  «»  9^ 

Marsh  visited  Roycroft  a  score  of 
times  and  gave  us  many  free 
"  Recitals."  He  was  a  laugh-maker; 
a  joke-retailer.  He  "  appeared  be- 
fore all  the  Crowned  Heads  of 
Europe,"  literally.  He  was  tremen- 
dously popular  here. 
Marsh  was  a  cripple,  terribly  crip- 
pled, and  dwarfed.  He  measured 
say  three-foot-two.  But  his  heart 
and  mind  were  man's  size  and  more. 
^  John  Bunny!  Who  does  n't  know 
John  Bunny?  Probably  Bunny  was 
the  first  Movie  Star  to  secure  an 
international  reputation.  His  roimd 
wrinkly  face  made  all  the  World 
laugh  9^  9^ 

Here  before  me  is  a  picture  of 
Bunny  and  Elbert  Hubbard  taken 
in  front  of  the  Lambs  Club.  Bunny 
is  trying  to  be  very  dignified.  Even 
then  he  's  funny.  There  *s  a  smile 
flirting  roimd  the  comers  of  Mr. 
Hubbard's  mouth,  as  he  and  Bunny 
seem  trying  to  gaze  each  other  out 
of  countenance. 


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1p>AST    night    I    nw    Marth 

X<  Wilder  and  Bunny! 

They  played  pinode   and  Bunny 

won,  and  winked»  and  snickered, 

and  haw-hawed  and  "  made  faces  " 

at  Marsh;   while  the   small   bqys 

raised  the  roof.  Tlien  they  played 

pool  together.  Marsh  hit  the  balls 

one  solid  blow,  and  the  entire  fifteen 

ambled  into  the  pockets. 

How  we  shouted — I 

Bunny  looked  as  though  he  was 

about  to  faint  I  Marsh  climbed  up 

and  sat  on  the  edge  of  the  pool 

table;  he  grimaced,  and  diortled, 

and  chuckled,  and  let  Bimny  know 

that  he  was  not  in  it! 

Then  they  had  a  flirtation  with  an 

actres^Jady,  twice  the  size  of  either 

of  them!  TTie  lady  had^a  father — 

with  a  temper!  Gracious  me! — and 

later,  it  developed,  a  giant  <^  a 

husband  «»  «» 

To  get  away  from  these  domestic 

ogres.  Bunny  picked  Marsh  up  in 

his  arms  and  carried  him  out  of  the 

scene,  on  his  heaving  bosom!  Oh  my, 

it  was  funny!  The  boys  said  so,  and 

I  know  they  kno^! 

As  for  me,  I  heard  the  first  blizzard 

of  the  year  moaning  outside,  and  I 

could  n't  see  the  film  for  the  blur  in 

my  eyes.  ... 

All  the  time  I  was  thinking,  "Marsh 

and  Bunny  are  dead — and  buried!" 

Suffragettes  walk  in  where  Soldiers 
fear  to  tread. 


Lift  Up  Your 
Ebenezer 

OF  the  Old  Time  Cooper- 
ative Communities,  that 
organized  and  prospered 
in  America  the  liist  half 
of  the  Nineteenth  Century,  but  one 
remains  a  "  going  ooncem.".Quakers, 
Shakers,  Pttfectionists,  Insfnraldofi- 
alists,  Rappites,  Fourierites,  Owen- 
ites,  all  surrendered  to  the  near-by 
dties.  The  young  fc^ks  went  away, 
and  forgot  to  come  back.  Wherever 
the  Communities  are  still  inhabited, 
the  inhaUtants  are  a  dozen  or  so 
feeble  old  men  and  women  left  alone 
with  their  dreams. 
The  exception  is  the  Amana  Com- 
munity some  mneteen  miles  outside 
of  Cedar  Rainds,  Iowa.  These  frugal 
and  industrious  people  have  accumu- 
lated about  26,000  acres,  and  the 
land  and  improvements  are  vahied 
at  several  millions  of  dollars.  Quite 
apparently,  they  are  prosperous  «» 
Tliey  go  along  about  their  business 
and  seem  to  defy  the  Natural  Law, 
which  is  that  the  Strong  only  shall 
survive.  They  practise  Cooperation 
and  share  with  the  Weak.  Though  I 
am  inclined  to  believe  they  also 
practise    Competition — ^but   not 
among    themselves!    Which    is    a 
pleasant  departure  in  practise,  but  a 
paradox  in  prindple! 
In  1905  they  resisted  and  won  a  suit 
to  dissolve  their  Community. 

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The  contentioo  was  that  while  they 
were  incorporated  solely  as  a 
rdiglous  and  benevolent  body,  they 
were  illegaUy  carrying  on  a  ceneral 
business  *^  «» 

The  Amaaites  seem  to  be  wdl 
satisfied.  Ptehaps  they  wiH  endure 
forever.  Perhaps  this  one  isolated 
Community  of  Brotherly  Love  will 
prove  to  be  the  stone  upon  whidi 
we  shan  build  the  New  World! 
PerhaiMl  «»  »^ 

One  night  last  winter  I  cHmbed 
aboard  the  train  for  Buffalo.  This 
train  comes  up  from  Baltimore 
through  Pennsylvania  and  on  into 
Buffalo  by  the  back  door!  The 
Oldest  Inhabitant  of  East  Aurora 
was  my  companion.  We  found  seats 
in  the  middle  of  the  car. 
Across  the  aide,  two  by  two,  sat  a 
score  or  more  of  Communists  from 
one  of  the  "  Pennsylvania  Dutch  ** 
phalanxes.  The  women  seemed  i^ain 
and  simple-minded;  well-fed,  pladd, 
pudgy.  They  never,  never  get  ex- 
cited or  scold — never!  They  wore 
tight  little  black  txnmets,  shawls, 
wool  mitts,  and  heavy-soled  shoes. 
The  men  wore  the  big  black  hats, 
and  hickory  shirts.  Their  hands  were 
brown  and  gnarled;  the  nails  were 
broken  from  too  hio-d  work.  They 
sat  and  twiddled  their  thimibs  and 
gazed  at  the  roof.  Their  hair  hung 
in  shaggy  ends,  a  ragged  fringe 
bdow  the  hat-line.  Their  heads  were 
well  carved,  and  in  the  outlines  I 


seemed  to  see  faintly  the  visages  of 
brainy  forebears.  Their  faces  were 
serene  and  peacefuL  Their  eyes  shed 
a  kindly  Hght.  When  they  spoke  it 
was  pleasantly,  with  grave  cour- 
tesy. To  me,  they  seemed  to  be 
people  who  had  forgotten  their 
purpose;  where  they  were  going  and 
why.  The  Leader  was  dead;  without 
him  they  were  harmless,  passionless. 
They  spent  the  long  dajrs  tnring  to 
remember  his  Fiery  Words — at- 
tempting to  transmit,  without  fervor 
or  conviction,  his  Inspired  Message. 
€1  Whilel  was  thinking  my  thoughts 
and  pfu«<iBng  my  visions,  the  Oldest 
Inhabitant  nudged  me  with  his 
elbow,  and  whispered  through  his 
whiskers  in  my  ear,  "  They  usta  be 
lots  of  them  fdlers  doum  at  the 
Settlement."  «»  «» 
"  '  The  Settiement  7  What  settle- 
ment? "  «»  «» 

"  Down  yere  by  Ebeneser."  Then 
he  added  with*  spirit,  "  An'  they 
were  Good  People,  too!  " 
I  waited  for  the  story.  I  recognised 
the  signs.  Of  course  it  camel  I  had 
always  labeled  the  Oldest  Inhabitant 
a  garrulous  old  Yank;  he  looked 
like  one,  and  talked  like  one. 
People  grow  to  look  like  their 
ndghbors.  Cy  Rosen,  Boss  Roycroft 
Printer,  looks  like  a  Yank,  with 
blue-nosed  Methodist  trinunings; 
though  his  name  recommends  him 
fraternally  to  our  Jewish  brethren. 
Fact  is,  Cy  was  bom  in  Sweden  of 


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Swedish  parents,  and  is  what  we 
Americans  familiarly  call  a  *'square- 
head."  When  Oldest  Inhabitant 
opened  up  he  told  me,  to  my  sur- 
prise, that  he  was  German-bom. 
("  Und  damn  the  Kaiserl  ") 
Here  's  his  yam,  as  I  remember  it, 
with  only  a  part  of  the  dialectic 
impedimenta. 

^V\Y  father  and  mother  had 
'*-^^  seven  children.  I  was  the  old- 
est. We  came  away  from  Germany 
along  about  1849,  following  that 
Revolution  which  fell  flat.  I  suppose 
I  was  about  ten  or  eleven  years  old 
then.  My  father  brought  us  all 
along  to  Buffalo  ^with  a  lot  of  other 
German  emigrants.  Then  he  got 
himself  a  job  on  a  farm  out  near 
Blmy  «»  «» 

The  farmer  gave  us  a  shack  down 
imder  the  hill,  and  we  built  benches 
and  a  table  and  some  bunks;  we 
had  bedclothes.  There  we  set  up 
housekeeping.  My  father  worked 
for  him  all  that  summer.  Now  and 
then  my  mother  helped.  The  kids 
used  to  weed  the  garden  and  take 
out  and  bring  in  the  cows. 
My  father  spoke  just  a  few  words  of 
English.  The  farmer  did  n't  pay  my 
father  anything.  Each  month  he 
put  him  off.  He  said  he  'd  have  to 
sell  the  season's  crops  first.  In  the 
fall,  when  th^  crops  were  sold,  -my 
father  demanded  his  pay.  The 
farmer  told  him  that  he  hadn't 


earned  enough  for  the  food  that  he 
and  all  them  kids  ate;  for  him  to 
git  and  gol 

There  wasn't  anybody  we  knew. 
My  father  could  n^t  get  work.  When 
the  winter  settled  down,  we  just 
about  starved.  One. day  when  my 
father  was  asking  for  work  over 
around  Spring  Brook,  somebody 
told  him  that  maybe  he  could  get 
work  at  "  The  Settlement." 
The  Settlement  was  at  Ebenexer. 
My  father  walked  down  there  in  a 
snowstorm  and  asked  for  work  at 
the  Big  House  «»  They  said  "Cer- 
tainlyl  "  Two  of  the  young  fellows 
hitched  up  a  team-sled  and  came 
over  and  got  my  mother  and  the 
seven  kids,  and  what  we  owned,  and 
piled  us  all  in  and  took  us  back  with 
them  »^  9^ 

They  gave  us  a  log-house  just  as 
good  as  any  of  them  had,  with  a 
dirt  floor  and  an  attic.  Tliere  were 
bunks  and  a  good  timber  table  and 
benches,  and  a  fireplace  up  against 
the  back  wall.  They  gave  us  plenty 
of  firewood  and  warm  coats  for  two 
or  three  of  the  kids,  made  from  wool 
woven  at  their  own  mill.  They  ^Irere 
mighty  nice  about  it,  I  tell  you. 
That  winter  my  father  chopped 
some  wood  for  them,  and  helped 
with  the  chores,  but  there  was  not 
enough  work  to  keep  all  the  farm 
men  busy.  When  spring  came,  my 
father  went  into  the  fields. 
You  know  the  folks  at  the  Settle- 


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meat  were  much  better  farmers  than 
their  neighbors.  They  grew  better 
crops.  They  were  earlier  crops,  too. 
For  instance:  I  remember  that  they 
used  to  get  a  great  big  smarfiing 
crop  of  winter  wheat.  This  is  how 
they  used  to  do  it.  They  had  {denty 
of  diildren  around  the  place;  a  lot  of 
them  belonged  to  the  Settlement 
Folks  and  a  whole  lot  more  were 
adopted.  They  *d  take  any  little  kid 
in  that  didn't  have  a  good  home, 
and  ^ve  him  a  good  home.  Winter 
wheat  must  be  planted  and  allowed 
to  siMt>ut  before  the  snow  comes; 
but  it  oughtn't  to  get  more  than 
the  second  joint  above  the  ground. 
The  idea  is  to  get  a  strong  root  that 
wiU  endure  the  winter.  But  if  too 
much  of  the  stalk  comes  above  the 
ground,  it  will  freeze  and  kill  the 
root.  Nevertheless,  the  Settlement 
Folks  used  to  plant  their  winter 
wheat  very  early.  Then  they  used  to 
let  each  little  kid  lead  a  sheep  up 
and  down  a  row  of  sprouts  and  the 
sheep  would  nibble  the  wheat  down 
dose  to  the  ground.  It  would  grow 
up,  and  the  sheep  would  nibble  it 
down.  Of  course  all  the  time  the 
roots  were  spreading,  and  when  the 
snow  settled  there  were  fine  strong 
roots,  and  at  the  same  time  not 
more  than  two  joints  of  the  wheat 
above  the  ground.  Therefore  when 
the  Spring  Simshine  came,  the  Settle- 
ment crops  would  be  a-growing, 
jumping  right  up  out  of  the  ground 


before   t'other    farmers    knew    it 
was  Spring. 

My  father  and  mother  and  us  kids 
lived  there  for  a  number  of  years.* 
We  lived  in  the  log-house  but  we  ate 
in  the  General  Dlning-Room.  All 
the  women  ate  at  one  table  and  the 
men  at  another.  The  Elders  used  to 
say,  "  to  avoid  trifling  and  foolish 
conversation."  j»  j» 
My  mother  died  there. 
Then  something  happened,  I  don't 
know  what,  and  the  whole  dam 
Settlement  picked  up  and  went  out 
to  I-o-way.  I  was  coming  seventeen 
just  about  the  time  they  moved — 
there  was  a  girl  down  East  Aurory 
way  that  I  had  my  eye  on — and  I 
decided  to  stay;  and — here  I  ami  j» 

%V\ELL,  I  neverl  Certainly  I 
^^^  am  one  of  those  destined  to 
find  "  tongues  in  trees,  Books  in 
the  running  brooks,  Sermons  in 
stones — "  I  thought  I  knew  this 
neighborhood  as  I  know  the  Bible, 
and  here  was  another  chapter  of 
local  history  with  an  International 
Tinge.  Immediately,  I  began  to 
investigate  the  Settlement.  To  save 
you  the  suspense  permit  me  to 
ad^se  you,  "  The  Settlement "  of 
Ebeneser,  New  York,  and  the 
Amana  Commimists  of  Iowa,  who 
still  survive,  are  one  and  the  same. 
There  must  be  something  about  the 
air  of  Erie  County  that  makes 
Communities  thrive. 


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I  always  thought  the  village  of 
Ebenezer  had  been  named  after 
some  prominent  farmer;  I  liked  to 
.think  it  had.  I  asked  Ali  Baba— 
Baba  knows  everything.  "  Well, 
that 's  easy,"  he  bluffed,  tucking  his 
thumbs  in  behind  his  suspenders. 
"  Y'  see  Ebeneser  is  named  after  a 
flunous  kind  of  German  onion  they 
grow  down  there.  People  come  for 
miles  to  get  *em!  '* 
He  said  just  thatl 

I  find  that  the  word  Ebenezer  has  a 
Biblical  significance;  it  is  an  old 
Hebrew  word,  Eben-ha-ezer, 
Broadly  speaking,  it  agnifies  a 
memorial  of  divine  deliverance;  a 
shaft,  a  temple  of  worship.  "Lift  up 
your  Ebenezer  unto  your  God!  '*  *^' 
The  religious  zeal  that  named 
Bethlehem,  Pa.,  Bethlehem,  and 
Nazareth,  Pa.,  Nazareth,  named 
Ebenezer,  N.  Y.,  Ebenezer.  The 
Commimists  of  the  Ebenezer  Settle- 
ment were  Germans  from  Rhenish 
Prussia  and  Hesse  who  came  here 
to  escape  religious  persecution. 
They  purchased  8000  acres  of  land 
outside  Buffalo,  Seneca  Indian  land. 
Their  representatives  came  in  1842, 
and  made  the  preliminary  arrange- 
ments. The  colony,  variously 
estimated  at  from  1000  to  2000 
persons,  came  over  two  years  later. 
They  called  themselves  a  Commun- 
ity of  Inspiration. 

They  built  a  saw-mill,  a  grist-mill,  a 
tannery,  a  woolen  factory,  and  one 


general-purpose  mill  along  the   ro- 
mantic Cazenovia;  the  same  stream 
which  fiows  through  East  Aurora. 
They  built  themselves  log  ho«ises 
and  later  large  frame  houses,  which 
accommodated  several  families.  One 
kitchen  prepared  the  food  for  sev- 
eral families  and  one  dining-room 
served  them  aU.  Their  living  apart- 
ments were  separate. 
They  believed  in  the  Divine    In- 
spiration of  the  truly  godly  and  the 
perfectly  pious.  They  ^lared  and 
shared  alike  in  work  and  its  rewards; 
they  provided  for  the  young  and  the 
old,    the    sick    and    the    helpless. 
Pauperism  and  crime  were  unknown 
among  them.  Their  disdpUne  was 
severe  and  strict.  Their  morals  were 
above    reproach.    They    were    on 
friendly  terms  with  their  neighbors. 
They    prospered.    Thdr    products 
were  made  as  well  as  they  could  be 
made  and  gained  more  than  local 
reputation.  For  ten  or  twelve  years 
they  lived  in  peace. 
Then  unrest  came. 

J^v  HE  younger  children  were 
V^  growing  into  men  and  women. 
The  city  of  Buffalo  just  a  few  miles 
away  was  an  attractive,  beckoning 
town.  Like  all  other  communities, 

the    Settlement     discovered ^that 

although  the  Elders  had  tired  of  the 
strife  of  lifie  and  were  willixig  to  step 
out  of  the  coa^)etition,  the  young 
people  wanted  to  go  where  the  race 


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was  to  liie  swift  and  tiie  battle  to  die 
strong.  There  was  disintegration. 
Bpys  and  prls  left  the  Settlement 
by  the  figbt  of  the  moon,  never, 
never  to  return. 

On  top  of  this,  there  arose  a  oertain 
amount  of  jealousy  among  the  near- 
by    manufacturei^    and    farmers. 
Prosperity  is  always  envied.  Unjust 
rumors    were    bruited    abroad    to 
which,  of  course,  the  ProvindaHsts 
listened!  The  man  who  presumes  to 
Eve  in  a  manner  not  exactly  Uke  his 
noghbors  is  always  suspected  of 
some  terriUe  secret  deeds  j»  The 
Settlement's  State  Charter  was  for 
sxteen  years,  and  there  was  a  seri- 
ous doubt  that  it  would  be  renewed. 
Parmershave  votes  and  influence  j» 
These  conditions,  with  the  cfesire  for 
more  land,  and  I  am  inclined  to 
think  more  particularly  with  desire 
to  get  away  from  the  large  city 
which  was  growing  up  alongside  of 
them,  led  the  Communists  to  sell 
their  Bbenezer  piopeity  and  pur- 
chase a  large  tract  of  land  in  Iowa. 
TUs  came  to  pass  about  1856. 
To  give  you  a  sample  of  the  quality 
of  the   people  who  made  up  the 
Settlement,  I  cite  you  this  trans- 
action. There  was  a  minor  panic  in 
1856-*57,  the  year  they  were  trying 
to   sell   their    Bbenezer    property. 
They  scdd  some  of  their  land  at  a 
reasonable  figure.  Later,  they  had  to 
sacrifice  at  a  lower  figure.  But  after 
all  their  Bbeneser  lands  were  sold. 


the  Communists,  of  their  own  free 
will,  reimbursed  in  full  the  people 
who  originally  had  paid  a  dollar  an 
acre  more  for  the  land  than  the  man 
who  eventually  bought  tiie  cheapest 
parcel  j»  j» 

Next  summer  I  am  going  out  to 
Iowa  to  visit  the  Amana  Com- 
munists and  stay  a  week  with  them 
if  they  will  let  me.  As  a  sort  of 
spiritual  preparation,  next  Sunday 
I  am  going  a  half  dosen  miles 
down  the  road  to  Bbenezer;  I 
intend  to  make  the  Oldest  Inhabi- 
tant accompany  me.  There  we  will 
hunt  around  among  the  develop- 
ments and  the  two-family  brick 
affairs,  and  see  if  we  can  not  find 
some  of  the  old  buildings  of  these 
religious  adventurers  who  settied 
here  some  fifty  years  ago,  and 
then  passed  on. 

All  Baba  Blunders  In 

^r^K^I^^HBN   I    joined   the 
^^^V     V   group  in  the  Harness 
^^^^^    Room,  Ali  Baba  was 
expounding  the  gos- 
pel in  this  fashion:  "  There  ain't  no 
doubt  'bout  it,  old  Jimmy  O'Rourke 
is  queer."  (Jimmie  is  the  learned 
Hermit  who  lives  just  over  the  hill 
behind  Bast  Aurora.  They  say  he 
graduated  from  Oxford  before  he 
turned  sour.)  "  Yes,  sir,"  continued 
Baba,  '*  He  's  teched  in  the  head  for 
sure.  When  I  stopped  the  team  at 


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his  shack  one  day  last  fall,  to  c^ve 
him  a  couple  of  bushels  of  spuds  to 
hold  'm  through  the  winter,  he 
didn't  answer  my  knock.  Per  a 
minute,  I  thought  mebbe  somethin' 
had  happened  t'  the  old  beggar,  so  I 
kicked  open  the  door,  an'  he  jumped 
at  me  and  called  me  '*  a  blunderin' 
idiot!  "  and  gave  me  what-for — I 
Said  he  was  *'  conductin'  a  eugenic 
experiment,  the  result  of  which 
would  mean  much  or  little  to  man's 
happiness  forever!  "  He  was  trying 
to  mate  a  lightning-bug  with  a 
bedbug,  to  see  if  he  co\ild  n't  get  a 
self-il^uminatin'  bedbug  that  could 
be  seen  afar  off  in  the  dark!  Sez  he, 
"  'T  would  mean  more  in  comfort  to 
mankind  than  Edison's  electric 
Ught!  "«••«•• 

Shake  Hands ! 
Time! 

^T^ilSBERT  HUBBARD  and 
m0^^  Freddie  Welsh  were  friends 
^^^J  and  comrades.  I  have  heard 
^**^ Hubbard  say,  "And  the 
reason  is,  because  Freddie  is  the 
Lightweight  Champion  Fighter  of 
the  World,  and  I  am  the  Heavy- 
weight Champion  Writer  of  the 
World—!  "  *•►  j^ 
That  was  the  Fra^  little  joke. 
Elbert  Hubbard  and  Freddie  Welsh 
— one  man  thirty  years  older  than 
the  other — ^were  fellow  pilgrims 
along  the  Open  Road,  because  both 


were  Out-of-Door  Men,  both  prac- 
tised as  well  as  preached  respect  for 
the  body,  and  healthfu^   exercise; 
both  believed  a  sound  body   was 
essential  to  a  sound  mind. 
Superficially  so  dissimilar  in  age  and 
occupation,  actually  they  had  mu<^ 
in  common — ^they  approached  life 
with   much   the  same  purpose   to 
accomplish:  To  obey  the  ndes  and 
to  Play  the  Game  Hard! 
Elbert  Hubbard  was  a  businessman, 
a  writer,  a  speaker,  a  bookish  per- 
son, who  recognized  that   to   hold 
the    balance    true,    to    retain    his 
mental  poise  and  perspicuity,   he 
must  ride  his  horse  Gamett  or  walk 
over  the  hills,  or  cut  wood,  or  work 
in  the  garden  so  many  hours  every 
day.  Mental  health  is  that  depend- 
ent on  physical  health! 
**  A  sound  mind  and  a  sound  body!  " 
€[  Freddie  Welsh  was  a  physical 
culturist,  a  boxer,  a  world-famous 
prize-fighter,  if  you  please — to  the 
Public!  To  his  friends  he  was   a 
family  man,  a  lover  of  children,  a 
softrspoken   gentleman,   a   scholar, 
a  collector  of  rare  books.To  preserve 
the  balance  in  his  life,  he  spent  his 
recreation  time  where  intdlectual 
interest  was  an  inspiring  part  of  the 
day's  work  and  play. 
Elbert  Hubbard,  who  was  approach- 
ing  sixty,   maintained  a  youthful 
body  and  abundant  vigor  by,  the 
eternal  vigilance  of  measured  and 
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outdoors  "  was  his  special  hobby. 
Sa  he  invited  Freddie  Welsh  along 
here  for  weeks  at  a  time,  to  give  new 
impetus  to  the  yomig  folks'  enthu- 
siasm for  fresh  air  and  more  of  it. 
Go-as-you-please  walks  were  part 
<^  the  daily  program,  with  health 
ball  on  the  lawni^  light  setting-up 
exercises,  handball,  the  punching 
bag,  and  sparring  for  '*  Points."  j» 
Believe  me,  we  never  wanted  for  a 
give-and-take  crowd  when  Freddie 
was  here. 

Freddie  Welsh  was  coming  up  over 
the  thirty  mark  with  a  perfectly 
atttlned  and  coordinated  physical 
self,  an  acclaimed  champion,  but 
with  an  "old  head."  The  "ring 
generalship "  that  has  made  him 
famous  round  the  world,  told  him 
this  halcyon  period  could  not  last. 
CBven  then,  five  years  ago,  his 
fighting  was  but  incidental  with  him, 
a  means  to  an  end.  His  heart  in- 
terest, and  his  head  interest,  were 
wrapped  up  in  a  plan  to  perpetuate 
his  System  cf  Getting-in-shape  and 
Staying  'in-shape.  Always  a  student 
of  body-buildisig  methods  both 
here  and  abroad,  he  wanted  to 
turn  teacher. 

He  and  Elbert  Hubbard  were 
thinkers,  and  talkers  withal,  with 
the  urgent  need  to  prove  up  their 
theories.  So  many  a  night,  before 
the  great  fireplace  in  the  Roycroft 
Phalansterie,  they  indulged  in  "  Ten 
Rounds  of  Verbal  Boxing  "  for  the 


delectation  of  the  audience  of  True- 
Bdievers.  They  attempted  to  defi- 
nitely work  out  a  scheme  of  health- 
ful living.  The  Philosopher  of  sixty 
and  the  Athlete  of  thirty  sought 
theTnithl 

To-day  I  opened  Elbert  Hubbard's 
personal  letter-file,  and  lifted  out 
the  folder  marked  "  Freddie  Welsh" 
and  read  some  of  the  letters  con- 
tained therein  j»  Many  of  them 
were  of  cheerful  banter,  of  happy 
"joshes,"  but  one  or  two  verified 
what  I  wanted  to  know.  Only  a 
little  vnhsic  before  the  Lusitama 
sailed  away  on  its  forever-ever 
journey,  Elbert  Hubbard  was  ad- 
vising, urging  Freddie  Welsh  to 
become  the  Official  Trainer  to  Mr. 
Overworked  American. 
"  As  for  serious  fighting,  I  foresee 
that  you  are  g(»ng  to  cut  that  out. 
The  average  fighter,  when  he 
retires,  does  so  with  a  very  black 
eye  and  then  he  starts  a  saloon. 
You  are  not  an  average  fighter 
because  you  are  not  an  average  man. . 
You  ought  to  be  better  at  fifty  than 
you  are  now  and  I  believe  you  will 
be.  You  are  a  man  of  common  sense. 
The  plan  is  this — The  Freddie 
Welsh  Health  Home. . .  " 

*»-rAST  week  I  saw  a  dream  made 
X^  real.  I  saw  the  Freddie  Welsh 
Health  Home.  I  spent  a  day  with 
Freddie,  and  inspected  the  exercise- 
rooms,  and  the  white  turkeys;  the 


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tiled  shower-baths  and  the  golden 
pheasants;  the  rub-rooms  and  the 
Wels^  terriers;  the  especially  con- 
structed cement  outdoor  handball 
court,  and  the  Kentudey  saddle- 
horses;  the  8wimming-po<d  set  down 
in  a  grove  of  white  lurches,  and 
Freddie's  gold-medal  Lit  He  Girl  and 
Buster  Boy. 

.  Of  the  equipment,  of  the  natural 
beauties  of  this  abode,  I  will  ikell 
you  more.  Of  the  spirit  of  the  place, 
I  can  only  say  with  Fra  Elbertus, 
"Blessed  is  that  man  who  has 
found  his  work!  '* 

Freddie  Welsh,  when  Champion  of 
the  World,  never  experienced  half 
the  joy  crawling  into  a  {>rize-ring 
that  he  now  experiences  crawling 
into  a  pair  of  overalls  to  help  in  the 
garden.  Putting-6n-the-gloves  with 
an  aspirant  for  his  fistic  honors 
never  gave  him  half  the  personal 
satisfaction  that  he  gets  from  boxing 
with  some  chap,  nearing  fifty,  who 
has  overdone  the  business  end  of  it; 
a  chap  whose  chest  has  slipped  down 
inside  his  beltl 

Freddie  is  interested,  interesting, 
sympathetic.  He  knows  his  business. 
He  *s  an  instinctive  teacher.  No  man 
can  place  himself  in  Freddie  Welsh's 
charge  for  two  weeks  or  so,  and 
not  come  away  much  better  for  the 
experience  j»  6^ 

Summit,  New  Jersey,  twenty-one 
miles  outside  New  York  City,  on 
the  Lackawanna  Railroad,  is  a  high 


point  in  the  ^ue  Ridge  diain  and  is 
called  the  Mountain   City.    Lotig 
ifiU  towers  over  Summit.  On  the 
very   top,  the  pinnade,  of  Long 
Hill,    looking    four    ways    to    the 
distant    horison,    rests    Freddie's 
establishment  «»  «» 
The  house  is  a  white  mansion,  with 
wings  that  stretch  out  Hke  wdoom- 
ing  arms  to  the  weary  waarfarer.  To 
give  a  "  touch  of  color  "  the  roofiB 
and  gables  are  a  bright  red,  and 
blase  against  the  sky  and  make  the 
place  a  landmark  for  miles. 
The  New  Jersey  hills  are  gentle 
slopes,  with  basin-Uke  valleys,  and 
so  the  rich  soil  has  not  been  washed 
away.    One    hundred    and    nzty 
fertile  acres,  gardens,  planted  fidds, 
and  variegated  woodland,  surround 
the  white  house  on  the  hill.  The 
acres    of   undulating    lawns,    and 
artistic    Shrubs    and    approaching 
drives  are  rarely  beautiful,   with 
sunken  rose-gardens  as  the  pactica- 
lar  feature.  Of  course  a  farmer  would 
call  the  600  yoimg  firuit  trees,  just 
about  to  bear,  the  "  feature." 
What  I  saw  there  must  represent  an 
investment  of  upwards  of  $100,000 
of  eamedmoney.  Nothingis  slighted. 
AU  in  aU,  I  believe  that  this  is  the 
best  equipped  Place-for-the-purpose 
in   America.   That   purpose   is   to 
instruct   those   who   are   open    to 
conviction,  by  precept  and  example, 
in  the  conservation  of  that  most 
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2^^IE  white  hooae  oo  ^  hill 
^^was  not  built  by  Freddie;  he 
acquired  it  by  purdiaae.  "  Felix," 
be  told  me  with  pride  -and  feeling, 
**  I  have  searched  this  country  from 
New  York  to  California  for  a  place 
that  would  aeem  like  home  to  the 
man  who  opened  the  front  door — 
and  this  is  my  chcncel  " 
Right-O!  I  ai>proved! 
The  man  who  built  this  house  and 
^timished  it,  whoever  he  was,  did  it 
for  some  one  he  loved.  I  know  that. 
The  furniture  is  perfection,  in 
excellent  taste;  much  of  it  is  built-in 
regardless  of  expense,  and  many  of 
the  rooms  are  finished  in  the  natural 
woods  to  match;  walnut,  bird's-eye 
maple,  mahogany.  There  is  no  wall- 
paper, only  alk  tapestry.  The  Inl- 
)iard  room,  large  enough  for  a  Men's 
Club,  is  tufted,  adewalls  and 
benches,  with  red  morocco  leather. 
There' s  an  elegance,  a  restfulness 
of  blended  tones  and  colors,  of 
harmonious  woods,  and  rugs,  and 
murals,  that  pervades  the  entire 
place  and  creates  an  extraordinary 
^  atmosphere "  of  comfort  and 
dieerfolness  which,  as  Freddie  says, 
makes  it  "  seem  like  home  "1 
Upstairs,  the  wings  have  been  con- 
verted into  airy  sleeping  apartments 
for  those  who  like  it  breezy;  with 
full  casement  vraidows  on  three 
ddes.  There  are  a  dozen  inside  bed- 
rooms to  meet  the  needs  and  pref- 
erences    <^    various     **  patients." 


Many  of  these  diambers  are  like  a 
nun's  cell  for  simplicity  and  clean- 
liness; with  all  the  necessaries  and 
none  of  the  superfidals. 
My  host  confided  to  me,  '*  These  are 
not  supposed  to  be  living  rooms;  I 
want  the  guests  here  to  cheer  up,  be 
natural,  stay  downstairs,  and  keep 
with  the  bunch.  These  are  not 
worry  rooms.  These  are  deeping 
roomsl " 

TTRBDDIE  welsh  was  bom 
,t^  in  Pontypridd,  Wales,  a  little 
more  than  thirty-one  years  ago.  He 
received  a  good  basic  education,  and 
finished  at  the  famous  school  in 
England  which  also  graduated 
David  Qarrick. 

He  was  an  instructor  in  gymnasi- 
ums, a  physical  culturist,  a  dietitian, 
before  he  ever  engaged  in  boxing 
bouts.  He  served  a  long  apprentice- 
ship in  scientific  schools,  training 
schools,  and  Gymnana,  in  both 
America  and  Europe.  His  wife,  who 
is  an  expert  dietitian,  he  met  and 
married  while  studying  anatomy 
and  hygiene  at  Battle  Creek. 
Freddie  Welsh  won  the  English 
Lightweight  Championship  from 
Matt  Wells.  He  won  the  World's 
Lightweight  Championship  when  he 
defeated  Willie  Ritchie  at  the  Lon- 
don Spotting  Club.  He  lost  the 
World's  Lightweight  Championship 
to  Benny  Leonard  last  Fall  in  New 
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Between  the  winning  and  the  losing, 
he  successfully  engaged  in  more  than 
one  hundred  txndng  contests, 
giving  challengers  everywhere  a ' 
chance  to  relieve  him  of  his  title. 
Freddie  Welsh  is  a  real  sportsman, 
which  is  not  the  same  as  a  "Sport " ! 
€[  He  and  I  walked  over  his  grounds 
from  orchard  to  chicken-coop,  from 
the  spring-house  to  the  box  stalls, 
from  the  gardens  to  the  ice-house. 
Not  once  in  the  two  hours  did 
Freddie  Welsh  mention  Fighters  or 
Fights.  And  I  give  it  to  you  straight, 
I  found  him  a  most  interesting 
companion  «»  j» 

•He  mentioned  that  the  yoimg  trees 
had  yielded  some  dozens  of  barrels 
of  apples  this  season,  though  the 
neighborhood  yield  was  light.  He 
told  me  they  took  two  hundred 
bushels  of  potatoes  out  of  one 
particular  patch  of  ground,  and 
that  the  chestnut  saddle-horse  was 
supposed  to  have  a  "  Time  Record"  1 
He  showed  me  how  the  spring  fed 
the  swimming-pool,  and  let  me  look 
in  at  a  brace  of  live  wild  ducks  some 
admirer  had  shipped  him. 
In  the  library  we  decided  on  the 
respective  merits  of  Stevenson, 
Shaw,  O.  Henry,  Brieuz,  and  Lord 
Dimsany,  and  still  I  waited  for  him 
to  begin,  **Hc  led  wid  his  lef ',  and 
I  crossed  him  wid  me  right — f  "  6^ 
Freddie  is  not  the  typical  pugilist. 
No,  nothing  like  that. 
Along  about  then,  Freddie's  Aunt 


Pattie,  all  starched  and  prim, 
called  us  in  to  lunch.  Auntie  Pattie 
is  from  Wales  direct.  She  mstoages 
the  house.  On  the  side  she  told  ,me, 
just  between  us  two  that  she  likes 
to  "Tceep  things  tidy." 
I  bet  you — ^yes! 

When  I  came  away  from  that 
pleasant  little  family,  Freddie  and 
Mrs.  Freddie,  Betty  and  Freddie, 
Jr.,  and  Auntie,  after  n^ich  friendly 
talk — when  I  found  myself  whirring 
toward  Summit  and  the  train  for 
New  York  City,  I  looked  back  at 
the  white  house  on  the  hill,  and  I 
said  to  the  chauf.,  "  There  's  an 
enterprise  that  will  succeed." 
"  Sure!  "  he  answered  me,  positively 
as  though  that  matter  had  already 
been  settledl 


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FEBRUARY  1918 


No.  6 


The  Pro  and  Con 

(MosdyCon) 
Bert  Hubbard 


jg^   ^  HE   policy   of  ROY- 
^r^^  CROFT  is  to  discuss  in 

ft       ^  its  pages  both  ades  of  a 

^^^^  worthy  question  *^  We 
maintain  there  is  much  to  be  said 
pro  and  con.  Having  ^ven  one  ride 
their  fling,  the  other  should  have 
their  opportunity. 
The  January  issue  of  ROYCROFT 
contained  an  article  by  Dr.  Claude 
M.  Bancroft,  D.  O.,  in  which  he  took 
a  fall  out  of  Chiropractic.  The  article 
seeofis  logical  and  sane.  There  was  no " 
heat  or  anger  in  it.  It  paid  the  D.C.'s 
credit  for  much  good  work — but  at 
the  same  time  drawing  some  perti- 
nent inferences,  the  condurions  to 

which  are  left  to  the  reader. 

The  article  referred  to  was  published 


after  the  subject  of  Chiropractic  had 
beeo  discussed  in  two  issues. 
And  now  along  comes  a  letter  from 
my  friend,  Dr.  B.  J.  Palmer,  D.  C, 
of  Davenport,  Iowa. 
Dr.  Palmer  is  the  head  of  the  Palmer 
School    of    Chiropractic — "  Chiro- 
practic Fountain  Head." 
He  is  a  man  not  so  many  years  my 
senior,  but  he  has  whiskers  and  a 
professional   appearance.  He   nms 
a  great  institution,  and  turns  out 
Chiro's  who  go  out  into  the  world  to 
preach  and  praodse  the  gospel  of 
•*  adjustments." 

When  you  virit  his  "Shops"  at 
Davenport,  you  will  see  much  evi- 
dence of  his  appreciation  of  Roy- 
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the  Hall  of  Fame  where  any  Palmer 
graduate  who  has  been  peraecuted 
by  the  law  for  "  practising  "  without 
a  license,  has  his  name  carved  in  im- 
mortal Roycroft  oak  and  himg  for 
the  gase  of  the  freshmen.  To  believe 
in  a  great  movement  and  work  for  it 
even  to  the  point  of  martyrdom  re- 
quires strong  men.  This  Hall  of 
Fame  is  a  fiire  uplift  to  the  young- 
sters just  starting. 
Chiropractic  is  doing  a  \Ag  work  in 
teaching  people  how  to  live.  The 
Chiro's  are  correcting  wrong  condi- 
tions and  helping  us  all  to  adjust 
ourselves  j»  I'm  for  'em  1  I  have 
many  of  them  on  my  extra-friendly 
list.  They  are  Roycrofters. 
Too,  I  'm  for  the  Osteo's  1  They  also 
are  Rqycrofters  «»  Didn't  Elbert 
Hubbard  write  a  LitUe  Journey  to 
the  Home  of  Dr.  Still,  the  father  of 
Osteopathy  !  Sure  he  did  !  For  my 
part  I  have  n't  discovered  that 
there  is  so  much  difference  between 
a  Chiro  and  an  Osteo.  Perhaps  there 
is,  so  1 11  just  admit  it.  Both  use 
no  drugs  «»  «» 

Then  there  are  the  Naturopaths 
(the  Weltmerites)  who  I  understand 
are  something  of  a  cross  between  a 
Chiro  and  an  Osteo,  but  ^th  a  touch 
of  the  Suggestive  thrown  in  for  a 
mixer.  They  are  Roycrofters,  for 
they  too  stand  for  advanced  ideas. 
€[  Dr.  Tilden  of  Denver  uses  no 
drugs.  Neither  does  he  "adjust," 
"  manipulate,"  "  practise  laying  on 


of  hands,"  or  "  suggest."  He  tells 
you  how  to  eat  and  exercise  and 
sleep,  and  mixes  all  ^th  much  com- 
mon sense.  He's  a  radical  Roy- 
crofter  J»  J» 
Praises  be  to  them  alll 
But  each  is  sure  his  theories  are 
sufficient,  which  proves  his  own 
weakness.  No  one  doctrine  is  cx>ni- 
idete  by  itself.  For  my  part  I  am 
glad  to  be  able  to  see  much  good  in 
each  j»  j» 

^J^JO  get  back  to  Dr.  Palmer's 
^-7  letter,  ^K^ch  follows  soon.  He 
tells  me  I  am  slipiring  back  to  the 
"  usuid  fnhiiiT>fln  human !  "  That  I 
vdll  soon  be  an  "  ordinary."  I  never 
knew  I  was  anything  else!  He  says 
that  I  need ''  an  upper-cut  for  muck- 
raking." That  I  am  "  not  holding 
Elbert  Hubbard's  standards" — in 
fact  that  I  am  "  not  Elbert  Hub- 
bard!" Oh,  shades  of  that  great 
soul — ^would  that  I  could  be! 
All  of  this  is  tossed  into  my  peaceful 
day,  when  I  am  worrying  about 
nothing  but  the  coal-pile  and  de- 
layed ^pments  of  paper.  For  why? 
Just  because  Dr.  Bancroft,  D.  O., 
stepped  hard  on  the  tng  toe  of 
Chiropractic  through  the  pages  of 
ROYCROFT!  j*.  j*. 
So  I  got  an  "  adjustment "  by  mail, 
without  fee,  for  I  "  had  it  coming  to 
me."  Doc  took  the  kinks  out  of  my 
spine  and  I  now  have  almost  a 
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thank  3^00.  One  more  treatment  and 
III  be  cured. 

I  must  **  wash  my  hands "  now. 
Here  follows  I>r.  Pahner's  letter  to 
me  and  my  reply,  dictated,  read 
before  ngnlng,  and  mailed. 

Davenport,  Iowa,  1-4-1918 
Elbert  Hubbard  2nd, 
East  Aurora,  N.Y. 

Dearer: 

The  enclosed  artide  is  offered  you 
for  pubHcation  as  a  reply  to  the 
one  referred  to  in  the  article.  It  is 
written  that  I  might  publish  it  in 
our    house-organ.   The    Fountain' 
Head  News,  if  you  don't.  I  am  very 
sorry  to  see  this  back-handed  slap. 
It  was  not  characteristic  of  your 
father  and  should  not  be  of  you. 
Somehow  I  look  up  to  you  as  the 
shade  of  your  father ;  the  person  upon 
whom  fell  the  mffntle  of  carrying  on 
^  good  things  of  life  whidh  your 
father  had  a  squint  on  that  was  rare. 
When  I  see  little  evidences  of  this 
^ond,  it  appears  to  me  that  the  lines 
are   slipinng;    that    your    grip    is 
loosening  and  that  the  usual  in- 
hiunan  human  strain  is  creeping 
hack  which  will  make  you.  just  one 
of  the  ordinaries;  whidh  wOl  make 
The  Fra  just  an  everyday  publica- 
tion bickermg  over  the  bickers  of 
«JjaU  people  j»  »^ 
The  article  is  so  unjust,  so  uncaUed- 
for,  based  upon  such  false  premises 
^^  it  is  not  worthy  of  space  in 
your  publication  and  is  not  worthy 
of  a  lei^y  such  as  I  feel  impelled  to 
^te  you.   Can  it  be  that  good 
"copy'*  is  hard  to  get?  Then  do 
more  of  what  you  have  been  oom^ 
PcUed  to  do  this  month,  recopy  more 
^  your  father's  good  stuff.  If  you 
cao't  do  it,  tlien  dig  up  some  nn^re 


of  the  good  stuff  that  your  father 
gave  to  daylight. 

I  know  it  may  not  appear  kind  nor 
gendh>us  in  me  to  keep  handing  you, 
the  son,  what  yoar  father  did;  but 
there  are  times  when  our  btat 
friends  and  those  who  think  the 
most  of  us  are  compelled  to  give  us 
a  stiff  upper-cut  under  the  jaw  and 
stagger  us  with  an  un^deasant  jolt  to 
prove  to  us  that  we  are  waning  in 
our  loyalty  to  the  trust  which  was 
given  us  to  pass  on.  Issue  after  issue 
I  have  seen  the  pace  slacken,  the 
spirit  dying  for  want  of  the  fire,  the 
articles  getting  weaker  and  weaker, 
and  if  it  were  not  for  Felix  Shay, 
take  it  from  me  the  Dear  01|i  Fra 
would  have  been  a  dead  one  long 
ago.  He  still  brings  to  the  readers  as 
near  Uke  Elbert  Hubbard's  writings 
of  any  original  stuff  I  know. 
Don't  mix  into  cheap  magasinr 
muckraking.  You  don't  have  to.  It 
is  n't  becoming  of  the  high  standing 
The  Fra  has  the  rep  of  making  in 
years  past.  Come  clean,  keep  clean 
of  these  professional  petty  jealousies 
and  squabbles.  Leave  those  things 
for  us  to  scramble  or  imscramble  as 
we  think  best. 

Keep  your  pages  for  constructive 
stuff  and  keep  on  the  constructive 
side  of  life.  The  other  kills. 
Now,  dear  Bert,  I  have  written  you 
as  I  felt,  just  as  I  would  say  to  you 
face  to  face.  You  *ve  got  it  cominif. 
now  take  it  like  a  man.  Wash  your 
hands  and  come  dean.  I  am 

Yours  truly,  B.  J.  P. 

East  Aurora,  N.  Y.,  Jan.  11,  '18 
Dr.  B.  J.  Palmer, 
Davenport,  Iowa. 

My  dear  Dr.  Palmer: 

Your   letter   of  the  4th,  together 

with  your  artide,  recdved.  Some- 


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how,  I  tiiink  you  wrote  both  with  a 
grouch  on.  You  should  have  held 
uiem  overnight  and  read  them 
before  sending  them  on  to  me.  * 
You  practise  a  profession  which  is 
wonderful.  Like  all  profesMons,  it 
can  be  "  talked  about."  You  are  so 
darned  sensitive  about  it  that  you 
won't  allow  it  to  be  criticized  with- 
out getting  terribly  sore.  And  the 
worst  part  about  your  getting  sore 
over  it  is  that  instead  of  going  after 
Dr.  Bancroft  you  go  after  me.  I  do 
not  blame  you  for  taking  exceptions 
to  Dr.  Bancroft's  article,  that  is 
perfectly  all  right,  but  am  frank  to 
say  you  have  given  me  a  wallop  that 
is  unbecoming  of  you,  to  say  the 
least  j»  j» 

Our  magazine  for  the  past  two  years 
has  had  a  policy  of  discussing 
questions  on  both  sides.  I  wiU  admit 
tills  is  not  the  policy  which  my 
father  carried  out  in  The  Philistine, 
Probably  the  reason  why  is  that  he 
wrote  The  Philistine  himself  and 
could  not  very  well  write  on  both 
sides  of  a  subject  at  the  same  time. 
€[  I  think  there  is  lots  of  good'in 
Chiropractic  and  I  am  a  sturdy 
believer  in  it.  I  have  been  benefited 
by  Chiropractic  treatments.  My 
children  have  been  benefited  by  it.  I 
be^eve  there  is  lots  of  good  in 
Osteopathy — ^but  I  will  be  hanged  if 
I  want  to  stand  up  and  say  that 
either  one  is  all  rotten  or  that  either 
one  is  all  right.  I  might  also  include 
the  medical  profession  in  that.  For 
my  part,  as  an  individual,  I  do  not 
have  much  to  do  professionally  with 
doctors  of  any  kind.  But  there  have 
been  times  when  I  have  thought  it 
best  to  consult  Osteopaths,  M.  D.*s, 
and  Chiropractors.  I  am  more  or 
less  of  a  Christian  Scientist  myself, 
but  have  never  consulted  a  healer. 


€L  At  various  tames  we  have  ^pub- 
lished  articles  about  Chiropractic. 
I  would  call  your  particular  atten- 
tion to  the  articles  appearing  in  the 
February  and  August,  1917,  Fra, 
written  by  Dr.  Carver,  D.  C  These 
articles  called  forth  comment  from 
several  of  our  Osteopathic  friends. 
We  were  asked,  "Why  don't  you 
give  us  a  look-in?  Why  don't  you 
say  something  about  Osteopathy?  " 
€[  Dr.  Bancroft's  article  was 
printed  as  a  submitted  article.  And 
while  he  does  take  a  few  falls  out 
of  Chiropractic,  still,  I  think  Chiro- 
practic ought  to  be  big  enough  to 
stand  it.  Frankly,  I  know  it  is;  and 
I  rather  believe  you  may  feel  that 
you  have  overdone  it  just  a  ^ttle  in 
going  after  me  the  way  you  have. 
Read  your  letter  over  again  and  see. 
C  Now  I  am  not  sore  about  it  at  all, 
but  there  is  just  one  thing  I  wish 
you  would  keep  in  mind:  I  never 
claimed  to  be  Elbert  Hubbard,  and 
I  never  hope  to  be  an  Elbert  Hub- 
bard. His  kind  does  not  reproduce. 
You  do  me  injustice  in  criticizing 
me  for  falling  short  of  yoiir  ideal 
Elbert  Hubbard. 

I  would  like  to  publish  an  article  of 
yours  on  Chiropractic,  either  in 
answer  to  Dr.  Bancroft's  article  or 
independent  of  it.  But  as  for  pub- 
lishing the  article  you  submitted, 
that  is  absurd.  In  the  first  i^ace, 
this  article  is  principally  a  tirade 
on  me  and  my  shortcomings.  You 
surely  would  not  expect  me  to  print 
that.  I  don't  care  whether  you  print 
it  in  yo\ir  magazine  or  not — that  is 
another  proposition. 
But  let  me  tell  you  what  to  do;  you 
send  me  a  constructive  article  to 
occupy  two  full  pages  in  ROY- 
CROFT and  we  will  be  very  glad 
indeed  to  run  it.  Miay  I  suggest. 


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too,  tbat  you  take  up  the  subject 
from  a  little  different  angle  than 
Dr.  Carver  has  heretofore  handled 
it?  Answer  Dr.  Bancroft  if  you 
wish  j»  s^ 

I  notice  in  your  article  you  criticize 
Dr.  Bancroft  for  his  inference  re- 
garding the  dght-year  courses.  Dr. 
Bancroft  does  not  say  that  the  pro- 
fessions mentioned  give  eight-year 
courses.  He  simply  says  ^m  laws 
demand  these  in  order  that  the 
doctors  of  all  professions  may  be 
legally  recognized^  and  admitted  as 
practitioners  j»  j» 
So,  after  all,  I  am  giad  you  wrote  me 
the  way  you  did,  because  it  must 
have  unburdened  you  a  lot,  if 
nothing  more. 

I  am  sorry  you  see  such  a  degra- 
dation in  our  magazine  and  in  my 
efforts    as    compared   with  Elbert 


Hubbard's  s^  Do  you  remember 
Elbert  Hubbard  twenty-five  years 
ago?  I  am  thirty-five  now;  he  was 
fifty-nine  when  he  died.  I  never 
expect  to  be  his  equal,  nor  anywhere 
near  it.  I  am  not  constituted  nor 
characterized  Uke  him.  We  were  cast 
in  different  mcdds.  I  may  never 
make  any  more  of  an  impression  on 
the  world  than  I  have  already,  but 
if  I  do  not  it  will  be  my  fault.  But 
whatever  impression  I  may  make 
will  be  mine  and  not  Elhcrt  Hub- 
bard's j»  j» 
With  all  kind  wishes  ever. 

Yours  sincerely, 

Elbert  Hubbard  II. 

P.  S.  Next  time  you  are  East,  stop 
off  to  see  us.  We  're  over  our  ears 
in  work  (never  were  so  busy)  but 
we  11  take  a  holiday  when  you  come. 


The  Gas  Attack  on  American  Business 

H.  M.  Nimmo 

Text:  A  little  less  loose  talk,  and  a  few  less  frantic 
Reformers,  will  best  serve  this  Country  ^  ;>«.  «^  «^ 


IT  we  Americans  were  to  take 
all  the  advice  of  all  o\ir  war 
doctors  we  would  be  ready 
to  blow  out  the  gas  and  call 
the  undertaker.  We  have  been  told 
to  eat  less  meat,  and  to  eat  less 
wheat,  and  to  eat  less  of  everything, 
and  to  wear  less  clothes,  and  to  use 
less  gasoline,  and  to  bum  less  coal, 
and  to  avoid  the  theater,  and  to  es- 
chew candy,  and  to  boycott  luxu- 
ries, and  to  keep  cheerful,  and  boost 
business,  and  pay  taxes  and  buy 
bonds.  We  have  been  trying  to  do  it 


all,  too.  But  we  don't  seem  to  do  it 
well  enough  to  suit^the  war  doctors. 
Moreover,  we  never  will.  There  's  a 
reason.  And  the  reason  is,  we  can't. 
€[  We  can't  buy  bonds  and  pay 
taxes  and  boost  business  if  we  don't 
get  the  money.  And  we  can't  get  the 
money  if  we  don't  sell  oiu>  goods. 
And  we  can't  sell  oiu>  goods  if  no- 
body will  buy  them.  And  nobody 
will  buy  them  if  we  keep  on  preach- 
ing the  kind  of  economy  that  has 
been  passing  as  patriotism  for  the 
last  few  months  »^  And  so  all  our 


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meatless  and  ^idieatless  and  eatless 
days  will  count  for  naught.  And  the 
old  pair  of  pants  we  have  tied  on 
with  string  will  only  serve  as  a 
badge  of  mourning  for  the  tailors  we 
put  out  of  business  when  we  made 
all  o\ir  fellow  taxpayers  and  bond- 
buyers  shut  up  shop. 
Now  our  war  doctors  don't  want  to 
do  this.  All  they  want  to  do  is  to  se- 
cure supplies  and  money  for  the  de- 
struction of  Kaiserism.  But  they  fail 
to  make  dear  the  very  obvious  differ- 
ence between  conservation  and  star- 
vation, and  the  equally  obvious 
difference  between  thrift  and  bank- 
ruptcy. They  speak  as  though  the 
proper  way  to  save  food  was  to  go 
hungry,  and  the  proper  way  to 
amass  wealth  was  to  prevent  its  pro- 
duction. Whereas,  the  President  of 
the  United  States  himself  has  urged 
us  only  to  stop  waste  and  to  keep 
business  sustained  and  to  see  that 
the  government's  war  enterprises 
are  properly  financed.  He  has  not 
asked  us  to  convert  ourselves  into  a 
starveling  nation  overnight,  or  to 
close  up  mills  and  factories  that  help 
to  furnish  our  livelihood.  And  neither 
the  Government,  nor  the  Red  Cross, 
nor  the  army  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  nor  any 
other  legitimate  war  agency  has 
anything  it  did  not  get.  Nor  will  it. 
When  the  American  people  fail  to 
come  across  it  will  be  time  enough  to 
take  the  war  doctors  more  seriously. 
Meantime,  we  will  show  the  best 


kind  of  patriotism  by  doing  what  our 
president  asks  us  to  do. 

^QTOME  estimable  doctors  of  po- 
r^  litical  economy  are  leading  the. 
.gas  attack  on  American  business.  It 
was  to  be  expected.  It  should  also  be 
encouraging;  for  as  far  as  memory 
now  serves,  nothing  that  the  moat 
noted  political  economists  predicted 
in  the  fall  of  1914  has  yet  ccmie  to 
pass.  We  do  not  inquire  why.  We 
simply  record  it  here  as  a  warrant 
for  rational  optimism. 
They  have  been  chattering  a  good 
deal  lately  about  essential  and  non- 
essential industries,  though  they 
have  not  yet  defined  either  «»  As 
nearly  as  we  can  make  out  they 
mean  by  an  essential  industry  one 
that  is  directiy  concerned  with  the 
manufacture  of  supines  and  equip- 
ment and  munitions  for  the  fighting 
men  of  the  allied  cause.  To  this  they 
would  give  priority  in  the  materials, 
transportation  and  fuel.  Which  is  as 
it  should  be. 

Conversely,  a  non-essential  industry 
would  be  one  that  is  only  concerned 
with  the  manufacture  of  goods  for 
civilian  consumption  j»  This  they 
would  leave  to  its  fate,  or  abolish 
instanter  j»  j» 

But  the  govemn:^t  has  made  no 
such  distinction  in  levying  its  taxes 
for  war  revenues.  No  industry  is  ex- 
empt fix)m  its  income  assessment,  or 
its  excess  profits  assessment,  be- 


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cmte  it  is  making  artides  that  are 
not  used  at  the  fiont.  How  many  ar- 
tides are  there,  by  the  way,  that  are 
not  used  in  some  form  at  the  firoot? 
The  doctors  have  not  told  us  that 
yet.  It  would  be  interesting  to  know; 
but  not  as  interesting  of  course  as 
the  comparative  values  of  an  essen- 
tial and  a  non-essential  industry 
when  both  are  filing  the  war  diest  ^ 
with  the  funds  that  must  be  found  if 
the  war  is  to  proceed.  iWhaps  the 
doctors  will  tdl  us  that  some  day, 
too  9^  s^ 

C  ENDING  the  verdict  an  ordi- 
nary layman  may  be  pardoned 
the  opinion  that  an  essential  indus- 
try is  any  industry  of  any  kind  that 
keeps  tif^t  on  doing  business  at  the 
dd  stand,  and  insures  emj^pyment 
for  its  employees,  who  use  their  wa- 
ges to  buy  the  things  they  need,  and 
so  support  other  industries  that  in 
turn  supply  the  govenunent  with 
tlie  income  it  must  have.  And  that 
means  every  industry  that  is  d>ing 
business  «»«» 

But  how,  asks  the  professional  crape- 
hanger,  are  we  going  to  get  people  to 
stop  bu3ring  what  they  don't  need? 
We  are  not  gcnng  to  stop  them  at  alL 
We  are  not  going  to  ask  them  to  stop 
buying  anything.  We  are  going  to 
encourage  them  to  buy.  Au  we  are 
going  to  ask  of  them,  if  we  would  not 
kill  all  the  geese  that  lay  the  golden 
eggs,  is  to  go  down  into  their  jeans 


finoin  time  to  time  for  money  to  lend 
the  government.  Just  as  they  have 
been  doing  and  as  they  wQI  con- 
tinue to  do  as  long  as  we  ghre 
them  a  dianoe  to  earn  it. 
And  for  identical  reasons  we  will  not 
ask  any  manufacturer  tostop  making 
anything  tiie  crape-hanger  thinks 
the  people  don't  need.  It  will  be 
time  enoui^  for  that  when  tiie  gov- 
eminent  can  put  any  plant  so  en- 
gaged to  better  service  in  the  war. 
€1  It  is  one  thing  to  convert  a  fac- 
tory to  tiie  manufacture  of  direct 
war  supplies,  and  another  to  put  it 
out  of  business  and  throw  its  people 
-  on  the  street  to  no  purpose  «»  We 
would  n't  think  of  doing  anything 
so  foolish  in  time  of  peace.  Why 
should  we  think  of  doing  it  in  war 
time,  when  wliolesome  business  con 
ditions  are  tiie  salvation  of  our  eco- 
nomic status?  England  and  Canada 
did  not  deem  it  necessary  to  estab- 
lish their  maximum  war  efficiency 
t^  any  such  process  of  destruction. 
Their  productivt  establishments 
have  not  been  dosed  after  three  and 
a  half  years  of  war,  except  in  very 
few  instances. 

They  have  been  adjusted  to  some 
kind  of  war  work. 

Why  should  any  sane  man  suggest  a 
different  course  for  America?  Even 
our  so-called  luxuries  may  find  an 
immense  value  in  our  export  trade 
where  they  may  be  used  in  exchange 
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Road  Rumblings 

Strickland  GlUilan 

text:  The  Protests  of  a  Poet— No! 
The  Lamentations  of  a  Lecturer  •» 

The  road  that  we  travd  is  broidered  with  thugs 
Who  run  the  hotels  where  we  stop ; 
Sometimes  when  we  nest  with  the  virulent  bugs. 
We  're  prone  to  go  calling  a  cop. 
But  the  worst  of  the  lot,  as  I  ftrmly  opine-7 
The  one  of  the  gang  whom  I  'd  fainest  do  cUrt — 
Is  the  one  who  assesses  a  night's-lodging  fine 
For  a  room  where  I  merely  put  on  a  dean  shirt  I 
—WaOs  ofHqfid  the  POgrim. 


^Ip^^T^EP,  he  is  my  pet  anttp- 
W  W  athy.  He  registers  you 
W^r  for  the  room  where  you 
^t^"  ^  arc  to  go  and  put  on 
the  other  dothes  preparatory  to 
lecturing,  after  which  you  are  to  get 
in  a  Ford  and  ride  thirty  miles,  to 
wait  three  hours  to  take  a  2  A.  M. 
train  for  somewhere.  You  tdl  him 
how  little  you  are  going  to  linger 
with  him.  He  already  has  in  mind 
another  fellow  who  is  to  come  on 
a  later  train  and  to  whom  he  is 
going  to  assign  that  same  room 
without  defalcation,  discount,  re- 
bate, etc.  But  he  calmly  tdls  you, 
after  you  emerge  with  the  other 
shirt  on,  "  A  dollar  and  a  half." 
He  can  even  look  you  in  the  eye 
and  do  this. 

You  are  sore,  but  you  have  to  pay  it. 
Then  when  you  get  to  your  train- 
waiting  place  you  get  a  room  to  wait 
for  your  train  and  possibly  catch  a 


little  sleep,  and  the  fellow  charges 
you  anywhere  from  seventy-five 
cents  to  a  dollar  and  a  half  for  that. 
Then  you  get  on  the  train  and  pay 
from  $1.25  to  $2  for  a  berth.  Three 
nights'  lodgings  in  one  night,  and 
not  a  comlnned  night's  rest  out  of 
all  the  three. 

I  shouldn't  kick  on  paying  three 
nights'  lodgings  in  one  night  if  I 
could  get  the  three  nights'  sleep  and 
rest.  But  wiien  I  pay  the  three  and 
get  three  pieces  of  rest  that  combine 
into  an  aggregation  that  makes  me 
fed  if  I  bit  somebody  it  would  start 
an  epidemic  of  hydrophobia,'  I  have 
that  stung  feeling — which  is  one  of 
the  worst  pains  the  human  soul  can 
endure  «»  «» 

HFteW  days  ago  I  went  into 
the  barber  shop  at  the  union 
station  in  Pittsgrad.  A  imion  station 
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runs  a  train  into,  no  matter  how  many 
other  stations  there  are  in  the  town. 
H  There  was,  at  the  only  empty 
chair,  an  andent  gentleman  of 
dive  complexion  and  long,  white 
pappy-guys.  The  hoy  who  takes 
off  your  hat,  coat,  collar,  tie,  toupee, 
asafetida  bag,  fountain-pen,  wrist- 
watch  and  other  impedimenta,  de- 
nuded me  swiftly  and  shooed  me  to 
the  old  man's  trap.  I  was  uneasy 
about  the  old  shaver's  age,  and  did 
not  want  to  go,  but  you  know  how 
it  is.  One  feels  so  helpless  and  apc^o- 
getic  and  so  afraid  of  offending,  in 
these  i^ces.  So  I  sat  down. 
It  is  awful  to  feel  old  age  creejnng 
over  one's  face.  Each  of  the  old 
gentleman's  hands  weighed  forty 
pounds,  dressed.  He  would  have 
made  a  fortune  in  a  few  weeks,  as 
a  butcher,  for  as  is  well  known,  the 
butcher  often  sdls  his  hand. 
This  senile  senegambian  Santa 
Claus  ^th  chenille  tassels  seven- 
teen inches  long  depending  from  his' 
inferior  maxillary  was  weary.  He 
dragged  his  hand  over  my  counte- 
nance, twisting  my  face  almost  fa- 
tally. As  a  dod-crusher  or  road-drag 
he  would  have  been  a  success.  He 
nibbed  some  mayonnaise  of  some 
kind  into  my  expression,  and  then 
mopped  it  up  with  his  leaden  floor- 
polisher.  He  rested  often  while  he 
cUd  it.  Whenever  he  rested  he  leaned 
on  my  face.  When  he  leaned,  one 
thumb  was  in  my  eye  and  the  middle 


finger  in  my  mouth,  while  Us  naoist, 
non-skid  palm  was  all  over  the  only 
nose  I  had,  crushing  it  all  out  of  its 
famous  Qredan  fines.  By  taking 
these  precautioos,  he  didn't  take 
any  chances  on  sfipping  and  falling 
while  he  rested. 

He  had  taken  a  good  look  at  my  face 
before  he  began  working  on  it,  and 
<iUd  n't  see  how  any  one  could  care 
for  such  a  face,  so  he  had  no  com- 
punctions as  to  what  he  did  with  it, 
fedtng  sure  I  could  n't  care.  He  had 
been  looldng,  for  a  long  time,  for  just 
such  a  face— one  that  he  could  take 
liberties  with.  He  worked  on  this  hy- 
pothesis, and  on  my  face.  The  hypo- 
thesis was  his,  but  the  face  was  mine. 
41  And,  worst,  while  he  leaned,  he 
panted.  My  open  mouth  let  in  quite 
a  little  of  this,  around  his  finger.  One 
does  not  like  to  have  an  old  man's 
pants  in  one's  face,  does  one?  One 
need  not  answer. 

I  went  away,  after  coaxing  him  to 
desist.  I  hurried  to  another  barber- 
shop and  was  shaved.  It  was  the  first 
time  I  had  ever  paid  for  two  shaves 
in  half  an  hour,  both  for  my  own 
face.  But  I  did  that  time.  My  fed- 
ings  were  not  exactly  ruffled.  They 
were  too  deep  for  a  ruffle.  They 
were  flounced. 

Looking  back  shudderingly  over  my 
peril  and  escape,  I  can  see  but  one 
ray  of  brightness:  He  was  an  honest 
barber.  Whatever  he  did,  he  did  it 
right  to  my  face.  He  was  no  U-boat. 


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Clarence  Out  ley 

Text:  Reprinted  from  November,  1917,  **  Sea  Power.' 


BETWEEN  Free  Speech 
as  ezerdied  in  critidsin 
of  government  during 
peace  times  and  firee 
speech  as  ezerdsed  in  criticism  of 
government  during  war  times,  there 
is  an  important  difference.  It  may 
be  compared  to  the  difference  be- 
tween the  enjpsrment  of  fiberty  under 
orderly  goverxmient  and  the  license 
of  unrestrained  personal  conduct  in 
a  state  of  anarchy,  or  more  aptly  to 
the  difference  between  the  exercise 
of  personal  rights  under  conditions 
of  dvil  quietude  and  the  ezerdse  of 
personal  rights  under  martial  law  in 
times  of  riot. 

Freedom  is  nowhere  absdute  and 
unqualified.  Even  in  peace  it  is  rela- 
tive and  limited;  always  it  is  re- 
stricted in  order  to  accommodate 
the  freedom  of  others.  A  man  must 
drive  to  the  right  on  the  hi^way 
though  it  might  be  more  convenient 
for  him  to  go  to  the  left.  A  man  may 
not  speak  loudly  in  disturbance 
of  the  peace,  though  he  be  moved 
to  shout  for  joy;  he  may  not  accost 
a  woman  on  the  street,  though 
tempted  to  exclaim  on  her  beauty. 
41  We  are  at  war — whether  wisely 
or  unwiddy  is  now  debatable  only 
within  narrow  limits  and  with  strict 


regard  to  the  military  rule  of  obedi- 
ence to  constituted  authority.  A  soL- 
diet  may  oppose  the  execution  of 
the  conmiand  of  his  officer  or  regis- 
ter his  dissent,  but  when  the  c^Bcer 
has  given  the  command  the  soldier 
must  obey.  In  a  sense  all  dtizcns 
in  a  time  of  war  become  subject  to 
the  necessary  rules  of  military 
authority.  This  is  not  to  say  that 
dtizens  may  not  criticize  their  dvil 
officers  or  thdr  military  officers; 
it  is  not  to  say  that  the  expediency 
of  matters  of  legislation  and  acts 
of  administration  may  not  be 
debated  with  full  freedom  «»  In- 
deed, public  scrutiny  of  war  admin- 
istration should  not  be  relaxed,  for 
it  is  the  right  of  the  people  to  know 
all  that  may  be  known  without  be- 
traying secrets  of  strategy  to  the 
enemy,  and  it  is  well  for  public  serv- 
ants, dvil  and  military,  to  know 
always  that  the  people  are  watching 
them  with  a  jealous  c^cem. 

^DOM  of  speech  in  criti- 
dsm  becomes  unpatriotic  or 
seditious,  according  to  the  degree  ot 
its  intensity  and  the  scope  of  its  im- 
port, when  deliberatdy  or  unwit- 
tingly it  has  the  effect  of  discrediting 
the  Nation's  cause  of  war.  Until  we 


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entered  this  contest,  while  we  were 
debating  the  question,  it  was  becom- 
ing and  vdiolesonie  for  free  speech  to 
have  the  utmost  range  of  decent 
ejcpresaion.  It  was  proper  for  the 
very  iicart  of  the  government  to  be 
searched  to  ascertain  whether  it  was 
mfluenced  in  any  selfish  or  preju- 
diced or  subtle  manner  by  ambition 
or  bloodthirst  or  subserviency  to  the 
interest  of  any  otiher  nation  «»  Bixt 
when  the  Nation's  course  was  de- 
liberately determined  by  the  repre- 
sentatives of  the  people  vdio  are 
diarged  with  the  responsibility  of 
choo^ig  for  the  Nation  peace  or 
war,  then  it  became  the  solemn  obli- 
gation of  the  citizen,  no  less  than  of 
the  soldier,  to  give  himself  earnestly 
to  the  support  of  the  cause. 
Henceforth  criticism  which  impeadn- 
es  the  purpose  of  the  government, 
which  implies  insincere  or  uncandid 
statement  of  the  provocation  to  war, 


wfaidi  tends  to  incite  disloyally 
f^g*in«|r  n  considerable  dass  of  so- 
called  dtisens  whose  loytity  is 
doubtful,  when  it  gives  encourage- 
ment to  a  smaU  dass  of  incendiaries 
and  anardusts,  when  it  creates  the 
impression  upon  the  enemy  that 
the  country  is  not  united  in  the  con- 
test and  win  not  sustain  it  or  may 
be  persuaded  to  withdraw  support- 
then  criticism  becomes  an  offense 
dose  akin  to  sedition. 
It  is  notposdble  to  impose  theneces- 
sary  war  restraint  upon  free  speech 
without  at  least  seeming  now  and 
then  to  deny  the  exercise  of  one  of 
our  most  pfedous  rii^its.  The  dtizen 
who  is  both  thoui^itful  and  patriotic 
will  suffer  the  denial  without  com- 
plaint; the  dtizen  who  is  dther  not 
thoughtful  or  not  patriotic  must 
endure  the  denial.  If  the  reproach 
of  his  nei^bors  does  not  sufBce, 
legal  punishment  must  be  imposed.. 


The  Radical  Millennium 

Ed  Howe 
Text:  Give  us  Mote  Facts  and  Less  Theorjf; 
More  Common  Sense  and  Less  Bunk  •»  •» 


I  HAVE  latdy  been  hearing 
a  good  deal  of  a  New  York 
weekly  called  The  New  Re- 
public, and  sent  for  it. 
I  found  the  same  old  Sodalistic 
drivel,  except  that  the  drivel  is  bet- 
ter done,  and  deaner;  I  imagine 
many  of  its  writers  are  college  pro- 


fessors, instead  of  bums  from  New 
York's  Grub  Street. 
In  the  issue  for  October  27  is  a  re- 
view of  a  book  by  Upton  Sindair, 
by  one  "  F.  H.  "  In  the  first  place, 
no  respectable  publication  should 
print  a  review  of  a  book  by  Upton 
Sinclair,  because  he  is  notoriously  a 


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fooUsh  and  unfair  writer.  But  '*  F. 
H."  not  only  reviews  a  book  by 
Sinclair  called  King  Coal,  but  en- 
dorses its  sentiments.  Sinclair's 
story  is  about  a  coal-mining  camp, 
and  "F.  H."  accepts  its  foolish 
statements  as  true.  He  accepts  the 
"  Turkish  oppression;**  the  "  crush- 
ing out  of  hope;"  the  "systematic 
robbery  of  the  workers; "  the 
"  brutal  power  imrestrained;  "  the 
collapse  of  "  scruple,  legality,  tra- 
dition, himianeness;  "  the  **  inge- 
nuity of  extortion;  "  the  "  difficulty 
of  protest  or  revolt;  *'  he  accepts  the 
statement  that  "  the  workers  are  so 
much  human  slag  to  be  destroyed 
with  the  other  refuse,"  etc  In- 
deed, being  a  better  writer  than  Sin- 
clair, the  reviewer  invents  a  lot  of 
livid,  clever  and  imtruthful  phrases 
not  found  in  the  book. 
Every  reasonable,  truthful  man 
knows  the  conclusions  of  the  review- 
er are  utterly  false;  that  in  the  aver- 
age coal-camp  the  men  are  well 
paid,  and  that  the  regulations  are 
fair;  that  the  men  not  only  have  the 
right  of  protest,  but  do  protest  on 
the  slightest  provocation.  Hun- 
dreds of  coal-camps  have  been  oper- 
ated without  profit,  because  of 
high  wages  paid  nuners,  and  reg- 
ulations in  their  interest.  Officials  of 
,  the  miners'  union  have  stated  re- 
peatedly that  oiu-  coal-miners  are 
the  best-paid  laborers  in  the  world, 
and  we  know  every  possible  privi- 


lege has  been  granted  them,  to  avt)td 
strikes,  murder  and  destruction  of 
property.  All  this  is  known  in  pri- 
vate as  well  as  that  the  sun  rises  in 
the  east,  yet  in  public  many  of  the 
people,  for  some  strange  reason, 
deny  it,  and  accept  such  false  stories 
as  Upton  Sinclair  mumbles  in  his 
book,  and  "  F.  H."  endorses  in  his 
criticism  »^  »^ 

My  knowledge  of  coal-mining  is  not 
theoretical;  I  was  once  president  of  a 
coal-mining  company,  and  lost  a 
small  fortune  because  of  the  exac- 
tions of  coal-miners.  We  did  n't  do 
what  we  thought  should  be  done;  we 
did  what  the  miners  said  we  could  do. 
I  know  that  for  months  we  sold  coal 
at  less  than  cost  of  production,  and 
that  every  Saturday  night  we  paid 
the  miners  wages  as  high  as  eight  and 
ten  dollars  a  day.  I  know  something 
of  the  Colorado  Fuel  and  Iron  Co., 
a  large  producer  of  coal.  I  know  that 
it  maintains  schools,  hospitals, 
check-weighen;  that  it  pays  its  men 
high  wages,  and  does  everjrthing  in 
its  power  to  be  fair  and  reasonable. 
And  common  sense  teaches  me  that 
the  same  conditions  prevail  to  some 
extent  in  other  camps;  men  will  not 
stand  ill-treatment  in  niinoisor  West 
\^u^^ia  if  it  is  a  matter  of  common 
knowledge  that  better  conditions 
prevail  elsewhere. 

A  telegram  was  printed  in  a  New 
York  paper,  November  12th,  saying 
that  Lawrence  B.  Finzd,  a  Hoovers- 


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ville.  Pa.,  mmer,  made  $348  in  one 
month  minmg  coal,  before  the  recent 
advance  in  wages.  Finzd,  of  course, 
has  no  advantages  over  his  mates 
except  industry.  The  same  telegram 
says  that  in  a  coal-mine  near  Clarks- 
burg, W.  Va.,  two  men  working  to- 
gether recently  made  $51  in  one  day. 
H  So  I  know  Upton  Sinclair's  state- 
ments, and  the  statements  of  his  re- 
viewer, are  untrue  to  the  point  of 
absurdity.  It  is  a  matter  of  common 
knowledge  that  coal-miners  are  the 
most  turbulent  dass  of  men  in  the 
world;  and  to  keep  them  at  work 
every  posnble  concession  is  made 
them  by  the  employers.  To  deny  it, 
or  argue  about  it,  is  a  waste  of  time, 
andair's  book,  and  "  F.  H.'s  "  re- 
view of  it,  is   falsification  of  the 


known  records,  as  is  pilBe  of  every 
other  kind.  It  is  popular,  but  it 
isn't  true,  and  unworthy  of  con- 
sideratioa  of  any  one  who  desires 
to  think  ftdrly  and  intelligently. 
I  see  nothing  in  The  New  Republic 
advising  fairness  or  common  sense; 
I  see  no  disposition  to  recognise  the 
possibility  that  what  nine-tenths  of 
the  people  actually  believe,  may  be 
the  truth.  It  only  adds  new  fuel  to  a 
fire  already  dangerous. 
One  of  the  writers  expresses  a  fear 
that  some  thoughtless  action  may 
''  Tinder  the  success  of  the  radi- 
cal vntterwxum  impossible," 
That  is  the  mission  of  The  New  i?e- 
public:  to  aid  the  radical  millen- 
nium, which  means  anarchy.  Rus- 
sianizing or  Mexicaniring  America. 


The  Electronic  Reactions  for  Discovering 

Disease 

Albert  Abrams,  A.  M.,  M.  D.,  LL.  D. 

Text:  For  your  consideration  a  new  Theory  of 
Cause  and  Effect;  sickness  and  cure  *^  *^  ^ 


^4^^  HIS  discovery  predicates^ 

M    ^^an  understanding  of  the 

^L^^  electron      theory,      the 

laws    of   vibration    and 

the  reflexes  «»  «» 

One  of  the  greatest  discoveries  is 

the  theory  of  the  electrons  for  which 

Thomson,  of  England,  was  awarded 

the  1906  Nobel  prize.  This  theory 

makes   the   electron,  which    is    a 


thousand  times  smaller  in  mass 
than  the  smallest  atom,  the  physical 
basis  of  the  material  imiverse.  In 
other  words,  the  electrons  which  are 
the  ultimate  units  of  matter  are 
only  charges  of  electricity,  hence 
all  phenomena  in  nature  are  electro- 
magnetic »^  »^ 

During  the  revolutions  of  the  elec- 
trons, thousands  of  billions  of  times 


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per  second,  an  electromagnetic 
field  of  radioactivity  is  created 
which  has  thus  far  duded  instru- 
ments for  its  detection* 
Every  phenomenon  in  nature  is 
dependent  upon  matter  in  motion  or 
vibration  »^  »^ 

The  electrons  are  characterized  by 
the  uniformity  of  their  vibrations 
which  enables  us  to  differentiate 
matter.  The  diamond,  lampblack 
and  charcoal  are  practically  identi- 
cal in  composition.  Oil  of  roses  and 
coal-gas  have  an  identical  com- 
position (4  atoms  of  hydrogen  and 
4  atoms  of  carbon),  yet  the  de- 
lifi^itful  odor  of  the  one  and  the 
mephitic  odor  of  the  other,  is 
merely  a  question  of  rate-vibra- 
tion. Color,  for  instance,  is  de- 
termined entirely  by  the  number 
of  waves  emitted  in  a  second  of 
time,  or  by  the  corresponding  wave- 
length. When  lifi^t  strikes  the  eye, 
the  puinl  contracts.  This  b  a  reflex 
and  like  all  reflexes  it  is  involuntary. 
Man  is  a  reflex  animal  and  even 
mental  function  might  proceed 
without  consciousness,  just  as  the 
machinery  of  a  clock  might  work 
without  a  dial.  The  sensitive  human 
reflexes  were  first  used  by  the  writer 
in  detecting  raclioactivity. 
With  the  discovery  of  radium,  a 
new  property  of  matter  known  as 
radioactivity  was  discovered.  It 
meant  that  matter  possesses  the 
property  of  emitting  rays. 


The  animal-machine  is  equipped 
with  receivers  for  practically  all 
forms  of  radioactivity.  The  lunss 
antedated  the  bdlows;  the  heart* 
the  pump;  the  hand,  the  lever;  and 
the  eye,  the  photographic  camera. 
Telephonic  and  tdegraphic  appa- 
ratus duplicate  mimetically,  what 
has  always  been  done  by  the 
nervous  sjrstem. 

Olfaction  surpasses  in  sensitiveness 
the  most  impresnble  sdentific  in- 
struments. The  retina  of  the  eye  is 
approximately  three  thousand  times 
as  sensitive  as  the  most  rapid 
I^iotographic  plate. 
When  the  optic  nerve  syndironously 
percdves  a  variety  of  colors,  it  is 
because  it  contains  specific  fibers 
which  are  natural  detectors  and 
always  attuned  to  definite  vibratory 
rates  «»  «» 

/^^HB  writer  has  discovered  a 
V7  nerve  whidi,  when  acted  upon 
by  the  radiations  of  mortnd  struc- 
tures, will  always  dilate  the  Uood- 
vessds  in  a  definite  region.  Thus, 
the  animal-madiine  is  utilised  in 
diagnosis  «»  «» 

After  this  manner,  cancer,  tuber- 
culosis, syphilis  and  a  variety  of 
diseases  may  be  detected  in  their 
indpiency  and,  by  measuring  this 
radioactivity  with  a  special  in- 
strument, the  vihilency  of  disease 
may  be  demonstrated.  Not  only 
this,  one  can  gauge  whether  the  dis- 


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case  IS  progrcsnng  or  fctrogrcfting. 
The  question  of  treatment  has 
always  been  the  bete  noire  of  the 
sdenttfic  physidan.  In  most  in- 
stances, his  results  are  determined 
by  the  statements  of  his  patients. 
This  subjective  evidence  permits 
suggestion  and  a  host  of  other  con- 
dttions  to  enter  into  consideration. 
The  perscmal  equation  in  treatment 
can  now  be  eliminated  for  the 
phjrsician's  evidence  is  objective  «» 
It  is  known  that  radium  will  confer 
radioactivity  on  a  substance  in 
juxtaposition  to  it,  that  is,  it  endows 
that  substance  at  least  temporarily 
with  its  own  properties.  Similarly, 
if  tuberculosis  or  say  cancer  is  resi- 
dent in  the  human,  it  confers  its 
property  on  the  blood  of  that  indi- 


viduaL  If  a  few  drops  of  blood  of  the 
individual  in  question  art  permitted 
to  be  taken  up  by  a  clean  white 
blotter,  it  is  now  possible  to  say 
absolutdy  from  an  eiamination  of 
the  blood  on  the  blotter,  whether 
or  no  the  subject  is  the  victim  of 
tuberculosis  or  cancer.  You  can  also 
poaitivdy  affirm,  by  measurements, 
concerning  the  activity  of  the  dis- 
ease. This  conferred  radioactivity 
of  the  dried  blood  will  maintain  its 
properties  for  two  or  more  weeks, 
thus  enabling  it  to  be  sent  over  long 
distances  for  purposes  of  exami- 
nation. Of  course,  the  examination 
will  not  permit  one  to  say  where 
the  disease  is  localised;  this  ques- 
tion necessitates  a  personal  exami- 
nation by  the  physidan. 


Ramsifications 

Robert  E.  Ramsey 


Some  folks  spell  it  WRBCK-reation 
irom  the  pace  th^  go. 


'T  is  only  by  the  iwocess  of  compari- 
son that  we  arrive  at  perfection. 


The  big  boy  who  puts  rocks  in  the 
snowballs  of  life  eventuiUly  gets 
caught  j»  9^ 

So  many  fiscal  years  when  the  books 
are  balanced  prove  to  be  fizncal 
years  «»«» 

Many  a  merchant  fails  and  dies 
from  the  cause  that  Cleopatra  diose 
-^  poor  adder. 


Many  a  train  of  thought  is  wrecked 
by  an  inconsequential  remark. 

Co-operation  throughout  your  Com- 
pany will  undoubtedly  make  a  later 
operation  on  the  Co.,  unnecessary. 

Many  an  amtntious  chap  is  the  god- 
father of  another's  good  fortune 
when  with  just  a  tnt  of  initiative  he 
might  have  been  the  father  of  it. 


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This  the  way  of  it:  A  woman  be^ns 
by  promising  nothing  and  ends  by 
giving  all;  a  man  be^ns  by  promis- 
ing everything  and  ends  by  giving 
nothing  «»  «» 

"  I  love  you  to  distraction,"  usually 
means,  "  I  love  you  to  destruction." 

A  broken  heart  may  mean  a  mended 
conscience  »^  »^ 

A  woman  doesn't  object  to  her 
sweetheart  being  untrue  to  the 
other  woman! 

It  is  n't  so  much  what  a  woman  does 
that  fascinates  a  man;  it 's  what  she 
won't  do. 

If  women  only  knew  how  much 
worse  we  could  be  they  would 
love  us  more. 

When  a  woman  says,  **  Ah,  I  could 
love  you  if — **  fear  not.  She  already 
loves  you. 

If  you  let  a  woman  think  you  think 
she  will — she  won't.  But  if  you  let 
her  think  you  think  she  won't — she 
will  9^  9^ 


You  never  know  a  woman 
after  the  first  meeting.  On  the  i 
she  has  already  built  her   forttt* 
cation  9^  9^ 

What  you  call  temper  in  your  v0h 
you  call  temperament  in  youraci^ 

♦ 

A  widow  is  never  more  dangerous 
than  when  she  tells  a  youth  that  she 
never  was  really  happy  in  her 
married  life. 

Generally  speaking,  a  woman  is — 
generally  speaking. 

Often  the  silence  of  a  woman  is  not 
only  eloquent,  but  prbfane. 

Half  the  time  while  the  man  is 
thinking,  "I  wonder  if  I  dare?" 
the  woman  is  thinking,  "I  wonder 
why  he  does  n't." 

It  is  the  wise  who  die  young.  The 
older  a  man  grows  the  greater  risk 
he  runs  of  being  found  out. 

The  woman  who  knows  her  own 
mind  must  be  horribly  well  in- 
formed 9^  9^ 


Only  he  who  fully  appreciates  the 
after-joy  of  remorse  may  sin  with 
impunity  9^  9^  i 


If  woman  makes  all  the  trouble  in 
life,  it 's  woman  makes  life  worth 
all  the  trouble. 


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<u.l  dare;  and  dare  a  little  more  as  I  grow  older," 


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Felicitations 


Felix  Shay 


Tl*  National  Sin 

^^^^  HBKE  readee  in  a  certain 
■    ^m  American  dty  an  atten- 
^^^^  uated  lawyer  whose 
talents  and   virtues 
laivdy  lay   over  the  talents  and 
virtues  of  the  other  legal  lalapa- 
loQHo  of  the  aforesaid  burg.  He  is 
retained  by  99.44  per  cent  of  the 
CQDoems  from  Bangor  to  Miami, 
^fbo  are  dmng  Intet^te  Business. 
He  18  so  bu9y»  he  has  not  been  in  a 
court  room  in  20  years.  He  spends 
most  of  his  time  in  dilapidated  golf 
^^reeches  trying  to  get  his  score 
below  one  hundred.  The  golf  c6urse 
is  his  office,  his  companion  is  his 
client,  and  the  seemingly  inddental  * 
conversation  is  the  business  of  the 
hour.  He's  a  young  man  as  im- 
portant men  go.  He  gets  paid  for 
what  he  knows,  not  for  a  Union  day 
on  the  job.  When  all  others  fail,  the 
^bobs  consult  him.  Ifis  weakness 
and  his 'strength  is  his  penchant 
^or  putting  persons  right — and  he 
charges  for  iti      * 
T^  man  is  my  friend;  though  we 


are  caustic,  critical,  and  unusually 
personal  .whta  we  meet.  I  refiise  to 
let  him  work  his  specialty  on  me — 
even  free  of  charge!  Sensitive,  as  all 
true  artists  are,  he  resents  the  rebuff, 
the  rebuke.  He  wants  to  straighten 
out  my  career,  and  I  refuse  to  submit. 
I  lack  reverence  for  conventional 
authority.  I  want  the  conversation 
and  advice  to  be  fifty-fifty!  There- 
fore his  only  resource  is  letters.  He 
writes  me  a  slew  of  them,  burbling 
over  with  paternal  and  patronizing 
admonitions  «»  «» 
Thumbs  down!  That 's  my  eternal 
attitude  and  it  affronts  him.  When 
a  legal  gentleman  has  developed 
the  hatnt  of  bosnng  a  lot  of  Poor 
Little  Rich  Men,  it  is  a  downright 
insult  to  be  turned  back  by  a  gazabo 
who  is  rated  in  Bradstreet's 
NGOOO! 

Because  his  Sin  is  typical  I  want  to 
qiiote  you  from  his  most  recent 
letter,  permit  you  to  review  his 
most  recent  complaint;  and  my 
answer  to  it: 

"  Your  English  has  improved  amaz- 
ingly, and  the  general  spirit  of  yoiu" 


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Stuff  also.  I  really  say  this  smoerdy. 
. .  •  But  your  last  article*  'Criminal 
Law* — 111  {The  PubUc  ProsecuUn  is 
Found  GuUty) . . .  >^th  the  motif  of 
this  I  am  entirely  in  accord  and  yet 
the  artide  as  a  whde  is  half-baked 
and  irritating,  and  is  exactly  the 
kind  of  stuff  that  does  more  harm 
than  good  and  belies  the  writer  1" 
41  To  this  friendly  blurb,  I  answered 
thusly: 

"  Are  you  not  hidebound  as  to  the 
subject  of  the  l4iw?  Are  you  not  the 
creature  of  a  System?  Are  you  not . 
afraid  that  what  I  may  write — or 
somebody  may  write — may  change 
the  '  Rules '  you  know  so  well  and 
automatically  take  away  your 
vaunted  superiority?  You  may 
interpret  and  evade  the  Laws  and 
the  Statutes  laudably,  I  know,  but 
the  Laws  of  Commonsense  are  in- 
exorable. Take  heed;  my  case  is 
based  on  commonsense.  Your  busi- 
ness is  to  give  advice.  Can  you  take 
it?  Your  profession  is  to  reconstruct 
the  businessman's  affairs.  Can  you 
stand  to  have  a  businessman  teU  you 
what 's  wrong  with  your  antiquated 
law  forms  and  formulas? 
You  say  my  article  is  '  half-baked 
and  irritating.'  Well,  you  are  half- 
right,  which  is  a  fair  average  fbr 
you;  as  much  as  one  expects  from  a 
Lawyer.  I  wanted  it  to  be  irritating  1 
41 "  To  soothe  your  irritation,  I 
suggest  you  read  up  on  the  case  of 
'  Christmas  Keough.'  The  legal  and^ 


judicial  blunderers  jailed  a  Canadian 
mining  engineer  as  'Christmas 
Keough,'  a  notorious  crook.  They 
lost  the  Canadian  his  fortune  and 
his  reputation*  kept  him  in  jail 
for  nine  months,  at  which  time  the 
real  '  Christmas  Keough  '  resumed 
operations  in  a  far  country*  and 
then,  and  not  till  then,  did  the 
inspired  minions  of  your  Static  and 
Iron-dad  Law  come  to  realize  the 
Canadian  mining  engineer  was  the 
wrong  man.  To  aggravate  the  crime 
against  the  innocent  man,  we  find 
there  is  no  legal  way  to  recompense 
him  for  this  authorized  indignity. 
We  turn  him  loose,  broken  in  spirit, 
with  the  pallor  of  the  prisoQ  on  him 
— and  wish  him  luckl  This*  my 
friend*  shows  an  unwarranted  en- 
thusiasm for  Convictions,  instead 
of  an  enthusiasm  for  Acquittals, 
and  there 's  the  subject  of  my  arti- 
de, for  you  to  ponder  once  more." 

y^JHE  National  ^n  is  that  each  I 
^^man  jack  of  u*— eke  women- 
has  one  little  musty  subject  that  he 
declares  to  be  above  criticism.  It 
may  be  his  Law,  or  his  Religion,  or 
his  Nationality  or  what-not  1  The 
critical  writer  may  cuss-around  all 
he  pleases  and  we  enjoy  it,  we  cheer 
him  on,  so  long  as  he  keeps  off  our 
sacred  subjectl  Protestants  object 
to  artides  criticising  Billy  Sunday 
(some  Protestantsl);  Catholics  in 
Democratic    Ainerica     object    to 


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articles  criticizing  the  ^igarchical 
Italian  Pdpe  (some  Catfaolictl); 
EnglishfTien  object  to  a  deacriptioii 
of  Ireland's  wrongs  and  England's 
depredatiooa  (some  Englishmen  I); 
and  Southerners  spit  fire  when 
.lynching  and  lynchers  are  up  for 
discussion  (some  Southerners!); 
Germans  sputter  and  curse  when 
we  lambaste  tlie  Kaiser  (some  Ger- 
mansl);  and  Americans  want  to 
shut  their  eyes  and  ears,  tight, 
and  march — !  AU  they  want  from 
the  Press  is  three  dieers  (some 
Americans!). 

Very  w^!  Have  it  so.  Most  puUi- 
cations  are  obliging  and  say  nothing 
on  all  subjects,  learnedly  and 
entertainingly. 

So  mucdi  is  this  "Keep  off!" 
attitude  the  National  Sin,  that  when 
we  write  an  artide  of  a  certain  type, 
we  also  write  a  "  Form  "  letter  to 
cover  the  comi^aints  that  will 
surely  come  in.  Figured  on  a  per* 
centage  basis,  estimated  by  past 
experiences,  invariably  we  can  order 
the  correct  quantity  of  these  forms 
to  be  multigraphed  in  advance! 
N.  B. — ^To  avoid  unnecessary  cor- 
respondence, permit  me  to  say  My 
not-open-to-conviction  subject  is 
tlus:  I  truly  believe  that  all  people 
who  accept  the  Old  Orthodox 
Faiths,  the  Retigious  Fairy  Stories, 
as  Divine  Truth,  either  have  never 
given  the  matter  a  serious  thought, 
or  have  the  Child-Mindl 


Madame  TuMaud^s 
Napoleon 

^■^ARIETUSSAUD  was 
■     ■    B  ^^^'^  ^daait  Qrosholts, 

m  m  W  in  Berne,  Switserland, 
^  1760.  Her  father  was 
an  army  officer.  Her  unde,  John 
Christopher  Curtius,wasamodder  in 
wax.  Thoui^  a  doctor  by  profession 
he  abandoned  it  to  go  to  Paris  to 
perfect  himself  in  his  art.  Marie's 
lather  died  the  year  she  was  bom, 
and  the  unde  became  a  father  to  the 
little  girL  Often  he  invited  her  up  to 
his  Paris  house  for  months  at  a  time. 
When  she  was  nx  years  old,  she  was 
already  very  profident  in  her  uncle's 
art.  While  yet  a  very  little  girl,  she 
modeled  many  of  the  famous 
peof^  of  the  time  «•»  Her  work 
attracted  so  mudi  attention  Louis 
XVI  sent  for  her  to  come  to  the 
Palace  of  Versailles  to  teach  his 
sister,  Madame  Elizabeth. 
AH  through  the  French  Revolution, 
the  Reign  of  Terror,  Marie  Qros- 
holtz,  then  a  woman  of  twenty- 
nine  or  thirty,  was  called  upon  by 
the  Revolutionists,  whose  hands 
were  still  wet  with  blood,  to  modd 
their  strange  and  fearsome  phys- 
iogs.  Hei;  reward  was  to  be  event- 
ually suspected  and  thrown  into 
prison  by  the  Conmiittee  of  PuUic 
Safety  and  kept  there  for  months  «•» 
Her  long  residence  at  Versailles 
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itts  against  her.  Those  jvere  days 
when  unsustained  accusation  meant 
a  person's  life. 

Along  about  1794  Marie  Groshohz 
married  a  Frenchman,  M'sieur , 
Tussaud;  but  six  years  satisfied  her 
desires  for  connubial  felicity,  for 
matrimonial  privileges  and  com- 
forts. She  got  rid  of  her  French 
spouse  in  1800. 

^T^HEN  Napoleon  arrived  on  the 
^^  scene.  France  became  a  poor 
place  for  art.  Madame  Tussaud  de- 
cided to  take  her  waxworks  collec- 
tion of  the  Great  and  Near-Great  to 
London.  But  before  one  could  move 
one's  baggage  it  was  necessary  to 
have  the  O.  K.  of  the  Little  Corporal. 
Exerting  her  woman's  wiles,  she 
himibly  requested  the  Corsican's 
permission  to  "  do  him  in  wax." 
Next  to  being  done  in  marble,  I  im- 
agine to  be  done  in  wax  is  the  most 
satisfying  «•»  «•» 
He  consented. 

Madame  Tussaud  made  a  wonderful 
likeness  of  Bonaparte;  all  the  meas- 
urements are  just  so.  The  figure  is 
life-size.  You  may  see  it  today  in  Lon- 
don, dressed  in  a  well-brushed  doth 
uniform,  with  leather  boots — and 
real  hair  «» It  is  necessary  to  look 
twice  to  realize  that  Napoleon  the 
Great  lies  dead  in  his  little  Red  Bed 
at  the  Invalides. 

Probably  she  told  Napoleon  that  she 
wanted  to  show  his  figure  to  the  ad- 


miring Londoners.  Whatever  the 
subterfuge,  he  gave  her  a  passport 
for  herself  and  her  collection.  She 
left  bag  and  bafi^age  for  across  the 
Channel.  She  never  came  back  «» 
For  more  than  a  himdred  years, 
Madame  Tussaud's  Waxworks  have 
been  a  permanent  exhitnt  along 
the  Thames. 

IN  London,  some  years  ago,  one 
night  late,  I  decided  to  visit 
Madame   Tussaud's   Exhibition.    I 
was  feeling  ultra-historical   and    I 
thought  it  would  be  interesting  to 
meet  some  of  the  gentlemen  who 
clutter  the  pages  of  our  histories,  in 
the  flesh.  So  I  whistled  a  taxicab  and 
went  out  to  Marylebone  Road. 
It  is  a  very  curious  and  creepy  place. 
€1  At  the  head  of  the  stairs  I  met 
Voltaire,  a  little  weazened,  witchy- 
looking,  dried-up  old  schemer,  with 
coimtless  wrinkles,  and  a  crafty  eye; 
weight  eighty  poimds  in  the  shade. 
He  leaned  heavily  on  a  cane  and  he 
smirked  at  me.  He  seemed  about  to 
take  snuff.  He  made  me  fed  uncom- 
fortable. I  could  well  imagine  that 
he  made  some  caustic  and  insulting 
remark  about  my  style  or  manner 
after  I  passed  him  by. 
That  night  I  met  many  Wax  Gentle- 
men, of  the  past  and  present,  with 
whom  I  was  more  or  less  acquainted. 
€1 1  saw   Luther    and  Calvin  and 
Knox  standing   in  one  group.  To 
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flesh,  that  group  ezplicttly  explained 
the  schisms  that  separate  some  of 
oar  best-known  Churches.  Luther 
was  heavy,  pendulous,  ponderous, 
overfed,  earthy  of  the  earth.  Knox, 
Calvin  were  thin,  old,  wispy,  frail, 
with  the  beards  of  prophets  and  the 
hot  e3^es  of  ascetics.  Luther  would 
probably  bfuy  you  a  dinner  or  a 
drink  and  discuss  it  with  you.  Knox 
or  Calvin  would  tie  you  securely  to 
the  gas-range  and  you  would  either 
have  to  Believe  or  be  Brcnled. 
I  saw  Teddy,  the  great  War  Advo- 
cate; Taft,  the  great  Peace  Maker. 
Off  to  one  ^de  by  himself,  standing 
on  a  green  velour  platform,  sur- 
rounded by  a  low  brass  rail,  his 
hand  thrust  into  the  breast  of  his 
coat,  his  lips  parted,  about  to  say 
something,  I  came  face  to  face  with 
Mr.  N.  Bonaparte,  late  of  Waterloo 
and  St.  Helena. 

I  looked  at  the  little  cuss  for  full 
half  an  hour. 

I  looked  until  the  Galleries  were 
practically  empty.  I  had  the  room 
entirely  to  myself;  almost  entirely 
to  myself,  excepting  one  Guard  who 
stood  at  the  door  and  kept  an  evil 
eye  on  me. 

*^  and  there  a  very  foolish 
thought  came  into  my  head.  I  knew 
ti^  figure  was  modeled  from  actiial 
measurements,  and  I  wondered  how 
tall  Napoleon  was.  Now  I  am  not  a 
©ant  for  size,  but  I^  believed  in  my 
bones  that  I  was  the  taller.  So  I 


decided  when  the  Guard  turned  his 
head,  I  would  step  quiddy  over  the 
rail  onto  the  platform,  stand  along- 
side of  Napoleon  and  measure  up  «» 
The  Fates  were  kind. 
Prom  the  outside  another  Guard 
called  my  Guard.  Hdleft  for  just  the 
brief  minute  I  needed.  I  stepped 
over  the  brass  rail  to  the  platform 
with  one  motion,  and  planted  my- 
self firmly  alongside  of  the  Con- 
queror of  Moscow. 
I  knew  it!  I  was  a  full  half-head 
taller  than  the  little  shrimp! 
Then  I  stepped  back. 
Almost  at  the  same  instant  my 
Guard  with  another^  Guard  entered 
the  door.  They  looked  upon  me 
as  a  suspicious  person;  they  walked 
toward  me  «»  Of  necessity  they 
walked  toward  Napoleon  too.  They 
looked  from  me  to  the  wax  figure. 
They  were  prepared  to  find  I  had 
nicked  off  his  ear  as  a  souvenir. 
Their  hostile  attitude  held  my  at- 
tention. When  five  yardslaway  they 
stopped — !  They  froze  on  the  spot. 
Their  eyes  were  fixed  on  the  green 
velour  near  where  Napoleon  stood. 
Alongside  of  Napoleon's  feet, 
eighteen  inches  away — a  military 
step — ^were  the  outlines  of  two 
muddy  footprints,  well  defined  on 
the  carpet. 

Then  my  Guard  clutched  at  his 
fellow  and  pcmited,  and  whispered 
in  a  hoarse  cackle,  "  My  Gawd 
blime  me.  Bill,  'e  's  moved!  " 


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All  Baba  Suggeata 
Reforms 


B 


ALRIGHT/'  said  Ati 
Baba,  who  was  sharpen- 
ing his  Az  on  the  Grind- 
stone, "  to  dose  up  the 
Industries  fer  a  day  a  week  to  save 
fuel.  I  'm  with  'm!  Them  Govern- 
ment fellers  'd  do  a  gol-dam'  good 
job  t'  keep  business  shut  up  an 
extra  day  a  week,  right  along,  fer 
all  time.  Most  of  them  fellers  who 
work  indoors  'd  do  more  work  in 
five  days  than  they  do  now  in  six, 
providin'  they  spent  the  off  Mon- 
day diggin'  in  thar  Garden.  Thar 
Homes  'd  be  more  like,  too,  if  they 
c'd  see  'em  once  in  a  while  in  day- 
light. 'N  they  'd  grow  healthier 
Children,  raised  on  Home-Garden 
Truck —  Yes-sir-ee!  Ain't  it  so?  " 
I^e  poured  a  little  wkter  on  the 
Grindstone,  turned  the  edge  of  his 
Az  and  continued. 
"  Only,  Gosh  bum  their  pictures, 
thar  's  one  little  reform  that  I  'm 
waitin'  for — !  They  shct  off  Vodkey 
from  the  Mujjickers  'n'  they  told 
the  Frenchies  to  ferget  about  thar 
Frog-legs  'n'  Absinthey.  An*  over 
here  they  say  *  No  more  Booze, 
boys!  Ya  gotta  be  sober! ' 
'N'  that  '8  all  right! 
"  I  'm  agin  intemperance  and  ex- 
travagance! 9^  «» 

**  'N'  fer  jess  that  reason  I  want  to 
know  how  'bout  closin'  up  HeU? 


"  Then  y'  'd  save  fuel— 'n*  y*  'd 
cast  out  that  thar*  Demon  of  Fear 
the  Wiseheimers  say  hes  got  us  all 
scared  Pink! 

"  Close  up  HeU,  I  teU  ya,  and  y'  'd 
save  a  k>t  of  Hot  Air  too,  'n*  y'  'd 
make  a  lot  of  fust-class,  Preadiers 
go  to  work! " 

The  Old  Man  then  tested  Us  Ax 
with  his  thumb,  seemed  satisfied 
with  the  edge,  picked  up  his  Pea- 
jacket  and  started  for  the  Wood- 
Lot  «•»  «•» 

Oneida  Community 
As  It  Was  and  Is 

OF  late  I  have  been  espe- 
cially interested  in  Coop- 
erative Communities; 
intent  on  studying  their 
beginnings  and  endings.  Through  the 
various  and  sundry  northern  New 
York  blizzards  of  the  past  few  weeks, 
I  have  organized  personally  con- 
ducted tours  to  follow  the  Holy 
Grail,  to  search  out  the  Tabernacles 
of  the  Religious  Enthuaasts  who 
passed  this  way  less  than  a  century 
ago  9^  9^ 

The  Faithful  will  remember  that 
last  month  I  described  the  Aman- 
ites,  the  True  Inspirationists,  who 
hurried  away  from  Germany  in  1846 
to  escape  the  Kultur.  Over  here  they 
built  the  Biblical  Town  of  £ben-ha- 
ezer.  The  principal  buildings  of  this 
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seen,  hallway  between  East  Aurora 
and  Buffalo  t^  Amana  is  the  only 
American  religious  community  that 
still  endures  as  such.  The  Amanites 
live  on  and  pro^>er  in  Iowa  in  these 
times  t^  s^ 

Next  in  the  line  of  my  curiosity  was 
the  Oneida  Conmiunity.  Prom  local 
wise  men  I  had  heard  wonder-tales 
about  the  Oneida  that  was.  They 
gossiped  about  the  past;  they  told 
me  that  the  Oneida  Community  of 
today,  the  people  who  make  the 
rich  and  beautiful  silver  which 
they  advertise  with  those  alluring 
Cdes  Phillips  color-drawings  "  was 
just  a  lot  of  fellers  who  bought 
the  name.'* 
I  wanted  to  know. 
When  one  wants  to  know,  provided 
one  has  the  courage  and  the  time, 
and  a  strong  inclination,  the  very 
best  way  is  to  peck  up  the  Old 
Kit  Bag  and  go  to  headquarters 
and  ask.  ....  I  went. 
Oneida  Community  is  supposed  to 
be  an  hour  outside  Syracuse,  N.  Y., 
but  that  schedule  allows  for  July 
weather,  not  for  January  weather. 
Syracuse  is  supposed  to  be  about 
three  hours  from  Buffalo.  I  spent  ten 
hours  gcnng  and  twelve  hours  com- 
ing back.  On  the  way,  I  developed 
certain  definite  ojnnions  with  regard 
to  Government  Ownership  of  Rail- 
roads. Nevertheless,  the  trip  was 
worth  the  inconvenience  a  hundred 
times  over  «•»  «•» 


JOHN  HUMPHREY  NOYBS 
was  a  graduate  of  Dartmouth 
CoOege,  Andover  Theological  Semi- 
nary and  Yak  Divinity  Sdiool.  He 
was  the  Father  of  the  Faith  of  the 
Perfectiopists  and  Founder  of  the 
Oneida  Community.  He  was  a  very 
able  man  «»  To  a  marked  degree 
he  combined  the  faculties  of  the 
Dreamer  and  the  Practical  Worker. 
€1  The  Dreamer  sought  to  develop 
Heaven  on  Earth,  aspired  to  teadi 
poor  mortals  to  live  without  sin. 
The  Practical  Man  originated, 
created,  organised  a  business  that 
was  to  hlive  international  outlets. 
€lFrom  1833  or  thereabouts,  till  he 
died  in  1886,  John  Humphrey  Noyes 
was  the  acknowledged  leader  of  a 
well-established  relii^ous  sect,  the 
Perfectionists.  Ifis  Oneida  Com- 
munity flouridied  from  about  1848 
to  1879.  Then  some  interference 
came' from  without,  and  a  kind  of 
rebellion  by  the  second  generation 
from  within,  and  the  Religious 
Community  of  Perfectionists  ceased 
tobe  «»  «» 

Here  let  me  interpolate  that  the 
second  generation  always  asserts  its 
rights  to  reject  the  theories  and 
practises  of  the  generation  that  went 
before.  That 's  a  sufficient  cause  for 
the  downfall  of  most  Communities. 
All  of  us  who  are  alive  mentally,  are 
instinctive  Revolutionists.  So  the 
race  makes  headl 
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that  they  taught  him  at  the  Andover 
and  Yale  Divinity  Schools.  He 
•  believed  a  whole  lot  more.  He  be- 
lieved that  man  could  live  oitirely 
without  sin;  that  he  could  achieve 
perfection;  that  we  should  start  to 
get  acquainted  with  Heaven  right 
here  and  now. 

He  went  to  the  Bible  for  his  in- 
sinration  and  instructions,  and  of 
course  the  Bible  never  fails.  The 
Lord  saith,  "  These  things  I  com- 
mand you,  that  ye  love  one  another." 
Understand  that?  The  Lord  did  not 
command  us  to  back  up  any  one 
particular  person  into  a  comer  and 
love  him  or  her  exclusively.  He 
commanded  us  to  have  imselfish, 
impersonal  love.  In  Heaven  "  They 
neither  marry  nor  are  given  in 
marriage."  Therefore  there  seemed 
to  exist  on  Earth  the  need  to  get 
acquainted  with  the  Heavenly 
system;  to  serve  a  sort  of  advanced 
apprenticeship. 

This  plan  does  not  appeal  to  me — 
but  then  I  *m  a  very  imperfect 
person,  with  no  desire  to  be  other- 
wise «»  d» 

^yCX:iETY  as  we  recognize  it, 
^7  interprets  a  family  to  mean 
a  man,  his  wife  and  their  children. 
John  Humphrey  Noyes  interpreted 
a  family  to  mean,  any  number  of 
men  and  women  and  children  who 
could  live  together  in  peace  and 
amity  «»  «^ 


When  a  person  joined  the  Onddl 
Community,  he  contributed  his  ai 
to  the  common  store.  From  the  dab 
of  his  acceptance  into  membershii 
onward,  he  shared  alike  with  the 
other  Communists  in  work  and  its 
rewards.  Each  person  was  obligeq 
to  dedicate  all  that  he  had,  and  all 
that  he  was,  and  all  that  he  was  tc 
be,  to  the  common  good. 
The  Oneida  Commimists  of  fiftv 
years  ago  believed  in  multiple  mar^ 
riages — eugenic  marriages  as  we  ar« 
pleased  ^ to  describe 'them  today ^ 
Certain  men  and  certain  women,  oi 
superior  physical  and  mental  fitness^ 
were  nominated  to  be  t^e  parents  of 
the  Community  children.  The  Com^ 
muhity  children  belonged  to  the 
Community,  and  lived  in  the 
Children's  House,  with  specially 
selected  nurses,  guardians,  ana 
teachers  to  care  for  them.  i 

Read  this  in  cold,  dispasaonate, 
neutral  type  and  you  may  find 
yourself  in  quick  disagreement. 
Read  John  Humphrey  Noyes*  book^ 
History  of  American  Sociidism 
judicially,  oon^der  his  explanation 
and  his  defense,  and  't  will  c^ve  you 
pause.  You  will  at  least  understand 
his  viewpoint.  You  may  say, 
**  Perhaps  there  's  something  in  his 
theory,  after  all."  Several  hundred 
people,  many  of  them  of  wealth  and 
position,  must  have  thought  so 
some  several  decades  ago,  when  they 
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firjends  and  net^^bon  to  join  the 
Ondda  Community,  to  take  up  a 
IMe  of  hard,  hard  work.  Mofeover, 
tiiough  I  have  perused  the  incidental 
literature  diligently,  I  have  read  no 
mioority  report  on  "  Regrets." 
The  Government  of  Oneida  Com- 
munity was  based  on  Mutual 
Criticism.  On  the  invitation  of  the 
Bartyi  Most  Concerned,  or  on  the 
ixmtation  of  the  Appointed  Com- 
mittee, a  certain  individual  submit- 
ted to  the  ordeaL  The  one  to  be 
criticised  was  given  first  say.  He 
explained  his  weawiesses  as  he 
understood  them.  He  interpreted 
his  needs.  He  asked  for  help,  advice. 
Then  round  the  circle,  they  opened 
up  on  him.  "  Methinks  J<^in  is  vain, 
that  he  is  more  concerned  with  his 
appearance  than  with  his  work.  He 
Kerns  to  desire  to  be  dever  at  times. 
Those  times  he  impresses  sensible 
people  as  being  silly— I " 
They  picked  him  to  little  teeny- 
weeny  ineces.  They  returned  him  to 
the  dust  from  whence  he  came. 
After  his  first  speech,  he  was  not 
permitted  a  word  in  rebuttaL  To 
dose  the  meeting,  one  of  the  older 
members  usually  summed-up,  and 
drew  the  **  moral,"  and  pointed  out 
to  John  the  Path  of  Righteousness. 
This  Mutual  Criticism  was  usually 
an  every  evening  ceremony,  to 
dear  the  air  of  the  day's  disagree- 
ments, to  prevent  silent  dislike,  and 
to  obqy  the    Biblical  ii^iunction. 


^Let  not  the  tun  go  down  upon 
your  wrath  1 " 

^T)P-  Oneida  destination  was  the 
*^^  Mansion  House,  some  miles 
out  beyond  the  town.  The  Mansion 
House  is  a  huge  old  brick  structure 
very  oomnKxlious  and  ornate,  the 
early  home  of  the  Communists  «•» 
Probably  two  or  three  hundred 
people  can  be  housed  therein  com- 
fortably. Today  the  Mansion  House 
is  stiU  the  Community  Center,  but 
in  a  different  sense.  Many  of  the 
workers  are  boarded  here  at  cost. 
Many  other  people,  more  or  less 
connected  with  the  Community, 
live  here  because  they  like  the 
general  atmosphere  of  culture  and 
companionship  t^  «» 
Around  the  Biansion  House  has 
grown  up  a  village  of  some  two 
hundred  modem  homes,  quite  as 
fine  as  you  will  find  in  any  first- 
dass  American  suburb.  Many  are 
owned  and  practically  all  of  them 
are  occupied  by  Oneida  Community 
*  executives  and  department  heads 
and  their  families. 
For  an  hour  or  more  I  sat  in  the 
group,  at  the  Mansion  House  the 
Saturday  night  I  arrived,  and  with 
them  discussed  Communities,  past 
and  present;  questioned  them  about 
the  Oneida  of  other  days.  They  told 
me  much  that  was  of  rare  interest; 
of  the  plainness,  the  simplidty  and 
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Oneida  Communists,  of  their  reli- 
gious devotioa  and  dedication. 
One  feature  of  their  sdectiveness 
and  organisation  is  definitely 
apparent  after  all  the  years — there 
was  an  indiscemable  nonage  of 
light  and  frivolous  members  among 
the  Oneida  Communists  of  1850. 
They  were  serious-minded  workers 
and  their  God  was  their  consolation 
and  their  hope. 

The  women  cut  their  hair  short  to 
avcnd  vanity.  They  wore  dresses  of 
drab  and  unadorned  materials. 
These  dresses  were  cut  to  full- 
length  pantalets,  with  a'sldrt  of  the 
same  doth  to  the  knees,  for  greater 
freedom.  They  required  this  greater 
freedom  because  they  often  worked 
in  the  fields  and  gardens. 
For  the  first  eight  years  of  the  Com- 
munity, there  was  a  loss  of  $50,000, 
before  they  foimd  how  to  make  it 
pay.  You  may  well  believe  that  the 
Communists  did  not  specialize  in  a 
Union  Eight-Hour  Work-Day.  They 
worked  as  long  as  there  was  light  to 
work.  The  children  worked  too. 
They  lived  on  simple  fare,  and  they 
earned  it  before  they  consumed  it «» 
When  I  visited  Oneida,  they  showed 
me  the  "  Historical  Closet,"  wherein 
are  kept  the  photographs,  the  odds 
and  ends  of  wearing  apparel,  bits  of 
curious  craftsmanship,  samples  of 
their  early  publications,  and  what- 
not. With  the  photographs  to  help, 
and  with  the  friendly  explanations, 


the  scene  spread  out  before  ooe 
eyes!  One  became  part  of  the  Ui^ 
of  the  striving  for  Perfection*  On 
absorbed  the  sincerity  of  it  I  Thoug 
perhaps  ooe  intied  the  concept  c 
duty,  one  said  to  oneself,  **  ther 
was  no  pretense  heret " 

^2^  O  earn  a  livelihood,  the  Oneidi 
\J  Coomiunists  of  fifty  -or  atxt: 
3rears  ago  developed  several  nior 
or  less  profitable  industries.  The] 
farmed,  they  preserved  firuit  ii 
glass,  they  wove  silk,  tliey  manu 
factured  animal  traps,  and  the} 
made  Community  ^ver.  When  the 
Community  disbanded  as  a  rdi|potu 
sect  in  1879,  many,  many  people 
left,  but  others  stayed  to  meet  the 
new  condition;  perhaps  because 
there  was  nowhere  else  to  go  «• 
These  kept  the  industries  alive, 
though  their  prosperity  was  dd 
ddedly  limited  and  uncertain  m 
They  worked  without  a  i^an.  Foi 
about  fifteen  years  this  conc^oo 
prevailed  «•»  «•» 

Then  early  in  the  nineties^  there  wm 
a  reorganization  of  the  old  QneidQ 
Cooperative  Spirit.  There  was  s 
going  over  of  assets,  a  stock-takingi 
an  inspection  of  the  possibilities  d 
their  various  enterprises, 
decided  to  discontinue  the 
Weaving  and  the  Fruit  Cannin 
and  to  concentrate  on  Communitjl 
Slver  and  Traps.  The  result  is  thn 
Community    Silver    is    n>w    tM 


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Standard  for  plated  ware  in  the 
United  States,  and  Oneida  Trapa 
are  tibe  Standard  for  the  World. 
Nor  have  they  forgotten  how  to  live. 
Across  the  street  and  down  the  road 
from  the  Mansion  House,  there  is  a 
nM>st  oomi^ete  Club-House  for  their 
workers,  with  a  beautiful  ball-room, 
a  theater,  and  a  modem  moving- 
picture  apparatus;  a  basket-ball 
court  and  gjonnaaum,  a  well- 
stocked  library;  four  new  bowling- 
aHeyB,  and  tnlHard-tables;  and  a 
great  indoor  ice-skating  rink.  For . 
next  sunmier  they  are  planning  a 
beautiful  swimming-pool.  Across  the 
road£rofn  theClub-House  is  a  model 
adiletic  field,  with  a  basdt)all- 
diamond,  a  football-gridiron,  and 
grandstands!  «•»  «» 
Along  with  this  they  pay  t^^eir 
workers  normal  wages  in  one  pay 
envelope,  and  in  another  pay 
envek>pe,  vi^iich  they  style  "  the 
high  cost  of  living  envelope,"  they 
add  tfairty^six  per  cent  to  each 
employee's  wage  to  cover  the  in- 
creased cost  of  foodstuffs  and  such, 
diie  to  the  war. 

True,  today  Oneida  Community  is 
only  a  corporate  name,  but  back  of 
this  corporate  name  there  is  that 
intangible,  spiritual,  oommimistic 
quality  which  recognizes  the  broth- 
erly relationship,  between  all  men, 
induding  the  seller  and  the  buyer. 
This  quality  endows  all  their  busi- 
ness transactions  with  a  peculiarly 


honorable  -character,  and  so  their 
sales  grow  and  their  reputatiofi 
endures  «•»  «•» 

This  win  not  seem  an  empty  state- 
ment to  you,  nor  will  it  seem  so 
strange*  when  I  tell  you  that  the 
people  who  own  and  operate  the 
Oneida  Community  today  are  not 
outside  purchasers,  exploiters  of  a 
well-known  trade-mark,  but  the 
direct  descendants  of  the  early 
Communists;  the  children  of  the 
Communistic  Children*s  House,  it 
you  please,  grown  up  to  make  this 
overwhelming  Oneida  Community 
success  another  particular  proof  of 
the   theories  of  theis   forefathers 

My  Gibraltar  Soldier 

OVER  in  England  they  use 
a  phrase  which  runs 
something  like  this:  "And 
so  he  enlisted  and  took 
the  King's  Shilling."  From  that  you 
gather  the  pay  of  a  private  in  the 
English  Army  is  a  shUUng'a'day. 
€lThis  tends  to  prevent  extrava- 
gance, to  limit  riotous  expenditures; 
to  encourage  thrift  1  Oh,  yes! 
Moreover,  privates  who  enlist  and 
take  the  icing's  Shilling  sign  up  far 
eight  years.  Eight  years  is  an 
almost  fatal  length  of  time  to  cut 
out  of  a  man's  lifel  Provided,  of 
course,  the  Government  ever  again 
desires  him  to  be  more  or  less  than  a 
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teem  aatisfied  to  call  the  Army  a 
career  of  and  by  itself! 
Of  a  certainty,  they  make  the  thing 
that  they  set  out  to  make.  Long 
before  a  private's  first  enlistment  is 
up,  he  's  a  long  way  removed  from 
his  Home  Town.  He  belongs  to 
England.  He  's  a  Traveller,  a  Cos- 
mopolitan, and  a  first-class  Pightin' 
Manl  His  uniform  fits  him  and  he 
fits  his  imiform.  He  sees  himself  as 
an  important  unit  in  a  World 
Empire.  Otherwise  his  mind  is  apt 
to  be  very  much  small-boy's. 
In  England,  Ireland,  Egypt,  and  on 
the  Rock  of  Gibraltar,  I  have  held 
much  casual  conversation  with 
Tommy  Atkins.  His  ideas  on  this 
and  that  were  always  surprising  and 
often  interesting.  Gentlemen  in 
barracks  develop  outlandish  notions. 
€1  Always  I  sounded  them  on  the 
subject  of  Ambition.  That  seemed  a 
pertinent  lead.  In  a  country  where 
there  is  a  recognized  Upper,  Middle 
and  Lower  Class,  and  where  the 
"  Tommies  "  are  invariably  of  the 
Lower  Class,  and  not  overly  well 
educated,  it  becomes  imperatively 
important  to  learn  Tommy's  am- 
bition. That  is,  to  one  who  likes 
to  puzzle  out  queer  mental  kinks. 
€L  One  dean,  dear-eyed  boy,  with 
the  dialect  of  some  "  Shire "  or 
other  on  his  tongue,  straight  as  a 
ramrod,  in  a  quite  fearsome  uniform, 
whom  I  met  in  a  garrison  town  of 
Northern    England,    told  me    his 


ambition  wai,  to  own  a  camera.  The 
half  hour  I  walked  about  witli  him 
he  did  not  tire  in  the  least  of  the 
camera  subject  1 

Sitting  alone  in  a  public  park  in 
^Sypt,  a  little  Codmey  groom  told 
me  his  ambition  was  to  learn  to 
roller-skate.  Absurd,  you  say!  Ah — 
what  do  you  know  about  Tragedy? 
He  was  very,  very  near  to  tears  ¥i^en 
he  told  me,  "Hi  cawn't  get  the 
swing  of  hit  I "  (His  friends  were 
whooping  it  up  in  a  rink  near-by!) 
The  little  groom's  legs  were  bowed 
from  riding  too  many  horses,  too 
young — I  That  may  have  been  the 
trouble!  Whatever  the  deficiency  or 
fault,  it  left  him  sad  and  discon- 
solate! 9^  9^ 

One  Simday  afternoon,  a  huge  blond 
corporal  showed  me  through  some 
of  the  imderground  passages  of  the 
Gibraltar  Rock.  The  Rock  is  honey- 
combed with  these  passage^Tvays, 
which  here  and  there  and  elae^vhere, 
lead  to  the  face  of  the  Rock  where  a 
battery  is  mounted  to  command  the 
strait  9^  9^ 

I  told  my  guide  I  wanted  to  see  the 
side  where  O.  J.  Gude  had  painted, 
"  The  Prudential  Has  the  Strength 
of  Gibraltar  I " 

For  a  second  he  hesitated!  Then — 
"  Ow,  quit  your  spoofing!  " 
Neverthdess,  he  led  me  quite  a 
distance  through  vaulted  chambers 
to  show  me  the  side  of  the  Rock 
I  wanted  to  see! 


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Here  *8  a  surprise  for  all  you 
people*  perhaps?  The  "Pradential" 
ade  of  the  Rock  of  Gibraltar  does 
not  face  out  to  sea  or  even  toward 
the  Mediterranean,  but  almost  en- 
tirely inland. 

As  we  retraced  our  steps  through 
the  labyrinth,  the  Corporal  asked 
me  how  much  was  the  return 
railroad  fare  from  New  York  to 
Niagara  Falls. 
I  told  him. 

He  then  asked  me-  how  much  was 
the  return  boat  fare  from  Bermuda 
to  New  York. 
Again  I  gave  an  estimate! 
Then  I  akked  him  why  he  wanted  to 
know!  *m  «•» 

Well,  you  see,  when  his  present 
enlistment  expired,  six  years  hence, 
it  would  be  his  privilege  to  ask  to 
be  stationed  at  Bermuda.  He  had 
always  wanted  to  see  Niagara  Falls! 
Perhaps  if  he  saved  from  his 
modest  income  so  much  each  year, 
he  might  ask  for  special  liberty 
and  make  the  trip  from  Bermuda 
via  New  York  to  I^agara  Falls — 
after  he  got  to  Bermuda! 
TruA?  I  pledge  you  my  word  this 
is  the  truth.  Moreover,  I  pledge  you 
that  this  ability  to  plan  six  years 
in  advance,  with  the  wonderful 
super-ability  to  wait  and  to  keep 
the  faith,  is  the  English  character- 
trait  that  will  eventually  force  the 
Kerr  Deutscher  to  quit  and  commit 
suicide!  «•»  «•» 


W^e  Have  With 
Us  Toniifht 

ONCE  when  Canada  was 
voting  whether  or  not 
they  wanted  Reciprocity 
with  the  United  States,  I 
stumped  the  Province  of  New 
Brunswick.  (Speaking  as  one  Nation 
to  Another — ^Ahem!  Please  pass  the 
Ice  Water).  That,  when  the  test 
came.  New  Brunswick  was  the  only 
Canadian  Province  to  vote  FOR 
Reciprocity  (as  I  remember  it),  has 
nothing  to  do  with  this  subject! 
Not  ansrthing! 

Once  I  talked  in  San  Antonio,  at  a 
Mexican  Dinner  under  a  dear, 
breesy  night  sky,  with  my  back 
against  a 'dobe  wan  1  Ascoreormore 
of  Mexican  women,  squatted  along 
the  edge  of  the  platform,  patted 
with  thdr  hands  Mexican  tortillas 
and  cooked  them  on  braner  fires 
for  the  assembled  multitude.  Above 
them  I  passed  out  the  chili-con- 
came  «•»  9^ 

Once  I  addressed  a  Formal  Banquet 
of  Englishmen  at  the  Cafe  Royal 
in  London.  Kind  friends  told  me  to 
be  careful,  to  go  slow.  "Englishmen 
are  very  cold,  and  unsympathetic!  " 
To  completely  kill  off  my  courage 
I  made  a  stupid,  unforgivable 
blunder  very  early  in  the  evening. 
Those  years  I  encouraged  a  villain- 
ous habit  of  smoking  a  Cigarette 
after  the  Soup!  (I  am  glad  to  say  I 


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have  not  smoked  at  all,  ^at  all  for 
nz  months,  and  never  intend  to 
again,  no  never  again,  etc.,  etc., 
etc.)  But  then — well  I  wanted  to 
smoke  wery,  wery  much.  By  chance 
I  noticed  no  one  was  smoking.  So 
I  thought  it  best  to  ask  permission 
of   the    Toastmaster — an    Oxford 


"Oh  certainlyl — but  just  a  moment, 
please!"   He  knocked  for  order — 

Gentlemen,  gentlemen! 
He  raised  his  glass,''  To  the  King 
and  the  President!" 
There  was  I  dinging  to  my  cigarette. 
It  was  all  too  apparent  that  I  had 
"rushed"  the  formal  procedure. 
€1  Nevertheless,  when  my  hour 
came  I  threw  discretion  to  the  winds 
and  made  my  speech  as  was — pres- 
sure 110  degrees  «»  I  held  that 
audience.  I  took  them  into  my 
confidence.  We  got  very  chummy. . 
I  talked  straight,  plain,  he-man, 
American  talk  to  them. 
When  I  think  of  it  I  still  thrill.  At 
the  finish,  they  stood  up  and  dapped 
and  cheered  for  ten  minutes — those 
*'  cold  "  Englishmen! 
Once  I  talked  at  a  Strictly-Buck 
Banquet  of  800  Business  Men  at 
Waterloo,  Iowa.  Somehow,  some- 
body secreted  the  Ladies  Auxiliary 
just  "  off  stage  " — 1 1  for  one  did  not 
know  they  were  there!  Next  day  I 
was  informed,  "Haw-haw-haw!" 
that  the  Ladies  Auxiliary  had 
a4Joumed^with  their  wraps  imder 


their  arms,  quick-step,  within  fo 
minutes  after  I  got  a-gioin*, 
course  that  was  a  base  calnmnyl 
Both  the  Waterloo  papers  gave  : 
a  four-column  head  the  next  day\m^Wf^ti 
Said  I  was  the  Real  Thing  withL'^c«iV 
trimmings;  that  all  others  weree^ 
imitations!  Twice  since  then  tbcyr" 
have  invited  me  back — so  thereff^  s^t' 
€1  New  York,  London,  Chicago^  ^  ^«& 
Dallas,  St.  Louis,  Boston;  Souti&^  -  Iti 
Bend,  York,  Pa.,  Springfield,  Mo.,'"=  ^ttti 
and  Norfolk,  Va.;  Cleveland,  Buf-  ^  ^-q^ 
falo,  Syracuse;  up  and  down:  an<l      Kt^j 


sideways,  across  and  back,  I  have  J 


talked  to  plain  and  mixed  audiences, ' '  ^  «Q( 
imder  plain  and  mixed  conditions,  '  (^^^ 
wet  and  dry;  in  Churches,  Opery  1^1^ 
Houses  and  Hotds,  on  Soap  Boxes,  ^  ti^ 
on  an  Empty  Stomach,  and  else-  '  i^^^ 
where  and  dsewise.  I  have  enjo3red  \  ^  ^ 
many  quaint,  curious  and  quite-  ^^ 
imexpected  experiences  on  the  Kero- 
sene Circuit!  But  the  Evening  I 
went  Over  the  Top  into  No  KCan's 
Land  sure  'nuff,  was  the  evening  I 
addressed  the  Colored  Business 
Men  of  Baltimore! 


^ 


'^Or  COLORED  lawyer,  a  gradu- 
-^-**  ate  of  Tuskegee,  and  anotiier 
college  or  two  Up  North,  intro- 
duced the  speaker  by  special  request 
of  the  Chairman,  another  colored 
man  who  owned  four  or  five  square 
blocks  of  houses  in  Baltimore. 
'T  was  quite  an  occaaon. 
The  Hall  was  well  filled,  with  an 


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orderly,  attentive  lot  of  colored  men. 
ThQT  wanted  to  knowl 
Outside  the  weather  threatened  «•» 
The  seaaoo  was  early  spring,  and 
Bahimore  gets  Its  share  of  electrical 
itorms!  Rain  and  lots  of  it  was  in  the 
url<»  «» 

the  Chairman  said  his  say.  The 
lawyer  followed:  "We  have  with  us 
tODi^  a  man  v^io  needs  no  intro- 
tnction — I "  I  stepped  forward  to 
ailighten  the  wwld! 
then  bang — crashl  PopI  Pop!  Pop! 
^Rippp — I  The  storm  came.  Rain,* 
thunder,  lightning.  Then  I  dis- 
povered  we  were  under  a  tin  roofi 
The  Han  was  a  one-story  extension 
buUt  onto  a  sort  of  Club  House 
itnicture.  Musketry,  accompanied 
by  heavy  artillery— thunder,  and 
^  bright  flares  of  lightning, 
threatened  us. 
Out  went  the  fights! 
Bomedung  happened.  My  audience 
changed  its  <Jiaracter.  When  the 
Kfi^  were  on  they  were  the  Ccdored 
Business  Men  of  Baltimore; — with 
the  lights  off  they  became  just 
colofedmeTL 

The  lightning  struck  a  chimney  of  a 
nearby  house,  and  I  heard  that 
Audience  audiUy  reach  for  the  rab- 
tnt's  foot  he  carried  in  his  vest 
pocket.  The  wind  slammed  a  shutter 
with  fiiry,  and  it  detached  itself  and 
fell  away  with  an  unhi^  racket. 
Somebody  add, "  B'lest  de  Lawdl '' 
and  '*  Halleligahl  ''—and  a  Carcdina 


colored  accent  firom  the  fSv-df 
comer  kept  repeating,  ^  I  'se  glad 
I  'se  saved— I  'se  glad  I  'se  savedl" 
CThat  Revolutiooary  hero  who 
commanded  **  Don't  shoot  till  you 
see  -the  whites  of  their  esres,"  should 
have  been  there  with  me  that  night. 
All  I  coiidd  see  was  the  ^Rdiites  of  their 
eyes.  So  I  kept  on  shooting. 

I  SAID  my  speech  through  from 
start  to  finish.  Then  I  began 
at  the  finish  and  gradually  worked 
back  to  the  start  «•»  I  was  going 
good  toward  the  finish  once  more 
when  the  storm  ceased,  and  the 
lights  came  on! 

When  the  lights  switdied  on,  I 
switched  off! 

"And  so,  gentlemen,  we  have 
found  ourselves  so  completely  in 
agreement  this  evening;  I  count 
this  Meeting  a  marked  success,  and 
I  fed  free  to  state  that  it  seems  to 
me  to  he  a  distinct  step  forward 
toward  a  permanent  realisation  and 
a  perfect  consummation  of  Busi- 
ness Idealism!" 

Applause?  That  hall  was  so  full 
of  conqiressed  energy  they  split  the 
air  with  their  hands  and  shivered 
the  beams  of  the  flo-jr  with  their 
stominng  feet — !  But  what  is  more 
to  the  point,  they  did  not  linger  to 
omgratulate  the  Speaker.  When  the 
Chairman  waved  his  hand,  they 
emptied  out  into  the  night  in  ten 
seconds  flat! 


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A  La  Victor  Hugo 

HLL  these  investigations 
in  Washington,  D.  C, 
the  accusations,  the 
counter-accusations, 
the  evasions,  the  tragic  mistakes  in 
judgment,  the  individual  her<nsms 
in  holding  onto  the  office  after 
negligence  or  inability  is  proven, 
suggest  to  one  as  a  possible  way  out 
of  the  dilemma,  the  combination  of 
reward  and  punishment  meted  out 
by  the  Captain  of  the  Corvette  to 
the  Chief  Gunner  in  \^ctor  Hugo's 
Ninety  Three! 

Hugo  knew  a  thing  or  two  about 
wars,  their  aims,  aspirations,  and 
their  abominable  reactions.  Once 
when  a  Foreign  Army  threatened 
France,  Hugo  said,  "  This  is  absurd! 
Why  kill  thousands  of  men  and  lay 
waste  a  country  to  satisfy  so-called 
National  Honor  1  To  save  wantoa 
bloodshed,  I  will  challenge  this  For- 
dgn  Marauder  to  a  duel — perhaps 
that  will  satisfy  his  "  honor  "I 
"But,"  said  a  shocked  listener, 
**  you  must  remember  he  is  a  King !  " 
"  And  I,"  said  the  Historian,  "  am 
Victor  Hugo! " 

That  was  one  of  Hugo's  war 
theories.  He  introduced  another  in 
Ninety-Three. 

Aboard  the  Corvette,  the  carronade, 
a  24-Pounder,  broke  loose;  a  batter- 
ing ram  of  10,000  pounds  of  steel,  to 
tear  the  ship  asunder.  The  fault  was 


the  Chief  Gunner's.  He  had  neg- 
lect^ to  fix  home  the  screw-nut  of 
the  mooring  chain!  A  wave  came — 
and  the  monster  was  at  large! 
Four,  five,  more,  men  it  crushed, 
killed.  It  battered  down  the  super- 
structure, struck  at  the  bulwarks, 
splintered    the    masts — raged  and 
threatened   destruction!   The   ship 
was     in     a    sinking    condition — I 
Sailors    and    Officers    alike,    with 
blanched  faces,  stood  by,  helpless! 
€lThen  the  Chief  Gunner,  the  one  at  I 
fault,  sprang  down  onto  the  Deck,! 
into  the  Area  of  Death!  Armed  with 
an  iron  bar  and  a  coil  of  rope — 1  «•» 
He  sought  to  wedge  the  wheels,  to 
again  lash  the  carronade  into  se- 
curity. The  mortal  combat  began — 1' 
For  an  eternity  the  gunner  battled 
with  the  heedless,  soulless,  painless 
assassin!  «^  «» 
Then  the  man  won! 
He  saved  the  lives  of  his  mates,  his 
officers!  He  saved  the  ship] 
The    Captain    called    the     Chief 
Gunner  to  the  Main  Deck.  Therfl^ 
before  the  ship's  company  he  coii- 
gratulated    him    on    his    bravery^ 
From  his  own  breast  he  removed 
Cross  of  St.  Louis  and  innned  it 
the  tunic  of  the  Chief  Gunner, 
tears  of  admiration  in  his  eyes  liaj 
kissed  the  Gunner  on  both 
— "  For  HeroismI "  "  Now  " 
manded  the  Captain,  in  a  voice  ai 
stem  as  it  was  just,  '*  let  this 
he  shot!" 


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^  There  are  itec^ple  who 
mre  near  to  Siqtence  and 
mver  know  it;  lit  the 
midst  of  Gnltiire  and 
never  have  it;  close  to . 
Religion  and  never  Im- 
bibe it;  by  the  side  of 
Nature  luid  still  are 
stranit^rs  to  her  beauty* 
They  are  Incapable  of 
the  concentration  nee* 
essarjr  to  ^msp  a  theme 
and  bec<mie  enthusiastic 
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At  a  Home  of  Our  New  Army 

Bert  Hubbard 


^B     ■''OU     stay-at-homes,     if 

■  W  W     you  have  n't  seen  one 

.  L^^     of  the  National  Army 

^"^^     camps,  take  a  day  off 

'  Wd  viat  one.  You  wiH  be  welcome, 

^  the  boys  are  eager  to  sec  folks 

■ton  borne.  They  are  proud  of  their 

Work  and  want  to  show  you. 

i.Complimcnts  and  praise  to  the  boys 

from  their  officers  are  rare— they 

fifcn't  a  part  <rf  military  training. 

*  0  obqr  an  order  and  do  as  you  are 

t*W  does  not  require  a  thank^you — 

^^^thoanny. 

So  it  b  that  the  boys  look  to  the 
^^Jtaide  for  much  of  their  encourage- 
'^^tythe  personal,  individual  kind. 
4 1  recently  had  the  opportunity  of 
'P^'^^ing  a  night  and  a  day  at  Camp 
^^  New  Jersey.  Charlie^  Youngers, 


Roycroft  Binder,  and  I  were  out 
skirmishing  for  work,  and  incident- 
ally rubbing  off  the  winter's  crop  of 
rust  and  cobwebs. 
We  had  bucked  business  all  day  in 
Philadelphia  and  were  headed  for 
lightless  Broadway.  Our  plan  was  to 
stop  off  at  Camp  Dix  for  a  couple  of 
hours  to  say  Hello  to  some  of  the 
East  Aurora  boys.  But  arriving  there 
at  8  P.  M.  we  fotmd  we  must  stay 
tin  morning.  When  daylight  came 
we  looked  around  and  justnat'chdly 
stayed  all  day. 

We  were  met  at  the  station  by 
Sergeant  Fattey,  who  used  to  play 
in  the  Roycroft  Band — a  big  awk- 
ward country  boy  who  was  always 
too  bashful  to  talk  even  to  himself. 
But  he  found  himself  in  the  army. 


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Somebody  there  had  discovered  his 
talent  and  detailed  him  to  organize 
a  band.  Tho  reports  are  that  he  now 
has  the  best  one  of  the  thirteen 
bands  at  Camp  Dix.  And  a  sergeant's 
stripes  on  his  arml  I  never  would 
have  believed  he  could  do  it.  Now 
he  has  a  straight  back  and  his  head 
is  carried  high.  An  independent 
manner  and  dignity  have  come  to 
him.  He  has  found  his  job  and  him- 
self. He  directs  his  twenty-eight  men 
like  an  old  migor  . . .  and  how  they 
canpbiyl 

BUT  we  have  just  arrived  at 
camp.  It  was  a  hike  of  two 
miles  from  the  depot  to  Head- 
quarters Company  of  the  309th, 
where  we  were  to  stay.  We  were 
talking  fast  as  we  walked,  lugging 
heavy  grips  full  of  samples.  Some- 
how our  guide  had  taken  a  street 
which  we  soon  learned  was  for- 
tndden  territory.  As  we  approached 
some  freight  sheds,  dimly  lighted,  a 
sentry  suddenly  loomed  up  in  the 
darkness  directly  ahead,  «  Haiti  " 
came  an  order.  We  continued  to 
walk  on.  "  Haiti "  And  we  under- 
stood the  second  order,  for  we  could 
then  see  the  guard  facing  us  with  a 
tng  black  pistol  held  menadngly  in 
the  air.  We  halted,  for  something 
seemed  to  tell  us  we  'd  better.  We 
dropped  our  bags  and  stood  at 
attention  «»  «» 
"Advance  one,"  snapped  the  sentry. 


Our  guide  advanced  and  eiplainedj 
We  were  told  to  take  the  maii^ 
street  and  cautioned  to  stop  nez^ 
time  at  the  first  command—^quit^ 
an  unnecessary  remark  so  far  aa  ^ 
was  concerned. 

All  of  which  was  quite  a  ample 
affair   but   a   fine   military    intro- 
duction. It  put  us  on  our  toes.  I  had 
already  had  a  viaon  of  a  night  in 
the  guardhouse  and  a  viat  to  the 
General  in  the  morning. 
At  last  we  arrived  at  our  host's 
company   barracks  «»   It   seemed 
like  an  almost  endless  hike,  past 
countless    buildings    aU     brightly 
lighted    and    alive    with    8(^dier8.| 
There  had  been  a  desertion  in  the 
band;  a  fellow  who  just  got  ao  home- 
sick he  packed  his  kit-bag  and  his 
troubles  and  beat  it  for  home.  This 
left  an  empty  cot  which  one  of  us 
might  occupy  for  the  night.  We 
drew  cuts  for  it  and  I  lost.  80  the 
Roycrolt    booklnnder    slept    in   a 
deserter's    bed.    Even    that    was 
better    than    the    guardhouse.    I 
hunted  up  an  officer  in  the  same 
regiment,   Captain  Piatt,   anotto 
East    Aurora    citizen,    who    very 
kindly   took   me   in.    The    officers 
(lieutenants  and  up)  live  in  a  sepa- 
rate building  and  have  individual 
rooms.  Captain  Piatt  is  a  youngster, 
only  twenty-seven,  who  put  in  six 
months  on  the  border  as  a  private, 
and  later  got  his  con^nission  at 
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himself  too.  He  has  command  of  one 
oompmiy.  I  never  realized  what  a 
l»g  job  a  captain  has.  Every  man  in 
the  company  comes  under  his  care. 
He  is  responsible  for  the  health,  the 
morale,  the  food,  the  disdi^ine,  and 
the  training  of  each  of  his  men.  Then 
there  are  numerous  records  to  keep, 
enough  to  stagger  a  full-fledged 
oflSce  superintendent.  It  is  an  endless 
responstlnHty,  and  requires  long 
hours  of  work. 

I  WAS  told  that  every  man  in 
his  ccMnpany  bought  a  liberty 
Bond,  and  every  one  had  taken  out 
the  new  government  insurance. 
Captain  Piatt  says  his  motto  is 
"  Everjrthing  in  our  cc»npany  must 
be  one-hundred  per-cent."  The  men 
take  a  great  pride  in  this  and  are 
inspired  to  make  good  by  thdr 
commander's  example.  He  knows 
his  men  and  takes  a  personal 
interest  in  them,  quite  above  the 
average  attitude  of  army  ofificers  of 
the  old  regime. 

My  impressions  of  the  new  army.as 
gained  from  meeting  the  <^cers  and 
men,  are  that  there  is  a  deal  more  of 
democracy  in  the  ranks  than  army 
traditions  would  admit.  Of  course 
there  is  caste  and  lots  of  it,  but  there 
is  more  of  the  element  of  a  business 
in  it  than  might  be  supposed.  These 
men  are  all  worldng  for  a  purpose 
and  that  purpose  is  their  common 
good  (and  yours  and  mine).  There 


is  a  spirit  of  hdpAilness  and  a 
restless  desire  to  make  for  efficiency. 
It 't  a  job,  and  I  believe  few  men  of 
the  draft,  or  their  new  businessmen- 
officers,  fail  to  fed  this. 
I  believe  there  is  real  patriotism 
within  the  ranks  of  this  new  army. 
There  is  efficiency  too.  It  is  re- 
markable how  quickly  they  adjust 
themselves  to  the  new  Ufe.  These 
men  are  making  big  sacrifices  now 
and  many  will  make  bigger  ones 
later.  Enforced,  to  be  sure — but 
nevertheless  with  good  grace  and 
dieerfiilly  for  the  most  part.  If  the 
whole  country  back  of  the  soldiers 
could  only  be  imbued  with  the 
need  of  sacrifices  proportionate 
to  thdrs,  it  would  make  their  job 
much  easier.  But  most  of  us  back 
home  are  living  our  lives  as  usual, 
gnmibling  about  scarcity  of  sugar, 
and  kicking  because  we  have  to 
cut  down  our  portions.  AH  war  is 
waste,  but  I  honestly  believe  there 
is  less  wasted  effort  and  more  real 
effidency,  in  developing  soldiers 
than  in  produdng  munitions  and 
aeroplanes  for  instance.  Viat  the 
camps  and  then  the  big  factories — 
judge  for  yourself. 

<7^HB  bugles  woke  me  at  six  in 
^J  the  morning.  It  was  Reveille. 
Before  breakfast  comes  the  morning 
roll-call  •»  Out  into  the  darkness 
alongside  every  (company-house 
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be^n  the  day's  routine.  RoU-call 
over  and  breakfast  is  ready.  Then 
the  beds  must  be  made  and  the 
whole  place  slicked  up.  At  seven- 
thirty  the  day's  work  begins — drill, 
drill,  drill!— eight  hours  every  day 
except  Sunday. 

Guard-Mount  and'  Retreat  come  at 
five  in  the  afternoon,  a  very  im- 
pressive ceremony.  The  band  plays 
the  Star-Spangled  Banner.  Involun- 
tarily we  uncover  our  heads  while 
every  <^cer  stands  at  salute  and 
every  man  at  rigid  attenti6n. 
There 's  a  brief  opportunity  to  think 
it  all  over  and  to  pay  one's  silent 
tribute  to  the  flag  and  country, 
while  our  band  puts  the  sinrit  of 
their  hearts  into  the  national  hymn. 
And  when  the  music  stops,  and  at  a 
sharp  command — "  Fall  Out  " — 
the  men  suddenly  scramble  back  to 
their  quarters  to  get  ready  for 
supper,  one  comes  back  to  earth, 
realizing  that  these  fellows  are  only 
boys  with  huge  appetites  just  now, 
and  the  problems  of  war  must  wait 
a  while. 

Everybody  gets  out  his  two  tin 
plates  and  cup,  the  booklnnder  and 
I  included.  In  a  minute  a  head  is 
thrust  in  the  door  and  yells, "  Come 
and  get  itl  "  We  dot  Beef-stew  with 
vegetables,  all  cooked  together, 
apple-sauce  and  a  sweet  biscuit  are 
put  on  our  plates  as  we  hold  them 
up  to  be  filled.  Excellent  tea  and 
bread  fill  out  the  meal. 


Supper  over,  each  man  washes  his 
own  dishes  and  takes  them  back  to 
his  cot.  From  then  till  taps  (ten 
o'clock)  the  time  is^  free.  Letter- 
writing,  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  cards, 
washing,  all  furnish  means  of 
putting  in  the  time.  AH  lights  go  out 
at  taps.  Sleep  and  quiet  come  over 
the  camp,  for  the  men  are  tired, 
dead-tired,  and  there 's  another  day 
coming  just  like  this  one. 

^7^0  me  this  one  day  in  camp  was 
^^  a  thrill — impressive,  solemn, 
sobering.  To  the  boys  it  was  only 
one  of  many  days'  grind  and  routine, 
making  of  them  soldiers  and  casting 
thdr  future  into  the  balance.  I  saw  , 
no  grouches,  no  grumblers,  there 
is  no  place  for  them  in  Camp  Dix. 
The  men  are  a  happy  lot — perhaps 
seriously  so — ^healthy,  and  stronger 
than  when  they  arrived. 
Camp  Dix  is  a  dty  of  thirteen 
square  miles,  with  accommodations 
for  forty  thousand  men.  There  are 
complete  sewers  and  water  ssrstems, 
improved  stone  roads,  electric 
lights,  telephones,  telegraph:  all 
built  in  three  months.  And  now, 
while  criticism  of  the  army  and  of 
Secretary  Baker  seems  to  occupy 
the  attention  of  most  people,  I 
would  suggest  that  you  visit  one  of 
the  camps,  as  I  did,  and  you  11  < 
see  a  tremendous  tmdertakuig 
beautifully  carried  out  and  worthy 
of  your  praise. 


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presents  his  economic  conclusions  »^  »». 


"T  seems  to  me  that  some 
attention  should  be  paid  to 
the  matter  of  preparedness 
in  this  country  for  conditions 
that  will  follow  the  war.  We  shall  be 
in  for  a  reconstruction  period  and 
we  don't  want  it  to  bear  any  likeness 
to  the  reconstructioa  period  after 
the  civil  war.  A  number  of  things 
that  we  Qiust  bear  with  in  war  time 
will  have  to  be  done  away  with. 
Primarily  they  are  things  of  a  mili- 
taristic quality  or  tendency. 
The  matter  may  be  put  succinctly 
by  saying  that  it  is  time  now  to 
begin  the  work  of  restoring  democ- 
racy after  the  war.  There  must  be  an 
end  of  espionage  and  censorship,  of 
course,  and  there  must  be  popular 
organization  to  combat  an  inevitable 
tendency  to  continue  in  being  a 
great  army  and  navy  in  which 
certain  elements  have  acquired  what 
they  take  to  be  a  vested  interest.  If 
we  are  to  have  any  such  thing  as 
universal  training  it  should  be  no 
more  drastically  militaristic  than 
the  Swiss  system.  We  must  get 
ready  to  oppose  the  ultra-national- 
istic tendencies  that  will  manifest 
themselves  in  a  strongly  backed 
demand  for  a  high  protective  tariff 


which  will  be  an  inescapable  element 
in  an  imperialistic  urge  upon  the 
part  of  big  business. 
There  will  be  a  drive  to  imload  as 
many  taxes  as  possible  upon  the 
masses  of  the  people.  The  profiteers 
and  the  recipients  of  tng  incomes  will 
try  to  get  from  tmder.  This  effort 
must  be  counteracted  by  work  to 
put  more  of  the  war  burden  upon  the 
war  beneficiaries — if  need  be  by 
conscription  of  caintal,  of  inheri- 
tances, and  certainly  by  a  tax  that 
will  release  land  to  use  by  labor.  We 
must  check  the  will  to  power  in 
fordgn  affairs  and  in  domestic  con- 
ditions as  weU. 


w 


iHILE  the  war  has  some 
tendencies'  to  democracy, 
there  is  no  doubt  that  it  is  develop- 
ing a  strong  class  power  near  the  top 
and  some  of  the  joyously  hailed 
experiments  in  state  socialism  may, 
if  they  be  not  curbed,  bring  upon  us 
a  regime  of  state  profiteering  on  a 
superdisdplined  working  classT 
We  must  look  out  that  organization 
and  efiidency  be  not  fastened  upon 
us  to  the  limitation  if  not  the 
abolition  of  liberty.  In  the  improvi- 
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the  gam  of  a  gDvemment  by  prop- 
erty>  tinoe  property  and  government 
are  in  such  intimate  alliance.  Con- 
cealed in  the  philanthropy,  of 
"  housing  "  schemes  and  land  allot- 
ments for  returned  soldiers  are  the 
dangers  of  servitude. 
A  huge  bureaucracy  called  into 
existence  by  the  war  will  have  power 
to  exert  in  favor  of  its  continuance 
in  ofiQce.  Big  business,  landlordism* 
army  and  navy  caste,  the  interests 
that  profit  by  armament,  are  a 
phalanx  which  democracy  must 
break.  These  forces  will  be  in  favor 
of  the  fixation  of  the  emergency 
powers  that  have  been  invoked  or 
evoked  from  the  war.  They  may 
even  try  to  bring  in  coolie  labor  as 
an  emergency  measure. 
We  may  look  for  tng  plans  for 
national  defense  in  which  will  be 
found  subtle  forms  of  conscription 
for  labor.  The  classes  that  want  to 
keep  economic  and  therefore  polit- 
ical power  win  be  found  fighting 


more  or  less  directly  for  a  "  doeed 
state."  This  must  be  combated  by 
the  democratic  thought  of  the 
country  in  favor  of  at  least  so  much 
internationalism  as  is  implied  in  the 
proposed  League  of  Nations.  That 
League  of  Nations  may  be  controlled 
by  international  capitalism  or  by 
wealth,  but  the  point  is  that  the 
democrats  must  control  it  demo- 
cratically, and  to  do  this  democracy 
must  cease  fissiparation  into  factions 
uri^ng  one  fixed  idea,  or  panacea, 
and  unite  on  everything  that  works 
to  break  the  alignment  of  money 
that  is  as  international  or  as 
universal  as  original  sin. 
Democracy  must  organize  to  pre- 
serve itself  from  the  cult  of  state 
socialism  and  the  cult  of  efficiency 
in  the  name  of  a  nationalism  that 
wants  to  get  aU  there  is  to  be  had 
out  of  the  results  of  the  war.  We 
must  look  out  that  the  machinery 
this  country  has  constructed  to 
carry  on  the  war  shall  not  crush  us. 


McKinley  As  An  Employer 

C.  D.  Beckman 


Text:  Mr.  McKinley  is  held 

^^^C  KINLEY  gave 
m  ■  M  Rowan  a  letter  to  be 
M  M  ^  delivered  to  Garcia. 
^^"^^^^  Q.  Rowan  delivered  it. 
iL  AU  honor  to  Rowanl 
41  But  also — aU  honor  to  McKMey! 
<LFor    McKinley's    part    in    the 


up  as  an  Ideal  for  Employers 

transaction  was  quite  as  important 
as  Rowan's. 

He   put   a   certain   charge   up   to 
Rowan — and  left  it  up  to  hinu 
Did  he  in^st  on  Rowan's  taking  a 
certain  train  to  the  port  he  sailed 
from?  He  did  not.  Did  he  arbi- 


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trarily  specify  when  Rowan  should 
sail  and  in  what?  He  did  not. 
He  was  fair  enough  and  efficient 
ffnmigh  to  give  Rowan  the  responsi- 
bility for  the  end  and  the  means. 
Q.  And  I  say  to  you  that  if  Rowan 
is  a  modd  for  the  Good  Employee — 
and  truly  he  is — ^McKinley  is  just 
as  truly  a  model  for  the  Good 
En^lpsrer  «»  «» 

INDEED  there  are  employees 
who  sear  men's  souls  with  their 
pronencss  to  everlastingly  dodge» 
shirk  and  evade  req>onsability — all 
too  many  of  them. 
But  also  there  are  employees  who 


crave  respontfbility:  who  thrive 
on  it. 

Admittedly  there  are  emplpsrers 
who  do— or  would  if  they  could — 
give  responsibility  to  their  em- 
ployees «»  •» 

But  also  there  is  a  host  of  employers 
who  say  that  they  do— but  so 
heavily  condition  that  "responsi- 
bility "  that  they  dorft 
It  is  only  when  tiie  employer  who 
actually  gives  responsitnlity  con- 
nects with  one  of  those  employees 
who  actually  crave  it — and  thrive 
on  it — that  the  sparks  fly. 
That 's  what  lu4>pened  in  the  affair 
of  the  Message  to  Oarda. 


An  Acre  of  Morning  Glories 

Ed  Howe 

Text:  Old  Ed  Howe,  the  Monarch  of  Potato  Hill, 
prefers  the  useful  to  the  beautiful  £♦.  ^   .1^   .•- 


I  AM  informed  by  a  literary 
sharp — ^I  do  not  know  much 
about  such  things  myself — 
that  the  conviction  that 
human  life  is  a  seeking  without 
finding,  that  its  purpose  is  impen- 
etrate, that  joy  and  sorrow  are 
alike  meaningless,  is  written  largely 
in  the  work  of  most  creative  artists. 
€LTo  prove  this,  such  writers  as 
Shakespeare,  Goethe,  Balzac, 
Swift,  Moliere,  Turgenieff,  Ibsen, 
Ndtzsche,  ZcAa,  Hardy,  Sudermann, 
Mark  Twain,  Conrad,  Frank  Norris, 


Stephen  Crane,  George  Moore  and 
Theodore  Dreiser  are  cited. 
If  this  is  true,  all  the  writers  named 
came  to  ridiculous  conclusions. 
Conrad  speaks  of  "the  immmse 
indifference  of  things." 
It  seems  to  me  that  one  of  the  living, 
certain  truths  is  that  there  is  no 
indifference  *of  things.    The   vital 
forces  with  which  we  are  compelled 
to    deal    are    alive,    and    forever 
screaming  that  their  well-established 
and  well-known  laws  must  be  obeyed. 
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predte;  anything  but  indifferent. 
He  nei^ects  nothing;  he  is  above 
everything  else  exact. 
In  October,  a  premonitory  frost  is  to 
be  sent,  a  warning  to  the  careless 
of  the  approach  of  winter.'  Did  any 
one  ever  know  him  to  be  indifferent, 
and  neglect  his  work?  And  every- 
thing else  with  which  man  has  to  do 
is  ordered  with  the  same  exact  care. 
A  certain  section  is  entitled  to  a 
certain  rainfall;  and  gets  it.  All  the 
subjects  of  the  <^d  king  have  certain 
laws,  and  these  laws  are  as  sure 
of  fulfillment  as  an  astronomical 
movement  «»  «» 

^Y^AN  has  written  that  he  is 
•U-<  wonderful,  but  has  never 
been  able  to  prove  it.  From  his  tnrth 
to  his  death,  he  is  watched,  and  if  he 
accepts  the  doctrine  of  '*  the  im- 
mense indifference  of  things,"  and 
concludes  he  may  violate  the  watch- 
ful master,  he  is  promptly  whipped, 
and  given  notice  that  there  is  no 
dty  or  desert  so  vast  that  the  same 
policemen  are  not  on  duty. 
The  immense  indifference  of  things  1 
i^What  an  absurdityl  A  mere 
phrase  «»  «» 

If  a  dog  attacks  a  (^t,  and  his 
master  suddenly  appears,  the  dog  at 
once  realizes  that  he  has  been 
ordered  to  let  cats  alone,  and  hurries 
out  of  reach:  even  a  dog  knows  there 
is  no  indifference  of  things.  A  crazy 
man  knows  there  is  no  such  thing 


around  the  asylum  as  indifference; 
a  word  from  his  keeper,  and  he 
trembles  in  obedience. 
"  Night,**  tasrs  an  old  song,  "  has  a 
thousand  eyes.*'  Daylight  has  many 
more;  indifference  to  things  is  the 
one  thing  that  does  not  exist,  al- 
though we  are  t<^d  that  our  greatest 
writing  men  inevitably  come  to  that 
conclusion  •»  «» 

Why  is  one  man  hanged,  and  another 
rewarded?  Because  there  is  no  such 
thing  as  indifference.  Why  are  men 
able  to  peer  a  thousand  years  into 
the  future,  and  foretell  an  eclipse  of 
the  sun  to  the  exact  minute?  Be- 
cause there  is  no  indifference  of 
things  animate  or  inanimate;  be- 
cause the  .past  has  demonstrated 
itself  so  positively  that  we  may  de- 
pend on  the  future.  Men  and  mice, 
oceans  and  atoms,  are  regulated 
precisely.  Nature  is  the  one  thing 
that  is  always  just;  it  announces  its 
rules,  and  then  is  never  indifferent 
in  carrying  them  out. 
The  Immense  Indifference  of  Things. 
Q.  It  is  the  greatest  and  most-  mis- 
chievous falsehood  ever  told.  And 
a  critic  informs  us  that  all  of  our 
best  writers  tell  it.  They  should  be 
ashamed  of  themselves. 
One  writer  says  life  "is  a  voyage 
without  a  chart,  compass,  sun  or 
stars."  What  intolerable  nonsense, 
yet  it  is  the  spirit  of  literature  I 
What  is  the  greatest  weakness  of 
men?  I  believe  it  is  that  they  know 


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the  truth,  and  are  ccmstantly 
betting  it  is  not  true;  that  they  can 
beat  a  game  with  a  hundxed  per 
cent  against  them. 
Within  a  few  weeks  I  have  received 
letters  from  two  noted  -writers 
saying  Art  is  greater  than  Morality. 
I  did  nt  know  that  opinion  was  ever 
entertained  by  any  one  except  Oscar 
Wilde;  and  I  believed  his  punish- 
ment had  scared  every  one  else  out 
of  the  absurd  notion. 
This  caterwauling  about  Art  is  a 
very  mischievous  thing.  Art  is  a 
word,  like  religion;  it  may  mean 
anything.  Art  does  not  mean 
Beautiful;  it  means  an  imitation  of 
beauty,,  and  millions  of  tiiese 
imitations  are  not  beautiful. 

""T^HE  house  in  which  I  live  at 
^^  Potato  ICll  Farm  is  located  on 
the^highest  hiU  fringing  Kansas  on 
the  east.  At  the  foot  of  this  hill  lies 
the  Missouri  River;  across  the  river 
ampear  the  valley  and  lakes.  Beyond 
that,  the  hills  or  "  blufifs  "  in  the 
State  of  MissourL 
The  view  from  the  road  in  front  of 
my  door  is  said  to  be  one  of  the 
finest  in  the  West.  On  a  Sunday 
when  the  leaves  of  the  sugar  tree, 
the  oak,  the  hackberry,  the  ash, 
were  colored  as  only  Nature  can  do 
it,  a  himdred  automobiles  are 
driven  out.  From  my  window  in  the 
upper  part  of  the  house  I  watch 
the  people.  Two,  five  or  seven  of 


them  arrive,  stop  on  the  crest,  and 
gase  in  silence  at  the  scene:  forty 
miles  or  more  within  their  vision. 
The  lazy,  sluggish  river,  winding 
and  twisting  in  its  lazy  way;  the 
valley,  the  fields,  the  hills,  lakes, 
towns.  A  hard  surface  road  has  been 
built  to  the  bungalow  through  the 
woods,  and  up  the  draws.  The 
visitors  thus  have  a  sort  of  prep- 
aration for  the  view;  there  it  at 
least  one  stretch  of  the  narrow, 
windingroadthat  is  very  impressive; 
and  when  I  saw  the  men  and  women 
gazing  silently  at  the  view,  I  thou^t 
it  another  demonstration  of  the  old, 
old  fact  that  every  one  admires  the 
beautiful  and  impressive. 
A  real  artist  once  loitered  arotmd 
for  weeks,  and  painted  the  view. 
And  I  wish  you  could  see  iti 
It 's  a  daub;  the  lucture  is  n't  in  it. 
<LIf  this  fellow  fails  to  seU  his 
painting,  no  doubt  he  will  say  with 
a  snarl  that  the  people  care  nothing 
for  Art.  But  they  do  care  for  the 
beautiful;  and  there  are  beautiful 
things  everywhere,  always  receiving 
the  appredation  they  deserve. 

I  KNOW  of  nothing  more 
beautiful  than  a  great  mass  of 
morning  glories.  They  are  a  great 
pest  at  Potato  Hill  Farm;  we  are 
compelled  to  hoe  or  plow  them  out 
of  the  com,  the  melons,  the  potatoes. 
Once  we  neglected  a  tract  of  an 
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covered  it  like  a  carpet.  Word  of  it 
got  about,  and  when  the  flowers  were 
at  their  best,  many  came  to  see  it. 
It  was  a  beautifiil  dght,  but  we 
have  already  arranged  that  it  shall 
not  happen  again.  That  patch  of 
weeds  is  not  so  important  that  I 
should  neglect  to  raise  my  food,  or 
pay  my  debts,  or  be  a  reasonably 
thrifty  and  honorable  man  in  other 
respects  «»  •» 

There  are  plenty  of  other  beautifiil 
things  in  life,  and  there  will  be 
plenty  of  morning  glories  left. 
And  life,  with  its  right  and  wrong, 
its  savagery  and  civilization,  I  have 
found  rather  agreeable;  it  would 
have  been  more  agreeable  had  I 
learned  as  much  as  I  should  have 
learned,  and  might  easily  have 
learned  on  the  way.  On  sea,  on  land, 
and  in  life,  sunshine  is  more  common 
than  tempest.  I  have  had  many 
good  friends,  and  am  grateful.  I 


have  had  more  good  tuck  than  bad, 
and  all  of  us  have.  I  have  ei^eri- 
enced  real  enjoyment;  not  at  rare 
intervals,  but  fluently.  I  cannot 
understand  how  any  man  fails  to 
appreciate  that  it  is  a  wonderful  old 
world,  in  si^te  of  its  savage  -in- 
sistence on  order,  and  absolute  lack 
of  indifference. 

True,  I  have  to  go  to  hell  yet,  but  I 
am  approaching  the  end  with  con- 
dderable  grace.  All  other  humans 
have  been  bom,  lived  and  died,  or 
have  the  trial  in  prospect;  and  I 
only  pray  that  I  may  so  live  my 
latter  days  that  those  who  know  me 
best  may  not  fed  too  much  relief 
when  I  am  finally  gone.  My  parents 
knew  my  heritage;  I  know  the  herit- 
age of  my  children.  It  is  all  at  least 
a  grim  fact;  there  4ias  been  no  in- 
difference anywhere. 
And  ^ven  a  grim  fact,  I  am  a  fool 
if  I  fail  to  make  the  best  of  it. 


How  Jealousy  Hinders  Progress 

Roger  W.  Babson 

Text:  The  noted  statistician  gives  a  cause  for  business 
failure   that  can't  be   explained  by  ''figures''  s^  ^ 


JEALOUSY  is,  to  the  efficiency 
of  an  organization,  what  grit 
is  to  the  efficiency  of  a 
delicate  machine.  Jealotisy 
dogs  the  whed.  It  is  the  curse  of 
industry.  It  takes  out  of  a  man  that 
inspiration  whidi  is  so  necessary  for 


good  work.  The  very  fact  that  it  is 
hard  to  locate  jealousy  makes  it  cdl 
the  more  dangerous.  Statistics  would 
probably  show  that  a  majority  of  the 
failures  of  organizations  can  be  di- 
rectly traced  to  jealousy  within  the 
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Whether  ahareholders  or  employees* 
we  must  constantly  keep  in  mind 
that  money  is  not  really  paid  for 
hours  of  labor  or  for  time.  Practi- 
cally speaking,  we  all  work  about  the 
same  amount  and  yet  our  salaries 
greatly  vary.  What  makes  the  differ- 
ence ?  The  difference  in  our  incomes 
is  due  to  the  difference  in  our  brain 
power.  It  is  initiative,  enterprise  and 
imagination  that  are  paid  for  nowa- 
days «»  •» 

iQ^TUDY  shows  that  the  thing 
f<^  which  kills  initiative,  enter- 
prise, imagination,  push,  more  than 
anything  else,  is  jealousy.  Jealousy 
eats  up  these  money-making  qual- 
ities «»  «» 

By  the  Equal  Reaction  Law  your 
earnings,  whether  you  are  a  share- 
holder or  an  employee,  are  inti- 
mately related  to  the  earnings  of  the 
concern  as  a  whole. 


If  you  want  to  make  more  money, 
get  jealousy  out  of  your  system  and 
substitute  in  place  thereof  a  ^irit 
of  cooperation* 

If  you  are  an  employee,  quit  being 
jealous  of  any  fellow  employee,  but 
start  in  at  once  to  cooperate  with 
him,  for  your  own  good  and  for  the 
good  of  the  concern. 
If  you  are  a  shareholder  quit  being 
jealous  of  some  other  shareholder 
and  start  in  at  once  to  cooperate 
with  him,  for  your  own  good  and  the 
good  of  the  concern. 
Moreover,  work  for  that  day  when 
both  shareholders  and  employees 
wiiXi  cooperate  with  one  another  for 
their  own  good,  and  for  the  good  of 
the  concern. 

If  cooperation  could  be  substituted 
for  jealousy,  both  in  boards  of 
directors  and  workers  at  benches,  all 
would  be  better  off — workers,  share- 
holders, and  customers. 


4      Always  there  will  he  vision  for  the  heart, 
The  press  of  endless  passion;  every  goal 
A  traveler's  tavern,  whence  he  must  depart 
On  new  divine  adventures  of  the  soul. 

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This  I  Resolve  To  Do 

G.  E.  Whitehouse 

Text:   A  foremost  English  Businessman  writes 
down    his   Standards  of  Success  .-j^  jj^  ^^  5^ 


A  MAN,  bdng  of  sound 
Is  health  and  disposing  mind, 
Ij  hereby  sot  down  these  things 
"^  ^  that  I  have  res<3lved: 
I  win  profit  by  the  experience  of 
others  and  will  not  wait  to  learn 
sense  by  my  own  experience. 
I  win  be  teachable.  From  every 
human  bdng  I  encounter  I  win  learn 
something  «»  «» 

I  win  decide  by  my  inteUect  what 
my  tastes  ought  to  be  and  make  my- 
self like  the  right  things.  I  ^mH  put 
away  the  weakling's  argument  that 
"  I  can't  help  my  likes  and  dislikes." 
411  win  keep  dean  in  body  and 
mind  «»  «» 

I  vnSi  not  accept  as  a  satisfactory 
standard    what    the    nugority    of 
people  are  and  do. 
I  win  aUow  no  person  nor  institution 
to  coerce  my  opinion;  my  judg- 
ment shaU  remain  unterrified,  un- 
bribed,  unseduced.  In  this  I  will  not 
be    truculent    and    offensive,    but 
modest  and  open  to  conviction. 
I  win  not  declare  my  belief  in  any- 
thing social  or  scientific  that  I  do 
not  clearly  tmderstand. 
I  win  learn  to  do  some  one  kind  of 
work  expertly,  and  make  my  living 
by  that. 


I  win  take  from  the  world  only  the 
fair  equivalent  of  what  I  ^ve  it. 
I  win  never  take  revenge,  will 
harbor  no  grudges  and  utterly 
eUminate  any  sinrit  of  retaliation. 
Life  is  too  short  for  destruction; 
an  my  efforts  shan  be  constructive. 
4L I  win  not  engage  in  any  buaness 
or  sport  that  impUes  fraud,  cruelty 
or  ix^ustice  to  emy  tiving  thing.  I  wiU 
hurt  no  duld,  punish  no  man,  wrong 
no  woman. 

In  everything  I  do  I  shan  strive  to 
add  a  little  to  the  sum  of  happiness 
and  subtract  a  Uttle  from  the  sum  of 
nodsery  of  an  Uving  creatures. 
I  iKon  constantly  try  to  make  myself 
agreeable  to  an  persons  with  whom 
I  come  in  ccmtact. 
I  know  death  is  as  natural  as  birth, 
and  that  no  man  knows  his^  hour.  I 
win  not  fret  at  this,  nor  dodge  it,  but 
so  live  that  I  am  ready  to  go. 
I  win  beHeve  that  honesty  is  better 
than  crookedness,  kindness  is  better 
than  cruelty,  truth  is  better  than 
Ues,  cleanliness  is  better  than  dirt, 
loyalty  is  better  than  treachery,  and 
love  is  better  than  hate  or  coldness. 
4L  I  wUl  trust  my  Hfe  and  my  career 
to  an  unfailing  reUance  upon  this 
creed  «»  »•» 


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Your  Rendezvous  With  Death 

Charles  L.  MacGregor 


Text:  Whether  you  are  Optimist  or  Pessunisi-  Prepare  j or  Death 


BE  carefull  You  remember 
it  has  been  said  that  a 
Pminiist  is  M»>e  one 
who  has  had  to  live  with 
an  Optimist.  Ever  cxmsider  what 
one  might  become — what  a  family 
would  ooiiie  to,  who  had  to  live 
toilhou<  an  Optimist — yourself  being 
that  Optimist?  "  The  world  is  mine 
oyster.  Therefore,  will  I  open  it 
with  my  swordl "  is  a  bully  good 
way  to  feel;  and,  in  spite  of  the  fact 
that  seven-eighths  of  what  Americans 
leave  in  estates — when  they  are  all 
done  and  gone,  has  been  found,  for 
years,  to  be  Life  Insurance — pro- 
duced, too,  out  of  the  use  of  less  than 
four  per  cent  of  the  aggregate  annual 
income  of  the  people  of  the  United 
States — I  'm  perfectly  willing  to 
humor  you  and  admit  you  may  get 
it  across,  that  you  can  beat  the 
average  individual's  net  finish  t/ 
you  live — ^yes,  we  11  agree  as  far  as 
possible.  Bui  how  about  your  living? 
Of  how  much  of  life  are  you  dead 
sure?  •»  •» 

"  When  he  wakes  up  in  Hades, 
some  day,  he  will  cheerfully  smile 
and  say — '  Well,  really,  this  is  n't 
so  bad.* "  Perhaps  it  won't  be  so 
bad — for  ypu;  but  what  of  those 


you  will  have  left  behind?  If  you 
must  look  back  and  see  those 
you  have  left  behind  in  need  of 
you,  requiring  what  you  could 
have,  and  should  have,  provided. 
Hades  will  be  HelL 
If  it  is  reserved  for  you,  from  where 
you  stand  in  the  Pit,  to  see  painful 
proof  of  your  failiue  to  meet  and 
discharge  to-day's  dmple  duty  as 
man,  dtisen,  husband,  father,  will 
it  not  straightway  become  for  you 
Hell  raised  to  the  nth  power?  Or, 
looking  down  from  a  comfortable 
seat  in  the  great  Family  Circle  of 
Heaven  will  it  be  possible  for 
Heaven  to  be  quite  Heaven  if,  on 
the  active  stage  you  desert — it  is 
not  a  hard  thing  to  die — ^living  's  the 
achievement!  You  must  watch  your 
leading  lady,  your  winsome  juv- 
eniles, in  want,  will  not,  then, 
Heaven  hold  for  you  at  least  a  wee 
bit  of  HeU? 

The  jar  thing  beckons  most, 
The  near  becomes  the  lost. 
Not  what  we  have  is  worth, 
But  that  which  has  no  birth 
Or  breath  within  the  ken 
Of  transitory  men. 

—C.  G.  Whiting. 


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Laniui  Deen 

Text:   A  plea  to  consider  the  Editor's  viewpoint — 
to  which  we  add  "  Please  enclose  stamps  !"  *••  *^ 


^^^^^K  EST  assured  that  editors 
'g'^g^  are  not  always  the  dense, 
B  ^  obtuse  individuals  some 
^  ^  ^of  their  slips  would  lead 
you  to  believe  «»  Like  ministers 
who  roam  re^ons  of  uncharted  space 
and  often  know  better  than  they 
preach,  they  (the  editors)  may  know 
better  than  they  do,  but,  like  the 
ministers,  too,  they  may  know  no 
market  for  their  own,  or  your 
supremacy  «»  «» 

Every  periodical  has  a  fixed  policy 
as  insatiable  and  relentless  as  the 
god  of  Moloch,  and  the  editor — like 
the  proprietor  of  a  restaurant  I 
heard  of  once — may  have  to  go  else- 
where himself  for  actual  suste- 
nance «»  «» 

One  thing  is  certain,  if  he  accepted 
a  tithe  of  the  avalanche  submitted, 
he  would  soon  be  hanging  his  own 
hat  by  the  wayside  and  looking  for 
the  magic  potions,  "  That  do  distil 
nepenthe."  We  must  grant  that  he 
'  should  be  an  adept  in  sizing  up  a 
prospect,  making  inroads  on  the 
"punk,"  tabooing  the  impos^ble 
and  noting  the  nuances  twizt  the 
cosmic  urge  and  the  meddler's  itch, 
though,  perhaps,  giving  even  the 
latter  the  benefit  of  the  doubt.  So, 


when  he  receives  your  scathing  com- 
ments on  his  lack  of  acumen,  he  is 
doubtless  justified  in  retreating 
behind  the  retort  courteous,  "All 
of  them  things  you  called  me — you 
is,"  and  let  it  go  at  that. 
But,  if  you  've  a  spark  of  the  divine 
fire  you  will  not  quail  at  this  or  any 
rebuff.  Only  a  shiftless  no-account 
who  never  stops  wanting  to  en- 
list until  war  is  declared,  would  do 
that  •»  «» 

Make  it  a  rule  that  every  time  you 
post  a  MS.,  interview  an  editor, 
boast  of  your  prowess  to  the  simple 
natives  or  receive  a  rejection  slip, 
you  pat  yourself  on  the  back  and 
skirmish  for  more.  Take  it  for 
granted  that  the  editor  and  all  your 
acquaintances  think  you  think  you 
arc  "  It  "  and  devote  more  time  and 
patience  to  making  good. 
But  don't  assume  that  as  soon  as 
you  grow  frowsy  and  distraught- 
looking  that  genius  is  necessarily 
burning  more  than  it  is  getting  paid 
to.  Even  the  frank  admission  that 
you  are  a  crank  and  an  illegible- 
script  combined,  won't  get  you  past 
the  office-rail  these  days. 
Ideas  are  but  boblnns  with  a  world 
of  posnbilities  which  have  to  be 


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woven  congruously  to  become  fabric, 
and  between  bobbins  and  the 
finished  product,  lie  tiers  of  effort 
and  layers  of  exhaustion.  When  you 
have  surmounted  these  with  a  daisy- 
chain  made  out  of  your  heartaches 
and  disappointments,  you  may 
begin  to  hope  for  a  vi^OQ  of  your 
hat  and  coat  being  detained  in  an 
editor's  locker,  while  he  signs  you 
up  for  an  indeterminate  option  «» 
Sir  Philip  Sidney  said,  **  Look  in  thy 
heart  and  write,"  but  I  say,  "  Look 
in  other  men's  hearts,  catch  their 
*  honest,  inmost '  and  oft  *  rejected 
thoughts  ' — and  write."  We  can  not 
as  in  making  presents,  give  what  we 
would  like  to  have;  we  must  in  this 
instance  do  as  we  would  be  done  by, 
and  give  what  the  other  fellow  is 
ready  and  willing  to  receive.  Dr. 
Johnson's  tutcx'  advised  that  when- 
ever he  came  across  a  particularly 
fine  passage  in  his  writing,  he  should 
strike  it  out.  That  is  the  trouble 
with  most  MSS.;  by  the  time  an 
editor  has  "  striked  out "  all  that 
was  too  billowy  or  bellowy  there  is 
nothing  left;  and  we  've  no  less  an 
authority  than  Josiah  Allen's  wife 
**  touchin'  on  and  appertainin'  to  " 
even  "  true  eloquence  "  as  being 
"  tuckerin'." 

^j*-'  HEREFORE,  don't  write  over 

X^  your  editor's  tobacco-smoke. 

Start   out  smooth  and  easy,  stick 

to  your  subject,  emphasize  the  cli- 


max and  wind  up  with  a  bene- 
diction that  sounds  like  the  Aurora 
Borealis  having  a  conniption  fit.  It 
will  leave  a  sort  of  illusory  promise 
of  what  is  yet  to  be.  See  that  you 
have  something  to  say  and  say 
it  as  clearly  as  possil^e,  or  else  the 
editor  will  say  with  the  Sour- 
Grapes  artist, 

**  If  she  be  not  clear  to  me, 
What  care  I  how  clear  she  be?  " 

Make  a  fool  of  yourself  if  you  want 
to,  but  don't  try  to  outdo  the  next 
fellow  who  makes  a  bid  for  the 
editor's  attention.  Remember  that 
while  a  crate  is  a  useful  article  it  has 
to  contain  something  to  go  down  on 
the  bill  of  lading,  and  ideas  that  you 
may  think  superb  may  strike  a 
finely  grained  editor  as  having  been 
riveted  on  with  a  buzz-saw.  An 
expert  might  risk  an  attempt  to 
make  something  out  of  nothing,  but 
a  novice  must  have  a  substantial 
nucleus  and  do  all  of  his  letting  out 
on  the  variations. 

It  is  nmiored  that  good  hearts  have 
no  place  in  big  business,  but  some- 
day someone  will  thank  an  editor 
for  having  spared  him  the  publica- 
tion of  his  early  indiscretions,  and 
there  will  be  such  a  stampede  of 
reporters  up  to  his  house  after  the 
story  of  his  life  that  it  will  take  his 
daughter  and  half  the  kingdom — 
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THE  SPIRIT  OF  AMERICA 

Albert  B.  Lord 

XT  is  a  wonderful  spirit,  this  broad,  long- 
suffering,  kind  and  freedom -loving  «•» 
Spirit  of  America ;  a  spirit  never  breathed 
before  by  any  nation  in  the  history  of 
the  world  «•»  «•» 

€1  It  is  not  a  cut -and -dried  spirit  prescribed  by 
a  paternal  government,  but  a  spirit  bom  and  re- 
bom  daily  as  our  men  and  women  in  this  whole- 
some surroimding  and  atmosphere  are  creating  it. 

il  Thousands  of  foreign-bom  citizens  who  have 
lived  on  this  soil  for  years,  who  have  earned 
American  fortunes,  have  raised  American  chil- 
dren, can  not,  for  some  reason,  realize  it  and 
enter  into  this  "  Spirit  of  America.'* 

<l  Here  and  there  unscrupulous  traders  and 
tricky  bargain  drivers  or  mided  workers  are  put- 
ting a  dent  into  it,  but  as  a  whole  this  Spirit  is 
created  by  a  nation  giving  and  demanding  noth- 
ing but  a  square  deal  and  a  people  who  are  thor- 
oughly imbued  with  a  "  give  and  take  "  policy. 

<l  In  short  **fair  play"  is  the  best  definition  for 
the  **  Spirit  of  America." 


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JACUD  Ef  STEJ  i* 

Prftpfletor  ol  tbv  I]lfi[tiiilorr  IldrgiDii]  Holiifi, 

BalltDiDTB, Mil.  A  frEifitniQritrD  vrhiirLi  lAliijIt' 

tnlet  IXlUtCllAlldl4li    BX^IUMi^eljf    hg    rittrtUu/    to 

thnu  4J1,DOO,OOU.  (]res1:4>r  til  t^a  WlMiltstiln 
PO'lLf^y  of  Our.  prise  and  SHljf  oite.  A  [Qciik  who 

Lbt  f dUUdfttluu  uf  keL^pibf  inlth  with  h  I  h  ru  r- 
tnpnert;  oijq  who  tLiSitp  evt;ry  tirujrjt^e  ttncl 
fiUt  fntl  «Tflr7  Order, 


CAJ'TjMN    UjriH    M.    M'l/l'tfN, 

U.  a.  >\ 
ConiiitnniliAitt  nf  Xici^^kSfM^it'n,  IT.  B, 
^ib*&1     A  *- ail  i^  ni  J' .    AFjiiiiimiJld,    Mil. 
ApfiitlTttLf!  Lu  AqiLitpuIJi  IrPITi  VtrEJ 

fii^h^  1*4  S.  Nnvy,  wiiu  bqb  h'mii  Hi'* ' 
Tiri*/^  PAhmru  ami  uRi'vur',  rumi'l  Hii- 
worliL  A  i'\ik*-4rA  Kji  i'i>  u  I  I  V  I',  « 
Ttii*;}|LT— 111]  thu  wMlu,  ft  A\iil4trt 


I  FOLKS  NOT  AFRf^l 
I      OF  AN  IDEft 


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tte  yeliri;  II  lievput  itu drill-,  hi  iu- 
Ceniu  reiearcb  work  fut  ti^'iiyrari; 
Foamaer  md  Pri:iic:ipiil  of  *h«  ^[jniii 
Schciul  for  ataiiimt:ir«rn.  Lei-turt-r 
AuEtlor-  Efnilcimt  AutLnrlly  nu 
Sp-nerh  Dlturrliirrf .  t.Uiib  nf  lilt- 
burjifli'v    fii't    citiztuil.     A    par  lent 


H.  L.  ItUTLtAl'lKL 
OrJi^iiibfitF  atiiH  TJ[r>-«  li>r  iW  lln'  iiifttii 
Ilii4  In'tfUt.  ?*HW  Vcirk  Clty-iluvliiif- 
l^i^tUrL-  'l't]eb.t<'r«  tiiun^ilJtulH  ]ll  \\\i'\f 
|ipr(i?ri  ds?iallr  A  man  wlrli  n  I'^^Jwa 
whu  »»^i'i  r^h^u(vrf,pirriu-i'9,  inifitnq 
r  r  r-  Mi  r  t-  H .  pc  j'/w  UP  F  4  i,m't  U  rr  fc  fr*  n  n  jj  - 
**l,iftfFd  6TH)  t\\*ttlhth>**i  piinipi'fl  — 
^liCh    thi'dlMT    itrijtlMTi'i    in-Hf^i^    f<J 


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Qij  liupitriEit  nt^LLtjr^.    ^ufliiiT  o[  a 
vviy,    vt-ry   Idlvrcatini;   h-ni,tk,   Mtn 

tit    fifty   hitorV^k'Wi    MrLtti    Aiin'rEr^n 


HnbicftT  A,  WOUJ>B 
Ffn^'lfiDTtt  iDtdrti&tlonAl  SorSnl  Wfil^ 
fnra  fiuctet;.  LlfClnrer  Od  Silftiil 
Ec^'nnmlcp,  HoaorDd  wltti  Di^t^ree* 
hy  Amberftt  bUfl  QOTTBrd,  Fouqdef 
uf  nite  of  the  fiarUsst  B^ttl^mtriLt 
Ri>iiHet  Id  the  United.  StntrV-n—thif 
Snikilh  End  HouiR  of  BontoQ.  A 
eerfoui,  di!v»tBf]  warktir  for  ttie  (ffxtd 


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**  I  speak  Truths  not  so  much  as  I  would,  hut  as  much 
as  I  dare:  and  dare  a  httle   more  as  I  grow  older,''^ 

Felicitations 


Felix  Shay 


There  Is  No  Peace! 

^  ^m  "^HE  old  idea  of  "con- 
m  ^^  version  "  is  not  yet  dead. 
^L^^The  provincialism  that 
perenniaiUy  sends  grim- 
visaged,  hook-nosed,  hard-headed, 
flat-minded  American  lyfissionaries 
to  A«a  to  convert  their  philosophic 
betters,  props  up  the  hope  that 
Kaiser  Bill  yet  may  be  "  converted" 
into  thinlring  and  acting  like  a  sane 
and  civilized  man. 
Stuffl  Stuff  and  nonsensel 
When  the  sins  are  as  scarlet  there  's 
no  instant  immunity — 1  No  verbal 
bath  win  remove  them.  No  formal 
promises,  no  scraps  of  paper,  no 
diplomatic  flubdub  will  cleanse  or 
purify  «»  »^ 

Forty  long  years  were  needed  to  get 
Germany  thoroughly  well  spotted 
with  blood  lust.  It  will  take  another 
forty  for  these  stains  to  wear  away. 
#1  Give  us  the  sense  to  realise  and 
to  act  on  the  realization.  ActI  Actl 
Words  were  never  more  useless,  more 
impotent*  or  more  fraught  with 
danger   to   practicality,   than   are 


those  addressed  to  Germany  in  the 
year  1918.  We  want  no  discussions; 
no  negotiations. 

There  is  brutal  work  to  be  done. 
"  He  who  lives  by  the  sword,  must 
die  by  the  sword.*'  Germany 
selected  the  instrument  and  placed 
it  in  our  hands.  Our  duty  is  to 
wield  it  well.  There  are  no  niceties 
to  the  situation.  To  shilly-shally  or 
temporize  is  to  betray  the  trustl 
Make  way  for  the  avengers  1 
When  we  have  finished  there  will 
be  no  German  Throne!  The  Germans 
will  be  down  on  their  knees,  a 
penitent  people,  prepared  to  re- 
educate themselves  for  Service  and 
not  for  Slaughter* 

Peace  Terms? — ^There  is  only  one 
set  of  Peace  Terms  for  V^lhelm 
HohenzoUem — "  Get  on  your  beUy 
and  crawl!"  No  promulgated  fan- 
tasies can  make  a  Lark  of  a  Snake; 
no  sanctimonious  or  wordy  con- 
versions can  change  a  Skunk  into 
a  Calla  Lily*  There  *s  a  shape  and  a 
smell  to  the  HohenzoUem  breed  that 
must  not  be  propagated. 
We  'U  finish  them  here  and  now. 


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Are  the  words  inelegant?  The 
situatioQ  is  inelegantl  Are  we  as 
terrible  as  the  Germans?  Have  we 
lost  the  capadty  for  mercy,  for  for- 
giveness? Well-Hhe  World  has  been 
brutalized  far  beyond  the  practises 
of  the  Ancient  Barbarians.  At  least 
we  have  not  lost  the  dedre  for 
justice  ^  »^ 

Peace  Terms?— Only  what  the 
German  Kaiser,  the  German  liGli- 
tary  Caste,  and  their  dupes  deserve! 
The  Kaiser  shall  be  flimg  naked  into 
a  quick-lime  pit  that  he  invented  for 
the  dead  bodies  of  sf^diers,  or 
decapitated  and  his  head  sent  to 
that  German  Chemical  Laboratory 
that  tries  out  human  offal  for  fait 
His  vaunted  l^^Blitary  Leaders,  Von 
Hindenburg  &  Co.,  shall  be  shot 
against  the  walL  Unless,  of -course, 
they  anticipate  their  deserts. 
Peace  Terms? — ^To  do,  square  mile 
for  square  mile  to  Germany,  what 
Germany  did  to  France.  To  make  a 
barren  and  bloody  path,  100  miles 
wide,  from  the  French  Line  to 
Berlin.  Destruction? — ^That  is  Con- 
struction! That  is  a  message  to 
future  Kaisers,  a  message  to  future 
murderers  and  blustering  braggarts 
who  vision  World  Power,  that  the 
Meek  shatt  inherit  the  Earth. 

/^I^HIS  is  no  time  for  materialistic 

V7  considerations!   No  time  for 

maudlin    sentiment    or    pot-house 

economics.  Better  to  raze  the  whole 


of  Germany,  better  to  leave  that 
stretch  of  territory  a  barren  wilder- 
ness, than  to  bring  up  the  next 
generation  of  Germans  in  the  belief 
that  their  forebears  were  Heroes 
who  were  attacked  and  persecuted 
by  their  relentless  Enemies!  No! — 
Germans  must  know  to  the  last 
German     the     Civilized     World's 
opinion  of  Germany's  Ktdtur! 
Peace  Terms?— To   kill   off  that 
andent,   disgraceful,   and  trouble- 
some   anomaly    of   inherited    suc- 
cession! Each  Nation  may  have  a 
King  or  a  Sultan,  a  Khedive  or  an 
Emperor,  an  Autocrat  or  a  Preadent 
if  it  so  please,  but — ^by  the  Gods! — 
he  shall  be  elected  by  the  people! 
No  deceased  Ruler  shall  spawn  a 
contaminated   offspring   and    foist 
him  on  a  weakened  and  quiescent 
people,  as  his  successor!  The  first 
clause  of  the  New  World  Consti- 
tution will  read  "  There  shaU  be  a 
100%  Inheritance  Tax  on  Thrones!" 
^  Peace  Terms? — ^To  make  War 
so  frightful,  so  wanton,  so  hideous, 
to  crush  and  destroy,  to  hack  and 
tear  and  bum,  to  kill,  to  ruin,  to 
leave   the    mark   of  carnage    and 
destruction  so  deep  in  the  national 
life  of  Germany  and  Austria«_of 
Turkey  and  Bulgaria — that  their 
citizens  will  rise  as  a  forlorn  multi- 
tude and  lift  their  arms  to  God  and 
Man  and  cry  "Mercy!  Mercy! — 
Peace!    Peace!"    To    purge    the 
World  forever  of  "  the  brii^t  pomp 


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and  panoply  of  war."  To  atrip  the 
uniform  and  medals  off  the  Mur- 
derer-War, and  show  him  naked, 
for  what  he  is. 

Peace  Terms?  —  Not  another 
document  shall  pass  between 
Germany  and  the  Civilised  World 
until  the  Allies  wheel  their  Big 
Guns  up  before  Berlin — and  shoot  a 
few  preliminary  shells  into  that 
Avenue  of  Victory  along  the  Unter 

den  Undent 

•      •      •      • 

There  is  no  passon  in  these  words, 
no  hatred,  for  these  German  men 
as  men — but  a  firm  conviction  that 
the  German  "  Idea "  can  not  be 
converted,  and  therefore  it  and  its 
Exponents  must  be  exterminated 
with  precision  and  dispatch.  Only 
an  Armed  Force  sufficiently  large 
and  siiffidently  well-equipped,  that 
will  consider  an  absolute  and  com- 
plete Victory  as  the  only  possible 
settlement,  will  meet  the  require- 
ments of  these  tragic  Times  1 

Pernicious  Politics 

^^■^■pr^C'ELL,    they    investi- 
^^^f     1  gated    Secretary 
^Jl^f     Baker.  They  insinu- 
ated, they  accused, 
they  questioned.  They  found  out, 
what?  That  the  U.  S.  War  Depart- 
ment has  accomplished  more,  much 
more,  than  thdr  know-it-all  critics 
laid  out  for  them  to  do.  The  actual 


accomplishment  has  outstripped  the 
mouthy  demands  of  the  politicians 
and  near-politicians  and  the 
"inspired"  editorial  advisers. 
Mistakes?  Of  course  Baker  has  made 
mistakes  in  the  war  preparation. 
That  is  as  it  should  be.  When  a  man 
becomes  so  perfect  in  the  Science  of 
War-Making  that  he  never  blunders, 
then  it  *s  time  to  chloroform  bin* — 
before  he  becomes  a  menace  to 
Humanity!  (Or  ship  him  over  to 
Herr  William  the  Omnipotent!) 
Certainly  there  were  mistakes,  and 
certainly  there  will  be  more  mis- 
takes. But  if  those  of  the  future  are 
no  more  deadly  than  those  of  the 
past  year,  the  American  Army  is 
safe  and  the  Allied  Cause  is  guaran- 
teed victory!  Baker  is  a  quiet  little 
man.  He  interprets  his  govern- 
mental position  as  a  good  workman 
ever  interprets  his  job.  He  becomes 
so  engrossed  in  getting-the-thing- 
done  that  he  forgets  the  Grand- 
stand, passes  up  the  Political 
Amenities  and  neglects  to  issue 
Hourly  Bulletins.  He  is  not  after  the 
next  job,  nor  is  he  concerned  about 
reappointment.  He  is  concerned 
about  this  War's  problems,  and  not 
Newton  Baker's  future. 
That  kind  of  conduct  a  true 
Politician  never  can  know  and  never 
can  understand. 

"  'Shh,  there  must  be  something 
wrong!  That  feller  ain't  said  a  word, 
an'  he  's  been  busy  as  a  beaver  for  a 


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yeart  /  wonder  what  he  '$  after?  *' 
(It  never  occurs  to  them  that  he  it 
after  the  Germans!) 
Then  there 't  an  Investigation. 
Baker  comes  on  quietly,  cahnly»  a 
little  tired,  entirdy  unimpressed, 
and  eiplains  his  work — a  colossal 
work — a  work  well  done  I 
The  Investigation  falls  flatl 
The  investigators  go  out  into  the 
anterooms  and  make  bold  and  noble 
gestures  and  chew  their  wluskers 
and  spit,  and  talk  it  over  again  1 
The  American  people  give  little 
heed  to  the  violent  oratory  of  the 
Political  Gabbyjacks.  They  know 
their  filibusterings  and  philander- 
ings  of  old,  and  they  know  they  in- 
variably talk  for  a  devious  purpose! 
C  The  facts  are  what  we  want  and 
the  facts  are  entirely  convincing. 
We  see  the  master-work  develojnng 
along  sound  lines.  When  the 
American  Army  is  needed  for  that 
1918  Spring  Drive  in  France,  the 
American  Boys  will  be  there  in  huge 
numbers,  thoroughly  trained,  per- 
fectly equipped  and  provisioned. 
€L  Meanwhile  the  work  of  assem- 
bling the  gigantic  U.  S.  Army  and  its 
equipment,  part  by  part,  goes  on, 
and  the  men  inside  the  workshop 
are  really  and  truly  not  paying  very 
much  attention  to  the  dirty  little 
boys,  who,  through  the  open 
windows,  call  in  names. 
The  dirty  little  boys  have  not  been 
invited  inside,  that 's  all.  « 


The  King  Is  Dead! 

^  M  m  ■  WASHINGTON  is 
^^1  J  "rotten"  with  poU- 
^J^^  tics.  There  arc  17 
^^  ^^  separate  Preaden- 
tial  Booms  for  1920,  117  Senatorial 
and  1017  Congresaonal  Booms. 
There  seems  to  be  an  inexhaustible 
supply  of  that  kind  of  man,  who 
confuses  lus  own  interests  with  the 
interests  of  his  country.  Not  the 
least  of  these  b  Mr.  T.  Roosevelt  of 
South  Africa  and  Oyster  Bay. 
For  the  once  T.  R.  speaks  for  The 
People,  he  speaks  for  himself  one 
hundred  times. 

Not  so  very  many  months  ago,  in 
this  publication,  I  advocated  that 
Roosevelt  be  sent  to  France  either  as 
the  Commander  or  a  I£gh  Officer  of 
American  tTOops.  I  believed  then 
that  there  was  "  color  to  his  hair," 
that  he  was  an  e]^>ert  in  personal 
publicity,  a  professional  ncnse- 
maker,  and  altogether  splendidly 
equipped  to  scare  Kaiser  Bill  at 
short  range.  I  believed  he  would 
create  a  healthy  diversion,  put  the 
smile  back  into  the  lives  of  our 
Allies,  and  impress  th^n  generally 
that  the  best  known  of  all  American 
Tourists  was  again  in  their  midst.  I 
still  think,  to  have  sent  Roosevelt 
over  with  the  first  contingent  would 
have  been  good  strategy  j»  That 
"  First  Hundred  Thousand  "  would 
i^have  sounded  like  a  Million! 


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Of  coarse  he  oould  have  been  re- 
called and  promoted  to  a  Short- 
Aproned  Committee,  with  a  Lodge- 
Title   of  Grand   Exalted  This  or 
That,  before  the  American  Army 
ever  took  the  field,  before  the  real 
war  got  started.  But  as  the  Ballyhoo 
Man  to  spellbind  the  crowd  outside 
the  Tent . . .  well,  I  thought  he  was 
rather  expert  at  that  sort  of  thing! 
C.  Mr.  Wilson  apparently  disagreed 
with  these  deductions,  or  reasoned 
to    another    conduaon.    Therefore 
Mr.  Roosevelt  is  still  a  man  without 
a  job.  Be  it  said  in  his  favor,  how- 
ever, he  is  doing  his  goldamdest  to 
get   one.  He  wants  to  serve  the 
Country  and  the  World  War,  and 
that  '8  a  laudable  ambition,  but  if 
you  don't  mind,  he  likewise  wants 
to  be  President  in   1920. — ^That's 
just  where  we  do  mind. 
President  Wilson  is  "  on  "  to  him,  I 
venture.  He  does  not  intend  to  let 
Buana  Tumba  wrap  up  his  1920 
boom    in    the    American     Flag. 
President  Wilson  confronts  the  very 
serious  work  of  coming  through  this 
war   with  honor — therefore  in  his 
bright   lexicon   there   is   no   spare 
space  for  torchlight  processions  and 
partisan  politics. 

Teddy  is  a  nuisance.  He  ought  to 
retire  and  stay  retired.  Some  one  of 
his  kind  friends  should  take  him 
a^de  and  tell  him  the  King  is  dead  I 
He  was  a  grand  little  man  in  lus 
time,    and    that  *s    just    it.    His 


reputation  outstrips  his  perform- 
ance «»  9^ 

Unless  Teddy  backs>up  as  an 
obstructionist  and  critic  of  the 
present  administration's  war  policy, 
he  11  not  get  enough  votes  in  1920 
to  elect  him  coronor  of  East 
Aiu-ora. . .  .  Sure,  he  'U  runt 

All  Baba  Receives 
a  Visitor 

'  H      V^^  KNOW,  you  have  to 

W  W  be  very  careful  what 
^^^„^  you  put  into  print 
^^"^^^  these  days  *»  You 
never  can  tell  whom  you  *11  offend 
— not  to  mention  the  Censor. 
All  Baba  came  up  from  the  Bam 
to  the  Shop  this  morning,  his 
whiskers  sticking  straight  out  from 
his  chin.  He  was  in  a  techy  himior. 
He  came  straight  into  the  Inside 
Office,  and  opened  up  on  mel  "  See 
here.  Young  Feller,  you  make 
trouble  for  me,  you  do!  That 
damphool  Bed-Bug  Professor,  who  *s 
been  chasin'  me  around  for  days — 
ye  gotta  take  him  off  my  hands  1 " 
€L  "  Why,  Baba!  Who  is  he?  " 
"  Well,  in  the  first  place,  'member 
you  wrote  about  me  catchin'  t'  Bast 
Aurory  Hermit  matin'  a  lightnin' 
bug  with  a  bedbug,  to  get  a  self- 
illimiinatin'  bedbug?  " 
Yes,  I  did. 

"Well,  dam  it,  t'  day  after  that 
magazine  got  out,  this  Bedbug  Pro- 


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feasor  come  in.  From  BoctoOt  he 
sez  he  is!  He  tells  me,  he ' specializes 
in  bedbugs '  ! 

"  He 's  pestered  me  most  t*  death. 
He  comes  down  to  the  Bam  momin' 
and  afternoon,  and  jess  hangs 
around  and  asks  questions.  Ques- 
tions about  bedbugs! 
"  He  wanted  t'  Imow:  *  What  have 
been  the  net  results  of  the  Hermit's 
investigations? '  '  Has  he  secured 
any  recognition? '  '  Have  the 
Bedbug  Journals  cpven  him  any 
notices? '  '  Are  his  experiments 
entirely  with  Domestic  Bedbugs?  * 
'  Has  he  studied  the  nature  of  the 
Bedbug  metaphysically  ? ' 
"  Goda'mightydamn!  I  tell  *m  *  I 
don't  know,  and  I  don't  want  to 
know.  Go  ask  'm  yourself! ' 
"  But  he  sez  *  No!  There  's  a  certain 
professional  etiquette  ^mong  Bed- 
bug Specialists  that  prohibits  one 
intruding  on  t'  other's  experiments.' 
**  I  jess'  left  him  at  the  Bam  now. 
He  asked  me  questions  'bout  Bed- 
bugs all  the  time  I  was  deanin' 
eight  horses! 

**  What  do  /  know  about  Bedbugs! 
"  An'  he  put  down  what  I  answered 
'im  in  a  little  Red  Note-Book,  Gosh- 
bum  his  Hide!! — I  jess  come  up  t' 
tell  you  I  'm  goin'  t'  sic  'im  on 
you!" 

The  Old  Man  loosened  up  his 
Peajacket  and  sweaters  while  he 
talked.  He  now  buttoned  them  up 
again — ^but  hesitated. 


"  What  d'  ye  s'pose  he  ast  me  just 
'fore  I  came  away?  He  sez,  sez  he, 
'  Now  Aly  Bahbah,  can  you  tell  me 
if  Hermit  O'Rooney — whom  you 
say  is  an  Oxford  Manl — ^has  he  ever 
written  a  Monograph  on  the  Bed- 
bug? '  «»  «» 

"  *  WeU,  I  can't  say  'bout  that,'  I 
told  him, — *  but  from  the  looks  of 
the  Cuss  I  'd  say  quite  a  plenty  of 
Bedbugs  had  writ  Monographs 
OQ  him! ' " 

Then  the  Old  Man  stumped  out, 
chuckling  over  his  joke. 

Josephus  IThe  Great 

JOSEPHUS  DANffiLS,  the 
much-maligned,  has  come  in- 
to his  own.  Ever  since  he 
ordered  the  Booze  off  the 
Battleships  and  before,  the  U.  S.  N. 
Blue  Bloods  have  been  after  his 
hide  to  tack  oh  the  door  of  the  Navy 
Club.  There 's  a  sweet  little  clique 
that  proceeds  on  the  premise  that 
the  U.  S.  N.  belongs  to  a  few  Navy 
Families,  and  that  the  balance  of  the 
citizens  of  this  Great  Republic  are 
unwashed  and  unlearned. 
Josephus,  a  Jeffersonian  Democrat 
of  native  omplidty,  upon  taking 
office  as  Secretary  of  the  Navy, 
started  to  put  that  Bunch  in 
their  place.  Lo  1  The  storm  broke. 
For  petty  meanness,  for  sheer  spite, 
the  things  those  bogus  dukes  and 
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Daniels,  was  a  disgrace— to  them  ! 
They  foueht  foul.  They  tittle-tattled 
and  gossiped.  They  condemned  and 
hissed.  They  panted  and  cursed  »^ 
But  ^ey  never  came  out  frmn  be- 
hind the  Man  or  the  Pliper  or  Influ- 
ence they  were  hidden  behind. 
Daniels  smiled,  grimly,  and  went 
after  them  some  more.  To  show  how 
much  he  cared  for  their  time-rotted 
precedent  that  an  Annapolis  grad- 
uate is''  an  officer  and  a  gentleman" 
and  that  an  enlisted  American  is 
"  only  a  man  "  (and  therefore  a  tre- 
mendous social  gulf  separates  them) 
Daniels  had  his  picture  taken  with 
his  arms  across  the  shoulders  of  a 
U.  S.  Sailor  and  a  U.S.  Marine. 
Whew! — ^Do  you  remember  the 
stench  those  stmkpots  let  ofiT?  Ably 
asasted  by  the  almost  aristocratic 
press,  that  photograph  was  re- 
printed a  thousand  times  until  a 
simple  democratic  act,  an  act  of 
ordinary  fellowship  among  human 
beings,  seemed  to  become  a  strange 
and  unusual  crime. 
"  Think  of  it!  Danids  with  his  arms 
across  the  shoulders  of  a  common 
Sailor  and  a  common  Marine.  Ugh! 
what  a  terrible  blow  to  discipline!  " 
€1  'T  would  be  a  rank  and  unreason- 
able injustice  to  say  or  to  suggest 
that  Annapolis  breeds  only  cads  and 
snobs.  Gentry  of  that  sort  are  a 
very  small  percentage  of  the  body  of 
fine  and  able,  wholesome  and  whole- 
souled  U.  S.  Naval  Officers  who  go 


down  to  the  sea  in  our  ships.  This 
cooperative  multi-majority  has 
made  Danids'  much-needed  re- 
forms a  splendid  reality. 
Be  it  known,  the  exact  difference 
between  an  American  boy  who 
graduates  frmn  Annapolis,  and  one 
who  enUtis  to  serve,  is  amply  this: 
the  Annapolis  lad  is  a  State  ward. 
He  gets  his  education /ree  frmn  the 
United  SUtes,  while  the  boy  who 
eriists  is  often  educated  at  the 
expense  of  his  own  family.  That 's 
alL  There 's  no  choice  between  these 
boys,  their  antecedents  or  breed- 
ing. The  only  difference  lies  in  the 
U.  S.N.  Uniforms  they  wear.  Of  this 
distinction,  then  I  say,  as  I  said 
once  before  in  this  journal,  IF 
United  States'  Uniforms  of  ser- 
vice are  to  create  Class  DisUnC' 
Hon  in  this  Democratic  country, 
— then  better  that  all  sailors,  from 
the  Admiral  up  and  down,  wear 
Mother  Hubbard  wrappers  with 
pink  sunbonnets  to  match. 
From  his  conduct,  Josephus 
Dameis  is  much  of  the  same  mind. 
His  courageous  endeavor  has  been 
to  break  up  the  U.  S.  N.  "  caste  "  I 
Of  course  the  Sbdety  Sailors  have 
spared  him  not.  Whenever  Danids 
attempted  to  work  some  improve- 
ment in  the  U.  S.  N.  they  unloosed 
their  tirade  of  scorn  until  the  som- 
nolent and  complacent  dtizens  of 
our  country  believed  the  U.  S.  Navy 
could  do  no  wrong,  and  that  Jose- 


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I^ua  was  an  interioper,  a  scamp,  and 
an  oppressor,  to  say  nothing  of  a 
white-ribboned  thingamajigger. 
A  month  or  more  before  the  United 
States  entered  the  War,  I  wrote  an 
artide  on  the  U.  S.  Navy,  as  I 
knew  it  frmn  very  personal  ex- 
perience. I  told  a  few  unpleasant 
truths.  The  magazine  came  off  the 
press  about  March  20th,  was  put  in 
the  mails  about  March  25th,  and 
was  read  by  the  right  honorable 
subscribers  the  day  after  the  U.  S. 
dedared  war. 

Kyrie  eleison!  Christe  eleison! 
You  should  have  read  my  mail  for 
the  next  day  or  two.  All  the  Citizen 
Flzits  on  the  Sub-List  wrote  met! 
That  I  did  not  know  War  was  to  be 
declared,  that  I  would  have  given 
a  part  of  my  left  leg  to  have  had  the 
article  back  in  the  ink-well,  did  not 
mitigate  in  my  favor.  The  Deep 
Thinkers  did  not  consider  the 
element  of  Time,  or  Surprise,  or  for 
that  matter,  whether  what  I  said 
was  True! — ^They  just  had  at  me! 
Patriots  all — God  help  us! 
Several  of  them  wrote  to  Daniels 
and  demanded  I  be  himg  at  the 
yard-arm  for  Treason,  Told  me  so, 
and  sent  me  copies  of  their  letters! 
I  can  and  do  fors^ve  all  of  them  for 
their  emotional  frenzy,  for  their 
mental  limitations — all  but  one! 
One  bewhiskered  old  billy-goat,  a 
pseudo  friend — a  sanctimonious 
-nobody,    a   thin-lipped    and   thin- 


blooded  collection-taker,  a  driveling, 
drooling,  pained  old  reprobate,  who 
never  served  any  one  for  a  day  in 
all  his  useless  life,  but  Mammon  and 
himself,  the  rubber-stamp  of  an 
important  company  —  wrote  to 
Danids  a  diatribe  about  me!  Km  I 
have  not  yet  forgiven!  Not  yet! 
C  They  scared  me — !  Oh  yes,  they 
did!  I  am  both  yoimg  and  beautiful, 
and  do  not  want  to  die!  Emphatic- 
ally not  in  the  style  Oscar  Wilde 
advised  against:  "  'T  is  not  neat 
with  nimble  feet,  to  dance  upon 
the  ah!" 

iQ^'O  I  wrote  to  Secretary  Daniels 
F-^  and  told  him  I  regretted  the 
artide  was  published!  Had  I  known 
a  war  was  to  be  dedared,  I  would 
not  have  published  it!  Since  it  UHts 
published,  it  was  for  him  to  say  how 
much  of  the  artide  was  true! 
Josephus  came  back  with  a  real  he- 
man's  letter.  He  said  he  was  always 
willing  to  recdve  critidsms  of  the 
U.  S.  N. — to  welcome  them.  That 
there  were  many  improvements  yet 
to  be  made;  many!  As  for  the 
Grandmother  Tipsy-toes  who  wrote 
him  the  panting  epistles,  I  gathered 
he  was  not  in  sympathy  with  their 
kind!  That  the  Yard-Arms  of  U.  S. 
Ships  were  going  to  be  too  b\isy  to 
be  duttered  up  with  such  useless 
impedimenta  as  the  carcasses  of 
leading  dtizens  of  East  Au-ro-rah! 
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that  common  sense?  Was  that  a  man 
speaking — a  man?  A  man  standing 
on  his  own  feet  ? 
Wen,  I  should  snicker  1 
Before  that  I  was  a  nominal  ad- 
vocate of  Daniels  and  his  methods. 
Right  there,  I  went  over  to  him  100 
per  cent.  Should  the  U.  S.  N.  ever 
need  a  little  fat  fellah  to  die  on  the 
Gun-Deck  of  one  of  its  ships  (not  on 
the  Yard- Arm,  thank  you)  Josephus 
can  just  drop  a  postcard    to    299 

Main  St.,  this  yere  village. 
•    •     •     • 

Oh  I  gracious  me,  really  I  got  off  the 
subject.  I  just  wanted  to  call  to 
your  attention  that  the  United 
States  Congress  recently  foimd  the 
United  States  Navy  to  be  in 
superior  condition,  far  above  the 
demands  to  be  made  on  it  in  ott 
Partiadars  «»  »^ 

Credit  that  to  Josephus  Daniels, 
my  friends,  and  only  Josephus.  He  's 
the  man  for  your  Honors. 

Jimmy  Payne 

^ad^^  HERE  *S  always  some  one 

d    ^^who  does  it  better  than 

^L^^the   rest  of  us-   Soups, 

sausages,    shoes,    slinky 

gowns,   sealing-wax,   derby  hats— 

whatever  it  is,  some  one  does  so 

well,  we  ask  the  ambient,  **  How  in 

the  deuce  does  he  get  away  with  it  ?  " 

C  I  will  tell  you:  it  is  his  Imdgi- 

nation^  Anastada,  his  Imagination! 


He  sees  further  into  it,  and  so  he 
takes  more  out  of  it  1  He  makes  what 
he  sells  interesting;  and  he  sells 
what  he  makes  interestingly. 
Listen  to  a  ICghbrow  Economist 
and  you  'd  think  a  man  goes  into 
a  store  to  buy  a  Derby  Hat  j» 
Certainly  not.  A  man  goes  into  a 
store  to  buy  a  Derby-Hat-that-will- 
look- just-like-he  -  wants  -  it  •  to  •  look. 
The  Sensation  of  Satisfaction  first — 
the  Derby  Hat  second. 
Am  I  quite  dear?  Very  good. 
Take  James  Payne  of  Baltimore  for 
example— -or,  if  you  prefer,  Jimmy 
Payne.  Jimmy  James  Payne  is 
supposed  to  sell  Hats  to  aU  of  Lord 
Baltimore's  grandsons.  He  does. 
Among  the  initiated  of  that  dty  it 
is  only  necessary  to  say  "  I  'm  g^^ng 
up  to  see  Jimmy  " — to  have  it 
understood  that  you  are  about  to 
negotiate  for  a  new  lidl 
Jimmy  Payne  is  perfectly  wilUng  to 
listen  to  your  ideas  on  Hats,  but 
when  you  finish  he  goes  directly 
to  his  case,  and  picks  out  one  hat, 
only  one,  exactly  your  size,  exactly 
your  style.  He  tells  you  that  that 
is  the  one  hat  for  you. 
All  the  others  are  under  glassl 
There  *s  nothing  to  paw  over, 
nothing  to  distract.  Nothing  to 
interfere  with  your  concentration! 
So  you  keep  looking  at  yourself  in 
the  glass  and  listening  to  Jimmy. 
C  Presently  it  comes  to  you,  that 
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well  sett  off  your  particular  style  of 
beauty.  Certainly  Jimmy  is  right — 
the  hat  is  tres  j&li!  (The  sale  is 
made  I)  You  say  '*  Send  home  the 
M  one  I  "  You"  journey  out  into  the 
gladsome  world,  with  your  head 
high  and  the  peace  that  passeth  aU 
imderstanding  pervading  your  soul. 
C  Of  course  there 's  really  nothing 
extraordinary  about  the  derby  hat 
you  bought,  except  that  Jinuny 
Payne  gave  it  personality,  made  it 
fed  like  Your  Hat,  instead  of  A  Hat. 
C  That 's  SdesmanMp!  That 's 
the  thing  we  11  do  without  when  we 
get  Government  Ownership  of  Hats. 
Then  you  'U  send  2H  to  Hat  Depot 
No.  6M  and  get  Hat  Size  ^]4r-\ 
Oh,  H ! 

*Shh— The  Socialists 

QOT  so  very  many  moons 
ago  I  read  two  letters; 
one  from  a  United  States 
Senator  and  one  from  a 
United  States  Congressman.  The 
political  gentlemen  were  all  "  het 
up."  They  were  sure  the  Sodalists 
will  get  us  if  we  doan'  watch  out  «» 
Well  now,  I  wonder?  And  I  wonder 
what  the  Sodalists  will  do  with  us 
after  they  get  us?  Can  any  member 
of  the  First  Class  answer  that? 
As  a  Sodalist  who  does  not  bdong 
to  the  Sodalist  Party,  but  as  one 
who  voted  the  Socialist  Ticket 
every  time  he  has  voted,  excepting 


last  year  when  he  voted  for  Mr. 
Wilson,  we  daim  the  right  to  say 
that  the  minute  the  Socialists 
succeed  they  fail.  The  minute  the 
Sodalists  come  into  possession  of 
Governments  or  Buaness  Enter- 
prises they  become  that  which  th^ 
previously  critidzed.  Worse  1  They 
make  a  tragedy-comedy  out  of 
what  was  decent  drama. 
The  Socialists  **  got "  us  the  Frendi 
Revolution.  They  "  got "  us  in  the 
Revolution  of  1830,  they  almost 
"  got "  us  in  1848,  they  got  us  in 
the  French  Commime,  and  the 
Russian  Bolshevild  have  captured 
the  World — to  hear  the  Inner 
Cirde  tell  it  I — and  where  is  that 
well-advertised  Millennium? 
We  want  to  know. 
The  Socialistic  Party  is  led  and  in- 
spired by  persons  who  are  primar- 
ily critics — Organizers,  Agitators, 
Orators,  Writers,  Critics.  Which  is 
not  as  bad  as  it  soimds.  When  we 
come  to  understand  Socialism,  we 
will  know  it  is  not  a  System  of 
Government,  but  a  Spirit  of  Criti- 
dsm.  Sodalism  is  a  success  and  its 
Leaders  not  without  honor  just  so 
long  as  it  stays  one  step  in  front 
of  actual  accomplishment — one 
step  beyond  the  need  to  practise 
its  theories. 

The  motives  of  these  socialistic 
Leaders  are  not  to  be  questioned. 
They  are  moved  by  noble  and  un- 
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That  they  receive  a  ridiculoualy 
small  and  meager  compemation, 
the  value  of  their  talents  and 
abilities  considered,  is  pathetically 
plain.  Nevertheless,  their  espedal 
value  to  Society  is  in  the  role  of 
Critic  «»  «» 

So  long  as  they  may  remain  that, 
so  long  as  they  may  point  out  the 
faults  of  men  and  institutions,  they 
are  in  their  natural  dement. 
So  long  as  they  destroy  what  is 
bad,  they  function  beneficently. 
Disillusionment  comes,  and  Chaos 
follows  Apace  when  by  some  prank- 
ish tilt  to  larboard,  their  Oblate 
Spheroid  destroys  the  exisHng 
balances,  tosses  us  hither  and 
thither.  Then  to  poke  fun  at  man's 
relentless  amUtion  to  attain  the 
unattainable,  the  *'  Revolution " 
drops  a  few  of  these  Critics  onto  the 
Seats  of  the  Mighty  to  fiilfil  their 
heart's  deare  to  put  things  right. 
4L  You  know  the  result.  You  see  a 
Socialistic  Government  in  Rusaa  in 
1918.  If  your  eyes  were  not  Uurred 
with  tears,  you  would  smile  over 
their  Proclamations  1  Critics  they 
are,  mixed  with  fanatics,  fools, 
mechanics,  farmers,  and  the  dull- 
eyed  mass.  Academicians  in  charge 
of  a  iMg  farm.  Moujiks  dancing  the 
minuet.  A  i»ivate  soldier  with  mud 
on  his  boots  in  the  speaker's  chair. 
A  soap-box  orator  in  charge  of  an 
army! — Certainly  not  Executives, 
Builders,  Doers,  Workers. 


Oh,  yes.  It  was  a  splendid  affair  to 
overthrow  the  Czar.  Russia  will  now 
contribute  something  to  the  world 
besides  Ignorance  and  Anarchists. 
But  Russia  will  not  contribute  any- 
thing but  noise  until  the  Social- 
ists in  their  turn  give  way  to  the 
men  with  constructive  ability,  the 
men  they  are  pleased  to  call 
"  Capitalists." 

Russia  may  wait  a  year,  five  years, 
ten  years  for  this  change  from 
Revolution  to  Peace,  from  pleasant 
promises  to  harsh  realities,  from 
unreasonableness  to  reasonableness. 
They  may  murder  every  army 
officer  and  every  capitalist  in 
Russia  in  the  meantime.  But  they 
can  not  change  the  native  of  men, 
nor  destroy  the  human  verities. 
When  Russia  is  finished  with  this 
Picnic-of-Freedom,  when  all  the 
speeches  have  been  made,  when  the 
last  Frenzied  Orator  has  laryngitis, 
when  comes  time  to  eat  regularly, 
then  there  will  be  need  for  men  who 
can  CONSTRUCT,  who  can  com- 
pel obedience,  who  can  think  and 
plan  for  the  large  majority  who  can 
only  think  with  difficulty  for  them- 
selves «»  «» 

There  will  be  a  need  for  men  who 
can  give  the  Russian  Peasant  a 
better  home  than  he  has  ever 
known,  who  will  see  to  it  that  his 
children  are  educated,  who  will 
supply  them  with  cultivators  for 
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Sunday,  with  Sean-Roebuck  Cata- 
logues and  Victrc^as,  and  aeven- 
rcd  "Features";  who  will  give 
them  the  vote  and  choice  of  twenty- 
seven  different  religions;  who  will 
supply  Heinz*  Beans  and  Corned 
Beef  and  Cabbage  and  Coca  Cola. 
4L  This  prosaic  picture  may  disgust 
the  Dreamers  (and  that 's  all  rightl) 
— but  when  95  per  cent  of  the  Rus- 
sian people  get  through  shaking  the 
Stardust  off  the  stars  that 's  what 
they  are  gcnng  forward  to.  (And 
that 's  all  right  too!) 
Though  Revc^utions  are  warming, 
they  are  not  very  filling.  As  for  the 
kind  offices  of  the  Revolutionary 
Leaders  in  the  Reconstruction . 
Period  to  come,  why  even  a  child 
knows  that  the  first  requirement  for 
a  Social  Revolutionist  is  that  he 
be  unable  to  make  an  ordinary 
living  for  himself.  How  then  can  he 
be  expected  to  make  a  living  for  a 
Nation?  «»  «» 

He  can  write  its  Laws,  or  make  its 
Speeches,  or  sang  its  Songs  or  lead 
its  Parades,  or  **  indict  the  Existing 
Order,"  but  his  feet  were  never  so 
near  the  ground  he  was  able  to 
look  in  at  the  pantry  window,  or 
acquaint  himself  with  the  needs  of 
the  potato-barrel  or  coal-bin. 
The  men  who  will  save  Russia  for  the 
Russians  will  be  materialists.  They 
will  do  the  work  because  there  will 
be  something  in  it  for  them.  They 
will  not  be  Englishmen,  or  Germans, 


or  Americans;  not  necessarily.  My 
reference  to  Heinz'  Beans  was  a 
poetical  reference.  Probably  they 
will  be  Russians.  Without  sacrilege 
I  venture  some  of  the  gentlemen 
of  the  Revolution  will  aid. 
They  will  be  masters,  overlords. 
That  is  to  say,  they  will  restore 
order.  Common  men  will  drop  into 
the  places  reserved  for  common  men. 
Men  with  ability  will  move  up. 
Energy,  intelligence,  thrift,  industry 
will  be  rewarded.  Stupidity,  laziness, 
sloth,  ignorance  will  receive  punish- 
ment.. The  punishment  will  be 
Povertif — as  it  has  been  in  all  lands 
in  all  ages.  (For  the  most  terrible 
Poverty  is  Poverty  of  the  Afindl) 
C  One  hundred,  two  hundred  years 
hence,  Russia  may  need  another 
Revolution.  Not  to  put  the  bottom 
on  the  top  as  the  Sodalists  promise 
(that  would  solve  nothing;  that 
would  also  put  the  top  on  the 
bottom),  but  to  '*  Clean  House  "  as 
it  is  done  in  the  Best  Families  ever 
so  often.  When  the  house  is  thor- 
oughly cleaned  and  order  restored 
there  must  be  furniture  in  the 
kitchen,  and  furniture  in  the  parlor, 
and  the  library  and  the  workshop. 
'T  is  absurd  and  unfair  to  promise 
the  kitchen  table  a  place  in  tbr 
parlor  s^  s^ 

jQlJNDAY  evening  a  month  or  so 
^^  ago,  I  addressed  the  Ford  Hall 
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Communities  Always  Fail  as  Sodi." 
This  Formn  is  ten  years  old.  The 
audience  are  all  steady  customers. ' 
The  three  or  four  summer  months 
each  year  that  Ford  Hall  is  dosed, 
the  sharpshooters  and  master- 
swordsmen  of  Ford  Hall  engage  all 
comers  in  mortal  combat  on 
Boston  Common,  where  the  soap- 
boxers acetate  the  ether. 
Some  of  the  Ford  Hallers  were 
the  fighting  men  of  twenty-seven 
nations  «»  Some  of  them  led  the 
armies  of  their  respective  countries 
to  their  respectivie  Frontiers — ^by  at 
least  five  yardsl  Some  of  them  by 
less  than  that,  and  some  left  their 
coat-tails  behind  them. 
My  friend,  George  Coleman,  one  of 
the  finest  fellows  on  earth,  conducts 
this  Ford  HaU  Forum.  He  believes 
that  Getting  Together  is  Essential 
to  Democracy,  He  has  published  a 
book  by  that  title.  I  wanted  to 
know  how  dose  together  we  had  to 
get  to  be  essential  to  Democracy,  so 
I  accepted  his  invitation  to  speak. 
Oyezl  Oyez!  I  found  out  I 
To  me  there  is  nothing  so  puerile  as 
the  speaker  who  scratches  an  audi- 
ence's back  or  tickles  the  soles  of 
its  feet.  These  gradous,  graceful, 
suave,  mannerly,  harmless  Chau- 
tauquans  give  me  a  well-placed 
pain.  With  no  desire  to  manipulate 
the  Ford  Hall  fraternity,  with 
nothing  to  sell  them,  representing 
no    Political    Party,    unlike    Billy 


Sunday  seeking  no  opportunity  to 
shake  their  hands,  I  dedded  to  tell 
them  of  a  few  ccmdusions  anent  the 
subject  of  Socialism  which  I  had 
worked  out  abed,  in  the  privacy  of 
me  own  chamber,  while  the  snow 
drifted  in  on  me  through  the  open 
windows.  So  I  was  billed  to  talk 
against  Socialism.  On  the  fatal 
night  all  the  Socialists  of  Boston 
were  present  with  their  honor  and  a 
list  of  questions.  *T  was  great  sport. 
C  Permit  me  to  append  extracts 
from  the  next  morning's  papers: 
<l  The  Boston  Herald  said,  ''  Felix 
Shay  talkM  to  standing-room  only 
at  Ford  Hall  last,  night  on  Why 
Sociidistic  Communities  Always 
FaU  as  Such,** 

The  Boston  Globe  said,  "  Mr.  Shay 
accounted  for  past 'failures  on  the 
ground  of  general  dismdination 
among  members  of  the  Socialistic 
Communities  to '  do  the  dirty  work,' 
and  by  reason  of  the  prevailing 
inonotony  in  a  community  where 
there  was  no  competition.  .  .  .  The 
speaker  expressed  the  belief  that  the 
desirable  features  of  Sodalism  could 
be  brought  about  not  by  denund- 
ation  of  Capitalists,  who  he  said 
are  just  as  honest  as  the  workers 
and  more  eflident,  but  by  the  culti- 
vation of  the  fraternal  spirit  between 
employers  and  employees  both  of 
whom  have  practically  the  same 
problem  to  solve." 
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"At  the  question  hcnir  it  became 
evident  that  a  large  proportion  of 
those  present  had  not  been  con* 
vinced."  «»  «»  * 

Aye,  that  they  were  not.  I  talked 
to  them  for  fifty  minutes  and  they 
questioned  me  for  one  hour  and 
ten  minutes.  So  far  as  I  learned, 
based  on  the  questions  asked  me, 
not  one  of  them  was  convinced.  Not 
even  one  per  cent  convinced. 
(Of  course  I  don't  really  mean  that 
the  entire  Audience  was  out  of 
sympathy  with  the  speaker.  Of 
coiu'se  not!  «»  But  as  usual  the 
Socialists  did  the  talking,  and  the 
workers,  the  builders,  the  accumu- 
lators, sat  still  and  smiled  up  at 
me  sympathetically,  and  I  smiled 
down  at  them.) 

That  audience  verified  that  which  I 
have  always  known,  i.  e.,  that  the 
most  conservative  people  in  the 
world  are  the  Radicals,  that  the 
most  orthodox  are  the  Freethinkers. 
C  Only  the  week  before,  some  Cai$^ 
italist  gentleman  on  the  same  plat- 
form had  lost  his  temper.  The  Reds 
in  the  audience  got  his  Angora.  A 
good  friend  warned  me  in  advance. 
That  was  a  rare  stimulant.  To  open 
the  bloodless  battle,  I  told  the 
assembled  multitude  that  I  under- 
stood it  was  an  act  of  discretion  for 
the  Speaker  to  say  his  Last  Words 
First.  They  smiled  smugly.  Very 
well.  I  did  not  want  to  spoil  any  of 
the  fun,  so  I  asked  the  Chairman  to 


kindly  withdraw  any  protection  he 
would   ordinarily    i^ve    a   tender- 
8|»rited  person,   from   the   verbal 
assaults  when  they  came  due — to 
let  the  meeting   proceed   without 
any  regard  for  International  Law. 
Only  one  incident  of  the  evening  will 
interest  3rou.  There's  a  Socialistic 
Ritual,  a  sort  of  an  Apostles'  Creed, 
which  includes  a  tnt  from  Aristotle, 
Plato,  Christ,  Sir  Thomas  More, 
Francis    Bacon,    Robert    Owen, 
Fourier,  Cabet,  all  artfully  glued 
together  by  Karl  Marx  the  German, 
and  credited  to  him.  This  hodge- 
podge  a  speaker   is   supposed   to 
dignify    by     a    detailed     review, 
answering  point  for  point.  Tommy- 
rotl  I  did  no  such  thing — which  be 
it  said  disapp(»nted  the  audience. 
Of  what  good  is  an  opponent  who 
will  not  fight  according  to  rules? 
Toward  the  end  of  the  question- 
period,   there   were   several   tense 
questions.  Then  a  boy  asked  one 
vehemently — the   type    of   college 
boy  who  knows  ever3rthing,  who, 
like   Marx  himself,   embraces   the 
"  Holy  Cause  of  Labor "  and  be- 
comes an  Apostle  before  he  has  ever 
labored  one  angle  day  himself.  He 
leaned  out  across  the  balcony  and 
shook  his  finger  at  me — "  I  want  to 
ask  the  speaker,  why  he  has  not 
discussed  the  Seventh  Command- 
ment of  Socialism?  "  (Or  was  it  the 
eighth?)  «»  «» 
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api^ause.  Ah  hul  It  was  quite 
appcyrent  that  the  Speaker  had  not 
toudied  on  or  appertamed  to  the 
Seventh  Commandment,  Ou  la  LA! 
When  they  finished  cheering  Hot- 
spur and  gave  me  a  chance,  I  said, 
"  I  refuse  to  take  an  audience 
seriously  that  laughs  at  its  own 
Jokes  1  "—But  the  young  man  was 
receiving  ncnsy  congratulations  and 
besides,  the  retort  was  subtle. 

I  AM  a  Socialist,  but  neither  a 
sympathetic,  a  scientific,  or 
a  revcdutionary  Socialist.  Nor  a 
Party  Sodelist.  I  am  an  Educational 
Sodalist.  I  want  to  see  conditions 
improve.  But  I  believe  every  one 
else  wants  to  see  conditions  im- 
prove, the  Employer  must  of  all  I  «» 
I  have  no  tolerance  for  the  '*  Class 
Consciousness"  bunk,  and  no 
firiendship  for  the  agitator  that 
tries  to  get  a  fight  started  between 
Capital  and  Labor. 
I  am  not  one  of  those  who  believes 
that  either  Capital  or  Labor  is  all 
right  all  thb  time. 
I  am  not  one  of  those  who  believes 
that  all  the  Ignorance  is  on  the  side 
of  Labor;  there  are  some  very 
ignorant  men  in  high  places. 
I  am  not  one  of  those  who  believes 
that  just  because  a  man  is  head  of  a 
business,  he  is  a  rogue  and  an 
oppressor;  I  should  say  not. 
Moreover,  I  do  not  see  the  existing 
order  as  hopeless — not  in  a  country 


of  100,000,000  whtrt  there  is  room 
and  a  living  for  400,000,000.  I 
believe  the  laborers  of  today  can  be 
the  employers  of  tomorrow,  if  they 
would  see  themselves  as  individuals 
and  not  as, members  of  a  "  Class  "; 
if  they  would  only  concentrate  a 
little  more  on  their  opportunities 
and  less  on  their  "  rights." 
Capital  and  Labor  must  get  to- 
gether and  get  this  problem  of 
"  rights  "  out  of  the  keeping  of  the 
Extremists.  All  of  us  should  be 
Socialists,  workers  for  an  improved 
social  condition,  instead  of  sodal 
enemies  «»  «» 

Capital  can  and  must  help  Labdl"  to 
get  more  out  of  life,  and  "  more  " 
does  not  necessarily  mean  higher 
wages. — ^There  must  be  understand- 
ing and  a  mutually  respectful 
partnership!  «»  j» 
There  is  no  problem  quite  so  vital 
in  this  Democracy  as  the  adjust- 
ments of  the  rights  and  privileges 
and  opportunities  of  Capital  and 
Labor,  They  both  have  rights,  make 
no  mistake  about  that. 
To  this  end.  Educational  Work 
must  be  done.  Tfie  subject  is  a 
terribly  vital  one  to  the  Workers. 
They  have  been  stuffed  full  of 
"  You  are  the  Lords-of-the-Earth  " 
''dope  until  they  are  ready  to  bust. 
This  pressure  must  be  reduced,  and 
the  way  to  reduce  it  is  to  meet  with 
them  in  open  debate,  and  let  them 
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Men  who  are  neither  Ca];Htali8t8 
nor  Laboritet  must  address  the 
Socialists  and  ''punch  holes"  in 
the  accepted  Faith — and  of  a 
surety  it  is  not  imprecnable. 
Whether  they  like  it  or  not,  whether 
it  pleases  them  or  not,  whether  they 
howl-down  the  speaker  or  not,  a 
hole  is  a  holel  And  throi2gh  holes 
light  is  let  inl 

Educational  Work  must  be  done 
now!  Not  to  "pacify"  Labor — 
Heavens,  no  I  Billy  Sunday  has 
tried  that  for  years,  and  Labor's 
contempt  for  Simday  and  his 
backers  is  as  just  as  it  is  universal. 
C  The  issue  must  be  met  honestly. 
So  called  Public  Ojnnion  must  be 
cultivated.  That  is,  the  good 
opinion,  the  understanding  opinion 
of  the  great  number  of  "  neutral " 
people  in  this  country,  who,  be- 
cause they  are  not  employed  by  the 
so-called  Trades,  do  not  understand 
that  this  fight  involves  (dl  the 
people,  and  is  the  fundamental 
cause  for  high  prices. 
After  the  World  War,  and  maybe 
before,  this  fight  between  the  Man 
Who  Has,  and  the  Man  Who  Has 
Not,  is  going  to  open  up  with 
multiplied  intensity: — unless  the 
"  water  "  is  removed  from  American 
capital  and  the  "hot  air"  from 
American  labor. 

The  Socialists  have  a  platform 
built  by  Germans  (Marz-Engels- 
Lassalle)  and  Dreamers.  It  is  im- 


practical, unworkable  1  It  was  not 
made  in  America.  It  does  not  fit  or 
meet  American  conditions.  It  is  a 
carry-over  of  old  European  griev- 
ances. No  matter — 1  Because  it 
offers  the  Man  Who  Has  Not  what 
belongs  to  the  Man  Who  Has,  it 
makes  thousands  of  converts. 
The  Capitalists  have  "combined" 
until  they-say  "  fifty  men  own  the 
United  States"!  These  comU- 
natioos  must  be  broken  up.  'T  is  not 
cooperation  we  need,  my  poor 
misled  brothers,  but  more  com- 
petition! Competitioii  means  Oppor 
tunity  for  the  Under-Man  to  come 
vp.  So  long  as  Personal  Ambition 
sees  light  ahead,  the  matter  of  rights 
remains  Academic  and  innocuous! 
<L  We  want  more  Moderately  Rich 
Men,  and  less  Hoggishly  Rich  Men. 
Then  a  good  stiff  Inheritance  Tax 
(say  95  per  cent  to  insure  that  the 
next  generation  is  not  cursed  ^th 
the  sins  of  this  one — and  the  prob- 
lem is  solved. 

Govenunent  Ownership?  A  Co- 
oper ative  State?  Perfect  pro- 
tection for  the  Weak?  Sans  motioa. 
sans  life,  sans  struggle,  sans  com- 
petition! That,  niy  friends,  is  the 
plan  for  a  National  Cemetery— not 
for  a  Progressive  Nation. ' 
Take  away  the  game — do  away 
with  winning  and  losing — and 
we  'd  all  commit  suicide.  Better  to 
starve  to  death  than  to  be  bored  to 
death!  «»  «» 


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APRIL  1918 


No.  2 


The  Spirit  Is  the  Thing 

Bert  Hubbard 


^^^^^^OT  long  ago  I  viftited  one 

^1        H^  ^^  ^S   government 

■        W  institntions.  They  were 

\  doing    war    work   *^ 

Throughout  the  plant  were  perhaps 

five-hundred    men    who    weren't 

doing  a  tap— no,  not  even  making 

a  Uuff  at  it. 

When  I  go  about  the  Rpy  croft  Shops 
I  sometimes  find  men  putting  in 
their  time — wasting  it.  It 's  amuang 
to  watch  a  man  bluff  at  working. 
He  will  pick  up  a  hammer  and  put 
it  across  the  bench.  Then  he  will 
put  it  back  again.  He  H  move 
other  things  and  dear  a  space 
while  groping  for  some  action  that 
will  apparently  be  real  work.  At 
least  he  will  appear  to  be  getting 
ready.  You  know  what  I  mean — 
probably  have     bluffed  the    boss 


yourself.  I  have,  or  how  would  I 
know  the  mental  process  of  a  loafer? 
But  in  that  tng  government  shop 
these  idle  men  were  not  shirkers.  I 
asked  one  why  he  did  n't  get  buqr. 
"  Nothing  to  do;  no  materials  to 
work  vnth.  Haven't  done  a  thing 
for  three  days.  Pretty  soft,  di?  " 
A  foreman  told  me  it  was  a  fact. 
"  And  if  we  lay  'em  off,  they  get 
other  jobs.  We  'U  have  materials 
and  be  busy  in  a  few  days— can't 
lose  these  men  now." 
I  left  him  and  went  on.  As  I  walked 
about  that  great  plant  this  enforced 
idleness  of  so  many  men,  together 
with  a  lack  of  loyalty  and  patriotism 
charging  the  atmosphere,  I  suddenly 
became  soured  on  the  whole  war 
program.  I  thought  of  my  hard- 
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bdng  spent  in  wasted  effort  and 
inefficiency.  The  enthusiasm  I  had 
put  into  the  campaigns  went  stale. 
What 's  the  use  of  an  the  effort  to 
arouse  the  country  to  a  melting- 
point  of  patriotism  and  sacrifice 
when  in  the  government  factories, 
the  places  where  they  should  be  at 
the  highest  pitch,  there  is  a  terriUe 
lack  of  it?  Why  does  n't  some  one 
get  the  sinrit  of  the  ''  whyfore  *\  in 
this  tng  shop?  Why  don't  they  tell 
the  men  what  they  are  working 
for?  If  they  could  only  be  inspired 
with  the  real  reason  for  it  alll  These 
were  my  thoughts  as  I  left. 

'^T  WO  weeks  later  I  again  visited 
yj  that  Wg  shop.  To  my  sur- 
prise and  delight  I  felt  a  different 
atmosphere  as  I  entered.  Things  had 
changed.  Somebody  had  "  Carried 
the  Message  I "  Everybody  was 
carrying  it.  Nowhere  did  I  see  idle 
men.  There  were  big  flags  every- 
where. Printed  signs  were  much  in 
evidence.  One  of  them  read,  "  Do 
your  work  well — imperfect  work 
may  mean  the  loss  of  an  American 
Over  There."  Another  one,  "The 
boys  are  waiting  for  our  product — 
speed,  speedl "  On  a  big  black- 
board a  workman  had  written, 
"  Men,  work  like  hell  Over  Here  so 
the  boys  Over  There  can  fight  like 
devils" — a  direct,  homely  sugges- 
tion, but  just  the  kind  of  message ! 
The  effect  of  these  and  many  more 


that  I  could  n't  see  had  been  elec- 
trifying. The  place -was  humming. 
In  the  faces  of  the  men  one  could 
see  a  new  determination,  a  realiza- 
tion of  what  their  work  meant. 
When  I  came  away  I  was  thrilled 
with  the  same  spirit  that  had  been 
injected  into  that  shop.  I  wanted  to 
get  into  the  game  and  help.  I  fdt 
like  a  slacker  because  I  could  n't  and 
because  back  at  our  own  little  shop 
we  were  not  dcnng  war-work.  Rpy- 
cn^  boys  and  girls  are  making 
beautiful  books  and  things  to  feed 
the  soul — not  cannon.  I  found  some 
solace  in  the  thought  that  even  in 
war  times  the  fabric  of  business  in 
general  must  be  held  together.  We 
can't  all  fight,  nor  can  we  all  make 
munitions  or  airplanes.  But  we  can 
boost  and  we  can  produce.  Our 
money  can  help  and  we  can  buy 
Liberty  Bonds  and  *♦  W.  S.  S." 
After  all!  Our  service  flag  has  seven- 
teen stars!  Each  star  means  a  boy, 
loved  at  home  and  sent  out  with  our 
Uessings  to  join  in  avenging  the 
murder  of  our  Master  and  the  rape 
of  Belgium,  And  if  they  come  back 
there  is  still  a  place  for  them  here,  i 

"VVVHBN    the    United    States 

^^  jumped  into  the  war,  I  tried  j 
to  sell  a  million  or  more  coines  of 
A  Message  to  Garcia  to  the  govern- 
ment. Both  Secretary  Baker  and 
Secretary  Daniels  said  they  ap- 
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spiratiooal  message  to  their  men, 
but  unfortunately  there  was  no 
appropriation  for  purchasing  them. 
I  tried  to  interest  Mr.  Fosdick, 
Chairman  of  the  Commission  on 
Training  Camp  Activities.  He,  too, 
was  appreciative  of  the  merits  of  the 
Message,  but  he  had  no  funds  with 
which  to  buy  it.  I  offered  to  furnish 
it  at  cost,  plus  the  usual  ten  per 
cent  profit — no  use.  Then  I  had  a 
wave  of  generous  patriotism  come 
over  me,  and  I  offered  to  print  it  on 
a  Ing  illustrated  poster  done  Roy- 
croftie,  and  present  it  with  my 
compliments  for  posting  in  the 
libraries  and  Y.  M.  C.  A.'s  at  the 
camps.  I  am  sure  the  excuse  Mr. 
Posdick  gave  me  for  not  accepting  it 
was  camouflage — the  real  reason 
yet  to  be  divulged.  I  couldn't 
understand  it  and  was  chagrined 
and  embarrassed.  My  motive  was 
Bo  ancere:  I  thought  I  would  be 
helinng  to  make  better  soldiers.  All 
this  time  orders  for  small  lots  of  the 
pamphlet  were  coming  to  us  from 
officers  in  the  army,  and  men  in 
civil  life  all  over  the  coimtry  were 
ordering  them  for  the  drafted  men 
tn  their  communities. 
The  librarian  at  Camp  Sherman, 
Ohio,  had  such  a  demand  for  the 
Message  from  the  soldiers  that  he 
mimeographed  a  special  edition  to 
8ui>ply  it.  Since  then  we  have  sent 
him  a  quantity,  and  now  we  are 
printing  it  in  poster  form  for  all 


the  camps.  Mr.  Herbert  Putnam, 
Librarian  of  Congress  and  Director 
of  Camp  Libraries,  very  graciously 
approves  my  suggestion  and  sends 
me  a  list  of  the  thirty-six  camps 
to  which  I  am  sending  the  Garcia, 
My  gratis  offer  has  been  accepted  I 
4L  All  of  which  is  not  a  criticism, 
nor  an  attempt  to  throw  the  lime- 
light on  such  gratuities  as  may  have 
come  from  me.  I  've  had  to  dispense 
with  modesty  to  do  this.  I  don't 
want  any  thanks.  Elbert  Hubbard 
left  the  Message  to  Garcia  to  the 
world  with  The  Roycrofters  in 
charge  of  its  dissemination.  It  was 
my  great  privilege  to  be  able  to 
offer  it  for  the  benefit  of  our 
soldiers  that  they  might  gain  a 
moral  lesson  therefrom,  and  inci- 
dentally raise  them  to  a  fuller  reali- 
zation of  the  meaning  of  their  job. 
The  point  I  want  to  get  across  to 
you  is  this:  The  morale  of  the  Army, 
the  Navy,  and  the  great  govern- 
ment factories  is  a  tremendous 
factor  in  the  winning  of  the  war. 
Americans  won't  be  driven  to 
efficiency,  but  they  can  be  educated 
to  it.  German  efficiency,  about 
which  we  have  heard  so  much  that 
we  hate  the  expression,  is  a  result  of 
the  iron  hand.  But  it  is  n't  one- 
two-three  to  American  Efficiency, 
for  once  we  have  accomplished  it, 
the  imderlying  principles  of  Ameri- 
can manhood,  its  decency  and  fair- 
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Young  Soldier 

John  J.  Comwell,  Governor  of  West  Virginia 


I  DO  not  admire  an  envious 
man  «»  «» 
Enviousness  and  covetous- 
ness  are  hateful  things. 
But  I  confess  I  envy,  just  now,  a 
great  many  men. 

They  come  into  my  office  wearing 
the  uniforms  of  their  Coimtry. 
They  salute  me  and  stand  -erect, 
hand  to  cap  and  eyes  forward.  They 
are  soldiers,  officers  and  privates. 
They  are  heroes  in  the  making — in 
embryo  «»  «» 

Here  I  sit  at  my  desk,  in  citizen's 
clothes.  Off  yonder  in  the  camps  are 
Ufe  and  energy  and  patriotism  in 
action  «»  «» 

"  Over  There  "  railroads  are  build-, 
ing;  supplies  going  forward;  the 
soldiers  are  taking  on  the  final 
touches  of  training  and  gcnng  into 
the  trenches. 

The  Airmen  mount  their  winged 
steeds  and  go  wheeling  through 
space,  with  their  bombs  suspended, 
machine  guns  peefnng  out  and 
cameras  loaded. 

All,  all  at  work  to  stay  the  tide  of 
scientific  barbarism  and  to  save 
civilization  and  free  government 
from  death  at  the  hands  of  autoc- 
racy «»  «» 
I  am  tied  down  at  a  desk  with  books 


and  papers  and  problems  to  solve 
while  my  fellow  men  are  out  in  tb 
open  doing  and  dying  that  I  anc 
others  back  here  at  home  may  con 
tinue  to  sit  in  offices,  to  work  anc 
to  earn  money  and  to  enjoy  th( 
blessings  of  our  own  homes,  tlu 
cheeriness  of  our  firesides,  the  pres- 
ence of  our  loved  ones,  the  sodety 
of  our  friends. 

I  am  too  old,  they  say,  to  be  a 
soldier,  to  drill  and  fight  and  fly. 
And  so  I  must  sit  behind  a  desk  and 
allow  yoimger  men  to  make  sacri- 
fices and  to  suffer  for  me. 
Age  and  gray  hairs,  I  was  taught, 
were  honorable  things,  things^to  be 
respected.  I  loathe  them  1  For  tbty 
have  sentenced  me  to  soft  seats,  to 
quiet,  and  to  indoors  while  all  the 
world  throbs  and  sobs  and  stirs 
outdde  «»  «» 


K^ID  then  come  other  men 
daUy  who  tell  me  <^  tbd^ 
sons  in  service,  show  me  letters  and 
pictures  «»  «»  j 

Their  faces  beam  with  pride.  i 
They  are  fathers  of  men,  meo  vm 
are  saving  civilization,  defendiif 
me  and  mine.  How  I  envy  them  4 
Then  I  turn  from  my  desk  and  ga4 
upon  a  picture,  a  picture  of  one  H 


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young*  so  ^air,  dad  in  the  uniform 
of  a  cadet  and  wonder  why,  if  it 
was  written  that  he  was  to  be 
denied  me  for  support  and  solace  in 
my  declining  years,  that  he  could  not 
have  lived  a  little  longer  and  died  in 
defense  of  his  country. 
I  wonder  why  it  was  denied  me  to 
grasp  the  hand  of  my  fellows  and 
say:  **  I,  too,  have  a  son  in  the 
service." 
Or  to  say:  ^*  I,  too,  have  given  bone 


of  my  bone  and  flesh  of  my  flesh  that 
'  Government  of  the  people,  by  the 
people  and  for  the  people  shall  not 
perish  from  the  earth.'  " 
And  having  wondered  thus  I  turn 
back  again  to  try  to  lose  myself  in 
my  work,  while  from  outdoors 
come  the  echoes  of  activity  reach- 
ing from  camps  and  all  the  way 
across  the  ocean,  from  **  Over 
There  "  where  men  are  dcnng  and 
dsring  for  me. 


The  Neiv  Sky  Voice 

Gertrude  Andrews 


IT  is  the  aeroplane,  this  new 
sky  voice;  and  it  is  humming 
the  Song  of  Democracyl 
In  these  days  of  tng  Hap- 
penings one  is  kept  gasping.  Yet, 
after  all,  it  is  just  a  time  of  effects. 
The  causes  have  been  going  on  for 
centuries.  But  the  effects  have  come 
in  such  a  sudden  sky-rocket  ex- 
plomon  of  wonders  that  the  world 
looks  on  awed  and  bewildered. 
The  aeroplane  is  the  climax  of  these 
effects.  I  had  read  about  it,  heard 
about  it,  seen  it  in  the  air.  But 
never  did  the  thing  take  a  real  grip 
on  my  imderstanding,  never  did  it 
so  thrill  itself  through  my  blood, 
as  the  other  day  when  I  was  privi- 
leged to  go  through  the  big  Curtiss 
plant  in  Buffalo.  And  it  is  a  privi- 
lege— one  granted  to  a  very  few. 
Those  few  must  have  some  special 


business,  and  be  able  to  give  a  dean 
reoofd  of  tnrth,  baptism  and 
bacteria— that  there  be  no  enemy 
germs.  For  the  plant  is  now  practic- 
ally in  the  hands  of  the  Government. 
After  one  has  stood  this  test  he  feds 
himself  qualified  for  the  Hereafter. 
<L  Mr.  Benjamin  A.  Guy  it  was  who 
St.-Petered  our  little  party  through 
the  gate.  Mr.  Guy  is  assistant 
general  manager:  and  he  is  a  deluxe 
edition  <rf  Yoimg  Democracy.  In 
his  cosmos,  body,  brain  and  spirit 
are  pcns^  to  a  balance  of  ultra- 
modem  effidency.  After  having 
been  through  the  plant  one  feds  that 
this  young  man  is  a  gospel  part  of  it 
all — this  last  pioneer  industry 
which  heralds  the  Great  New 
System  of  Things  I 
This  industrial  world — the  largest 
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twenty-ax  acres  oi  territory.  Every 
foot  of  these  acres  teems  with 
interest,  and  speaks  the  effort  to 
co-ordinate  the  powers  of  a  big 
purpose  «»  «» 

But  it  was  not  the  number  of  acres 
that  so  impressed  me,  nor  the  many 
thousand  employees,  nor  that  vast 
simi  which  is  paid  each  month  for 
wages.  It  was  the  exhilarating 
significance  of  it  all — the  psychol- 
ogy. It  was  the  realization  of  all 
the  seething  imdercurrents,  of  the 
powers  that  have  waited,  and  the 
powers  that  have  struggled  for 
this  culmination. 

Here  men  and  women  are  working 
side  by  side;  there  being  nearly  as 
many  women  as  men.  Of  course 
they  have  so  worked  for  centuries; 
but  not  in  just  this  same  way;  not 
in  this  same  equality,  this  same 
democracy  of  association. 
In  the  first  place  these  women — 
enfranchised,  too,  here  in  New 
York,  by  the  way — ^have  discarded 
their  petticoats  and  are  moving  in 
the  greater  freedom  of  khaki 
trousers.  Most  of  them  wear  these 
jauntily.  Khaki  caps  protect  their 
hair.  And  they  are  not  doing  any 
little  odd  side-rib  jobs — those 
things  stigmatized  as  "  woman's 
work,"  and  which  have  received 
either  little  or  no  pay.  No,  these 
women  are  workers  in  the  larger 
social  sense,  doing  what  has  been 
dignified   as   "  man's   work."    But 


they  are  making  it— these  men  and 
women  together — human  work  «» 
And  therein  lies  the  big  significance 
of  it  all.  So  working  nde  by  side,  in 
equality,,  they  are  creating  this  new 
machine  which  is  part  woman  and 
part  man,  a  thing  of  intuition  and 
reason,  a  thing  of  air  and  earth.  It 
is  the  honeymoon  of  married  poetry 
and  science.  It  is  Democracy,  be- 
cause it  is  the  expresdon  of  labor's 
chivalry;  because  it  is  the  chrysalis 
of  human  effort  evolved  into  the 
butterfly  ideal — work  made  love. 
C  It  is  the  Sky  Voice  because  it  is 
the  same  Vcnce  \(diich  spoke  to 
Moses  from  the  burning  bush, 
speaking  now  the  same  promise: 
"I  have  surel^r  seen  the  afiSiction 
of  my  people  .  .  .  have  heard  their 
cry  by  reason  of  their  taskmasters;  j 
for  I  know  their  sorrows.  And  I 
have  come  to  deliver  them  ..." 
It  may  be  used  for  war  (this  creature 
of  the  air),  but  it  is  the  Herald  of 
Peace — a  peace,  not  only  of  justice, 
but  of  accomplishment.  Columbus, 
in  his  search  for  a  channel,  discovered 
a  great  continent.  This  new  ex- 
plorer, which  is  Democracy,  may 
discover  for  the  human  race  its 
world  of  sjnritual  tnrth. 

Fair  is  the  Flag's  renown. 

Sacred  her  scars. 
Sweet  the  death  she  shall  crown 

Urtder  the  stars, 

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Fags 

Corporal  Jack  Turner 


When  the  cold  it  making  ice-cream 

of  the  marrow  of  your  bones. 
When  you  're  shaking  like  a  jelly 

and  your  feet  are  dead  at  stones, 
When  your  clothes  and  boots  and 

blankets,   and  your  rifle  and 

your  kit, 
Are  soaked  from  Hell  to  Breakfast, 

and  the  dugout  where  you  sit 
Is  leaking  like  a  basket,  and  upon 

the  muddy  floor 
The  water  lies  in  filthy  pools,  six 

inches  deep  or  more; 
Though  life  seems  odd  and  mis'rable 

and  all  the  world  is  wet, 
You  11  always  get  throi2gh  somehow 

if  you  've  got  a  cigarette. 

When  you're  lying  in  a  listening 

post  'way  out  beyond  the  wire. 
While  a  blasted  Hun,  behind  a  gun, 

is  dcnng  raind-fire; 
When  the  bullets  whine  above  your 

head  and  sputter  on  the  groimd. 
When  your  eyes  are  strained  for 

every  move,  your  ears  for  every 

sound — 
You  'd  bet  your  life  a  Htm  patrol 

is  prowling  somewhere  near; 
A  sluver  runs  along  your  spme  that 's 

very  much  like  fear; 
You  11  stick  it  to  the  finish— but, 

1 11  make  a  little  bet. 
You  'd  feel  a  whole  lot  better  if  you 

had  a  cigarette. 


When  Fritz  is  starting  tomething 

and  his  guns  are  on  the  bust. 
When    the    parapet    goes    up    in 

chtmks,  and  settles   down   in 

dust. 
When    the    roly-poly    "  nun-jar " 

comes  a-wobbling  through  the 

air. 
Till  it  lands  upon  a  dugout — and  the 

dugout  it  n't  there; 
When  the  air  is  full  of  dust,  and 

smoke  and  scraps  of  steel,  and 

noise. 
And  you  think  you  're  booked  for 

golden     crowns     and    other 

Heavenly  joys. 
When  yo^r  nerves  are  all  a-tremble, 

and  yoiv  brain  is  all  a-fret — 
It  is  n't  half  so  hopeless  if  you  've 

got  a  cigarette. 

When  you  're  waiting  for  the  whistle 

and  yoiu"  foot  is  on  the  step. 
You  bluff  yourself,  it^'s  lots  of  fim, 

and  all  the  time  you  're  hep 
To  the  fact  that  you  may  stop  one 

'fore  you  've  gone  a  dozen  feet. 
And  you  wonder  what  it  feels  like, 

and  your  thoughts  are  far  from 

sweet; 
Then  you  think  about  a  little  grave, 

with  R.  I.  P.  on  top, 
And  you  know  you  've  got  to  go 

across — although  you  'd  like  to 

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When  your  backbone's  Hmp  as 
water,  and  you're  bathed  in 
icy  sweat. 

Why,  you  11  feel  a  lot  more  cheerful 
if  you  puff  your  cigarette. 

Then,  when  you  stop  a  good  one, 
and  the  stretcher-bearers  come 

And  patch  you  up  with  strings,  and 
^^ints,  and  bandages,  and  gum; 

When  you  think  you  've  got  a 
millioQ  wounds  and  fifty  thous- 
and breaks, 

And  your  body 's  just  a  blasted  sack 
padced  full  of  pains  and  aches; 

Then  you  feel  you  've  reached  the 
fini^,  and  you're  sure  your 
number 's  up, 

And  you  fed  as  weak  as  Belgian 
beer,  and  helpless  as  a  pup — 

But  you  know  that  you  're  not  down 


and    out,    that    life's    worth 
living  3ret, 
When  some  old  war;wi8e  Red  Cross 
guy  slips  3rou  a  cigarette. 

We  can  do  without  MacCana<dites 

and  Bully,  and  hard  tack. 
When  Fritz's  curtain  fire  keeps  the 

ration  parties  back; 
We  can  do  mthout  our  greatcoats, 

and  our  sodcs,  and  shirts,  and 

shoes. 
We  might  almost— thoui^  I  doubt 

it — get  along  without  our  boose; 
We  can  do  without  "  K.  R.  A  O.," 

and  "  MiUtary  Law," 
We  can  beat  the  andent  Israelites 

at  making  bricks,  sans  straw; 
We  can  do  mthout  a  lot  of  things 

and  still  win  out,  you  bet. 
But  I  'd  hate  to  think  of  soldieriiig 

without  a  dgarette. 


A  Chiropractor^s  Opinion  of  an  Osteo- 
pathos  Opinion  of  Chiropractic 


B.  J.  Palmer 


1^  the  January,  1918,  ROY- 
CROFT is  an  artide  titled 
An  Osteopath's  Opinion  of 
Chiropractic. 
*'  Science  can  not  be  taught  within  a 
period  of  months."  Medical  men 
maintain  that  they  are  the  essence 
of  "Sdence";  that  osteopathy  is 
not  sdentific  Medicine  is  thousands 
<^  years  old.  They  take  eight  years 


to  teach  it.  Yet,  osteopathy  came  as 
a  cry  from  the  wilderness  for  better 
methods,  outside  of  the  realms  of 
"sdence."  Just  as  they  are  the 
result  of  demand;  so  come  we  upon 
the  horizon. 

Stress  is  laid  upon  "diagnosis." 
Certainly  it  is  not  the  daim  <^  Dr. 
Bancroft  that  he  is  <Hie  hundred  per 
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statements  of  no  less  a  persoo  than 
Dr.  Cabot,  who  is  only  fifty-three 
per  cent  efficient  on  1,000  cases  with 
every  scientific  method  at  his  com- 
mand. It  does  not  behoove  Dr. 
Bancroft  or  any  other  osteopath  to 
throw  this  muddy  camouflage  upon 
such  a  flimsy  subject  as  "diacnosis" 
^K^en  the  medical  men  themselves 
admit  their  inferiority  to  do  this 
subject  justice  even  after  they  have 
put  in  eight  years  at  its  study,  in 
some  cc^eges  and  some  States,  but 
not  in  all. 

Dr.  Kichard  Cabot,  of  Boston,  is  a 
man  who  is  deservedly  held  in  high 
repute  by  the  entire  medical  i>ro- 
fession  throughout  the  country  as 
an    exceedingly   able   exponent   of 
medical  sdence  and  practise.   He 
holds  a  chair  of  medicine  in  Harvard 
Univerdty;    is    the    author    of    a 
standard    text-book    on    physical 
diagnosis;     ei^oys     a     large    and 
successful   practise;   is   a   man  of 
exceptionally   high   personal   char- 
acter and  integrity,  and  is,  in  ad- 
dition, one  of  those  really  great 
personalities    in    medicine    whose 
influence  and  work  have  extended 
beyond   the   confines  of  his  own 
calling,  and  have  told  effectively  in 
the  direction  of  ^se  philanthropy 
and  practical  sociology. 
At    the    last    convention    of    the 
American      Medical      Association 
(1910),  held  in  St.  Louis,  this  gentle- 
man»  with  a  courage  and  intellec- 


tual honesty  which  marks  him  Qf 
any  further  indication  should  be 
necessary)  as  a  great  man,  presented 
a  unique  and  thought-provoking 
paper  prepared  out  of  his  own 
personal  experience,  entitled,  A 
Study  in  Mistaken  Diagnosis,  in 
which  he  analysed  the  dinical 
history  of  one  thousand  cases, 
diagnosed  by  himself  in  the  Mass- 
achusetts General  Hospital,  which 
afterward  came  to  autopsy,  com- 
paring the  showings  of  the  post- 
mortem examination  with  the 
clinical  findings.  The  paper  has 
recently  been  published  in  the 
Journal  qf  the  American  Mediad 
Association,  and  makes  exceedingly 
interesting  and  instructive  reading. 
CThe  analysis,  as  may  be  supposed, 
is  a  very  comprehensive  one, 
embracing  almost  every  type  of 
disease,  in  various  stages  and 
manifestations,  and  it  represents 
a  careful  and  systematic  investi- 
gation of  every  case,  both  before 
and  after  death. 
Its  net  result  shows  that  the 
diagnosis  was  correct  in  only  about 
fifty  per  cent  of  the  entire  aggre- 
gation of  cases;  in  the  other  fifty  per 
cent  the  post-mortem  demonstrated 
that  he  was  mistaken  in  his  diag- 
nosis, either  by  commission  or 
omission;  i.  e.,  he  had  either 
diagnosed  conditions  which  were 
not  pfesent,  or  had  overlooked 
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be  borne  in  mind  that  in  this  fifty 
per  cent  of  correct  cUacnods  there 
were  a  large  number  of  cases  of 
diseases  whose  manifestations  are 
so  plain  that  the  merest  tyro  in 
medicine  would  recognize  them 
almost  at  a  glance — such,  for  in- 
stance, as  typhoid  fever,  diabetes, 
pneumonia,  meningitis,  valvular 
disease  of  the  heart,  and  others 
which  present  a  well-marked  and 
easily  recognized  group  of  symp- 
toms. It  is  therefore  plain  that  if 
all  these  simple  cases  had  been 
eliminated  the  proportion  of  mis- 
takes would  have  been  much 
greater;  for,  according  to  Dr. 
Cabot's  statements,  the  percentage 
of  correct  diagnosis  reached  the 
low  figures  of  sixteen  per  cent  in 
acute  nephritis,  twenty-two  per 
cent  in  chronic  myocarditis,  thirty- 
three  per  cent  in  broncho-pneu- 
monia, and  so  on. 

Now,  if  a  man  of  Dr.  Cabot's 
recognized  supremacy  in  the  field 
of  diagnosis,  with  the  courage  and 
candor  to  face  the  real  facts,  con- 
fesses that  he  is  only  able  to  make 
correct  diagnosis  in  something  like 
fifty  per  cent  of  all  cases  that  he 
imdertakes — considerably  less  than 
that  in  those  diseases  which  make 
anything  like  a  tax  upon  expert 
skill — what  is  the  irresistible  con- 
dunon  concerning  the  thousands  of 
practising  physicians  whose  skill  in 
this    direction    is    admittedly    far 


below  that  of  Dr.  Cabot,  who  have 
not  the  facilities  that  lie  at  his 
command,  and  whose  opportunities 
for  verification  or  disproof  are 
practically  ml? 

DOW,  there  is  nothing  in  this 
state  of  things,  in  itself,  at 
all  derogatory  to  the  intelligence 
and  efficiency  of  the  i^ysician  «» 
No  one  who  possesses  the  most 
elementary  appreciation  of  the 
conditions  and  difficulties  sur- 
rounding medical  diagnosis — rang- 
ing all  the  way  from  individual 
idiosyncrasies  to  pathological  vari- 
ations— win  for  a  moment  mian- 
terpret  the  showing  made  by  the 
analyns.  And  that  a  man  like 
Cabot  should  deliberately  under- 
take and  frankly  publish  such  an 
analysis,  displays  a  sincerity  of 
mind,  love  of  truth  and  a  devotion 
to  science  which  can  hardly  be  too 
highly  conmiended.  Such  a  sfnrit 
among  its  exponents  will  not 
weaken,  but  strengthen,  public 
faith  in  medicine. — Medical  Brief, 
August,  1910.  (Also)  Nationd 
Druggist,  September,  1910. 
Says  H.  J.  G.  Koobs,  M.  D. 
(Secretary  of  State  and  County 
Medical  Officers'  Association),  in 
the  Yankton  (S.  D.)  Dahotan  of 
February  1,  1915: 
**  Since  the  making  of  a  correct 
diagnosis  is  absolutely  necessary  be- 
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kind  can  be  administered,  it  is 
certainly  necessary  for  any  one 
who  wishes  to  treat  disease  to  be 
able  and  competent  to  make  such 
diagnosis  «»  «» 

"The  great  danger  is  in  allowing 
any  one  to  practise  healing  the  sick 
in  any  form  who  is  not  thoroughly 
ccnnpetent  to  diagnose  all  diseases." 
C  Says  Dr.  Emerson  (Dean  of  the 
Indiana  University  of  Medicine),  in 
the  Indianapolis  (Ind.)  Star  of  Jan. 
27,  191^: 

"  Dr  Emerson  .  .  .  explained  that 
medical  schools  of  to-day  spend 
eighty-five  (85)  per  cent  of  their 
time  teaching  students  to  make  a 
diagnons,  that  being  the  vital  part 
of  medical  practise." 
Says  Dr.  Bancroft:  **  Diagnosis  is 
the  common  starting  point  for 
every   school  of  healing.   V^th  a 


limited  education  a  chiropractor 
must  be  circumscribed  in  his 
ability  to  analyze,  correlate,  diag- 
nose. In  this  inability  to  diagnose 
he  is  a  menace  to  any  community." 
C  Let  us  review  some  of  the  evi- 
dence at  our  command.  From  the 
statement  given  above,  how  exten- 
sive and  valuable  is  a  very  broad 
education?  Let  it  be  of  the  best, 
to  what  practical  use  can  it  be  put? 
C'lt  takes  more  than  book- 
learning  to  be  a  success  as  a  doctor. 
He  needs  a  lot  of  common  horse- 
sense,  and  in  all  this  chatter  about 
higher  education  and  a  new 
curriculum — which  is  one  way  of 
freezing  out  competition  in  the 
medical  college  trust — I  haven't 
seen  mentioned  any  Professor  of 
Common  Sense." — Providence 
Medical  Journal,  September.  1914. 


The  Little  Man  Who  Coughed 

Henry  Calderwood 


<jf^^  HERE  had  been  a  col- 

M    ^^  lision     of     automobiles. 

^^^^^  People  from  every  side 

of  the  wide  avenue  were 

stamping  toward  the  scene;  it  was 

the    hour    between    twilight    and 

darkness,  and  the  shops  and  stores 

and    offices    were    emitting    thdr 

human  entrails. 

Confusion — waves  of  humanity, 
surging,  crowding,  carrying  those 
less-interested  pedestrians  along  in 


the  wild  melee.  C  Police  whistles, 
cries  of  Haiti  Hold  on!  Stand  Back! 
Wait!  »^  »^ 

Hoarsely,  as  if  repressed,  yet  withal 
not  devoid  of  a  tone  of  cynic  con- 
tempt, came  a  voice  at  my  right, 
asldng,  "Ah,  now — do  you  see  *em 
scatter  an*  run?  " 

Turning,  I  behdd  a  queer,  gray,- 
washed-out  creature,  with  little  pale 
eyes,  almost  smothered  by  folds  of 
flesh.  As  he  met  my  eye  he  was 


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smiling  a  funny,  wan,  careless 
smile  »^  «» 

He  spoke:  "  Blow  a  whistle — see 
'em  run.  Ring  a  bell,  start  a  fight. 
That 's  all  it  takes— no  more.  They 
kindle  like  prairie  grass,  and  they  're 
off."  «»  «» 

He  paused  with  a  low  chuckling 
sound,  meant,  I  presumed,  for  a 
laugh  «»  «» 

Then  looking  toward  the  restless, 
swaying  crowd  he  continued,  this 
time  in  a  lower,  more  confidential 
tone,  "  Yes,  they  're  off,  an'  you 
can't  stop  'em.  Wild  cattle  ain't  in 
it  with  wild  humans.  An'  all  the 
time  we  keep  thinkin'  they  've 
got  brains." 

At  this  jimcture  the  low  laugh, 
given  more  liberty,  developed  into 
a  queer  convulsive  movement.  The 
little  huddled  frame  shook,  and 
finally  drew  up  suddenly  with  a  dry 
cough  that  brought  color  into  his 
wan,  faded  cheeks,  and  tears  into 
the  little  peeping  eyes.  Dabbing  a 
questionable  rag  at  these,  he  turned 
and  finding  me  still  beside  him 
began  again. 

"  Seems  they  can't  use  'em,  or  don't 
use  'em.  Never  see  the  danger  in 
them  mad  rushes.  Don't  know  that 
maybe  they  're  rushing  to  their 
doom  s^  9^ 

The  police  having  beaten  a  path 
through  the  surging  throng  were 
carrying  out  a  limp  and  crumpled 
form  »^  »^ 


^QXAKCING  at  th&s  strange 
^^  procession  for  a  second,  my 
friend  smiled  again,  that  wan  smile, 
and  spoke:  "  This  is  one  example. 
It  'a  happening  over  and  over — 
all  over  the  world  every  day- 
People  rushin'  head-on  at  some- 
thin'.  God — it  seems  they  'd  stop 
and  ask  themselves.  Why?  " 
The  crowd  dispersing,  unwinding, 
smoothing  out,  forced  the  little  man 
and  me  up  into  a  doorway  for 
refuge.  Interested,  moved,  I  lingered 
to  catch  his  queer  philosophy.  As  if 
sensing  this,  he  apolo^zed  for  a  fit  of 
coupling  and  jtunped  again  to  his 
old  theme. 

"  Does  it  ever  git  you,  how  easy  peo- 
ple are  to  set  off  ?  "  Without  wait- 
ing for  my  answer  he  went  on: 
"  They  're  like  that  everywhere. 
Folks  in  little  jobs  and  big  ones,  all 
classes  and  conditions.  Move  along 
smooth  and  steady  in  their  work. 
You  'd  never  think  they  wo\ild  lose 
their  heads  or  fall  into  panic.  I  often 
think  o'  that — wonder  at  it." 
Here  he  lighted  a  cigarette,  and  in- 
haling deeply,  said  with  the  smoke, 
"  It 's  lack  of  brains,  or  backbone, 
or  principle  »^  Sometimes  I  gets  to 
thinkin'  the  whole  country  's  shy  on 
Principle;  that  thing  that  makes  a 
man  stand  and  reason  things  out — 
no  matter  if  a  million  guns  are  firin' 
at  him  «»  «» 

"  Principle . . .  Say,  don't  you  think 
that 's  it  ?  " 


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I  nodded  an  invitadoa  for  him  to 
continue.  He  came  closer  and  catch- 
ing held  oi  my  arm  said  in  his  most 
confidential  tone,  "  Country's  mad  I 
Even  now— when  they  ought  to  be 
thinkin'— ought  to  be  cahn." 
He  broke  off  suddenly  «»  Ks  little 
peeinng  eyes  seemed  forcing  their 


way  from  out  the  folds  of  flesh  and  I 
ianded  that  something  of  a  glow 
came  into  each  wan  cheek — then, 
"  Say,  don't  it  beat  the  devil  how  a 
man  of  prindple  stands  out  agin'  a 
lot  o'  these  rattleheads  ?  Well ...  So 
Long  !  Here's  my  carl*"  And  he  dis- 
appeared into  the  night. 


Will  the  United  States  Lose  Its  Workers? 

Oscar  Koreff 


HMONG  many  of  the 
problems  to  be  served 
after  the  termination 
of  hostilities,  such  as 
rebuilding  towns  and  villages,  re- 
establishment  of  business  and  in- 
dustries, restoration  of  traffic  and 
transportation,  will  be  the  proUem 
of  obtaining  suitable  labor. 
Europe  has  suffered  immensely. 
Every  comer,  whether  the  war  has 
raged  there  or  not,  has  been  drained 
financially  and  also  of  its  best  asset 
in  young  and  able-bodied  men  ^^o 
had  formed  the  large  army  of  in- 
dustrial and  commercial  workers. 
In  this  respect  the  losses  are  pretty 
eveidy  divided,  and  after  the  close 
of  the  war  and  the  installation  of 
normal  conditions,  or  as  near  normal 
as  circumstances  will  permit,  each 
of  the  European  governments  will 
Q^ex  the  working-dass  some  in- 
ducements to  come  and  take  an 
active  part  in  the  reconstruction  of 
their  respective  countries. 


Our  country  has  been  very  fortunate 
indeed.  While  we  managed  to  keep 
out  of  war  for  more  than  two  years 
and  a  half  we  had  the  opportunity 
to  reorganize  our  manufactories  and 
prepare  them  for  greater  things  to 
come.  And  when,  under  the  stress 
of  circumstances,  our  country 
entered  the  war  on  the  side  of  the 
Allies  our  wonderful  industries  were 
in  the  position  not  only  to  fill  our 
immediate  wants  but  to  aid  the 
Allies  in  a  very  effident  manner. 
Prior  to  our  entry  into  the  war  we 
filled  large  war  contracts  for  the 
Allies,  thus  enabling  them  to  stem 
an  aggression  for  which  Germany 
had  prepared  for  forty  years. 

IN  our  American  industries  we 
employ  a  large  body  of  foreign- 
bom  working-men  who  are  awaiting 
the  call  of  their  countries  to  come 
back  and  assist  in  the  rebuilding  of 
the  ruins.  Many  of  them  will  follow 
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we  gdng  to  ttt  idle  and  wait  until 
Europe  will  reclaim  her  sons  ?  Are 
we  going  to  watch  the  breakdown  of 
our  fine  industrial  and  commercial 
organism? 

Are  we  going  to  stand  still  and  let 
others,  more-  far-sighted,  get  the 
supremacy  from  us  which  had  been 
acceded  to  us  by  destiny  ? 
Or  are  we  going  to  look  for  a 
remedy  ?  Are  we  going  to  try  and 
keep  them  here,  part  and  parcel, 
one  and  all  ?  Are  we  going  to  be  far- 
sighted  enough  to  notice  on  which 
side  our  bread  is  buttered  ?  Let  us  be 
sincere  !  We  do  need  the  foreign- 
bom  laborer  and  working-man,  in 
spite  of  the  Burnett  Bill.  Our  most 
vital  interests  are  closely  connected 
with  him.  Are  we  to  let  him  go  wit^ 
nobody  to  take  his  place  ? 
If  the  industries  of  this  country,  so 
wonderfully  organized,  are  willing 
to  have  the  scepter  of  supremacy 
wrested  from  their  hands  by  the 
European  countries  who  vnH  lock 
toward  their  working-men  after  the 
war,  and  if  these  industries  can  not 
or  do  not  want  to  see  where  their 


most  vital  interests  lie,  then  let  us 
show  them  right  now  and  here^that 
something  will  have  to  be  done  to 
keep  the  immigrants  in  this  country; 
to  save  them  for  the  sake  of  our 
United  States,  of  Humanity  and 
Civilization;  to  keep  them  here  and 
induce  them  to  cooperate  with  us 
in  the  upbuilding  and  the  mainte- 
nance of  our  most  wonderfully  ooor- 
dinated  industrial  organism;  to  show 
them  where  their  own  interests  lie. 
To  warn  them  of  what  would  befall 
them  if  they  should  return  to 
Europe  ;  of  the  power  the  respective 
governments  would  wield  over  them; 
how  they,  disillusioned  and  disap- 
pointed, would  think  of  the  "  Flesh- 
pots  of  Egypt  "  should  they  fall  will- 
ing victims  to  the  persuasions  and 
promises  of  governments  who  had 
maltreated  them  in  the  past  and  who 
are  not  going  to  make  any  lasting 
concessions  in  the  future.  Just  now 
the  life  and  the  existence  of  our  great 
business  plan  are  interwoven  with 
the  foreign  working-men  and  labor- 
ers. Let  us  find  a  way  to  induce  them 
to  stay  with  us. 


Conscience  Requires  Knoivledge 

C.  E.  Whitehouse 


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and 


'OUR  hundred  years  ago 
a  man  arose,  in  the  per- 
son of  John  Knox.  By 
his    sincerity    in    belief, 
his    overwhelming    desire    to 


advance  the  cause  of  Christianity 
and  Freedom,  he  filled  the  hearts  of 
his  followers  with  a  striving  for  the 
right  «»  «» 
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firom  tbc  city  of  John  Knoz,  from  a 
country  undergoing  the,  sufferings 
and  travail  of  a  devastating  war — 
a  war  which  eternally  exposes  the 
frailties  of  human  nature,  and  takes 
its  daily  toll  from  friends  and 
relatives — writing  in  the  midst  of 
sufferings  brought  upon  us  by  the 
empty  weaknesses  of  man,  which 
place  considerations  of  material 
prosperity  first  in  importance; 
writing  in  the  midst  of  conditions 
where  "  Peace  on  earth,  good  will 
toward  men"  has  temporarily  lost  its 
meaning  through  the  mad  and  gor- 
geous display  of  material  strength; 
writing  in  a  spirit  of  humility  to  the 
Power  which  shall  decide  that  this 
too  shall  pass  away — ^I,  an  English- 
man, send  this  message  from  Scot- 
land to  the  people  of  America,  who 
speak  my  language,  understand  my 
sentiments,  sympathize  with  the 
trials  of  my  countrymen,  and  have 
elected 'SO  magnificently  to  take 
thdr  share  of  the  burden. 
Although  I  write  in  the  midst  of 
war,  my  message  is  one  of  peace. 
Why  am  I  spared?  Surely  there 
must  be  some  duty  for  me  to 
accomplish,  some  good  thing  I  can 
do  to  justify  my  hitherto  unharmed 
existence  in  the  midst  of  so  much. 
Have  I  done  that  thing?  And  if  I 
am  not  Satisfied  that  I  am  living  a 
life  which  in  some  measure  brings 
benefit  to  the  world,  in  what  direc- 
tion shall  I  look  for  insinration  to 


guide  me  aright?  All  these  thoughts 
must  come  to  you  as  they  come  to 
me.  According  to  your  sincerity  of 
purpose  will  you  get  what  you 
desire.  From  the  correct  ordering 
of  the  higher  activities  of  mind, 
there  can  result  a  personal  peace 
which  passeth  all  understanding. 
No  man  or  woman  can  be  materi- 
ally selfish  and  know  the  pleasures 
of  mental  happiness  at  the  same 
time  9^  «» 

Ask  yourself  these  questions:  "  In 
what  manner  may  I  pass  this  life 
for  the  utmost  good?  Where  can  I 
find  insinration  to  guide  me  to  a 
higher  and  more  useful  life,  to  a 
plane  of  spiritual  tranquillity  which 
will  cause  me  to  know  in  my  heart 
I  am  right? 

The  strength  of  an  individual  varies 
according  to  the  extent,  the  depth, 
and  the  knowledge  of  his  belief.  It 
is  necessary  to  know  your  beliefs, 
and  to  practise  them,  following 
steadfastly  the  path  you  are  con- 
vinced, after  earnest  and  mature 
thought  and  good  advice,  is  the 
right  one.  To  all  who  read  these 
Unes,  I  most  earnestly  commend  the 
advice  given  by  one  of  our  great 
Scotsmen  a  few  weeks  ago,  when  he 
expressed  himself  .in  these  four 
words,  "  Know  what  you  believe." 

One  little  accomplishment  is  of 
more  consequence  than  a  great 
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DO  not  toil  that  I  may  hoard 

The  titiie  my  labor  brings  to  ^ 
The  sweetest  draui^t  comes  from  a  gourd. 

And  happiness  from  poverty; 
I  toil  because  I  've  hands  to  do» 

And  love  of  men  within  my  heart. 
And,  when  my  sands  have  all  run  through, 

I  want  it  said  I  did  my  part. 


The  scanty  titiie  that  men  can  give    . 

Is  but  a  pimy  prize  at  best — 
It  is  enough  that  I  should  live 

In  happiness  and  peace  and  rest; 
I  give  my  toil  in  humble  pride. 

To  merit,  when  its  end  shall  come. 
The  love  tiiat  waits  at  eventide 

Within  the  open  door  of  Home. 


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'"I  speak  TrutK  not  so  much  as  I  woxild^  but  as  .much 
as  I  dare;  and  dare  a  KttJe  more  as  I  grow  older. ^^ 

Felicitations 


Felix  Shay 


In  Time  of  War 
Prepare  for  Peace- 
Presidents 

^0^m^  WENTY  years  after  the 
£    ^^  dose  of  the  CivU  War, 
^^^W  Grover     Cleveland,      a 
Democrat,      caused      a 
hceaik  in  the  succesaon  of  Republi- 
can Civil  War  Generals  asPresidents 
of  the  United  States.  But  at  the  end 
of  Cleveland's  first  term,  another 
Republican     Civil     War     General 
followed  him  into  office,  and  at  the 
end  of  his  second  term  a  Republican 
Civil    War    Major    took    up    the 
Presidency  »^  »^ 

The  OfiBcers  and  Military  Establish- 
ment of  the  Southern  States  sur- 
rendered to  the  United  States 
Government  under  that  famous 
Apple  Tree  at  Appomattox  Court- 
House  in  1865,  but  the  Officers 
and  Military  Establishment  of  the 
Northern  States  did  not  surrender 
the  United  States  to  itself  till  1901.* 
€L  Mark  the  stately  procession  of 


military  fimctionaries:  Andy  John- 
son was  Military  Governor  of 
Tennessee.  Grant,  Hayes,  Garfield, 
Arthur,  Harrison,  were  Civil  War 
Generals.  McKinley  was  a  Civil 
War  Migor,  and  when  McKinley 
was  assassinated  in  1901,  we  were 
handed  over  to  a  Spanish-American 
War  Colonel,  the  omnipresent  and 
ever-ready  gentleman  of  Oyster  Bay. 
C  When  Taft  was  up  for  nomination 
in  1908,  Senator  Foraker  too,  was 
pre»dentially  ambitious.  One  day, 
when  the  preliminary  campaign  was 
on,  I  overheard  an  old  Civil  War 
veteran  exhorting  his  fellows.  He 
argued  that  the  support  of  the 
Nation  should  be  given  to  Foraker, 
because  this  was  "  the  last  chance  to 
elect  one  of  the  old  Civil  War  boys." 
Foraker  enlisted  in  the  Eighty- 
ninth  Ohio  Volimteer  Infantry 
when  he  was  sixteen,  and  came  out  a 
Brevet-Captain. 

That  the  Civil  War  Generals,  Grant, 
Hayes,  Garfield,  Arthur,  Harrison, 
were  either  notoriously  incompetent 


*  Felix  Shay's  relatives  were  all  Northerners,  Umonists,  and  certain  of  them  Union 
Scddiers.  He  is  ndt  a  Democrat. 


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as  Presidents,  or  conspicuously 
mediocre,  or  both,  in  no  way 
affected  the  01d-S(^dier  vote.  That 
their  administratiofis  were  marked 
by  questionable  financial  situations, 
partisan  and  petty  politics,  in- 
justices and  violence,  to  no  appre- 
ciable extent  shut  off  the  star- 
spangled  eloquence.  That  they  were 
men  of  the  sword,  apostles  of 
powder  and  shot,  destructionists, 
did  not  seem  to  impress  their  fellow 
countrymen  half  so  much  as  a  good 
full-armed  swing  of  the  Bloody 
Shirt  »^  »^ 

Tumult  reigned  for  twenty-five 
years  after  the  war,  because  Men-of 
War  and  not  Men-of-Peace  were  in 
control;  a  part  of  which  terrible 
period  of  oppression,  we  miscall  the 
Reconstruction  Period. 
Until  long  after  1880,  a  specious 
sort  of  sedition  and  hatred  held 
sway.  The  war  was  over,  the  South 
was  surrendered  and  helpless,  yet 
seemingly  not  one  of  the  Northern 
recalcitrants  had  the  ability  or 
vision  to  initiate  a  policy  of  for- 
giveness, of  justice,  of  constructive- 
ness  «»  »^ 

They  bickered,  they  accused,  they 
called  names,  they  quarreled  among 
themselves  over  political  offices  and 
loot.  Election  orators  lied  shame- 
lessly about  the  opposite  candidate 
and  party.  Election  victors  shame- 
lessly turned  over  the  country's 
institutions  to  their  adherents. 


Suppose  we  review  this  after-the- 
Civil-War  period  a  litUe.  'Twill 
prove  interesting,  and  it  may  warn 
us  to  keep  war-heroes,  who  know 
how  to  destroy,  out  of  positions 
where  the  need  is  for  men  who  know 
how  to  build! 

%V\HEN  Lincoln  was  shot, 
^A/  Andrew  Johnson,  then  Vice- 
President,  automatically  became 
President.  Johnson  was  a  native  of 
one  of  the  Secession  States,  Ten- 
nessee. Before  the  war  he  had  been 
Governor  of  Tennessee.  From  1862 
till  the  i>residential  campaign  of 
1864,  he  was  Military  Governor  of 
that  State.  When  Lincoln  was  re- 
elected Prendent,  Johnson  became 
his  Vice-President.  Throughout  the 
War  he  was  a  Union  man.  He 
suffered  himself  to  be  mobbed  by 
Southerners,  his  family  to  be  turned 
out  of  its  home,  for  his  principles. 
€L  Andrew  Johnson  was  a  tailor  by 
trade.  He  passed  into  early  man- 
hood, absolutely  illiterate.  Of  what 
importance  is  that  when  the  divine 
fire  glows  within?  He  studied  all  the 
hours  between  quitting  his  daily 
task  and  gcnng  to  bed.  He  taught 
himself  toVead;  his  wife  taught  him 
simple  arithmetic,  and  how  to  write. 
He  read  omnivorously.  He  organized 
a  Debating  Club.  He  matched  his 
knowledge  against  the  students  of 
Greenville  College,  Tennessee,  as 
well  as  the  best  men  of  his  Home 


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Town.  Along  that  road  lies  positive 
acoompKahmftit  «»  «» 
He  was  dected  alderman^  and  re- 
elected; then  elected  mayor;  then 
elected  state  senator;  then  to  the 
U.  S.  Congress;  then  Governor  of 
Tennessee.  Later  to  the  U.  S.  Senate; 
then  "N^ce-President  of  the  United 
States.  Would  you  ask  for  a  better 
demonstration  of  sheer  ability? 
So  there  came  into  the  Presidency, 
at  Lincc^'s  death,  a  Southerner 
who  had  remained  faithful  to  the 
Union,  through  all  the  dark  and 
turbulent  hours  of  rebellion.  Here 
was  a  man,  of  essential  worthiness, 
of  peculiar  perscmal  qualifications, 
especially  instructed  in  Lincoln's 
Plan  of  Reconciliation,  bound  to 
both  the  North  and  the  South  by 
ties  of  love  and  loyalty!  Here  was 
the  man  to  reunite  a  divided  people! 
4L  Instead  they  "impeached"  him; 
the  Militarists  did!  That  is  to  say, 
they  went  through  the  motions  of 
impeaching  him,  and  then  left  lum 
in  c^ce.  Thirty-six  votes  were 
necessary  to  impeach.  The  U.  S. 
Senate  voted  thirty-five  for  im- 
peachment and  nineteen  against 
it!  *^  «» 

The  War  Heroes  and  War  Senti- 
ment of  the  North  disapproved  of 
Andy  Johnson  because  be  was 
opposed  to  dividing  the  South  into 
MUiiary  Districts,  with  a  Northern 
General  in  charge  (with  the  war 
continued  against  a  helpless  instead 


of  a  militant  people!),  because  he 
wanted  to  proclaim  a  general 
amnesty  to  all  Southerners  who 
would  swear  to  be  loyal  to  the 
Union  »^  That  was  all! 
He  wanted  the  War  to  end  in  1865! 
— ^The  General-Senators,  and  the 
General-Congressmen,  and  the 
Generals  who  wanted  to  be  Some- 
thing, objected  strenuously. 
That 's  the  real  curse  of  war;  what 
follows  after. 

I  sometimes  think  it  was  opportime 
that  Lincoln  died  in  the  fulness  of 
his  glory,  rather  than  to  live  and 
face  that  terrible  next  three  years, 
when  the  victors  were  demanding 
the  spoils! 

CHEN  Grant  came  in  for  eight 
years.  The  **  Old  Commander" 
was  the  most  marvelous  general  this 
country  ever  produced,  but  as  a 
businessman  and  as  President  of 
the  United  States,  well-^that 's 
another  and  separate  subject.  He 
never  grasped  that  he  was  head  of 
a  Democratic  Republic.  He  still 
sensed  himself  as  an  Autocrat-in- 
Command.  He  explained  to  no  one. 
He  asked  no  one's  help.  He  did  as  he 
pleased.  There  were  scandals  and 
cause  for  scandal!  One  history  here 
before  me,  says  "  he  obstinately 
stood  by  friends  whose  guilt  was 
beyond  doubt."  Of  course  he  was 
imposed  upon  and  "  used." 
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When  he  came  up  for  reelection  in 
1872,  he  swept  over  the  profound 
Horace  Greeley,  counting  six 
electoral  votes  to  Greeley's  one. 
You  see  the  old  soldiers  were 
beginning  to  feel  sentimental  about 
their  early  ezplmtsl 
Then  came  in  Rutherford  B.  Hayes, 
anotiier  Civil  War  General.  More- 
over, be  it  said  in  favor  of  him,  as  a 
general  he  too  was  A-1.  All  of  these 
men,Grant,  Hayes,  Garfield,  Arthur, 
Harrison,  made  a  most  creditable 
record  in  War.  As  soldiers  they  were 
exceptionally  effective;  as  Presi- 
dents they  were  also  bang-up 
soldiers!  «»  «» 

As  a  soldier,  Hayes  captured  Mor- 
gan's Men,  after  their  Ohio  raid, 
a  very  spectacular  performance, 
which  required  a  hard-riding  fighter 
of  courage  and  daring  1  As  Presi- 
dent, well — ^first  of  all,  he  is  sup- 
posed to  have  won  from  Samuel 
J,  Tilden  by  one  electoral,  vote. 
Nevertheless,  there  were  thousands 
and  thousands  of  staid  and  serioxis- 
minded  men  in  this  coimtry  who 
believed  that  the  election  was  stolen. 
The  moderation  and  restraint  and 
good  judgment  of  Tilden  in  the 
emergency,  probably  saved  the 
country  a  bloody  revolution!  As  a 
president,  Hayes  felt  the  need  of 
recalling  the  Union  soldiers  from  the 
South  1— Mind  you,  after  a  lapse 
of  ten  years  Union .  soldiers  were 
still  stationed  in  the  South!  But  the 


opposition  of  General-Senators,  and 
General-Congressmen,  etc.,  was  so 
strong,  strange  to  say,  Hayes  lost 
his  nerve.  He  almost  failed  to  ac- 
complish the  withdrawal! 
His  sands  of  political  life  ran  out  in 
one  term!  There  were  other  greedy 
generals  in  line,  and  pressing  dose! 
€LThe  next  Union  General-Pred- 
dent  was  Garfield.  He  was  a  Re- 
publican, of  course,  but  he  had  as 
an  opponent  another  Union  Gen- 
eral, Winfield  S.  Hancock! 
Oh,  there  were  lots  and  lots  of 
generals!  «»  «» 

Garfield  himself,  a  red-hot  partisan 
and  a  man  of  violence,  was  a  martyr 
to  violence  and  a  Republican 
factional  fight,  between  the  "  Stal- 
warts "  and  the  "  Halfbrecds." 
Guiteau,  his  assassin,  was  a  weak, 
vain  creature,  a  disappointed  office- 
seeker,  whose  insviffident  mind  was 
inflamed  against  Garfield  by  the 
accusations  put  forth  by  the 
Honorable  New  York'  Senators, 
Conlding  and  Tom  Piatt,  and  by 
others  »^  »^ 

These  Senatorial  worthies  tried  to 
break  Garfield.  When  they  failed, 
they  resigned  from  the  Senate  and 
returned  to  New  York  and  went 
before  the  people  of  New  York  for 
vindication  and  reelection.  Only, 
the  people  of  the  Empire  State  in  a 
whimsical  mood  refused  to  reelect 
them.  The  joke  was  on  the  Senators. 
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political  orators  of  the  time,  as  it  is 
recorded  in  their  speeches,  found 
it  necessary  to  defend  Garfield's 
honesty — an  old  corruption,  which 
is  ndther  worth  the  time  nor  the 
space  to  discuss. 

Garfield,  by-the-bye,  was  the  Gen- 
eral-Congressman returned  from 
the  Field  of  Battle  to  Congress 
in  1863,  who  saw  to  it  that  the 
dr<tft  was  enforced. 
He  was  assassinated  in  the  Pennsyl- 
vania railroad  station,  Washington, 
D.  C,  July  2,  1881,  and  died  some 
months  later. 

Then  came  into  ofBce  Chester  A. 
Arthur,  another  Civil  War  General, 
who  stood  out  as  an  efifident 
Quartermaster  in  time  of  trouble. 
He  equipped  and  prepared  the  New 
York  State  troops  for  battle.  'T  was 
a  considerable  work  and  well  donel 
He  lasted  One  Term  as  President — 
His  record  is  dull,  drab,  dun- 
colored!  9^  9^ 

Next,  in  1888,  came  Benjamin 
Harrison,  as  twenty -third  Pre^dent; 
grandson  of  William  Henry  Harrison, 
the  ninth  President.  He  went  into 
the  war  as  a  second  lieutenant!  He 
came  out  a  General.  He  received  his 
commission  as  General  "  for  ability 
and  manifest  energy  and  gallantry 
in  conunand  of  a  brigade."  He  was 
the  real  thing  as  a  General,  no 
mistake!  As  a  President — well,  his 
were  the  finest  whiskers  ever  seen  in 
Washington  «»  «» 


IpTAST  night,  pawing  over  a 
^*  ^  bookcase,  I  came  on  a  soiled 
and  disfigured  book,  printed  in  1887, 
which  I  must  have  picked  up  in 
a  second-hand  bookstore,  at  tome 
time  or  other.  Great  Speeches  by 
R,  G.  IngersoU.  I  opened  on  the 
speech  over  Ebon's  grave,  and 
read  this  immortal  bit  again,  for  the 
ninety-second  time.  Then  I  turned 
the  next  page — and  then  hours  after- 
ward I  came  out  of  the  IngersoU 
trance.  I  had  been  reading  Bob 
Ingersoll's  Political  Speeches. 
Only  one  to  your  notice  if  you 
please:  the  Cooper  Union  political 
speech  of  1880,  made  in  the  interest 
of  James  A.  Garfield,  then  candidate 
for  President.  When  I  picked  up  the 
book,  Garfield  meant  nothing  to  me. 
When  I  put  it  down  I  was  sure 
Garfield  was  all  the  different  kinds 
of  rogue  his  enemies  said  he  was,  and 
Ingersoll  said  he  was  not!  Moreover 
I  was  disgusted  with  Ingersoll  him- 
self. His  talk  was  violent.  It  was  a 
mass  of  nasty  insinuations  and 
coarse  humor.  It  was  tricky,  full  of 
the  applause-inviting  phrases,  the 
pause  and  stop  of  the  cheap  orator. 
I  was  revolted. 

I  went  over  and  kicked  the  Fire 
Dogs  for  spite! — Bob  Ingersoll,  with 
his  mind,  to  stoop  to  such  «»  To 
belch  and  roar  hatred  of  the  South 
fifteen  years  after  the  defeat  oj 
the  South!  To  pander  to  a  cheap 
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oring  victory  at  the  polls — ughl  «» 
Then  I  remembered  f "  Oh,  it  was  the 
Times — !  The  Times  were  Hke  that  1" 
€1  The  Generals  who  came  out  of 
the  Civil  War  were  no  better,  no 
worse,  than  the  Generals  who  will 
come  out  of  this  war.  Be  wamedl 
We  do  not  want  another  twenty-five 
years  of  nothing-accomplished;  of 
Legislation  marching  and  counter- 
marching, to  follow  after  this  War  1 
Peace  will  come  before  1920,  and 
\vith  peace  we  want  a  man  of  peace 
to  sit  in  the  Chief  Executive's  chair. 
When  War  was  declared,  we  put  it 
up  to  the  Generals  and  told  the 
Civilians  to  step  back.  When  peace 
returns,  please  let  us  have  not  a 
imiform  in  sight. 

And  I  ask  you,  must  all  the  years 
between  now  and  the  time  we  die 
be  filled  with  the  blare  of  bugles,  the 
rat-tat-tat  of  drums  and  soldiers- 
on-parade!  Please,  when  the  War  is 
over,  may  not  the  soldiers  return  to 
their  homes,  and  as  soon  as  possi- 
ble forget  this  Tragic  Massacre  of 
Menl  9^  9^ 

A  Church  of 
Citizenship 

'^^W^^^HEN  I  was  in  Boston 

^^  ^U     1  recently,  I  made  it 

^^M^  my  special  business 

to  go  to  church  on 

Sunday  morning.  Yes,  I  did!  Only 

't  was  not  the  kind  of  church  that 


wastes  its  time  casuistically  cog- 
itating over  problems  of  the  next 
world.  My  Boston  diurch  is  a  chur^ 
of  this  world,  a  church  ofDemocracy » 
a  Church  of  Enlightened  Cttisen- 
ship.  Doctor  Charles  Fleisdier 
presides  «»  «» 


Dr.  Fleischer  is  a  glossolalist, 
blessed  with  the  full  gift  of  mtelligi- 
ble  tongues,  minus  the  pretense  of 
religious  charismi  He  is  of  sound 
thought  and  ecstatic  utterance;  a 
unique  combination.  He  gives  life 
and  form  to  reason!  He  sees  the 
world-we-live-in  with  the  same 
magic,  the  same  mastery,  that  the 
historian  sees  the  glory  that  was 
Greece.  He  thrills  us  with  the  com- 
monplaces of  everyday  existence. 
He  interprets  us  to  ourselves! 
His  church  is  "The  Sunday  Com- 
mons," situated  across  the  street 
from  the  Boston  Public  Library. 
Though  be.  it  imderstood  Dr. 
Fleischer  disdains  the  designation 
"  Church "  and  writes  the  w<»xl 
**  Commons  **  on  high! 
His  congregation  is  recruited  from 
the  large  number  of  Bostonians  who 
are  neither  flaccid  with  Faith  nor 
mad  with  the  reactions  of  Belief. 
They  are  super-intelligent,  con- 
siderate, mannerly  folk,  who  want  to 
Uve  better  lives  here  and  now;  who 
want  to  serve  as  well  as  to  consume! 
Simday  A.   M.   they   go  to  hear 


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Fleisdier  to  escape  cant  and  rant, 
to  absorb  with  their  souls  a  religion 
that  will  benefit  them  all  through 
the  week! .  .  . 

For  seventeen  years  Dr.  Fleischer 
was  the  Rabin  of  Temple  Israd, 
Boston.  There  he  established  his 
reputation  for  brilliant  thinking; 
his  devotion  to  the  cause  of  man- 
kind. From  that  rostrum  his  wonder- 
ful, reasonable  eloquence  impressed 
a  dty;  that  dty,  one  which  prides 
itself  on  its  pcnse  and  conservatism. 
Boston  accepted  him.  He  arrived. 
€[  When  he  was  forty,  with  a  life 
of  ea^  and  honor  earned  and 
awaiting  him,  he  amazed  all  Boston 
by  rengning  from  the  Temple 
Israel  to  take  up  the  Crusade.  When 
most  of  us  were  complacently 
living  in  "  God's  Country — the 
Greatest  Lil'  Country,"  etc,  this 
thinker,  this  American,  decided  we 
needed  an  impetus  toward  true 
patriotism.  He  decided  to  agitdte 
for  Liberty,  Equality,  Fraternity; 
to  give  his  life  to  that  work. 
He  organized  the  "Boston  Com- 
mons," his  Church  of  Enlightened 
Citizenship;  took  a  house  by  the 
side  of  the  road;  abandoned  his  Back 
Bay  reddence. 
This  change  came  in  1911. 
Seven  years  later  he  finds  additional 
arguments  in  the  disloyalty  of  the 
hyphenates,  in  the  splurge  of  the 
spies,  to  prove  he  made  the  right 
decision.  It  is  not  better  Christians, 


or  better  Jews  that  this  country 
needs,  but  better  citizens. 
One  who  is  a  Good  Citizen  can't  fail 
to  be  a  Good  Man  or  Woman. 

^^^HE  Sunday  morning  I  attended 
^•^  the  Sunday  Commons,  Dr. 
Fleischer,  as  usual,  took  his  **  text " 
from  Current  Events.  He  measured 
certain  men  of  the  day  against 
their  counterparts  in  history.  He 
pictured  the  event  and  searched 
for  a  comparison.  He  joined  up  the 
vagaries  of  the  ancients  with  the 
mistakes  of  the  present  generation. 
He  tried  to  find  the  trend,  to  learn 
where  one's  passions  and  ignorance 
takes  him! 
He  was  superb! 

He  never  asked  us  to  "  believe  "  a 
thing;  he  never  threatened  us,  or 
promised  us.  He  taught,  he  led,  he 
inspired  ...  he  pointed  out,  he 
reasoned  «»  «» 

I  say  it  as  an  honest  man  (Heaven 
knows  there  are  so  few  of  us!)  that 
I  came  away  from  the  Simday 
Commons  v/itb.  an  exaltation  inside 
me  such  as  reUgion  never  gives! 
Surely  the  way  to  Heaven  lies 
through  this  world,  and  that  man 
who  guides  us  along  the  pathways 
of  sanity  here  saves  us  from  the 
unexpected,  expected  abyss. 
We  sang  a  patriotic  song  or  two,  we 
listened  to  a  well-informed,  well- 
read,  erudite  and  independent 
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important  subjects  of  the  day. 
Afterwards,  we  of  the  congregation 
met  each  other,  we  shook  hands,  we 
talked,  we  visited,  we  became 
friends  «»  «» 

Though  I  am  not  a  Union  Prophet, 
I  i^ve  it  you  as  a  prophecy  that  Dr. 
Charles  Fleischer  has  discovered 
the  Religion  of  Tomorrow;  maybe 

it  is  the  Religion  of  Today. 

•     •     •     • 

After  the  meeting.  Dr.  Fleischer 
invited  me  to  his  little  apartment 
for  lunch.  He  boiled  the  coffee  and 
cut  the  bread,  while  I  sliced  the 
extra  onion  into  the  Campbell's 
soup.  We  are  self-sufficient  men. 
I  took  my  steaming  bowl  and  cup 
and  sat  down  opposite  the  picture 
Sargent  made  of  Fleischer. 
We  talked. 

Then  I  called  up  an  auto,  and 
invited  the  learned  Doctor  to  make 
the  trip  with  me  to  what  was  once 
Brook  Farm.  He  protested  that  I 
was  "  afflicted  with  largess." 
'T  was  January.  The  snow  piled 
high  on  the  sides  of  the  New 
England  roads  and  cnmched  under 
the  wheels,  but  the  robe  and  the 
inside  of  the  auto  were  warm.  We 
climbed  the  Alps  with  Hannibal — 
helped  Aristotle  to  educate  Alex- 
ander— placed  the  influence  of  the 
various  Popes-— ordered  Napoleon 
to  St.  Helena — reconstructed  the 
Emigration  Laws — questioned  the 
patriotism  of  the  Plimder-Bunders 


— disposed     of    the     Kaiser     and 

Militarism!  «»  «» 

Then  the  car  skidded  to  a  stop  and 

the   driver    said    **  This   is   Brook 

Farm."  It  was.  . .  . 

When  we  stepped  back  into  the 

auto  Dr.  Fleischer  observed,  "  To 

wade  around  in  a  New  England 

January  to  visit  a  shrine,  certainly 

proves  your  sincerity — !  " 

"  Doctor,"    I  asked  him  politely, 

"  Is  that  a  compliment  or  wet  feet?" 

Conffress  Till  the  W^ar 
Ends?  Preferably  Not! 

^1^1^^  HE  League  for  Naticmal 
m  ^^  Unity,  a  most  estimable 
^L^^  and  well-intentioned 
^^^^  organization,  gives  as  its 
Executive  Committee  a  list  of  names 
which  includes  about  everybody  who 
is  anybody  from  Samuel  Gompers  to 
Otto  H.  Kahn,  from  Cardinal 
Gibbons  to  Carrie  Chapman  Catt. 
€L  The  "  Director  "  of  the  Organ- 
ization mails  me  a  request-letter, 
together  with  a  packet  of  propa- 
ganda. In  brief,  the  opportunity  is 
given  us  to  invite  the  subscribers  to 
ROYCROFT  to  elect  a  "  War-Till- 
Victory  Congress  "  next  November. 
€L  There 's  nothing  particularly 
unusual  about  such  request^; 
though  this  one  is  a  trifle  unmoral, 
not  to  say  predatory  and  officious. 
€1  We  want  the  war  to  go  on  till 
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poeaess  one  vote!  How  we  win  cast 
tliat  vote  depends  oir  conditions 
jtist  before  election!  No  man  can 
manipulate  oor  decision,  nor  have 
we  the  deare  to  manipulate  another 
man's  decision.  This  is  no  year  for 
politicians  whether  professional  or 
amateur  «»  «» 

So  far  as  we  are  concerned,  the  sub- 
scribers to  ROYCROFT  will  elect 
whom  they  i^ease  to  Congress  next 
November — and  instruct  their 
candidates  as  it  pleases  them.  We 
believe  the  American  People  are 
thoroughly  acquainted  with  the 
Issues,  we  have  full  confidence  in 
them  to  do  that  which  is  right  with- 
out suggestion  from  us. 
Normally  we  are  a  Uttie  impatient 
with  the  type  of  person  who  feels 
himself  instructed  by  God  to  lead 
his  Kethren  out  of  the  \^^ldemess. 
Oftentimes  he  is  simply  a  nuisance. 
The  same  applies  to  Organizations. 
That  such  individuals  and  orgaai- 
zations  exist,  multitudifiously,  the 
postman's  mail  bears  mute  evidence. 
There  are  a  dozen  or  more  bulky 
documents  of  that  character  in  this 
mail;  panegyrics,  panaceas,  perunas, 
proclamations.  For  them  we  reserve 
a  special  waste-paper  chute  from  the 
Desk  direct  to  the  Burlap  Bag  in  the 
Cellar  «»  »» 

This  stuff  from  the  League  for 
National  Unity  is  ^o  better,  no 
worse;  except  in  one  particular. 
After  a  strugc^e  down  through  a 


letter,  an  address  ("unanimously 
adopted")*  through  say  15,000 
words  on  the  Civil- War-and-its- 
Lessons,  we  come  on  a  Little  Folder, 
the  text  of  which  is  bad  business. 
€L  This  Uttie  folder  offers  this  un- 
American  suggestion:  To  dect  next 
fall  to  the  United  States  Congress  a 
certain  kind  of  man,  representing  a 
certain  kind  of  thought,  committed 
to  a  certain  plan  of  action— the 
Democratic  and  Republican  Parties 
are  invited  to  combine  for  victory, 
€L  How  do  you  like  that? 
For  the  two  Parties,  that  are  sup- 
posed to  be  antagonistic,  to  get  to- 
gether in  a  Fight  for  \^ctory,  and 
abandon  the  Fight  for  Right,  seems 
to  me  to  be  the  last  ditch  for 
Bourbonism  in  this  coimtry. 
That's  not  Democratic!  That's 
not  Representative  Government! 
That 's  not  Fair  Play! 
Oh,  yes,  it  is!  I  am  too  hasty.  It  is 
all  of  these  things,  and  besides — the 
fimeral  of  at  least  one  of  the  two  so- 
called  Dominant  Parties.  Because, 
should  such  a  combination  develop, 
the  Americans  who  know  the  sensa- 
tion of  the  surge  of  Liberty  in  their 
veins,  will  immediately  vote  for  any 
candidate,  any  third  party  may  put 
up.  We  want  no  "  Executive  Com- 
mittee "  to  select  the  next  United 
States  Congress  for  us — we  want 
no  sure-thing,  previously-instructed 
members  of  it.  This  next  Congress 
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"  Taxation  without  representation 
is  tarranny." 

That  phrase  is  graven  on  the  hearts 
and  minds  of  all  true  Americans! 
We  will  not  abandon  such  a  precious 
sentiment  now,  under  the  guise  of 
expediency  «»  «» 

Those  who  feel  msinred  by  the  higher 
impulse  to  select  Congressional 
Representatives  for  the  America^ 
People,  step  back,  be  warned! 
Combinations  or  no  combinations, 
the  American  People  will  dect  the 
kind  of  Congressmen  they  want  to 
represent  them  next  falL  They  will 
elect  men  who  will  t^e  beholden  to  no 
party,  or  policy;  only  to  the  Right 
(Executive  Committees  please  keep 
off !)— to  the  end  that  that  Govern- 
ment of  the  People,  by  the  People, 
and  for  the  People  shall  not  perish 
from  the  Earth! 

Brandes  and  Sinclair 

»  mn  i^HEN  the  Professor- 
^k^l    1  ship  of  .Esthetics  at 
^Jl^f    the    University    of 
^^  ^^      Copenhagen  became 
vacant  in  1872,  there  was  only  one 
man  for  the  place — Georg  Brandes! 
Even  then  he  was  a  critic  of  dis- 
cernment and  penetration,  a  vivid, 
courageous    writer;    a    clear-eyed, 
free-minded    observer;    a    thinker 
with  a  world-interest.  The  savants 
of  Europe  were  cognizant  of  a  new 
luminary  »»  «» 


Too,  Brandes  was  a  native  of  Copen- 
hagen and  a  graduate  of  that 
University.  There  he  hdd  the 
position  of  Reader  of  Belles-Lettres; 
a  sensational  sort  of  under-pro- 
fessor  whose  lectures  attracted 
crowds  and  crowds  of  eager  minds! 
There  was  no  doubt  as  to  his  fitness 
for  the  full  Professorship;  quite  the 
contrary  «»  «» 

Therefore,  he  got  the  job — did  he? 
€LHe  did  not!  He  was  rejected 
because  (give  heed  to  this!)  "  he  was 
known  to  be  a  Jew,  he  was  convicted 
of  being  a  Radical,  hi  was  suspected 
of  being  an  Atheist!  "  Rather  than 
appcnnt  Brandes,  the  Hard  Heads 
refused  to  af^xnnt  any  one.  They 
had  the  brazen  decency  to  leave  the 
chair  vacant — !  Mea  cidpa,  mea 
adpa,  mea  maxima  culpa  f 
Fair  and  sweet-spirited  reader, 
please  divide  these  accusations 
under  three  heads,  i.  e.,  Jew, 
Radical,  Atheist;  then  go  into  the 
garden  and  meditate  on  what  they 
have  to  do  with  a  Professorship  <^ 
Esthetics  9^  «» 

Then  remember,  men  have  been 
hanged  and  burned,  crucified  and 
broken  on  the  rack  for  but  one  of 
these  mortal  sins.  When  convicted 
of  all  three  (\Kdthout  denial  or 
repentance!)  it  is  synonymous  with 
the  crime  of  Free  Thinking!  Oh, 
Brothers,  how  shall  we  pxmish  a  man 
so  saturated  in  sacrilege  he  Thinks, 
and  Thinks  Independentiy! 


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These  pettifoggers'  mistaknt  of 
forty-five  years  ago  are  long  since 
forgotten.  In  some  particulars  the 
world  does  make  head.  They  never 
really  mattered,  or  stayed  the  career 
of  ^^mdes.  He  is  now  listed  Number 
One  among  the  Literary  Critics  of 
the  Universe.  He  sheds  a  special 
luster  on  the  University  of  Copen- 
hagen; Denmark  is  very  proud  to 
call  him  her  son;  Europe  is  pleased 
to  share  him;  and  once  or  twice 
America  has  been,  honored  to  bor- 
row him  for  brief  visits. 
This  in  the  face  of  the  fact  that  he  is 
still  a  Jew  (his  name  is  Georg 
Morris  Cohen  Brandes);  still  a 
Radical;  still  an  Atheist. 
Which  suggests  that  when  one  is  not 
to  be  influenced  either  by  the  com- 
mon or  aristocratic  herd,  when  one 
remains  true  to  the  faith,  whatever 
it  is,  the  herd  will  invariably  change 
its  position  in  time,  because  the 
herd  is  faithful  to  nothing. 
The  effect  on  Brandes,  of  these 
mean-spirited  and  hypocritical 
judgments  of  himself,  was  to  make 
him  all  the  more  tolerant  of  other 
men  and  their  output,  whatever 
their  beliefs,  their  antecedents, 
their  superficial  position  in  society, 
to  the  end  that  persecution  would 
lose  its  power  to  disgrace  and 
dismay  «»  »» 

Find  here  concealed  perhaps,  the 
raison  d'etre  of  Georg  Brandes' 
kindly  appreciation  of  Upton  ^n- 


dair,  the  Literary  Pariah.  Brandes 
is  unafraid  to  distinguish  Upton 
Sinclair  as  one  of  the  two  truly 
great  writers  of  America  O^^ck 
London,  as  I  recall,  was  the  other 
one).  He  measures  Sinclair  thus: 
"  One  of  the  writers  of  the  present 
time  most  deserving  of  a  sympa- 
thetic interest  «»  He  shows  his 
patriotism  as  an  American,  not  by 
joining  in  hymns  to  the  very  con- 
ditional kind  of  Liberty  peculiar  to 
the  United  States,  but  by  agitating 
for  infusing  it  with  the  elixir  of  real 
Liberty,  the  Liberty  of  Humanity." 
€LYou  may  interrupt  to  say  why 
drag  in  Upton  Sinclair?  Please  be 
patient!  Fact  is,  the  sole  purpose  of 
this  article  is  to  stir  your  interest  in 
Upton  Sinclair.  Once  interested, 
once  you  stop  to  consider  the  strange 
case  of  this  devoted  man,  you  will 
help  to  do  justice  to  his  genius,  to 
his  rare  independence.  You  must. 
€L  Georg  Brandes,  supreme  literary 
critic,  praises  the  work  of  Upton 
Sinclair  reverently.  He  sees  him  as 
a  fundamental  intelligence  gifted 
with  the  vigor  of  strong  expression. 
Brandes  wonders  why  America 
tittle-tattles  about  a  nice,  pleasant, 
harmless  old  gentleman  like  William 
Dean  Howells,  or  gushes  about 
Robert  Chambers,  who  is  a  perfect- 
dear,  when  Sinclair  lives  and  works 
and  has  his  being  in  the  same 
country  «»  »^ 
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know  Upton  Sindair's  work  (ex- 
cept The  Jungle!)'  Sinclair  is  the 
victim  of  that  sweet  Uttle  intrigue 
which  old  Irv.  Cobb  dengnates 
and  describes  as  the  "  Thunders  of 
Silence."  Editors  have  their  orders 
from  the  Cashier,  and  the  Cashier 
has  his  orders  from  the  Man-who- 
Supi^es-the-Cash. 
In  consequence,  so  far  as  they  are 
concerned,  Upton  Sinclair  just 
timi^y  ain't!  They  ignore  him. 
They  pass  him  up.  They  give  him 
the  merry  go-by! 

Gather  dose  and  I  will  tell  you  why. 
€L  Upton  Sinclair  is  a  Free  Man,  a 
radical  thinker,  a  not-to-be-infiu- 
enced  writer;  an  investigator  who  is 
not  for  hire!  He  is  feared  by  those 
who  have  need  to  fear  him.  There- 
fore, the  instruction  is  "  Thumbs 
Down/'  9^  9^ 

aPTON  SINCLAIR  was  bom 
in  Baltimore,  Md.,  U.  S.  A.,  in 
1878  of  good  American  stock  on 
both  sides.  He  graduated  from  the 
College  of  the  City  of  New  York  in 
1897,  and  from  Columbia  in  1900. 
He  is  a  radical,  not  because  of 
andent  persecutions,  or  pre-natal 
influences.  He  is  burdened  with  no 
hang-over  of  European  grievances. 
He  is  what  he  is  by  conviction; 
conviction  after  study  and  first- 
hand knowledge.  He  is  a  reasoning 
and  reasonable  animal,  not  at  all 
violent  or  dangerous. 


He  wrote  The  Jungle  in  1906,  an 
expose  of  conditions  in  the  Chicago 
Stockyards.  'Twas  the  most  im- 
portant book  of  this  century.  It  ran 
through  many  editions,  and  was 
translated  into  many  languages, 
y/hat  it  described  was  so  nauseous, 
so  imbelievable,  we  wanted  to 'fed 
he  lied.  President  Roosevdt  im- 
mediatdy  ordered  an  investigation! 
The  investigation,  or  at  least  the 
need  for  it,  is  with  us  yet. 
But  what  of  Upton  Sinclair? 
He  was  twenty-dght  when  he  wrote 
The  Jungle.  Wthout  any  consider- 
ation for  the  book's  merits  or  de- 
merits as  an  **  investigation,"  -be  it 
said  a  multitude  of  cultured  people, 
both  here  and  abroad,  agreed  it  was 
a  tremendous  literary  accomplish- 
ment, a  prose  picture  of  color,' 
quality  and  feeling.  Immediately 
it  ranked  Upton  Sinclair  with  the 
masters  of  literature. 
How  then  did  he  profit  and  pro- 
gress? 9^  9^ 

Was  there  a  rush  by  the  Magazine 
Editors,  the  supermen  of  selection, 
to  have  this  young  genius  contribute 
to  their  publications?  Nay,  there 
was  not!  Was  there  a  scrimmage  of 
a  thousand  feet  as  the  Newspaper 
Manufacturers-of- P  u  b  1  i  c  -  OpimoQ 
besought  this  David  to  lend  a  hand 
for  the  General  Good?  Nay,  not  so! 
€L  Though  he  was  the  literary 
"  find  "  of  the  century ,  the  magazines 
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papers  of  America  never  printed  his 
name,  except  to  belittle  or  vilify 
him  4»  4» 

Why,  w?iy?  Why  this  unanimity  of 
action?  Why  this  secret  alliance 
against  one  of  the  all-too-few 
worth-while  American  Writers? 
Who  inspired  and  directed  this  con- 
centered defensive?  What  for? 
What  was  the  price  paid?  By  whom? 
€1.  Shame,  I  say.  Shame! 
Is  American  business  not  strong 
enough  to  stand  criHdsm?  Who  's 
afraid?  What  are  the  practises  that 
can  not  be  exposed  to  view?  What  is 
rotten  and  who  wants  it  rotten? 
Who  takes  the  profit?  Are  there  men 
out  of  jail  who  should  be  in  jail? 
There  is  no  dirtier  page  in  the 
history  of  American  letters,  than  the 
persecution  of  Upton  Sinclair  by 
indirection  and  neglect,  since  his 
book  The  Jungle  shamed  the  con- 
science of  a  partly  civilized  world 
and  angered  and  woke  those  Powers 
of  Darkness  \^ch  we  dignify  with 
the  title  "the  Invisible  Govern- 
ment! '*  9^  9^ 

Shame,  shame  on  those  lickspittle 
editors  who  for  a  few  miserable 
dollars  sell  their  souls  to  infamous 
masters!  t^  »» 

Of  course,  the  compensation  will  be 
that  Upton  Sinclair's  work  will  live 
long,  long  after  the  best  of  the 
bootlickers*  stuff  has  been  tossed 
carelessly  into  the  basket  of  oblivion. 
Though  that 's  small  recompense,  to 


outshine  such  murky'  characters! 
There  must  be  additional  delights  to 
come.  When  Sinclair  approaches  the 
Grand  Entrance  to  Valhalla,  maybe 
'twill  serve  to  even  the  score  to 
have  the  God-of-Things-as-They- 
Ought-to-Be  call  up  from  Hell  a 
score  of  these  Editorial  prostitutes, 
and  have  them  dean  the  way  for  his 
feet  with  their  parched  tongues. 
Make  no  mistake — I  hold  no  brief 
for  Sinclair's  Sodal  Theories.  He  is 
just  as  right  and  just  as  wrong  as 
either  you  or  I.  The  protest  is  that 
a  man  of  his  literary  distinction 
should  be  denied  contact  with  the 
large  mass  <^  the  American  People, 
because  he  refuses  to  take  orders 
from  Ifigher-Up. 

Thank  Heaven,  he 's  turned  twenty 
years  of  living-by-his-pen — and  a 
most  precarious  existence  it  has 
proven  to  be !  Nevertheless  he  is  still 
aWe  to  say  "  I  have  never  written 
a  word  that  I  did  not  mean." 

^HORTLY  after  the  war  broke, 
h^  Upton  Sinclair  resigned  from 
the  Socialistic  Party.  This  was  a 
surprise  because  of  Sndair's 
sincerity,  his  prominence  in  Social- 
istic Propagandism,  and  his  unful- 
filled 4esire  for  Social  Readjust- 
ment. We  awaited  his  explanation 
impatiently.  This,  in  part,  is  it: 
Militarism  must  be  destroyed! 
(German  Militarism,  English  Mili- 
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The  sure  way  to  eliminate  Militar- 
ism  is  to  reduce  the  most  imbearable 
and  boorish  of  the  military  powers 
to  a  state  of  helplessness  through 
defeat.  Therefore,  Sinclair  reasons, 
nothing,  not  even  Socialism,  must 
hinder  the  sure  break-up  of  Ger- 
many's military  machine.  To  lose, 
ftfter  forty  years  cf  preparation  far 
war,  will  teach  Germany,  England, 
America,  France  and  Japan  as  well, 
that  preparation  for  war  is  a  crime 
only  one  degree  less  obnoxious,  less 
futile,  than  war  itself! 
Then  to  deny  to  the  victors  acquin- 
tions  in  land  or  booty  1  Make  a  dean 
peace  that  will  include  the  elements 
of  permanence!  Make  all  the 
"  Disputed  Territory  **  individual 
states!  Wipe  out  National  Arma- 
ments entirely,  and  protect  the 
World  Peace  with  an  International 
Army  and  N&vy! 

Of  course  Sinclair  is  right!  The 
wisest  man,  the  poorest  fool  in  the 
world  ought  to  sense  the  justice  and 
safety  in  this  arrangement. 
The  Socialists  of  the  Allied  Countries 
who  think  with  undisciplined  brains, 
impelled  by  passion,  who  want  the 
Millennium  this  evening,  or  at  the 
latest  tomorrow  morning  early,  can 
not  imderstand  the  wisdom  of 
Sinclair's  plan.  The  Grerman  Social- 
ists who  told  Sinclair,  before  the 
World  War  opened  up,  that  the 
German  Militarists  did  not  want 
peace,  that  they  never  would  want 


peace,  that  only  a  disastrous  war 
(a  war  disastrous  for  Germany!) 
would  serve  the  larger  Cause  of 
Himianity — these  Socialists  can  not 
understand  Sinclair's  plan  either! 
Nor  can  the  oily  Machiavellis,  the 
pseudo-Talleyrands,  the  crafty 
Disraelis,  the  unprincipled  Met- 
temichs — the  diplomatic  gentle- 
men of  the  capitals — ^understand  it! 
€L  Just  the  same,  the  People  will  be 
quick  to  imderstand  it,  and  before 
the  curtain  drops  on  this  scene  of 
bloody  strife,  the  Voice  of  the 
People  will  be  heard! 
Upton  Sinclair  is  the  apostle  of  the 
decent  intelligent  maj<Mity.  He  is 
neither  an  Extremist  nor  a  Revo- 
lutionist. He  wants  the  world  to 
improve  sensibly!  Once  his  natural 
audience  gets  in  touch  with  him,  the 
Social  Evolution,  not  the  Social 
Revolution,  will  be  in  motion.  The 
Times  must  be  made  to  serve  us;  we 
must  never  make  these  same  brutal 
and  barbarous  mistakes  again. 
When  this  World  War  is  over,  we 
hever  want  to  see  another  soldier,  or 
hear  another  gun.  We  will  even 
stress  ourselves  to  do  ^thout 
Patriotic  Addresses,  and  Parades, 
and  Military  Quicksteps.  We  hope 
the  next  will  be  the  Age  of  Reason 
and  Social  Justice. 
To  encourage  a  clean  peace  and  the 
Intemation,  Upton  Sinclair  but 
recently  issued  No.  1,  Vol.  I  of 
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(Upton  ^ndair,  Pasadena,  CaL, 
$1.00  a  year).  I  wish  him  well  «» 
This  magarine  will  never  bring  him 
wealth.  He  will  be  lucky  to  break 
even.  Nevertheless,  I  feel  there  are 
enough  people  interested  in  a  writer 
who  is  absolutely  honest  and  free 
of  pernicious  influence,  who  is  an 
expert  in  social  phenomena,  to 
guarantee  Upton  Sinclair's  magazine 
enough  sustenance,  to  see  it  through 
to  the  end  of  the  war  at  least. 
Sinclair  is  one  who  thinks  with  his 
own  head,  who  writes  withapenthat 
is  consecrated  to  "  Life,  Liberty  and 
the  Pursuit  of  Happiness,"  for  all 
men,  everywhere.  What  he  will 
have  to  say  will  be  important. 
Frank  Harris  in  Pearson's  writes  of 
Upton  ^ndair,  "I  have  the  pro- 
foundest  admiration  of  him.  .  .  . 
To  set  bounds  to  his  accomplish- 
ment would  merely  be  impudent." 
•    •    •    • 

U Envoi,  Several  months  ago,  I  wrote 
to  Upton  Sinclair  for  his  photograph, 
to  publish  in  ROYCROFT  •^  He 
answered  that  he  did  not  own  fi 
photograph  but  that  he  could 
secure  a  print  from  a  plate  at  the 
local  photographer's  for  forty-five 
cents,  only  he  did  not  have  the 
forty-five  cents!  .  .  .  There  is  no 
pleasantry  in  this  statement;  it  was 
a  grim  fact.  ...  'T  is  no  new  policy 
for  ^ndair  to  give  all  that  he  has 
and  all  that  he  is  to  the  cause  of  the 
True  Democracy. 


The  New  Cook 
Says  So 

^  ym  ^HE  New  Cook  U  Amen- 
M    ^^  can-Bom.  Her  father  was 
^L^^  a  Pole,  native  of  Posen. 
€L  Her    father's    grand- 
sire  was  killed  in  1793,  which  was 
the    year    Germany    "annexed" 
Posen-Poland   without   the   Pedes' 
consent.  He  was  shot  down  by  a 
Prussian  drill-master  for  piesuming 
to  have  opinions. 

Her  father's  father  was  killed-off 
somewhere  near  Warsaw  in  1830, 
which  was  the  last  time  that  Poland 
had  the  audacity  to  strike  for 
Liberty.  A  free-rider  of  the  Don, 
half  Tartar  and  half  fugitive  serf, 
equipped  with  a  belly  full  of  vodka, 
a  flea-Htten  Cossack  nag,  and  a 
razor-edged  Turkish  sdmitap, 
struck  the  fatal  blow. 
Her  father  was  educated  and  trained 
to  the  goosestep  by  the  Prusaan 
conquerors  of  Posen. — ^He  served 
perforce  as  a  German  officer  in  the 
Franco-Prussian  War  of  1870  »» 
'T  was  that  war  which  "  restored  " 
Alsace-Lorraine  to  Germany.  'T  was 
the  results  of  that  war,  more  than 
any  other  one  cause,  which  provided 
the  primary  antagonisms  for  the 
World  War. 

France  wanted  Revenge;  Grermany 
had  tasted  Victoty  and  Power! 
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National  Honor,  Patriotic  Anthems, 
the  Divine  Right  of  Kings  and 
Potentates,  or  the  ambitions  of  the 
hampered  expansionists.  She  is  not 
sure  she  understands  what  these 
words  mean— or  ^i^t  the  Great 
Slaui^iter  is  all  about — I 
She  'd  be  perfectly  willing  to  wash 
the  dishes,  and  bake  the  ines,  and 
take  out  Little  Girl  for  a  walk  in  the 
afternoon,  and  mind  her  own  busi- 
ness generally.  She  'd  be  perfectly 
willing  to  let  the  women  of  other 
Nationalities  do  as  much,  or  more. 
Aye,  she  'd  offer  no  protest  if  the 
hollow-backed  soldiers  of  all  the 
Nations  exchanged  their  smart  and 
expensive  uniforms  for  brown  over- 
alls and  went  to  work  in  the  family 
garden  1  You  see  she  's  a  woman  and 
does  n't  imderstand — ! 
Only  yesterday  I  caught  her  leaning 
against  the  kitchen  bcnler,  crying 
into  her  apron.  Her  eyes*  were 
swollen  and  red.  When  she  spoke 
there  was  a  catch  in  her  vcnce,  a  sob 
in  her  throat  «»  Both  her  brothers 
have  been  conscripted. 
I  told  her  to  be  brave.  I  gave  her  a 
Four-ltfinute-Talk  on  Patriotism. 
I  mentioned  Alsace-Lorraine.  . 

BVCK  in  1870,  her  father 
received  three  Gennan  Medals 
over  his  ribs,  and  one  French  bullet 
under  them  «»  Likewise  another 
French  bullet  through  his  hip, 
which  gave  him   a    nice   distingue 


limp.  Forthwith  he  was  "  retired." 
Whereupon  he  stood  not  upon  the 
order  of  going,  but  went  at  once  to 
Am^ca,  the  Land  of  the  Free, 
where  he  was  told  war  was  only  a 
brutal  memory.  He  took  bis  sweet- 
heart with  him. 

He  worked  long  hours  as  a  tailor 
in  Buffalo,  prospered  in  a  small  way, 
and  was  happy.  Before  he  died,  two 
sons  and  two  daughters  were  bom 
to  bless  his  peaceful  years! 
Both  of  these  boys,  the  sons  of  a 
Posen  Pole  who  was  a  German 
Army  Officer  in  1870,  were  drafted 
into  the  U.  S.  Army  last  week.  One 
of  the  girls,  the  new  cook,  was  joy- 
ing a  protest  into  her  apron,  her 
head  leaning  against  the  kitchen 
boiler,  when  I  opened  the  door  «» 
I  told  her  to  be  brave;  I  gave  her 
one  of  those  Four-Minute-Talks  on 
Patriotism.  I  mentioned  Alsace- 
Lorraine «»  9^ 

**  Alsace-Lorraine! "  she  flung  at  me 
—"What  is  it?  My  father  was 
nearly  killed  and  made  a  cripple 
to  get  it  for  Germany.  He  did  n't 
want  it  himself!  My  brothers,  they 
don't  want  it!  And  yet— -they- are 
going  to  be  killed  to  take  it  away 
from  Germany  again,  to  get  it  back 
for  France! " 

I  started  in  to  explain  to  her  the 
scientific  theory  of  "  Self-Expression 
for  the  Little  Peoples!"  But  her 
head  was  in  her  apron  again,  and 
her  sobs  silenced  my  eloquence! 


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No.  3 


Let  the  Post  Office  Department  Run  the 
Express  Business 

Bert  Hubbard 


^m^^^  HE  most  efficient  organi- 
d    ^^  zation  I  know  of  is  the 
^  \J  United  States  Postal  Sys- 
^^^^    tern.  Years  of  experience 
and  scientific  methods  have  made 
it  so.  Not  only  is  it  successful  from 
a  financial  standpoint,  but  it  serves 
the  people  and  serves  them  well. 
Your   letter    or    package    is    99.40 
per  cent  safe  when  deposited  with 
Unde  Sam.  Even  in  these  strenuous 
times  when  traffic  is  congested  the 
mail  is  handled  on  almost  the  nor- 
mal schedule. 

The  addition  of  the  Parcel  Post  to 
the  Postal  System  was  tlie  greatest 
blessing  offered  the  American  public 
in  your  and  my  time.  I  look  forward 
to  further  extensions  and  the  time 
when  the  government  will  handle 
all  the  express  business. 


If  my  knowledge  of  and  experience 
with  the  express  companies  is  typical 
of  the  average  shipper,  and  I  believe 
it  is,  then  I  venture  to  say  that  the 
several  express  companies  are  the 
most  inefficient  public  servants  in 
the  coimtry.  Is  there  any  reason 
why  this  should  be?  Of  course  the 
condition  can  be  explained,  but  not 
justified.  Of  all  the  public  utilities 
that  need  government  control,  none' 
should  be  touched  till  the  express 
companies  are  taken  over  and  put 
on  a  basis  of  efficient  service. 
I  can't  see  any  reason  why  express 
service  should  not  be  a  real  service 
and  equal  to  the  mails.  But  it  never 
will  be  until  there  is  a  desire  and  an 
obligation  on  the  part  of  every 
express  company  employee  to  per- 
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There  are  some  expressmen  who 
have  the  desire,  but  the  obligation 
isn't  back  of  them.  Rather,  they 
are  handicapped  with  rules  and 
regulations  and  overburdened  with 
duties  they  can  not  perform.  But 
these  men  are  in  the  small  minority. 
How  many  do  you  know?  How  many 
expressmen  do  you  size  up  favorably 
with  the  mail-carriers  you  know? 
Count  them  on  your  left  hand! 
Is  n't  just  as  sacred  a  duty  imposed 
on  the  expressman  to  deliver  your 
parcel  safely  and  on  time  as  that 
imposed  on  the  postal  clerks?  Do 
they  perform  that  duty  with  the 
same  feeling  of  responsibility  and 
courteous  treatment  you  get  at  the 
post-office?  How  many  of  your 
parcel-post  packages  are  tampered 
with  (especially  those  containing 
perishable    or    food    contents)    as 


compared  with  express  packages?  «» 
At  holiday  times  When  there  is  an 
excess  of  shipping,  both  the  mails 
and  express  are  apt  to  be  delayed. 
We  expect  it  then,  but  not  now. 
If  the  express  companies  can  not 
clean  up  their  congestion  now  and 
give  reasonable  Service,  what  must 
we  expect  when  the  rush  comes  on 
in  the  fall? 

I  say  the  express  service  can  and 
should  be  as  good  as  the  mail.  But 
it  is  n't,  and  what 's  to  be  done? 
Here  is  the  answer:  Let  the  govern- 
ment take  over  the  exi^'ess  com- 
panies and  consolidate  them  with 
the  parcel  post  system.  It  looks 
easy  and  feasible.  The  same  postal 
organization  we  now  have  can  be 
expanded  to  handle  the  extra  busi- 
ness and  render  real  service.  Why 
can't  it  be  done? 


Why  Not  Try  the  Golden  Rule  ? 

Bert  Hubbard 


^nH|^rtIAT     a     beautiful 
^^^M    g  world  this  would  be 
^J^^f  if  every  person  took 
^^  ^^     it  upon^  himself,  and 
herself,  to  live  the  Golden  Rule  «» 
Suppose  we  all  had  more  consider- 
ation  for   each   other  and  would 
trespass    less    upon  the   rights  of 
otiiers  9^  We  could  start   in  our 
private    affairs    at    home;     let    it 
spread  to  our  games  of  pleasure  and 


recreation,  our  dubs,  our  social^ 
lives,  and  then  into  our  business  «» 
The  next  step  is  into  our  govern- 
ment and  then  into  intematioiial 
relations.  War  would  cease.  Nemeas 
would  be  put  out  of  a  job  and  there 
would  be  no  need  of  judgment  days. 
As  it  is,  I  don't  believe  man  can 
encroach  on  his  fellow  man  witSiout 
some  day  meeting  with  a  reckoning. 
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narrow  path  and  back  into  it  again 
without  first  paying  the  price.  Never 
have  I  done  the  wrong  thing  ^thout 
getting  caught.  I  have  come  to 
realize  that  there  is  only  one  way 
to  4ive  «»  A  dear  conscience  is 
the^best  health  producer  od  earth. 
Without  it  I  can  not  imagine  a 
heaven  hereafter.  No,  this  is  not 
a  confession.  I  have  paid  dearly 
for  some  things  and  perhaps  others 
are  yet  to  be  accounted  for.  My 
conscience  is*  not  smirched  with 
slime  nor  have  I  anything  on  my 
chest.  The  thought  just  came  to 
me,  as  I  was  wondering  about  things 
in  general. 

For  instance;  I  was  trsring  to  figure 
out  how  some  people  can  steal 
towels  from  a  hotel;  how  a  man  can 
distxirb  the  peace  of  a  reading-room 
by  loud  talking;  how  a  woman  can 
appropriate  yam  from  the  Red  Cross 
to  knit  a  sweater  for  herself;  how 
boys  old  enough  to  know  better 
can  break  into  a  man's  camp  in 
the  woods;  how  some  folks  can 
swipe  the  loaf  sugar  from  a  res- 
taurant table ;  how  workers  can  cheat 
employers  by  monkeying  with  the 
time-dock;  how  a  property  owner 
can  dodge  fair  taxes;  how  some 
people  expect  to  live  off  the  earnings 
of  others  by  never  paying  the  grocer 
and  washwoman;  how  a  man  can 
expect  to  eat  if  he  does  n't  produce; 
bow  a  circus  ticket-seller  can  short 
change  a  little  diild;  how  a  father 


forgets  he  was  once  a  boy  too;  how 
a  mother  can  desert  her  baby;  how 
a  traveling-salesman  can  stuff  his 
expense-account;  how  some  hotel 
patrons  alwa3rs  call  down  the  waiters 
but  dare  not  kick  to  the  manager; 
how  an  express  agent  can  collect 
charges  on  a  prepaid  package;  how 
strong  people  take  advantage  of 
weak  ones;  how  Kaiser  Bill  can  lie 
straight  in  bed — ^he  can't! — ^how  a 
farmer  can  expect  his  cows  to  give 
much  milk  if  he  beats  them  with  a 
shovel;  how  a  night-watchman  can 
work  all  night  and  play  poker  all 
day;  how  Hog  Island  was  so  justly 
named;  how  some  men  can  be 
profiteers  in  the  war  business;  how 
the  pussy-willows  and  frogs  thrill 
me  in  the  spring;  how  the  smile 
and  joy  of  my  little  girl  make  me 
hate  the  Hun  and  hustle  to  buy 
Thrift  Stamps  and  Liberty  Bonds; 
oh,  I  was  just  wondering  about  a 
lot  of  things!  But  it 's  near  mid- 
night, and  I  Ve  work  to  do  tomor- 
row. Work! 


There  is  no  such  thing  as  for- 
getting pos^ble  to  the  mind;  a 
thousand  acddents  may  and  will 
interpose  a  veil  between  our  present 
consdousness  and  the  secret  in- 
scriptions on  the  mind;  accidents 
of  the  same  sort  will  also  rend 
away  this  veil,  but  the  inscription 
remains  forever. — DeQuincey, 


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^^^^^  UCH  is  being  said  about 
^^  V  ^kthe  plausible-sounding 
H  M  V  contention  that  be- 
^^^^^^%  cause  a  portion  of  the 
young  manhood  of  the  Nation  has 
been  conscripted,  therefore  money 
also  must  be  conscripted.  Why,  that 
is  the  very  thing  the  Government 
has  been  doing.  It  has  conscripted 
a  portion,  a  relatively  small  portion 
of  the  men  of  the  Nation.  It  has 
conscripted  a  portion,  a  large  por- 
tion, of  the  incomes  of  the  Nation. 
If  it  went  too  far  in  conscripting 
men,  the  country  would  be  crip- 
pled. If  it  went  too  far  in  con- 
scripting incomes  and  earnings,  the 
country  would  likewise  be  crippled. 
Those  who  would  go  further  and 
conscript  not  only  incomes  but  cap- 
ital, I  would  ask  to  answer  the  riddle 
not  only  in  what  equitable  and 
practicable  manner  they  would  do 
it,  but  what  the  Nation  Would  gain 
by  it?  5^  5^ 

Only  a  trifling  fraction  of  a  man's 
property  is  held  in  cash.  If  they 
conscript  a  certain  percentage  of  his 
possessions  in  stocks  and  bonds, 
what  would  the  Government  do 
with  them? 

Keep  them?  That  would  not  answer 
its  purpose,  because  the  Government 
wants  cash,  not  securities.    . 


Sell  them?  Who  is  to  buy  them 
when  every  one's  funds  would  be 
depleted? 

If  they  conscript  a  certain  percent- 
age of  a  man's  real  estate  or  mine 
or  farm  or  factory,  how  is  that  to 
be  expressed  and  converted  into 
cash? 

Are  conscripted  assets  to  be  used 
as  a  basis  for  the  issue  of  Federal 
Reserve  Bank  Notes?  That  would 
mean  gross  inflation  with  all  its 
attendant  evils,  dangers  and  de- 
ceptions. 

Would  they  repudiate  a  percentage 
of  the  National  debt?  Repudiation 
is  no  less  dishonorable  in  a  people 
than  in  an  individual,  and  the  pen-^ 
alty  for  failure  is  no  different  for  a 
nation  than  for  an  individucd  's^ 
The  fact  is  that  the  Government 
would  gain  nothing  in  the  process 
of  capital  conscription  and  the 
country  would  be  thrown  into  chaos 
for  the  time  being.  The  man  who 
has  saved  would  be  penalized,  he 
who  has  wasted  would  .be  favored. 
Thrift  and  constructive  effort,  re- 
sulting in  the  needful  and  fructifying 
accumulation  of  capitcd  would  be 
arrested  and  lastingly  discouraged. 
€1 1  can  understand  the  crude  notion 
of  the  man  who  would  divide  all 
possessions  equally.  There  would  be 


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mighty  little  coming  to  anyone  by 
such  distribution  and  it  is,  of  course, 
an  utterly  impossible  thing  to  do, 
but  it  is  an  understandable  notion. 
But  by  the  confiscation  of  capital 
for  Government  use  neither  the  Gov- 
ernment nor  any  i|idividual  would  be 
benefited. 

'ZT  VIGOROUSLY  progressive 
7-"^  income  tax  is  both  economi- 
cally and  socially  soimd.  A  capital 
tax  is  wholly  unsound  and  eco- 
nomically destructive.  It  may  never- 
theless become  necessary  in  the  case 
of  some  of  the  belligerent  countries 
to  resort  to  this  expedient,  but  I 
can  conceive  of  no  situation  Ukely 
to  arise  which  would  make  it  neces- 
sary or  advisable  in  this  country. 
More  than  ever  would  such  a  tax 
be  harmful  in  times  of  war  and  post- 
bellum  reconstruction,  when  beyond 
almost  all  other  things  it  is  essential 
to  stimulate  production  and  pro- 
mote thrift,  and  when  everything 
which  tends  to  have  the  opposite 
effect  should  be  rigorously  rejected 
as  detrimental  to  the'  Nation's 
strength  and  well-being. 
There  is  an  astonishing  lot  of  hazy 
thinking  on  the  subject  of  the  uses 
of  capital  in  the  hands  of  its  owners. 
The  rich  man  can  only  spend  a 
relatively  small  sum  of  money  un- 
productively  or  selfishly.  The  money 
that  it  is  in  his  power  to  actually 
waste  is  exceedingly  limited.  The 


bulk  of  what  he  has  must  be  spent 
and  used  for  productive  purposes, 
just  as  would  be  the  case  if  it  were 
spent  by  the  Government,  with  this 
difference,  however,  that,  generally 
speaking,  the  individual  is  more 
painstaking  and  discriminating  in 
the  use  of  his  funds  and  at  the  same 
time  bolder,  more  imaginative,  enter- 
prising and  constructive  than  the 
Government  with  its  necessarily 
bureaucratic  and  routine  regime 
possibly  could  be.  Money  in  the 
hands  of  the  individual  is  continu- 
ously and  feverishly  on  the  search 
for  opportunities,  i.  e.,  for  creative 
and  productive  use.  In  the  hands 
of  the  Government  it  is  apt  to  lose 
a  good  deal  of  its  fructifying  energy 
and  ceaseless  striving  and  to  sink 
instead  into  placid  and  somnolent 
repose  «»  «» 

Taxation  presupposes  earnings.  Our 
credit  structure  is  based  upon  values 
and  values  are  largely  determined 
by  earnings.  Shrinkage  of  values 
necessarily  affects  our  capacity  to 
provide  the  Government  with  the 
sinews  of  war. 

There  need  not  be  and  there  should 
not  be  any  conflict  between  profits 
and  patriotism.  I  am  utterly  opposed 
to  those  who  would  utilize  their 
country's  war  as  a  means  to  enrich 
themselves  «»  Extortionate  profits 
must  not  be  tolerated,  but,  on  the 
other  hand,  there  should  be  a 
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business  and  a  willingness  to  see  it 
make  substantial  earnings.  To  deny 
this  is  to  deny  human  nature. 
Men  will  give  their  lives  to  their 
country  as  a  matter  of  plain  and 
natural  duty;  men,  without  a 
moment's  hesitation,  will  <quit  their 
business  and  devote  their  entire  time 
and  energy  and  effort  to  the  affairs 
of  the  Nation,  as  a  great  many  have 
done  and  every  one  of  us  stands 
ready  to  do,  without  any  thought  of 


compensation.  But,  generally  speak- 
ing, men  will  not  take  business  risks, 
will  not  venture,  will  not  be  enter- 
prising and  constructive,  will  not 
take  upon  themselves  the  responsi- 
bilities, the  chance  of  loss,  the  strain, 
the  wear  and  tear  and  worry  of 
intense  business  activity  if  they  do 
not  have  the  prospect  of  adequate 
monetary  reward,  though  a  large 
part  of  that  reward  is  taken  away 
again  in  the  shape  of  taxation. 


The  Rating  of  Nations 

W.  H.  Anderson 


^^^^  HERE  is  no  international 
M  ^^  mercantile  rating-book 
^L^^P  on  nations,  but  their 
well-known  reputations, 
established  in  all  the  marts  of  the 
world,  serve  the  piirpose  just  as 
well.  If  you  want  an  illustration 
of  what  is  meant  by  this,  consider 
Switzerland  and  Mexico.  Switzer- 
land's credit  is  good  to  the  limit  of 
her  capital,  while  that  of  Mexico 
is  at  such  a  heavy  discount  as  to  be 
practically  non  est.  There  are  many 
other  striking  examples  but  this  one 
furnishes  the  point  we  wish  to  make, 
which  is  simply  this — ^that  under 
present  conditions  of  world  trade, 
no  nation  can  afford  to  ignore  its 
rating  either  financial  or  moral.  A 
good  credit-man  always  regards  the 
pay-rating  of  an  individual  as-reflect- 


ing his  disposition  to  pay  promptly 
as  well  as  his  ability  to  do  so  «^ 
Inasmuch  as  the  Bolsheviki  of 
Russia  are  repudiating  the  nation's 
debts,  if  reports  may  be  believed, 
Russia  has  lost  her  pay-rating  alto- 
gether. She  now  can  not  take  her 
proper  position  in  the  trade  of 
nations  until  her  rating  is  reestab- 
lished. Until  this  has  been  accom- 
plished, the  merchants  of  the  world 
will  compel  her  to  pay  cash  on  the 
nail  before  they  will  ship  her  any 
goods.  Her  ruble  is  about  as  worth- 
less as  Germany's  mark,  which  in 
Germany's  case,  has  dwindled,  along 
with  her  gold  reserve,  to  about  fif- 
teen or  twenty  cents  on  the  dollar. 
Germany's  rating  began  to  drop 
when  her  ambassador  to  England 
made  his  famous  remark  about  the 


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scrap  of  paper.  If  the  ambassador 
in  question  had  ever  had  any  real 
business  experience,  I  very  much 
doubt  if  he  would  have  made  that 
remark,  which  was  conceived  as 
much  in  ignorance  of  business  com- 
mon law  as  of  autocratic  arrogance. 

A\  NEW  blue  book  is  in  the 
7^-^^  making.  It  is  the  business 
roster  of  nations.  After  this  hideous 
war  is  over,  the  flood-tide  of  immi- 
gration will  be  toward  the  nations 
that  have  established  in  the  eyes 
of  all  the  world  their  ability,  as 
well  as  disposition  to  pay  their  debts. 
Nobody  wants  to  live  imder  a  flag 
that  is  stained  with  the  immorality 
of  rulers,  and  the  nation  that  dis- 
regards this  principle  will  pay  a  ter- 
rible price,  in  fact  it  can  not  exist 
unless  a  good  rating  be  re-estab- 
lished. The  battles  of  the  future 
may  be  bloodless,  but  they  will 
be  battles  none  the  less  for  all  that, 
and  the  record  will  go  down  into 
a  new  sort  of  Domesday  Book, 
and  be  written  upon  the  pages  of 
history,  that  this  or  that  nation 
lost  its  rating — and  failed.  Austria 
sees  the  handwriting  on  the  wall, 
and  now  the  rulers  of  Germany 
are  in  mortal  fear  that  Austria  will 
fail  her.  Austria  can  not  afford  to 
continue  under  an  immoral  compact. 
Yet  a  greater  danger  than  her 
alliance  with  Germany  confronts 
her  in  the  loss  of  her  moral  rating 


as  a  nation.  If  it  can  not  be  re-estab- 
lished it  means  virtual  extinction, 
because  any  nation  that  can  not 
go  into  the  marts  of  the  world  with 
free,  dean  hands  will  surely  lose  out. 
Militarism — nothing  can^save  her. 
I  do  not  agree  with  those  who  say 
that  Germany  can  ever  fully  recover 
from  this  war.  Whether  she  flghts 
to  a  stalemate  or  loses  outright  she 
is  doomed  to  a  low  place  as  a  nation. 
A  nation  that  has  lived  for  forty 
years  daily  absorbing  the  doctrines 
of  Niet^^he,  Treitschke  and  Bern- 
hardi  in  my  humble  estimation  is 
diseased  morally  to  an  irrevocable 
extent.  As  goes  the  word  of  a  govern- 
ment so  goes  the  word  of  its  mer- 
chants. Where  a  bad  reputation  is 
once  established  even  though  there 
be  a  change  for  the  better,  it  will 
be  generations  before  the  black  eye 
will  disappear  or  be  forgotten.  Now- 
ada3r8  things  are  being  written  large 
in  history  that  will  rise  like  Banquo's 
ghost  to  confront  the  evil-doers  «» 
When  a  nation  snaps  its  Angers 
metaphorically  at  the  universal  code 
of  ethics,  it  is  raising  an  obstacle  to 
the  commerce  of  the  future  that 
will  have  to  be  regarded.  The  Cen- 
tral powers  politically  and  morally 
have  the  German  measles.  Heavens, 
how  speckled  they  are!  When  the 
war  finally  does  stop,  where  will 
these  discredited  nations  find  some 
one  willing  to  nurse  them  back  to 
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A  Middle-Age  "Frame  Up 

Harry  V.  Dougherty 


^■^^USEb  often  to  wonder 
Ic"  whether  or  not  the  Twenti- 
J^  eth  Century  cop  or  detective 
•^'  '  ^  ever  gave  a  passing  thought 
to  how  things  in  his  line  were 
handled  in  the  very  early  days; 
the  days  when  the  Dark  Ages  were 
being  transformed  by  the  Renais- 
sance; when  Courts  and  Judges  and 
Juries  were  something  new,  some- 
thing, just  beginning  to  open  their 
eyes  to  the  modes  of  semi-civilization 
as  it  were.  The  days  when  the  Sheriff 
of  a  shire  in  England  was  almost  as 
powerful  as  His  Majesty,  the  King, 
himself.  Quite  recently,  I  ran  across 
a  bit  of  history  that  fits  in  well  with 
my  thought  along  these  lines  and 
thinking  it  might  be  of  interest, 
I  decided  to  put  it  on  paper  for 
my  busy  brothers  to  read. 
In  the  year  1100,  some  years  after 
the  Norman  had  invaded  England 
and  the  Norman  and  Englishman 
were  becoming  one  by  a  process  of 
assimilation,  there  was,  as  in  other 
things,  much  perplexity  in  the  theory 
and  administration  of  the  law  itself, 
in  the  variety  of  systems,  which 
were  contending  for  mastery  and  in 
the  inefficiency  of  the  courts  in 
which  they  were  applied. 
English  law  had  grown  up  under 
Teutonic  custom  into  which  Roman 


tradition  had  been  slowly  filtering 
through  the  Dark  Ages.  As  a  result, 
at  this  time  there  were  three  or 
four  codes  of  law.  One  for  the 
Lords;  one  for  the  King;  one  for 
the  middle  and  lower  classes;  and 
one  for  the  rabble. 
It  was  the  same  at  this  time  with 
the  courts.  They  had  several  kinds, 
from  the  Kings  Court,  all  the  way 
down  the  lines  to  petit  court,  where 
the  rabble  fought  out  their  feuds. 
When  these  courts  were  held  at 
stated  times  in  the  various  shires 
of  England  there  came  to  them  all 
sorts  of  people.  Lords  of  the  Manors 
with  their  stewards,  the  abbots  and 
priors  of  the  county  with  their 
officers,  the  legal  men  of  each 
small  commimity,  the  parish  priest, 
smiths,  farmers,  millers,  carpenters, 
who  had  been  chosen  in  each  com- 
mimity to  represent  their  neighbors; 
along  with  them  stood  the  pledges 
(bail-goers),  the  witnesses,  finders  of  < 
dead  bodies,  men  suspected  of 
crime   *^   9^ 

^j^JiE  court  in  those  far-off  days 
V^was  in  fact,  something  like  a 
county  fair  today;  a  great  public 
meeting  of  the  whole  county.  Such 
then  were  the  court  conditions  and 
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and  Englishmen  of  that  day  came 
to  fight  out  their  claims  and  prose- 
cute or  defend  the  criminal. 
The  criminal  was  generally  put  on 
trial  by  accusation  of  an  injured 
neighbor,  who,  accompanied  by  his 
friends,  swore:  "  That  he  did  not 
bring  his  charge  for  hatred,  or  for 
envy  or  for  unlawful  lust  or  gain." 
The  criminal  generally  defended 
himself  by  having  the  Lord  of  the 
Manor  in  which  he  lived,  swear  by 
him,  together  with  several  other 
witnesses,  holders  of  property,  who 
swore  to  his  innocence,  who  on 
their  honor  as  freeholders  and  prop- 
erty owners  further  swore  that  they 
believed  the  defendant's  oath  of 
denial  of  guilt  to  be  "  clean  and 
imperjured."     ^ 

The  faith  of  the  swearer  was  mea- 
sured by  the  amount  of  land  he 
owned,  and  the  value  of  the  joint 
oath  to  free  the  accused  depended 
an  a  set  of  arithmetical  calculations, 
and  differed  according  to  the  kind 
of  crime,  the  rank  of  the  criminal 
and  the  amoimt  of  property  in 
dispute,  besides  other  differences 
dependent  on  local  conditions  «» 
Swearers  might  also  be  called  from 
among  neighbors  "  who  held  prop- 
erty and  were  acquainted  with  the 
facts  "  to  which  they  would  "  dare  " 
to  swear.  The  final  judgment  was 
given  by  acclamation  of  the  "  suit- 
ors "  of  the  court;  in  other  words, 
by  public  opinion.  If  convicted  in 


this  way,  the  criminal  had  his  choice 
of  going  through  the  ordeal  or  battle, 
which  he  might  accept  at  his  own 
peril  «»  «» 

If  he  chose  the  ordeal  "  he  dipped 
his  hand  into  a  pot  of  boiling  water 
up  to  the  wrist  "  or  carried  a  bar 
of  red-hot  iron  three  paces.  Some- 
times the  penalty  was  the  triple 
ordeal,  "  dipping  the  arm  to  the 
elbow  in  boiling  hot  water  and 
carrying  a  red-hot  bar  of  iron  nine 
paces." 

The  other  alternative,  trial  by  battle 
was  introduced  by  the  Normans  and 
was  extremely  unpopular  in  England 
as  the  man  condemned  who  was 
weak  and  untrained  in  arms  was 
no  match  against  his  trained  and 
well-armed  opponent.  This,  then, 
will  give  you  some  idea  of  the  times 
and  customs  when  a  happening  took 
place  from  which  this  article  derives 
its  title. 

"/^  HE  following  is  taken  from  the 
^^  records  of  the  trial  of  one 
Thomas  Ailward,  which  took  place 
in  the  year,  1154,  in  Bedford,  En- 
gland &^  9^ 

Ailward  was  a  small  farmer  in  the 
shire  and  a  neighbor  had  refused 
to  pay  a  debt  he  owed  him.  Ailward 
took  the  law  into  his  own  hands 
and  broke  into  the  house  of  his 
debtor  who  had  gone  to  the  tavern 
and  had  left  his  door  fastened  with 
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and  his  children  playing  within  «» 
Ailward  carried  off,  as  security  for 
his  debt,  the  lock,  a  flatlet,  some 
tools  and  a  whetstone,  which  hung 
from  the  roof.  As  he  sauntered 
home,  however,  the  debtor  overtook 
him,  having  heard  from  the  children 
what  had  been  done.  He  snatdied 
the  whetstone  from  Ailward's  hand 
and  dealt  him  a  blow  on  the  head 
with  it,  stabbed  him  in  the  arm 
with  a  knife  and  then  triumphantly 
carried  him  to  the  house  he  had 
robbed  and  there  bound  him,  "  as 
an  open  thief,"  with  the  stolen  goods 
upon  him.  A  crowd  gathered  around 
and  "  an  evil  fellow,  one  Falk," 
an  xmderling  of  the  Sheriff,  employed 
to  summon  criminals  to  court,  re- 
mcrked  that  "  as  a  thief  could  not 
be  mutilated  unless  he  had  taken 
the  value  of  three  shillings,  it  would 
be  well  to  add  a  few  articles  to  the 
list  of  stolen  goods." 
The  crowd  readily  consented  to  this, 
a  few  odds  and  ends  were  gathered 
together,  '*  a  bundle  of  skins,  gowns, 
linen  and  an  iron  tool,**  and  were 
laid  by  Ailward*s  side;  the  next  day 
with  the  bundle  aroimd  his  neck, 
he  was  taken  before  the  Sheriff  and 
the  Knights  who  were  holding  a 
Shire  Court. 

The  matter  was  considered  doubtful 
and  judgment  was  delayed  while 
Ailward  was  **  made  fast  in  Bedford 
jail  for  two  months  until  the  next 
Shire  Court.'* 


Here  Ailward  sent  for  a  priest  and 
"  confesnng  his  sins  from  his  youth," 
asked  the  good  man  for  advice  in 
his  plight.  Ailward  was  told  there 
was  no  hope  but  in  prayer,  that  if 
he  would  take  a  rod  and  scourge 
himself  daily,  he  might  sidestep  the 
penalty  to  come,  especially  since  he, 
Ailward,  was  baptized  on  the  Vigil 
of  Pentacost  and  that,  therefore,  hot 
water  could  not  scald  him,  nor  could 
fire  bum  him,  if  he  were  sent  to  the 
ordeal  «»  «» 

A  few  months  later  he  was  con- 
denmed.  He  demanded  single  com- 
bat with  Falk — this  was  denied  him. 
He  then  demanded  the  ordeal  by 
£re — again  he  was  denied,  for  Falk, 
who  had  been  "  bribed  with  an  ox," 
insisted  that  his  eyes  be  pulled  out 
and  he  be  otherwise  fully  muti- 
lated,*' with  the  result  that  this 
was  done  £^d  later  "  all  his  members 
were  buried  in  the  earth  in  the 
presence  of  a  multitude  of  persons.*' 
€L  So  endeth  the  story  of  a  medieval 
frame-up  «»  «» 

«    «    *    4c    4c   « 

Laurel  or  Dough 

BramleyKite 

I  do  not  write  to  order. 
Nor  for  my  bread  and  cheese. 
Nor  for  a  laurel  border. 
But  as  I  dam  well  please. 


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Nature's  Spoofing 

Strickland  GUlilan 


OATURE  is  the  greatest 
jspoofer  in  the  world,  or 
else  her  labeling-machine 
'is  highly  unreliable. 
Every  once  in  a  while  she  geti  busy 
and  builds  a  he-human  with  the 
front  of  Jove,  to  say  nothing  of 
the  side  he  puts  on  or  the  backing 
he  can  get. 

She  puts  on  him  a  bean  that  would 
drive  a  phrenologist  mad  with  joy. 
A  sculptor  with  a  pair  of  calipers 
also  would  rave  over  him. 
But  inside,  nothing  transpiring  «» 
What  is  the  loss  of  the  world  of 
iH-ains  is  the  movie-world's  gain, 
tl.  Now  and  then  she  also  erects 
£r  she-one  with  a  madonna  appear- 
ance and  the  disposition  of  a  para- 
noic cat,  merged  with  the  intellect 
of  a  chigger  an4  the  maternal  in- 
stinct of  a  cuckoo. 
Alongside  these  others  she  con- 
structs and  assembles  men  who  look 
like  missing  links  and  chimpanzees, 
with  the  good  qualities  of  angels  and 
the  intellects  of  Balzacs. 
Also  she  contrives  women  with  faces 
ugly  enough  to  stop  a  snake-race 
down  hill,  and  implants  in  them 
characters  and  intellects  and  dis- 
positions before  which  angels  would 
tip  their  halos  in  reverent  salute. 
€1  Then,  to  show  her  endless  versa- 


tility she  makes  a  few  good-looking 
men  who  mean  every  word  of  it, 
and  a  few  women  of  the  same  sort. 
€L  She  sometimes,- 1  suspect,  when 
tuning  up  a  newly-made  human  to 
see  if  it  will  perform,  discovers  that 
it  is  a  false  alarm,  away  below 
standard  «»  «» 

Chuckling  busily,  she  inserts  under- 
neath the  defective's  hood  a  lot  of 
egotism,  then  stands  back  and 
watches   hell   break   loose. 

^^yXJRGICALLY  speaking,  just  to 
f^  show  that  I  am  not  tied  to  the 
mechanical  figure  of  speech,  egotism 
is  the  anesthetic  Nature  admin- 
isters to  deaden  the  pain  of  inferi- 
ority *^  *^ 

When  the  anesthetic  has  got  in 
its  deadly  work.  Nature  makes  a 
further,  more  detailed  diagnosis  to 
ascertain  beyond  question  whether 
there  is  any  hope  of  effecting  a  cure. 
If  there  is,  she  operates.  If  not, 
she  socks  the  anesthesia  cone  back 
on  the  patient's  nose  and  leaves 
it   there. 

I  think  Nature's  labeling-machine 
slips  every  once  in  a  while,  and  the 
stamp  of  greatness  hits  a  false  alarm, 
or  vice  versa. 

Just  to  cite  a  case  in  point,  Felix 
looks  bright  and  I  don't. 


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Somebody  who  had  this  idea  a  long 
time  before  I  did,  said,  "  Nature 
writes  an  ahnost  illegible  hand." 
tlNature  thoroughly  enjoys  making 
Nazareths  and  then  bringing  good 
out  of  them  just  to  fool  the  smart 
Alecks  who  like  to  save  the  wear 
and  tear  on  their  intellects  by 
reasoning  ^together  from  labels  «» 
I  have  seen  some  Nazareths  from 
which  a  lot  of  good  must  have  come, 
for  there  was  n*t  any  left  that  could 
be  found  without  the  aid  of  a  micro- 
scope and  the  application  of  the 
cyanide  process. 
Nature    doesn't    think    good    and 


beauty  at  the  same  time,  apparently, 
for  she  made  the  toad  far  less  hand- 
some than  the  scorpion  or  the  spider. 
€LAlso  she  doesn't  think  beauty 
and  wisdom  at  the  same  time,  for 
she  made  the  wise  old  elephant 
about  a  thousand  times  uglier  than 
the  pin-head  pea-fowl. 
If  anything  or  anybody  should  be 
good  and  beautiful  both,  it  is  an 
accident.  And  if  goodness,  wisdom 
and  beauty  should  ever  all  three 
unite  in  the  same  hide,  we  might 
as  well  call  it  a  coincidence — and 
watch  the  case  with  a  view  to  a 
revised  judjgment. 


The  Spirit  of  the  Written  Word 

E.  E.  KeUer 


^^Mifti^HERE  are  various  kinds 
M  /^  of  ''  good  English."  «» 
^L  ^^Some  of  them  are  good 
and  some  are  bad.  Some 
English  is  so  good  that  the  average 
person  has  to  take  a  swallow,  of 
water  between  each  sentence  to  get 
it  down;  and  some  of  it  is  so  much 
better  that  a  man  will  miss  his  lunch- 
hour  to  finish  a  chapter  of  it,  though 
his  daughter  from  college  will  declare 
it 's  "  rotten  grammar." 
Many  a  writer  who  has  a  "  toehold  " 
on  the  English  language  couldn't 
tell  you  the  difference  between  a 
split  infinitive  and  an  adjective;  and 
at  the  same  time  the  fellow  who 
carries  a  pocketful  of  the'  parts  of 


speech  and  a  gold  fountain  pen 
couldn't  get  an  idea  across  if  he 
tried.  In  due  time  he  becomes  "  word- 
bound  " — ^then  he  starts  in  to  take 
his  spite  out  by  criticizing  .»»  He 
quibbles  over  this  construction  and 
that.  He  questions  every  word  or 
phrase  that  shows  the  slightest  sign 
of  originality,  and  goes  about  from 
day  to  day  making  the  mistake 
that  perfect  grammar  is  the  sole 
constituent  of  "  good  English."  By 
and  by  his  own  writing  gets  to  read 
like  statistics — every  truce  of  human 
interest  vanishes,  and  the  next  thing 
he  knows  he  finds  himself  in  the  bug- 
house compiling  indexes  to  diction- 
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In  order  to  do  justice  to  the  reader, 
a  writer  should  interpret  the  English 
language  in  much  the  same  manner 
as  judges  interpret  the  law.  When 
a  judge  hands  down  a  decision, 
public  opinion  is  quick  to  notice 
whether  or  not  it  is  equitable.  If 
he  has  based  his  decision  on  the 
letter  of  the  law  without  due  con- 
sideration for  the  element  of  himian 
frailty  involved,  or  without  looking 
into  the  underlying  causes  of  the 
conditions  on  which  he  passes — in 
short,  if  he  has  no  comprehension 
of  the  spirit  of  the  law,  he  is  a  poor 
judge,  and  a  detriment  to  the  uplift 
of  his  f^ow  men  instead  of  a  help. 
€L  The  same  applies  to  the  writer. 
No  matter  how  well  versed  he  may 
be  in  the  technicalities  of  speech, 
no  matter  how  broad  his  vocabulary, 
he  can  not  hope  to  have  his  work 
read  freely  until  he  embraces  the 
spirit  as  well  as  the  structure  of  the 
English  lang^uage. 
"  Fine  "  writing  should  end  when 
the  writer  steps  from  the  classroom. 
Thereafter  all  splitting  of  hairs  over  ^ 
the  choice  of  a  word  should  he  con- 
fined to  his  notebook  t^  When  he 
walks  among  freethinldng  men  in 
whose  activities  he  "  lives  and  moves 
and  has  his  being  **  their  speech 
should  be  his  speech  and  their  spirit 
his  spirit — and  rhetorical  wrangles 
should  be  left  where  they  belong, 
with  the  fellow  \^o  is  just  learning 
to  write  "  good  English." 


Then  we  have  the  eccentric  writers 
who  believe  that  the  best  way  to 
write  is  to  literally  talk  on  paper. 
For  the  simple-minded,  this  form  of 
writing  has  certain  charms.  For  the 
printer  it  has  some  attractions  also, 
as  the  style  calls  for  more  printing 
— more  pages.  It  masquerades  under 
the  name  of  "  human  interest  stuff  " 
when  in  fact  it  is  nothing  less  than 
a  symptom  of  softening  of  the  brain. 
Reader  and  writer  both  become 
affected,  and,  severe  as  it  may  seem, 
the  only  cure  for  it  is  a  dose  of  "  good 
English." 

Real  human  interest  is  one  of  the 
finest  qualities  of  literature — 

"  *t  is  like  thy  light. 

Imagination!  which  from  earth  and 
sky. 

And  from  the  depths  of  himian  fan- 
tasy. 

As  from  a  thousand  prisms  and 
mirrors,  fills 

The  Universe  with  glorious  beams, 
and  kills 

Error,  the  worm,  with  many  a  sim- 
like arrow 

Of  its  reverberated  lightning." 

€L  Without  human  interest,  good 
English  is  bad  even  when  well 
written.  It  is  the  quality  necessary 
to  convey  the  Spirit  of  the  Written 
Word  to  the  reader,  and  without 
the  Spirit  the  Word  resembles  life- 
less clay  in.  the  hands  of  an  imskilled 
artisan  «»  «» 


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^^^^^OST  criticism  of  the 
M  ■  M  administration's  war 
^^J^^^  policy  begins:  "Any 
''^^^^^^  friend  of  the  adminis- 
tration who  fails  at  the  present  time 
to  speak  frankly  about  the  effect 
produced  by  the  breakdown  in  the 
management  of  the  war,  upon  the 
state  of  mind  of  the  public,  is  doing 
President  V^son  a  most  indifferent 
service." 

I  quote  this  particular  example  from 
The  New  Republic,  which  then  con- 
tinues: "  As  we  pointed  out  last 
week,"  etc. 

Of  course  this  is  nonsense  «»  No 
official  can  always  do  the  right  thing 
at  the  right  time,  however  momen- 
tous the  stake.  The  English  are  no 
better  satisfied  with  the  manage- 
ment of  the  war  now  than  they  were 
three  years  ago.  Neither  are  the 
French.  The  trouble  with  engaging 
in  war  is  that  it  is  bound  to  be 
blunderingly  managed.  The  sainted 
Washington  and  Lincoln  were  more 
viciously  criticized  than  Wilson  is 
now.  An  objection  to  war  is  that 
every  smart  Aleck  will  use  his  hind- 
sight, and  wisely  point  out  what 
should  have  been  done  two  years 
ago.  It  is  meanness,  and  not  patriot- 
ism or  wisdom,  that  induces  people 
to  force  an  administration  into  war. 


and  then  assails  its  management 
when  it  is  doing  as  well  as  can  be 
reasonably  expected.  A  war  can  not 
be  fought  as  a  convenrion  passes 
resolutions;  war  means  blood,  and 
waste,  and  loss,  and  mistakes,  and 
short  rations.  The  President  was  for 
peace  until  he  was  bullyragged  into 
dedaring  war  by  the  newspapers, 
which  are  now  abusing  him  for 
failure  to  manage  it  with  an  ability 
no  man  possesses :  no  man  may  avoid 
today  mistakes  that  happened  two 
years  ago. 

IN  the  present  controversy  be- 
.  tween  the  newspapers  and  the 
President,  my  sympathies  are  with 
the  President.  The  one-man  manage- 
ment we  have  was  precisely  the 
thing  the  newspapers  said,  at  the 
beginning,  was  necessary.  I  have  no 
doubt  the  war  has  been  managed 
as  well  as  was  possible,  considering 
that  we  were  not  a  warlike  people, 
and  have  for  a  centiiry  or  more 
taught  that  military  preparedness 
was  a  crime.  Of  all  nations  we  have 
been  threatened  least  by  war.  We 
have  boasted  of  our  isolation;  and 
then  all  of  a  sudden,  frenzied  by 
our  fool  newspapers,  we  forced  the 
President  to  declare  war  against  an 
enemy   thousands   of  miles    away 


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across  a  dangerous  sea.  Now  the 
newspapers  are  declaring  that  the 
war  is  lost  almost  before  we  have 
fired  a  shot.  And  this  is  not  exag- 
geration. Theodore  Roosevelt  wrote 
in  the  Kansas  City  Star  of  January 
18th:  "  In  one  year  of  war,  we  have 
failed  to  do  any  damage  to  Germany 
but  we  have  done  a  great  deal  of 
damage  to  ourselves."  The  New 
York  World  said  in  an  editorial  on 
the  19th  of  January:  **  Instead  of 
being  beaten  by  the  Germans,  we 
were  beaten  by  ourselves  before  we 
had  fairly  begun  to  fight." 
I.'m  in  favor  of  suspending  the 
freedom  of  the  press  imtil  after  the 
war  is  over.  The  people  consented 
to  any  sacrifice  to  fight  the  news- 
paper war,  even  to  conscription  and 
expenses  of  twenty-three  billions  the 
first  year,  and  now  the  newspapers 
are  hampering  the  war.  Let  them 
be  forced  to  stop  it.  Let  them  print 
the  news,  and  the  people  will  make 
their  own  opinions.  I  am  an  editor, 
and  while  I  do  not  know  a  great 
deal,  I  know  I  can  not  sit  at  my 
desk,  and  know  more  about  the 
management  of  the  war  than  officials 
at  headquarters.  And  I  am  willing 
to  give  up  my  opinions  about  the 
management  of  the  war  imtil.its 
conclusion,  and  devote  my  energies, 
such  as  they  are,  to  backing  those 
who  are  in  ccmtrol,  and  who  are 
doing  the  best  they  can. 
Newspaper  attacks  on  the  President 


are  just  beginning.  One  by  one  the 
editors  are  crawling  out  of  their 
hc^es,  where  they  have  been  stand- 
ardized and  well-behaved,  and  bark- 
ing at  the  administration  t^  The 
Republicans  are  preparing  for  a 
campaign  against  the  Democratic 
officials  who  are,  fit>m  necessity, 
conducting  the  war.  Unless  it  is 
stopped  there  will  be  a  condition 
of  affairs  in  nx  months  bordering 
on  the  anarchy  in  Russia.  One  set 
of  men  can  manage  the  war  as  well 
as  another.  Fate  has  determined  our 
war  board;  let  us  give  these  men 
our  support,  and  the  enemy  our 
kicks.  Then  let  the  administration 
cut  expenses  to  the  bone,  and  go 
at  the  problem  with  vigor  and  com- 
mon sense. 

The  truth  is,  we  are  a  very  inefficient 
people  in  all  our  public  affairs;  and 
war  is  the  most  serious  of  all  public 
affairs.  We  are  a  very  extravagant 
and  careless  people;  our  workmen, 
'  our  voters,  are  impudent,  and  not 
easily  controlled;  we  have  been 
accumulating  bad  habits  for  years, 
so  far  as  our  public  efficiency  is 
concerned,  and  now  that  we  are 
confronted  with  the  greatest  task 
ever  j^ven  a  people,  we  are  handling 
it  badly. 

Lei  me  have  a  companion  on  my 
way,  were  it  but ,  to  remark  how 
the  shadows  lengthen  as  the  sun 
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To  think,  the  moon  must  wax  so  it  can  wane. 
That  you,  my  love,  were  bom  to  pass  away; 
To  think,  alas,  that  there  shall  come  a  day 
When  Time's  cruel  scythe  shall  bend  thee  to  its  gain 
And  thou  shalt  in  the  dust  be  wasted  lain ; 
Can  it  be  true,  thy  heart  will  turn  to  clay? 
O  what  a  garden  would  its  love  display  1 
What  sweetness  would  it  nourish  in  the  grain! 

These  sombre  thoughts  I  can  not  help  revere, 
But  when  they  enter,  working  on  my  mind, 
And  I  can  hear  thy  honeyed  voice  so  near, 
It  gives  me  light  to  see,  where  I  am  blind. 
To  mtnd  the  ways  that  blemished  did  appear, 
And  treasure  all  the  more  thy  worth  divined. 


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JAMttS  A.  F^KHELL 
President  riiin?d  StaU-t  SU't-k  OorpOTK- 
tiou.  l-te^BU  U'Oiit  Jit  tht'  a(f*^  nf  lti.  jie  a 
rfuy-iinLcfTcri  l-'resi^eui  i>f  r.  S.  stL'iii  at 
firry,  Tbt-rf  'a  [hi-procitof  the  U,  B.  A.'s 
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U'liOV  ][kK^  thtr  oAc^jj't  Fit  go  u|>  tdld  np. 
This  mflii  iui:^?*''^  hSa  wflj'.  H5a  kind  i» 
tht  Vtry  ln^fll  p  radar  I  til  this  roautty. 


EDNA  FERCEK 
Creator  nf  '  Emma  ilsChuanpy."  the 
live]Ji?ii  daltfH'Pi'raun  rbst  ever  neiit  In 
her  card  to  the  ICdltor.  JrtirndB.  permit 
iiiP  to  hit  rod  tire  you  fare  t<j  face  tn  the 
Author  €^f  Ruaat  Strf  Medium. 


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"  I  speak  Truth,  not  so  much  as  I  would,  hut  as  much 
as  I  dare;  and  dare  a  little  more  as  I  grow  older/'' 


Felicitations 


Felix  Shay 


Edna  Ferber^s 
"Tough  Guy' 


and 


>NA  FERBER  is  the  lady 
I  writer  who  introduced  us  to 
I  that  overly  sophisticated, 
^brassy  blond  of  the  tender 
sentimental  interior,  Emma 
McChesney.  For  which,  be  it  said, 
we  are  passing  grateful.  Grateful, 
even  though  we  are  unable  to 
understand  how  Emnia,  by  some 
super-sensitive  osculatory  mecha- 
nism, is  able  to  distinguish  between 
a  married  man's  kiss,  and  an  un- 
married man's  kiss.  .  .  .  There  's  a 
problem  to  titillate  your  titillator. 
€L  E'en  so,  Edna  Ferber  is  a  crack-a- 
jack  good  Short-Story  Writer  9^ 
There  *s  identity  to  her  stories. 
They  start  off,  they  keep  agoing, 
and  they  round  up.  They  have 
both  shape  and  substance.  She 's 
a  good  workman;  a  skilled  writer- 
mechanic.  She  knows  her  tools  9^ 
When  a  story  carries  her  name, 
it 's  worth  a  look-over  at  least. 
Q.  The  Metrqpoliian  of  a  month  or 
so  ago  printed  an  Edna  Ferber  story. 


The  Tough  Guy  ^  The  Editors 
thought  so  well  of  it,  they  gave  it 
the  **  lead  "  posirion,  i.  e.  page  one, 
colvmm  one.  *Twas  a  War  Story, 
and  as  a  War  Story  it  never  once 
missed  step,  or  got  out  of  line. 
Though  it  undoubtedly  added  to 
Edna  Ferber's  fame  as  an  observer 
of  Small  Town  Life  and  as  a  short- 
story  writer,  it  likewise  sent  her 
to  the  foot  of  the  class  as  a  Soci- 
ologist. As  a  Thinker  it  placed  her 
somewhere  in  the  mid- Victorian  era, 
where  the  Good  were  always  Happy; 
where  the  Rich  were  always  Good; 
where  Ignorance  was  the  Indi- 
vidual's Crime;  where  a  Criminal 
was  some  one  to  pimish;  where 
the  solution  of  the  Problems  of 
Poverty,  of  Oppression,  of  Social 
Injustice,  was  supposedly  hidden 
away  in  a  Christmas  Basket  from 
the  hand  of  Milady,  or  shouted 
down  by  Hymn  No.  76,  page  No.  42. 
She  observes  her  "  Tough  Guy."  She 
watches  his  superficial  actions  »^ 
She  delineates  his  traits,  his  habits. 
She  tells  us  what  she  sees  from  the 
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She  pictures  well.  Therefore  she 
accomplishes  an  interesting  story. 
If  only  petticoat-propriety  had 
permitted  her  to  join  that  Gang 
on  the  Chippewa  Street  Comer,  for 
six  months,  to  know  the  nameless, 
inarticulate  desire  to  do  something 
("  What's  doin'?  "— "  Nawthin!  "), 
to  know  the  terrible  monotony  of 
nothing  to  do,  nowhere  to  go,  nobody 
to  be — if  only  she  could  have  gained 
Buzz's  confidence,  and  understood 
what  he  would  have  tried  to  say — 
if  only  she  could  have  been  a 
"  Tough  Guy,"  she  would  have 
written  not  an  interesting  story, 
but  a  great  story! 
America  is  full  of  "  Tough  Guys  " 
and  I  say  the  propagation  of  them 
is  a  Community  Crime  and  not  the 
crime  of  the  boys  themselves.  *T  is 
shameful,  I  say,  the  average  treat- 
ment meted  out  to  virile  and  pur- 
poseless American  boys,  who  are 
just  going  into  manhood,  blindly, 
morosely,  passionately,  pessimisti- 
cally,  sensitively. 

Successful  and  experienced  Ameri- 
cans are  responsible  for  the  most 
tragic  of  all  offenses  against  the 
future,  the  offense  of  neglect,  of 
indifference,  of  ignorance  of  needs, 
of  misinterpretation,  of  misunder- 
standing of  their  young  men. 
B^ore  we  go  further  let  us  first 
have  a  brief  sjmopsis  of  Edna 
Ferber's  "  Tough  Guy  "  story. 
Buzz   Werner   lived   in   Chippewa, 


Wisconsin.  He  was  a  Tough  Guy. 
He  talked  out  of  the  side  of  his 
mouth.  He  smoked  cigarettes.  He 
said,  "  Je  's  I  did  this—"  and  "  Je  's 
I  did  that—!"  He  stood  on  the 
comer  by  Schroeder's  Drug  Store 
and  ogled  th^  girls.  Red  and  Spider 
and  the  rest  were  in  the  Gang  ^^ 
Spider  had  a  mysterious  disease. 
Buzz  ran  with  the  Kearney  girl; 
"  a  lovely  oval  face  and  limpid, 
rather  wistful  eyes,  and  fair  fine 
hair  and  a  long  slim  neck."  She 
looked  like  those  famous  wantons 
of  history,  Nell  Gwynne  and  Lucre- 
zia  Borgia.  "  The  strange  part  of 
it  was  that  the  girl  possessed  little 
attraction  for  Buzz ! "  . . .  Buzz  lived 
in  a  story-and-a-half  shack  with  a 
bricklayer  father  who,  in  his  stock- 
ing-feet, is  half  dnmk  most  of  the 
time,  and  violent  and  surly  all  of 
the  time — and  a  poor  old,  over- 
anxious, overworked  mother  ^^ 
His  home  is  just  plain  Hell.  .  .  . 
Buzz  at  nineteen  works  in  the  Paper 
Mill.  The  Boss's  son,  just  back  from 
college,  is  put  in  charge  of  Buzz 
and  Company.  He  gives  Buzz  a 
sharp  word,  and  he  gets  a  punch 
in  the  eye.  .  .  .  Then  war  is  declared 
on  Grermany.  . . .  Buzz,  afi'aid  he  '11 
be  arrested  for  striking  the  Boss's 
.son,  in  desperation  enlists  in  the 
Army.  ...  He  goes  to  the  Training 
Camps.  There  for  the  first  time 
he  exercises  both  his  mind  and 
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meets  some  educated  boys,  some 
whcdeaome,  friendly,  imsuspicious 
gills,  some  helpful,  trustful,  refined 
human  peof^e.  .  .  ,  He  becomes 
another  Buzz.  There  is  something 
to  work  for.  He  becomes  ambitious, 
introspective,  critical  of  himself. 
He  goes  Over  There,  gets  into  the 
fight,  and  saves  the  life  of  the  Boss's 
son  who  is  now  a  Lieutenant;  loses 
a  leg  in  the  excitement,  and  returns 
home  a  Hero.  .  .  .  They  meet  him 
^th  a  Band.  ...  He  is  no  longer 
interested  in  the  Comer  Gang,  the 
Kearney  girl.  He  treats  his  Mother 
gently;  he  compels  his  Father's 
respect.  .  .  .  The  Boss,  the  Mill 
Owner,  plans  to  send  him  to  College. 
Tra-a-la-la-LAl 

All  this  happened  the  year  this 
"  Tough  Guy  "  boy  was  twenty-one! 

XyTHAT  is  a  "  Tough  Guy  "  ? 
^•^  For  Miss  Ferber's  benefit, 
and  you  may  overhear  if  you  please 
— a  Tough  Guy  is  a  boy  or  ybung 
man  against  whom  the  Solid  Men 
of  His  Town  have  committed  an 
almost  irretrievable  wrong.  He  is 
a  creature  not  of  his  own  lack  of 
development,  but  of  the  muddle- 
mindedness  of  his  betters.  Gangs 
of  "  Tough  Guys  "  on  the  Street 
Comers  always  tell  of  wrong-mind- 
edness  in  the  Temples  and  the  High 
Places.  Tough  Guys  will  congregate 
on  Street  Ccxncrs  just  so  long  as 
the  Street  Comers  remain  the  most 


attractive  meeting-places  in  that 
Town  or  City.  Pdol-Rooms  and  Bar- 
rooms will  always  draw  their  full 
quotas  so  long  as  they  are  not  given 
constructive  competition. 
Saturday  night  last,  I  was  going 
South.  On  the  Railroad  Station 
Platform,  I  overheard  a  young  man, 
new  in  town,  say  to  the  Ticket 
Agent,  probably  his  only  acquain- 
tance, "  For  Gawd's  sake,  tell  me 
what  I  *m  goin'  to  do  tomorrer — 
besides  die! " 

Oh  yes,  there  are  a  dozen  Churches 
in  East  Aurora;  some  several  of 
them  in  plain  view  from  where  he 
stood.  Only  young  men  are  n't  int^- 
ested  in  Churches.  Most  Churches 
offer  nothing  that  exercises  either 
young  minds  or  bodies;  nothing  to 
stimulate  the  flow  of  fellowship  9^ 
Last  night  my  Small  Boy  took  me 
to  the  Movies.  When  the  show  was 
half  over,  five  young  men  came  in 
noisily.  They  shuffled  into  the  row 
behind  us  and  boisterously  sat  down. 
There  they  made  pertinent  remarks 
about  the  Film,  and  committed 
sundry,  clumsy  witticisms.  For  a 
moment  I  was  annoyed  and  worried 
lest  the  language  become  too  pun- 
gent. But  no.  Though  the  fumes 
of  whisky  engulfed  us  in  strong 
waves,  though  their  language  was 
rough,  and  frolicsome,  it  was  clean. 
What  they  said  brought  many  a 
smile  9^  9^ 
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from  down  Pennsylvania  way  it 
developed;  harmless,  friendless,  pur- 
poseless "  Tough  Guys  "  bent  on 
self-destruction.  They  are  doing  rail- 
road work  near  here,  and  when  the 
day's  work  is  done,  seen  as  they  see 
it,  there  is  nothin'  a-tall  t'  do! 
"  Tough  Guys  **?  Are  poor  imedu- 
cated,  whole-hearted,  fun-loving 
boys  to  be  called  "  Tough  Guys  "? 
What  *s  the  matter  with  lis? 
A  Tough  Guy  is  a  boy  prematurely 
taken  out  of  school  at  fourteen  or 
before;  because  of  economic  neces- 
sity put  to  work  by  his  parents.  The 
next  ten  years  he  labors  for  trivial 
earnings,  gets  nowhere  but  on  to 
the  Street  Comer,  and  wakes  up 
at  twenty-five,  invariably  married, 
to  find  he  's  uneducated,  unskilled, 
and  doomed  to  do  the  dirty  work 
of  the  world  till  he  dies.  Then  he 
either  submits,  or  he  doesn't. 

r  remember  your  own 
^  boyhood  9^  Or  maybe  I  'd 
better  tell  you  about  it.  From 
what  I  remember  about  you,  I  'm 
inclined  to  think  that  if  Edna 
Ferber  met  you  at  a  certain  stage 
in  your  development,  she  might 
have  branded  you  a  "  Tough  Guy." 
And  I  want  to  ask  you,  and  I 
want  you  to  answer  judiciously, 
as  you  view  the  years  from  your 
present  elevation,  how  much  of 
your  "  toughness "  was  of  your 
own    inclination,   and    how   much 


of  it  was  the  direct  result  of  the 
stupidity  and  selfishness,  the  nar- 
rowness and  shortsightedness  of  the 
Top  Men  of  your  town? 
'Member  how  that  stingy oldwidow- 
robbing  Lawyer  Bascome  used  to 
put  a  man  with  a  gun  to  watch  his 
brook,  which  was  a  mile  away  from 
nowhere,  to  keep  the  boys  from 
swimming  there?  He  made  more 
than  a  hundred  thousand  dollars  in 
that  town  by  penny-pinching  and 
respectable  swindling,  and  he  never 
put  a  nickel  of  it  baclr'  into  the 
Gex^ral  Good.  He  was  a  liability  to 
that  Community,  even  though  the 
starved-out  Newspaper  did  call  him 
a  "  respected  citizen."  When  he  died 
the  other  day,  you  and  I  smiled 
over  the  headline  I 
'Member  Johnson's  field,  a  beauti- 
ful ten-acre  greensward  just  a  block 
or  two  from  the  center  of  the  Old 
Town?  Skinny  Old  Davey  Johnson! 
The  Town  Wags  always  intimated 
that  because  of  anatomical  shortages 
he  was  not  quite  masculine.  In 
defiance  of  all  Single  Tax  theories, 
he  held  that  plot  and  a  dozen  other 
plots,  undeveloped  and  serviceless, 
for  25  years  "  waiting  for  his  price." 
Only,  on  those  rare  occasions,  when 
he  feared  the  temper  and  ravages 
of  the  boys  on  his  gardens  or  crops, 
did  he  let  you  play  Football  or 
Baseball  on  it.  Usually  he  ran  you 
off  with  his  dog. 
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against  this  mean,  useless  Old  Skin- 
flint, and  give  him  a  ride  on  a  rail? 
Certainly  not.  They  thought  it  was 
an  honor  to  have  so  rich  a  man  for 
a  neighbor! 

^  ^T\  EMBER  the  time  you  were 
*  "^  walking  three  miles  to  The 
River  for  a  swim,  with  the  Gang? 
(You  were  about  13  then!)  Three 
miles  to  walk  to  The  River  because 
of  the  man  and  the  gun  up  by 
Bascome's  Brook? — ^And  somebody 
saw  some  nice  apples  inside  Dr. 
Gear's  fence,  and  Dr-  Gear  and  his 
man  chased  the  caboodle  of  you 
for  a  mile — ^but  you  held  on  to  the 
apples?  And  just  about  the  time 
you  were  getting  your  breath,  a 
freight  train  came  chugging  by  and 
"Samuel  J.  Tilden,"  the  Town 
Bum,  stood  up  in  a  sand-car  and 
called  for  an  apple — and  each  of 
twenty-six  boys  threw  him  one? 
.  .  .  When  you  and  twenty-five  of 
your  companions  were  lined  up  in 
Court,  the  lawyer  who  defended* you 
insisted  that  Sam*l  J.  was  drunk 
as  usual,  that  he  asked  for  an  apple, 
and  that  he  fell  against  the  brake- 
wheel  when  he  tried  to  catch  one  ? 
Judge  Johnnie  T.  Mclnniss  said 
"  Dismissed  ";  but  that  did  n*t  cure 
Samuel  J.'s  broken  head,  nor  did 
it  prove  to  the  Mother  of  the  Nice 
Little  Girl  that  you  were  a  fit  play- 
mate for  her  child. 
Of  course  a  well-superintended,  free 


swimming-pool  would  have  saved 
the  town  that  crime  and  others; — 
the  town  as  rich  as  Croesus  too, 
and  as  smug  as  a  Bishop. 
And  so  you  gjrew  up  a  "  Tough 
Guy."  You  did  n*t  want  tp  be  one, 
but  you  were  active  and  energetic 
and  you  had  to  do  something,  and 
there  really  was  n't  anything  to  do 
that  interested  you,  *cept  you  found 
it  was  against  the  law. — You  were 
always  in  trouble! 
You  went  to  work  in  the  Canning 
Factory  when  you  were  fifteen 
because  your  Father  was  sick,  and 
your  Mother  was  up  against  it  «^ 
After  that,  the  girls  you -knew  at 
school  quit  speaking  to  you. — 
'Member  the  "  Caste  **  in  your 
town?  Grod  help  the  boy  whose 
father  ran  the  local  livery  stable 
or  conducted  the  local  saloon! 
When  you  were  seventeen  you 
learned  to  flirt  with  the  waitresses 
at  the  Lookout  House  and  to  walk 
around  with  them  summer  nights — ! 
41.  You  did  n't  want  to  quit  school. 
You  did  n't  find  the  L»ookout  House 
waitresses  very  interesting.  You 
never  stole  anything  that  you  recog- 
nized as  stealing.  You  were  always 
clean  about  yourself.  You  never 
took  an  intoxicating  drink  till  after 
you  were  twenty,  and  you  did  n't 
particularly  want  it  then? 
But  the  Town  kept  saying  you  were 
a  "  Tough  Guy,"  that  you  could  n't 
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amount  to  anythiog,  and  after  a 
while  you  got  to  beHeve  it  yourself. 
No  one  threw  his  influence  on  the 
other  side.  No  one  told  you  that 
you  were  a  fine,  self-respecting 
young  fellow.  No  one  prophetized 
great  success  for  you,  and  suggested 
sympathetically  HOW  you  might 
develop  your  genius.  No  one  invited 
you  home  to  dinner,  and  told  the 
"  nice  "  girls  of  your  town  not  to 
be  too  sure,  after  all  you  might  turn 
out  a  World-Beater. 
And  then  there  never,  never  was 
anything  to  do,  but  stand  on  that 
shabby  Street  Comer,  and  watch 
what  passed  for  Metropolitan  Life 
in  Your  Town — !  Gosh  how  you 
hated  it! 

a)^  Sunday  last  Fall  I  went 
into  Buffalo  to  see  two  teams 
of  18-year  old  Work  Boys  play 
Football.  The  Field  they  played  on 
was  a  disgrace  to  Buffalo — rocks, 
tin  cans  and  mud  holes  1  And  Buffalo 
is  the  city  that  could  not  find  funds 
in  its  treasury  to  purchase  the 
defunct  Federal  League's  Baseball 
Plant  and  Grounds  just  a  year  or 
so  ago.  Well,  their  Work  Boys  need 
and  deserve  such  an  equipment! 
That 's  not  an  exceptional  case  »» 
The  Work  Boys  of  most  cities  of 
America  are'  absolutely  ignored  and 
,  improvided  for,  in  the  matter  of 
making  their  leisure  attractive  to 
them.    But    there    is    a    complete 


mechanism  of  Court  Houses   and 
Jails  to  care  for  them  when   the 
Street  Comer  nothingness  becomes 
too  irksome,  and  trouble  ensues  «» 
Open  your  eyes,  you  citizens!  Look 
on  the  Sport  Sheet  of  your  News- 
paper! See  how  many  Invincible^ 
and  Spartan,  and  tronclad  Athletic 
Clubs  there  are,  with  Basketball, 
Football  and  Baseball  Teams.  Those 
are    "Tough    Guy"    Boy    Clubs, 
financed    with    Tough    Guy    Bpy 
Money,  earned  with  that  peculiarly 
hard  labor  by  which  boys  are  per- 
mitted to  earn  money. 
These  Tough  Guy  Boy  Invindbles 
have  rented  a  "  Club  Room  "  some- 
where (!)   and  they  pay  the  rent 
with  their  own  money,  and  then 
buy  \miforms  with  thdr  own  money, 
pay  carfare  to  Get  There  with  their 
own  money.  Small  and  weak  boys 
who  can't  "  make  the  team  "  chip 
in  and  help  pay  the  overhead  jus(t 
the  same.  "  Tough  Guys! " 
Y.  M.   C.   A.   and  Church  Clubs 
accomplish  little;  they  can't  reach 
these  "  Tough  Guys."  ^  The  very 
boys  they  want  to  reach  are  sus- 
picious of  them.  They  are  suspicious 
of  these   properly   ordained  Hell- 
Dodgers,  sanctimonious  hand-shak- 
ers and  Psalm  Singers.  They  are 
not  g<Mng  to  be  bribed  with  gym- 
nasium classes  and  Sodal  Rallys  into 
attending  4  o'  dock  Simday  Relig- 
ious    Meetings. — ^These     "  Tough 
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want  Baseball  on  Sunday  at  4  P.  M. 
(and  should  have  it!)  And  the  Rev- 
erend Ministers  are  legislating  to 
pnievent  this  helpful,  healthful  play. 
Can  the  boys  ever  respect  such  men? 
C  I  say  it,  that  for  the  community's 
good,  all  the  Churches  of  any  city 
in  America  could  be  better  employed 
as  neighborhood  and  non-religious 
Chib  Houses  for  Touc^  Quy  Boys, 
superintended  by  friendly,  non- 
religious  men,  but  operated  and 
goveme<l  by  the  boys  themselves. 
€1  Once  or  twice  each  week  there 
must  be  some  sort  of  jollification  at 
the  Boys*  Club,  and  the  decent  men 
and  women  of  the  Neighborhood 
must  come  and  bring  the  "  nice  " 
girls  and  treat  the  "  Tough  Guys  " 
as  clean-hearted  American  boys  9^ 
Don't  make  this  mistake.  Don't 
offer  money  alone.  Unless  you  want 
to  help  the  Tough  Guys  of  your 
section  with  your  own  self  imself- 
ishly,  with  your  own  personal  influ- 
ence, and  fellowship,  with  the  hos- 
pitality of  your  own  home — ^keep 
away — ^you  *re  not  the  right  kind! 
€[  Always  remember  a  large  part 
of  the  Present  and  all  of  the  Future 
belongs  to  these  "Tough  Guy" 
Boys.  How  you  treat  them,  how 
yoil  prepare  them  for  their  duties 
and  responsibilities  of  citizenship, 
just  so  you  insure  and  protect  your 
Country's*  integrity. 
Edna  Ferber's  "Tough  Guy"  be- 
came a  first-class  man,  the  moment 


he  got  a  chance — and  before  *^ 
BEFORE,  because  he  did  not  "  faU 
for  "  the  Kearney  Girl;  and  for  no 
other  reason  than  his  own  inherent 
sdf-respect.  There  was  nothing  in 
the  treatment  Chippewa,  V/is,  and 
his  own  home  accorded  him  to  lead 
him  to  resist  evil. 
So  it  is  usually  with  "  Toufi^  Guys." 
Given  half  a  chance,  they  show  up 
the  Two-by-Four  Towns  that  pro- 
duced them!  "  Who  'd  a  thunk  it," 
the  Home  Town  Moss-Backs  say 
when  they  read  in  the  City  Daily 
that  as  soon  as  he  got  away  from 
thet  rotten  influences  and  stagnated 
institutions  the  Tough  Guy  made 
a  Smashing  Success  of  it. 
Of  course  for  every  boy  who  succeeds 
in  spite  of  the  Home  Town  treat- 
ment, a  thousand  stumble  down  the 
Road  to  Nowhere,  and  perish. 
Edna  Ferber's  "  Tough  Guy  "  had 
to  go  to  War  and  lose  a  leg — not 
to  change  his  intrin^c  value,  but 
to  change  his  Home  Town's  attitude 
toward  him.  And  then  the  Mill 
Owner  sent  him  away  to  College! 
.  .  .  My  goodness,  that 's  droll! 
41.  Some  day  the  Mill  Owners  and 
such  will  learn  the  economical  effect, 
the  effect  on  criminal  statistics,  of 
keeping  boys  and  girls  in  school  till 
they  are  twenty 'One,  and  fitting 
them  to  earn  a  living  intelligently, 
to  become  intelligent  citizens.  By 
that  time,  I  judge,  the  dignity  of  <dl 
kinds  of  labor  will  be  established  9^ 


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After  the  World  War,  perhaps  we 
will  hold  on  to  the  Training  Camp 
idea,  and  keep  boys  in  them  all 
year  round.  Not  to  teach  them  to 
be  SOLDIERS,  but  to  educate  them 
in  the  Things  found  in  Books,  to 
educate  them  in  the  Mechanical 
Trades,  in  Agriculture,  in  Self-Sani- 
tation, in  Manners,  in  Deportment, 
in  Morals,  in  Sports,  from  Boxing 
to  Football,  from  Baseball  to  Golf 
and  Tennis;  educate  them  in  their 
relationship  to  Women. 
Maybe  by  then  the  National  Pride, 
the  National  Good  Sense  will  want 
all  Americans  to  be  representative, 
with  no  **  Tough  Guys  "  at  all  *^ 
Maybe  we  will. begin  to  understand 
that  Jeffersonian  phrase  and  apply 
it  to  all  American  Boys,  Tough  Guys 
and  Tame  Guys  alike,  rich  or  poor, 
fortunate  and  unfortunate,  "  truths 
to  be  self-evident  .  .  .  among 
these  are  Life,  Liberty,  and  the 
Pursuit  of  Happiness!  ** 

The  Canadians 

"  M'  ^^  SUNDAY  or  so  ago, 
^■■■fl  a  couple  of  Canadian 
^FJj^^  Soldier  Boys,  from 
^  ^  ^  Toronto  and  the  AlHed 
Army,  dropped  in  to  see  the  Roy- 
croft  as  is.  After  we  got  acquainted, 
they  told  us  some  '*  War  Stories  " 
rich  in  local  color.  To  hear  them 
describe  what  little  Johnnie  Simpson 
did  to  Fritz  and  how  Bob  Grayson 


earned  his  Medal,  you  'd  think  the 
World  War  was  an  Intercollegiate 
Football  Game.  fMdn't  the  Cana- 
dians, in  one  of  the  charges,  kick 
a  football  into  the  Grerman  trenches 
and  make  sport  of  the  Germans' 
sacred-sdence-of-war?  They  did! 
41.  This  War  is  a  very  chummy, 
a  very  personal,  a  very  neighborly 
business  among  the  Canadians  s^ 
Many,  many  of  the  Canadians  are 
acquainted  with  each  other.  Tl^y 
went  to  college  together;  or  they 
were  bom  in  the  Maritime  Provinces 
and  went  West,  and  stopped  here 
and  there  enroute.  They  are  the  sons 
of  Pioneers  and  so  natural-bom 
travelers.  Of  course  Toronto  got 
to  know  many  of  them  well. 
These  Soldier  Boys  who  came  a- 
visiting  us,  were  from  Toronto  s^ 
Their  list  of  friends  was  numerous. 
And  the  stories  they  told  of  the 
Boy  at  the  Front — ^well,  somehow 
they  made  the  war  seem  not  at 
all  a  tragedy;  rather  a  frolic; 

'^IHERE  are  the  McAlester  Boys 
^^  who  went  over  with  the  First 
Contingent  as  Privates!  Now  Harry 
is  a  Major,  Pete  is  a  Captain,  and 
Sandy,  the  Kid,  is  a  Lieutenent. 
When  the  Big  Push  came  some 
months  ago,  Major  Harry  and 
Captain  Pete  and  Lieutenant  Sandy 
went  forward  with  the  First  Line; 
though  their  commands  were  a  mile 
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action.  Through  Mud  and  Hell  and 
more  Mud,  Major  McAlester's  men 
drove  out  the  enemy  and  reached 
their  objective.  While  they  were 
resting,  another  Toronto  Boy, 
Tommie  Tighe,  slightly  wounded, 
dropped  into  the  captured  trench 
and  said  to  M|ijor  McAlester, 
whom  he  knew,  "  parry,  Pete  is 
dead,  I  just  stepped  over  his  body 
back  there!  "  The  Major  answered, 
"  Thank-you-very-much!"  after  the 
English  fashion,  without  batting 
an  eye.  .  .  .  Then  he  went  on 
with  the  work  of  reconstructing 
against  a  possible  German  Cotmter- 
Attack. 

Presently,  who  came  into  view  but 
Capt.  Pete  McAlester,  himself,  just 
reported  dead  9^  His  command,  so 
it  turned  out,  had  been  withdrawn 
and  ordered  to  follow  behind  and 
"  clean  up  *'  after  the  general  attack. 
CSaid  Major  McAlester,  "What 
the  hell  are  you  doing  here?  They 
told  me  you  were  dead!  " 
Said  Capt  McAlester  in  the  same 
perfunctory  tone,  "  No,  it  *s  Sandy 
(the  kid  brother) — I  just  saw  him 
as  I  came  over! — ^Where  are  the 
Deutschers'?  s^  Are  they  coming 
back?'*  ^  ^ 

KC.  BARKER  4s  a  Toronto 
College  Boy  who  went  over 
with  the  Princess  Pats  at  the  very 
start  of  things.  You  know  what 
happened    to    the    Princess    Pats? 


About  a  dozen  of  the  original  Regi- 
ment came  through  without  a  wound. 
Gossip  has  it,  that  some  forty  or 
more  times  they  have  replaced  that 
Regiment.  WeU,  K.  C.  ("  Casey  " 
as  they  call  him)  was  one  of  the 
few  to  escape  9^  In  consequence, 
"  Casey  "  is  bored  to  death.  He  *s 
disgusted  with  trench  life,  and  the 
Germans.  No  excitement!  He  wants 
a  vacation  Back  Home.  Whenever 
he  gets  a  chance  he  exposes  himself 
needlessly.  Already  he  *s  won  all  the 
Medals  that  are  loose  9^  But  he 
doesn't  want  Medals!  He  wants  a 
vacation  back  to  Canada,  He  wants 
a  Wound! 

Those  Germans!  Oh  shucks!  "  Ca- 
sey **  says  they  don*t  seem  to  be 
able  to  hit  a  Flock  of  Bams! 

GAPTAIN  Roger  apR.  Ross  of 
Toronto  stumbled  down  the 
steps  of  a  Dug-Out  in  an  Advanced 
Canadian  Position,  in  the  midst  of 
a  terrific  bombardment.  He  walked 
right  in  on  Captain  Robert  Mc- 
intosh McDonald,  whom  he  had 
not  seen  since  long  before  they 
left  Canada.  Did  they  greet  each 
other?  Did  they  speak  of  Folks 
Back  Home?  Did  they  discuss  the 
bombardment? 
No!  Not  so. 

Without  preliminaries.  Captain 
Roger  apR.  said  "  For  God's  sake. 
Bob,  have  you  got  anything  £0 
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After  he  devoured  all  that  he  could 
lay  hands  to,  he  left  and  proceeded 
about  his  immediate  business.  His 
immediate  bvisiness,  as  an  Officer 
of  the  Artillery,  was  to  find  an 
elevation  and  spy  on  a  particular 
position  behind  the  German  Lines; 
then  to  give  his  gunners,  back 
beyond,  instructions  for  firing  »» 
Among  the  ruins,  Captain  Roger 
apR.  came  on  a  tall  brick  chimney.  , 
"  Oh,  just  the  place!  "  quoth  he. 
Forthwith  he  climbed  up  inside  the 
chimney,  removed  a  brick  for  obser- 
vation purposes,  and  16,  right  there 
before  his  eye,  was  what  he  wanted 
to  see  s^  9^ 

With  the  help  of  his  aides,  he 
telephoned  his  gimners  their  instruc- 
tions, from  where  he  stood  up  inside 
the  brick  chimney:  "  Range,  two 
miles,  300  feet  to  the  left  of  the 
charred  tree— FIRE  1" 
—(Miss!)—"  Too  far  to  the  left!  " 
corrected  Captain  Roger  apR.  "Try 
range  two  miles,  250  feet  to  the 
left  of  the  charred  tree — ^FIRE!  " 
41. — (Miss!)  Again  he  instructed, 
"  Too  far  to  the  left!  Try  two  miles 
ahead-— 200  feet  to  the  left  of  the 
charred  tree— FIRE! " 
Boom!  Bang!  CRASH! 
Captain  Roger's  Gunners  shot  the 
chimney,  in  which  he  stood,  out 
from  under  him!  He  was  directly 
in  range  and  did  not  know  it.  Of 
course  his  Gunners  did  not  know 
it   either,    because    Captain  Roger 


apR.  neglected  to  mention  that 
he  was  up  that  old  chimney. 
Apart  from  a  broken  leg,  a  brc^cen 
arm,  and  a  broken  head,  received 
from  falling  bricks — and  that  the 
whole  Canadian  Expeditionary 
Force  think  the  joke  is  on  Captain 

Roger  apR. — ^he  *s  now  O.  K. 

«  «  «  « 

They  say,  they  do,  those  who  arc 
in  the  know,  that  the  only  soldiers 
in  France  so  far,  who  have  com- 
pletely annexed  Fritzie's  angora,  are 
these  same  Canadians.  They  're  so 
informal,  y*  know!  They  go  right 
over  and  m\iss  things  up.  .  .  . 
"  But  the  Yanks  are  coming,  the 
Yanks  are  coming! "  .  .  .  You- 
betcha! 

Coops  of  Commerce 

^m^  R.  FRANK  T.  COR- 
■  I  ■  ^^^LL  of  the  Mon- 
M  M  W  tauck  Paint  Company 
^^"^^^S  of  Brooklyn  wrote  me 
a  letter  t  'other  day  and  sent  a 
clipping  touching  on  and  appertain- 
ing to  that  most  boorish  and  ill-bred 
of  all  American  Institutions,  to  wit, 
the  "  Coop  of  Commerce."  I  share 
his  indignation.  So  gather  roimd  xne. 
Friendly  Business-Gretters,  Com- 
mercial Travelers  'and  Solicitors, 
I  would  a  tale  unfold. 
Have  you  ever  walked  sprightly  and 
sprucely  into  an  alleged  Business- 
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the  glad  tidings  of  great  joy,  and 
gone  up  against  V^llie  Pie-Face  the 
Office  Boy  or  Tutti-Fnitti  Susie,  the 
iinderfed  by-product  of  some  near- 
by tenement?  9^  Have  they  ever 
asked  you  the  momentous  questions, 
"  Whodoyawantasee?  "  "  Whadde- 
yewantasee'mabout?  "  —  And  you 
treml^ed  while  you  gave  answer  to 
the  child;  you  trembled  while  you 
made  it  as  PLAIN  as  possible; 
trembled  with  wrath  perhaps? 
Has  that  ever  happened  to  you? 
Well,  then,  remove  your  hats,  please, 
I  want  to  place  a  fraternal  caress 
upon  your  alabaster  brows.  I  desire 
to  salute  you!  We  are  brothers  9^ 
Of  all  the  special  varieties  of  dam- 
phools  that  haunt  the  earth,  of  all 
the  nincompoops  and  pinheads, 
which  particular  one  do  you  think 
conceived  the  "  Coop  of  Commerce" 
Idea?"  Which  particular  brand  of 
idiot  do  you  suppose  first  erected 
the  High  Board  Fence  round  the 
Entrance'  Room  of  a  Business 
Establishment? 

You  enter.  Mind  you,  you  may 
be  there  either  to  sell  or  buy.  You 
may  be  a  Seller  this  week  and  a 
Buyer  next.  You  may  be  a  Seller 
in  a  certcun  capacity,  and  a  Buyer 
in  another  capacity.  No  matter  9^ 
What  do  you  find?  This — 
The  wooden  enclosure  into  which 
you  are  admitted,  "  The  Coop  of 
Commerce  **  is  presided  over  by  the 
dirtiest  little  boy,  the  stupidest  little 


girl,  on  that  firm's  pay-roll?  Perhaps 
a  little  wooden  window  opens  in 
front  of  you,  (for  all  the  world  like 
the  Speak-Easy  of  a  Gambling  Den !) 
and  a  squeaky,  squawky ,  child's  voice 
queries,    "  Whodoyawisht'see?  " 
Though  slightly  offended  and  em- 
barrassed, you  manage  to  say, "  Why 
— cr — ^Mr.  Jones?  " 
"  Which  Mr.  Jones?  " 
That 's  the  trick  question.  Perhaps 
there 's   only   one   Mr.    Jones.    Or 
perhaps  the  Boss  Jones  has  a  first 
ccunn  from  Machias  or  Olean  Jimc- 
tion  down  in  the  Shipping-Room. 
The  assumption  is  you  might  want 
to  see  his  cousin? 
You  scratch  your  head,  "  Which  Mr. 
Jones!  For  goodness  sake,  is  there 
more  than  one?  What  are  his  ini- 
tials? "  Finally  you  sputter,  "  Why, 
my  dear  young  lady,  I  want  to  see 
THE  Mr.  Jones! " 
You  look  up,  and  lo,  the  head  of 
Miss   Tutti-Frutti   is   still   framed 
in  the  cubby  hole. 
"Whaddeyawantasee'mabout?**  she 
perks  up. 

41.  Will  you  refuse  to  answer  on 
advice  of  coimsel? 
V/m  you  'fess-up  and  tell  it  loud 
enough  for  the  Office  and  the  Visitors 
to  hear?  Or  will  you  say,  **  See  here, 
Miss,  you  tell  Mr.  Jones,  Mr.  Smith 
is  here  right  away  quick  or  I  *11 
wring  your  neck!  " 
If  you  choose  the  latter  mode  of 
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seat,  disappear,  go  n6where,  and 
then  come  back  and  report,  "  Mr. 
Jones  ain't  in  his  office."  Or,  "  Mr. 
Jones  is  busy." 

Of  course  Jones  made  a  fool  of  him- 
self when  he  put  up  the  bunk- 
partition,  but  the  Office  Girl,  the 
Hostess  of  the  Commerce  Coop,  the 
Representative  of  his  firm  to  all 
his  Visitors,  makes  a  fool  of  him 
ten  times  a  day  while  she  's  the 
Reception  Committee.  Thus  does 
the  good  work  go  on. 

^.^^  WICE  or  thrice  a  year  I  go  out 
^J  and  solicit  Advertising  Orders 
to  keep  my  hand  in.  Though  I  have 
not  been  out  for  some  months,  even 
as  I  write,  a  dozen  or  more  annoying 
and  unforgetable  little  experiences 
of  the  "  Coops  of  Commerce  "  and 
the  kind  of  men  who  hide  behind 
them,  bob  up  to  annoy  me. 
For  instance,  there  *s  a  chap  in 
New  York  whom  I  know  slightly, 
who  has  written  me  a  dozen  times 
inviting  me  to  **  drop  in."  "  The 
latch-string  is  always  out."  **  Come 
and  kick  in  the  door,"  etc.  Well, 
the  last  time  I  was  in  New  York 
I  happened  to  pass  his  building. 
I  had  a  half-hour  to  spare,  but 
there  were  one  or  two  people  whom, 
especially,  I  would  have  enjoyed 
seeing,  visiting.  I  stood  undecided. 
But  here  I  was  right  in  front  of  this 
chap's  door,  and  his  letters  were 
always  so  very  friendly — I  went  up. 


I  walked  into  a  typical  "  Coop."  | 
Already  two  or  three  poor  unfor- 
tunates were  waiting;  resting  with 
their  backs  against  the  wall  ready 
to  die.  The  one-by-two  window  was 
vacant.  I  stood  on  one  leg  and  then 
on  the  other  and  waited. 
Presently  the  head  of  a  drab,  under- 
nourished girl  protruded  through  the 
aperture    and    asked   petulantly 
"  Whodoyawantt'see?  " 
"Mr.  Billons,"  I  replied  sweetly. 
Though  really  by  that  time  I  did  n't  j 
want  to  see  him  at  all.  "  Tell  him 
Felix  Shay  of  East  Aw-roar-rah  is 
here."  She  repeated  it  two  or  three 
times  upside-down  and  down-side-up, 
while  the  waiting  gentlemen  looked 
me  over  curiously,  suspiciously  «» 
Th«i  she  went  away. 
Presently  she  returned  «^  Heaven 
alone  knows  whether  she  announced 
"  Old  Dog  Tray,"  or  "  One*  Hoss 
Shay  "  or  what.  Nor  do  I  care.  But 
this  is  what  she  said  to  me.  "  Mr. 
Billdns  is  busy  and  you  're  to  wait." 
41.  The  already  waiting  gentlemen, j 
tittered  9^  «^ 
I  turned  pink,  red. 
"  Madam,"  I  protested,  from  deep 
in  under  my  big  Hack  hat,  "  though 
I  appreciate  the  impotence  of  my 
forced  position,  I  refuse  to  linger 
longer.  I  defy  the  God-Behind-Thc- 
Partition.  I  am  not  going  to  wait. 
No!  I  am  going  to  go.  Go,  going, 
gone!  But  before  I  go  I  want  you 
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— just  a  word,  over  the  telephone." 
€L  My  tenseness  must  have  fright- 
ened her  to  action.  She  put  in  the 
plug  and  rang  Mr.  BiUdns.  "  Now 
teH  him  that  Felix  Shay  says  that 
he  thinks  that  Mr.  Billdns  is  a  very 
fuiihy  little  man."  I  threatened  her 
with  my  finger,  and  by  the  gods, 
she  repeated  what  I  told  her  to  say. 
C  Then  I  vanished. 
When  I  reached  the  hotel  where  I 
always  stay,  there  came  a  voluble, 
an  apologetic  call.  Y*  see  the  young 
lady  had  announced  me  as  Felix 
Hayroarrah!  and  Billdns  thought  I 
was  a  Russian  General  out  of  a  job, 
or  a  Yiddish  Peddlar,  selling  myrrh 
and  frankincense!  Or  something  «^ 
Nevertheless  I  confessed  to  him, 
**  Billdns,  you  and  your  secret  cham- 
bers give  me  a  pain  in  the  umdide- 
diddle!  " 

a^JE  of  the  Jimior  Partners  of  a 
prominent  Advertising  Agency 
told  me  an  interesting  enough  story 
last  week:  It  seems  he  came  back 
from  lunch  about  2  P.  M.,  and 
found  a  white-haired,  di^fied  old 
gentleman,  with  waterfall  whiskers 
and  a  silk  tile,  sitting  there  twiddling 
his  thimibs  in  the  outer  office  *^ 
Who  was  he? 

Quite  apparently  he  was  not  an 
Advertising  Solicitor.  Advertising 
Solicitors,  y*  know,  don't  count  with 
Advertising  Agencies.  Though  the 
average  Manufacturer  treats  them 


O.  K.,  a  fall  51%  of  the  Advertising 
Agencies  deal  with  solicitors  on  the 
once  well-established  basis  of  *'Dogs, 
Beggars,  and  Advertising  Solicitc>rs, 
not  admitted."  <»  The  Commerce 
Coop  of  any  prosperous  Advertising 
Agency  is  full  of  Advertising  Solic- 
itors any  hour  of  any  day.  Some  of 
them  sit  there  waiting  for  something 
to  happen,  for  hours! 
The  Junior  Partner  asked  the  Office 
Boy,  "  Who  is  the  old  gentleman?  " 
CThe  card  read,  "Henry  J.  P. 
Frazee ";  only  that  and  nothing 
more.  He  had  waited  for  an  hour 
so  far!  He  refused  to  state  his  busi- 
ness to  the  Office  Boy.  Mr.  Jenkins, 
the  Senior  Partner,  who  thought 
Mr.  Frazee  was  just  another  Solic- 
itor, said  "  Let  *m  wait!  " — and 
promptly  forgot  he  was  waiting. 
C  The  Junior  Partner,  who  was 
raised  west  of  the  Mississippi,  who 
has  not  yet  acquired  either  the 
New  York  snarl,  or  the  New  York 
suspicion,  approached  His  Whiskers 
respectfully.  "  Can  I  be  of  any 
service  to  you,  sir?  I  am  Mr.  Jumpup 
of  Jenkins,  Jobberti  and  Jumpup?  " 
C  The  Old  Boy  said,  "  No,  I  don*t 
think  so.  I  believe  my  experiment 
is  now  ended;  I  simply  wanted  to 
see  how  long  I  should  have  to  wait! 
I  am  Henry  J.  P.  Frazee  of  the 
Whizz  Motors,  Inc.  I  came  in  here 
an  hour  ago  to  engage  your  firm 
as  my  Advertising  Agents.  I  have 
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acquaint  myself  with  Modem 
Methods.  Y' see  I'm  a  little  did 
fashioned;  I  like  to  be  treated  a^ 
though  I  am  welcome.  Besides,  you 
people  seem  to  be  too  very  busy  to 
handle  my  business — so  I  wish  you 
Good  Day,  Sir." 

"  And,"  the  Junior  Partner  whis- 
pered to  me  with  tears  in  hiq  voice, 
**  out  that  door  walked  the  only 
$500,000  account  that  has  broken 
loose  this  year!  " 

Sanctimonious  and 
Profane  Profanity 


^  PIOUS  person  of  Chi- 
*.  cago  writes  us,  full  of 
kidignation,  to  protest 
*  against  BiUy  Sunday's 
profanity,  his  vulgarity,  his  out- 
house humor.  Though  I  cheerfully 
yield  there  is  an  opportunity  here  for 
the  alienist  (a  physical  examination 
of  Billy  by  an  honest  doctor  might 
furnish  us  a  curious  and  interesting 
explanaticHi  of  his  eccentricities), 
though  I  am  honor-bound  to  con- 
demn his  infrangible  ignorance  and 
throatly  eloquence,  I  do  most  pro- 
foundly refuse  to  have  Old  Blather- 
skite Billy-Boy  indecently  spitted 
for  the  introduction  of  profanity 
into  his  so-called  Pulpit.  Billy  is 
an  Imitator,  not  an  Originator  «^ 
Consider  the  nature  and  the  sub- 
stance of  that  which  is  called  pro- 
fanity: to  compound  and  propoimd 


an  A-1  curse  it  is  necessary  to  drag 
in  the  name  of  a  Ministerial  Deity, 
or  excavate  the  designation  of  a 
Ministmal  Place  of  Torment. 
Suppose  we  {^Geologically  study 
the  subject  of  profanity,  and  as 
accurately  as  possible  decide  on*  its 
source:  Whom  do  you  think  first 
phrased  the  sentences,  "  You  are 
Damned  to  HeU!"  "You  are  God- 
damned!" etc? 

Why  a  Gospel-Minister  of  course! 
€1.  Ah,  you  say  in  extenuation,  but 
on  the  lips  of  a  Grospel-Minister 
such  a  combination  of  words  were 
not  profanity. 
Eh — what  was  that? 
What  do  you  mean  by  profanity? 

"T^HE  honorable  Mr.  Webster 
^^  defines  the  word  PROFANE 
in  this  fashion:  (1.)  To  vic^te, 
to  treat  with  abuse,  irreverence, 
obloquy,  or  contempt;  to  desecrate, 
pollute.  (2.)  To  put  to  a  wrong  or 
unworthy  use;  to  mal^e  a  base  em- 
ployment of;  to  deface,  abuse,  defile. 
When  a  Minister  of  the  Gospel  ^ 
writes  a  sermon  on  Friday  morning 
in  cold  blood,  which  he  is  to  deliver 
on  Sunday  morning  in  hot  blood, 
when  he  incorporates  such  im- 
authorized  threats  and  condemna- 
tions of  his  Brother  as  the  not 
uncommon  **  God-damned  "  he  is, 
was,  and  always  will  be  guilty  of 
profanity. 
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of  the  Gospel  to  think  and  reason 
a  man  into  Hell,  than  it  is  for  an 
unlettered  rowdy  to  vocalize  the 
word  "  HeU." 

The  educated  man  is  more  vicious 
than  is  the  street  comer-loafer  who 
lips  phrases  he  does  not  mean,  who 
pronounces  epithets  he  does  not 
tmderstand. 

That  sanctified  and  reverent  vicious- 
ness,  that  pseudo-authoritative  con- 
demnation Pulpit-Stuff,  of  not  so 
long  ago,  is  the  forerunner  of  all 
profanity  *»  *^ 

Billy  Simday's  profanity  is  of  ancient 
lineage  and  true  descent.  He  simply 
pla^arizes  and  overemphasizes  a 
style,  as  most  common  men  do  «» 
Of  course  the  intelligent  D.  D.'s 
of  the  day  have  long  since  wiped 
Hell  off  the  Theological  Map,  and 
they  are  not  nearly  so  certain  about 
the  Longitude  and  Latitude  of 
Heavien  as  they  were  once. 

Frank  Harris  on 
Jack  London 

^^^yOME  several  weeks  ago  I 
&^|^  wrote  to  my  friend,  Frank 
^^^9  Harris,  Editor  of  Pear- 
Z^"  50n'5Ma(ra2ine,  for  a  little 
literary  advice. 

To  me  the  times  are  more  momen- 
tous* than  any  this  Country  has 
known  since  the  Revolutionary  Days 
of  1776.  Democracy  again  fights 
Tyranny  «»  «» 


I  seem  to  see  in  the  Crystal  that 
when  the  World  again  clears  away 
the  wreckage,  it  will  find  that  the 
Great  War  was  but  an  episode  in 
the  course  of  events. 
Not  nations,  not  patriotism,  not 
songs  or  slogans  are  concerned  «» 
This  is  to  be  a  Revolution  of  Human 
Values  «»  «^ 

To  my  eye  there  are  a  dozen 
supremely  unselfish  men  in  these 
United  States  who  must,  who  will, 
live  in  history,  because  of  their 
long,  long  years'  work  for  Democ- 
racy, and  I  am  not  at  all  sure  the 
Democratic  Party  knows  them  fa- 
vorably. These  men  have  given  their 
all.  They  have  suffered  misinterpre- 
tation, calumny,  infamy,  that  Jus- 
tice might  be  done. 
Why,  I  ask  myself,  should  not  some 
one  visit  these  men,  touch  hands 
with  them,  listen  to  them?  Why 
should  not  some  one  write  down 
his  first-hand  impressions  of  these 
men  and  of  the  dream  they  dream? 
No  matter  how  crude  the  book, 
may  it  not  live  and  be  cherished 
by  future,  wiser  generations  because 
of  the  subject  it  treats? 
The  ambition  to  write  such  a  book 
overwhelms  my  feeling  that  I  could 
not  do  the  subject  justice.  I  felt 
and  feel  the  call,  the  urge  to  make 
this  Pilgrimage. 

I  want  to  meet  and  talk  with  these 
"Revolutionists"  who  defy  Wall 
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want  to  measure  their  spirit  with 
my  own  sincerity.  I  want  to  call 
the  book,  The  Twelve  Apostles  and 
One  Other,  and  I  want  dear  Jack 
London,  dead  and  gone,  who  was 
one  of  the  earlier  Apostles  of  Social 
Justice  to  be  the  "  one  other." 
€L  Lest  my  enthusiasm  for  this  mis- 
sion nm  off  with  my  judgment, 
I  wrote  Frank  Harris,  who  in  my 
humble  opinion  is  the  greatest,  the 
most  graceful,  the  most  interesting 
writer  in  all  America,  and  asked 
him  would  he  consider  my  plan — 
and  spare  me  not. 
He  graciously  and  enthusiastically 
approved  the  idea  for  the  book. 
€1  By  the  bye,  he  incorporated  into 
his  letter  a  literary  opinion  of  Jack 
London's  work — ^with  which,  be  it 
known,  I '  do  not  agree.  But  then 
I  have  too  much  heart  and  too  little 
head  to  be  a  just  critic  of  my  friend's 
work.  Contrariwise,  Frank  Harris* 
literary  criticisms  are  invariably 
distinguished  for  their  discernment, 
for  their  fearlessness,  arid  for  their 
sympathetic  quality.  His  reputation 
is  International  and  permanent  *^ 
That  he  finds  small  value  in  Jack 
London's  output,  comes  as  a  sur- 
prise, an  amazing  surprise,  to  me. 
C  So  that  you  may  share  this 
"  impublished  statement,"  I  take 
the  liberty  to  reprint,  in  part,  a 
personal  letter  which  tells  offhand 
how  Frank  Harris  regards  Jack 
London's  future  in  literature. 


"  Your  idea  of  a  book.  The  Twelve 
Apostles  and  One  Other  fascinates 
me.  But    how   you   are 

going  to  find  Eleven  Righteous  in 
the  city  God  alone  knows;  I  don't. 
'Gene  Debs  must  be  in  and  of  course 
Upton  Sinclair. 

Your  article  on  Jack  London  touches 
me.  He  must  have  been  in  some 
ways  bigger  than  his  work  to  have 
got  this  emotion  out  of  both  you 
and  Upton  Sinclair.  Upton  Sinclair 
sent  me  a  long  review  of  his  work 
but  I  could  not  accept  it;  I  thought 
it  altogether  overwrought;  did  not 
and  do  not  believe  that  London 
ever  wrote  anything  that  will  live. 
He  came  near  it  in  the  Call  of  the 
Wild  and  White  Fang,  but  Sinclair 
insisted  that  Martin  Eden  was  a 
masterpiece  and  so  forced  me  to 
read  it.  I  did  not  think  it  even  good; 
not  among  his  best  works,  and  you 
have  put  your  finger  on  one  dreadful 
bad  fault  in  it;  the  impossibility  of 
knowing  how  a  man  feels  just  before 
he  commits  suicide  must  have 
shocked  every  reader.  {Luck  to 
You,  Jack  London).  Still,  some  of 
his  yams  are  good;  he  must  have 
been  a  greater  man  than  he  was 
a  writer  and  I  am  afraid  I  think 
more  of  the  artist  and  the  work 
he  does  than  of  the  man  and  the 
life  he  lives. 

Sincerely  ever, 

Frank  Harris. 


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Vol.  II 


JUNE  1918 


No.  4 


The  Train  Wreck 


Bert  Hubbard 


I  RECENTLY  had  an  experi- 
ence «»  Life  is  made  up 
of  experiences  «^  Some 
make  impressions  that  are 
only  momentary — they  might  be 
called  thrills.  Others,  though,  may 
change  one's  viewpoint  or  perhaps 
change  one's  entire  mode  or  policy 
of  life.  These  are  the  worth  while 
experiences — the  ones  that  make 
lasting  impres^ons.  I  had  no  chance 
to  avoid  this  one  «»  It  was  not 
planned  and  I  was  not  consulted 
beforehand.  Fate  handed  it  to  me 
just  as  she  deals  out  all  great 
experiences.  A  certain  philosophy 
v^iich  I  seem  to  have  accepted 
makes  me  believe  that  Fate  is 
very  kind  and  that  there  is  no 
such  thing  as  calamity  «^  The 
**  silver  lining  to  every  cloud  "  stuff 


is  good,  only  sometimes  it 's  a  gold 
lining  «»  «^ 

'f^^  EXPERIENCE— My 
Vi'  train  out  of  New  York,  which 
was  to  land  me  in  Buffalo  on  a 
schedule  suddenly  left  the  rails 
in  the  dead  of  night,  and  I  was 
jarred  out  of  my  slumbers,  but 
not  giy  wits  *»  I  knew  at  once 
what  had  happened,  and  my  first 
thought  was  to  brace  myself  to  avoid 
being  chucked  into  birth  number  9, 
across  the  aisle,  when  the  car  rolled 
over.  But,  it  did  n't  roll  over.  Then 
I  heard  the  porter  say,  ''Ladies 
and  Gem'men,  we's  hear  fo'  de 
night  1 "  I  dressed  quickly  and  went 
out  into  the  dark  and  the  rain  t>^ 
There  was  no  light  and  I  could  n't 
see  the  extent  of  the  wreck,  but  I 


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Stumbled  along  over  the  torn  tracks 
and  the  havoc  played  by  a  train 
gone  wild.  As  I  became  accustomed 
to  the  darkness,  I  could  see  men 
moving  about  and  sharp  orders  were 
heard.  I  saw  the  conductor  in  the 
Hght  of  a  lantern — a  big  wdt  on  his 
dieek;  he  had  command. 
A  dark  form  staggered  out  of  the 
darkness  toward  the  Hght,  and  col- 
lapsed at  my  feet.  My  God! — ^This 
is  a  man — injured  and  helpless!  Are 
there  others  and  how  many? 
I  strained  my  eyes  to  see.  From 
somewhere  up  ahead  came  an  un- 
earthly scream — many  of  them — 
mingled  with  pounding.  A  horse-car 
with  twenty-six  horses  lay  on  its 
side,  the  animals  beating  out  each 
others'  lives  with  their  hoofs.  I  had 
never  heard  a  horse  scream! 
Below  me  at  the  foot  of  the  embank- 
ment stretched  the  Hudson,  shim- 
mering in  the  scant  reflection  of  a 
few  lights.  The  day-coach  had  left 
the  train  and  stood  overturned  with 
one  end  in  the  water.  People  were 
in  there,  surely! 

Because  I  was  willing  and  handy, 
I  was  ordered  to  help.  We  lifted  the 
form  at  our  feet  and  carried  it  inside 
the  Pullman,  placing  it  quickly  in 
an  empty  berth.  "  There  are  others 
out  there  hurt  more  than  I  am — 
go  to  them,*'  gasped  the  man.  We 
left  him  and  went  «^  Out  of  the 
upturned  car  people  were  crawling; 
others  were  helping  them  to  climb 


over  the  mass  of  mangled  car-wreck- 
age. We  helped  them  inside.  Some 
had  to  be  earned.  The  first  PuUnum 
standing  had  become  a  first-aid 
station.  Just  one  doctor  was  on  the 
train.  He  had  only  a  small  supply  of 
hypodermics  and  bandages.  How  he 
worked!  They  told  us  a  relief  train 
would  soon  come  <»  It  c^ime  in  an 
hour  and  forty  minutes. 
Before  that,  we  supposedly  had 
rescued  all  the  injured.  An  old  lady, 
with  hair  disheveled,  and  her  face 
covered  with  blood,  stood  calmly 
looking  on  as  the  last  victim  was 
brought  out.  "  My  daughter  is  in 
there — let  me  go  and  look  for  her." 
She  was  resolute  but  very  calm  and 
sane.  "  We  11  get  her,  you  stay 
here."  They  found  the  girl,  pinned 
imder  the  seats,  injured — ^but  game 
to  the  core.  She  did  not  scream, 
but  patiently  waited  to  be  chopped 
out.  The  old  lady  waited,  too.  We 
put  them  in  one  berth. 

rr  is  a  law  among  railroad  men 
that  their  first  duty  in  a  wreck 
is  to  relieve  their  passengers.  Our 
conductor  was  a  man  whose  sense 
of  duty  was  his  guide.  "  They  are 
all  out  now  and  we  better  look  for 
the  engineer  and  fireman — come 
on."  In  the  cab  of  the  overturned 
engine  was  the  fireman — ^his  last 
trip  finished.  He  needed  no  aid  s^ 
Escaping  steam  and  scalding  water 
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'virho  had  guided  his  engine  through 
-tine  night  and  the  storm,  and  deliv- 
ered safely  his  precious  cargoes  for 
tliirty  years,  was  found  on  the 
rocks  down  by  the  river. 
How  he  got  there  and  why  he  was  n't 
dead,  no  one  knew.  He  had  waited 
for  help  just  fifty  minutes.  Scalds 
and  bruises  had  almost  taken  their 
t:oll  «»  t>^ 

V^th  what  strength  he  had  left, 
liis  first  question  was,  "  How  's  Bill, 
the  fireman?  "  And,  when  the  con- 
ductor told  him  BiU  was  all  right, 
and  not  to  worry  about  him,  this 
t>ig  man  three-quarters  way  on  his 
journey  "  over  there,"  said, "  Thank 
God  for  that,  I  'm  glad  he  is  n't 
hurt."  As  gently  as  possible 
we  carried  him  on  a  piece  of  canvas 
from  his  own  engine,  to  the  mail- 
car,  out  of  the  rain.  As  eternal  sleep 
came  to  him  there  under  the  con- 
ductor's lantern,  we  bowed  our 
heads  in  the  presence  of  a  power 
we  know  nothing  of. 
Back  in  the  Pullman  two  more 
had  gone.  Here  in  the  presence  of 
death  were  forty  human  souls,  all 
with  mangled  bodies,  but  every 
one  with  a  courage  and  an  un- 
selfish s{»rit  which  I  did  n't  believe 
could  exist  at  a  time  like  this  «» 
I  had  always  pictured  in  my  mind 
a  terrible  railroad  wreck  as  being 
accompanied  with  the  pierdng 
shrieks  and  screams  of  the  injured. 
[    There  was  none  of  it.  Every  one 


simply  bore  his  injuries  as  you 
would  expect  soldiers  on  the  battle- 
field to  do. 

This  was  just  a  common  lot  of 
mixed  people  such  as  ride  on  trains 
every  day  «»  I  decided  then  and 
there  that  there  are  n't  many  cow- 
ards in  the  world  after  alL 
The  wreck  is  all  cleaned  up  now^- 
no  trace  left.  The  newspapers  said 
almost  nothing  «»  I  thought  the 
Buffalo  papers  would  give  their 
front  pages  to  it,  so  I  wired  home 
that  I  was  safe — ^had  to  explain  my 
message  upon  my  arrival.  In  these 
days  of  destruction  and  war,  a  little 
railroad  wreck  which  may  cost  the 
company  perhaps  a  quarter-million 
dollars,  is  too  insignificant  for  men- 
tion «»  «» 

^J  ND  so  this  experience  out  of 
>^— *^  which  I  emerged  safely,  has 
given  me  impressions  that  let  me  into 
the  inner  recesses  of  human  nature.  I 
have  seen  courage  and  unselfishness 
in  the  face  of  death  and  pain.  My 
visions  have  broadened  «»  I  have 
realized  how  little  really  stands 
between  life  and  death.  I  believe 
I  can  pursue  my  own  life  with 
greater  consideration  for  my  oppor- 
ttmities.  The  same  power  that  gives 
life  and  also  takes  it,  will  some  day 
call  to  me,  and  I  '11  be  ready,  for 
after  all,  I  'm  a  fatalist  and  believe 
that  in  the  great  scheme  of  things, 
everything  is  as  it  should  be. 


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How  It  Feels  to  Fly 

Earl  Carroll 


84  Squadron,  Camp  Beobrook, 
Fort  Worth,  Texas. 

£R  graduatiii{^  from 
ground  school  at 
Austin,  I  was  sent  to 
^Fort  Worth,  to  be 
taught  my  air  work  by  the  officers 
of  the  Royal  Flying  Corps.  The 
English  have  three  winter  camps 
down  here,  and  I  believe  they  have 
some  arrangement  with  our  govern- 
ment whereby  they  offer  to  train 
so  many  of  our  Aviators. 
I  have  been  here  about  three  weeks. 
I  had  dual  instruction  for  the  first 
week.  Lieut.  Wilmot,  a  dandy  flyer, 
took  me  under  his  wing  and  although 
I  tried  his  patience  many  a  time, 
he  finally  taught  me  how  to  fly  a 
buss  all  by  myself.  It  was  very 
difficult  for  me  to  make  good  land- 
ings, which,  by  the  way,  is  the 
hardest  thing  to  master  in  the 
handling  of  an  airplane.  My  work 
in  the  air  was  O.  K.,  but  when  I 
would  start  to  glide  down,  Wilmot 
was  never  quite  sure  if  my  intentions 
were  to  miarder  him  in  a  straight 
nose-dive  through  to  China  or  to 
make  an  angel  out  of  him  by  sud- 
denly pulling  the  plane  upwards 
just  as  we  neared  the  earth. 
My   attempts   to   land   the   plane 


saf dy  were  each  worse  than  the 
other,  and  one  morning  before 
breakfast  (I  happened  to  be  on 
early  morning  flying)  poor  old  Wil- 
mot got  so  confounded  disgusted  j 
with  me  that  he  just  must  have 
figured  out  to  himsdf  that  it  was 
much  safer  for  him  to  let  me  drive 
it  akme,  so  he  climbed  sadly  out 
of  the  front  seat,  gave  me  a  few 
last  parting  warnings  to  watch  for 
the  other  crazy  Cadets  who  were 
up  in  the  air,  and  with  a  farewell 
pat  on  the  back,  I  was  off  on  my 
first  solo. 

I  wasn't  a  bit  frightened.  I  made 
a  good  take-off  and  in  a  few  minutes 
was  a  thousand  feet  in  the  air.  Of 
course,  every  nerve  was  on  the  job 
during  that  first  ride,  but  about  all 
I  felt  was  a  keen  inner  satisfaction 
that  I  had  dropped  Pilot  Wilmot 
overboard  and  that  I  was  all  alone 
now  to  make  the  most  terrible  land- 
ings I  pleased.  I  banked  the  plane 
and  made  the  several  turns  O.  K. 
and  then  I  got  back  over  the'hangars 
and  shut  the  engine  off,  threw  the 
buss  into  the  gliding  angle  and 
started  down.  I  could  see  Wilmot 
waiting  on  the  field  to  see  the  smash- 
up.  I  glided  the  thousand  feet  per- 
fectly and  then,  when  about  fifteen 
feet  above  the  ground,  I  started  to 


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level  the  plane  off.  The  angle  became 
less  acute — ^the  next  second  I  was 
about  three  feet  off  the  ground.  A 
little  touch  of  the  Joy-Stick  (that  *8 
'^hat  we  call  the  control)  and  I  was 
flying  level,  my  wheels  just  grazing 
the  ground.  Slowly  my  speed  les- 
sened and  I  gradually  settled,  land- 
ing as  quietly  as  a  flying  mouse  just 
a  few  yards  from  where  Wilmot  was 
standing.  I  did  it  so  well  that  it  was 
ridiculous.  I  could  n't  make  a  single 
good  landing  when  he  was  in  the 
buss  with  me,  yet  my  first  time 
alone  I  could  make  such  a  good 
landing.  That  settled  it.  I  have  been 
flying  alone  ever  since — and  frankly, 
I  have  n't  made  as  good  a  landing 
since!  I  just  shut  off  the  engine, 
start  to  glide  down,  see  that  the 
ground  is  coming  up  to  kiss  me, 
then  shut  my  eyes  and  wait! 

I  PASSED  quite  a  few  air  tests 
last  week.  I  did  my  Altitude. 
Climbed  up  to  eight  thousand  feet 
and  I  tell  you,  things  look  pretty 
small  at  that  height.  I  have  quite 
a  cute  little  imagination,  and  you 
can  be  sure  that  it  was  well-oiled 
and  greased  when  I  was  all  alone 
up  there  with  just  the  grinding  and 
roaring  of  that  howling  engine  and 
the  singing  of  the  wind  through  the 
wires  to  keep  me  company.  The  air 
was  very  biunpy  when  I  started  up. 
This  is  caused  by  warm  and  cool  air 
currents,  one  rising  the  other  falling, 


and  near  the  earth  they  get  under 
the  wings  and  shoot  you  up  for 
perhaps  fifty  feet  like  an  express 
train,  and  then  next  minute  perhaps 
you  drop  fifty  with  the  same  speed. 
I  passed  out  of  the  biunps  at  about 
1000  feet  and  then  I  did  nothing  but 
push  her  nose  toward  the  Pearly 
Gates  for  the  next  half  hour.  Then, 
about  6500  feet,  I  climbed  into  a 
wicked,  choppy  cross  current.  Was 
I  scared?  I  felt  like  a  drunken  man 
trying  to  shave  himself  in  the  dark- 
ened cabin  of  a  cat-boat  during  a 
typhoon  »^  I  could  feel  the  razor 
flirting  all  around  my  precious  neck 
and  never  did  the  Joy-Stick  do  more 
valiant  service.  I  finally  fought  my 
way  through  it  and  you  could  have 
heard  my  sigh  of  relief  the  full  eight 
thousand  below  when  I  shut  off  the 
engine  and  pointed  her  nose  toward 
the  earth. 

I  did  my  first  spirals  and  "  S  "  turns 
on  the  way  down.  At  3000  feet  I  did 
several  "  figure-eights "  and  then 
glided  down  on  to  the  field  and 
landed  within  the  J  00-foot  circle. 
I  landed  in  this  circle  three  times 
in  the  same  manner  and  in  that  way 
finished  up  my  instructor's  test  *^ 
Last  Friday,  I  did  my  Cross-Coun- 
try. I  flew  for  about  sixty  miles 
around  Fort  Worth,  landing  at  three 
strange  aerodromes  on  the  way.  All 
my  former  flying  had  been  around 
our  own  field,  and  when  I  started 
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I  fdt  like  some  little  bifd  must  feel 
when  it  has  just  been  taught  to  fly 
and  ventures  forth  from  the  home 
nest  for  the  first  time. 
It  had  been  raining  most  of  the 
night  before  and  although  every- 
thing looked  so  fresh  and  green, 
there  were  many  dark  and  ugly 
clouds  still  hanging  dose  to  the 
earth.  I  started  out  at  about  2000 
feet,  but  the  douds  got  so  thick 
that  I  dropped  to  about  900.  I 
couldn't  go  much  lower,  because 
if  my  engine  gave  out  on  me,  I 
would  need  more  hdght  than  that 
in  order  to  pick  out  a  good  landing 
field  and  get  down  safdy.  The  douds 
kept  crowding  closer  and  closer  and 
finally,  like  great  balls  of  cotton, 
they  gathered  in  around  me  and 
then  I  had  my  first  experience  of 
bdng  entirely  enveloped  with  nd- 
ther  sky  nor  ground  to  guide  me. 
I  wasn't  a  bit  frightened  and 
frankly  I  enjoyed  it  «»  I  had  no 
trouble  in  keeping  the  plane  per- 
fectly levd  and  every  little  while 


there  would  come  a  break  and  I 
could  catch  glimpses  of  the  little 
pastures  and  truck  farms  bdow  «» 
I  have  been  in  nine  loops  and  I  don't 
remember  how  many  side-slips, 
nose-spins,  etc.  «»  Looping-the-loop 
is  quite  an  ordinary  thing  with 
the  English  Corps.  It  is  part  of 
the  training,  or  to  be  more  correct, 
"  stunting  "  is  fostered  by  them  «» 
In  a  loop,  you  dimb  to  about  3000 
feet,  then  start  the  nose  heading 
downward  for  about  3000  feet  to 
gain  an  excessive  speed.  Then  the 
nose  is  pulled  straight  up,  the  engine 
is  shut  off  and  the  next  nioment  you 
are  hanging  upmde  down  in  the 
clouds,  and  if  you  look  where  you 
were  looking  the  moment  before 
you  see  the  sky  where  the  earth 
should  have  been.  It  seems  ages, 
that  moment  of  hanging  in  space, 
then  the  earth  seems  to  move  around 
under  you  once  more,  you  right 
the  airplane,  start  the  engine  and 
again  you  are  shooting  along  on 
an  even  keel. 


Taft  or  Gompers 

William  Marion  Reedy 


eX-PRESIDENT  TAFT 
argues  ably  for  compulsory 
imiversal  military  service 
in  this  country,  even  if  we 
win  the  war,  which,  of  course,  we 
will.  Some  of  us  may  wonder  why 
we  should  militarize  oursdves  if  we 


are  going  to  be  part  of  a  peace  league 
of  nations  after  the  war.  Mr.  Taft 
seems  to  vision  such  a  peace  league 
as  one  with  Germany  excluded  «» 
That  would  hardly  be  a  peace  league. 
Rather  it  would  be  a  war  league. 
Some  of  us  have  doubt  that  we  are 


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now  fighting  for  that  sort  of  thing, 
for  a  peace  that  will  incite  Qennany 
to  another  forty  years  of  preparation 
to  smash  her  enemies,  real  or  imagi- 
nary. It  does  not  appear  that  a 
cotintry  situated  as  we  are,  geo- 
graphically, needs  to  become  a  na- 
tion in  arms  permanently.  We  can 
be  a  nation  prepared  for  events  in 
accord  with  the  dictates  of  sane 
prudence,  without  transforming  the 
country  into  a  perpetual  armed 
camp.  The  ex-president  is  not  con- 
vincing. He  thinks  of  the  world 
after  the  war  as  a  world  criss-crossed 
by  high  protective-tariff  walls.  It  is 
war  he  is  looking  for — separatism  as 
distinct  from  co-operation;  exdusiv- 
ism,  particularism  as  distinct  from 
democracy.  Of  course  we  shall  need 
compulsory  military  service  to  up- 
hold, that.  Mr.  Taft  is  in  perfect 
character  when  he  says  that  the 
opposition  to  his  program  is  based 
upon  the  desire  of  certain  elements 
to  bring  about  certain  national  and 
international  social  and  economic 
reforms  vaguely  characterized  as 
socialistic.  Organized  industry  par- 
ticipant with  capital  in  manufacture, 
housing  schemes,  land  emancipation, 
class  and  professional  and  guild  rep- 
resentation in  government — all  those 
things  are  more  or  less  abhorrent 
to  Mr.  Taft,  as  we  expect  them  to 
be  from  what  we  know  of  him.  All 
such  things  must  go  by  the  board — 
everything  that  is  a  depcurture  from 


the  old  Republican  program — and 
we  must  all  be  soldiers.  We  are 
willing  to  be  soldiers  now.  But  after 
the  war  we  want  to  devote  oursdves 
to  perfecting  this  democracy  of  ours 
which  the  war  has  somewhat  demor- 
alized and  dislocated.  We  shall  need 
less  rather  than  more  militarism.  We 
are  fighting  now  to  do  away  with 
that  thing  and  not,  certainly  not, 
to  fasten  it  upon  oursdves. 

I  NOTE  that  many  of  the  oppo- 
nents of  the  Taft  idea  and  pro- 
ponents of  social  reconstruction  are 
making  a  **  drive  "  against  Samuel 
Gompers  because  he  does  not  come 
out  for  thdr  various  specialties, 
because  he  is  only  a  union  labor 
man.  Such  hypercritidsm  is  all  well 
enough,  academically,  but  practi- 
cally it  is  not  good  tactics.  The 
thing  that  stands  in  the  way  of 
all  social  reform  is  what  we  may 
call  Taftism.  To  that  and  espedally 
to  militarism  Gompers  is  opposed 
and  he  leads  the  best,  if  not  the 
only,  organized  opposition.  Most 
Americans,  I  am  quite  sure,  are  with 
Gompers  against  many  of  the  things 
the  critics  of  Gompers  so  furiously 
favor.  I  should  say  they  are  against 
"  guildism,"  the  most  conspicuous 
example  of  which  is  presented  in 
the  program  presented  to  the  British 
Commons  for  the  constitution  of  the 
senate  of  Ireland  under  home  rule — 
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capitalists,  other  classes  to  dominate 
in  numbers  the  men  to  be  elected  by 
all  classes.  Gompers  is  not  as  radical 
as  he  might  be,  but  he  is  not  a  social- 
ist and  especially  he  is  not  a  Prussian 
socialist.  He  is  a  trades-unionist  and 
that  is  class  consciousness  enough 
for  him.  And  his  trades-unionism 
does  not  pray  for  a  stalemate  on  the 
western  front.  He  is  for  winning  the 
war  first,  but  not  for  protracting  it 
as  a  trade  war.  He  is  with  Wilson 
in  contradistinction  to  ^aft  on  the 
one  hand  and  the  superheated  intel- 
lectuals on  the  other.  He  is  not  sit- 
ting on  both  sides  of  the  table  at 
once,  with  the  jingoes  and  the  tenta- 


tive pacifists.  Gompers  and  his  men 
are  the  nucleus  around  which  must 
gather  the  dements  that  are  to 
defeat  junkerism  here.  With  most  of 
what  is  good  in  the  intdlectualist 
program  he  is  in  sympathy,  and  to 
almost  all  of  Tafdsm  he  is  antago- 
nistic. The  drive  against  him  is  for 
the  purpose  of  weakening  him  with 
his  following.  The  result  would  be 
chaos  in  trades-unionism  and  the 
defeat  of  the  intellectuals  in  their 
best  purposes. 

Should  Gompers  and  his  ideas 
be  eliminated,  Taftism  would 
have  a  much  better  chance  to 
attain  its  ends. 


Red-Headed  Women 


H.  L.  Mencken 


IF  I  were  a  woman  I  should 
want  to  be  a  blonde,  with 
golden,  silky  hair,  pink 
cheeks,  and  sky-blue  eyes. 
It  would  not  bother  me  to  think 
that  this  color-scheme  was  mis- 
taken by  the  world  for  a  Haunting 
badge  of  stupidity;  I  would  have 
a  better  arm  in  my  arsenal  than 
mere  intelligence:  I  would  get  a 
husband  by  easy  surrender,  while 
the  brunettes  attempted  it  vainly 
by  frontal  assault. 
Men  are  not  easily  taken  by  frontal 
assault;  it  is  only  strategem  that  can 
quickly  knock  them  down.  To  be  a 


blonde,  pink,  soft  and  delicate,  is 
to  be  a  strategem.  It  is  to  be  a  ruse, 
a  feint,  an  ambush.  It  is  to  fis^t 
imder  the  Red  Cross  flag.  A  man 
sees  nothing  alert  and  designing  in 
those  pale,  crystalline  eyes;  he  sees 
only  something  helpless,  childish, 
weak;  something  that  calls  to  his 
compassion;  something  that  appeals 
powerfully  to  his  conceit  in  his  own 
strength.  And  so  he  is  taken  before 
there  is  a  war.  He  lifts  his  portcullis 
in  Christian  charity — ^and  the  enemy 
is  in  his  citadel. 

The  bnmette  can  make  no  such 
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how  subtle  her  art,  the  can  never 
hope  to  quite  conceal  her  intent. 
Her  eyes^  give  her  away.  They  fl|»h 
and  glitter.  They  have  depths.  They 
draw  the  male  gaze  into  mysterious 
and  sinister  recesses.  And  so  the 
male  behind  the  gaze  flies  to  arms. 
He  may  be  taken  in  the  end — indeed 
he  usually  is — but  he  is  not  taken  by 
surprise;  he  is  not  taken  without  a 
fight.  A  brunette  has  to  battle  for 
every  inch  of  her  advance.  But  the 
blonde  captures  him  under  a  flag  of 
truce  *»  He  regards  her  tenderly, 
kindly,  almost  pityingly,  until  the 
moment  the  hctnd-cuffs  are  upon  his 
wrists  9^  «^ 

Ir  is  all  an  optical  matter.  The 
pastel  shades  deceive  him;  the 
louder  shades  send  him  to  his  artil- 
lery. God  h^p,  I  say,  the  red-haired 
girl.  She  goes  into  action  with  warn- 
ing pennants  flying.  The  dullest, 
blindest  man  can  see  her  a  mile 
away;  he  can  catch  the  alarming 
flash  of  her  hair  long  before  he  can 
see  the  whites,  or  even  the  terrible 
red-browns,  of  her  eyes.  She  has  a 
long  field  to  cross,  heavily  \mder 
defensive  fire,  before  she  can  get 
into  rifle  range.  Her  quarry  has  a 
chance  to  throw  up  redoubts,  to 
dig  himself  in,  to  call  for  reinforce- 
ments, to  elude  her  by  ignominious 
flight.  She  must  win,  if  she  is  to  win 
at  all,  by  an  unparalleled  combi- 
nation of  craft  and  resolution.  No 


wonder  she  never  lets  go,  once  her 
arms  are  around  her  antagonist's 
neck  t>^  No  wonder  she  is,  of  all 
women,  the  hardest  to  shake  off. 
C  The  red-haired  girl's  dire  need  of 
courage  and  cunning  has  augmented 
her  store  of  those  qualities  by  the 
law  of  natural  selection.  She  is,  by 
long  odds,  the  most  intelligent  and 
bemusing  of  women.  She  shows  cim- 
ning,  foresight,  technique,  variety. 
She  always  fails  a  dozen  times  before 
she  succeeds;  but  she  brings  to  her 
final  business  the  abominable  expert- 
ness  of  a  Ludendorff :  she  has  learnt 
painfully  by  the  process  of  trial  and 
error.  Red-haired  girls  are  intellec- 
tual stimulants.  They  know  all  the 
tricks.  They  are  so  clever  that  they 
have  even  cast  a  false  glamour  of 
beauty  about  their  worst  defect — 
their  harsh  and  gaudy  hair.  They 
give  it  euphemistic  and  deceitful 
names — auburn,  bronze,  Titian  «^ 
They  overcome  by  their  hellish  arts 
that  deep-seated  dread  of  red  which 
is  inborn  in  all  of  God's  creatures; 
they  charm  men  with  what  would 
even  alarm  bulls. 

Such  help  as  we  can  give  each 
other  in  this  world  is  a  debt  to 
each  other;  and  the  man  who  per- 
ceives a  superiority  or  a  capacity  in 
a  subordinate,  and  neither  con- 
fesses nor  assists  it,  is  not  merely 
a  withhold er  of  kindness,  but  the 
committer  of  injury. — Ruskin. 


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Some  men  act  as  though  an  awe- 
stricken  world  were  standing  at 
attention  to  see  them  march  past. 


If  the  world  snarls  and  shows  its 
teeth,  speak  kindly  to  it,  while  you 
look  for  a  brick. 


There  are  people  so  filled  with  ego- 
tism that  they  can  strut  standing 
still  «»  «» 


A  live  bulldog  can  readily  be  dis- 
tinguished from  a  dead  one  by 
twisting  his  tail. 


If  your  vanity  gets  to  bothering 
you,  go  back  to  your  home  town 
and  see  what  they  think  of  you  i>^ 


The  man  who  marries  for  money 
selects  a  hard  business  with  long 
hours  and  small  pay. 


Substitute  the  word  brotherhood  for 
self  and  you  have  started. 

Work  is  anything  one  dislikes  to  do. 

Until  the  law  legalizes  the  killing 
of  reformers  there  will  always  be 
a  weak  spot  in  our  criminal  code. 


He  who  has  enough — good  health 
and  a  few  good  friends — is  rich.  And 
he  who  has  more  than  this  has  less. 

The  thought  that  hits  only  above 
the  eyebrow  has  a  small  audience 
compared  with  that  which  travels 
at  heart  level. 


The  best  "  why  "  of  your  being  here 
is  often  that  somebody  needs  you. 

To  many  men  the  only  thing  as 
beautiful  as  a  blonde  is  a  brunette. 

A  hypocrite  is  safer  as  an  enemy 
than  as  a  friend. 

The  banker  has  the  enviable  dis- 
tinction of  being  the  only  man  the 
public  both  thanks  and  pays  for 
the  use  of  its  own  money. 


The  student  who  thinks  he  has  a 
finished  education,  when  he  leaves 
college,  will  go  through  life  unedu- 
cated t>^  »^ 

The  mortuary  test  of  business  is  to 
see  whether  a  man  is  alive  to  new 
ideas.  If  not,  the  undertaker  is  wait- 
ing <»  <» 

The  hair-line,  separating  genius 
from  insanity,  is  easily  crossed  in 
an  effort  to*  inunortalize  oneself  s^ 


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From  One  Lawyer  to  Another 


Mmrilla  M.  Ricker* 


X^  the  April  number  of  Case 
and  Comment  was  an  article 
by  Walter  George  Smith, 
President  of  the  American 
Bar  Association,  entitled  "  Victor- 
ious Peace,"  in  which  the  writer 
emphasizes  the  importance  of  so- 
called  "  Spiritual  influences "  in 
helping  to  secure  this  "  Victorious 
Peace,"  after  the  dose  of  the  present 
war  in  Europe.  These  "  spiritual 
influences  '*  are  supposed  to  ema- 
nate from  the  religious  principles 
taught  by  the  Christian  diurches, 
or  result  frcMn  the  underlying  tenets 
of  dogmatic  Christianity. 
Much  is  said  in  the  article  of  Ger- 
man Materiidism,  and  its  injurious 
eflect  upon  civilization.  I  hold  no 
brief  to  defend  any  philosophy 
which  merits  condemnation,  but  in 
the  progress  of  the  human  race  the 
development  of  material  things  has 
played  a  brilliant  and  important 
part,  and  its  triumphs  should  be 
acknowledged  and  fittingly  honored 
whether  these  triumphs  were  won 
in  Germany,  in  Italy,  or  anywhere 
else  «»  »^ 

I  can  not  agree  with  Mr.  Smith  that 
the  defects  of  our  existing  civiliza- 
tion dan  be  remedied  by  the  appli- 
cation of  any  religious  influence  <» 
The  evil  of  which  he  complains  is 


not  materialism;  it  is  hypocrisy  in 
religion.  The  people  of  this  country 
are  not  intelligent  where  they  are 
religious,  or  else  they  are  dishonest. 
There  is  no  lack  of  faith  in  Chris- 
tianity, consequently  no  drouth  of 
spiritual  influences  «»  The  Masses 
believe  the  Christian  superstitions 
without  understanding  the  nature 
of  them  or  the  purpose  which 
prompts  their  promulgation  «»  Our 
Nation  is  suffering  today  and  has 
suffered  in  the  past  from  the  riche? 
of  faith  and  the  poverty  of  practise. 
The  Christian  Church  (the  great 
reservoir  of  spiritual  influence)  has, 
during  its  entire  career,  put  its 
religious  emphasis  upon  faith  and 
not  upon  conduct,  and  has  rewarded 
the  person  who  believed,  rather  than 
the  person  who  behaved  <»  Chris- 
tianity, up  to  the  Fifteenth  Cen- 
tury, prevented  civilization  by  de- 
stroying the  greatest  and  brightest 
of  the  human  race,  and  by  putting 
out  the  light  of  knpwledge  wherever 
its  power  was  felt,  postponed  the 
revival  of  letters  and  the  advent  of 
science — ^the  Saviors  of  Man. 


^QTPIRITUAL  influences  have  no 
^^  civilizing  power,  for  the  reason 
that  they  encourage  worship  rather 
than  work.  It  is  not  by  blindly  fol- 
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lowing  Christ  (whoever  is  meant  by 
that  term)  that  mankind  has  made 
any  intelligent  progress,  but  by 
endeavoring  to  secure  right  and 
justice.  Where  man  has  accepted 
the  Messianic  idea  he  has  narrowed 
his  intellectual  vision  and  corrupted 
his  moral  judgment. 
In  the  readjustment  of  National 
relations  after  the  European  war  is 
ended,  religion  will  have  to  be  con- 
sidered »^  That  its  influence  over 
rulers  and  legislative  bodies  will  be 
greatly  curtailed  is  a  foregone  con- 
clusion. A  church  which  claims  rival 
powers  with  a  ix>litical  government 
can  not  help  in  maintaining  national 
integrity,  and  must  be  treated  as  an 
enemy  by  every  nation  on  earth. 
The  many  bodies  of  Christian  belief 
will  be  forced  in  the  new  order  of 
things  to  drop  their  denominational 
characteristics.  There  will  be  only 
one  Christianity.  Out  of  the  present 
chaotic  state  of  religious  faith  must 
come  an  agreement  as  to  what  con- 
stitutes religion:  It  is  only  truth  to 
say  that  most  of  the  Christian  dog- 
mas are  dead.  Total  depravity  is 
a  total  wreck  »^  Predestination  is 
doomed  where  there  are  brains. 
Justification  by  faith  where  there 
is  no  justificati<)n  by  conduct,  is 
an  insult  to  decent  persons.  In  fact, 
there  is  absolutely  no  sense  in  any 
of  the  articles  of  faith  which  were 
agreed  upon  by  the  Christian  clergy 
in  the  year  1562.  These  articles  were 


outgrown  and  rejected  years  ago, 
.and  should  be  known  as  the  dead 
faith  of  dead  ecclesiastics.  What 
kind  of  spiritual  influences  can  come 
from  a  dead  religion?  »^  Christians 
must  face  the  fact  that  their  faith 
contributes  nothing  to  civilization.. 
This  age  is  under  no  obligation  to 
tombstones.  The  two  leading  pre- 
cepts of  Christianity  are  "  Save 
your  Soul "  and  "  Save  your  Dol- 
lars." Greed  roots  in  the  Christian 
faith  »^  »^ 

If  the  Christian  Church  can  escape 
the  imputation  of  materialism  our 
civilization  has  nothing  to  fear  in 
that  direction  »^  But,  admit  that 
material  things  have  received  greater 
honor  than  they  deserve  and  that 
today  they  occupy  a  higher  place 
in  human  estimation  than  is  their 
due,  how  can  this  condition  be 
remedied  by  teaching  what  is  false 
and  by  spiritual  influences  which 
emanate  from  what  never  existed? 
I  claim  that  there  is  nothing  super- 
natural, never  was  anything  sui>er- 
natural  and  never  can  be  anything 
sui>ematural.  Supernatural  persons 
or  things  are  manufactured  for  the 
purpose  of  deceiving  the  credulous 
and  childish.  Whatever  exists  that 
is  not  natural  may  be  safely  con- 
sidered as  fabulous.  Every  story  of 
miraculous  births  is  imreliable  and 
every  accoimt  of  miracles  has  no 
better  foundation  than  tradition  or 
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'^^HERE  is  a  call  to  the  brain  of 
V-r  man  today  which  must  be 
answered.  That  call  will  separate 
the  honest  from  the  dishonest  »^ 
The  one  great  curse  of  this  age  is 
the  silent  h3rpocrisy  in  the  churches. 
It  will  be  demanded  to  know  where 
every  one  stands.  The  wise  silence 
of  the  pews  is  to  be  broken.  The 
religions  for  revenue  will  have  to 
show  their  colors.  What  are  you 
in  the  church  for,  is  the  question 
which  will  put  an  end  to  America's 
greatest  sham — ^hypocrisy  »^  Open 
opposition  is  honest  and  respectable, 
but  silent  agreement  may  be  dis- 
honest and  reprehensible.  How  can 
it  be  known  whether  a  person  be- 
lieves the  Christian  creed  or  not, 
what  are  the  signs  which  should 
distinguish  the  believer  from  the 
unbeliever?  Happily  we  have  the 
declaration  of  the  person  regarded 
as  the  Christ,  by  all  professing 
Christians,  to  help  us.  In  the  six- 
teenth verse  of  the  sixteenth  chapter 
of  the  Grospel  according  to  Mark, 
we  read:  **  and  these  signs  shall 
follow  them  that  believe;  in  my 
name  shall  they  cast  out  devils; 
they  shall  speak  with  new  tongues; 
they  shall  take  up  serpents;  and  if 
they  drink  any  deadly  thing  it  shall 
not  hurt  them;  they  shall  lay  hands 
on  the  sick  and  they  shall  recover.'* 
H,  These  words  from  the  mouth  of 
Jesus  make  all  the  creeds  of  all  the 
churches  in  the  world  unnecessary 


for  Christians.  In  what  church  shall 
we  find  those  who  bdieve?  Can  one 
believer,  according  to  this  test,  be 
found  on  earth?  Can  one  person  be 
saved  according  to  the  words  we 
have  quoted?  If  there  were  a  man 
on  this  globe  who  possessed  the 
gospel  requisites  for  a  true  believer, 
he  would  not  be  found  in  a  Christian 
Church  but  in  a  dime  museum  »^ 
If  there  is  a  baser  materialism  than 
is  contained  in  the  religious  prac- 
tises of  the  Christian  Church  it  has 
escaped  the  investigator  and  the 
historian.  The  civilized  man  prefers 
health  and  happiness  here  to  harps 
and  heaven  hereafter,  not  only 
because  they  are  less  materialistic, 
but  also  because  they  are  more 
sensible.  We  do  not  need  more  of 
Christian  influences  to  remedy  the 
defects  of  our  civilization,  but  less. 
H,  There  can  be  no  question  but 
what  the  telegraph  and  tdephone, 
wireless  telegraphy,  the  gasoline 
engine,  which  made  possible  the 
automobile  and  the  airplane,  to- 
gether with  all  those  inventions 
which  confer  blessings  upon  the 
human  race,  belong  in  the  list  of 
material  things,  but  what  so-called 
"  spiritual  influences  "  have  bright- 
ened the  life  of  man  in  equal  pro- 
ixjrtion?  Wireltss  telegraphy  has 
been  the  means  of  saving  the  lives 
of  thousands  at  sea,  where  prayer 
has  never  saved  one.  The  automo- 
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to  the  hospital,  has  rescued  hun- 
dreds from  death  and  restored  loved 
ones  to  their  homes  and  families, 
where  foolish  faith  would  have  left 
them  to  die.  The  world  owes  to 
science  and  human  invention  about 
all  of  civilization.  Knowledge  has 
put  all  mankind  in  its  debt.  While 
reUgion  has  been  counting  its  beads 
or  saying  its  prayers,  science  has 


rendered  such  performances  super- 
fluous »^  Men  and  women  have 
asked  aid  of  the  supernatural,  but 
have  never  received  any  aid  from 
that  source.  The  only  thing  that  has 
come  from  heaven  is  <Usappoint- 
ment.  The  defects  in  our  existing 
rdigion — the  mother  of  simitual 
influences  are  greater  than  the 
defects  in  our  existing  civilization. 


The  Monster  and  Moloch 

Harry  V.  Dougherty 


rr  appears  to  me  after  re- 
flection on  what  has  hap- 
pened as  a  result  of  the 
ambitious  directions  of  the 
Kaiser  in  the  past  few  years  that 
we  do  the  Animal  Kingdom  an 
injustice  to  call  Wilhelm  "The 
Beast  of  Berlin."  The  average  beast, 
not  insane,  generally  minds  his  own 
business,  and,  if  not  annoyed,  will 
continue  to  do  so.  The  only  place 
the  Kaiser  as  **  The  Beast  of  Ber- 
lin "  compares  with  the  beasts  of 
the  jungle,  it  seems  to  me,  is  when 
in  the  solitude  of  the  room  in  his 
Potsdam  Palace,  wherein  are  hung 
the  paintings  of  his  ancestors,  he 
mutters  to  himself: 

"  What  an  aflUcted  conscience  do 
I  live  with,  and  what  a  beast 
I  *ve  grown." 
To  be  beastly  or  accused  of  beastli- 
ness means  to  be  without  reason 


and  rather  stupid.  I  doD*t  see  how 
he  can  be  without  what  he  never 
possessed.  As  for  being  stupid,  this 
he  comes  by  "  Hunistly  "  for  he  has 
started  something  he  can  not  finish 
and  like  his  Hun  ancestor  Attila 
when  he  invaded  Gaul  in  the  Fifth 
Century  "  after  scrutinizing  the 
entrails  of  his  victims  and  scraping 
their  bones,  they  revealed  in  myste- 
rious language  his  inevitable  d^eat 
as  a  result  of  his  unreasoning  stu- 
pidity." No  one  knows  this  better 
than  Bill  himself.  We  hear  him 
referred  to  at  times  as  **  The  German 
Savage."  What  a  libel  on  the  savage! 
C  Darwin,  after  attending  a  meet- 
ing between  Captain  Fitzroy  and  a 
savage  chief  of  a  small  island  near 
Tahiti  in  the  South  Seas,  to  settle 
a  question  of  compensation  for 
injury  to  an  English  ship,  said, 
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surprise  at  the  extreme  good  sense, 
reasoning  powers,  moderation,  can- 
dor and  prompt  resolution  which 
were  displayed  by  this  savage  chief." 
€L  It  seems  to  me  that  at  no  time 
during  the  present  war  has  this 
arrogant  war-maniac  shown  a  par- 
ticle of  the  civilized  faculties  of  this 
so-called  savage. 

Other  explorers,  missionaries,  sea- 
captains  and  visitors  to  the  abode 
of   savages   all   speak  of  them   as 
being  liberal,  brave,  open,  candid, 
without  either  suspicion  or  treach- 
ery, cruelty,  or  revenge. 
Has  the  Kaiser  at  any  time  from 
the  time  when  he  cast  off  an  honor- 
able treaty  as  a  ''  mere  scrap  of 
paper  "  to  the  Picardy  drive,  where 
he,    in   the   art   of  destroying   the 
hvtman    species,    makes    his    Hun 
ancestor  Attila  in  comparison,  look 
like  a  leak  in  a  hot-water  bag  com- 
pared to  Niagara  Falls,  shown  the 
least  signs  of  these  human  traits? 
Q,  The  most  appropriate  name  for 
this  pest  and  scourge  of  the  world 
would  be:  "  The  Monster  that  out- 
monsters  Moloch,"  whom  the  Can- 
aanitish  tribes  looked  upon  as  the 
sun — representing  destruction  in  its 
fiercest  aspect.  Maybe  it  is  to  this 
God  of  Destruction  that  he  refers 
when   he   says   "  Ich   imd   Gott." 
Monster,  that 's  the  name  befitting 
him.  "  A  person  regarded  with  hor- 
ror because  of  his  moral  deformity, 
or  his  propensity  to  commit  revolt- 


ing or  unnatural  crimes.'*  Goethe 
once  said:  "  An  uneducated  German 
is  a  barbarian,  but  when  educated, 
and  the  moral  balance  is  absent, 
you  have  a  monster."  Over  fifty 
years  ago  this  utterance  by  Ger- 
many's greatest  philosopher:  he 
spoke  as  a  prophet  and  better  than 
he  knew  »^  »^ 

Oscar  Hertwig,  a  German  author- 
ity on  inherited  characters,  says 
**  through  the  idioplasm  theory 
traits  can  come  down  to  us  from 
ancestors  a  thousand  years  back." 
Whether  he 's  right  or  not  time 
and  science  alone  will  prove.  If  so, 
then  the  theory  in  the  case  of  the 
Kaiser  and  Attila  nms  true,  only 
the  traits  of  Attila  came  down  to 
Wilhelm  quadrupled  in  strength, 
and  made  of  him  a  Twentieth  Cen- 
tury Moloch. 

We  all  belong  to  each  other,  but 
friendship  is  the  especial  accord  of 
one  life  with  a  kindred  life.  We 
tremble  at  the  threshold  of  any  new 
friendship  with  awe  and  wonder  and 
fear  lest  it  should  not  be  real  or, 
believing  that  it  is,  lest  we  should 
prove  ourselves  unworthy  of  this 
solemn  and  holy  contact  of  life  with 
life,  of  soul  with  ^oul.  We  can  not 
live  unworthy  lives  in  the  constant 
presence  of  noble  beings  to  whom 
we  belong  aud  who  believe  that  we 
are  at  least  endeavoring  after 
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Is  it  love,  or  wealth  or  fame 

That 's  the  aoul  of  a  man? 
Or  lifelong  strife  for  a  name? 
Is  it  contentment  and  ease, 
With  none  but  himself  to  please? 
Is  it  a  longing  for  art. 
Or  life  from  the  world  apart. 
That 's  the  soul  of  a  man? 

Is  it  desire  or  greed 

That 's  the  soul  of  a  man? 
Or  unattainable  speed? 
Is  it  living  for  others, 
Loving  all  men  as  brothers? 
Is  it  the  love  of  power 
Or  love  of  a  human  ilow'r. 

That 's  the  soul  of  a  man? 

The  source  of  a  spring  is  higher — 

That  *s  the  soul  of  a  man, 
Seek  it  not  in  clay  or  mire. 
The  soul  of  a  man,  filled  with  love, 
Gushes  from  fountains  above 
When  touched  by  the  budding  rod — 
^  Man's  soul  is  the  breath  of  God, 
That 's  the  soul  of  a  man. 


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uf  Bu*1|]j:m  Is  tho  Bi9giT^f>ft  vf  LfJe/* 
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as   I   dare;  and  dare  a  httle  more  as  I  grow  older."^ 

Felicitations 

Felix  Shay 


Ireland  Must  and 
England  Must 

^t^t^^  HE  cause  of  Humanity  is 
'^  M  /^  at  stake.  There  are  400,- 
^L^V  000  men  of  military  age 
^™^^  in  Ireland  who  are  need- 
ed at  The  Front.  The  Hun  must 
be  defeated  «^  He  must  be  driven 
back  and  buried  in  his  own 
shambles.  Ireland's  duty  is  clear. 
Ireland  can  not  stay  out  of  this 
fight  and  ever  again  hope  to  gain 
the  sympathetic  ear  of  mankind  «^ 
Delay  is  fatal.  The  Allies  may  strike 
the  decisive  blow,  before  the  honor 
is  given  to  Ireland  to  join  in.  No 
matter  what  England  does,  or  En- 
gland does  not  do,  Ireland  must  go 
in  now, 

DeValera,  and  Devlin,  and  dour 
John  Dillon  might  better  employ 
their  time  recruiting  a  Volunteer 
Irish  Army  that  for  better  or  worse 
would  go  into  the  fight  as  Irishmen, 
than  fomenting  revolt,  and  frothing 
at  the  mouth  about  Ireland's  wrongs 
and  rights. 
The  eyes  of  the  world  are  on  Ire- 


land. Though  we  well  know  it  is 
the  practise  of  nations  to  drive  the 
bargain  first,  such  practises  are  out 
of  harmony  with  the  ix>pular  idea 
of  the  generous  and  free-hearted 
ways  of  Irishmen.  Ireland  must  go 
into  the  fight  and  ioon^  with  the 
fuU  strength  of  their  400,000  new 
troops  to  join  the  thousands  and 
thousands  of  Irishmen  who  are 
already  at  the  Front  in  the  English 
and  American  Armies. 
So  much  for  what  Ireland  must  do! 
C  And  now  for  a  word  of  reproof 
to  England: 

There  arc  already  hundreds  of  hun- 
dreds of  thousands  of  Irishmen  who 
have  been  "Over  There"  in  the 
English  Army  for  three  years.  But 
rardy  a  word  of  their  doings  ever 
breaks  through  the  English  Censor- 
ship? The  Englishmen  did  this,  and 
the  Canadians  did  that;  the  Scots 
did  this  and  the  Australians  did 
that;  the  New  Zealander  did  some- 
thing else.  The  iminformed,  and 
there  are  many,  in  America  and 
elsewhere,  would  never  know  from 
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there  are  nearly  a  mUlion  Irishmen 
in  the  English  Army  alone.  Not  a 
single  word  of  the  work  accom- 
plished by  the  Irish  soldiers  so  far 
in  this  war,  have  I  read;  and  I  see 
as  many  publications  as  the  next 
man.  Only  there  comes  along  per- 
petually, a  detailed  and  Pickwickian 
accoimt  of  the  political  squabblimg 
in  Dublin!  Ah,  but  this  is  mean  and 
lowly  treatment  England  gives  Ire- 
land and  Irish  soldiers. 
Then  the  other  day,  in  the  midst  of 
the  flagrant  trouble  over  EngUuid 
conscripting  Irishmen,  I  read  that 
John  French,  the  General  who  was 
not  good  enough  to  lead  the  English 
into  battle,  the  General  who  had 
been  promoted  backwards,  a  la 
General  Wood,  from  the  chief  com- 
mand of  the  French  Front  to  com- 
mand one  of  England's  Home  Guard 
Brig£^des  is  now  to  be  made  the  big 
military  Pooh-Bah  of  Ireland. 
That 's  a  gr-r-rand  and  diplomatic 
choice! 

^YEEMS  to  me  I  remember  that 
h^  John  French  is  the  same  En- 
glish General,  stationed  in  Dublin, 
who  refused  to  put  down  the  Orange- 
men Rebellion  led  by  that  renegade 
Carson  in  the  times  back  before  the 
war!  Could  a  man  be  selected,  with 
fewer  qualifications  for  the  job  of 
bringing  order  out  of  chaos  in  Ire- 
land? f»  »^ 
Englishmen  are  generally  supposed 


to  be  stupid;  I  have  some  English 
friends  who  rather  take  pride  in  it. 
When  they  send  an  apostate  like 
French,  a  General  who  is  anathema 
to  the  Irish  as  is  French,  to  rule  in 
Ireland  at  a  time  when  the  Irish  are 
in  such  a  super-sensitive  and  tragic 
humor,  the  English  Diplomacy 
reaches  sublime  heights  of  stupidity 
and  assininity  undreamed  of  hereto- 
fore. 

Think  of  it.  Closely  matched  as  the 
world-war  contestants  are,  these 
potential  400,000  Irish  Soldiers  may 
be  the  deciding  factor  to  bring  ^^c- 
tory  to  the  Allies.  Military  men 
agree  that  man  ixjwer,  and  only 
that,  will  win  this  war! 
You  remember  how  California 
brought  Victory  to  Woodrow 
Wilson?  Well,  something  like  that. 
As  we  say  in  East  Aurora,  "  There 
ought  to  be  a  law  **  to  prevent 
England  from  burning  up  a  poten- 
tial asset  like  400,000  Irish  scddiers, 
men  of  a  long  distinguished  fighting 
race  s^  s^ 

The  situation  as  it  exists  today  is 
this:  Ireland  is  united  agpainst  Con- 
scription. They  say  it  will  take  two 
English  soldiers  to  bring  each  con- 
scripted Irishman  into  action  9^ 
England  can  not  spare  those  two 
English  soldiers.  Ireland  is  ablaze 
with  Revolution.  "  The  Law  "  as 
such  is  defied  and  scouted. 
The  trouble  is  not  that  the  Irishmen 
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to  Englishmen  conscripting  Irish- 
men   «»  »^ 

Because  Ireland  is  Pro-German?  »^ 
Please,  my  friends,  my  friends,  don't 
make  that  mistake.  Irishmen  and 
Germans  have  not  a  single  thing  in 
common  s^  9^ 

Irishmen  and  French  have  much. 
Irishmen  and  Jews  have  much  »^ 
Irishmen  and  Americans  have  much. 
These  are  all  intelligent,  quick,  sym- 
pathetic, fair-minded. 
Irishmen  and  Englishmen  have  a 
little.  The  Englishman  is  cold  and 
slow  moving.  The  Irishman  is  quick, 
and  a  torch.  But  they  have  been 
fighting  each  other  for  centuries, 
and  for  all  their  incriminations  and 
harsh  words  they  have  developed  a 
deal  of  mutual  respect. 
Irishmen  and  Germans,  what  have 
they  in  common?  By  the  gods,  and 
my  forefathers,  nothing,  ilothing, 
not  anything!  »^  In  their  heart  of 
hearts,  the  Irish  are  aching  to  get 
into  this  fight  against  the  brutal 
Huns.  But  they  demand  to  go  in 
as  Freemen  and  not  as  Conquered 
and  Conscripted  Subjects  of  Another 
Race  »^  »^ 

It 's  a  heart-sickening  indictment  of 
England's  treatment  of  Ireland, 
when  the  Irish  in  a  wild  and  suicidal 
frenzy  turn  away  from  friendly 
France  and  friendly  America,  and 
say,  "  We  'd  rather  die  in  Dublin 
on  our  doorsteps  than  fight  for  an 
unregenerate  England!  " 


'^^HE  Irish  have  gone  mad.  I 
V7  admit  it. 

They  have  gone  mad  for  this  reason. 
They  had  heard  and  listened  to 
much  of  this  high-minded  palaver 
about  Freedom  for  Belgium,  ibr 
Servia,  for  Montenegro,  for  Bohe- 
mia, for  Poland,  for  Hungary,  for 
Rumania,  for  all  the  numerically 
Little  Nations,  who  are  under  the 
thumb  of  the  Great  Nations.  Ire- 
land believed  and  trusted.  John 
Redmond,  when  the  war  came, 
offered  the  resources  and  man  ix>wer 
of  Ireland  to  England  and  the  Cause. 
More  than  800,000  Irishmen  went 
into  the  fight  in  English  Uniforms, 
trusting  to  England  for  a  Square 
Deal.  This  number  is  two^ thirds  of 
all  the  men  Ireland  can  possibly 
give  &^  »^ 

And  now  what?  After  three  years, 
not  one  word  of  hope  from  England 
for  a  subjugated  Ireland;  a  Nation 
that  has  contributed  more  to  En- 
gUuid's  greatness  in  men  and  accom- 
plishment than  can  ever  be  esti- 
mated. England  offers  Irishmen  not 
freedom,  b\it  conscription  and  the 
chance  to  die  in  bonds. 
The  Irish,  who  are  not  English,  not 
of  the  same  Country  or  Race  at  all, 
but  the  loyal  sons  of  another  Coun- 
try and  another  Race,  ask  England 
"  What  about  Freedom  for  Ire- 
land? "  Not  Conditional  Freedom; 
not  Supervised  Freedom,  but 
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'T  would  cost  England  ao  little  to 
take  the  chains  off  Ireland?  Why 
not  do  it?  Is  there  a  fair  and  sensible 
man  Aether  English  or  Irish  who 
will  not  agree  it  should  be  done? 
Actually  England  does  n't  want  Ire- 
land. Ireland  is  and  always  was  an 
expensive  luxury  to  England. 
Too,  I  would  fain  admit  England 
has  just  grievances;  the  Irish  are  not 
necessarily  the  pleasantest  neigh- 
bors. The  Irish  are  an  annoying 
and  exasperating  lot  (I  know  be- 
cause I  *m  of  the  breed!)  which  of 
course  is  all  the  more  reason  why 
England  should  turn  the  Irishmen 
loose  to  go  their  way. 
Instead  England,  stubbornly  and 
unfairly,  be  it  said,  holds  on.  Not 
for  the  sake  of  England,  or  Ireland, 
but  for  the  sake  of  stubbornness. 
But  isn't  it  time  now  for  Reason 
to  step  in — and  Justice? 
All  that  England,  all  that  Lloyd 
George  needs  to  do  tomorrow  is  to 
say  "  Ireland  is  Free!  "  and  hun- 
dreds of  thousands  of  Irishmen  will 
volunteer,  and  millions  of  unsolicited 
money  will  pour  in  to  send  an  Army 
of  Free  Irishmen,  not  a  vassal-army 
of  make-believe  Englishmen,  to 
France  s^  &^ 

All  that  the  Irish  ask  is  the  oppor- 
tunity to  fight  as  FREE  MEN  and 
to  fly  the  Green  Flag  with  the  Gold 
Harp  over  their  own  trenches  "  Over 
There."  Can  a  single  American  who 
loves  that  fair  and  free  symbol  of 


Liberty,  the  Stars  and  Strips,  fail 
to  sympathize  with  Ireland  in  this 
tragic  hour? 

*  *  *  « 

Even  so,  I  say  again,  if  England 
Witt  not  act  in  keeping  with  her 
oft-promised  promises  and  set  Ire- 
land free,  then  the  Irish  should 
VOLUNTEER  and  go  in  and  die 
as  men  in  bonds.  Never  did  slaves 
die  for  a  higher  Cause  than  Liberty, 
and  this  fight  against  Germany  is  a 
fight  for  Human  Liberty. 

Dore's  Sad  Art 

■L  ^^  l«iETHER  I  end  up 
^^^f     V  in  Heaven  or  Hell, 
M^J^^  if  the  place  does  not 
^^  look  like  Paul  Gus- 

tav  Dore's  pictures,  I  will  be  dis- 
appointed sm  Truth  in  advertising 
must  be  maintained. 
The  Family  Bible  in  my  father's 
house  was  a  Dore  Bible.  From  those 
dark  and  morbid  landscapes,  I  re- 
ceived my  early  religious  education. 
The  impression  made  on  my  mind 
is  indelible. 

Dore's  sad  and  tragic  art  ranked 
high  in  the  favor  of  the  sanctified 
flagellants  of  fifty  years  ago.  They 
liked  his  work  because  he  made  Hell 
seem  more  Hellish.  He  scared  us 
sinners  sick;  that  was  what  was 
wanted  &^  &^ 

Of  course  you  have  seen  a  Dore 
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Murder  of  Abel;  The  Fate  of  LoVs 
Wife;  The  Death  of  Samson;  he 
gony  in  the  Garden;  The  Cntci- 
^hdon.  These  gloomy  outlines  of 
Omnipotent's  vengeance  are  offered 
us  to  illumine  our  conception  of 
Jesus  the  Christ's  Religion  of  Love 
and  Forgiveness. 

You  remember  Dore's  terrible,  ter- 
ror-stricken pictures  of  The  Flood. 
Great  jnasses  of  Humanity  piled  and 
interwoimd  like  wet  worms;  stark 
naked,  clinging,  cringing,  clutching, 
dying,  dead  Hiunanity;  babies  slip- 
ping from  their  mothers'  arms  into 
the  maw  and  roar  of  the  waters, 
d  William  Randolph  Hearst  in  his 
palmiest  days  never  faked  a  photo- 
graph, X  marks  the  spot  where  the 
murderer  stood,  to  equal  the  artistic 
realizations  of  certain  of  Gustav 
Dore's  visions  of  Hell  and  its  Sub- 
urbs *^  9^ 

Dore  was  a  Frenchman,  born  in 
Strasburgh.  He  lived  from  1833  t^ 
1883  in  Paris.  He  was  an  infant 
prodigy  ahd  exhibited  in  The  Salon 
before  he  was  fifteen. 
The  frightfulncss  and  fear  betrayed 
in  his  sketches  were  quickly  capital- 
ized by  the  Church  and  the  Higher 
Moralists  of  that  mediocre,  hypo- 
critical period  called  "  Victorian." 
Dore  was  taken  up,  embraced,  and 
made  much  of  by  the  church  and 
society.  Like  a  number  of  other  able 
men,  similarly  blessed,  he  was  ruined 
by  this  premature  appreciation  from 


such    undersized    and    undiscrimi- 
nating  minds. 

Dore  never  took  sufficient  time  to 
study  and  school  himself  and  so  he 
never  mastered  his  art.  He  never 
qualified  as  an  Arist  to  other  artists. 
He  exhibits  a  wonderful  natural 
gift,  but  little  more.  His  "  drawing  " 
is  faulty;  his  lack  of  "  color  **  con- 
spicuous f»  He  was  not  even  an 
average  good  draughtsman! 
Sincere  artists  think  little  of  Dore, 
but,  of  course,  admit  his  ability  to 
send  a  shiver  along  the  spine  »^ 
After  he  finished  up  the  most 
Christian  Bible  he  took  a  whack 
at  Dante's  Inferno,  Friends  and 
Fellow  Countrymen,  if  you  ever 
want  to  inspect  a  Hell  that  is  some 
Hell,  just  step  down  to  the  Public 
Library  and  ask  them  to  trot  out 
Dante,  Dore  A  Co. 

^i^iEN  to  show  his  cheerful  dis- 
^^  position  Dore  tackled  Cole- 
ridge's Ancient  Mariner.  You  know 
that  dreary  tale  of  pemiciousness, 
bad  luck,  |>estilence  and  despair  9^ 
Of  course  Coleridge  wrote  that 
God-forsaken  yam  on  the  morning 
after  the  night  before.  That  you 
can  plainly  tell  by  the  quotation, 
"  Water,  water  everywhere,  nor  any 
drop  to  drink!  "  But  therein  Dore 
who  was  standing  in  his  slough  of 
despond,  up  to  his  neck,  in  his  own 
murky  art,  saw  another  chance  to 
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the  world,  and  fcnthwith  he  did. 

"  The  very  deep  did  rot:  O  Christ! 

That  ever  this  should  be! 

Yea,  slimy  things  did  crawl  with 

legs 
Upon  the  slimy  sea." 

When  I  open  my  copies  of  Dore 
to  scan  the  choice  result  of  his  life's 
work,  and  feel  the  Heavens  dis- 
appearing into  the  blue,  and  Hell 
growing  hot  imder  my  feet,  there 
comes  over  me  a  quick  and  righteous 
contempt.  I  want  to  call  out  into 
space  and  tell  Dore,  sizzling  in  his 
own  handmade  Hell,  that  his  draw- 
ings are  false  and  useless,  that  he 
villainously  betrayed  the  hospi- 
tality of  Mother  Earth:  That  he 
sorrowed  and  prayed  and  wept  when 
he  should  have  laughed  and  played 
and  been  glad!  That  he  misunder- 
stood and  misused  the  privilege 
of  Life  »^  »^ 

Y^W^NTE  loved  and  lost  Beatrice 
^^^and  moped  through  the  rest 
of  his  day  on  earth  working  out  a 
ground-plan  for  a  geometrical  hades. 
He  would  have  added  more,  not 
less,  to  the  world's  store  of  comfort 
and  satisfaction  and  good-cheer,  had 
he  gone  and  got  himself  another 
lithe  and  temperamental  little  Guin- 
ea Girl  with  soft  eyes,  and  red  lips, 
and  a  firm,  shapely,  olive-colored 
body — with,  say,  a  waft  of  garlic 


to  her  breath,  and  a  stiUeto  in  her 
stocking-top. 

Coleridge?  Well  Coleridge  securely 
and  smugly  styled  himself  a  Poet. 
He  knew  he  was!  »^  And  when  he 
wrote  his  own  epitaph,  as  he  did, 
he  valued  the  aforesaid  S.  T.  C.  as 
one  who  had  without  doubt  acquired 
fame.  Besides,  mind  you,  the  gentle- 
man acquired  a  taste  for  opium,  and 
practised  the   habit   for    years   «» 
Wouldn't  you  expect  some  wild, 
wind-jamming  tale  like  the  Ancient 
Mariner  from  such  a  sorry  genius? 
Q,  What  turned  Dore's  brain  askew? 
What  made  him  interpret  Life  in 
terms  of  Death?   You  will  never 
learn  from  me,  my  friends,  unless 
you  care  to  accept  the  unsubstanti- 
ated belief  that  he  gazed  too  much 
on  absinthe  when  it  was  green.  I 
do  not  know  why  he  did  it,  but  I 
do  know  he  was  wrong  in  doing  it. 
Wrong!  Wrong!  Wrong! 
This  is  a  happy  world  of  people  with 
light     hearts — naturally    pleasant, 
agreeable,  joyous  people.  Only  we 
occasionally  let  the  sad,  mad,  mean, 
sick  and  degenerate  members  of  the 
race  take  us  in  charge.  Then  we  go 
off  to  war,  or  down  to  hell,  or  both, 
as  the  case  may  be!  Then  it  is,  we 
forget  the  sunrises  on  the  mountain 
tops,   and  the   loving   hearts  and 
smiling  lips  of  those  we  love,  of 
those  who  love  vs.  I  say  it,  as  an 
Inspired  Prophet  of  the  Great^X, 
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strife  and  the  hatred,  this  world  is 
a  Happy  World,  and  tomorrow  it 
will  be  a  Happier  One. 

The  Profiteers  of 
NCilitarism 

^^^^  HE  Ides  of  March  have 
M  ^^  come — gone!  The  Profit- 
^^^^W  eers  of  Militarism,  that 
treacherous,  skulking 
breed,  still  plot  and  prepare  to  as- 
sassinate the  National  Honor! 
Tbcae  cold-hearted  pretenders  plot 
trouble  the  while  they  make 
"  Patriotic  "  appeals,  and  pray  to 
the  Future  for  the  protection  of  the 
American  peof^e.  They  say  they 
fear  something  will  happen! — ^As  if 
there  could  be  anything  more 
happen  than  that  which  is  happen- 
ing!— ^They  want  Universal  Training 
for  Yoimg  America  for  all  time! 
They  want  this  Nation  remade  into 
a  Military  Drill  Ground  (with  lots 
of  profitable  orders  for  rifles  and 
guns,  uniforms  and  things!)  They 
want  the  American  youth  to  be 
educated  after  the  German  model 
— ^taught  to  become  scientific 
niurderers.  They  want  to  insure  the 
continuance  of  war. 
Because  of  this  War's  fright  and 
panic,  they  hope  to  succeed.  In  the 
general  excitement  and  uproar  they 
hope  to  slip  a  Bill  past  the  U.  S. 
House  and  Senate!  They  hope  to 
convert  this  Nation  of  Freedom  into 


a  Military  Autocracy.  That  they 
cannot  do!  We  will  have  none  of  it! 
Woe  to  him  who  risks  the  temper  of 
the  American  people  once  the  toll 
of  the  World  War  is  counted! 
President  A^son  has  committed 
this  country  to  a  Peace  Policy  of  a 
nunimum  in  armaments!  God's 
love,  the  common  people  of  all  the 
war-mad  countries  are  one  with 
him  in  this! 

But,  we  have  the  Hellish  Deutsch  to 
defeat  first!  As  there  is  a  sky  above 
us,  we  will  defeat  them.  And  then — ? 
d  That  is  the  issue! 
What  will  we  do  then? 
V/Ui  the  Nations  recommence  the 
murderous  competition  of  larger 
armies,  bigger  guns,  more  battle- 
ships? Not  if  there  is  a  vestige  of 
sense  and  honesty  left  in  the  stricken 
mind  of  man. 

^W«HEN  the  World-Peace 
\a/  Terms  are  written,  boldly 
in  red  across  the  first  page  will  be 
this  phrase,  "  The  Victorious  Allied 
Nations  agree  to  convert  all  the 
warships  in  the  world — ^but  twelve, 
which  will  be  reserved  for  patrol  and 
peace  purposes — into  a  Merchant 
Marine;  all  the  Ammimition  Plants 
into  Farm  Tractor  Manufactories, 
all  the  Forts  into  Summer  Resorts 
for  city  children;  all  the  Soldiers — 
but  an  International  Police  Force  of 
100,000— into  Workers!  The  Vic- 
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away  with  dormnkm  by  power!" 
d  The  leaders  of  the  Allied  Nations 
will  be  the  first  group  of  dvilized 
men»  so  positioned  they  are  able  to 
wipe  out  the  disgraceful  practise  of 
Legalized  Wholesale  Murder.  They 
can  do  it.  They  will — they  shall! 
The  slimy-souled  ghouls  who  want 
to  make  more  war  instnunents, 
more  war  equipment  after  this 
catastrophe  comes  to  a  dose — ^who 
want  to  paw  over  the  dead  bodies  of 
American  boys  for  more  profits — 
what   shall  we   do  with   them?   I 

venttu-e  the  Mob  will  tell  us  what! 

•  •  *  * 

Memorize  this  and  say  it  with 
your  morning  and  evening  prayers, 
"  If  this  war  brings  MILITARISM 
to  America  (Militarism  is  the  cor- 
rect name  for  Universal  Military 
Training,  to  wit,  teaching  the 
Military  Idea  of  Protection  and 
Conquest)  then  America  loses  the 
War,  loses  it  no  matter  what  hap- 
pens to  the  crazy  Kaiser  and  his 
Military  Deutschers." 
If  you  believe  in  a  FREE  America, 
if  you  want  to  get  rid  of  the  tre- 
mendous Tax  Burden  a  Military 
Establishment  always  carries  with 
it,  if  you  want  the  generations  to 
come  to  escape  another  bloody 
World  War,  talk  against  and  vote 
against  the  mealy-mouthed  scoun- 
drel who  agitates  Universal  Mili- 
tary Service  for  Young  Americans 
after  the  war. 


Please  Be  Human 

HBUSINESSMANof 
my  acquaintance  who 
is  worth  upwards  of  a 
half-million  dollars, 
walked  into  a  certain  bank  the  other 
day  to  negotiate  a  loan.  This  man's 
reputation  is  without  blemish;  hi^ 
assets  are  real  and  large  and  tangible. 
d  For  some  time  he  has  had  deal- 
ings with  that  bank,  but  he  asked 
few  '*  favors  "  and. those  he  did  ask 
he  did  not  consider  as  favors  at  all. 
You  see  his  idea  is  that  a  bank  is 
a  business  auxiliary  incorporated 
and  licensed  to  serve  business  and 
that  unl^  it  accomplishes  that 
purpose  it  fails. 

So  as  I  said  he  went  to  negotiate 
a  loan  without  any  meekness  in 
manner  or  fear  in  his  heart. 
He  was  directed  by  the  Official 
Handshaker  to  the  Vice-President's 
office.  The  door  stood  wide  open. 
He  walked  in. 

The  Vice-President,  a  sodety-bloke, 
a  foppish  cad,  sat  well-tilted  back 
in  his  easy  chair  nonchalantly  read- 
ing the  morning  paper.  He  was  quite 
consdous  of  the  arrival  of  my  friend. 
He  heard  the  step  on  the  wood  floor, 
he  felt  some  one  moving  toward  him, 
the  presence  of  a  person  within  arm's 
length.  But  he  never  batted  an  eye 
or  looked  up.  He  went  right  on 
reading  the  paper. 
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before  he  started  to  heat-up.  Even 
then  he  stood  up  and  waited  cahnly ; 
though  he  is  a  fighting  man. 
After  a  pause — a  pause  sufficient  to 
satisfy  the  dignity  and  esthetidsm 
of  that  washed-out  Vice-President 
descendant  of  a  wealthy  grandfather 
— ^Percy  Proudface  looked  up.  He 
simply  moved  his  eyelids  and  his 
Ups.  He  said  "  WeU? "  with  an 
inflection  upward. 
Kiy  friend  with  all  the  airbrakes  on 
retorted,  "Mr.  Proudface,  my  name 
is  Jones." 

"  Oh  yes,  I  know  you,  I  know  who 
you  are,"  returned  Percy  Proudface 
as  he  plucked  a  perfumed  cigarette 
from  a  golden  receptacle,  the  while 
artfully  maintaining  the  comfortable 
angle  of  his  chair. 
"  >Vell,"  said  my  friend,  "  I  'm  glad 
you  do,  because  that  makes  us  even. 
I  know  who  you  are  too,  and  what 
you  are,  and  I  consider  that  suf- 
ficient reason  to  take  my  business 
to  some  bank  that  is  conducted  by 
businessmen  for  businessmen.  You 
will  excuse  my  rudeness,  breaking 
in  on  your  morning  nap.'' 

^^^HAT  Bank  is  a  Business  Insti- 
^-7  tution.  The  thing  it  has  to  sell 
is  the  use  of  money.  The  interest 
asked  is  the  market-rate  for  the 
goods  it  has  to  offer.  The  security 
given  is  the  all-sufficient  insurance 
that  the  loan  will  be  paid.  The 
businessman,  my  friend,  who  was 


so  mistreated  by  that  degenerate 
parasite,  was  a  Customer,  and  Cus- 
tomers are  the  stuff  on  which  Busi- 
ness thrives  1 

But — and  that  "but"  explains 
much — ^BUT  banking  is  still  oper- 
ated in  this  country  as  a  sort  of 
bastard  profession.  It  harbors  all- 
too  many  of  the  high-collared, 
sweetly-scented,  third  generation 
men,  the  chaps  who  inherited 
Grandpa's  Wad  and  bought  the 
position  they  hold  down  so  inade- 
quately t^  •^ 

Of  course  all  Bankers  are  not  of 
that  breed;  not  even  all  the  officers 
of  one  bank  are  of  that  breed.  But 
by  some  perverse  law  of  internal 
management,  the  most  worthless 
and  useless  bit  of  human  bric-a-brac 
that  happens  to  hold  office  in  a  bank 
is  usually  given  the  job  of  granting 
or  refusing  loans. 

Of  course  the  whole  system  is  a 
farce.  Some  day  a  man  with  the 
proper  security  will  be  able  to  get 
a  loan  the  same  way  he  gets  a 
R.  R.  ticket,  or  a  glass  of  Coco  Cola. 
He  will  simply  walk  up  to  a  window 
and  serenely  say, "  I  want  so  much," 
and  lay  down  the  equivalent  secur- 
ity, and  it  will  be  passed  to  him 
without  the  usual  to-do  that  must 
be  gone  through  when  ffirting  with 
Fickle  Ferdie. 

Anyone  can  have  Money,  but  it 
takes  a  Genius  to  have  Ideas  *♦ 


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Ed  Ho^we  Discovera 
My  FaUibility 

E2NRY  MENCKEN,  Ed- 
itor-Owner of  Smart  Set, 
that  naiighty,  naughty 
experience-sheet  of  bou- 
doir-blue sentiments  and  sahnon- 
pink  epigrams,  says  Ed  Howe  is 
the  "  first "  writer  of  America. 
Maybe  Henry  Mencken  betieves 
this  and  maybe  not.  He  writes 
most  of  his  stuff  with  his  tongue 
in  his  cheek.  What  more  would 
you  expect  of  a  highly  moral,  and 
naturally  serious  and  philosophic- 
minded  Baltimore  bachelor,  whose 
frivolous  writings  nevertheless 
furbish  and  refurbish  the  spiritual 
sachets  and  ruffles,  the  silk- 
ruched  suspenders  and  talcum  for 
the  Smart  Set  dilettanti. 
Ed  Howe  is  the  very  antithesis  of 
Mencken.  He  is  a  callous-handed 
Kansas  Farmer,  who  lives  out  at 
Potato  Hill  Farm,  Atchison,  Kan- 
sas; who  edits  His  Own  Monthly, 
a  four-page  newspaper-size  Broad- 
side "  dedicated  to  Information  and 
Indignation  "  10  cents  a  year,  25 
cents  for  three  years — and  worth 
it.  He  sits  round  in  his  stocking- 
feet,  and  puts  the  world  right, 
b'  gosh.  He  *s  a  seamy,  crusty, 
gouty  old  gaffer,  with  opinions. 
He  ain't  afeared  of  no  man  alive. 
He  speaks  right  out. 
He  is  sincere,  honest. 


Where  then  you  ask  does  Henry 
Mencken,  all  lavender  and  lingerie 
and  love-screeds  hitch  up  with  this 
rust-proofed  old  son  of  a  potato- 
seeder?  Just  give  me  elbow-room 
and  1 11  tell  you.  Henry  Mencken 
knows  everything  and  believes  in 
nothing,  while  Ed  Howe — ^Well,  I 
said  it  before.  Old  Ed  is  honest. 
Howe  never  wrote  another  word  or 
crossed  out  one  already  written 
because  the  world  happened  to  be 
looking  over  his  shoulder. 
When  Mencken  came  along  with  his 
Diogenes  literary-lantern  and  dis- 
covered Ed  Howe,  a  writer  who  had 
not  sold  out  to  any  one,  who  was 
not  too  careful  of  his  "  career,"  who 
was  unafraid  to  put-it-into-print- 
straight,  who  would  walk  his  cow- 
hide boots  up  and  down  anybody's 
front  lawn — ^well,  you  ought  to 
know  how  it  ought  to  surprise  an 
Easterner  to  find  an  absolutely 
Honest  Man  «»  «» 
Henry  simk  down  onto  his  chaise- 
longue  in  a  swoon,  too  far  gone  for 
smelling-salts. 

Hours  after  when  he  came  to,  he 
smartly  set  Ed  Howe  at  the  head 
of  the  American  literary  bread-line. 
The  "  first  "  American  writer!  Well, 
why  not? 

■J[*' GREAT  writer  is  either  im- 
.^-*»pressively  right,  or  depres- 
singly  wrong.  He  is  seldom  an  in- 
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does  n't  choose  between  Fame  or 
Jail.  That  quality  distinguishes  Ed 
Howe.  Either  he 's  so  right  you 
want  to  cheer  him,  or  so  wrong  you 
want  to  hit  him  with  a  stocking  full 
of  ten-penny  nails.  He  's  a  tanta- 
Hztn'  an'  persnickety  old  cuss. 
Some  mcmths  ago  (December,  1917 
issue)  I  wrote  a  review  of  Ed  Howe's 
late  book  Success  Easier  Than  Fail- 
ure, (Send  75  cents,  Ed  Howe, 
Atchison,  Kansas).  I  ^d,  "  This 
book  will  <me  day  rank  with  Thomas 
Paine's  Age  of  Reason,  and  Karl 
Marx's  Capital  as  a  disquieting 
influence  «»  He  casts  aside  as 
unnatural  the  fatuous  share-and- 
share-alike  propaganda,  and  ap- 
proves intelligent  and  high-minded 
self-interest.  He  preaches  a  doctrine 
that  common-sense  people  will 
accept;  a  self-help  doctrine,  healthy 
for  the  human  race." 
I  wrote  what  I  thought  of  Ed 
Howe's  book  without  fear  of  pun- 
ishment or  hope  of  reward  t^  I 
believed  what  I  wrote.  Even  so, 
I  recognized  Ed  Howe  as  an  out- 
and-out  dyed-in-the-wool,  bred-in- 
the-bone  conservative  «»  He 's  a 
stand-patter,  a  middle-of-the-roader. 
He 's  an  air-tight,  New  England 
Yankee  migrated  West.  He  has  a 
lot  of  dead-set  ideas,  and  he  thinks 
he 's  a  Radical.  For  this  reason 
especially  he  *s  a  most  interesting 
writer.  He  's  as  full  of  Puritanism 
as  a  custard  pie  is  full  of  comedy. 


d  He 's  an  Economist  and  a  Sociolo- 
gist of  the  Old  School — which  is  not 
so  bad  as  it  sounds.  He  believes  he 
earned  every  dollar  he  's  got,  and 
I  believe  it  too.  He 's  retired  on 
his  money.  He  's  64  years  old  «» 
He  believes  in  Yankee  hustle  and 
Yankee  thrift.  (So  do  I.)  He  believes 
in  individualized  effort,  (so  do  I) 
and  that  a  man  who  works  and 
thinks  and  plans  his  work,  and 
practises  moderation,  and  saves  and 
thinks  and  plans  and  works  some 
more,  is  the  very  best  type  of  citizen. 
(So  do  I.) 

Well,  now,  just  hold  your  hist  for 
a  minute  or  two,  and  I  '11  tell  you 
something  more. 

Last  month  (April,  1917)  I  said  a 
friendly  word  for  Upton  Sinclair, 
author  of  The  Jungle,  and  Socialist 
of  the  first  class  who  resigned  from 
the  Socialist  Party  to  help  America 
win  the  war  against  Grermany.  I 
called  attention  to  Sinclair's  new 
magazine,  (Upton  Sinclair's,  Pasa- 
dena, Cal.,  $1.00  a  year)  which 
advocates  a  Clean  Peace. 
I  mentioned  that  Georg  Brandes, 
the  foremost  European  critic,  and 
Frank  Harris,  an  American  critic 
and  editor  of  international  position, 
called  Sinclair  one  of  the  all  too 
few  impressive  American  writers  s^ 
d  Then  a  tornado  spnmg  up  in 
Kansas,  and  headed  my  way. 
The  last  number  of  Ed  Howe's 
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Sinclair  article  <»  Old  E4  pushes 
his  coat-tails  into  his  pants'  pockets, 
tightens  up  his  blue  jeans,  pulls  his 
rye-straw  hat  lower  over  his  right 
eye,  spits  on  his  hands,  and  writes 
with  full-arm  swishes. 
He  sure  is  all  het  up. 
You  see  he  does  n't  like  Sinclair  «» 
Upton  Sinclair  reasons  to  another 
conclusion  about  this  and  that, 
which  angers  Ed  Howe. 
They  are  both  intense  individualists; 
both  with  much  to  say  that  is  worth 
while.  I  enjoy  them  both  immensely. 
I  am  pleased  to  say  a  friendly  word 
for  them  both.  For  this,  as  the 
Innocent  Bystander,  I  get  all  ink- 
spattered.  Ah  well,  why  isn't  it 
better  sport  to  lambast  one's  friends 
than  one's  enemies. 
Here 's  a  sample  of  what  d  Howe 
did  to  me,  bless  my  soul.  "  I  do  not 
wish  to  provoke  a  quarrel  with  Felix 
Shay,  a  man  who  has  been  kind  to 
me;  I  do  not  wish  to  be  ungrateful, 
but  feel  that  either  his  praise  of 
Sinclair  is  insincere,  or  his  endorse- 
ment of  me  is  insincere.  No  man 
can  honestly  admire  Upton  Sinclair 
and  £.  W.  Howe.  Their  ideas  are 
as  far  apart  as  the  poles." 
Tut!  Tut!  That 's  absurd. 
Suppose  I  clear  the  air  on  this  point 
for  Ed  Howe's  benefit,  and  I  won't 
quarrel  with  my  friend,  the  Potato 
Hill  Monarch,  either. 
In  my  judgment  Ed  Howe  is  a  fine 
type    of   self-respecting    American, 


successful  and  honored,  keen  and 
commonsensible,  who  nevertheless 
believes  and  preaches  some  things 
I  do  not  believe,  and  do  not  preach. 
I  am  willing  that  he  should.  From 
him  I  may  learn  scmiething! 
In  my  judgment,  Upton  Sinclair  is 
a  fine  type  of  self-respecting  Amer- 
ican, talented,  idealistic,  self-sacri- 
ficing, far-sighted,  who  nevertheless 
believes  and  preaches, some  things 
I  do  not  bel^e  and  do  not  preach. 
(I  quite  clearly  wrote,  "  I  hold  no 
brief  for  Upton  Sinclair's  Social 
Theories.")  I  am  willing  that  he 
should.  From  him  I  may  learn 
something! 

In  my  judgment  both  of  these  men, 
honest,  earnest,  aggressive,  intel- 
ligent, though  utterly  unlike,  are 
worthy  leaders.  More  people  should 
know  them  and  pass  opinion  on 
their  work.  I  am  not  at  all  sure 
that  either  is  entirely  right. 
I  believe  honest  Radicals  are  as 
deserving  of  praise,  (more  so,  be- 
cause their  work  is  more  difficult) 
as  are  honest  Conservatives.  There- 
fore I  p>raise.  them,  and  bite  my 
thumb  at  Ed  Howe  and  his  spleen — 
that  gol-dam'  old  curmudgeon! 
Ed  Howe  wrote  me  this  message, 
which  arrived  before  I  read  his  Felix 
Shay  Article:  "  I  have  subscribed  to 
Upton  Sinclair's  on  your  say-so.  I 
will  read  it  as  long  as  I  can  stand  it! " 
That's  fine.  To  read  Sinclair  will 
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Ed's  convolutions.  Or  kill  him!  t^ 
I  trust  Sinclair  will  return  the  com- 
pliment and  send  in  a  quarter  for 
three  years  of  Ed  Howe  «»  That 
quantity  might  make  The  Red  join 
the  Church. 

"^^HESE  days  I  find  myself  more 
^m^  in  agreement  with  Howe»  than 
/ith  Sinclair.  But  I  wonder  is  the 
cause  more  l6gical,  than  it  is  patho- 
logical. I  'm  getting  old,  and  old 
men  are  always  conservatives,  or 
broke. 

Lest  this  note  of  agreement  and 
humility  puff  up  Old  Ed  with 
Pride,  Covetousness,  Lust,  Anger, 
Gluttony,  Envy  and  Sloth,  I  append 
one  of  sundry  letters  which  arrived, 
following  on  my  written  opinion  of 
him  in  ROYCROFT. 
I  do  not  know  Mr.  Dorland,  nor 
have  Tasked  his  permission  to  print 
his  letter.  Even  so,  the  letter  is  a 
very  pointed  and  pertinent  docu- 
ment, and  the  Cause  is  just! 

Bayside,  L.  I.  May  6,  1918. 
Elbert  Hubbard  II, 
East  Aurora,  N.  Y. 
My  dear  Bert: 

Why  do  you  let  poor  old  Ed  Howe 
maunder  over  three  pages  of  the 
current  number  of  ROYCROFT? 
Time  was  when  he  displayed  some 
evidences  of  mentality,  coupled  with 
keen,  even  though  somewhat  cir- 
cumscribed, insight  t^  Now  he  is 


evidently  in  his  second  or  third 
childhood  and  his  printed  utterances 
should  be  suppressed.  Not  only  does 
he  not  know  much  about  things 
literary — as  he  himself  confesses — 
but  he  displays  an  amazing  igno- 
rance of  Nature  and  Philosophy,  or 
else  he  does  not  know  the  common 
meaning  of  ordinary,  everyday 
words,  such  as  "  indifference." 
The  "  \^tal  Forces  "  do  indeed  pro- 
claim their  Laws  for  all  who  care 
to  read  as  they  run;  Nature  is  exact 
and  exacting  t^  But  to  say  that 
Nature  or  Things  or  Vital  Forces 
— any  or  all  of  them — are  concerned 
as  to  whether  we  obey  or  not.  to 
say  that  they  are  anjrthing  but 
indifferent,  is  to  revert  to  a  ridicu- 
lous homocentric  and  primeval  view- 
point and  to  read  human  feelings 
and  motives  into  unhuman  factors 
of  existence  *^  Nature,  of  course, 
doesn't  give  a  damn  whether  we 
obey  her  "  Laws  "  or  not. 
And  if  he  bewails  **  caterwauling 
about  rt,"  why  not  decry  similar 
performances  about  Morality,  which 
is  equally  a  man-made  institution? 
Who,  except  "  old  Ed  "  would  get 
fussed  up  over  the  crack-brained 
assertion  of  "  two  noted  writers  " 
that  Art  is  greater  than  Morality. 
Such  things  savor  of  the  medieval 
discussions  of  Scholasticism — angels 
on  needle-points,  Tweedledum, 
Tweedledee,  etc.,  etc. 
I  wish  you  had  left  "  old  Ed  "  out. 


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and  given  his  three  pages  to  Felix, 
who  is  in  this  number  at  his  scintil- 
lating best.*  But  perhaps  it  would 
be  too  much  to  expect  any  greater 
amount  of  great  stuff  in  one  issue. 
If  Howe  ever  sends  you  any  more 
such  drivel,  please  economize — sup- 
posing you  are  foolish  enough  to 
pay  for  it — ^by  sending  it  back  with 
a  declination  slip.  And  if  thereby 
you  run  short  of  copy,  let  me  know, 
and  I  *11  contribute  something  better 
gratis. 

Sincerely, 

George  W.  Dorland. 

eD  HOWE  maintains  that  Sin- 
clair has  not  been  "jobbed." 
He  maintains  the  press  of  America 
is  free  and  unprejudiced!  He  can  not 
visualize  the  "  chains  "  of  corporate- 
owned  newspapers  that  stretch 
across  this  country  and  hold  public 
opinion  in  check.  He  can  not  sense 
the  tremendous  influence,  the  eco- 
nomic disaster,  that  the  possible 
withdrawal  of  certain  mammoth 
Advertising  Contracts  exerts.  He 
doesn't  recognize  that  a  News- 
paper or  Magazine  that  is  "  good," 
though  it  may  not  be  happy,  or 
serviceable  to  the  citizenry,  is  sure 
to  be  prosperous  «»  And  that  no 
publication  is  "  good  "  that  prints 
Upton  Sinclair's  opinions!  Eh! — 
What  do  you  know  about  that?  «» 
Will  you  excuse  me  a  moment,  I 
want  to  whisper  something  to  Ed! 

Atchison,  Kansas,  papers  please  copy. 


d  "  Now,  Ed,  just  between  us,  I 
personally  called  at  an  Office  in 
New  York  City  last  year  to  solicit 
Advertising  for  ROYCROFT  •^  I 
was  welcomed  in,  though  the  day 
happened  not  to  be  *  Caller's  Day.' 
My  cordial  host  said  why  yes,  he 
thought  he  could  arrange  to  send 
me  12  pages  (a  $1200  order).  Yes,  he 
thought  he  could  get  ROYCROFT 
on  to  the  .  very  next  schedule  «^ 
That  seemed  to  be  good  sportman- 
ship.  I  was  especially  grateful  for 
his  clean  dealing,  because  only  a 
month  or  so  before  I  had  had  some- 
thing to  say  about  a  Certain  Gentle- 
man ....  Then  my  cordial  host 
changed  the  subject  from  Advertis- 
ing to  Editorial  Policy.  He  told  me, 
in  a  very  mild  and  cool  and  calm 
and  collected  fashion,  that  he 
thought.  I  had  made  a  mistake 
when  I  so  went  after  Mr.  So  A  So. 
He  did  n't  deny  that  what  I  wrote 
was  true,  but  he  intimated  that  it 
was  a  mistake.  Only  that  and  noth- 
ing more.  I  said  *  Uh-huh,'  as  gra- 
ciously as  possible!  ....  When  I 
left  I  understood  I  was  to  get  the 
12-page  Advertising  Order  just  the 
same.  Though  I  'd  made  no  prom- 
ises to  be  good.  But  about  the  time 
the  12-page  Advertising  Order  was 
due,  I  began  to  wonder  was  it  hush- 
money,  had  my  cordial  host  sized  up 
me  too,  as  an  editorial  prostitute. 
To  clear  my  conscience,  I  passed 
the  before-mentioned  Mr.  So  &  So 


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another  editorial  jab  for  luck.  And 
Ed,  my  friend,  sad  to  say,  I  never 
received  that  Advertising  Order  for 
those  12  pages.  Ed,  if  it  wasn't 
that  I  was  NOT  for  sale,  then  I 
want  to  know  'What  happened  to 
that  Advertising  Order." 

elD  HOWE  says  that  Georg 
Brandes  and  Frank  Harris 
praise  Upton  Sinclair's  work  because 
they  are  Socialists;  because  Sinclair 
is  a  Socialist.  He  says  the  honorable 
literary  critics  are  prejudiced. 
Strange  coincidence,  Howe  pub- 
lished that  expression,  |he  same 
month  that  I  published  a  letter  in 
ROYCROFT  from  Frank  Harris  in 
which  Harris  offers  this  valuation  of 
Jack  London's  writing:  "  /  did  not 
and  do  not  believe  that  London  ever 
wrote  anything  that  will  live  .... 
He  must  have  been  a  greater  man 
than  he  was  a  writer  and  I  am  afraid 
I  think  more  of  the  artist  and  the 
work  he  does  than  of  the  man  and 
the  life  he  lives." 

This  in  the  face  of  the  fact  that 
Frank  Harris  is,  apparently,  a 
Socialist  and  certainly  Jack  London 
was  a  Socialist. 

It  is  a  paradoxical  truism  to  say 
that  prejudiced  critics  never  gain 
much  reputation  or  credence  outside 
their  own  bailiwick. 
No,  this  is  one  of  the  times  when, 
it  seems  to  me,  Ed  Howe  is  wrong, 
very  wrong.  I  think  his  judgment 


of  Sinclair  is  based  not  on  reason 
but  on  the  everlasting  fear  and 
hatred  of  the  Man  Who  Has  for 
the  Man  Who  Has  Not  •^  More 
particularly  I  believe  this  is  true, 
because  Upton  Sinclair,  of  aristo- 
cratic lineage,  not  only  Has  Not, 
but  considers  himself  superior  in 
Not  Having.  This  doubly  exasper- 
ates a  man  like  Howe.  He  can't 
imderstand  it. 

Ed  Howe  is  a  type.  Upton  Sinclair 
is  another  type.  That 's  all. 
Upton  Sinclair  thinks  this  entire 
Competitive  System  of  civilization 
is  wrong,  and  should  be  wiped  out 
at  once  and  forever.  I  think  the 
Competitive  System  is  all  that  keeps 
us  interested  and  alive — ^but  that 
there  are  some  prime  crooks  high  up 
in  American  Business,  who  should 
be  ousted  and  jailed  «»  Ed  Howe 
thinks  that  the  whole  Scheme  of 
Things  is  lovely,  only  more  so,  and 
should  not  be  remolded  nearer  to 
the  heart's  desire,  but  should  be 
left  alone.  And  there  you  are! 
Maybe  God  put  Ed  Howe  on  earth 
to  balance  and  check  Upton  Sin- 
clair, and  the  reverse.  Man  must 
not  make  progress  too  rapidly  s^ 
There  are  other  generations  to  come. 
There  must  be  something  left  for 
them  to  do. 

/q|D  HOWE  tempers  his  blast 
^A  to  the  shorn  lamb  (meanin' 
me)  by  saying  that  "  Felix  Shay  is 


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not  only  an  exceptionally  good 
writer,  but  a  man  of  unusual  intel- 
ligence." 

Elsewhere  he  writes  this  opinion, 
"  Felix  Shay  wrote  the  smartest 
sentence  produced  in  1917."  Then 
he  quotes  that  sentence,  and 
philosophizes  about  it  and  recom- 
mends it  for  morning  and  evening 
meditation. 

Well,  what  do  I  say.  This! 
I  am  grateful  to  £d  Howe  and  I 
never,  never,  never,  hope-to-die, 
will  quarrel  with  him,  either  when 
he  praises  me  or  cusses  me  out, 
but — I  want  to  tell  him,  just  the 
same,  that  he  thought  that  was  a 
smart  sentence  because  it  absolutely 
reflected  his  oum  thought,  Oee- 
whilliker,  if  it  had  reflected  Upton 
Sinclair's  thought,  Ed  Howe  would 
have  called  me  a  stupid. 
Which  simply  exposes  a  weakness 
to  which  all  of  us  are  subject,  i.  e. 
to  take  ourselves  too  damn  serious, 
and  to  be  sure  that  we  alone  have 
cornered  the  TRUTH,  and  that  the 
Other  Fellow  only  has  a  hold  on 
ERROR  s^  s^ 

Anon,  and  anon,  when  my  friends, 
Henry  Mencken  and  Ed  Howe  and 
Upton  Sinclair,  and  you  and  I,  fair 
reader,  have  become  but  a  phos- 
phorescent glow  over  a  moldering 
mass  of  nothing,  perhaps  then^and 
only  then,  will  we  find  ourselves  in 
agreement  «»  <» 
lie,  missa  est. 


Hail  The  Benefactor! 

GSNTLEMEN  OF  THE 
JURY,  I  ask  your  ap- 
proval of  a  plea  for  justice 
and  honor  to  a  servant  of 
the  Race  whose  name  seems  to  be 
little  known:  I  desire  to  have  each 
and  every  dty  and  town  oT  size 
through  the  United  States  ccmtrib- 
ute  one  Cast-iron  Statue  of  an 
Ancient  War  Hero,  sdected  at 
random  from  in  front  of  the  Court 
House,  or  from  the  Park  Gate  9^ 
These  statues  of  forgotten  destruc- 
tionists  will  be  melted  down  and 
made  into  a  Colossal  Memorial  of 
the  man  who  contributed  the  most 
constructive  suggestion  of  the  past 
hundred  years,  the  man  who  invited 
us  to  set  back  the  foolish  clocks  and 
to  Save  Daylight. 
Let  his  own  generation  honor  the 
benefactor  who  gave  each  of  us 
another  hour  a  day  to  live  in  God's 
Sunshine  «»  «» 

Come  now,  what  City  will  first  pull 
down  and  pass  over  one  of  those  , 
steam-fitter  statues,  of  some  past 
and  gone  gentleman  of  blood  and 
iron.  Thus  do  we  well  serve  two 
purposes;  we  honor  the  Daylight 
Saver,  and  we  obliterate  in  Progress, 
the  memory  of  the  Destructionist. 

//  you  can  Sell  the  Goods,  you  pos- 
sess the  entire  "  Secret  of  Business 
Success." 


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ELBERT  HUBBARD  II,  Editor-in-Chief 


FELIX  SHAYv  Editor 


I  ,  .  - 

Bntered  at  tbe  Po«t-Oflloe,  Bast  Aurora,  N.  Y.,  as  Blatter  of  tlit  Seeood  Claia.  Rag- 
latered  U.  8.  Patent  Ottce.  Copyriiht,  Nineteen  Hundred  Bighteen,  lij  The  Rojrcroltert 


Vol.  II 


JULY  1918 


No.  5 


Draft  The  Munition  Makers 

Bert  Hubbard 


^^^^  ET  this  stand:  I  am 
■  £  perfectly  in  accord  with 
H^^J  any  order  of  the  Go vem- 
^^*^^^  ment  that  places  all 
men  and  all  Institutions  on  an 
equal  basis  and  whidi  gives  all 
an  even  chance  for  their  lives.  If 
the  Government  sees  fit  to  issue 
rulings  of  necessity  for  the  pro- 
motion of  the  War,  I  am  for  those 
rulings  just  one  himdred  per  cent. 
But,  I  think  I  can  justly  suggest  a 
criticism  of  a  condition  which  the 
Government  has  not  yet  seen  fit 
to  regulate,  but  rather  has  left 
entirely  in  the  hands  of  men  whose 
interests  are  selfi^  and  profit-mak- 
ing. For  instance,  it  seems  to  me 
that  munitions  of  war,  such  as 
ammunitioh,  aeroplanes,  guns,  can- 
nons, ships,  dc^hing — all  should  be 
made  by  men  and  women  working 


directly  for  the  Government.  They 
should  be  soldiers  drafted  for  this 
service  just  the  same  as  the  men 
who  are  to  use  these  things: — the 
fighting  men  of  the  army.  There 
should  be  barracks  alongside  the 
factories  and  the  men  should  be 
furnished  their  food  and  clothes. 
There  should  be  military  law  in 
these  camps.  It 's  no  worse  for  these 
men  to  be  away  from  home  than 
the  soldiers.  I  don't  care  what  the 
Government  does  with  the  money 
I  buy  Liberty  Bonds  with  if 
that  money  is  paid  directly  to 
Government  employees,  but  for  it 
to  pass  through  the  hands  of  civil- 
ians who  take  a  profit  out  for  them- 
selves, I  openly  protest. 
The  Government  is  doing  two  kinds 
of  buying:  the  cost-plus  basis;  the 
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The  latter,  I  think  it  entirely  fair 
and  reaaonaUe  •^  Most  purchases 
made  in  this  way  are  for  odds  and 
ends  of  supplies,  too  numerous  to 
mention,  and  which  can  better  be 
manufactured  by  Institutions  which 
have  normally  been  making  them, 
than  for  the  Government  ta  create 
new  plants  of  its  own.  These  supplies 
are  being  bought  on  a  dose  basis. 
There  is  sharp  competition. 
No  matter  what  the  profit  may  be 
I  think  it  *8  fair,  as  any  manu- 
facturer may  submit  bids  and  re- 
ceive the  same  consideration  he 
would  from  a  civilian  purchaser  «» 
If  he  tries  to  take  too  long  a  profit, 
he  loses  the  order — and  he  should. 

BUT,  the  first  method  I  men- 
tioned, the  cost-plus  basis, 
seems  to  have  a  multiplicity  of 
wrongs.  First  of  all,  Who  figures 
the  costs?  Of  course,  there  are 
Federal  Inspectors  and  auditors, 
but  they  are  human  and  not  beyond 
temptation.  Who  pays  for  spoiled 
materials?  For  Wasted  Labor?  They 
go  into  the  costs — Surely!  Who  cares 
about  wasted  material  and  effort  so 
long  as  the  Government  pays  cost- 
plus?  Why  not  go  one  step  further 
and  make  these  huge,  newly  created 
or  expanded  plants  strictly  Govern- 
mental Plants  with  every  worker  a 
Soldier?  The  Plus  part  of  the  price 
belongs  to  the  Government  and  (dl 
the  people.  No  few  should  get  it!  ! 


Do  these  Institutions  care  how  much 
wages  they  pay  their  men  so  long  as 
they  get  Cost-Plus?  They  certainly 
don't!  The  more  the  thing  costs— 
the  bigger  the  Plus! 
There  isn't  an  Institution  in  the 
country  that  has  n't  felt  the  harsh 
result  of  this  method — particularly 
in  regard  to  wages. 
There  is  no  argument  about  the 
necessity  of  making  these  huge 
quantities  of  War  Munitions.  Of 
course,  they  must  be  made,  and 
I  'm  for  helping  to  do  it,  and  gladly 
sacrifice  to  that  end.  Any  Roycroft 
Worker  necessary  to  the  promotion 
of  our  War  interests  is  gladly  given 
up.  But,  there  are  other  businesses 
whidi  are  also  necessary  to  the 
coimtry,  beside  making  War  mate- 
rials. These  businesses  are  not  given 
fair  chances  for  their  life  in  com- 
petition with  the  cost'plus  compe- 
tition for  Labor.  The  worst  part 
of  it  all,  as  it  seems  to  me,  is  the 
very  unfair  position  it  places  the 
men  in  who  are  drafted  as  soldiers 
to  fight  and  die. 

A  Private  gets  Thirty  Dollars 
a  month  whether  he  enlisted  or 
whether  he  was  drafted.  The  man 
who  used  to  work  alongside  of  < 
him  before  the  War,  and  who  is 
also  in  the  first  class  of  the  Draft, 
but  lucky  enough  not  to  be  drawn, 
may  quit  his  job  and  go  to  work 
for  a  Munition  Plant  at  fabulous 
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ciglit  times  the  pay  his  brother- 
workman  gets  as  a  Private  in  the 
Army.  Beside  that,  he  likely  gets 
a  deferred  dassification  in  the  Draft. 
4i  It  does  n't  seem  right  to  me.  I 
don't  blame  the  man,  although  it 
sur^y  is  cowardly  and  unpatriotic. 
I  Uame  the  system  that  permits  it!  1 
4L  l^any  of  the  boys  in  the  Army 
did  n't  want  to  go,  but  they  went 
just  the  same.  Had  they  been  more 
lucky,  they  might  have  stayed  at 
home  and  become  munition  workers 
witli  almost  certain  immunity  from 
the  Draft,  and  also,  secured  several 
times  the  wages  of  the  Soldier.  Is  it 
quite  fair  to  the  man  in  the  Ranks? 
— Is  it  fair  to  other  emi^oyers?  •^ 
In  short,  here 's  how  the  cost-plus 
system  sums  up: 

(a)  Encourages  and  permits  waste 
and  high  costs  in  manufacture  t^ 

(b)  Offers  temptations  to  unscrupu- 
lous and  \mpatriotic  Institutions. 

(c)  Forces  the  Wage  Scale  to  ridicu- 
lous figures. 

(d)  Sends  prices  of  everything  soar- 
ing  *^  *^ 

(e)  Puts  many  businesses  out  oi  the 
game.  Forces  others,  to  operate  at 
a  loss. 

(f)  Gives  "slackers"  preferred  posi- 
tions t^  »^ 

(g)  Creates  **  slackers  **  of  men  who 
should  be  fighting. 

(h)  Places'  a  premium  on  unskilled 

labor  t^  *^ 

(i)  Is  ui^ust  to  the  Soldier. 


Perhaps  you  may  think  of  other 
wrongs.  If  I  have  overlooked  some 
—write  me  about  it. 
The  Remedy:  (Here's  where  I 
may  go  wrong.)  The  Government 
should  own  and  operate  (noT  in- 
spect)—-the  Big  Plants.  It  owns  and 
operates  the  Navy  Yards — why  not 
the  Munition  Plants,  Aeroplane 
Factories,  etc?  Men  (and  women, 
too)  should  be  drafted  to  do  the 
munition  making.  The  age  limit 
could  be  sixty.  It 's  a  fine  line  that 
differentiates  between  the  impor- 
tance of  the  Sc^dier's  work — 
whether  he  fight  in  the  trenches  or 
make  fighting  materials. 
No  higher  wages  should  be  paid 
them  than  are  paid  the  Soldier 
Abroad— of  course,  due  allowance 
for  their  board  and  uniform  being 
made  <»  t^ 

If  this  were  done,  other  employers 
would  have  no  complaint  to  make. 
They  would  gladly  submit  to  losing 
their  help  in  the  Draft. 
They  would  have  a  better  chance 
to  keep  their  own  business  on  top 
of  the  ground;  but  if  they  could  n*t 
stay  in  the  game,  they  would  simply 
blame  it  on  the  War  and  shoulder 
their  sacrifice. 

They  would,  at  any  rate,  feel  that 
they  had  had  a  fair  chance  for 
existence  *^  s^ 

No  business  can  compete  with  the 
Cost-plus  System — ^Why  not  "  can  " 
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Help  Russia — Save  American  Boys 

A  Statement  by  A.  J.  Suck,  Dtreetor  of  the  Russian 
Information  Bureau  in  the  United  States 


^^^^  HE  hour  has  come  when 
M  ^^  we  consider  it  our  duty 
^  J  to  send  out  the  S.  O.  S. 
^™^  to  the  American  Democ- 
racy. Help  Russia,  save  Russia  1  If 
help  to  Russia  will  not  be  rushed 
inrniediatdy,  in  the  most  generous 
way,  Russia  will  become  an  easy 
prey  to  Germany,  whidi  means  the 
prolongation  of  the  war  for  several 
years,  with  new  millions  of  young 
lives  sacrificed.  Save  Russia,  help 
her  to  re-establish  her  fighting  front 
and  by  so  doing  you  will  save  the 
lives  di  hundreds  of  thousands  of 
American  boys. 

Help  to  Russia  must  be  twofold: 
general  help,  in  the  form  of  reeling 
stock  and  engineers  to  re-establish 
the  means  of  transportation ;  in  food- 
stuffs, clothes,  shoes,  etc.,  for  the 
imfortunate  population,  and  special 
military  help  in  the  form  dl  corps 
of  instructors  who  would  take  up 
inmiediately  the  task  of  organizing 
regiments,  divisions  and  finally 
armies  of  those  Russians  who  are 
ready  to  fight  for  their  country  and 
freedom  »»  «» 

The  corps  of  Allied  military  in- 
structors who  may  come  to  Russia 
for  the  purpose  of  re-estaUishing 
her  military  power  can  produce  good 


results,  if  they  start  with  an  appeal 
for  volunteers  and  organize  aroimd 
themsdves  as  a  center,  with  all 
possible  speed,  a  real  RussiaD  army, 
so  that  their  coming  to  help  should 
in  the  very  least  be  foreign  military 
intervention  *^  *^ 
This  constructive  program,  if  pmp- 
erly  planned,  can  meet  the  synipathy 
and  support  of  the  great  masses  of 
Russia's  population,  if  its  execution 
is  preluded  by  a  joint  Allied  dec- 
laration telling  plainly  that  the 
Allies  are  ready  to  do  everything 
in  their  power,  in  accordance  with 
President  Wilson's  declaration,  to 
free  Russia  from  Germany's  3rc^ce, 
to  restore  to  R\issia  her  lost  terri- 
tories and  to  preserve  the  Russian 
Democracy  by  giving  her  the  possi- 
bility for  free  development. 
In  this  hour  of  her  national  distress 
Russia  needs,  above  everything  else, 
sympathy  and  friendship  in  dec- 
larations and  acts  of  her  Allies  «» 
They  should  be  generous  in  both 
such  declarations  and  acts  «»  LfCt 
Russia  feel  that  she  is  not  alone, 
that  friends  are  coming  without  any 
selfish  purpose,  without  any  desire 
to  gain  from  her  misfortune,  with 
the  single  purpose  of  making  her 
again  powerful,  free  and  happy.  A 


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powerful  Russia,  a  happy  Russia, 
a  free  Russia  will  be  a  blessing  to 
-the  entire  world,  and  her  resurrec* 
Idon  will  mean  a  speedy  defeat  of 
German  militarism,  a  triumph  for 
Democracy  the  world  over. 
This  is  indeed  a  difficult,  but  not 
an  impossible  program.  If  the  Ger- 
mans by  a  carefully  prepared  and 
punctually  executed  plan,  were  able 
to  knock  Russia  off  her  feet  in  a 
year's  time,  the  Allies  are  able  to 
bring  Russia  back  in  about  the 
same  period  of  time.  Germany  suc- 
ceeded by  playing  on  Russia's  weari- 
ness of  war,  and  by  encouraging  the 


work  of  the  Bolshevild  who  did  their 
utmost  for  Russia's  destruction  t^ 
The  Allies  must  eliminate,  as  far 
as  possible,  this  weariness  by  render- 
ing a  generous  financial  and  tech- 
nical support  to  Russia  and  by 
encouraging  the  sound  elements  of 
the  Russian  Democracy,  the  ele- 
ments which,  representing  the  over- 
whelming nu^ority  of  the  Russian 
people  crave  for  national  unity,  for 
a  stable  democratic  government  rec- 
ognized by  all  dasses,  and  for 
Russia's  active  re-entrance  into  the 
union  of  the  great  Democracies 
fighting  for  justice  and  freedom  t^ 


The  Whydontyahs 


Joseph 

^t^^f^  HERE  lives  in  every  vil- 
M  ^^  lage  and  on  every  farm 
^L^^in  this  country,  also  in 
every  city  of  this  nation, 
one  or  more  members  of  the  tribe 
of  the  Whydontyahs.  This  is  not 
an  aboriginal  tribe  such  as  the 
Senecas.  In  fact  they  are  not  sav- 
ages at  all  but  resemble  the  other 
inhabitants  of  our  country  in  every 
regard.  They  speak  our  vernacular, 
wear  the  same  style  of  clothing  as 
other  citizens  of  this  country  and 
are  in  manner  and  custom  very 
much  Uke  other  men  and  women. 
Nor  can  they  be  distinguished  by 
any  peculiar  facial  expression  or 
o^or.  In  physiognomy  and  stature 


Leiser 

they  are  exactly  like  the  vast  migor- 
ity  of  dwellers  in  these  domains  and 
no  one,  no  matter  how  expert  in 
detecting  tribal  characteristics  and 
racial  peculiarities,  would  be  able 
to  pick  out  a  member  of  the  tribe 
of  the  Whydontyahs  from  an  assem- 
bly of  the  just  or  a  political  gather- 
ing h^  h^ 

And  yet  the  members  of  the  tribe 
of  the  Whydontyahs  are  a  distinct 
body  within  the  nation,  as  distinct 
as  the  Mennonttes,  the  Dunkards, 
the  Campbellites  or  any  pronounced 
religious  sect  with  which  these  states 
abound  «»  But  the  Whydontyahs 
have  no  peculiar  religious  tenet  that 
difiterentiates  them  from  their  fel- 


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lows.  Their  badge  of  distinction  is 
woven  of  another  fabric  than  that 
of  a  reUgious  revelation.  They  have 
no  theological  dogma  to  announce 
nor  any  political  message  to  ddiver. 
So  far  as  history  records  they  have 
not  given  humanity  a  poet  or 
prophet,  nor  a  musician  or  orator, 
not  a  man,  woman  or  child  who  has 
contributed  one  positive  thing  or 
hdpftil  idea  or  worthy  deed  to  the 
welfare  of  the  human  race. 
And  still  the  Whydontyahs  live  and 
prosper  among  us  as  if  they  were 
the  most  admired  and  exalted  people 
among  the  children  of  men.  But  no 
historian  has  ever  given  us  a  full 
account  of  their  origin  »^  Many 
scholars  have  investigated  the  source 
of  this  tribe  but  none  are  agreed 
as  to  their  soiure.  The  philologists 
have  even  written  very  learned 
treatises  on  the  name  of  the  tribe, 
«ince  it  can  not  be  found  in  any 
of  the  andent  dictionaries  of  Assyria 
or  Egypt  ncM-  in  the  encyclopedias 
of  Britain,  Rome,  or  North  America. 
€1 A  noted  explorer  contends  that 
in  view  of  the  general  obscurity  of 
the  tribe's  ancestry  and  genealogy 
it  is  possible  that  the  tribe  is  a 
descendant  of  the  lost  Ten  Tribes 
of  Israel,  which  one  the  learned 
geographist  was  loath  to  venture. 
At  all  events  there  are  no  bushmen 
in  Australia  nor  Red  Men  in  North 
America  who  have  avowed  relation- 
ship with  them.  They  are  therefpre 


unique  in  the  annals  of  man  because 
of  the  uncertainty  of  their  Idnship 
and  the  almost  universal  doubt 
regarding  Hieir  ancient  patrimony. 
But  despite  all  these  doubts  over 
which  recondite  pundits  'occupsring 
the  teats  of  anthropology,  arche- 
ology and  paleontology  in  all  our 
leading  universities  have  diqyuted 
well  nigh  unto  many  centuries,  there 
is  no  unanimity  regarding  the  ances- 
try of  the  Whydontyahs. 

HNY  one  interested  in  inves- 
tigating the  native  habitat  or 
customs  of  the  Whydontyahs  will 
have  no  trouble  in  finding  any 
member  of  this  tribe  most  anywhere 
in  these  United  States.  The  Why- 
dontyahs can  always  be  distin- 
guished from  other  men  by  the 
ease  and  frequency  with  which  they 
pronounce  their  slogan — why-don't- 
yah,  which  is  the  password  and 
sacred  oath  of  allegiance  to  memberr 
ship  in  the  tribe.  All  members  of 
the  tribe  of  the  Whydontyahs  have 
sworn  fealty  to  the  tribe  by  pfx>- 
noundng  on  tiie  doctrine  of  the 
why-dont-yahl  The  chief  doctrine 
of  this  tribe,  if  they  may  be  said 
to  have  formulated  a  coherent  policy 
is:  Why-don't-yah? 
Every  member  of  the  Whydontyahs 
is  in  honor  boimd  to  adhere  to  the 
policy  of  the  tribe  which  is  never 
to  do  anything  of  their  own  accord 
that  another  person  will  do.  This 


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is  their  golden  rule.  Their  dozology 
is:  "Let  George  do  it."  But  the 
main  factor  of  their  tribal  existence 
hinges  on  the  theory  and  practise 
of  never  to  do  yourself  anything 
tliat  you  can  induce  another  to  do 
for  you. 

Historians  have  assumed  that  the 
Wliydcmtyahs  are  a  mild,  meek  and 
retiring  people,  as  demure  as  a 
Quaker  maiden  or  as  self-effacing  as 
a  nim.  But  there  are  no  evidences 
to  prove  this  and  the  citations  from 
the  various  authorities  dealing  with 
the  tribe  ezhitnt  an  astonishing  num- 
ber of  instances  where  the  Whydont- 
yahs  have  contended  vigorously  for 
ivhat  they  style  "  honors  "  which 
was  simply  a  case  of  recognition 
from  the  general  public  fcM-  accom- 
plishing deeds  of  worth  and  ezcd- 
lence  which  they  never  achieved, 
but  insist  on  claiming  the  distinction 
instead  of  the  real  or  sincere  worker. 
€1  They  are  not  idealists,  these 
Whydontyahs,  as  their  own  par- 
tisans and  advocates  attempt  to 
prove,  nor  are  they  dreamers  «» 
They  are  more  materialistic  than 
either  the  former  or  the  latter. 
Their  opponents  say  of  them  when 
speaking  in  derision,  that  the  Why- 
dontyahs are  simply  lazy.  Whatever 
their  qualification  cm-  classification 
all  members  of  tiie  Whydontyahs 
are  agreed  among  themselves  by  an 
oath  of  great  solemnity  and  sacred- 
ness  never  to  initiate  any  movement 


of  their  own;  never  to  aid  or  assist 
any  one  struggling  to  aid  or  benefit 
his  fellow  men;  never  to  lend  a 
hdping  hand  to  those  staggering 
\mder  the  burden  of  heavy  responsi- 
bilities. But  ever  and  anon  to  stand 
aside  and  nag  the  leader  or  the 
captain  of  the  company  by  saying: 
"  Why-don't-yah  do  this  or  why- 
don't-yah  do  that?  " 

'^IHE  Whydontyahs  are  patriotic 
^^  as  men  are  patriotic  these  days 
with  this  exception:  They  do  not 
lead  in  purchasing  Liberty  Bonds 
but  turn  to  their  neighbor  of  their 
right  or  left  and  say  to  such  a  one: 
"  Why-don't-yah  buy  a  Liberty 
Bond?" 

In  all  probability  the  Whydontyahs 
have  not  bought  a  Liberty  Bond 
but  that  would  be  in  keeping  with 
the  doctrine  of  the  tribe  and  that 
is  never  to  do  one's  self  what  one 
can  get  another  to  do. 
The  women  of  the  tribe  of  the  Why- 
dont-yahs  are  no  better  than  their 
men.  The  tribe  is  not  wholly  mascu- 
line nor  wholly  feminine.  Men  and 
women  who  belong  to  their  tribe 
are  on  an  equality,  such  as  might 
delight  any  advocate  of  political 
equality  of  women  in  our  generation. 
The  female  of  the  species  is  of  the 
same  temper  and  inclination  as  the 
male  and  as  firm  and  unyielding 
in  her  practise  of  the  tribal  doc- 
trine as  the^  men. 


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III  the  present  period  the  female 
members  of  the  Whydontyahs  are 
very  loud  in  insisting  on  the  prin- 
ciples of  Whydcmtyahism  »^  For 
instance,  they  are  found  any  after- 
noon in  the  year  sitting  in  their 
parlor  or  the  reception  parlor  of 
any  civilian's  wife  and  saying  to 
the  hostess,  "  Why-don*t-yah  join 
the  Red  Cross?  "  or  "  Why-don't- 
yah  knit  comfort  kits  for  the  sol- 
diers? "  or  "  Why-don't-yah  sew 
few  the  hospital?  "  of  "  Why-don't- 
yah  start  a  war  garden?  " 
These  cm-  similar  questions  are  the 
litany  of  the  Whydontyahs.  But 
none  of  them  ever  attend  a  Red 
Cross  Meeting  or  plant  a  garden. 
They  are  not  inclined  to  e^ert  them- 
selves for  anything  as  worthy  as 
assisting  their  coimtrymen  as  a 
whole  or  any  particular  individual 
who  is  out  of  luck.  They  would 
say  to  any  imfortimate  person  they 
encounter  on  the  highway  of  life: 
"  Why-don't-yah  brace  up?  "  or 
"  Why-don't-yah  go  to  a  bank  and 
borrow  a  thousand  dollars  and  buy 
a  Tazicab,  instead  of  walking?  " 
Whereas  the  unfortunate  one  might 
not  have  the  coin  and  would  be 
most  ably  aided  by  the  loan  of  said 
sum  (M-  the  evidence  of  encoiirage- 
ment  on  the  part  of  their  fellow 
men  «»  «» 

But  these  are  very  general  illus- 
trations. Any  one  can  multiply 
instances   without   end   where   the 


Whydontyahs  have  followed  thdr 
policy  to  its  crud  and  merciless 
end.  Any  person  can  discover  a 
member  of  this  tribe  anywhere 
and  on  any  day  in  the  year.  Your 
next-door  neighbor  may  be  a  Why- 
dontyah.  Just  start  mowing  your 
lawn  and  the  realization  that  your 
next-door  neighbor  is  a  member 
of  this  secret  dan  will  be  divulged 
when  you  hear  him  say:  "  Why- 
don't-yah  get  two  lawn  mowers  to 
cut  your  grass?  "  or  "  You  cut  it 
too  short "  or  "  You  don't  cut  it 
long  enough."  But  never  would  a 
Whydontyah  mow  the  grass  of  bis 
neighbor's  man  folk  or  woman  folk 
or  do  anything  for  his  neighbor 
no  matter  who  he  happened  to  be. 
€L  It  is  known  that  a  man's  wife 
may  be  a  member  of  the  Whydont- 
yahs and  the  horrid  tnith  has  often 
been  revealed  too  late  that  even  a 
husband  may  be  a  Whydontyah. 
But  they  are  all  alike.  None  of  tbsm 
do  anything  of  their  own  accord. 
They  never  raise  thdr  hand  to 
help  nor  lift  thdr  finger  when  the 
work  of  the  world  is  heavy  and  the 
hour  of  labor  late.  They  simply 
stand  and  yap  their  immemorial 
slogan,  Why-don't-yah,  and  grow  fat 
and  sleek  and  respectable  by  doing 
nothing  and  their  reward  is  this^ 
they  are  nothing,  ndther  in  this 
life  nor  in  the  life  to  come. 

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The  Day  of  Judgment 

NeweU  Dwight  Hillis 

'  Strike  him  dead.  The  Day  of  Judgment  will  not 
ask  you  for  reasons/' 


^^^^  HIS  it  the  motto  on  the 
M  ^^  ahnmnum  token  that  the 
^L^^  German  Government 
gives  to  every  German 
soldier.  At  the  top  is  a  portrait  of 
DNetty  as  the  Kaiser  4x>nceives  him 
to  be;  in  one  hand  the  Kaiser's  g6d 
hc^ds  a  sickle,  for  the  death-harvest, 
and  beneath  is  the  motto:  "  Strike 
him  dead.  The  Day  of  Judgment 
wiH  not  ask  you  fcM-  reasons  " — 
the  motto  that  gives  each  soldier 
his  license  to  slay,  pillage,  loot, 
bum,  rape,  leave  his  thousands 
massacred  and  mutilated  where  he 
has  passed. 

Some  people  still  insist  that  the 
alleged  German  atrocities  represent 
E^lish  lies,  Belgian  hypocrisies,and 
French  deluaons,  but  all  possitnlity 
of  evasion  or  denial  has  been  de- 
stroyed. Modem  courts  are  satisfied 
with  two  forms  of  testimony,  but 
the  German  atrocities  are  evidenced 
by  five  kinds  of  indutntable  proof. 
<l  There  is  the  testimony  of  men 
and  women  telling  what  their  eyes 
have  seen,  and  their  own  ears  have 
heard — that  is  a  high  form  of  evi- 
dence «»  «» 

There  is  the  testimony  of  little 
children,  children  too  innocent  to 


invent  what  they  are  old  enough 
to  describe. 

Third,  there  is  the  testimony  of 
the  photograph — photographs  taken 
often  befcM-e  the  massacred  bodies 
had  grown  cold,  and  immediately 
after  the  German  retreat  from  the 
town  they  had  pillaged.  No  one 
can  look  at  the  hundreds  of  photo- 
graphs of  mutilated  bodies  without 
confessing  that  the  sunlight,  like  a 
recording  angel,  has  given  a  dam- 
ning testimony  that  can  not  be  gain- 
said by  the  monsters  who  not  only 
killed  men  who  defended  the  honor 
of  their  wives,  but  hacked  these 
yoimg  husbands  into  shreds,  muti- 
lating the  body  in  wasrs  that  can 
only  be  spoken  of  in  whispers  by 
men  to  men. 

Another  form  of  proof  is  foimd  in 
the  journals  and  diaries  of  the 
German  soldiers.  The  German  has 
climbed  into  the  witness  stand,  and 
given  conclusive  testimony  against 
himself.  Had  his  statements  been 
made  by  Belgians,  French,  or  En- 
glish, we  would  have  denied  or  ques- 
tioned the  words;  but  when  diaries 
have  been  taken  from  the  dead 
bodies  of  German  soldiers,  and  when 
these  different  journals  contain  sub- 


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stantially  the  same  ttatementt  at  to 
the  atrocities  oommitted  at  a  given 
day  in  a  given  town,  it  becomes 
impossible  for  an  American  student 
to  deny  the  daily  records  of  German 
soldiers  with  the  confession  of  deeds 
committed  sometimes  by  his  fellows 
and  sometimes  by  himself. 
There  is  also  the  testimony  of  muti- 
lated bodies  that  have  been  pre- 
served in  certain  morgues  againft 
the  day  of  judgment  when  artn- 
trators  will  behold  the  proof,  hear 
the  witnesses,  and  weigh  the  guilt 
of  the  Germans.  The  Day  of  Judg- 
ment is  coming  when  these  witnesses 
will  rise  literally  from  the  grave  and 
indict  the  German  Kaiser  and  his 
War  Staff  fot  atrocities  that  are  the 
logical  and  inevitable  result  of  the 
ceaseless  drill  of  their  officers  and 
privates  in  the  science  of  murder, 
as  a  method  of  breaking  down  the 
nervous  resources  of  the  armed  sol- 
diers of  Belgium  and  of  France  «» 

QO  horrors  in  history  are  so 
overwhelmingly  evidenced  as 
the*  German  atrocities.  The  nature, 
the  number,  and  the  extent  of  their 
crimes  have  been  documented  more 
thoroughly  than  the  scalpings  of 
settlers  by  Sioux  Indians,  the  hor- 
rors of  the  Black  Hole  of  Calcutta, 
the  cruelties  of  the  Spanish  Inqui- 
sition «»  «» 

After  the  German  troops  had  passed 
through,  it  became  possible  for  the 


village  schoolteacher,  priest,  or 
banker,  the  aged  women  and  the 
children  who  had  escaped  to  creep 
out  of  pits,  the  caves  in  the  fields, 
OF  the  edge  of  the  woods,  where  they 
had  been  hiding,  and  return  to  sur- 
vey the  scene  of  desolation  behind 
them  9^  The  French  authorities 
hurried  forward  their  authorised 
representatives,  inquests  were  held, 
photographs  taken  of  the  mutilated 
bodies,  and  testimony  taken  atkd 
sent  to  the  Department  of  Justice. 
€1  The  full  extent  of  the  reign  of 
terror  and  frightfulness  in  France 
and  Belgium  can  only  be  guessed 
with  a  shudder.  More  than  one 
himdred  thousand  people  are  simply 
reported  as  "  missing  " ;  other  multi- 
tudes were  burned  w  thrown  into 
pits.  What  took  place  in  those 
Belgian  towns  and  cities  that  are 
still  in  German  hands  will  never 
be  known  \mtil  the  German  officers 
and  soldiers  stand  before  the  Great 
Judgment  Throne  and  give  their 
account  unto  God. 
The  affidavits,  photographs,  and 
mutilated  bodies  are  witnesses  that 
destroy  fcM'ever  the  last  shred  of 
doubt  and  incredulity  as  to  the 
unspeakableness  of  the  Hun.  For 
men  who  are  open  to  testinaony* 
the  German  atrocities  are  more 
surely  established  than  any  of  the 
hideous  cruelties  in  history.  Now, 
for  the  first  time,  wildest  savagery 
has  been  reduced  to  a  science,  and 


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damned  into  existence  under  the 
name  of  German  efficiency. 

•i^JHE  following  arc  but  a  few, 
W^  and  these  the  least  sickening, 
of  over  a  thousand  documented 
atrcxrities,  with  the  original  photo- 
graplia  and  affidavits,  resting  in  the 
archives  of  France  against  the  day 
of  reckoning. 

(Z>.  25,  S4.)  Withdrawing  from  Hof- 
stade,  in  addition  to  other  atrocities 
the  Germans  cut  off  both  luqids  of 
a  boy  of  sixteen.  At  the  inquest 
affidavits  were  taken  from  twenty- 
five  witnesses,  who  saw  the  boy 
before  he  died  or  just  afterwards. 
(Z>.  4,  5.)  A  Belgian  babe,  skewered 
upon  the  bayonet,  driven  through 
his  stomach,  with  his  little  dead 
head  and  hands  and  legs  dangling 
as  the  German  proudly  carried  it 
through  the  street  of  a  village  »^ 
(Affidavits  DJ00'8.)PeMmg  through 
Haecht,  in  addition  to  the  young 
women  whom  they  violated  and 
killed,  a  child  three  years  old  was 
found  nailed  by  its  hands  and  feet 
to  a  door. 

(I>.  10, 4S,)  In  retreating  from  Laine 
eisht  dnmken  soldiers  were  march- 
ing throu{;h  the  street.  A  little  child 
of  two  years  came  out  and  a  soldier 
skewered  the  child  on  his  bayonet, 
and  carried  it  away  while  his  com- 
rades sang. 

(Affidavits  in  Alcove  867,)  The  dead 
body  of  a  yoimg  girl  nailed  by  her 


hands  to  the  outside  door  of  a  cot- 
tage. She  was  about  fourteen  or 
sixteen  years  of  age. 
At  Capelle-au-Bois  the  Belgian 
troops  found  two  girls  hanging 
naked  from  a  tree  with  their  breasts 
cut  off.  In  the  same  town,  German 
soldiers  held  a  mother,  down  by 
force  while  other  soldiers  in  turn 
violated  her  daughter  in  an  adjoin- 
ing room. 

(AXcave  C.  60,)  A  Mother  Superior 
crucified  by  bayonets  to  the  door 
of  her  schoolhouse  as-  punishment 
for  scratching  the  face  of  an  officer 
who  was  violating  the  person  of  a 
young  nun.  The  burning  alive  of 
a  man  who  defended  his  wife. 
(D,  92-93.  Jdso  D,  100-108,)  Photo- 
graphs of  an  aged  priest,  staked 
down  to  the  ground,  and  used  as 
a  lavatory  until  he  was  dead;  photo- 
graphs and  affidavits  of  young  girls 
with  one  breast  cut  off. 
This  is  the  German  Kultur  of  which 
the  German  philosophers  babble, 
the  Kultur  of  which  one  writes: 
"  We  are  indeed  entrusted  here  on 
earth  with  a  doubly  sacred  mission; 
not  only  to  protect  Kultur  against 
the  narrow-hearted  huckster-spirit 
of  a  thoroughly  corrupted  and.  in- 
wardly rotten  conmierdalism  (Job- 
bertimi),  but  also  to  impart  Kultur 
in  its  most  august  purity,  nobility, 
and  glory  to  the  whole  of  humanity, 
and  thereby  contribute  not  a  little 
to  its  salvation." 


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^f^HE  vahie  of  the  atrocity  as  a 
^^  mifitary  instrument  for  send- 
ing the  simoom  of  terror  across  the 
land  is  set  forth  in  scores  of  diaries 
taken  from  the  dead  bodies  of 
German  soldiers. 

(Page  21.  Affidavits  H'67,)  <*  Sep- 
tember 4th.  One  hundred  and  eight 
inhabitants  are  stated  to  have  been 
shot  after  they  had  dug  their  own 
graves.  Imnmierable  houses  have 
been  destroyed  «»  The  population 
looks  iHtter  and  scowling."  August 
22d,  notebook  of  Private  Max 
Thomas.  ("  Our  soldiers  are  so  ex- 
cited, we  are  like  wild  beasts.  Today, 
destroyed  eight  houses,  with  their 
inmates.  Bayoneted  two  men  with 
their  wives  and  a  girl  of  eighteen. 
The  little  one  almost  unnerved  me, 
so  innocent  was  her  expression.") 
€1 "  August  19th.  Halted  and  plun- 
dered a  villa,  as  invariably  the  sur- 
rounding houses  were  immediately 
laundered;  dined  splendidly,  drank 
eleven  bottles  of  champagne,  four 
bottles  of  wine,  and  six  bottles  of 
liqueur." 

John  Van  der  Schoot,  10th  Com- 
pany, 39th  Infantry,  7th  Army 
Corps.  "  August  19th.  Quartered  in 
the  Univerwty.  Boozed  through  the 
streets  of  Liege,  lie  on  straw,  booze 
in  plenty,  little  food,  so  we  must 
steal.  We  live  like  gods  here  in 
Belgium." 

Fritz  Holman  writes  before  he  was 
killed:  "  We  are  never  thirsty  here 


in  Prance.  We  drink  five  and  six  | 
bottles  of  champagne  a  day,  and 
as  to  underHnen,  we  simply  loot 
a  house  and  change.  God  only 
knows  what  will  happen  unto  us 
later  on." 

H.  W.  HeUer.  "  August  6th.  Friday  | 
at  8:30  came  the  news  that  the 
English  had  landed  in  Belgium  «» 
We  smashed  everything  immedi- 
ately «»  One  sees  only  burning 
houses  and  heaps  of  dead  people 
and  dead  horses  every  tiiree  steps." 
€1  Stephen  Luther's  diary.  "  There 
was  terrible  destruction;  in  a  farm- 
house saw  a  woman  who  had  been 
comi^etely  stripped  and  who  lay 
on  burnt  beams.  How  savage!  Ter- 
rible conditions  in  the  destroyed 
houses."  «•>  "  August  24,  1914.  In 
Ermiton  we  took  about  a  thousand 
prisoners.  At  least  five  hundred  were 
shot."  «»  «» 

/ZERMAN  militarism  is  the 
^^  apotheosis  of  the  law  of  the 
wolf-pack,  rettim  to  the  club  and 
the  caveman.  If  she  succeeds  in  a 
return  to  brute  fcM-ce,  her  victory 
will  be  the  most  terrible  calamity 
that  ever,  overwhelmed  the  earth. 
Every  editor  and  schoolteacher, 
every  priest  and  minister,  every 
patriot  and  parent,  should  drill  into 
the  minds  of  children  and  youth 
the  Kaiser's  charge  g^ven  in  1900 
and  reproduced  in  1914  upon  postal 
cards  for  the  Kaiser's  soldiers:  "  You 


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will  take  no  prisoners;  you  will  show 
no  mercy;  you  will  give  no  quarter; 
you  will  make  yourselves  more 
frightful  than  the  Huns  \mder 
Attila."   «»  «» 

There  is  but  one  answer  that 
America  can  give,  but  one  answer 
that  the  Hun  can  understand — 
guns»  shells,  bayonets.  His  armies 
must  be  beaten,  shattered,  driven 
back  in  overwhelming  defeat,  until 
he  knows  in  his  heart  that  he  can 
never  hope  to  Germanize  the  wcM-ld, 
either  by  the  propaganda  of  his 
Kultur    which   is   simi^y   a   cover 


for  vileness  or  by  his  atrocities  which 
are  its  expression  «»  He  must  be 
beaten  so  overwhelmingly  that  Kul- 
tur will  be  dead  forever.  He  must 
be  beaten,  and  America  must  help. 
€1  Men  and  women  of  America, 
what  will  be  your  share  in  your 
coimtry's  answer?  It  is  for  you  to 
supply  the  guns,  the  shells,  the 
bayonets  that  mean  decisive  Vic- 
tory. Act  and  act  now.  Buy  Liberty 
Bonds.  Buy  more  Liberty  Bonds — 
all  the  Bonds  you  can.  Thimder  an 
answer  to  Germany  that  will  make 
her  cower  in  fear. 


Watch  This  Idea 

Dorothy  Thompson 


ONCE  upon  a  time  a  man 
got  a  big  idea.  "  I  will 
write  a  book  about  it,** 
he  said  «»  «» 
"  No,"  said  his  wife,  "  There  are 
too  many  books  already.**  «»  She 
mig^t  have  added,  **  Them  as  can 
do,  does;  them  as  can't  talks.'* 
^A^bur  Phillips  and  his  wife  are 
good  talkers,  and  good  doers.  The 
big  idea  which  they  got,  and  which 
they  are  working  out  in  the  Mo- 
hawk-Brighton district  of  Cincinnati 
is  called  '*  the  social  unit."  A  lack 
of  responsibility  on  the  one  hand, 
and  a  lack  of  organization  through 
which  the  expert  can  function  are 
the  two  fu^daniiental  weaknesses  of 


the  American  community,  they  say. 
They  seek  to  solve  the  one  by  the 
creation  of  a  Citizens*  Council,  rep- 
resenting an  area  as  small  as  a  dty 
block,  within  which  people  are 
organized  according  to  their  special 
interests.  Fw  the  solution  of  the 
other  they  look  to  a  system  of 
community  organization  which 
(modeled  after  the  English  Guild 
idea)  provides  fcM-  an  "  occupational 
council  **repre8enting  various  skilled 
groups  of  the  community  which 
formulate  programs  and  establish 
services  «»  «» 

The  work  of  the  Medical  Council 
of  physicians  and  nurses,  which  is 
now  wdl  \mder  way,  illustrates  how 


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tuch  a  dual  organisation  may  func- 
tion 9^  The  thirty-three  phyndant 
and  five  nurtet  of  the  district,  which 
includes  an  area  of  thirty-one  blocks 
and  a  population  of  fifteen  thousand, 
have  formulated  a  program  for  com- 
munity health.  So  far,  it  includes 
clinics  and  services  for  all  children 
up  to  the  age  of  six  years,  with  a 
spedal  service  for  expectant  moth- 
ers. It  includes  a  thorough  physical 
examination  for  every  child  in  the 
district,  to  note  defects,  follow  up 
work  done  in  the  homes  by  the 
nurses,  and  class  instruction  given 
to  the  mothers  \mder  members  of 
the  medical  council.  It  differs  from 
other  health  administrations  in  that 
(1)  it  is  administered  by  a  council 
of  physicians  democratically  elected 
from  the  members  of  the  profession 
practising  in  the  neighborhood,  (2) 
it  is  put  into  effect  by  these  same 
physicians,  (3)  it  is  doing  a  one- 
hundred-per-cent  work  in  the  neigh- 
borhood through  the  co-operation  of 
the  block  workers,  or  members  of 
the  Citizens'  Council,  each  one  dem- 
ocratically dected  by  the  people  of 
her  own  block. 

This  service  which  the  coimdl  hopes 
to  devdop  into  a  complete  health 
administration  fcM*  all  the  people  of 
the  district,  its  extension  to  be  based 
upon  the  statistics  obtained  within 
the  next  few  months  of  work,  illus- 
trates how  the  skill  of  a  community 
may  be  organised  fw  the  general 


good.  Recreation  experts  will  shortly 
formulate  a  commimity  recreation 
program;  ministers  of  all  denomi- 
nations are  already  organised  into 
a  Ministers'  Coimdl  to  study  the 
relation  of  the  church  to  this  speciiic 
neighborhood  and  to  work  out  a 
system  of  broader  co-operation; 
teachers  are  organized  to  extend 
the  educational  influences  of  the 
schools.  Businessmen  are  organized 
and  so  are  Trade  Unionists,  to  study 
such  problems  as  housing  and  unem- 
ployment. In  all  this  the  division 
of  the  lay  dtizenry  into  block  units 
makes  it  posdble  to  carry  the 
established  service  to  one  hundred 
per  cent  of  the  people. 
For  the  sponsoring  of  the  three 
years'  experiment  in  Cincinnati  a 
National  Organization  has  been 
formed,  which  invited  the  socially 
minded  to  join  as  "  thinking  mem- 
bers," without  dues  or  meetings  «» 
The  Social  Unit  wants  sympathetic 
and  intelligent  support;  it  invites 
critidsm;  it  asks  fcM-  your  brains. 
If  you  look  beyond  the  remedial 
to  the  preventive;  beyond  the  war 
to  reconstruction;  if  you  believe 
that  in  evolution  and  education  lies 
the  solution  of  our  social  problems, 
you  will  want  to  watch  this  unique 
experiment  of  a  modem  commimity . 

Quacks  pretend  to  cure  other 
men's  disorders,  but  fail  to  find 
a  remedy  for  their  own. — Cicero. 


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Sergeant  Major  John  J.  Fuller 


^^^^^f  ROM  one  week  to  another 
1^1  and  from  one  month  to 
^■^^\  another,  there  is  little  of 
^^^^  new  action  to  break  up 
the  old  *'  wait  and  fight  "  and  "  fight 
and  wait  **  game  of  sector  warfare. 
€i  It  must  be  bom  in  mind  that  we 
are  fighting  the  American  end  of 
the  war  to  date  with  French  meth- 
ods and  under  French  direction  »^ 
Much  as  we  would  like  to  get  at 
it  in  the  good  old  way,  the  modem 
utensils  of  war  won't  permit.  Thus 
it  has  been  that  the  war  has  lasted 
so  long. 

One-half  of  what  the  boys  have 
actually  accomplished,  in  way  of 
taking  over  old  sectors  of  the  front 
with  poor  trenches  and  bad  roads  and 
building  them  up  into  good  fighting 
territory  with  well-built  trenches 
and  fortifications,  has  never  been 
written  as  far  as  I  know.  Every  eye 
is  of  course  on  the  tng  drive,  and 
unless  we  actually  have  a  big  cas- 
ualty list  to  accompany  the  story 
it  hardly  seems  as  if  the  Division 
had  done  anything  worth  while  «» 
Quite  as  a  matter  of  fact,  however, 
an  attack  is  the  easiest  thing  to 
make — but  the  French  don't  make 
them  unless  there  is  something  very 
much  to  be  gained.  Another  thing 
perhaps  is  the  fact  that  it  costs  men 
to  attack;  and  as  Germany  has  to 


lead  out,  it  is  better  that  she  pay 
the  price  in  man-power. 
We,  of  covirse,  can  not  know  what 
our  artillery,  which  is  about  the 
best  in  the  world,  has  actually 
accomplished.  You  can't  tell  the 
effect  of  the  artillery  (the  range 
is  too  long)  except  perhaps  as  it 
is  used  to  open  the  way  for  an 
attack  or  raid. 

I  know  as  I  never  expected  to  know 
befcM'e  what  war  costs  in  cold  money. 
I  have  just  finished  writing  out  a 
little  order  for  munitions.  It  is  part 
of  my  job.  I  am  tactically  attached 
to  the  munitions  service.  I  expect 
that  this  ammunition  will  be  used 
up  in  a  couple  of  hoiirs.  It  costs  a 
little  over  a  half-million  dollars.  A 
few  weeks  ago  our  artillery  put 
up  a  curtain  of  fire  in  a  certain 
sectcM*.  It  lasted  one  hour  and  forty 
minutes.  We  computed  the  cost  at 
one  and  one-half  millions  of  dollars. 
You  can  now  see  where  your  Liberty 
Bond  money  is  going  to.  You  can 
see  why  we  must  have  a  lot  of  it. 
I  am  living  in  a  dug-out  with  the 
advance  section  c^  our  department. 
There  are  two  officers  and  myself 
in  this  echelon.  I  am  writing  this 
letter  in  a  little  octagon  dug-out 
reenforced  by  tons  of  iron  and  sand- 
bags. We  eat  and  sleep  here.  Night 
after  night,  and  c^ten  during  the 


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day,  toot  of  these  shells  wheeze  and 
burst  over  and  arcund  us.  We  are 
as  safe  as  is  possible  under  the  con-' 
ditions.  Back  of  us  is  another  and 
smaller  town.  Last  night  I  watched 
it  through  my  i^sses.  Twice  in  a 
half-hour  it  was  on  fire — and  then 


a  huge  doud  of  brick  dust  and 
I  knew  that  the  Hun  had  scored 
once  at  least. 

But  I  am  still  of  tiie  bdief  that  I 
will  be  back  selling  prkiting  ere 
many  moons.  Save  my  tal^  at  The 
Inn  i^  i^ 


To  the  Advertising  Men  of  Amenca 


Charles  Frederick  Higham 


^^^^  HE  Allies  need  your  help. 
M  ^^  As  a  Brother  Advertising 
^L^^  Man  located  on  this  side 
of  the  Atlantic  I  want  to 
appeal  to  my  brothers  in  America 
to  do  everything  in  their  power  to 
help  the  Allies  in  their  hour  of  need. 
The  reason  I  appeal  particularly  to 
you  is  because  you,  of  all  people, 
have  the  talent,  initiative  and  energy 
to  make  known  to  the  millions  of 
Americans  the  vital  need  for  speed- 
ing up  production  of  ships,  delivery 
of  food,  and  the  finding  of  men  and 
munitions  that  this  devastating 
catastrophe  which  Germany  has 
forced  upon  us  all  may  be  brought 
to  a  quick  and  proper  termination 
and  that  it  may  never  happen  again 
in  the  History  of  the  World. 
We  advertising  men  know  that  the 
free  peoples  of  the  world  are  only 
too  anxious  to  do  anything  they  can 
to  help  each  other,  but  above  every-  . 
thing  else,  they  have  to  be  informed. 
They  have  to  be  told  why  their  help 


is  needed — why  their  small  part  in 
the  great  plan  is  of  such  vital  im- 
portance. The  message  has  to  be 
brought  home  to  them  person^y, 
and  this  above  all  else,  is  the  adver- 
tising man's  function. 
Prussianism,  and  all  that  it  means, 
must  be  crushed  for  all  time.  Every 
day  that  passes  in  which  this  is  not 
accomplished  means  wastage  for  the 
world.  It  means  that  we  are  lo^ng 
the  cream  of  our  manhood.  It  means 
that  we  are  not  progressing  but 
standing  stilL  That  is  not  the  sfnrit 
of  the  Advertising  Man — our  busi- 
ness is  obviously  to  go  on,  to  pro- 
gress, to  improve,  to  educate,  to 
inspire.  Never  since  the  world  began 
have  the  men  of  our  calling  had  such 
an  opportunity.  I  shall  be  glad  to 
note  in  the  American  papers  in  the 
near  future  that  you  have  accom- 
plished what  I  know  is  nearest  your 
hearts  and  that  all  America  is  ablaze 
with  the  need  of  her  brothers  and 
sisters  across  the  Atlantic. 


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4L  July  1st,  Fdix  Shay  leaves  The  Roycroft  Organijation.  With  him 
go  my  very  best  wishes  and  an  appreciation  for  all  his  Help  and  Good 
Work  in  the  past  Three  Years.  41  The  Roycrofters  have  made  mudi 
progress  these  Three  Years;  so  has  Feliz.  We  shall  both  continue  the 
upward  dimb,  and  hereafter  as  heretofore  whenever  the  opportimity 
offers  to  say  the  Friendly  Word  for  eadi  other,  we  will.  4l  On  Sep- 
tember 1st,  1918,  Peliz  Siay  will  become  an  Executive  AModate  of 
E.  F.  Houi^tOD  &  Co.,  Charles  £.  Carpenter,  President,  of  Philadelphia. 

4L  Personal  Mail  may  be  addressed  to  Felix  Shay,  care  of  St.  Francis 
Hotel,  San  Francisco,  California,  after  July  Ist — after  September  1st 
care  of  £.  F.  Houghton  &  Co.  of  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

4L  Business  Mail  of  interest  to  The  Roycrofters,  should  be  addressed 
to  The  Roycrofters,  East  Aurora,  N.  Y. 

Elbert  Hubbard  II. 


Felicitations 


Felix  Shay 


If  W^c  Use  Their 
Dollars  Why  Not  Use 
The  Men? 

ORDINARILY,  one  would 
believe  that  the  World 
War  gives  sufficient  vent 
for  a  Person's  or  a  Na- 
tion's supply  of  hate.  But  not  It 
seems  we  still  have  a  little  hate 
stored  up  to  misuse  for  private 
purposes  on  the  unfortunate  Ameri- 
cans who  happen  to  be  in  prison — 
"  on  convicts,  if  that 's  what  you  want 
to  call  them.  Some  Legislative  Body 
or  other  has  decided  but  recently 
that  convicts  in  American  prisons 


are  "  MORALLY  UNFIT  "  to  be- 
come U.  S.  Soldiers. 
Now,  as  we  understand  it,  the  duty 
of  the  American  Soldier  in  the  next 
little  while  will  be  to  loll  Germans — 
and  we  did  not  think  it  would  be 
possible  in  all  the  Civilized  World 
to  find  an  individual  too  "  morally 
unfit "  to  kill  Germans.  Did  you? 
I  make  free  to  state  that  this  is  an 
absurd  and  thoughtless  and  imfair 
decision.  Broadly  speaking,  there  are 
two  classes  of  men  in  American 
prisons — the  Men  Who  Have  Made 
Mistakes — and  the  Brutes  «»  The 
Men  Who  Have  Made  Mistakes  are 
very  much  like  you  and  like  me. 


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only  they  got  caught  at  it.  They 
feel  about  their  **  crime  "  much  as 
you  and  I  feel  about  it.  They  regret 
it  more  than  you  and  I  ever  can 
regret  it.  They  would  like  nothing 
better  than  a  chance  to  make  good. 
41 1  believe  that  if  the  average 
every-day  American  will  take  him- 
self off  into  a  comer  and  sentence 
himself  according  to  Law  for  all  the 
''crimes*'  he  's  committed,  that  no 
one  knows  anything  about,  the 
average  jail  sentence  will  be  about 
a  thousand  years  for  each  of  us  »^ 
Why,  then,  should  we  put  on  the 
mask  of  cast-iron  virtue  and  talk 
about  the  unfortunates  in  prison 
being  "  morally  unfit." 

BEFORE  me  I  hold  a  copy  of 
the  Star  Bulletin,  printed  and 
published  and  mailed  out  by  the 
Convicts  of  Sing  Sing  Prison.  The 
paper  is  well  printed  and  well 
edited;  a  very,  very  agreeable  piece 
of  work.  Moreover,  there  's  a  fine, 
wholesome  spirit  nmning  through  it 
all — and  a  Patriotic  Spirit,  too. 
In  the  last  Red  Cross  Drive,  $1,000 
was  collected  at  Sing  Sing  from  the 
convicts,  in  sums  of  $1.00  each.  A 
Thousand-Dollar  Liberty  Bond  was 
purchased  with  this  money,  and  pre- 
sented outright  to  the  Red  Cross. 
These  men  who  already  stand  con- 
demned as  "  morally  unfit,"  who 
have  nothing  to  expect,  gave  freely, 
generously   «»   It   makes    me    feel 


ashamed  as  a  citizen  of  the  United     \ 
States  for  my  passive  part  in  keeping 
such  men  in  jail. 

Not  only  did  they  contribute  a 
Thousand-Dollar  Liberty  Bond  to 
the  Red  Cross,  but  they  bought 
many  additional  thousand  dollars' 
worth  of  Liberty  Bonds  as  indi- 
viduals. Several  of  the  New  York 
City  papers  commented  on  this  and 
praised  the  action!  But  I  say  that 
if  these  men  are  judged  to  be 
**  morally  unfit "  to  go  to  war  as 
U.  S.  Soldiers,  then  their  Soldier 
Dollars  too  are  **  morally  unfit  "  to 
serve.  If  we  take  their  DOLLARS 
we  ought  to  take  the  MEN — and 
I  say  it  would  be  a  fine  and  glorious 
precedent  to*  give  these  men  a 
chance  Over  There  in  France  *► 
Let  the  Governors  of  the  various 
States  issue  a  Proclamation  and 
say  that  all  men  in  jail  for 
certain  specified  crimes  shall  be 
released,  if  they  enlist.  Of  course,  ' 
the  Brutes  should  not  be  set  free, 
but  the  Men  Who  Have  Made  a 
Mistake  should  be  set  free. 
This  hour,  when  all  humanity  suffers 
and  is  sore  tried,  is  no  time  for  a 
private  American  Vendetta  between 
sinners  inside  prisons  and  sinners 
outside  prisons! 

"VVVITHIN  the  last  Uttle  while, 

y^^  my  friend.  Warden  Johnson, 

of  San  Quentin  Prison,  California, 

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man,  sent  out  the  Convict  Band  of 
that  Institution  to  help  in  the  Lib- 
erty Loan  canvass  of  Marin  County, 
California.  They  rendered  valiant 
service.  Moreover,  they  paraded  the 
streets  of  Marin  County  without  an 
escort  of  any  kind.  They  were  on 
their  honor.  When  their  work  was 
done,  without  guard  or  escort,  they 
marched  back  to  prison  and  the 
prison  closed  in  after  them.  These 
San  Quentin  bandmen  were  Long 
and  Short  termers,  and  convicted 
of  a  variety  of  "  Crimes." 
Yet,  I  say,  men  who  can  muster 
that  amount  of  self-restraint,  men 
who  have  mastered  themselves  to 
that  degree,  are  fitted  for  citizen- 
ship. To  wreak  a  further  vengeance 
oi  the  State  upon  such  men  is  mis- 
placed zeal. 

I  have,  as  my  correspondents,  con- 
victs in  Stillwater,  Atlanta,  Utah 
State,  Florence,  Arizona;  San  Quen- 
tin, Sing  Sing,  and  other  prisons. 
I  pledge  you  they  are  not  men  of 
violence — at  least  not  now!  There  's 
a  poet  in  Stillwater  whose  product 
is  much  superior  to  95  per  cent  of 
the  honorable  poets  who  break  into 
print  in  the  highly  respectable 
monthlies  «»  There  are  intelligent 
men,  very  intelligent  men  in  these 
prisons.  Because  of  the  new  regime 
in  prison  management,  because  of 
the  fair  treatment  meted  out  to 
them,  they  have  ceased  to  hate 
Society.  They  are  ready  to  come 


back  and  assume  the  healthy  respon- 
sibilities of  healthy  citizenship  «» 
Can  we  not  let  them  come? 
Before  you  answer,  I  ask  that  you 
recite  to  yourself  that  little  all- 
imderstanding  poem  of  Joaquin 
MiUer's: 

"  In  men  whom  men  pronounce  as 

ill 
I  find  so  much  of  goodness  still. 
In  men  whom  men  pronounce  divine 
I  find  so  much  of  sin  and  blot, 
I  hesitate  to  draw  the  Hne  between 

the  two 
Since  God  has  not." 

Bees  and  Pigs  and 
Apple-Orchards 

M^^  ACH  of  us  is  welcome  to 
A^^4  his  or  her  conclusions  «» 
^^^^  One  of  my  conclusions  is 
^  that  for  the  next  fifty 
years  the  man  who  owns  a  farm 
and  knows  how  to  work  it,  will 
enjoy  better  health,  and  sleep  better 
o'  nights,  and  Hve  longer^  than  the 
fat  and  purple  plutocrat  who  owns 
stock  and  dyspepsia,  an  imeasy  con- 
science, and  the  ill  will  of  the 
workers  «»  «» 

Styles  in  "  rich  men  "  are  changing; 
even  Charlie  Schwab  admits  it. 
Charlie  says  that  tomorrow  or  the 
day  after  at  the  latest,  the  Workers 
will  own  the  Earth.  And  Charlie 
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am  I.  No  man  thould  be  permitted 
to  ute  or  control  a  nickel  that  he, 
himself,  has  not  earned. 
Wdl,  now,  about  that  Farml  When 
the  adjustment  comes — and  it's 
coming;  Charlie  Schwab  and  I  say 
sol — the  only  people  who  are  going 
to  eat  regularly  are  those  who  grow 
their  food,  are  those  who  actually 
produce  more  food  (not  coupons  or 
dividendsl)  th|ai  they  consume  «» 
I  'm  so  temperamental  I  simply 
must  have  three  square  each  day, 
with  trufiBes  and  whipped  cream 
and  Vin  Extraordinaire  to  follow 
after.  You  know  sometimes  I  think  I 
am  qualified  by  nature  to  be  a  poetl 
€1  So  these  days  I  'm  thinking  about 
a  Farm,  and  by  cracky  I  'm  going 
to  buy  one.  That 's  the  only  way  I 
know  how  to  get  one. 
My  father  was  a  Farmer,  but  he 
"  came  to  town "  before  he  ever 
made  my  acquaintance.  Neverthe- 
less, somewhere  'way  back  in  my 
innards  there  is  a  feeling  for  the 
soil.  I  want  to  own  a  farm. 
Not  a  great  big  sloppy  farm,  y' 
understand,  that  requires  a  gang  to 
work  it.  Nothing  baronial  y'  know. 
I  'm  not  going  to  farming  as  a  busi- 
ness, I  think  it 's  a  strictly  N.  G. 
Business.  But,  say,  a  farm  of  100 
acres,  with  a  nice  comf(»table 
twelve-room  house,  and  a  kind 
climate.  Well  now!  That 's  some- 
thing like  I 
What  am  I  going  to  grow?  Jes'  a 


momoit  now,  jes'  a  moment.  What 's 
your  hurry?  I  'm  gittin'  to  that  «» 
Qive  me  time.  Can't  a  man  linger 
over  the  subject  he  likes  to  talk 
about?  Jes'  you  hold  your  horses. 
You  know  I  have  a  confession  to 
make — I  've  always  liked  Pigs  «» 
They  're  such  useful  animals,  and 
no  false  pride.  And  they  've  been 
so  misrepresented  and  maligned  «» 
Yes  sir,  I  think  I  'U  get  me  some 
pigs;  some  first-class  registered  Pigs. 
Whether  they'll  be  Berkshires,  or 
Chester  Whites,  or  Durocs,  I  ain't 
prepared  to  say,  but  I  'm  leanin' 
toward  Duroc  Reds.  When  I  was 
younger  I  always  liked  red-haired 
girls — ^y*  know  there  *s  some  color 
to  red-haired  girls. 
Yes  sir.  I  think  I  'U  get  me  some 
Durocs;  they  are  pretty  nice  ings. 
Now  suppose  I  get  me  twelve  pigs, 
and  suppose  they  litter  twice  a  year, 
and  suppose  the  average  litter  is 
nine?  And  suppose  it  costs  me  five 
cents  a  pound  to  weight  'em  up, 
and  suppose  I  sell  them  at  nine 
months,  weighing  300  pounds  each 
at  18  cents  a  pound  on  the  hoof! 
That 's  64,800  pounds  of  pork  that 
it  cost  $3,240  to  produce  and  I  sell 
it  for  $11,664  and  make— Well,  say, 
just  you  hold  that  in  your  head  till 
we  go  on  to  the  next  item. 
Then  I  want  Apple  Trees,  lots  of 
them — Orchards  I  I  like  the  dean, 
sweet  smell,  the  crisp  and  healthy 
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orchard  in  bloom,  and  when,  in  late 
summer,  the  trees  oolor-up  with 
apples,  I  like  to  walk  through  the 
Cathedral  Aisles,  and  see  the  sun 
streak  throughl 

An  orchard  would  be  an  ideal  place 
for  a  Peripatetic  School  of  Philos- 
ophy. We  could  walk  up  and  down, 
hand  in  hand,  and  from  the  free 
hand  munch  an  apple,  and  settle 
all  the  questions  Billy  Sunday  leaves 
unsettled.  That  would  encompass 
just  about  everything,  an'  keep  us 
pretty  busy.  When  the  Orchards  are 
not  being  used  for  Philosophic  or 
Social  Purposes,  I  'd  turn  in  the . 
Duroc  Reds.  They'd  root  aroimd, 
and  that  would  turn  over  the  earth 
and  break  it  up,  and  help  the  growth 
of  the  trees.  They  'deatthe  windfalls. 
Did  I  mention  that  I  'm  going  to 
grow  clover  or  buckwheat  or  some- 
thing like  that  in  the  orchard?  Well 
I  am,  and  I  '11  tell  you  why. 
But  come  to  think  of  it,  clover  might 
tangle  up  the  feet  of  the  peripatetic 
philosophers  as  they  stroll  up  and 
•down.  Well,  what  of  that!  A  phi- 
losopher never  minds  if  his  feet  are 
tangled  up,  so  long  as  the  clouds 
are  unencumbered  for  his  head  «» 
I  've  figured  to  a  cent,  how  much 
I  will  make  out  of  those  Orchards, 
with  Clover  and  Buckwheat  and 
Hogs  growing  licketysplit  under- 
neath. But  I  'm  not  going  to  tell 
you  because  the  sum  is  very  large. 
I  don't  want  you  to  be  avaricious. 


Fifty  acres  for  Orchards  and  Ck>ver 
and  Buckwheat,  forty  acres  for  Hogs 
and  Ensilage,  ten  acres  for  House 
and  Lawns — that 's  the  layout! 
Wen,  we  might  as  well  get  to  it 
sooner  or  later — what  else  do  you 
think  I  'm  going  to  grow?  Well,  y  'd 
never  guess  1  Chickens?  Not  met  I 
can't  stand  the  cackle  1  Well  now, 
1 11  ten  you,  but  it 's  a  secret  be- 
tween you  and  me.  You  mustn't 
mention  it,  or  at  least  not  mention 
it  tin  my  Official  Announcement  is 
out.  I  'm  going  to  grow  BEES  «» 

*|r^EST£RDAY  afternoon,  Sun- 
(^  day,  I  went  outside  the  Village 
of  East  Aurora,  to  visit  the  Apiary 
of  Mr.  Sterling,  an  old  gentleman 
who  owns  and  tends  some  180  hives. 
Last  year  from  his  hives  he  removed 
nearly  10,000  pounds  of  honey .  This 
honey,  of  both  the  comb  and  ex- 
tracted varieties,  sold  for  an  average 
price  of  about  15  cents  a  lb.  Figure 
up  the  earnings  of  this  oat  old 
gentleman,  and  see  whether  or  not 
it  adds  up  to  an  Acre  of  Land  and 
Liberty  «»  «» 

From  the  first  FaU  Frost  until 
Spring  Sunshine  comes,  his  Bees 
care  for  themselves  «»  He  winters 
them  outside,  though  they  would  be 
better,  I  am  told,  in  a  cellar  with  a. 
regular  40  degrees  of  temperature. 
The  winter  months  he  carpenters 
his  own  hives  and  equipment,  though 
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dollars  and  cents  by  so  doing  «» 
Perhaps  better  and  more  economical 
hives  can  be  bought,  knocked-down» 
which  may  be  put  together  in  a 
tenth  of  the  time.  But  the  old 
gentleman  likes  to  render  all  the 
necessary  services  for  his  bees;  they 
are  his  family  and  his  friends. 
He  cares  so  much  for  his  bees, 
though  he  will  sell  you  honey^  his 
bees  aren't  for  sale. 
He's  explained  to  me  the  advan- 
tages oi  Italian  Bees  over  Black  or 
Caucasian  Bees.  He  told  me  the 
life  secrets  of  the  Queen  Bee  and 
how  to  introduce  a  strange  Queen 
to  a  new  hive.  He  eiq;>lained  cross 
pollination  of  fruits  and  flowers — 
and  told  me  how  to  ward  off ''  Foul 
brood!  "—Say  I  'm  UP  on  bees!  t^ 
So  when  you  come  to  see  me  at  my 
Farm — ^I  want  to  warn  you  in 
advance — ^look  for  the  sign  just 
inside  the  gate  which  will  read 
**  Beware  of  the  Bee!'*  You  cer- 
tainly would  not  want  to  get  stung 
just  on  the  threshold  of  the  Land 
of  Milk  and  Honey. 

Constructive  Work 
For  All 

^^^^^OT  so  many  moons  ago 
^^W  M  the  Anti-Loafing  Law 
J  W  was  made  effective  in 
^^"^^  New  York  State  by  proc- 
lamation of  Governor  Whitman  «» 
This  Law  follows  dose  on  similar 


laws  in  New  Jersey  and  Maryland. 
Whether  or  not  they  can  be  made  a 
hundred-per-cent  efficient,  whether 
they  will  accomplish  the  desired 
result,  whether  they  will  put  aU 
the  loafers  to  work,  at  least  they 
will  put  some  of  the  loafers  to  work. 
€1  That  is  constructive  legislation. 
Of  course  it  will  be  difficult  to  put 
"  sick  "  men  to  work,  and  most  of 
the  chronic  loafers  of  my  acquaint- 
ance have  some  chronic  ailment  9^ 
And  if  they  put  these  **  sick  "  men 
to  work  and  they  get  cured  of  their 
artificial  ailment,  what  will  happen 
to  the  doctors  who  live  off  them? 
41  And  again,  how  will  they  be  able 
to  identify  a  bona-fide  subscription 
solicitor  for  the  WomarVs  Fireside 
Chatter?  Can  they  ask  him  to  show 
his  strawberry-mark  and  then  deter- 
mine by  it  whether  or  not  he  's  a 
genuine  solicitor  or  just  a  loafer 
with  a  polite  job.  Will  not  this  same 
stigma  attach  to  insurance  solicitors 
and  lawyers — and  to  ministers  of  the 
gospel  more  than  any  one  else?  Bh, 
answer  me  that?  I  want  to  know^ 
whether  the  professional  hell-dodg- 
ers are  to  be  judged  loafers;  whether 
a  man  who  spends  all  of  this  life 
preparing  for  another  "  life,"  is 
doing  constructive  work? 
You  may  answer  these  questions  to 
suit  yourself  to  yourself,  because  I 
do  not  care  to  usurp  any  of  your 
prerogatives. 
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War  is  over  will  we  still  have  an 
Anti-toafmg  Law?  «»  Will  we  still 
insist  that  all  men  find  constructive 
jobs  and  will  we  see  to  it  that  cofi' 
structivejobs  then  exist  for  aU  men? 
41  That 's  what  I  want  to  know!  «» 
I  have  recc^ections  of  Bread  Lines 
and  Soup  Kitchens  in  New  York 
City  in  the  piping  times  of  peace. 
I  have  recollections  of  the  "  Panic  " 
of  1907.  It  was  only  a  year  or  so 
before  this  very  War  that  this 
country  was  in  the  tragic  grip  of 
the  "Problem of  the  Unemployed." 
Those  years  were  a  most  excellent 
time,  it  seems  to  me,  to  have  put 
on  the  Statute  Books  the  No-Loafing 
Law.  But  no  matter  I  If  we  failed  to 
do  it  then,  we  have  not  failed  to 
do  it  now.  This  War  has  brought 
us  so  many  blessings  in  disguise  1 
€1  If  this  Anti-Loafing  Law  will  be 
enforced  with  as  much  vigilance 
after  the  War  as  it  is  while  the  War 
is  on — if  it  will  be  interpreted  with 
as  much  benefit  for  the  men  who 
have  no  jobs  as  it  is  to  be  interpreted 
now  for  the  men  who  have  no 
employees,  then  I  say  we  have  taken 
a  step  forward  that  means  the 
solution  of  many  and  many  a 
variable  Social  Problem. 
What  a  glorious  country  this  will 
be  when  there  are  no  unemployed! 
No  tramps  on  the  brake-beams  of 
the  railroad  trains,  and  no  tramps 
in  the  mahogany  chairs  of  the 
directors*  office,  no  money-beggars 


on  the  street  comers,  and  no  money- 
lenders in  the  banks! 
CONSTRUCTIVE  JOBS  for  all! 
Work  for  all!  Eight-hour-day  work 
for  aU!  Hard  work  for  all!  A  UtUe 
honest  sweat  for  all!  Mutual  respect 
for  all — and  forward  we  go! 

The  Spirit  of  the 
Red  Cross 

OF  late  the  Red  Cross  has 
assumed  new  proportions 
and  a  new  personality  to 
me,  and  has  found  a  new 
avenue  to  my  heart.  Heretofore,  in 
times  of  peace,  I  have  recognized 
it  in  a  localized  sense,  and  have 
seen  it  as  another  form  of  the  old- 
fashioned  sewing-circle,  where  there 
was  some  little  sewing  and  much 
gossip;  a  resort  for  piuposeless 
women  «»  tm 

Now  I  see  the  Red  Cross  as  a  sym- 
bol for  all  the  Goodness  there  is 
left  in  Mankind.  All  that  is  meant 
by  the  words  Pity,  Love,  Mercy, 
Help,  Hope,  is  summed  up  by  that 
blood  red  cross  on  the  White  Banner. 
Most  of  that  which  will  be  salvaged 
from  the  wreckage  of  the  World  War 
— ^both  bodily  and  spiritually — will 
be  credited  to  the  Red  Cross.  To 
the  Red  Cross  belongs  the  Future 
of  Civilization.  If  there  can  be  such 
things  as  the  Powers  of  Good  and 
Evil — ^this  war  is  the  Evil,  and  the 
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The  purity  of  puipote  of  the  Red 
Cross,  the  overwhehning  unselfish- 
ness of  its  members,  the  self-sacrifice 
and  steadfastness  of  its  workers,  is 
the  sole  hope  for  a  better  world  «» 
When  the  conquests  of  the  Generals 
are  forgotten,  when  Humanity  has 
ceased  to  sing  its  Banners  and 
Trophies  and  Loot,  the  thing  which 
we  in  these  tragic  times  of  trial 
and  stress  call  the  Spirit  of  the 
Red  Cross  then  will  be  the  Pure 
White  Passion  of  the  World. 
God  bless  the  Red  Cross! 

About  That  Vacation 

^M^  ENRYMENCKENsays. 
■     ^  "  The  curse  of  America  is 
M       W  Puritanism."    Henry    is 
'^  ^^  just  about  right.  We  are 

all  so  prim  and  conventional  and 
law-abiding  it  hurts;  it  takes  some- 
thing away  from  the  joy  of  living. 
We  don't  know  how  to  let  down. 
A  person  who  laughs  loud  or 
frolics  in  public — well,  we  say, 
"  He  must  have  been  drinking  I  " 
That  *s  us. 

Deep  inside,  and  underneath  we  are 
still  blue-nosed  Yankees  with  flinty 
^  faces  and  barren  souls. 
Why,  the  question  is  still  debated, 
solemnly  and  seriously  in  the  News- 
papers and  the  Courts  as  to  whether 
it  is  a  good  thing  to  play  basebaU  on 
Sunday;  whether  it  *s  healthier  for 
an  indoor-alL-weck  work-boy  to  sit 


in  the  Sunshine  in  the  Bleachers 
on  Sunday  and  cheer  for  Home- Run 
Baker,  than  it  is  to  sit  in  a  musty 
and  poorly  ventilated  Church-bam 
and  snifiOe  for  the  Rev.  I^mkins  «» 
We  are  Puritans!  For  that  reason 
we  are  sure  that  anything  that  gives 
pleasure  to  the  individual  must  be 
hurtful — sinful. 

These  dajrs,  hear  "the  conversation 
on  the  subject  of  Vacations.  "  Oh, 
no,  I  'm  not  going  to  take  a  Vaca- 
tion. I  'm  going  to  save  the  money 
and  give  it  to  the  Thingamajig 
Society." 

That 's  all  wrong,  Horatius. 
The  morale  of  the  People  Behind 
the  Lines  is  just  as  important  as 
the  morale  of  the  Soldier  in  the 
Trenches.  The  strain  over  here  for 
many  of  us,  who  have  the  capacity 
to  feel,  is  just  as  great  as  it  is  over 
there  I  We  are  under  fire,  too! 
Every  so  often  the  Sc^diers  are  called 
out  of  the  Front-Line  Trenches  and 
taken  back  to  Rest  Billets  and  fresh- 
ened up;  bathed  and  rested  and 
entertained.  That  is  as  it  should  be. 
41  An  English  officer,  a  friend  of 
mine,  told  me  that  the  horrors  of 
the  GallipoH  Peninsula  were  made 
infinitely  more  horrible  because  the 
soldiers  were  always  under  fif€, 
never  able  to  get  away  for  a  rest. 
After  a  year  of  Buy  This  and  Buy 
That,  and  Wheatless  This  and  Pork- 
less  That  and  Government  Rail- 
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the  President,  and  Be  Sure  To  Send 
Your  Boy  Away  With  a  Smilel— 
weU,  YOU  need  a  <'  Rest  Billet." 
You  need  a  Vacation,  and  if  you  're 
both  wise  and  patriotic  you  11  take 
one  this  Summer;  you  '11  do  mare, 
you  '11  accomplish  more  in  the  Pall 
when  you  return. 

Think  it  over,  independently  for 
yourself:  you  'U  be  a  better  AMER- 
ICAN and  a  better  PATRIOT  for 
a  Vacation  "  Furlough  "  this  Sum- 
mer. No  matter  what  your  long- 
faced  Neighbors  say  or  think,  or 
look,  take  your  "  usud  two  weeks" 
Go  off  somewhere  and  have  a  good 
time  and  forget  all  about  the  Warl 
C  So  long  as  I  'm  on  the  subject, 
let  me  say,  I  think  the  Theaters 
should  be  free  from  all  forms  <^ 
War  Solicitation.  The  people  can  be 
reached  in  the  Homes  and  in  the 
Offices  easily.  The  Theaters  should 
be  "  Rest  BiUets  "—a  place  where 
people  may  have  PEACE  for  an 
hour  or  two. 

Mr.  Roosevelt  vs. 
Mr.  Hearst 

ONE  day,  a  week  or  so 
ago,  I  dropped  in  at  the 
Baltusr<^  Golf  Club,  just 
outside  New  York,  to 
indulge  a  little  in  the  Ancient  and 
Honorable  Pastime.  It  rained.  Most 
c^  my  exercise  took  place  around 
the  19th  Hole. 


There  war  much  discussion  anent 
a  situation  developed  in  the  nearby 
town  of  Summit.  It  seems  that  the 
Mayor  of  that  town  found  Mr. 
William  Randolph .  Hearst's  papers 
not  as  patriotic  as  he  thought  they 
ought  to  be.  Mr.  Mayor  "  invited  " 
the  Newsdealers  of  the  Hill  City 
rwt  to  sell  Mr.  Hearst's  papers  any 


If  I  remember,  and  of  course  I  am 
not  sure,  (no  one  is  sure  on  the 
approaches  of  the  19th  Hole)  Mr. 
Hearst  very  promptly  instigated 
suit  against  the  Mayor  of  Summit 
for  malicious  mischief  or  something 
like  that.  The  sum  involved  is  a 
large  and  juicy  suml 
One  chap  said  "  Hearst  can't  bluff 
us.  We  're  going  to  carry  the  fight 
right  to  him.  The  whole  town  is 
behmd  the  Mayor." 
Another  chap  said,  "  They  have 
already  sent  for  Teddy  to  come 
and  make  a  speech." 
And  another  added,  "  To  go  after 
Hearst  will  be  *  Dead  Nuts '  for 
Teddy! " 

And  't  was  this  last  sentence  that 
I  foimd  especially  interesting  t  Why 
should  it  be  ''  Dead  Nuts "  for 
Teddy  Roosevelt  to  attack  William 
Randolph  Hearst?  And  yet  it  is — 
Teddy  seems  to  have  appointed 
himself  the  official  censor  of  every- 
body's patriotism  and  good  intent 
from  the  President  straight  down 
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BE  assured  Mr.  Hearst  is  not 
helpless.  ThU  A.  M.  in  the 
public  prints  I  read  an  article  by 
Mr.  Hearst.  Permit  me  to  quote  it: 
41 "  Mr.  Roosevelt  has  sent  to  the 
Senate  ten  thousand  words  of  de- 
nunciation of  the  President  of  the 
United  States,  of  Secretary  Baker, 
of  Postmaster-General  Burleson, 
and  of  the  Hearst  newspapers.  He 
has  caused  this  diatribe  to  be  printed 
in  the  Congressional  Record  and 
distributed  broadcast  among  our 
people  at  the  very  moment  when 
the  war  is  reaching  its  most  arduous 
and  most  critical  stage. 
I  very  sincerely  believe  that  Mr. 
Roosevelt  is  making  a  grave  mistake 
in  endeavoring  to  distract  our  lead- 
ers, disturb  the  machinery  of  our 
Government,  and  of  our  military 
operations,  and  spread  doubt  and 
distrust  and  dissension  among  our 
people  at  this  serious  time. 
This  is  the  time  above  all  times 
for  the  sacrifice  of  our  personal 
aspirations  and  antagonisms. 
It  is  the  time  for  the  exercise  of  our 
utmost  combined  endeavor,  for  the 
exertion  of  our  most  vigorous,  united 
action."  «»  «» 

The  Hearst  article  runs  to  sufficient 
length.  Mr.  Hearst  by  documentary 
evidence  makes  out  a  strong  case 
for  himself.  He  proves  his  case  by 
his  previously  pubOshed  views;  and 
he  gives  the  dates  when  these  views 
were  published. 


(a)  The  day  before  the  War,  he 
advocated  /u0  power  for  America's 
Chief  Executive;  that  individual 
authority  and  responsibtlity  were 
necessary  to  make  the  war  a  success. 
41  (b)  The  day  War  was  dedared, 
the  Hearst  Papers  advocated  ''an 
army  (^  a  mSUon  men" — ^''the 
largest  increase  that  could  possibly 
be  made  in  the  Navy,"  and  "  innu- 
merable aeroplanes  and  seaplanes." 

(c)  The  Hearst  Papers  from  the 
Atlantic  to  the  Pacific,  circulated 
petitions  and  secured  mere  than 
2fiOOfiOO  signatures  asking  a  di- 
vided U.  S.  Congress  to  pass  the 
Selective  Conscription  Act. 

(d)  More  than  twenty  Hearst  News- 
paper Editorials,  some  of  them  full 
pages,  called  for  conquest  of  the  air 
by  the  Americans,  and  urged  the 
appropriation  of  $640,000,000  for 
aeroplanes  and  aviators. 

(e)  To  aid  the  First  Liberty  Loan 
Canvass  alone,  914  columns  of  news 
editorials  and  cartoons  were  pub- 
lished in  the  Hearst  papers. 

All  that  reads  like  real  American 
Patriotism  to  me.  The  fact  that 
Hearst  criticizes  men  and  methods 
occasionally,  may  simply  mean  that 
he  has  an  opinion  of  his  own  and 
that  he  is  courageous  enough  to 
print  it,  or  that  he 's  too  intent  for 
America  to  win  quickly  $^  But 
there  seems  to  be  little  basic  right- 
eousness for  Teddy  to  question 
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he    doesn't    approve    of   Hearst's 
methods   «»   «» 

Hearst's  papers  are  not  written  or 
edited  for  me,  or  you,  or  Teddy; 
maybe  you  or  I  or  the  Wild  Animal 
Hunter  could  provide  better  ones. 
Maybe?  «»  Just  the  same,  Hearst 
stands  out  as  the  most  successful 
publisher  in  America;  some  several 
.  million  Americans  seem  to  be  satis- 
fied with  his  published  product  «» 
He  ^s  a  man  of  tremendous  ability. 
He  does  things  in  an  almost  typical 
slam-bang  American  fashion  and  of 
course  he  makes  enemies;  and  Theo- 
dore is  one  I  But  on  the  face  of  it, 
a  man  whose  every  dollar  is  tied 
up  in  America  as  is  Hearst's  great 
fortune,  as  wdl  as  his  Past,  his 
Present  and  his  Future,  to  say 
nothing  of  the  risk  to  his  lifel — 
certainly  that  man  wants  America 
to  win! 

Teddy  is  wrong,  wrong-headed,  and 
obstreperous  as  usual — that 's  all  I 

JfW  MAN  would  be  even  a  worse 
,^3*  fool  to  say  Teddy  was  un- 
patriotic. We  've  known  him  too 
long.  From  a  patriotic  stand-point 
Teddy^  is  sound  all  through.  But 
he  thinks  he  oums  America.  He 
has  the  hunch  he  could  nm  this 
War  better  than  Wilson,  and  he  's 
sore — awfully  sore! — because  the 
only  place  reserved  for  him  is  ouU 
side  the  tent! 
Witness   these   quotations   from   a 


T.  R.  article,  which  I  believe  you 
will  find  in  Leslie's  for  the  week 
of  June  6th,  1918.  Please  notice 
the  "  I's."  Who  the  devU  is  the 
man  that 's  writing?  «»  Is  it  the 
Emperor  of  the  United  States,  or 
is  it  Mr.  Roosevelt,  Private  Citizen? 
tl  "  I  have  never  erred  in  opposing 
President  WUson— " 
"  I  have  never  opposed  him  save 
when  it  became  absolutely  neces- 
sary— " 

"  I  did  err  in  supporting  him — " 
**  I  then  supposed  he  had  informa- 
tion—" 

"  I  supposed  .  .  he  was  .  .  doing 
everything — " 

But  let  me  give  you  this  Roose- 
vdtian  diatribe  complete  and  please 
remember  that  this  is  Mr.  Roose- 
velt, Politician,  speaking  of  Mr. 
Wilson,  President  of  the  United 
States — speaking  of  Mr.  Wilson,  a 
man  in  perfect  control  of  a  World 
Crisis,  backed  by  the  respect  and 
admiration  of  the  world — Mr.  Roose- 
velt of  course  excepted  «»  This  is 
Mr.  Roosevelt's  modest  bazoo: 
"  I  have  never  erred  in  opposing 
President  Wilson;  and  I  have  never 
opposed  him  save  when  it  became 
absolutely  necessary  to  do  so  in 
the  interest  of  this  nation  and  of 
mankind  at  large. 
**  But  I  did  err  in  supporting  him, 
in  standing  by  him,  for  the  first 
sixty  days  of  the  great  war.  It  is, 
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error,  becaute  I  then  tuppoaed  he 
had  informatioa  not  aocenible  to 
the  rest  of  us  which  warranted  his 
actions;  and  I  also  supposed  that 
he  was  at  that  time  doing  every- 
thing in  his  power  to  make  ready 
our  military  and  naval  resources  for 
our  own  defense. 
"  Both  suppositions  were  erroneoils." 

'^r  EDDY  has  friends,  I  judge, 
^^  many  of  them.  Some  particu- 
larly good  friend  should  lead  him  off 
into  a  comer  and  insist  that  he 
retire  till  the  War  is  over.  By  this 
time  we  all  will  understand  he 
wants  the  nomination  in  1920.  He  11 
get  a  square  deal  then.  He  need 
only  wait.  He  will  make  a  serious 
tactical  blunder  to  "  oversell "  his 
goods  now  I  He  'd  better  understand 
it,  before  the  hand  of  Pate  slaps 
his  head  off,  that  his  opinions  of 
Woodrow  Wilson  are  not  wanted. 
The  really  good  dtizens  of  this 
country  request  him  courteously, 
and  for  the  last  time,  to  please  go 
way  back  and  sit  downl 

Another  Religion? — 
God  Help  Us 

HRB  you  up  on  Bahaism  ? 
WeU,  it  is  the  very 
latest  thing  in  religions 
and  quite  the  vogue  «» 
Really  C.  S.  is  no  longer  ultra. 
Either  you  believe  in  Abdul  Baha, 


or  you  don't  and,  among  people 
who  think,  that  defines  your  status 
and  establishes  your  class.  Well  I 
should  say  sol  Bahaism  has  every' 
thing  all  the  cdder  Religions  offer, 
and  besides  it 's  so  modern! 
The  Platforfh  of  Bahaism  includes 
these  planks:  "  to  awaken  in  men 
an  affirmative  spiritual  reality,  and 
to  direct  the  forces  of  modem 
society  toward  imity  and  peace!  " 
41  There 's  nothing  the  matter  with 
that,  is  there? 

Of  course  the  sceptic  will  say  neither 
is  there  anything  the  matter  with 
Confucius  or  Epictetus  or  Moham- 
med or  Jesus  the  Christ.  Each  of 
these  Prophets  offered  us  **  Peace 
on  earth,  good  will  to  men,'*  but 
we  prefered  it  otherwise!  «»  And 
there 's  nothing  the  matter  witli 
Mary  Baker  Eddy  either.  She  talked 
peace,  and  even  unto  this  day,  after 
all  these  years,  the  exponents  of 
C.  S.  are  so  bovine-peaceful  they  'U 
not  even  debate  a  subject.  They 
know,  they  do!  A-menI 
Where  then  does  Abdul  A-Bull-Bull 
Baha  get  the  license  to  peddle  that 
Peace-On-Earth  Stuff  and  call  it  his 
own.  Eh? 

Well  now,  you  don't  understand  j» 
You  're  probacy  an  American  Man 
with  a  materialistic  ambition  for 
more  and  more  boodle — and  every- 
body who  is  anybody  knows  that 
the  American  Man  is  just  too  gross 
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ycuhg  soid,  that  *t  what 's  the  mat- 
ter with  you,  stranger. 
Now  American  WOMEN  are  dif- 
ferent; they  have  the  mystical  tem- 
perament. They  feel  thingsl 
You  remember  when  Tagore  was 
in  this  country,  he  didn't  get  over 
the  foottights  to  you  or  me  a-tall, 
not  a-talll  But  that  was  our  fault. 
I  heard  a  dozen  of — wdl,  very 
socially-minded  and  specially  mod- 
em Women  say  that  he  had  the 
most  won-der-ful  brown  eyes,  and 
that  his  whiskers  were  real  angora 

wool   «•»   9^ 

He  came,  an  azure- vistooed  prophet, 
from  the  mysterious,  the  haunting, 
the  purple-ceilinged  Eaa^,  where 
they  have  those  muscular  fleas,  and 
those  frightful  eye  diseases,  and 
spotted  fever,  and  the  inexorable 
Castes,  and  the  barbaric  Suttee,  and 
the  permeating  stenches.  He  came 
from  the  East  where  Womankind 
is  a  sex-beast  and  the  Ten  Com- 
mandments a  game  of  pitch  and 
toss,  he  came  to  tell  us  what  was 
wrong  with  our  Western  civilization. 
€1  Ah — ^but  you  should  have  -heard 
Tagore  sympathizing  with  the  Occi- 
dent, and  have  seen  the  American' 
women*  lean  pantingly  and  scidfuUy 
on  his^  words!  His  demonstration  of 
his  denre  for  perfection  was  v  just 
too  otdre  fifr  adjectives. 
Rec^y  'I  am  sorry  you  were  not 
there.  ActuaU^i^'  of'  4:c»irse,  there 
were- no  >«»bi>c /male  men  there 


to  speak  of;  I  was  not  there  myself. 
But  I  sent  in  a  mannish  lady 
secretary  of  mine  to  report  the  glad 
tidings  of  great  joy.  She  told  me, 
after  she'd  taken  a  long  swig  of 
a  dub  soda  to  cleanse  away  the 
taste,  that  the  Tagore  Meeting  was 
"  awfully  sweetl " 
I  am  not  entirely  unfamiliar  with 
these  prophets  of  the  Far  East; 
both  the  kind  that  stay  at  home 
and  those  that  come  to  Europe 
and  America  to  prey  on  the  dear 
ladies.  Too,  I  am  familiar  with 
sanitary  conditions  in  the  East — 
and  to  me  the  prophetic  gentlemen 
are  no  less  in  need  of  a  shampoo 
for  all  their  bath-towd  turbans;  no 
less  in  need  of  a  body  scrub  for  all 
their  white  nightgowns.  And  their 
age-old  and  time-rotted  and  experi- 
ence-rejected philosophy  of  non- 
resistance  and  decadence,  also 
smellsl 

"Jjy BDUL  BAHA,  y'  understand, 
^-**  is  the  Apostle  of  the  New 
Democracy,  though  regrettable  to 
say,  he  himself  is  the  victim  of 
inherited  succession,  that  most  un- 
democratic of  all  sodal  institutions. 
He  is  the  Son  of  Ifis  Father.  The 
old  gentleman  worked  at  the  same 
trade;  he  was  a  prophet  too,  and  I 
hope  not  without  profit. 
The  first  of  this  particular  line 
of  Prophets  called  *'  The  Bab  "  was 
bom  in  Shiraz  in  Persia  in  1819  «» 


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At  the  age  of  24  he  started  in  to 
reform  lalam.  He  opened  his  cam- 
paign in  the  Holy  City  of  Mecca. 
After  two  years  of  BiUysundaying 
they  put  "  The  Bab  "  in  jail. 
Whether  it 's  better  to  put  a  reUg* 
ious  lunatic  in  jail  and  get  the 
neurotics  all  wrought  up  or  leave 
him  free  to  expound  his  beliefs  and 
form  a  Cult  is  a  question.  Howbeit 
the  Eastern  Nabobs  prefer  to  send 
them  to  Jail.  I  prefer  letting  'em 
have  a  Sawdust  Trail  and  a  Tent 
— and .  segregating  themt 
In  1850  "  The  Bab  "  was  shot  in 
the  Public  Square  of  Tabriz,  but 
before  he  died  he  prophesied,  "  One 
would  come  to  Redeem  the  World, 
etc." 

Maybe  Bab  was  what  he  was — 
but  Baha'o'llah  who  a  dozen  years 
after  put  forth  his  claims  as  **  The 
One  " — well,  he  looks  to  me  like  an 
Opportunist  «»  He  saw  the  Main 
Chance,  and  he  took  it. 
Here  you  have  the  "  new "  phi- 
losophy! "  Let  not  a  man  glory  in 
this — that  he  loves  his  country; 
rather  let  him  glory  in  this — ^that 
he  loves  his  kind." 
There 's  what  I  call  a  dead  safe 
religion — ^the  centuries  have  proved 
and  approved  of  it.  Ninety-nine  and 
forty-four  one-hundredths  of  all  the 
Prophets  of  all  time  have  passed 
out  the  same  stuff.  The  proposition 
is  not  to  say  it,  but  to  get  a  bloody- 
handed  madman  like  Bill  Kaiser  to 


conform  to  it!  «»  Civilized  Men 
have  already  admitted  it. 
Neverthdess  the  Crack-Brains  have 
discovered  Bahaism  as  another 
' ''  new  "  religion,  and  they  *re  off 
on  the  old  pursuit  of  the  IdeaL 
It 's  so  much  easier  to  embrace 
and  t^ouefirocUtmatiorts  than  help 
to  estabtish  practises.  The  Poor-of- 
Mind  never  realize  that  Words  are 
not  Deeds,  not  even  the  ancestors 
of  Deeds;  that  Talkers  are  seldom 
Doers,  and  that  Doers  are  seldom 
Listeners  «»  «» 

His  Historians  say  20,000  of  Baha'- 
o'Uah's  followers  were  massacred  by 
the  Orthodox  Members  of  the 
Community  and  that  the  Prophet 
himself  was  cast  into  the  Prison  of 
Acca  and  spent  the  remainder  of 
his  life  there.  You  will  believe  what 
you  please,  always  remembc^ng  the 
East  is  the  home  of  Wonder  Tales. 
I  read  and  I  keep  my  face  serious 
while  I  read  **  Baha'ollah  unsealed 
the  H<^y  Books  and  revealed  Laws 
through  which 'Mankind  can  attain 
to  a  high  state  of  Spiritual  Civi- 
lization. These  New  Laws  are  in 
keeping  with  the  Reign  of  Peace." 
tl  Baha'o'Uah  was  not  satisfied  with 
a  hand-picked  following  from  the 
dirty  and  miserable  street  rabble  of 
the  East,  whether  or  not  they  were 
willing  to  die  f<x  him.  He  wanted 
to  convert  the  West,  to  convert 
Europe.  Forth^^h  he  sent  "  proc- 
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of  Europe  '*  conunanding  them  to 
establish  peace."  «»  These  messages 
were  sent  over  the  earth  by  bare- 
legged, volunteer  messengers.  Of 
course,  you  may  be  sure,  they  were 
delivered?  Nevertheless  it  was  good 
propaganda  «»  «» 
Some  college  professors  heard  of  this 
"  famous  priscmer/'  Baha'ollah  «» 
Forthwith,  wishing  to  be  undeniably 
wise,  they  wrote  learned  articles  and 
.  approved  him  and  his  philosophy. 
Such  is  the  funny  side  of  so-called 
educated  men. 

y  fFTER  Baha  ollah's  death  in 
,^-M>  came  Abdul  Baha,  his  son. 
But  only  since  the  start  of  the  World 
War  has  **  Bahaism  "  assumed  in- 
ternational proportions. 
Can  you  not  understand  how  and 
why  a  brand  "  new "  religion  of 
non-resistance  will  find  converts  in 
the  midst  of  a  World  War  and 
what  kind  of  converts  they  will  be? 
Of  course  Bahaism  is  the  same  old 
rumble-bumble.  "  There  is  but  one 
God  and  we  are  the  chosen  people!  " 
Little  is  required  of  the  true  believer. 
It  is  a  religion  of  ease — and  that 
makes  it  doubly  attractive. 
Abdul  Baha  himself,  released  from 
prison  in  1908,  has  traveled  over 
Europe  and  made  multitudes  of 
converts — many  otherwise  sane  men 
and  women  follow  the  new  lure. 
€lWell,  have  it  that  way  if  it 
pleases  you,  follow  the  turban  and 


the  smell  of  Incense,  and  the  Phi- 
losophy of  Hands-Up,  if  that 's 
your  kind. 

But  me — I  am  a  resistant.  I  like 
to  fed  the  wfa<^esome  strength  of 
the  opposition,  to  grow  by  exercise. 
Abdul  Baha  for  all  his  vogue  will 
not  save  the  World,  and  I  wiU  teU 
you  why  he  will  not. 
No  Man,  no  Prophet,  no  Sect  will 
save  this  World  who  is  thinking 
about  Another  World.  No  man  will 
discover  and  make  peace  with  Man 
until  he  quits  pursuing  a  "  God," 

My  Friend,  Marilla! 

^^^  ARILLA  RICKER  is 
M  ■  ■  A  cantankerous  lady 
^L^^^^W'  lawyer  of  Boston  town 
^^^^^^^  who  is  about  100  years 
yoimg.  She  has  short  hair,  and  a 
long  reach,  and  a  tongue  that 's 
hung  in  the  middle  and  loose  on 
both  ends;  Timken  Bearings.  She 
disbelieves  everything  she  doesn't 
believe  in,  and  that 's  more  than 
enough.  She 's  full  of  time-tried 
arguments;  she  always  wants  to 
exercise  them.  She  spends  nK>st  of 
her  leisure  and  spare  cash  traveling 
to  get  into  a  fight.  Whenever  she 
can't  get  there  in  person,  she  writes! 
€L  She  contributes  articles  to  all  the 
publications  that  will  accept  them. 
That  number  has  dwindled  down  to 
two  and  ROYCROFT  is  one.  All 
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miasloQ  by  the  Men  or  Institutioot 

whom  Marilla  attacked. 

Oh\  but  the 't  a  dauntlets  and  sur- 

priiing  old  warrior.  She  has  more 

ways  of  going  into  action  than  a 

porcupine  or  a  busy-tailed  mei^tis 

mephitis  «»  «» 

Next  time  you  see  a  Marilla  Ridcer 

artide  in   the   ROYCROFT,   you 

write  in  and  pve  her  H ,  and 

maybe  The  Bunch  will  print  what 
you  sayl  Then  wait  and  see  what 
Marilla  does  to  youlll 
Marilla  thinks  Teddy  is  This  and 
That.  She  says  that  Teddy  is  the 
great  I-Me,  and  that  whenever  he 
goes  to  a  Funeral  he  wants  to  be 
the  Corpse,  and  whenever  he  goes 
to  a  Wedding,  he  wants  to  be  the 
Bride!  Rardy  a  week  passes  but  she 
exposes  T.  R.,  the  Professional  Of- 
fice-Seeker in  the  Dover,  New  Hamp- 
shire, NewS'Blizzard,  her  Home 
Town  Paper.  Marilla  bought  the 
majority  of  the  stock  in  this  news- 
paper just  so  she  can  bust  into  print 
ixiienever  she  wants  to.  She  waves 
T.  R.*s  pretentions  aside  and  calls 
him  the  **  National  Gargoyle!  *'  «» 
Marilla  is  some  mixer. 
And  here  is  where  I  register  my 
complaint.  This  captious  old  abo- 
litionist wrote  in  to  Bert  last  week 
— and  what  do  you  think  she  wanted  ? 
She  wanted  him  to  fire  me!  She 
suggested  the  Blue  Envelope. 
I  have  gone  and  got  Marilla  her 
Wraps  a  million  times.  (She  is  al- 


ways cM!)  I  havb  helped  her  ipto 
her  Sealskin  Sadc  times  wititout 
number.  I  have  tucked  her  \Mile 
Silk  Muffler  in  round  her  neck  and 
fussed  with  her  Overshoes.  I  have 
put  Hot  Bricks  in  her  Bed  o'  lights. 
I  have  listened  while  she  explainfxl 
the  Qospd— LordI  How  I  hMC 
listened  to  that  woman! 
And  now  she  demands  my  scalp 
because  she  says  though  I  have  been 
Editor  of  the  Roycrolt  Publicatiaas 
for  more  than  three  years,  I  have 
never  reviewed  her  book,  /  Am  Not 
Afraid^Are  YmiT 
This  is  just  to  state,  gently  but 
firmly,  though  she  may  advcrtiae 
her  agnostical  book — whatever  is  in 
it! — in  the  ROYCROFT  as  expen- 
sivdy  as  she  pleases,  I  refuse  to 
review  it!  So  there.  Once  and  for 
all,  Marilla— THERE!! 

-TiUWc  Meet  Again" 

GOOD-BYE,  my  Good  Friefldt: 
these  are  the  last  Fdicttotms. 
You  have  been  very  oonsiderate^af 
my  work  in  the  three  years  we  havs 
known  each  other;  very  moden^ 
very  kindly  in  your  judgments.  I 
want  you  to  know  I  am  grateful, 
and  that  I  will  miss  the  pleasant 
stimulus  of  monthly  contact  with 
your  minds.  I  have  enjoyed  it  all 
largdy,  it  has  been  a  most  he^rfnl 
and  inspiring  experience  «»  lAQd 
with  you! 


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AUGUST  1918 


No.  6 


23rd  Annual  Roycroft  Convention,  1918 

Bert  Hubbard 


^TT/^wTian  the  usual 
■  I  custom  at  The  Roycroft 
B"^™!  there  gathered  at  East 
^^^— *  Aurora  for  the  first  ten 
days  of  July»  an  Assembly  of 
Roycrofters  and  Philistines  from  all 
comers  of  the  globe.  There  were 
Musicales,  Speeches,  Picnics,  Talks 
and  Walks  afield. 

In  l^ese  days  of  struggle,  when  the 
tvtiole  world  is  turned  topsy-turvy 
trymg  to  annihilate  itself,  it  is  quite 
impossible  for  any  exchange  of 
thought,  except  on  the  one  question 
—WAR.  So  we  talked  War;  the 
Speakers  tried  to  settle  it,  and  on 
Qie  pordi  at  The  Inn  we  took 
mental  trips  over  the  battle-fields 
and  up  and  down  the  trenches  «» 
Here  and  there  we  had  a  change — 
mi-houT  or  so  of  Peace.  We  forgot 
\      the  War  and  its  depressions,  when 


some  very  ordinary  subject  like 
Chiropractics  or  Milk  or  Art  were 
thrown  in;  or  when  Ernest  Thomp- 
son-Seton  made  youngsters  of  us 
all  by  telling  us  tales  of  the  woods 
and  then  got  us  all  dancing  an 
Indian  pow-wow. 

For  the  sake  of  you  who  did  not 
attend  the  meetings  and  to  tickle 
the  vanity  of  one  speaker  in  par- 
ticular, we  are  printing^  the  speeches 
(or  as  much  of  each  as  there 's 
space  for).  If  the  pages  in  ROY- 
CROFT were  as  limitless  as  the 
hours  of  the  night  and  we  thought 
you  couldn't  get  away,  we  would 
print  the  whole  proceedings  in  full. 
If  the  stufif  doesn't  read  up  just 
right — ^blame  the  blue  pencil. 
Lordy!  How  we  had  to  cut  those 
speeches,  and  the  price  of  blue 
pencils  so  terribly  high! 


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Dr.  Frank  Crane 

Ghofts 


I  AM  going  to  talk  to  you 
about  Ghotts. 
I  can  best  get  all  I  have 
to  say  in  one  sentence  «» 
Usually  by  this  theorem  all  a  man 
says  in  an  hour  can  be  condensed 
in  two  'minutes  so  I  '11  tell  you  all 
of  my  lecture  and  go  on  and  say  it 
all  over  again.  If  you  can  remember 
this  sentence,  you  can  remember  all 
of  my  talk.  "  We  do  things  not  for 
reason,  but  for  the  ghost  of  a  dead 
reason."  And  it  shall  be  my  task 
to  expatiate  on  that  proposition  «» 
As  we  go  on  I  think  we  will  see  that 
ghosts  dominate  our  lives  in  the 
big  things  of  religion,  commerce, 
education,  politics,  down  into  the 
small  and  capillary  instances  of  daily 
customs,  speeches  and  clothing  »^ 
Everywhere  long  gray  arms  reach 
out  of  the  past  and  pull  us,  and  we 
at  once  lie  joyfully  on  their  strings. 
€L  Take  the 'matter  of  clothing,  for 
instance.  We  can  begin  with  the 
most  intricate  and  commonplace  of  * 
things,  but  I  will  not  refer  to 
women's  clothing  for  two  reasons. 
The  first  reason  is:  J  am  a  married 
man  and  I  know  better  and  the 
second  reason  is,  that  women  dress 
much  more  sensibly  than  men  be- 
cause they  think  about  it  and  talk 
about  it.  C  When  I  want  a  suit  of 
clothes,  I  go  down  to  the  haber- 


dasher's and  say;  "  Give  me  a  suit, 
size  42."  I  put  it  on  and  wear  it 
out  and  that 's  all  there  is  to  it «» 
With  a  woman,  a  dress  is  an  Event 
Take  it  in  the  simmier  time.  I  used 
to  lecture  at  Chautauquas  in  the 
simmier  and  they  alwasrs  put  the 
prominent  speaker  about  my  size  on 
the  program  about  two  o'clock  in 
the  afternoon,  the  hottest  time  of 
day.  I  stood  up  on  the  platform 
with  a  canvas  about  two  feet  over 
my  head,  delivering  my  lecture  and 
getting  a  Turkish  bath  at  the  same 
time.  I  would  look  down  at  the 
audience  and  see  women  dressed  in 
shirt-waists  the  same  as  I  would 
look  if  I  took  off  my  coat  and  vest, 
while  the  men  were  all  dressed  up 
in  horse  blankets  »^  Women  dress 
much  more  sensibly  and  much  pret- 
tier »^  »^ 

Take  a  man's  clothes;  take  mine 
if  you  want  to.  I  have  here  on  my 
cuffs  two  buttons.  All  you  men 
have  buttons  on  your  cuffs.  What 
for?  There  isn't  any  reason — just 
the  ghost  of  a  dead  reason.  I  don't 
know  what  the  dead  reason  is.  It 
has  been  dead  so  long  I  "have  for- 
gotten it,  but  I  know  tailors  all 
over  the  country  are  still  sewing 
buttons  oh  the  cuffs.  You  would  n't 
take  a  coat  without  a  button  on  it. 
One  of  mine  came  off  the  other  day 


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and  my  wife  was  in  a  furore  until 
she  sewed  it  back  on  again.  Maybe 
at  one  time,  although  I  doubt  the 
accuracy  of  the  statement,  they  put 
buttons  on  the  fore  part  of  the 
sleeves  to  prevent  them  from  using 
the  sleeve  for  pocket-handkerchiefs. 
€L  If  I  were  thoughtfully  dressed  as 
a  spellbinder  or  an  oratcM*,  I  would 
have  on  a  Prince  Albert  coat,  then 
I  would  have  two  other  buttons 
over  there  on  the  back  like  a  head 
waiter's  imiform  at  a  spring  func- 
tion. Nobody  ever  buttons  those 
things  up.  Why?  I  tell  you  there 
is  n't  any  reason — just  the  ghost  of 
a  dead  reason.  There  used  to  be  a 
reason  once,  when  everybody  rode 
horseback  and  a  horse  went  with 
every  gentleman.  My  grandfather 
was  a  \^rginia  gentleman;  he  would 
chase  a  horse  two  miles  to  ride  a 
couple  of  blocks.  When  he  got  on 
the  horse  he  would  button  the  tails 
of  his  coat  so  the  saddle  wouldn't 
crease  it.  That  custom  is  dead;  we 
don't  ride  horses  these  days.  Instead 
of  riding  horses  we  ride  a  bucket 
of  gasoline  ^»  The  reason  is  deadr 
The  ghost  of  the  dead  reason  is 
costing  us  I  don't  know  how  many 
thousands  of  dollars. 
If  I  were  dressed  like  men  used  to 
dress  ten  or  twelve  years  ago,  before 
they  got  those  fancy  shirts,  I  would 
have  a  piece  of  boiler-plate  down 
my  manly  chest  and  a  stiff  collar, 
as  I  have  on  now,  and  I  would  have 


on  my  wrists  a  pair  of  hardmanades. 
What  for?  Certainly  not  for  com- 
fort. The  wind  blows  up  them  in 
the  winter  time  and  they  get  sticky 
in  the  summer  time.  Not  for  beauty. 
If  I  were  going  to  adorn  myself  and 
make  myielf  a  handsome  thing  I 
would  n't  begin  with  these  «»  Why 
then  these  stiff  things?  There  is  n't 
any  reason:  that  is  the  reason  we 
have  to  go  on  with  them.  There 
used  to  be  a  very  good  reason;  the 
reason  was  this:  (I  think  I  got  it 
from  some  of  Elbert  Hubbard's 
writings.)  One  time  we  had  ah  idea 
in  the  world  that  a  gentleman  was 
a  human  creature  of  the  male  per- 
suasion who  never  did  any  work 
with  his  hands.  That  idea  was  once 
alive.  Formerly,  in  the  days  of  the 
Stuarts,  a  gentleman  wore  lace  over 
his  cuffs  like  gravy  dippers  women 
used  to  wear.  That  meant  he  never 
picked  up  a  bucket  of  coal  nor 
brought  in  a  bucket  of  water.  He 
was  a  gentleman.  He  wore  this 
dingus  to  show  he  never  soiled 
his  aristocratic  hands  nor  turned  his 
aristocratic  neck,  and  wore  this 
piece  of  sheet  iron  so  he  could  not 
bend  his  aristocratic  back  ^»  That 
idea  of  a  gentleman,  my  friends, 
is  dead  and  danined,  let  us  hope, 
but  we  still  go  on  wearing  those 
things.  Not  for  any  reason,  but  the 
ghost  of  a  dead  reason. 
In  1853  there  was  a  hatter  in  Lon- 
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the  first  tall  or  stove-pipe  hat  or 
plug.  He  wore  it  out  on  the  street 
one  day  and  a  horse  saw  him  and 
ran  away.  The  owner  of  the  horse 
sued  Hdvington  and  the  case  is 
still  on  record  in  England,  but 
Hdvington  beat  him,  the  judge 
holding  that  an  Englishman  had 
the  right  to  dress  as  ugly  as  he 
could  ^»  «» 

About  the  same  time  there  was  a 
King  in  England  whose  leg  was  not 
handsome  «»  Up  to  that  time  every- 
body wore  breeches  to  the  knees, 
from  the  knee  on  down  there  was 
a  stocking.  Now  every  young  man 
knows  that  in  this  artide  of  his 
apparel  it  is  hard  to  keep  that  little 
crease  down  the  front  for  it  costs 
a  good  deal  of  money  to  send  trou- 
sers to  the  tailor  twice  a  week  or 
so,  and  it 's  hard  to  slip  them 
between  the  mattresses  before  you 
go  to  bed  ^»  We  never  used  to 
have  that  trouble  when  they  wore 
breeches.  This  king  of  distinguished 
royal  rank  did  n't  look  so  well  and 
he  unfurled  the  pantaloons  to  the 
shoe  tops.  The  King  is  dead,.Hel- 
vington  is  dead,  but  from  New 
York  to  Toldo  they  are  wearing 
those  trousers  and  the  stiff  hat  and 
one  ghost  condoles  us  at  one  end 
and  the  other  at  the  other  end  «» 
You  pick  up  your  knife  when  you 
go  to  eat  your  piece  of  pie.  (This 
is  in  the  pie  belt,  I  believe  up  here). 
You   notice   when   you   take  your 


case-knife  up  just  about  one  third 
of  the  way  down  from  the  handle 
to  the  end  there  is  a  little  niche 
just  as  if  somebody  snatched  it  off. 
Nobody  can  tdl  you  what  it 's  there 
for.  I  have  asked  cutlers  and  every- 
body what  it  is  there  for,  but  the 
nearest  I  ever  heard  was  at  a  lundi- 
eon  one  day.  When  I  propounded 
this  to  the  learned  company  no  one 
could  give  me  the  reason,  but  a 
very  dever  little  woman  made  this 
guess.  "  You  know  forks  are  quite 
a  recent  invention.  They  are  not 
over  one  hundred  years  old.  Pre- 
vious to  that  time  everybody  used 
to  eat  with  a  knife,  and  possibly 
our  forefathers  put  that  on  the 
blade  to  indicate  how  far  down  you 
should  fill  it."  But  whatever  the 
reascm  was,  it  is  no  more — ^that's 
the  point. 

I  REMEMBER  when  I  studied 
geography  how  it  all  looked  to 
me  and  I  remember  the  first  time 
I  got  out  of  Illinois.  I  was  bom  in 
Illinois.  I  went  into  Indiana  one 
day,  into  Terre  Haute,  and  was 
greatly  surprised  to  see  that  the 
grass  there  was  the  same  color  as 
it  was  in  Illinois,  because  in  my 
geography  the  State  of  Indiana  was 
red  and  the  State  of  Illinois  green 
and  naturally  I  expected  to  find 
red  grass  in  Indiana.  If  you  look  at 
your  geography  you  can  see  all 
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about  the  same  size  as  a  peanut, 
Texas  about  the  size  of  the  German 
Empire.  Nevada  looks  as  if  it  were 
sawed  out  with  a  straight  saw  and 
Indiana  and  Alabama  look  as  if 
they  were  sawed  out  with  a  jig-saw. 
Why  do  we  have  all  those  funny- 
looking  states?  «»  There  is  n't  any 
reason.  There  used  to  be  a  reason 
once,  a  very  good  one — the  States 
meant  something,  now,  they  only 
mean  Row  6,  Pigeonhole  7  «»  It 
doesn't  mean  any  more  to  be  a 
New  Yorker  than  a  Pennsylvanian. 
New  Yorkers  are  a  little  smarter, 
but  they  all  look  the  same.  The 
same  reasons  seem  to  exist,  they 
will  go  on  to  the  end.  And,  speaking 
of  these  States,  Rhode  Island  has 
got  the  same  nimiber  of  Senators 
as  Texas.  Speaking  of  the  Senate — 
why  a  Senate?  What  good  is  a 
Senate  to  anybody?  Now,  I  want 
to  talk  right  loud.  There  is  n't  any 
reason.  We  have  no  more  use  for 
a  Senate  in  the  United  States  than 
a  dog  has  for  three  tails  ^»  There 
used  to  be  a  very  good  reason  once. 
€L  In  the  early  days  of  Parliamen- 
tary history  in  England,  there  used 
to  be  two  classes — ^there  were  the 
nobles,  the  highborn  aristocrats  and 
the  common  muts  like  you  and  me. 
They  had  the  House  of  Lords  for 
the  aristocrats  or  gentlemen,  and 
the  House  of  Commons  for  the 
common  muts.  We  have  n't  that  any 
more.  The  idea  is  dead  and  damned. 


We  have  got  the  old  Senate  which 
is  the  vermiform  appendix  of  United 
States  Government.  They  're  trying 
to  get  Henry  Ford  in  there  now.  I 
think  that  is  a  German  plot.  Take 
a  man  like  Henry  Ford,  he  's  one 
of  the  most  efficient  men  in  this 
century,  and  bury  him  in  that  hole! 
That 's  the  worst  thing  that  sould 
be  done  to  Ford,  Edison  and  Bur- 
bank,  to  put  them  in  the  Senate. 
We  don't  have  a  Senate  for  any 
reason.  The  reason  is  dead. 
You  would  think  when  you  come 
to  school  systems,  you  are  out  of 
the  realm  of  the  mystic  into  the 
realm  of  intelligence  ^»  No,  my 
friends,  there  is  just  one  little  bright 
spot  in  our  education.  There  is 
some  sense  to  the  Kindergarten — 
no  wonder  the  German  government 
abolished  it.  It  had  ^me  sense  to 
it.  But,  the  rest  of  the  school  system 
is  upside  down  and  blind  as  a  bat. 
The  higher  you  get  in  the  public 
school  system  the  darker  it  gets. 
When  you  get  to  universities,  you 
can't  see  your  hand  before  you. 
€L  In  the  Universities  of  Bologna 
and  Paris,  when  a  boy  was  sent  to 
school  there  was  only  one  language 
that  could  be  taught,  either  Latin 
or  Greek.  He  could  have  his  choice 
of  one  or  the  other.  Those  were  the 
only  requisites  for  teaching  Ghram- 
mar.  They  had  no  English  Gram- 
mars in  those  days.  Why,  150  years 
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of,  when  the  univertities  were  com- 
mencing education.  Mathematics 
was  the  only  tdence  they  had  «» 
Mathematics  is  a  subject  as  old  as 
the  memory  of  man.  Mathematics 
was  used  in  the  days  of  Socrates. 
We  stick  to  Mathematics  not  for 
any  reason  but  for  the  ghost  of  a 
dead  reason.  Sometimes  you  hear 
these  high-brows  say  it  is  necessary 
to  learn  Mathematics.  Some  people 
can't  learn  it  ^»  Lord  Macaulay 
could  n't  learn  it,  and  he  was  n't 
such  a  "  boob."  He  described  his 
experience  with  that  old  proposition 
of  Euclid  who  worked  over  it  and 
worked  over  it.  "  It  must  be  some 
Divine  thing  let  down  from  Heaven," 
he  said,  "  and  I  would  rather  watch 
it  than  learn  it.  I  will  say,  marvelous 
perpendicular,  Oh,  most  divine  hy- 
pothenuse!"  Why,  now-a-days,  you 
see  the  young  girls  in  High  Schools 
walking  along  Lovers'  Lane,  with 
the  pretty  flowers  tickling  their 
pretty  ankles,  that  don't  know  the 
names  of  trees  they  see  every  day; 
they  could  n't  tell  slippery-elm  from 
basswood  *^  They  could  n't  tell  a 
thing  about  the  constellation,  that 
assemblage  of  splendors,  nor  of  the 
formation  of  the  clouds  nor  do  they 
know  anything  about  their  faith. 
They  don't  know  about  the  phjrs- 
ical  construction  of  their  bodies, 
nor  the  sex  question,  but  they  can 
prove  to  you  that  the  simi  of  the 
square   of   the    base    and   perpen- 


dicular is  equal  to — ^Yumty-Yumty- 
Yuml  «»  9^ 

They  have  been  educated,  "By 
Heck,"  and  that  is  what  they  are 
paying  for. 

QOW,  perhaps  your  eyes  have 
become  sufficiently  accustomed 
to  the  darkness  to  see  the  worst 
ghost  of  all,  the  old  daddy  of  them, 
the  meanest  of  them,  he  lives  in 
a  cave  and  goes  out  and  gets  the 
people  and  takes  kings  off  the  throne 
and  robs  things;  he  takes  the  very 
bloom  of  youth  and  crunches  it  in 
his  bloody  jaws  and  breaks  the 
hearts  of  women  and  tramps  around 
over  the  country  to  suit  himself— 
his  name  is  WAR. 
Why  do  we  have  war?  There  was  n't 
any  reason — not  the  slightest.  There 
was  the  ghost  of  a  dead  one — ^that 
is  why.  I  '11  tell  you  what  that  is— 
it's  the  Ghost  of  Julius  Caesar. 
When  you  swear  you  must  be  care- 
fiil  not  to  swear  by  Caesar — say, 
Great  Caesar's  Ghostl 
He  was  perhaps  gazed  upon  by  the 
hiunan  race  as  the  greatest  man 
except  Jesus  Christ.  He  had  more 
to  do  with  determining  the  fate  of 
the  hiunan  race  because  he  had  one 
idea  in  his  head  and  that  was  the 
idea  of  conquering  the  world — the 
Roman  people  to  conquer  it  all 
and  make  it  one  Government.  He 
came  very  nearly  getting  across  with 
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That  was  Julius  Caesar's  idea.  That 
idea  is  called  Empire.  He  would  n't 
be  a  King — ^he  was  too  modest.  He 
called  himself  Commander,  Imper- 
ator,  which  is  just  another  name 
for  Caesar — ^Kaiser  is  just  another 
word  for  Caesar*  also  Czar,  and 
Emperor  that  just  comes  from  Julius 
Caesar.  All  the  old  ideas  the  world 
has  ever  known  were  taken  from 
'Julius  Caesar  ^»  They  set  out  to 
conquer  the  world  but  foimd  they 
could  n't  do  this,  and  the  ghost  has 
been  busy  ever  since. 
Germany  must  keep  an  army  to 
conquer  the  old  world — ^England 
must  have  a  navy  to  conquer  the 
whole  world. 

The  Czar,  and  the  rest  of  the  Kings 
of  Europe  have  n't  got  any  idea  of 
running  the  world  except  Julius 
Caesar's  idea  of  an  Empire.  Some 
have  the  idea  that  this  war  is  one 
between  the  United  States,  France 
and  England,  but  it  isn't;  it  is 
going  to  be  a  war  between  America, 
the  Kaiser  and  the  Hohenzollem. 
The  New  World  represents  federa- 
tion, and  it  is  these  two  ideas  that 
are  now  in  conflict. 
The  only  way  out  of  the  war  is  to 
Americanize  the  world,  that  is,  to 
have  some  kind  of  a  league  of 
Nations  that  will  settle  the  Inter- 
national disputes.  We  have  got  to 
s^ve  this  old  world  from  the  ghost 
of  Julius  Caesar. 
It 's  a  war  between  Julius  Caesar 


and  America:  it's  the  idea  of 
Liberty,  Justice  and  Truth  we  arc 
fighting  for.  It  isn't  because  the 
Him  plunged  into  Belgium  or  be- 
cause of  the  finking  of  the  LusiUmia 
or  the  other  things  the  Him  has 
done,  but  we  are  in  this  war  for 
God  and  if  God  doesn't  mean 
Justice  and  Mercy — ^What  is  it? 
COur  ideal— THE  AMERICAN 
FLAG — floats  over  every  canton- 
ment in  the  United  States  where 
the  bojrs  are  quartered,  and  floats 
over  the  homes  of  the  American 
people;  it  stands  in  every  office  by 
the  side  of  the  businessman.  It 
warbles  in  the  ear  of  every  crafts- 
man at  his  work  desk;  it  is  beside 
the  mother  as  she  goes  about  her 
household  duties;  it  flies  before  every 
ship  to  help  it  get  "  over  there  " 
where  the  hoimds  have  their  teeth 
in  the  throats  of  the  wolves  of  War. 
We  can't  'come  back  imtil  it 's  over 
"over  there." 

Our  boys  can  sing  as  gloriously  as 
any  can  sing:  **  He  has  soimded 
forth  the  trumpet  that  shall  never 
call  retreat;  he  is  sifting  out  the 
hearts  of  men  before  his  judgment 
seat — so  be  swift  my  soul  to  answer 
him,  be  jubilant  my  feet,  while  God 
is  marching  on.'' 

Men,  God  help  you  if  you  have  n't 
a  religion  bigger  than  your  de- 
nomination!— Capt.  McGUlivray, 
Padre,  Canadian  Army. 


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CfufUan  in  the  Canadian  Army 
Sacrifice 


I*M  jiist  going  to « give  you 
a  bird's-eye  view  of  some  of 
the  things  I  saw  ''over 
there."  It  *s  a  great  privilege 
and  pleasure  but  a  very  hard  one 
for  me. 

I  would  like  to  say  this  firsts  this 
is  a  war  for  Mothers.  Did  you 
guess  it?  It's  a  war  for  mother, 
for  wife,  for  sister,  for  sweetheart, 
and  the  sleeping  babe  ^»  That 's 
what  this  war  is  for,  to  protect 
the  virtue  of  our  womanhood  with- 
out which  this  world  would  be  a 
veritable  hell.  So,  we  are  fighting 
for  motherhood. 

Mother,  if  you  be  here  this  morning 
and  your  boy  is  going  to  the  front, 
don't  take  hold  of  his  coat  and  say, 
"  Stay,  my  son,  stay!  "  Place  your 
hand  on  his  shoulder  and  say;  "  My 
son,  go  and  do  your  duty  as  a  loyal 
son  of  this  great  republic.  God's 
blessings  and  Mother's  love  go  with 
you."  And  I  want  to  tell  you  that 
it 's  one  of  the  greatest  sources  of 
inspiration  for  these  boys  who  bear 
your  burden  on  the  fighting  line 
that  he  has  mother's  blessing.  The 
bravest  battle  that  ever  was  fought 
— shall  I  tell  you  where  and  when? 
You  won't  find  it  on  the  maps  of 
the  world:  it  was  fought  by  the 
mothers  of  men. 


If  you  went  into  Canada  today 
you  would  find  cripples  in  every 
village,  town  and  city  ^»  We  are 
living  in  strenuous  times,  sad  days. 
I  am  no  prophet,  dear  friends,  but 
the  day  is  coming  when  your  hearts 
will  be  sore  and  sorrowful  and  sad 
— "  When  the  Boys  come  Home." 
You  don't  need  me  to  tell  you  that 
there  are  thousands  of  them  into 
whose  faces  we  will  never  look  again. 
But,  fathers  and  mothers  here  this 
morning,  accept  my  heartiest  con- 
gratulations if  you  have  sons  at  the 
front,  you  who  have  so  highly 
honored  us  by  having  reared  boys 
big  and  bold  enough  to  go  out  there 
in  the  youth  of  manhood  to  lay  thdr 
lives  down  on  the  altar  of  sacrifice 
for  Mother.  You  did  n't  know  they 
loved  you  as  they  do.  And  not  imtil 
they  spill  their  blood  out  of  sacrifice 
will  we  know  how  loyal  they  are 
to  Mother.  I  have  only  one  little 
word  to  bring  to  you  this  morning 
and  it  is  the  word  SACRIFICE. 
You  know  how  to  spell  it  and  that 
is  all  you  know  about  it. 
I  could  take  you  to  the  old  land 
today,  friends.  They  know  there  is 
a  war  on.  They  know  there  is  a  war 
on  in  many  many  ways — ^from  the 
standpoint  of  Food,  from  the  stand- 
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standpoints.  You  can  go  into  res- 
taurants anywhere  in  London  today, 
your  pockets  can  bulge  with  money 
and  you  can  buy  only  a  three-shil- 
ling meal.  Go  into  the  dty  of  Lon- 
don. It  is  in  absolute  darkness, 
not  a  light  anywhere,  not  a  flash 
of  light  in  a  single  window.  It  *s 
because  of  the  air-raid  business, 
friends.  Over  two  million  have  been 
killed  by  aeroplanes  and  it  has 
woimded  thousands  bf  men. 
I  saw  thousands  of  your  men  over- 
seas. I  saw  the  first  American  army, 
six  battalions  marching  through  the 
streets  of  London  last  August.  I 
have  seen  your  hospitals  and  many 
of  your  boys  «»  We  had  some  of 
your  boys  in  oiu*  battalion. 
Food,  my  friends,  means  three  things 
— Conserve,  Produce  and  Save  *^ 
These  three  words  are  impressed  on 
the  women  and  children  of  that  land 
today.  Nothing  is  wasted  ^»  The 
women  of  this  country  don't  kribw 
there  is  a  war  going  on.  Even  in 
Canada  you  see  women  by  the  score 
filling  positions  of  men.  The  same 
is  being  done  in  England  and  France. 
In  one  place  I  visited  I  saw  five 
thousand  girl  munition-workers,  girl 
train-wipers  and  tazicab-drivers  ^» 
You  find  the  women  doing  the  work 
as  efficiently  as  men. 
I  worked  in  the  casualty  clearing 
station  just  behind  the  gxms.  It 
takes  four  or  five  battalions  to  make 
a  brigade,  three  to  five  brigades  to 


make  a  corps  and  three  to  five  corps 
to  make  an  army.  An  army  of  about 
one  himdred  to  one  himdred  and 
fifty  thousand  men  passing  Roycroft 
Inn  would  be  so  great  as  to  reach 
all  the  way  to  Buffalo,  i.  e.,  when 
the  last  of  the  army  would  be  going 
by  The  Inn  the  first  of  it  would  be 
in  Buffalo,  a  distance  of  eighteen 
miles  «»  «» 

I  have  met  them  carrying  three 
tons  of  ammunition  for  thirteen 
miles,  just  as  dose  together  as  we 
find  rigs  in  funerals  in  this  country. 
And  here  you  sit  back  in  the  lap  of 
luxury.  We  talk  about  what  we  do 
for  the  Red  Crossl  We  are  doing 
nothing,  giving  nothing,  my  friends, 
of  what  these  boys  suffer  and  go 
through  for  you  and  for  me.  Never 
talk  about  sacrifice.  You  don't  know 
the  first  iota  of  the  meaning  of  the 
word  sacrifice  and  I  have  come  to 
tell  you  this  morning  the  meaning 
of  the  word  Sacrifice,  that  you  may 
take  off  your  hat  to  the  man  in 
khaki.  He  is  going  out  to  death 
and  to  hell  for  you  and  me.  When 
a  cripple  comes  back  stand  off  the 
walk  and  take  off  your  hat  and  let 
him  pass,  as  a  mark  of  gratefulness 
for  what  he  has  done  for  you  and 
for  me. 

DOW,  friends,  just  to  tell  you 
something  of  the  inconve- 
niences of  the  men.  If  the  average 
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blacksmith  shop  and  tells  you  < 
tenth  of  what  he  has  seen  you  will 
say  he  is  the  biggest  liar  you  ever 
saw.  I  want  to  say  this,  there  is  no 
American  who  can  tell  you  one 
hundredth  part  of  what  he  has 
seen  of  the  awfulness  over  there. 
€L  In  driving  here  and  there  you 
see  four  or  five  men  in  groups, 
standing  without  garments  on, 
standing  there  bending  over.  What 
are  they  doing?  They  are  ridding 
their  shirts  of  vermin.  They  have 
no  second  shirts  to  take  their  place. 
I  have  seen  the  garments  so  infested 
with  vermin,  friends,  that  they  could 
almost  walk  alone.  I  have  seen  this 
— ^for  you  and  me.  Talk  about 
sacrifice!  «»  ^» 

How  would  you  like  to  go  home 
tonight  and  feel  a  tickling  sensation 
on  your  chest  and  put  your  hand 
there  and  find  it  full  of  rats?  These 
brave  fellows  have  had  scores  of 
rats  go  over  their  bodies  night  after 
night.  You  never  saw  anything  like 
the  horror  of  rats  in  the  trenches. 
€L  You  don't  know  anything  about 
the  mud — the  rain  and  the  mud. 
Last  July  it  started  to  rain  the  first 
day  and  the  curtain  never  dropped 
imtil  July  8th.  After  a  rain  like  that 
the  fellows  would  go  in  there  with 
rubber  boots  on  and  do  their  bit 
just  the  same.  I  have  seen  them 
sleep  in  it  day  after  day — nothing 
but  mud.  I  have  seen  them  lie  down 
in  it,  too,  and  eat  in  it — ^Mud  just 


Mud.  I  have  seen  the  inconveniences 
of  the  lads  over  there  and  their 
sacrifices  for  you  and  for  me. 
There  may  be  some  mothers  and 
fathers  here  who  will  say: "  Captain, 
what  about  the  religion  of  the  boys 
*  over  there '  ?  '*  They  hold  on  to 
the  faith  of  God  doing  these  deeds 
I  have  just  told  you  about.  Is  there 
a  man  here  who  would  die  for  the 
pal  sitting  next  to  him  this  morning? 
I  have  seen  l^ys  die  when  they 
did  n't  have  to  die,  to  save  the  lives 
of  their  pals  that  stood  next  to  them. 
I  know  of  a  boy  who  when  a  bomb 
lit  into  them,  threw  his  body  on 
the  trench  to  save  eight  other  lives. 
This  is  what  our  boys  are  doing  for 
you  and  me. 

You  may  ask:  "  Do  these  men  at 
the  front  pray?  "  They  pray  out 
there  as  I  have  never  seen  them 
pray  before.  You  have  got  to  imder- 
stand  the  language  of  the  Tommy 
to  be  able  to  do  anything  with  him. 
I  have  known  a  lad  to  come  to 
me  after  a  sermon  and  say,  *'  Father, 
that 's  a  damn  fine  talk  you  gave," 
and  when  told  he  said  danm,  he 
said,  "  Like  heU  I  did."  It  *8 
habit— that  *s  all. 

You  talk  about  singing  here  this 
morning.  If  you  want  to  hear  singing 
you  ought  to  hear  the  boys  over 
there.  They  raise  the  very  roofs  with 
their  melodies  and  enthusiasm  over 
it  all.  Oh,  these  lads  are  wonderful 
fellows  at  the  front. 


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Many  people  ask  me:  "  Do  thete 
fellows  drink?  "  For  the  period  of 
three  and  one-half  months  that  I 
was  at  the  front  and  saw  thousands 
coming  and  going  from  our  little 
hospitals  I  never  saw  as  many  men 
intoxicated  as  I  have  fingers  on  one 
hand.  Men  have  religion  out  there, 
they  have  faith  in  God  Almighty. 

'^^T  ^'^^  *^  ^*  boys— write  to 
va/  them.  Write  to  other  fellows 
if  you  have  none  of  your  own  over 
there.  I  wrote  two  thousand  and 
more  letters  in  less  than  eleven 
months,  taking  last  messages  to 
the  mothers  of  those  boys.  I  wrote 
sixty  and  eighty  messages  in  twenty- 
four  hours.  Don't  think  of  your 
friends  at  home  a^d  be  particular 
about  them  getting  a  letter  but  do 
write  to  the  lads  over  there. 
They  don't  know  anything  of  hypoc- 
risy— ^they  don't  know  anything  of 
hatred — they  don't  know  anything 
about  Republican  or  Democrat— or 
anything  of  that  sort,  they  are  all 
one  people  fighting  for  a  common 
ideal  *^  *^ 

I  am  an  optimist  and  with  the 
Allies  side  by  side,  with  the  Old 
Jack  and  Old  Glory  flying  side  by 
side — they  will  lick  the  Kaiser  to  a 
frazzle  «»  *^ 

It  took  you  about  two  years  to 
begin  to  believe  the  atrocities  of 
the  Huns.  If  I  told  you  one  half 
of  what  I  have  seen — ^you  would  n't 


believe  me.  I  said  in  the  beginning 
it  was  a  war  for  Mothers.  Indeed 
it  is.  I  have  seen  poor  mothers 
leaving  their  homes  after  they  were 
destroyed,  with  no  place  in  view. 
CWhat  would  you  think  of  a 
mother  grabbing  everything  she  had 
and  putting  it  in  a  tablecloth,  and 
taking  a  little  kiddie  and  starting 
off  not  knowing  where  they  were 
going,  just  depending  on  some  farm- 
er to  take  care  of  them?  My  friends, 
I  have  seen  many  people  leaving 
home.  I  saw  an  elderly  woman  alone, 
tears  streaming  down  her  face.  I 
asked  her  if  she  had  any  children. 
She  told  me  she  had  four  daughters, 
from  sixteen  to  twenty-four.  I  said, 
"  Where  are  they?  "  And  she  said, 
"  Stolen— Stolcnl " 
Say,  Dad,  how  much  would  you 
take  for  your  girl,  today?  There  is 
not  enough  money  in  all  East  Aurora 
to  buy  from  you  your  girl  of  eighteen 
summers.  So  if  you  could  see  it — 
you  would  know  something  of  the 
word  Sacrifice,  if  you  have  n't  begun 
to  know  it  now. 

These  boys  of  ours  are' spilling  their 
life's  blood  in  order  to  blot  out  these 
atrocities.  They  die  like  they  live. 
€1 1  was  with  dying  men  all  the 
time.  We  have  buried  more  in  three 
days  than  all  your  pastors  have 
done  in  a  whole  year.  They  can 
almost  talk  to  you  imtil  the  last 
breath  of  life  is  in  them. 
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pasting  out  had  no  hands.  The  last 
words  he  said  were: "  Well*  Captain, 
I  'm  glad  I  've  done  one  decent 
thing,  anyway,  in  my  Ufe." 
All  I  ask  you  men  and  women  today 
is  to  take  the  words  of  that  young 


man  and  do  the  decent  thing  for 
3rour  boys  that  are  fighting  for  you, 
be  cheerful  and  optimistic,  bear  and 
carry  on;  for  some  day  the  last 
battle  will  be  fought,  some  day 
the  last  night  of  sorrow  will  emerge. 


S.  M.  Newton 

Milk 


^^^^^ILK  to  me  is  a  wonder- 
M  W  Mful  subject.  You  have 
^  M  ^all  heard  of  milk  fasts 
^^^^^^Sand  milk  diets,  and 
you  will  pardon  me  if  I  relate  to 
you  just  a  bit  of  personal  experience 
that  I  have  had  with  milk.  I  made 
an  experiment  once  and  lived  on 
milk  as  my  sole  article  of  diet  for 
over  fifteen  months  ^»  During  that 
time  my  chest  measurement  actually 
increased  some  three  inches  ^»  My 
teeth  became  whiter;  I  gained  over 
twenty  pounds  in  weight.  When  I 
began  the  experiment  I  weighed 
only  eight  pounds. 
I  believe  you  will  be  interested  in 
my  telling  you  something  about  the 
milk  of  the  various  peoples  of  the 
world.  It  is  hard  to  conceive  of  a 
time  when  milk  has  not  played 
some  part  in  the  development  and 
progress  of  humanity  ^»  There  is 
plenty  of  evidence  to  show  that  in 
Paleolithic  and  Neolithic  times,  cat- 
tle were  present  with  the  races,  and 
even  the  Vedas  have  shown  evidence 


of  food-milk  being  among  the  Egyp- 
tians fifteen  hundred  years  before 
Christ  «»  ^ 

In  the  East  or  eastern  part  of 
Europe  and  Southern  Asia  milk  has 
played  a  great  part.  In  Australia 
the  milk  of  the  cow,  the  buffalo, 
camel,  sheep  and  goat  has  been  the 
principal  food.  The  most  noted  of 
the  milks  of  those  people  is  known 
as  "  kumiss."  The  wandering  tribes 
of  Eastern  Russia  and  Southern  Asia 
who  live  in  the  saddle  collect  the 
milk  of  the  mares  and  keep  it  until 
it  ferments  »^  It  is  their  principcd 
article  of  diet  in  winter  time. 
There  are  copious  references  in  the 
scriptures  to  milk  and  it  may  be 
a  peculiar  thing  to  call  your  atten- 
tion to;  the  Hebrews  did  not  use 
it  in  their  service  because  of  the 
fact  that  it  fermented  »^  That  is 
accounted  for  by  reminding  you  that 
modem  refrigeration  was  not  known 
in  those  days  and  soiu'ed  milk  was 
a  common  thing  in  those  countries. 
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or  Arabians  milk  in  its  sour  state 
as  well  as  food-milk  is  known  as 
"  latem." 

It  may  be  of  interest  to  you  to 
know  how  the  Laplander  prepares 
his  milk.  He  gets  his  milk  from 
reindeer  «»  From  early  autumn  to 
November  he  puts  it  in  a  pot 
together  with  cranberries  to  pre- 
serve it,  and  leaves  it  there  until 
it  congeals,  then  he  takes  it  and 
chops  it  into  bits  with  a  hatchet. 
The  whale's  milk  is  peculiar  in  that 
it  contains  only  45  per  cent  water* 
Now,  if  you  will  stop  to  think  of 
the  enormous  size  of  the  whale, 
you  can  understand  that  the  baby 
whale  must  have  a  food  that  is 
large  in  body-building  properties. 
The  most  peculiar  animal  that  suck- 
les its  young  is  the  kangaroo  »^  Its 
peculiarity  is  that  its  young  does 
not  have  to  suckle.  From  arrange- 
ments by  nature,  it  simply  attaches 
itself  to  its  mother's  breast  and  she 
supplies  the  milk  to  the  baby  con- 
stantly »^  This  continues  until  the 
offspring  is  large  enough  to  take 
care  of  itself. 

Cow's  milk  is  what  we  are  par- 
ticularly interested  in.  The  cow  is 
the  foster-mother  of  the  white  race. 
This  kindly  and  beneficent  creature 
has  a  fixed  place  with  the  progress 
of  mankind.  As  a  beast  of  burden 
and  as  a  producer  of  food,  she  holds 
a  unique  place  among  the  four- 
footed  animals  of  the  world.  In  the 


United  States  alone  last  year  sh^ 
gave  over  twelve  billion  gallons  of 
milk — twelve  billion  »^  This  is  suf- 
ficient to  float  all  the  navies  of 
the  world.  The  value  of  her  product 
is  almost  three  billion  dollars,  so 
you  can  very  readily  see  that  the 
milk  question  is  indeed  a  very 
important  one; 

There  are  only  two  kinds  of  milk 
—clean  and  dirty.  Now,  all  other 
kinds  are  simply  different  grades  of 
milk.  White  has  always  been  the 
symbol  of  innocence  and  the  very 
whiteness  of  milk  has  lent  it  char- 
acter. It  may  surprise  you  to  know 
that  that  whiteness  may  cover  dark 
dangers  as  the  land  that  is  filled 
with  milk  and  honey  may  be  a 
valley  of  death  and  disease. 
When  we  consider  that  milk  is 
the  necessary  food  of  thousands  of 
infants  and  invalids,  and  in  fact 
in  some  way  or  other  forms  a  part 
of  the  food  of  our  entire  human 
family,  you  will  agree  with  me  that 
it  should  at  least  be  kept  as  clean 
as  possible.  It  has  only  been  since 
about  1890  that  we  have  paid  much 
attention  to  the  cleanness  of  milk. 
C  No  infant,  no  individual,  no  man 
or  woman,  regardless  of  his  age, 
should  ever  drink  milk  that  has  n't 
been  pasteurized.  The  Ghreat  White 
Plague  owes  a  great  deal  of  its 
success  to  milk  »^  In  fact,  almost 
thirty  per  cent  of  the  consimip- 
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from  the  drinking  of  infected  milk. 
When  I  ten  yoa  that  over  two 
million  babies  have  died  from  this 
plague  within  the  past  ten  years, 
it  will  convey  to  yoa  that  something 
ought  to  be  done  to  save  their  lives, 
because  75  per  cent  of  all  the  babies 
could  be  saved.  One  out  of  every 
three  dies  before  it  reaches  the  age 
of  one  year.  It  behooves  us  to  pay 
some  attention  to  the  milk  supply. 
Cow's  milk  contains  all  the  nutri- 
ment needed  in  a  well-balanced  food. 
C  Milk  is  the  most'perfect  food  we 
have.  The  development  of  the  milk 
interest  since  1890  has  shown  some 
wonderful  results. 

Gail  Borden  had  issued  to  him  the 
patents  for  the  condensing  of  milk. 
He  extracted  75  per  cent  of  the 
water  from  milk  and  the  industry 
has  grown  up  to  this  last  year. 
C  In  1916  another  discovery  was 
made  which  acts  in  just  the  oppo- 
site manner.  You  will  pardon  me 
for  referring  to  it  because  it  is  a 
method  which  I  happen  to  be  inter- 
ested in.  I  tell  it  to  you  for  what  it 
is  worth  ^»  «» 

This  method  was  discovered  by  a 
man  who  for  twelve  years  did 
nothing  else  but  attempt  to  take 
out  a  portion  of  the  water  present 
in  milk  without  the  employment  of 
heat  or  chemicals.  To  do  this  he 
finally  used  cold  temperature,  and 
he  gave  his  discovery  to  the  world. 
It  is  interesting  to  know  something 


more  about  this  (fiscovery,  because 
I  sincerely  believe  that  when  the 
world  becomes  acquainted  with  it, 
it  win  be  the  only  form  of  milk  fed 
to  infants,  invaUds  and  people  with 
weak  digestive  apparatuses  and 
win  be  used  by  the  people  of  the 
world  at  large  to  a  great  extent  «» 
Milk  when  it  goes  into  the  stomach 
coagulates  or  forms  into  what  3rou 
ordinarily  know  as  curd.  The  infant 
or  the  invalid  has  a  hard  time  with 
this  curd  ^»  ^» 

The  discovery  which  I  just  referred 
you  to  takes  away  that  coagulating 
property  and  as  a  result,  after  any 
given  portion  of  the  water  has  been 
extracted  from  the  cow's  milk,  when 
it  is  fed  to  the  patient  or  individual, 
it  does  not  coagulate  or  curdle  when 
put  into  the  stomach.  One  pint  of 
milk  treated  in  this  manner  contains 
about  the  same  food  value  that 
about  three-fourths  of  a  pound  of 
beefsteak  contains,  so  you  can  very 
readily  see  that  it  is  a  valuable  food. 
In  fact,  one  quart  of  milk  contains 
that  much,  but  you  have  that  extra 
pint  of  water.  You  have  to  drink  a 
great  quantity  of  that  kind  of  milk 
in  order  to  get  the  benefit  of  it  as 
food.  Now,  this  product  can  be 
used  and  is  used  in  every  conceivable 
manner  in  the  milk  world.  It  can 
be  made  into  powder  and  aU  the 
water  taken  out  of  it,  and  shipped 
anywhere  under  any  condition  and 
then  made  into  perfectly  fresh  milk. 


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William  Marion  Reedy 

If  The  Fra  Came  Back 


I  HAVE  gathered  together 
into  what  I  suppose  to  be 
my  mind  some  thoughts  as 
to  the  kind  of  world  the 
Fra  would  behold  upon  his  return 
as  a  citizen  of  eternity. 
He  would  come  back  and  behold  a 
world  largely  in  the  mcddng  very 
much  to  his  liking. 
He  would  find  one  hundred  million 
of  his  fellow  countrymen  giving  a 
definite  answer  to  the  question  he 
asked  shortly  before  he  passed  out — 
Who  lifted  the  Ud  off  of  heU?  That 
query  was  put  to  a  nation  very 
much  in  doubt.  It  was  a  query  that 
subjected  the  man  who  made  it  to 
very  severe  criticisms.  He  put  it 
forth  at  a  time  when  we  were  being 
advised  to  be  neutral  not  only  in 
deeds  but  in  words  and  thought  «^ 
The  position  of  Elbert  Hubbard 
with  regard  to  the  world  calamity 
was  comparatively  local.  Today, 
the  opinion  of  the  United  States  is 
the  opinion  of  Elbert  Hubbard, 
and  one  year  from  the'.time  that  the 
heads  of  our  government  decided 
that  that  was  the  opinion  we  have 
one  million,  one  hundred  thousand 
men  in  Europe  carrying  the  message 
to  Garcia.  We  find  America  from 
coast  to  coast  putting  into  effect  the 
principles  enunciated  by  Hubbard 
in   that  masterpiece   of  pragmatic 


reading — A  Mestage  to  Garcia  «» 
All  America  is  on  the  job  «^  All 
America  is  determined  to  carry  on 
and  carry  through  this  objective. 
The  Message  will  be  carried  through 
to  Garcia  and  on  and  on  until  it  is 
finally  delivered  in  Berlin  to  the 
powers  which  will  take  it  as  an 
ultimatum  «^  «^ 

Elbert  Hubbard,  as  you  all  know, 
was  a  teacher  of  the  doctrine  of 
efficiency.  Nobody  in  the  history 
of  the  United  States  did  more  to 
put  a  philosophy  into  business  and 
at  the  same  time  a  heart  into 
business  than  did  Elbert  Hubbard. 
Now,  you  may  think  the  world  has 
sufficient  efficiency  of  a  certain  kind 
as  represented  on  the  other  side  of 
the  Rhine,  but  we  are  talking  now 
about  a  human  efficiency  and  not 
scientific  barbarism.  We  are  talking 
now  about  an  efficiency  that  should 
develop  the  individual  soul  and  not 
that  should  set  up  the  anti-Christ 
which  is  the  State  glorified  as  God. 
Elbert  Hubbard  taught  us  the  true 
democracy  which  is  the 'doctrine  of 
opportunity — opportxmity,  initia- 
tive and  responsibility;  not  a 
democracy  that  keeps  people  down 
to  a  level,  but  a  democracy  that 
enables  the  individual  to  rise  from 
the  dead  level  and  individuality 
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mass  of  things.  For  democracy  does 
not  mean  the  absolute  level  that 
some  of  our  public  characters  seem 
to  think. 

Democracy  is  not  a  question  of  men 
living  in  a  land  of  sodden  content- 
ment with  everything  done  for 
themselves.  It  is  not  a  solidarity 
in  that  sense.  It  is  not  a  milky  way 
in  a  cloud  of  stars,  but  a  milky 
way  seen  with  millions  and  millions 
each  fighting  with  each  other  in 
glory  9^  9^ 

No  doctrine  of  the  superman  is 
concerned  in  this.  The  superman 
is  a  myth  made  in  Germany  and 
boycotted  for  all  time.  The  glori- 
fication of  the  superman  is  a  thing 
that  is  done  with.  We  give  oiir 
credit  to  all  oiir  men  of  genius  as  we 
should,  but,  my  friends,  the  world 
and  its  most  glorious  hist9ry  is  not 
made  by  the  work  of  the  giants  who 
stand  forth.  This  world  is  what  it 
is  by  virtue  of  the  long  and  arduous 
labor  of  men  and  women  who  lived 
unrecorded  lives  and  sleep  in  xm- 
visited  tombs.  The  world  is  what 
it  is  because  all  the  people  in  the 
world  make  it,  and  wherever  you 
find  a  great  man  in  history  you 
will  find  that  he  is  the  product  of 
the  people  aroimd  him  and  that 
the  inspiration  comes  from  the 
bottom  *^  *^ 

Somewhere  out  in  the  furrows  of 
space  the  people  like  Elbert  Hub- 
bard look   back  and  we  must  be- 


lieve that  they  see  and  know  and 
remember  «^  «^ 

They  look  down  and  find  in  the 
spaces  of  shell-shot  No  Man's  Land 
the  flowers  and  grass  creeping  up 
o'er  the  thousands  of  graves  that 
nobody  else  remembers.  All  the 
glory  of  this  green  earth  and  the 
bravery  of  men  tell  us  that  the 
eternal  things  survive  and  are  being 
vindicated  «^  «^ 

If  the  Fra  came  back  he  would 
find  in  this  country  a  general 
response  to  his  well-known  doctrine 
of  work  «^  «^ 

The  country  is  now  on  a  basis 
of  fight  or  work  «^  This  was  the 
original  Hubbard  doctrine.  We  find 
that  the  country  is  getting  ready  to 
establish  imiversal  service  with  a 
modicum  of  military  foundation — 
enough  to  imbue  all  the  minds  of 
the  yoimg  men  with  a  sense  of 
discipline  and  co-operation — an 
institution  for  the  development  of 
industrial  and  vocational  training. 
This  is  an  enlargement  of  the  idea 
of  which  this  institution  is  a  school 
and  temple.  The  whole  thing  is  a 
Roycroft  idea  in  principle. 
Developing  from  this  idea  comes 
another  one,  that  all  the  young  men 
registered  for  this  service  and 
physically  examined^  who  show  the 
minor  defects  upon  which  so  many 
youths  were  rejected  in  the  draft, 
shall  be  taken  care  of,  and  treated 
for  a  removal  of  those  defects.  The 


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men  who  know  say  that  80  per 
cent  of  the  ailments  and  troubles 
to  which  I  refer  can  be  remedied. 
The  expression  of  educators  is  that 
these  troubles  in  the  young  are 
usually  the  cause  of  backward 
mental  development. 
After  we  have  taken  all*  these  young 
men  into  service  we  will  make  them 
censors  of  their  fellow  men.  We  will 
give  them  a  start  in  life  with  a  clean 
bill  of  physical  health,  and  while  we 
enlarge  their  minds  we  shall  also 
enlarge  their  souls  and  make  them 
free  of  the  entire  glpry  of  spirit 
and  mental  enlargement. 
This  I  take  it  is  one  of  the  things 
that  the  Fra  would  enjoy  if  he 
came  back.  He  might  not  perhaps 
like  the  censorship.  You  all  know 
how  he  thundered  over  the  cigarette 
— ^the  coffin-nail.  He  would  probably 
be  deeply  grieved  to  know  that  the 
Government  had  commandeered  all 
the  Bull  Durham  in  the  country  and 
was  making  an  allowance  for  every 
soldier  in  France  of  an  eighth  of  an 
ounce  of  tobacco  and  ten  cigarette 
papers  «^  «^ 

One  thing  about  Elbert  Hubbard — 
you  know  he  had  no  prejudice 
against  rich  people.  And  our  friend 
the  Fra  had  a  good  word  to  say 
about  the  unfortunate  man  who  had 
30  or  40  million  dollars.  He  had  a 
wide  tolerance  for  an  imhappy  man 
like  John  Rockefeller.  He  did  a 
great  deal  for  them  or  at  least  con- 


vinced them  he  did — ^I  hope  to  his 
profit.  But,  he  would  set  his  face, 
raise  his  voice  and  wield  his  pen 
against  the  proscription  of  the 
businessman  «^  «^ 
Personally,  I  don't  believe  in  pro- 
scribing the  businessman,  I  prefer 
to  smash  the  sjrstem.  But  could  he 
come  back  today  and  see  Washing- 
ton densely  populated  with  male- 
factors of  great  wealth — working 
for  a  dollar  a  year  and  working 
faithfully — he  would  realize  that 
democracy  has  come  around  to  his 
view-point  «^  «^ 

It  is  due  to  the  philosophy  of 
Elbert  Hubbard  that  we  have 
Charles  Schwab  at  the  head  of  our 
Shipbuilding  today  and  getting 
such  results  and  it  is  a  question  in 
my  mind  if  Schwab  isn't  more 
popular  than  Charlie  Chaplin. 
We  have  on  the  Council  of  National 
Defense  a  number  of  men  who  are 
millionaires  and  who  are  rendering 
the  country  excellent  service  «»  We 
have  John  D.  Ryan,  represent- 
ing the  Copper  Trust,  in  the 
Government  employ  in  cnarge  of  the 
Air-Craft  productions,  and  all  along 
the  line  this  country  is  beginning  to 
avail  itself  in  its  public  affairs  of 
that  vast  supply  of  ability  which 
ever  since  the  Civil  War  and  long 
before  has  been  absolutely  shut  out 
of  any  share  in  public  affairs  at  all  in 
the  matter  of  administration. 
The   form  of  ability  we  have  de- 


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veloped  in  the  United  States  is 
business  abiKty.  The  great  masses 
of  the  American  business  organi- 
satioos  have  re^xjoded  Q>lendidly 
to  the  can  of  the  country  and  are 
rendering  a  service  as  vahiaUe  as 
that  of  the  service  of  any  man  who 
is  now  on  the  other  side. 
This  is  the  thing  out  of  which  our 
friend  the  Fra  would  derive  much 
satisfaction  were  he  to  come  back. 
C  He  would  view  with  much 
pleasure  the  oncoming  dry  wave  «^ 
I  don't  believe  in  iron  rules.  Life, 
you  know,  isn't  a  thing  that  can 
be  fixed  up  that  way.  Life  is  n't  a  lot 
of  squares  and  triangles.  Life  is 
a  continuous  flowing  thing  and 
nothing  is  quite  what  it  was  a 
second  ago  or  even  while  we  are 
talking.  It  is  always  passing  into 
something  else  and  I  don't  believe 
anybody  could  tell  you  what  to 
do  with  it.  I  'm  lucky  to  find  out 
what  to  do  with  it  myself.  It  is 
what  you  do  with  it  that  counts. 
If  you  do  the  right  thing — all  right 
— if  you  do  the  wrong  thing,  it  is 
what  blows  you  up. 
Three  people  had  an  experience 
with  an  apple:  There  was  Adam, 
William  Tell  and  Sir  Isaac  Newton. 
Look  at  the  different  results. 
I  doubt  if  a  world  organized  on 
these  dragooning  lines  would  please 
the  Fra  if  he  came  back,  but  he 
would  probably  come  back  with  a 
larger  vision  than  he  had  when- he 


left,  and  he  might  say  with  Bill 
Shakespeare,  not  only,  "  what  fools 
these  mortals  be"  but,  "what 
mortals  these  fools  be." 
He  would  see  his  countrymen  being 
soHdified  into  one  nation.  He  would 
see  them  marching  by  millions  into 
the  greatest  conflict  the  world  has 
ever  seen  and  inarching  without  any 
material  motive. 

In  all  the  annals  of  time  no  one  can 
recall  a  war  quite  like  the  War  into 
which  America  has  gone.  We 
haven't  gone  into  it  to  gain  any 
possessions;  we  haven't  gone  into 
it  to  capture  trade;  we  have  not 
gone  into  it  for  freedom  of  the 
seas;  we  have  gone  into  this  fight 
for  an  idea  and  for  an  ideal.  We  are 
fighting  for  the  rights  of  the  nation 
and  of  the  common  man  to  survive 
and  live  his  own  life. 
President  V^son  made  the  state- 
ment just  the  other  day  that  we  are 
not  fighting  for  territory  or  gain,  and 
we  will  stand  by  the  Russian  people 
as  .we  stand  by  France. 
There  are  a  great  many  people  who 
think  we  ought  to  let  Japan  go  into 
Russia,  let  her  interfere.  Personally 
I  don't  believe  that.  It  is  better  to 
have  her  where  she  is  than  to  have 
her  our  enemy.  The  best  thing  we 
can  do  with  the  Russians  is  to  stand 
by  them  and  give  them  financial  aid 
and  send  commissioners  over  there 
to  tell  them  we  will  stand  by  them 
to  the  limit.  That  is  the  way  to  keep 


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them  at  least  where  they  are  and 
possibly  to  bring  them  into  line.  The 
best  thing  we  can  do  is  to  build  them 
railroads  and  get  their  business 
generally  straightened  out  and 
demonstrate  our  friendliness,  send- 
ing all  our  gunpowder  and  men  to 
where  the  battle  has  to  be  decided 
along  the  Western  front. 
The  Fra,  if  he  came  back,  would  find 
a  very  prosperous  world  indeed. 
Never  in  the  history  of  the  world 
has  there  been  such  widespread 
well-being  except  for  this  Hellish 
War  9^  fi^ 

The  reason  that  prosperity  is  widely 
distributed  is  simply  because  there 
are  more  jobs  than  there  are  men, 
and  that  is  a  condition  in  the  world 
much  to  be  desired. 
We  should  see  the  wisdom  of  the 
proposal  of  the  Secretary  of  the 
Interior  that  we  begin  now  to  pro- 
vide for  such  of  these  fighters  of 
ours  as  come  back — ^that  the  govern- 
ment buy  vast  tracts  of  land,  and 
that  it  dispose  of  this  land  at  fair 
prices  to  the  soldiers  who  return. 
They  are  to  be  treated  not  as 
dependents  but  as  self-supporting 
men.  The  government  is  to  aid  them 
in  matters  of  irrigation  and  every- 
thing else  so  that  at  the  end  of  the 
War  we  shall  get  rid  of  this  struggle 
of  men  for  jobs  and  shall  not  have 
such  difficulty  as  expected. 
This  is  the  logical  development  that 
President  Wilson  means  when  he 


speaks  of  making  the  world  safe  for 
democracy  «^  «^ 

This  War  is  going  to  be  a  hideous 
failure  if  the  men  in  the  various 
countries  who  have  won  it  come 
back  home  and  look  about  them  and 
say:  "  Where  is  this  country  I  have 
fought  for  and  how  much  of  it  is 
mine?  "  and  they  are  told  that  none 
of  it  is  theirs.  There  has  got  to  be  a 
readjustment  or  else  in  all  probabil- 
ity there  may  be  a  Lid  Lifted  Off 
a  larger  and  hotter  Hell. 
If  democracy  doesn't  mean  the 
carrying  out  of  this  principle  of  each 
man  being  entitled  to  a  share  in  the 
products  of  the  earth  and  that  share 
being  only  what  he  can  honestly 
produce  it  might  as  well  not  have 
been  fought  at  all.  We  might  as  well  * 
have  let  the  Kaiser  go  along  and 
militarize  his  people  and  reorganize 
them  along  military  lines  and  turn 
his  nation  into  a  vast  orphan 
asylimi  *^  *^ 

The  Fra  with  his  flowing  tie  and  his 
flowing  locks  must  look  down  upon 
the  world  and  rejoice  that  never 
again  can  such  a  condition  develop 
as  developed  in  August  or  July 
1914.  I  was  in  London  when  the 
War  broke  out.  The  one  thing  that 
impressed  me  was  that  nobody 
seemed  to  know  to  what  Ghreat 
Britain  was  committed.  They  knew 
in  a  general  way  there  was  a  com- 
pact between  Russia,  England  and 
France  but  whether  it  was  anything 


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dte  nobody  knew;  my  only  im- 
pression was  that  Sir  Edward  Grey 
was  the  only  man  who  knew.  The 
Cabinet  did  n*t  know.  At  the  meet- 
ing of  the  Cabinet  before  the 
declaration  of  War  seven  men 
attended  with  their  resignations  in 
their  pockets — so  little  did  they 
understand  the  issues,  and  it  was 
only  on  the  direct  statement  of 
Grey  that  the  Cabinet  voted  WAR, 
and  only  two  men  of  note  handed  in 
their  resignations — ^John  Morley 
and  John  Bums.  England  went  into 
the  War  to  protect  Belgiimi,  no 
matter  what  her  critics  may  say. 
This  is  all  to  the  good,  but  it  might 
have  been  all  to  the  bad,  and  why? 
Because  of  this  secret  diplomacy. 
€1  None  of  ^e  people  of  the  country 
knew  what  engagements  and  cov- 
enants their  rulers  had  made  with 
each  other. 

There  will  be  no  more  secret 
diplomacy.  If  there  are  any  en- 
gagements between  nations  they 
will  be  laid  upon  the  tables  in  the 
parliament  and  openly  discussed  and 
ratified  when  they  are  understood 
by  the  people.  If  the  Fra  returned, 
he  would  find  a  world  of  people  on 
both  sides  praying  for  the  favor  of 
one  God.  He  would  find  a  world 
being  fashioned  in  sin  and  sufiTering 
into  a  greater  breadth,  depth  and 
height  of  hiunan  love.  He  would 
find  that  the  great  battle  being 
fought   is   a   battle    against   hate. 


He  would  find  the  people  of  twenty- 
one  nations  united  in  a  common 
cause  to  resent  the  idea  that  any 
people  shall  impose  any  form  of 
"  kultur  "  on  any  of  her  people. 
All  these  men  who  are  fighting,  who 
are  working,  are  united  in  a  common 
purpose  «^  «^ 

We  have  got  to  believe  that  the 
imiverse  is  working  out  a  plan  of 
righteousness  and  if  we  read  or 
write  the  history  of  our  past  wc 
know  that  we  are  working  in  ac- 
cordance with  the  forward  progress 
of  the  world.  And,  if  we  do  not 
believe  in  this,  we  might  as  well 
believe  in  the  Kaiser. 
We  are  going  away  steadily  from  the 
position  of  the  caveman  and  the 
cannibal  and  the  aristocrat,  away 
from  the  Kaiser  to  Democracy,  if 
democracy  means  anything.  So  I 
can  say  that  Hubbard  is  looking 
down  upon  us  and  rejoicing  that  the 
world  has  brought  us  a  rejuvenation 
of  the  human  spirit  and  a  new  birth 
of  freedom.  It  is  bringing  us  as  I 
stated  before.  Democracy — ^and 
democracy  means  sympathy. 
Who  is  there  who  can  contemplate 
this  great  struggle;  who  is  there  who 
can  view  it  in  the  aspect  that  I  am 
taking  tonight  without  his  heart 
being  touched  by  the  great  sacrifices 
of  the  very  flower  of  the  human  race. 
C  Who  is  there  who  can  fail  to  feel 
for  all  these  fathers  and  mothers 
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little  homes  for  the  footsteps  of  the 

unretumed?  «^  «^ 

Who  with  us  does  not  find  in  our 

hearts  some  little  touch  of  this  vast 

word — Agony?  *^  *^ 

Who  is  there  among  the  men  and 

women    on    this    earth    who    are 

worthy  to  be  called  members  of  the 


'human  race  that  do  not  feel  in  a 
small  degree  that  they  as  a  part  of 
humanity  are  suffering  on  another 
Golgotha  for  the  healing  of  the 
nations  for  all  times? 
This,  my  friends  would  be  the  feeling 
of  our  dear  Fra  could  he  come  back 
tonight  «^  «^ 


John  J.  Lentz 


A  Free  Man  in  a  Free  Nation  in  a  Free  World 


IN  my  subject,  A  Free  Man 
in  a  Free  Nation  in  a  Free 
World,  I  hope  to  project 
some  thoughts  for  the  future 
and  I  hope  you  will  be  good  enough 
to  indulge  them.  I  hope  you  will  let 
me  think  as  I  please  on  the  subject 
and  I  '11  let  you  think  as  you  please. 
C  In  1905  Alice  and  Elbert  Hub- 
bard had  me  come  to  East  Aiirora 
to  talk  about  Thomas  Jefferson  «» 
I  have  come  back  from  Europe 
with  a  Message  which  is  supple- 
mentary to  the  one  I  brought  to 
East  Aiirora  at  that  time.  I  have 
to  remind  yoii  tonight  that  Thomas 
Jefferson  wrote  in  the  Declaration 
of  Independence  the  word  EQUAL 
— all  men  are  bom  EQUAL,  and  it 
was  not  until  1789  that  the  French 
wrote  it  in  their  proclamation  that 
ALL  men  are  bom  equal. 
Equality  means  liberty  and  liberty 
means  equality. 

On  my  trip  to  the  four  fronts  of 
the   battle   that   is   raging    "  over 


there  "  I  came  last  to  the  Italian 
front  and  after  visiting  the  Alpine 
front  and  the  Venetian  front  I  went 
back  to  Rome  and  was  invited  by 
the  Italian  governor  to  speak  at  a 
celebration  that  was  to  take  place 
in  the  old  Colosseum. 
We  went  out  to  the  Colosseum  in 
the  moonlight,  the  moon  was  full; 
(this  is  considered  the  most  beautiful 
picture  in  the  world)  and  as  I  stood 
there  I  wondered  what  I  could  say 
to  the  audience  that  was  to  gather 
a  few  days  later.  You  don't  have  a 
fiill  conception  of  the  grandeur  of 
it  all  until  you  have  stood  there  in 
the  moonlight  and  seen  the  splendor 
of  it.  It  is  almost  the  length  of  two 
city  blocks  and  almost  the  width 
of  a  block  and  a  half.  Where  the 
walls  remain,' they  stand  one  hun- 
dred and  fifty-seven  feet  high — 
nearly  as  high  as  Niagara  Falls  «» 
You  could  empty  Chicago's  big 
theater  into  it  seven  times  or  Madi- 
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timet  and  it  would  not  be  lull  «^' 
It  seated  in  its  day  eighty  thoutand 
peoplt  «^  Thoae  eighty  thotitand 
peofHc  tat  and  looked  down  iqxn 
the  gladiatort  who  gave  their  Hvet 
for  entertainment  of  the  ancient 
monarchiet  and  oligarduet  ^idio  sat 
there  row  iqxn  row  as  they  looked 
upon  that  arena.  The  cavet  are  still 
there  from  whidi  the  wild  beasts 
came  forth.  I  looked  iqxn  them  that 
night  and  thought  of  how  the  wild 
beasts  came  forth  and  devoured  the 
Christian  and  of  how  much  progress 
we  had  made  since  those  times  «^ 

^^jT  HERE  never  has  been  such  a 
^^  war  in  the  history  of  the  earth 
as  this  raging  with  Germany  today. 
We  have  some  people  talking  quite 
glibly  about  Universal  Military 
Training.  The  public  school  system 
is  to  be  revised  and  every  child 
educated  for  war.  How  long?  For 
another  thousand  or  another  five 
thousand  or  another  ten  thousand 
years?  Is  there  no  other  solution 
than  MAN  War?  I  think  the  world 
has  had  enough,  and  I  think  the 
time  has  come  when  we  ought  to 
use  some  ingenuity  to  get  rid  of  war. 
Colimibus  wasted  seventeen  years  of 
his  life  g(»ng  from  coast  to  coast 
appealing  to  the  best  informed  for 
assistance  to  demonstrate  whether 
the  earth  was  round  or  square.  He 
met  with  resistance  because  they 
said  if  the  earth  was  round  you 


would  find  that  men  would  be  walk- 
ing wtdi  Hmot  feet  on  the  ceiling 
like  flies,  and  you  would  come  to 
places  where  the  trees  would  grow 
down  instead  of  up,  and  the  rain 
would  fall  up  instead  of  down.  Now 
this  was  an  absurd,  and  no  one 
would  put  any  money  into  the  thing 
until  at  last  he  met  a  woman  who 
put  a  little  money  into  the  propo- 
sition and  that,  my  friends,  is  the 
first  Woman  Suffirage  we  have  on 
record.  She  voted  right.  We  have 
some  men  3ret  who  still  think  *  it 
isn't  right  to  let  women  vote  «^ 
Could  women  make  it  any  worse 
than  the  men  have  been  making  it? 
€1  So  now,  my  friends,  my  idea  of 
a  free  man  in  a  free  nation  in  a  free 
world  includes  a  free  woman,  be- 
cause there  will  be  no  free  men  until 
the  woman  is  free. 
All  over  America  we  have  got  a 
nimiber  of  thirty-cent  Kaisers  who 
want  to  be  boss  in  their  own  homes, 
so  the  free  man  in  a  free  nation  in 
a  free  world  includes  a  free  wife, 
a  free  sister  and  a  free  mother. 
C I  have  not  forgotten  Thomas 
Jefferson,  the  greatest  prophet  of 
equality  in  the  history  of  the  world, 
the  greatest  master  of  fraternity  for 
the  whole  hiunan  family  that  ever 
lived,  outside  of  Jesus  Christ  «» 
Thomas  Jefferson  founded  the  pub- 
lic school  system  and  the  imiversity. 
The  Dedaration  of  Independence 
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of  the  world.  It  was  thirteen  years 
after  that  before  the  most  progres- 
sive nation  then  in  the  world,  France, 
followed  our  leadership.  It  was  not 
until  1861  that  we  began  to  practise 
what  we  preached;  when  we  liber- 
ated the  thirteen  colonies  from  the 
rule  of  George  III  we  began  a  new 
thing  under  the  sun,  and  just  142 
years  ago  yesterday,  July  4th,  that 
Declaration  of  Independence  was 
signed  by  Thomas  Jefferson  declar- 
ing that  all  men  are  equal. 
When  Thomas  Jefferson  said 
EQUALITY  he  took  Jesus  seriously; 
when  Abraham  Lincoln  emanci- 
pated the  slaves  he  took  Jesus 
seriously;  when  Woodrow  Wilson 
spoke  of  having  the  world  made 
safe  for  democracy  he  took  Jesus 
seriously — ^for  that  means  safe  for 
EQUALITY  «^  *•• 
We  want  equality  in  many  other 
ways  than  we  have  had  in  the  past. 
There  must  be  equality  in  the 
future.  We  are  going  to  have  a  new 
government  in  the  world.  The  only 
way  to  have  a  free  nation  is  to  have 
a  free  world,  my  friends,  and  so  I 
say  my  subject  is  a  result  not  an 
accident.  It  is  a  play  on  words;  it 
is  not  an  announcement  that  we 
are  going  to  have  all  these  things 
at  the  finish  of  the  war.  We  are 
jiist  now  beginning  to  liberate  our 
country  and  peoples  from  the 
clutches  of  old  King  Alcohol  in 
the  United  States  and  in  two  years 


we  will  have  this  country  rid  of  one 
of  the  greatest  terrors  the  world 
has  ever  seen.  The  saloon  will  be 
gone  «^  State  after  state  in  this 
country  has  dethroned  King  Alcohol 
because  where  there  is  a  will  there 
is  a  way. 

My  friends,  the  world  is  marching 
on,  we  are  making  progress.  We  are 
developing  something  new  under 
the  sun.  This  republic  is  not  an 
accident,  it 's  a  result,  and  when 
this  war  is  over  the  other  countries 
will  be  so  weak  they  will  be  unable 
to  dictate  terms  for  the  future  «^ 
We  will  be  so  powerful  that  our 
wiU  will  be  supreme. 
We  are  performing  our  God  given 
duty;  we  are  not  fighting  for 
Trieste;  we  are  not  fighting  for 
Alsace  Lorraine,  we  are  not  fighting 
for  a  colony  in  Africa;  but  we  are 
fighting  for  EQUALITY.  The  boys 
in  the  trenches  are  the  Thomas 
Jeffersons  of  1918.  They  are  not 
fighting  for  a  new  Declaration  of 
Independence,  not  for  a  nation  or 
an  individual,  but  for  the  Nations  of 
the  World— A  FREE  MAN  IN  A 
FREE  NATION  IN  A  FREE 
WORLD.  That  is  our  American 
responsibility. 

The  time  is  coming,  my  friends, 
when  we  will  take  St.  Paul  seri- 
ously, when  we  will  take  Jesus 
seriously  and  we  will  produce  a 
doctrine  of  Peace  on  Earth,  Good 
Will  toward  Men. 


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E  REAL  LIVING 

~  To  The  Roycrofters  [ 


'  /c\^AS  sweet  to  meet  vnth  kindred  souLsy 
^^y        T  toas  joy  to  play  with  you; 
*r  was  restftd  in  a  pensive  mood. 
To  find  you  mset  that,  too: 

To  feel  gay  joy  stir  in  my  soul. 
To  meet  with  answering  hearts; 

To  talk  on  subjects  deep  and  broad. 
And  of  the  higher  arts: 

To  feel  as  free  as  a  wild  song-bird. 

To  be  a  child  again; 
To  run  and  play  and  laugh  and  shout. 

And  sing  with  joy's  refrain: 

To  cast  the  serious  years  aside, 

A  wood-nymph  clothed  in  youth; 

To  feel  the  call  of  soul  to  soul. 
Such  living  is  the  truth. 

Emma  Reed  Shoaff 


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The  Three  Cherubs 

SCHERMERHORN — ReEDY — ChAPPLE 


FOLLOW  THE  NUMBERS 

1.  All  Celebrities:  Lentz  and  Reedy,  two  central  figures  holding  down  bench. 
Guess  the  rest.  2.  Canada  Represented :  John  Cottam,  left,  Capt.  McGillivray, 
right.  3.  The  Roycroft  Shop.  4.  Kingsbury,  the  photographer,  and  Dr.  Frank 
Crane.  5.  Ernest  Thompson-Seton.  6.  Rooters  along  the  side-lines.  7.  Rochester 
Male  Quartette.  8.  Captain  and  Mrs.  Park.  He  was  captured  and  held  prisoner  for 
two  years  in  Germany.  9.  The  kiddies  pick  pansies  around  the  Hubbard  Boulder 
to  sell  for  Red  Cross.  10.  S.  M.  Newton,  the  Mrs.  and  Junior.  11.  John  Barrett. 
12.  The  Wiener  Roast  at  the  Glen.  13.  They  made  much  beautiful  music : 
Lillian  Hawley  Gearhart,  Olive  Nevin,  Martha  Alexander.  14.  Retired  Preachers : 
Dr.  Frank  Crane,  Joe  Choynski.  15.  What 's  next  on  the  program?  Nancy  wants 
to  know.  16.  Virginia  Janet  Mayer,  who  did  some  excellent  interpretative 
classic  dancing.  17.  All  boys  again. 


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Dr.  Willard  Carver 

Diatfnosif  Proves  the  Value  of  a  Syatem 


^^^^^YOS.  immediate  outside  is 
M  ^%  the  exact  countefpart  of 
^^^^^  the  immediate  inside  «» 
The  diagnostician  is  on 
the  outside,  yet  he  has  multitudinous 
ways  of  knowing  conditions  on  the 
inside.  Each  inside  part  has  the  key 
to  its  imderstanding  on  the  outside, 
and  it  is  peculiarly  the  business  of 
the  diagnostician  to  have  a  perfect 
understanding  of  these  keys. 
It  is  a  tort — a  species  of  social  crime 
for  a  doctor  to  make, a  mistake  in 
diagnosis.  There  is  no  sense  nor 
reason  in  excusing  a  physician  for 
making  a  mistake  in  diagnosis.  He 
should  not  do  so.  The  mistakes  in 
diagnosis  are  in  exact  ratio  to  the 
anatomic  ignorance  of  any  school  of 
doctors.  The  best  of  the  medical 
doctors  admit  making  mistakes  in 
fifty-five  pel'  cent  of  diagnoses.  In 
other  words  admit  that  their  diag- 
nosis is  but  an  advised  guess. 
Why  do  the  M.  D/s  make  this 
shocking  fall-down?  Why — because 
they  do  not  have  to  know  anatomy 
to  "  practise "  their  profession, 
therefore  they  do  not  know  anatomy 
and  can  not  diagnose. 
The  proof  that  therapists  do  not 
know  anatomy  is  revealed  by  the 
fact  that  those  that  stick  most 
closely  to  medical  instruction  are 
in  the  worst  fix. 


Who  has  not  looked  for  instance, 
upon  the  field  of  physical  in- 
structors in  educational  places,  with 
wonder  at  the  fact  that  they  are 
practically  all  sick.  I  have  never 
found  the  physical  director  of  a 
Y.  M.  C.  A.  that  was  a  well  man 
and  have  many  times  offered  a  gold 
medal  for  one  who  was  not  sick. 
The  physical  director  of  such  an 
institution  almost  invariably  has 
stomach,  kidney,  intestinal  or  rectal 
trouble — generally  a  combination  or 
complication  of  these,  and  still  he 
has  every  medical  idea  as  to  these, 
down  to  the  last  minute,  right  at 
his  tongue's  end. 

There  is  no  such  thing  as  therapeutic 
physiology  «»  *^ 

Physiology  is  a  description  of  the 
conduct  in  the  normal,  of  anatomic 
parts.  A  description  of  the  heart  for 
instance,  is  anatomy.  A  description 
of  what  makes  the  heart  act  and 
how  it  acts  responding  to  that  cause 
is  the  physiology  of  the  heart  and 
this  last  you  do  not  find  in  our 
therapeutic  physiologies. 
You  think  that  physiology  is  being 
taught  in  our  schools.  I  tell  you 
that  the  description  of  the  conduct 
of  no  part  of  the  human  body  is 
being  taught  at  this  time.  Phy- 
siology— ^the  description  of  the  con- 
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body  under  the  propulaioii  of  the 
force  of  life  is  not  being  taught  in 
our  district,  ward,  graded,  high 
schools;  academies,  colleges,  uni- 
versities or  our  medical  colleges. 
Physiology  is  not  being  taught  in 
our  schools  because  therapy  has 
never  written  any  physiologies  «» 
The  books  they  call  such  names 
consist  of  anatomic  and  histologic 
description,  with  certain  chemical 
theories  and  experiments. 
Know  this,  that  the  man  or  woman 


who  knows  anatomy  to  the  ultimate , 
not  theoretically  but  as  a  going 
machine,  knows  his  physiology  just 
as  well  and  is  just  as  proficient  in 
diagnosis  «»  «» 

If  I  was  guilty,  as  a  Chiropractor, 
of  more  than  five  per  cent  of  mis- 
takes in  diagnosis,  I  would  take 
down  my  sign  in  shame  for  my 
ignorance  and  would  hie  me  hence 
to  the  most  secluded  jungle  and 
would  there  finish  my  days  alone, 
where  I  could  do  no  one  harm  «» 


James  Schermerhom 

The  First  Set  of  Fours 


^«^|^^HIRTY-TWO  years  ago 
M  /^  the  corps  of  cadets  at  the 
^  Junited  States  Military 
^^^^  Academy  was  reviewed 
by  General  Phil  Sheridan. 
The  charger  that  Little  Phil 
mounted  20  miles  away,  came  from 
Michigan.  The  steed  was  a  distance- 
consuming  precursor  of  the  Detroit 
flivvers  in  which  Poppa  Joffre  took 
his  famous  joy-ride  to  the  Mame. 
C  Sheridan  was  popular  with  the 
West  Pointers.  Someone  asked  him 
what  was  the  fimniest  thing  that 
happened  in  all  his  army  career.  He 
replied  it  was  when  a  tall,  raw- 
boned  Irishman  tried  to  subdue  an 
army  mule.  In  the  course  of  her 
gyrations  she  got  a  foot  in  one  of  the 
stirrups.  "  That  settles  it,"  said  Pat. 


"  If  you  *re  going  to  get  on,  I  *m 
going  to  get  off." 

A  third  of  a  century  has  flown  with 
the  swiftness  of  the  weaver's 
shuttle,  yet  I  recall  that  scene  on 
the  West  Point  parade-ground  as 
vividly  as  if  I  had  ^mpsed  it 
this  afternoon  in  yoiu*  leading  vita- 
graph  palace. 

I  hear  the  gush  of  music  as  the  gray 
battalion  with  cadenced  tread 
passes  in  review.  The  retreat 
trumpet  speaks  to  the  cannoneer, 
the  cannon  to  the  heavens  and  the 
heavens  to  the  hills  of  the  Hudson, 
and  "  your  flag  and  my  flag " 
flutters  down  from  her  lofty 
standard  on  Trophy  Point  in  the 
hush  of  the  fading  day. 
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swung  past  Little  Phil  he  saw  a 
firm-jawed,  well-set-up  six-footer, 
steel-true  and  blade-straight,  in 
charge  of  the  cadet  battalion. 
He  was  a  first  classman,  **  from 
Missouri"  and  he  had  shown  them 
for  he  was  captain  of  Company  A, 
the  highest  honor  the  corps  has  to 
bestow  «»  «» 

One  midsummer  day  in  1885,  when 
the  murk  was  in  the  sky,  with  storm- 
clouds  sweeping  up  the  Hudson  and 
the  artillery  of  heaven  vying  with 
the  West  Point  batteries  as  they 
boomed  the  general's  salute,  the 
battalion  was  ferried  across  the 
river  to  do  honor  to  the  foremost 
figure  of  the  war  of  the  rebellion,  the 
victor  of  Appomattox  and  its 
famous  apple-tree,  who  had  breathed 
his  last  at  Mt.  McGregor  and  was 
being  borne  to  the  place  of  sepulture 
at  New  York. 

As  the  draped  funeral-train  bearing 
the  pulseless  clay  of  General  U.  S. 
Grant  moved  slowly  past  the 
station  at  Garrison's,  the  West 
Point  battalion  stood  at  attention 
and  presented  arms  while  the  band 
played  softly,  "  Sweet  Spirit,  Hear 
My  Prayer."  The  scene  was  pro- 
phetic, although  no  one  knew  it 
then  «»  «» 

The  cadet  officer  in  command  of  this 
demonstration  in  honor  of  the 
departed  leader  of  the  victorious 
Northern  armies  of  the  great  Civil 
War,  was  destined  to  be  the  fore- 


most figure  of  a  greater  military 
project  32  years  later,  leading  the 
first  expeditionary  force  to  the 
western  battle-front  in  Flanders — 
brave  Black  Jack  Pershing,  valor- 
ous leader  of  our  sacred  adventure 
in  the  name  of  democracy  1 
Cadet  Captain  Pershing  fulfilled  the 
promise  of  his  West  Point  career 
by  his  brilliant  campaigns  against 
the  Indians  of  the  Southwest  and  by 
his  subjugation  of  the  murderous 
Moros  in  the  Philippines,  for  which 
he  was  made  a  brigadier-general. 
C  He  showed  how  his  soul  was 
steeled  for  the  disciplines  and 
deprivations  of  life  when  he  was 
recalled  from  the  Mexican  border  by 
the  tragic  fate  of  his  wife  and  three 
children,,  burned  to  death  in  their 
quarters  at  the  Presidio,  San 
Francisco.  He  took  only  time 
enough  from  his  duties  at  the  border 
to  go  back  and  **  make  them  a  grave 
where  the  sunbeams  rest  when  they 
promise  a  glorious  morrow,"  and  to 
provide  for  the  only  surviving  little 
one  at  the  home  of  his  wife's 
parents  in  Wyoming,  and  then  on 
duty  again  uncomplainingly  for  the 
country  he  had  served  so  well. 
Almost  with  his  last  expiring 
breath  General  Grant  lifted  a 
prayer  for  the  perpetuation  of  the 
tranquility  his  sword  had  obtained. 
"  Let  us  have  peace,"  the  sentiment 
from  the  hero's  bedside,  is  the  in- 
scription upon  his  tomb,  which  is  as 


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a  shrine  to  his  coiuitrymen,  on 
Riverside  Drive. 

And  peace  it  seemed  to  be,  sweet 
and  enduring.  General  Sheridan 
added  his  indictment  to  the  bar- 
barism of  war.  He  said  there  had 
never  been  a  cause  in  which  blood- 
shed was  invoked  that  could  not 
have  been  settled  without  appealing 
to  the  sword. 

^^HE  era  of  the  international 
^J  peace  temple  at  The  Hague 
and  the  Nobel  peace  prize  had 
come.  The  sword  was  in  the  scab- 
bard to  stay,  we  thought,  for  how 
could  wholesale  blood-letting  ever 
be  coimtenanced  again  in  the 
light  of  the  closing  decades  of  a 
great  century? 

Hallelujah!  Instead  of  the  sword 
had  come  up  the  cross  whereon  the 
Prince  of  Peace  had  offered  up  His 
life  that  all  men  might  be  brothers, 
that  nation  should  not  lift  up  sword 
against  nation,  neither  should  they 
learn  war  any  more. 
If  the  cross  upon  which  the  Savior 
died  should  lose  for  a  time  its  sway 
over  the  better  nature  of  mankind 
there  remained  the  pen  to  keep 
the  sword  unsheathed.  War-dnmis 
would  soimd  no  longer  and  battle- 
flags  would  be  furled  because  the  pen 
would  direct  the  nobler  impulses  of 
patriots  in  the  parliament  of  man, 
the  federation  of  the  world. 
Then    hail    the    pen — ^the    pen    of 


diplomacy  and  publicity,  the  pen  of 
reason    and    appeal,    the    treaty-  * 
making  pent  Surely  so  potent  an 
instrument  shall  keep  the  peace! 
Then,    too,    there   was   business —  ^ 
enlightened  self-interest — to  shield 
the  land  from  another  baptism  of 
blood.  War  was  too  devastating,  too 
costly,  too  wasteful  under  the  multi-  ^ 
plying  of  armament,  to  be  thinkable. 
A  distinguished  American  educator 
convinced    the    world    that    there  | 
would    never     be     another     great 
effusion  of  blood  on  an  international 
bdttle-field     because    the    money- 
centers  would  refuse  to  finance  such 
an  economic  cataclysm. 
What  disillusionment  the  past  years 
have  brought! 

"  The  Prussian  despot  hurled  his 
felon  blow  at  France  and  the  world," 
and  being  in  the  world  it  was  in-  , 
evitable  that  we  should  be  in  the 
.  war — ^a  righteous  war  for  the  over- 
throw of  an  autocracy  that  seeks  to 
enforce  its  decrees  with  all  the 
hideous  cruelty  of  Hun  and 
Saracen  9^  9^ 

Not  by  the  sign  of  the  cross  or  sway 
of  pen  or  protest  of  business  was 
peace  to  be  maintained  with  the 
shadow  of  Kaiserism  projected 
across  our  threshold.  So  the  sword 
of  America  has  leapt  from  its 
scabbard,  not  to  be  resheathed  until 
the  Hohenzollem  menace  is  laid 
forever  in  the  dust  of  demolished 
dynasties  «»  «» 


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Now,  look  you,  a  strange  and  in- 
spiring thing  has  come  to  pass.  The 
cross  does  not  consider  itself  sup- 
planted by  the  sword.  The  cross  is 
comrade  of  the  sword;  it  gleams 
above  Old  Glory  at  the  battle- 
front.  It  is  sending  its  young  men 
upon  this  holy  crusade  with  its 
prayers;  they  go  as  the  soldiers 
of  the  Caesars  went,  from  the 
holy  sacrament  to  where  death 
awaits;  their  names  are  inscribed 
with  the  saints  of  old  on  sanctuary 
walls.  The  cross  is  going  into  can- 
tonment and  trench  with  the  safe- 
guarding ministrations  of  chaplains 
and  priests  and  Y.  M:  C.  A.  and 
K.  of  C.  secretaries,  battling  against 
foes,  of  camp  and  furlough  more  to 
be  feared  than  the  enemies*  bullets. 
Neither  is  the  pen  displaced  with  the 
sword's  reappearance,  but  it  is 
competing  with  the  blade  to  see 
which  can  be  mightier  in  the  cause 
of  democracy,  and  the  abolition  of 
militarism  for  all  time.  The  pen  is 
telling  the  story  of  our  imselfish 
participation  in  the  war;  it  is 
herald  and  courier  for  every  appeal 
in  the  interest  of  mobilization  and 
conservation;  and  it  is  letting  the 
light  of  publicity  beat  incessantly 
upon  the  prodigious  task  of  organ- 
izing for  the  war,  so  that  we  shall 
not  repeat  the  blunders  of  the 
Spanish-American  war  and  permit 
our  soldiers  to  be  exploited  by  camp- 
following  profiteers  or  incompetent 


officers  selected  through  political 
favoritism  «»  «» 

^]^AS  business  lost  any  time  in 
-*^  bemoaning  the  fact  that  it 
could  not  avert  war?  Listen  again 
to  the  battle-cry  of  business  as  it 
went  forth  from  the  recent  war  con- 
vention at  Atlantic  City: 

Assembled  on  the  call  of  the 
Chamber  of  Commerce  of  the 
United  States  and  representing 
more  than  half  a  million  business- 
men and  every  industry  in  every 
State  in  the  Union,  this  convention 
promises  to  our  people  that  business 
will  do  all  in  its  power  to  prevent 
waste  of  men  and  material  and  will 
dedicate  to  the  nation  every  facility 
it  has  developed  and  every  financial 
resource  it  commands,  on  such 
terms,  and  under  such  circumstances 
as  our  government  shall  determine 
to  be  just. 

When  the  company  moves  in 
marching  order,  at  the  head  of  the 
colimm  is  the  first  set  of  fours.  The 
captain  wants  his  company  to  pre- 
sent a  good  front — ^to  put  its  best 
feet  forward.  The  first  set  of  fours 
are  his  picked  men. 
A  critic  who  knew  as  much  about 
pictures  and  patriotism  as  a  corre- 
spondence school  knows  about  the 
college  yell,  described  "  The  Spirit 
of  1776  "  as  comprising  "  One  man 


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witii  A  fif e»  another  witii  a  dniin«  and 
another  with  a  headache/'  He  for- 
got to  defignate  the  color-bearer 
just  behind  as  "  an  advance  agent 
for  an  auction." 

"  The  Spirit  of  1917 "  has  four 
figures  in  the  forefront — a  man  with 
a  sword,  another  witii  a  cross, 
another  witii  a  pen  and  another  witii 
an  armful  of  receipts  for  his  sub- 
scriptions to  war  funds. 
And  outfiung  above  them  the 
national  oriflamme — the  sacrificial 
scarlet  of  the  sword,  the  unflecked 
white  of  the  cross,  the  brave  blue  of 
the  ink  of  the  pen  and  tiie  con- 
secrated, indispensable  dollar- 
marks— once  besprinkled  upon  the 


raiment  of  the  American  pcditical 
boss  as  a  sign  of  sordidness— now 
transcending  the  stars  in  glory. 
So  there  3rou  have  the  first  set  of 
fours  of  the  long,  long  colunm  of 
Columbia's  freemen,  moving  irre- 
sistibly as  a  nation  rather  than  as  an 
army,  to  the  vindication  of  the 
principles  that  made  ours  the  unop- 
pressed  land  of  hope  and  happiness. 
€1  Sword  and  cross  and  pen  and 
business,  all  consecrated  to  the 
great  task  in  handl  Can  you  con- 
ceive of  a  more  invincible  align- 
ment of  the  forces  that  make  for 
democracy's  triumph,  for  war's 
annihilation  and  the  establishment 
of  enduring  peace. 


Joe  Mitchell  Chappie 

Pleads  for  Letters  for  Soldiers 


I  HAVE  just  returned  from 
looking  into  the  eyes  of  the 
Polish  recruits  that  were 
just  about  to  sail  for 
France.  Polish  boys  from  all  over  the 
country,  eager,  alert,  fine  American 
soldiers.  I  spoke  to  them  this  morn- 
ing. 'T  was  a  great  joy.  I  am  going 
to  tell  you  that  my  life  has  changed 
in  twelve  weeks.  My  entire  life 
prior  to  going  over  seems  like  a 
former  existence.  I  come  back  full 
of  hope  that  I  never  felt  before, 
because  I  have  seen  the  glory  of 
men  that  are  ready  to  die. 


When  I  started  out  with  a  cutaway 
suit  and  summer  overcoat  and 
valise  I  didn't  know  where  I  was 
going.  Sailing  for  France  now-a- 
days  is  different  than  it  used  to  be  in 
the  (^den  days  when  we  com- 
plained of  this  and  that.  Those  who 
sail  for  France  now  must  have  a 
reason.  Anna  Held,  Mary  Garden 
and  other  celebrities  were  there  «» 
On  the  night  I  arrived  in  Paris 
800,000  people  left  it.  Every  curtain 
in  Paris  was  drawn,  every  light  out 
— ^Paris  was  in  darkness.  For  blocks 
and  blocks  to  the  railroad  station 


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people  were  sitting  on  tiieir  trunks 
waiting  for  a  chance  to  get  out-^ 
Paris  was  being  bombarded. 
There  is  an  interval  of  about 
twenty  minutes  from  the  time  a 
bomb  is  fired  until  the  crash  comes, 
so  the  people  have  learned  to  defend 
themselves  as  best  they  can  s^ 
Next  day  I  visited  General  Pershing 
and  was  given  an  escort  to  make  the 
trip  to  the  front.  I  was  given  a  gas 
mask  and  instructed  how  to  put 
nay  teeth  in  it -and  how  to  put  my 
nose  in  the  nip.  I  said  I  did  n't  need 
a  gas  mask,  but  was  told  it  was  no 
time  for  joking. 

I  saw  some  of  the  boys  as  they 
started  for  the  trenches  one  night 
and  I  shall  never  forget  it.  On  their 
faces  was  something  I  had  never 
observed  before.  It  was  n't  the 
merriment,  the  willingness  of  the 
task,  it  was  just  that  look  of  deter- 
mination— realizing  that  a  few  miles 
away  in  the  valley  were  the 
Germans  s^  «» 

Later  I  visited  the  Italian  front.  Do 
you  realize  the  good  work  the 
Italians  are  doing  over  there? 
I  went  up  thousands  and  thousands 
of  feet  through  tunnels  the  Italians 
built.  These  tunnels  have  at  least 
given  Italy  an  eye  on  Austria. 
I  visited  the  Grand  Fleet.  It  seemed 
to  me  the  greatest  picture  I  ever 
looked  upon — seventy-six  miles  of 
battle-ships!  Even  if  Paris  should 
fall  there  is  that  wonderful  fleet 


to  be  reckoned  on.  There  is  only 
one  thing  I  wish  to  leave  witii 
3rou,  friends,  and  that  is,  write  to 
the  soldiers  over  there  and  write 
once  a  day  or  twice  a  day. 
Our  boys  are  well  cared  for  and  have 
plenty  of  food,  but  do  not  let  yoor 
boys  suffer  and  starve  over  there 
because  you  have  not  written  tiiem 
a  letter  «»  «»>' 

I  asked  the  boys  what  message  I 
could  deliver  for  them  when  I 
came  back  here  to  America  and  they 
said:  "  Tell  them  we'll  stick  to  the 
finish;  we  're  here  until  the  job  is 
over,  but  for  God's  sake,  tell  the 
folks  to  write." 

There  is  no  bond,  no  document, 
that  brings  the  thrill  like  a  letter 
from  home.  Write  if  you  know  a 
soldier  or  not.  That  is  the  only 
thing  they  have  to  look  forward  to 
in  Camp. 

What  this  world  needs  is  Peace. 
War,  violence,  repression,  strife, 
have  been  tried  since  the  days 
when  Egypt  was  supreme.  Peace  I 
But  why  cry  Peace!  Peace!  when 
there  is  no  Peace?  \ 

Big  bodies  of  armed  men  are  the 
greatest  violation  of  commonscnse 
that  can  be  imagined.  They  are 
recruited  and  maintained  by  the 
forces  of  production,  in  order  to 
destroy  that  which  labor  creates 
and  human  hearts  hold  precious. 
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Ernest  Thotnpson-Seton 

Talks  on  Woodcraft 


I  AM  privileged  to  say  a  few 
words  on  the  subject  of 
Woodcraft  «»  «» 
A  very  eminent  educator 
in  New  York  said  to  me  not  long 
ago,  "What  is  this  Woodcraft- 
give  it  to  me."  I  said,  "  Long  or 
short?  "  He  said  "  ^ort."  I  said, 
*'  It  is  a  man-making  scheme 
with  a  blue-sky  method."  It  was  n't 
quite  what  he  wanted,  so  he  asked 
me  to  give  it  to  him  in  a  paragraph, 
so  I  answered:  "  It  is  something  to 
do,  something  to  think  about,  some- 
thing to  enjoy,  something  to  remem- 
ber in  the  woods,  with  a  view  always 
to  character  building,  realizing  that 
manhood  and  not  education  is  the 
ultimate  aim  of  education.** 
That  is  qmte  modem  excepting  in 
one  I  think  qmte  important  thought 
which  we  always  add.  We  find  our 
Y.  M.  C,  A.'s  and  we  find  o\u* 
modem  colleges  grouping  education 
imder  three  main  heads  (they  did  n*t 
wish  to  do  it — ^they  were  forced  to 
do  it,  by  the  common  sense  of  the 
people)  s^  The  first  physical,  the 
second  mental  and  the  third  spiri- 
tual. I  think  they  are  leaving  out 
the  one  very  important  one — the 
social.  For  the  maximum  of  stability 
a  table  has  four  legs — ^three  will  do 
very  well  s^  One  might  point  out 
institutions  which  have  omitted  any 


one  of  them,  and  they  have  gone  to 
grief— usually  died. 
I  didn't  mean  to  talk  in  theories 
and  I  won't. 

I  am  going  to  tell  you  some  stories, 
give  you  some  of  the  joy  we  are 
given  in  the  outdoor  life. 
Our  educational  schemes  would  be 
much  better  if  they  could  be  made 
outdoors.  Kacti  year  we  have  seen 
the  establishment  of  more  svmtmier 
camps.  Thirty  years  ago  they  were 
very  rare  and  considered  dangerous 
experiments.  Now,  there  are  thou- 
sands of  them,  not  only  for  boys 
and  girls,  but  grown-ups,  too.  They 
are  making  them  less  of  a  summer 
boarding-house  and  more  of  a  place 
to  make  men.  Every  year  the  period 
or  the  length  of  time  for  the  summer 
camps  is  increased.  At  first  it  was  a 
period  of  two  weeks,  then  a  month, 
and  so  on,  and  now  some  of  them 
are  open  six  months  in  a  year  «» 
The  summer  camp  is  not  the  idea 
of  any  one  man.  It  is  the  nation 
groping  out  for  better  things.  It 
will  expand  until  it  can  take  in  the 
proper  methods  of  studying.  The 
bigger  universities  are  recognizing 
this  is  common  sense  «»  Ultimately 
we  hope  the  whole  nation  will  take 
in  this  thought. 

I  was  out  in  the  Middle  West  last 
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a  well-known  camp  in  many  respects. 
The  bojrs  there  wished  to  do  some 
pottery,  and  as  they  had  plenty  of 
money  the  teacher  or  director  of  the 
camp  sent  to  market  and  got  several 
dozen  pottery  wheels,  sent  to  Tren- 
ton and  ^ot  a  hundredweight  of 
prepared  clay,  sent  to  Boston  and 
got  some  modeling  tools,  sent  to 
some  other  place  and  got  some 
designs  for  Etruscan  vases,  then  sent 
to  some  other  place  and  got  some 
fine  enamel  paints,  then  sent  to 
Boston  and  got  a  teacher.  They 
had  beautiful  clay  to  work  with 
beautiful  tools — ^beautiful  boys  to 
make  some  beautiful  pots. 
Kach  one  was  given  a  lump  of  clay 
and  each  one  worked  away  at  it, 
each  one  made  a  beautiful  vase, 
exquisitely  perfect  in  lines  «»  Then 
they  sent  them  to  Chicago  and  had 
them  fired.  Whai  they  came  back 
each  one  got  out  some  design  and 
copied  it  on  his  vase.  The  teacher 
saw  to  it  that  it  was  all  done  beauti- 
fully. Then  it  was  set  away  to  dry, 
after  which  it  was  sent  to  Chicago 
and  fired  again.  The  result  was  that 
each  little  boy  had  a  beautiful  piece 
of  pottery.  The  fact  that  it  cost 
about  $25.00  was  a  mere  trifle — ^they 
had  a  beautiful  pot  anyway.  How- 
ever, I  wasn't  asked  to  comment, 
so  I  refrained  from  it. 
I  went  to  another  camp — a  camp  of 
about  two  himdred  boys.  Some  of 
the  boys  wanted  to  do  some  pottery 


work.  I  was  there  as  Woodcraft 
instructor  and  they  wanted  to  do 
it  in  Woodcraft  style.  So  I  asked 
them,  **  Does  any  fellow  here  know 
where  to  get  some  clay?  "  "  Yes," 
one  said,  "  I  fell  in  the  creek  one 
day  and  when  I  got  up  I  was 
covered  with  greasy  clay  and  it 
was  sticky."  Another,  said  there  was 
some  where  they  were  cutting  the 
railroad  bank.  I  sent  half  of  the  * 
boys  to  go  and  get  the  clay  out  of 
the  creek  and  half  to  get  the  clay 
from  the  hillside.  Each  boy  came 
back  with  a  lump  of  clay,  then  we 
took  it  to  the  water  and  cleaned  it, 
then  pounded  it  until  it  was  nice 
and  soft.  By  this  time  we  were 
ready  to  heat  it.  I  then  sent  each 
one  to  get  a  board.  They  got  all 
kinds  of  boards — some  nice  and 
smooth — ^then  each  boy  got  an  old 
tomato-can  full  of  water — ^then  we 
all  sat  down  in  the  grass.  We  began 
to  make  a  saucer.  We  shaped  it 
roimd,  then  with  a  few  little  twists 
and  coils  it  was  about  three  inches 
high.  We  put  it  aWay  an  hour  or 
two  imtil  it  was  sufficiently  set  9^ 
Then  we  put  on  some  more  coils, 
then  drew  it  in  a  little.  By  the  time 
we  had  it  two  inches  higher  it  was 
enough.  We  then  put  it  away  over 
night,  in  a  box  with  some  wet  rags 
so  it  wouldn't  dry  out.  The  next 
morning  it  was  hard.  We  fixed  the 
edges  a  little  so  it  was  closed  with 
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two  inchte  at  the  top,  then  we  set 
that  away  to  dry.  While  that  was 
drying  we  found  an  old  brick  for 
color.  We  poinded  that  up,  mixed 
in  some  clay  and  water  and  this 
made  a  good  red  s^  We  got  some 
black  from  the  bottom  of  an  iron 
kettle,  then  we  got  some  quartz  and 
lime  and  ground  these  up  and  made 
cream  color  or  almost  white;  these 
were  the  only  colors  we  could  get. 
C  We  did  n't  send  to  Russia  for 
camel's-hair  brushes  at  $11  a  dozen, 
we  went  out  in  the  woods  and  got 
a  sliver  from  an  old  stump;  each 
one  cut  it  roimd  and  chewed  it 
until  it  was  soft.  We  took  the  vase 
and  scraped  it  around  and  rubbed 
it  all  over  with  a  little  of  the  clay, 
plenty  of  water  and  we  finally  got 
the  inequalities  smoothed  out.  Some 
painted  on  their  national  emblems, 
some  their  own  initials,  while  some 
painted  on  the  emblem  of  the  camp. 
The  thing  was  decorated  in  red, 
black  and  white.  We  then  put  it 
away  to  dry.  We  put  them  in  rows, 
gathered  some  firewood,  built  the 
firewood  aroimd  and  over  them — 
then  we  set  fire  to  this.  (The  pots 
had  been  thoroughly  dry  for  two 
days  first).  We  kept  that  fire  going 
for  about  two  or  three  hours,  then 
as  the  fire  went  down  we  began  to 
see  some  of  the  pots;  then  it  died 
down  and  down.  We  were  so  eager 
to  see  them  that  we  pulled  out  some 
and  they  went  into  a  hundred  pieces. 


We  left  the  rest  of  them  in  the  glow- 
ing coals  until  the  next  day.  Then 
very  cautiously  we  fished  them  out 
and  each  boy  had  a  pot. 
Was  it  a  good  pot? 
It  was  a  very  poor  pot,  indeed, 
made  by  the  Woodcraft  method  «» 
We  got  a  beautiful  pot  by  the 
scholastic  method  and  a  beautiful 
boy  by  the  Woodcraft  method  ** 
Each  one  of  those  boys  had  a\ 
different  attitude  toward  everything 
he  saw  and  everything  he  touched 
in  that  operation.  He  had  a  different, 
attitude  to  the  clay  when  he  saw  it. 
He  sawed  away  and  away  imtil  he 
brought  that  thing  into  harmonious 
activity.  That  *s  the  whole  thing  of' 
Woodcraft  s^  s^ 

^pr  HERE  are  twelve  secrets  of. 

\^  the  woods  which  I  invite  all 
to  acquire  if  they  have  not  already 
done  so.  There  are  three  which  I 
am  going  to  mention  because  they 
have  direct  bearing  on  this  thing. 

C  Poison-ivy  is  one  of  the  secrets  of 
the  woods.  We  ask  the  boys  to 
acquire  this  very  early  on  account 
of  the  terrors  of  it  and  because  of 
the  dangers  of  it.  We  know  that, 
perhaps  three  persons  out  of  every 
five  are  immune  but  two  out  of 
every  five  must  beware  of  poison- 
ivy  s^  The  plant  is  covered  with 
little  fine  hairs.  On  each  hair  is  a 
little  drop  of  burning  blistering  oiL 
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feet  of  insects  «»  The  result  is  it 
begins  to  blister,  it  won't  evaporate 
and  it 's  difficult  to  rub  it  off.  It 
keeps  on  blistering  unless  you  know 
what  to  do  with  it.  Some  of  us  have 
enough  resistance  in  tiie  skin  to 
expel  it.  Alcohol  will  take  it  off, 
hot  soapy  water  will  take  it  off, 
anything  that  will  remove  an  oil 
will  remove  poison-ivy.  Suppose  it 
has  eaten  a  hole  in  your  skin!  Then 
you  have  to  prepare  for  that.  There 
are  two  or  three  wajrs  of  meeting 
this  trouble.  When  I  was  in  Canada 
I  used  to  wash  ivy  poisoning  witii 
salt  and  water  or  I  would  wash  it 
in  the  hottest  soapy  water  I  could* 
stand.  Salt  and  water  is  a  natural 
disinfectant.  As  soon  as  you  have 
that  poison-ivy  on  you  wash  the 
place  with  a  little  alcohol  in  which 
is  a  little  sugar  of  lead.  Then  the 
trouble  is  over.  Sometimes  it  goes 
so  far  as  to  become  complicated 
with  rheimiatism,  then  you  better 
have  a  doctor.  Keep  that  in  mindl 
^ere  is  another  secret  of  the  woods 
— ^Poison  Amanita  which  are  deadly 
—or  in  other  words,  toadstools.  We 
have  abbut  one  thousand  kinds  of 
toadstools  or  mushrooms — about 
five  hundred  are  good  to  eat,  and 
about  fifty  are  deadly  poison. 

GAN  you  tell  what  walked 
around  your  camp  the  thir- 
tieth night  out?  Some  will  guess  a 
skunk— that  is  n't  the  thought.  He 


wouldn't  awaken  you.  We  know 
now  that  our  grandparents  were 
wrong  when  they  told  us  that 
^e  night  air  was  n't  good  s^  Any 
one  in  France  knows  how  bitterly 
opposed  tiiey  are  to  sleeping  out- 
doors s^  We  know  it  is  cooler  and 
therefore  we  must  have  warmer 
clothing  than  we  do  inside.  The 
night  air  instead  of  being  poisonous 
is  a  tonic — it  is  bracing.  Keep  your- 
self warm  and  keep  yourself  dry, 
but  take  all  the  night  air  you  can 
get.  Our  medical  men  now  realize 
that  night  air  is  beneficial  to  man- 
kind just  as  sun  baths  are.  Many 
a  time  I  have  known  persons  to 
Ueep  outdoors  because  they  were 
threatened  with  nervous  break- 
downs. It  is  a  wonderful  tonic  and 
they  have  gone  out  doors  to  sleep 
for  this  reason.  They  don't  sleep 
the  first  few  nights  out  however, 
they  toss  aroimd.  If  they  stop  it 
at  the  tenth  night  or  so  they  will 
derive  no  benefit.  Kind  nature  is 
slowly  improving  the  conditions 
inside — paving  the  way  for  some- 
thing better.  That 's  why  I  always 
ask  on  tht  thirtieth  night  what 
walked  around  your  camp?  In  a 
sense  you  don't  know  because  you 
slept  all  night,  yet  in  the  morning 
you  do  know.  It  was  the  angel  of 
the  night  with  healing  imder  his 
wings.  You  know  it — ^you  feel  it. 
That  is  what  we  mean  by  the  twelfth 
secret  of  the  woods. 


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Honorable  John  Barrett 

Brotherhood  of  Nations 


■1^1  ^HEN  the  LusitmUa 

yak  ^^r  «  went  down  carrying 
\J\y  ElbertHubbardwith 
^^^^  it,  it  lifted  him  how- 
ever, into  a  higher  position;  it  placed 
his  body  in  the  waters  and  his  soul 
in  the  sides,  and  today  we  revere 
his  memory  and  wish  he  were  still 
living,  but  as  he  is  not  living  in 
body  his  work,  his  philosophy,  his 
optimism,  his  generous  criticisms, 
his  inspirations  all  live  and  make 
us  rejoice  that  God  gave  us  a  man 
of  that  kind. 

If  the  Lusitania  had  not  been  sunk 
and  the  policy  that  followed  had 
not  been  pursued  the  United  States 
would  not  have  been  in  this  mighty 
combat.  But  once  in  it,  if  this  War 
goes  on  for  five  or  ten  or  fifteen 
years,  we  shall  not  cease  imtil  that 
Americanism  for  which  Elbert  Hub- 
bard stood  shall  be  triumphant 
throughout  the  world. 
You  know,  my  friends,  we  are  very 
busy  down  in  Washington,  very 
busy,  indeed.  Yet  I  come  up  here 
to  this  little  hamlet  and  I  find  she 
is  doing  her  bit  just  as  much  as  the 
Capital  is  or  New  York  City  or 
Buffalo  or  any  other  part  of  the 
country  9^  «» 

I  foimd  myself  wandering  about 
this  afternoon  and  was  looking  at 
the  cottages  displaying  service  stars. 


and  thinking  of  the  father  or  mother 
or  wife  inside  who  had  a  son  or  a 
husband  over  there  or  about  to  be 
over  there.  Oh,  men  and  women 
of  the  Roycrofters  who  are  gathered 
here  tonight,  there  is  nothing  like  it, 
the  splendid  participation  of  the 
youth  of  America  in  this  great 
struggle  of  the  ages. 
About  one  and  a  half  years  ago  it 
was  pay  privilege  to  spend  two 
months  on  the  battle  line  from 
Italy  to  the  English  Channel,  in 
'  the  trenches,  in  the  dug-outs  and 
among  the  Tommies  and  the  Poilus. 
In  about  two  weeks  I  am  going 
again  in  order  to  see  the  Sammies. 
I  want  to  say  to  you  that  I  would 
not  have  missed  that  first  experience 
for  all  my  past  life  and  I  am  willing 
to  sacrifice  all  my  future  life  in  order 
to  see  the  boys  over  there  now  «^ 
I  wish  I  could  tell  you  what  I  saw 
over  there  that  the  Poilus  and  our 
Tommies  are  doing  in  order  that 
you  may  appreciate  what  our  Sam- 
mies are  doing.  And  it  calls  upon 
every  boy  and  girl  in  this  country 
to  do  his  part  as  he  has  never  done 
before  «»  s^ 

No  matter  how  much  you  may  read 
in  the  papers  or  magazines,  no  mat- 
ter how  many  movies  you  may  see 
of  the  battle-front,  you  can  not 
conceive  of  the  struggle  over  there 


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in  its  actual  form.  It  is  impossible 
to  comprehend  it  unless  you  are 
there  «»  «» 

The  English,  the  French,  the  Ger- 
man, and  the  American  languages 
fail  in  adjectives  of  descriptive  terms. 
All  writers  are  utterly  powerless  to 
reproduce  what  you  see  with  your 
own  eyes  from  the  battle-line.  There- 
fore, all  glory  to  those  boys  ovw 
there  and  to  those  going  over  there, 
and  when  you  think  of  that,  each 
one  of  you  in  your  house,  in  your 
shop,  in  your  apartment  or  wherever 
you  are,  when  the  tendency  comes 
to  fall  back  or  to  relax  or  to  become 
a  slacker  just  stop  and  think  what 
you  are  sacrificing  here.  It  isn't 
a  one-thousandth  part  of  what 
those  boys  are  sacrificing  over  there; 
and  whenever  there  comes'amoment 
when  you  hesitate  between  efficiency 
and  lack  of  efficiency  say,  "  My 
God,  I  am  going  to  do  my  part, 
no  matter  how  much  I  would  like 
to  get  the  pleasure  instead  of  the 
reality  out  of  it." 
I  wish  I  could  describe  to  you  when 
the  40,000  Canadians  met  in  1916 
and  the  Battle  of  the  Mame  was 
fought.  I  wish  I  could  tell  you  how 
I  saw  them  at  Verdun,  200,000 
French  over  there,  thinking  of  their 
mothers,  sisters  and  sweethearts, 
saying  to  God,  "  They  shall  not 
pass,"  and  by  Heavens,  they  did 
not  passl  I  wish  I  could  picture 
to  you  the  hospitals  that  I   saw 


destroyed  by  the  German  aeroplanes 
— the  little  villages  and  towns  I 
saw  ravaged  and  ruined.  I  wish  I 
could  tell  you  about  the  little  town 
where  we  saw  thirty  little  boys  and 
girls,  ^Yonderful  little  boys  and  girls, 
lying  there  dead  in  a  row.  We  picked 
them  off  the  streets,  out  of  the  cellars, 
and  here  and  there  «»  When  the 
enemy  had  left  the  town  they 
had  poisoned  the  town  well  and 
had  never  notified  the  people  or 
children  of  it,  so  when  they  went 
there  for  their  supply  of  water 
they  drunk  of  it  and  perished  within 
a  few  hours. 

I  came  to  a  little  church  and  saw 
a  figure  of  the  \^r£^  Mary  sub- 
jected to  the  most  vile  treatment. 
€1 1  wondered  that  that  kind  of  men 
could  live,  but,  by  God,  if  they  did 
live  it  was  for  all  the  world  to  drive 
them  back  with  whatever  methods 
necessary  «»  «» 

The  day  I  was  going  to  Verdun  I 
stopped  to  spend  a  few  hours  with 
General  Neville.  He  and  I  shot 
tigers  in  India.  He  suggested  that 
on  my  way  to  Verdim  I  should 
spend  the  night  at  the  base  hospital, 
that  was  one  of  the  largest  hospitals 
south  of  Verdun,  where  they  had 
about  three  hundred  blesses  or 
wounded,  and  see  how  perfectly 
the  hospital  system  of  France  was 
worked  out.  We  arrived  about  6:30. 
I  was  immediately  taken  to  the 
mess  of  the  officers  because  it  was 


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their  dumer-time.  In  this  hotpital 
were  about  thirty  or  forty  nurtet 
almost  equally  compoeed  of  English, 
American  and  French  girls.  While 
I  was  seated  at  a  table  just  as  quiet 
as  this — ^I  wish  I  had  words  to 
describe  it!  It  seemed  as  if  all  Hell 
had  been  let  loose.  I  never  heard 
such  infernal  noise  and  racket.  It 
seemed  as  if  the  heavens  were  ablaze. 
I  have  witnessed  one  or  two  volcanic 
eruptions,  but  I  never  felt  the  terror 
as  I  did  then.  One  of  the  officers 
said,  **  The  Boches  are  raiding  us." 
We  looked  out  of  the  door  and  there 
was  a  sight  of  fire  and  flame— build- 
ings and  human  flesh.  It  makes  my 
soul  'and  heart  crimp  almost  as  I 
think  of  it  today.  I  had  not  gone  ten 
feet,  my  friends,  before  I  stumbled 
and  fell.  I  walked  back  to  see  over 
what  I  had  fallen.  It  was  the  head 
of  a  beautiful  girl  nurse,  aW)lutely- 
blown  from  her  body.  I .  went  a 
little  farther  and  there  was  an  arm 
and  here  part  of  an  arm  and  most 
all  the  parts  of  mankind. 
It  was  then  only  seven  o'clock.  By 
working  incessantly  we  had  about 
thirty  bodies  of  nurses  together  at 
two  o'clock  in  the  morning,  but 
they  were  so  badly  battered  up 
that  they  could  n't  be  identified  «» 
Out  of  three  hundred  wounded 
soldiers  over  sixty  were  killed  out- 
right and  nearly  one  hundred  who 
were  able  to  recover  were  crippled 
for  life — and  there  was  the  cross  that 


you  could  see  twenty  thousand  feet 
in  the  air  at  any  time  of  the  night. 
Is  there  a  man  or  woman  in  the 
house  that  says  we  shall  not  con- 
tiniie  this  war  to  an  absolute  ccm- 
dusion?  Go  home  tonight  and  if 
you  have  a  doubt  about  the  right- 
eousness of  this  war  think  those 
things  over. 

I  «rish  I  could  tell  you  one  half  of 
what  went  on  a  year  before  we 
declared  war  with  Germany.  If  you 
knew  how  Germany  had  plotted 
against  us  in  Mexico,  Cuba,  South 
America,  before  she  ever  declared 
war,  we  for  those  reasons  isdone 
would  declare  war  if  we  were  full- 
blooded  Germans. 
They  were  plotting  to  make  Mexico 
and  Japan  declare  war  upon  us, 
they  were*  plotting  for  every  South 
American  country  to  go  against  us. 
We  have  abundant  documentary 
proof  of  this  as  well  as  from  people 
living  today. 

*"^^OW,  my  friends,  perhaps  the 
**~*^  mio^ty  of  you  do  not  know 
much  about  the  Pan-American 
Union  of  which  I  have  the  honor 
to  be  the  executive  officer. 
South  of  us  are  twenty  republics, 
each  of  which  gained  her  inde- 
pendence through  leaders,  not  like 
Hannibal  or  Napoleon,  but  by  the 
example  of  George  Washington  «» 
Twenty  republics  whose  Declara- 
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difference  of  religious  rank  and  his- 
tory, were  from  our  own  Declaration 
of  Independence.  I  wish  to  bring 
this  information  to  you  tonight  that 
fourteen  of  those  republics  out  of 
twenty,  without  any  influence  on  our 
part,   despite  the  influence  of  the 
German  propaganda,  have  broken 
relations  with  their  common  enemy 
and  are  standing  side  by  side  with 
the  United  States  today.  Of  those 
fourteen,  seven  have  not  only  broken 
relations  but  they   have   declared 
actual  war  upon  the  enemy,  and 
yet  when  this  war  was  declared  it 
was  said  that  not  a  single  American 
country  would   declare  war   upon 
Germany  and  not  more  than  three 
or  four  would  break  relations. 
It   was  a  great  joy  to  me  when 
General  Joffre  said,  "  If  there  had 
been  in  Paris,  Europe,  a  Pan-Euro- 
pean Union  organized  on  the  basis 
of    the    Pan-American    Union    at 
Washington,  there  never  would  have 
been  this  great  struggle." 
We  say  "  Pan-American  *'  instead  of 
"  All- American  "  because  the  word 
"  Pan  "  means  "  All  "  in  Spanish, 
Portuguese,  French  and  English,  so 
the  word  Pan-American  instead  of 
All- American  is  used.  Pan  means  a 
Union  of  all  American  countries; 
Pan-Americanism    means    nothing 
more  than  the  common  co-operation 
of  the  American  Republics.  It  means 
twenty-one  nations  working  for  the 
common  good  of  the  United  States. 


€1  Did  you  ever  stop  to  think  that 
these  twenty  countries  have  three 
times  the  area  of  the  United  States; 
that  they  have  a  population  of 
eighty  to  one  hundred  million? 
Before  I  close  I  want  to  remind  you 
women  that  down  in  Chili,  Colom- 
bia, Ecuador,  Peru,  are  women  and 
girls  and  children  with  exactly  the 
same  resources  as  yours  and  we  want 
you  to  help  them  rise  to  greater 
opportunities.  I  want  you  men  to 
realize  you  are  not  only  fellow  sons 
with  men  in  Buffalo,  Cleveland  and 
Pittsburg,  but  you  are  with  Santiago, 
Bolivia,  etc.  There  is  exactly  the  same 
relation  between  nations  as  there 
is  between  sisters  and  brothers  and 
husbands  and  wives.  The  ultimate 
destiny  of  nations  is  worked  out 
exactly  as  the  destiny  of  a  family. 
€1 1  want  every  man  and  woman 
here  tonight  to  go  home  with  the 
determination  that  he  will  do 
something  to  make  the  world  better. 
You  are  going  to  do  something  that 
will  bring  Pan*America  closer 
together.  You  are  going  out  to 
stand  by  your  President  in  Wash- 
ington and  to  stand  by  those  sons 
**  ovtt"  there,"  your  sons — not  your 
cousins — ^to  stand  back  of  Pershing, 
that  wonderful  leader,  stand  back 
of  England  and.  France  and  to  stand 
back  of  God  in  winning  this  war 
so  that  you  and  I  may  live  and  you 
and  I  can  thank  God  that  the  world 
has  been  saved  by  us. 


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Joseph  J.  Lamb 

Speech-Specialist— Morning,  July  Third 

Note:  The  ttenographer  taking  the  speeches  was  out  late  the  night 
before  and  did  n't  get  up  in  time  to  get  this  speech:  so  Cy  Rosen  and 
the  editor  have  collaborated  in  a  report  of  it. 

GdRRECTING  stammer- 
ing by  natural,  scientific 
methods,  was  the  theme. 
In  a  quiet,  dignified, 
masterly  way,  ringing  with  sincer- 
ity, Mr.  Lamb  depicted  the  origin 
and  rise  of  our  present  methods  of 
vocal  expression;  the  multitudes  of 
causes  leading  to  this  monstrosity, 
and  the  logical  procedure  to  restore 
imfortunate  stammerers  to  society. 
An  intense  sufferer  himself  for  a 
quarter  of  a  century;  his  complete 
mastery  over  the  difficulty,  has 
eminently  qualified  him  for  his 
unique  position  in  the  educational 
world  today. 

Pleading  for  a  broader  spirit  of 
consideration  for  these  imfortun- 
ates,  and  looking  forward  to  the 
time  when  stammering  shall  be  no 
more:  this  was  the  message  brought 
to  the  Roycrofters.  None  could 
doubt  his  sincerity  of  purpose.  He 
is  a  living  example  of  what  he  pro- 
fesses and  really  accomplishes  for 
others.  He  told  us  many  things  we 
thought  we  knew,  but  did  n't. 
Beginning  at  a  period  of  evolution, 
where  energy  (and  Joe  maintains 
that  everything  is  a  part  of  divine 


energy)  had  advanced  to  a  place 
where  it  began  oral  expression,  and, 
leading  us  gently  up  to  the  most 
beautiful  articulation  which  is 
possible  today,  was  indeed  a  joy. 
Ideas  come  to  this  man  as  freely  as 
water  flows  down  hill. 
According  to  the  speech-gospel  of 
Fra  Lamb,  which  is  absolutely  sane, 
he  advocates  the  following:  refrain 
from  imitating  these  unfortunates, 
as  it  but  adds  to  their  cup  of 
bitterness,  which  is  already  over- 
flowing; that  imitation  of  their 
efforts  is  the  height  of  cruelty,  and 
frequently  makes  the  unfortunate 
resort  to  self-destruction;  that  the 
disorder  retards  education:  that 
even  though  they  do  acquire  an 
education,  it  is  i>ractically  worthless, 
as  they  will  be  compelled  to  accept 
some  obscure  position  where  knowl- 
edge is  really  a  hindrance. 
Mr.  Lamb  rightly  maintains  that 
the  corrective  task  should  begin  at 
home.  The  mother  is  teacher  by 
divine  right.  The  child  is  her  other 
self.  The  intimate  relation  between 
mother  and  child  is  a  matter  that 
can  not  be  delegated  to  others. 
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stammerer  is  usually  above  the 
average  in  mental  activity,  averring 
that  what  is  lost  in  speech  is  gained 
in  intellect «»  «» 

It  was  just  yesterday  that  we  dis- 
covered that  a  portion  of  the  brain 
controls  speech  the  same  as  other 
functions.  Stanunering  is  a  mental 
difficulty,  caused  through  lack  of 
co-ordination  between  mind  and 
matter.  Its  corrections  turn  upon 
psychology,  but  not  psychology 
only  «►  «► 

Optimistic  of  course,  yet  Mr.  Lamb 
took  us  for  a  little  journey  into  the 
future,  predicting  more  stammerers 
than  ever,  especially  in  America, 
due  to  our  complex  lives.  Whether 
he  is  a  prophet  or  not,  we  really 
can  not  say.  However,  none  dared 
to  dispute  his  opinion.  Inddently 
he  mentioned  that  one  of  the  best 
places  to  lead  the  quiet,  sober  life 
was  in  East  Aurora,  and  here  none 
disputed  his  wisdom. 
Mr.  Lamb  is  a  teacher  of  these 
unfortunates  by  divine  right.  His 
success  came  only  after  he  had 
passed  through  the  valley  of  the 
shadow  of  death.  His  system  is 
foimded  upon  love  and  good-cheer. 
When  Mr.  Lamb  passes  out,  his 
system  will  go  with  him.  There  is  no 
need  to  peddle  his  services.  They  are 
not  for  sale,  save  as  you  go  to  Pitts- 
burgh and  become  part  of  his  house- 
hold. He  supplies  an  atmosphere 
wherein  thought  can  grow,  and  re- 


sults are  as  sure  as  night  follows  day. 
He  sajrs  that  while  we  may  not  be 
our  brother's  keeper,  we  can  at 
least  be  his  helper.  That  we  should 
strew  acts  of  kindness  along  life's 
pathway  for  the  stammerer,  and 
our  joy  shall  be  full.  And  judging 
from  Mr.  Lamb's  enthusiasm,  he 
surely  derives  an  abundance  of 
happiness  from  assisting  these 
imfortunates  «»  «» 
A  close  student  of  Emerson  and 
Shakespeare,  he  believes  that  by 
being  true  to  yourself  you  are  true 
to  others,  and  the  reward  of  a  thing 
well  done  is  to  have  done  it.  He 
belongs  to  the  tribe  of  Abou  Ben- 
Adhem,  he  loves  his  fellowmen. 
Mr.  Lamb  is  a  stickler  for  Nature. 
He  says  the  further  you  wander 
from  her  the  more  difiBcult  it  is  to 
return.  With  malice  toward  none, 
and  with  heart  filled  with  charity, 
he  cited  numerous  instances  where 
wrong  theories  have  not  only 
failed  in  their  intent,  but  have  so 
poisoned  the  minds  of  these 
sufferers  that  they  lose  confidence  in 
all.  Remain  near  the  path,  commune 
with  Nature,  draw  from  her  the 
secrets  of  the  universe.  Then  pass 
them  along  in  order  to  keep  them 
for  yourself.  This  is  Joe's  doctrine. 
C  Not  yet  turned  forty,  with  the 
fire  of  youth  coursing  through  his 
veins,  this  man  win  for  many 
years  lighten  the  stammerer's 
burden  «»  «» 


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Editor's  Note:  Bill  Reedy  comes  up  to  the  Convention  every  year  to 
get  copy  for  Reedy's  Mirror.  And  every  year  we  pinch  it  for  it  is  a 
better  report  than  we  can  write — and  besides  he  has  the  advantage  in 
that  his  is  the  more  distant  viewi>oint  «»  Bill  has  n't  any  prejudices  to 
overcome  either.  He  gave  us  a  great  speech  one  night,  which,  of  course, 
he  refuses  to  write  about.  He  told  me  he  had  no  subject  and  did  n't 
know  what  he  would  talk  about.  I£s  talks  come  out  of  the  inspiration 
he  gets  from  his  audience  «»  You  have  read  the.  printed  speech  a  few 
pages  back  and  know  the  quality  of  his  audience.  So,  here  *s  what  he 
"reflected"  about  the  Convention,  and  printed  in  The  Mirror. — E.  H.  II, 


O- 


the  Fourth  of  July  at 
I  East  Aurora,  which  is  in 
^  Erie  Coimty ,  State  of  New 
York,  I  stood  up  with 
about  four  hundred  other  Americans 
and  sang  "  God  Save  the  King." 
I  was  surprised  that  so  many  knew 
the  song  and  went  through  with  all 
its  verses.  There  was  an  awful  col- 
lapse later  in  the  middle  of  the 
second  verse  of  **  The  Star-Spangled 
Banner."  A  few  hours  before  King 
George  of  England  had  listened  to 
the  reading  of  the  Declaration  of 
Independence  and  had  sung  the 
American  anthem,  **  Hands  across 
the  sea  " — ^whatl  Now,  I  *m  Irish 
and  the  performance  at  East 
Aurora  was  somewhat  of  a  feat  for 
me.  I  am  not  apologizing  for  it.  The 
best  of  Ireland  is  with  England. 
They  have  nothing  to  hope  for  from 
Germany.  But  I  do  hope  that  every- 


where in  this  country,  on  Sunday 
next,  the  Americans  will  sing  the 
"  Marseillaise."  We  must  not  for- 
get France.  Everybody  should  feel 
with  regard  to  France  the  thing 
so  eloquently  expressed  by  Csl. 
Roosevelt,  printed  on  the  cover  of 
this  issue  of  the  Mirror,  That  para- 
graph is  the  most  poetic  utterance 
that  has  yet  come  from  Roosevelt. 
It  has  a  quality  of  feeling  we  don't 
expect  from  him,  a  high  romantic 
tenderness  that  is  the  more  im- 
pressive because  his  speech  and 
writing  are  more  rugged  and 
thorny,  as  a  rule.  The  passage 
should  be  read  to  audiences  at  every 
celebration  of  the  fall  of  the  Bastile. 
The  taking  of  the  prison  fort 
deserves  American  celebration  for 
it  was  the  first  foreign  fruit  of 
our  Declaration  of  Independence, 
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have  had  the  Declaration  in  its 
present  form  if  Jefferson  had  not 
been  a  student  of  the  French 
philosophers  «»  «» 

^^^HE  gathering  of  the  Roy- 
^7  crofters  at  East  Aurora  this 
year  was  a  large  one.  One  woiild 
have  thought  that  the  higher  rail* 
road  rates,  the  fewer  trains,  the 
financial  and  economic  pressure 
would  have  kept  the  faithful  away» 
but  they  were  there  five  hundred 
strong  and  full  of  the  old  reverence 
for  the  founder  of  the  Roycroft 
institution.  Some  of  them  were  there 
on  their  fifteenth  annual  visit. 
Blbert  Hubbard  was  a  religion  to 
thousands  of  people;  he  is  so  yet. 
He  brought  art  to  them.  He  gave 
them  a  liberalism  of  spirit  that  has 
leavened  the  nation.  To  be  sure  he 
stopped  about  where  Ingersoll  did. 
I£s  revolt  did  n't  carry  over  into  the 
economic  and  social  field  as  did  Tom 
Paine's.  I  doubt  if  Hubbard  was  as 
Jeffersonian  as  that  oratorical 
melodist,  John  J.  Lentz  of  Ohio,  who 
ought  to  be  senator  from  that  State 
and  woiild  be  if  he  had  n't  beaten 
most  of  his  party  to  support  of 
wonoan  suffrage  and  antagonized 
them  by  his  advocacy  of  prohibition. 
Hubbard  was  too  much  a  Yankee  to 
blaspheme  business  success  but  he 
threw  bricks  at  many  a  hoary 
superstition  and  abuse  not  only  in 
religion  but  in  law  and  medicine 


and  education.  He  disseminated  a 
taste  for  good  printing  and  he 
carried  into  actual  life  some  of  the 
philosophy  of  Emerson,  with  a 
touch  of  Carlyle  and  the  canniness 
of  Franklin  and  the  humor  of 
Artemus  Ward  and  Mark  Twain. 
This  dead  man  lives. 

^pl^SE  War  is  showing  many  things 
^^  after  Hubbard's  own  heart.  It 
is  an  efficient  war.  It  is  a  war  that 
has  developed  some  toleration  for 
the  big  businessman,  whom  Hub- 
bard always  defended  and  exalted. 
It  is  a  health  war,  and  Hubbard  was 
a  health  crank  «»  His  motto  was 
"  health  Txdthout  medicine."  It 
was  n't  peace  without  victory  either. 
How  Hubbard's  heart  would  have 
swelled  had  he  heard  John  Lentz,  the 
great  organizer  of  the  Loyal  Order 
of  Moose,  describe  the  work  done 
by  the  Americans  in  France,  the 
erection  "  in  a  year  and  a  day  "  of 
ten  miles  of  docks  at  Bordeaux, 
as  fine  or  finer  than  the  dock  at 
Liverpool,  the  building  of  hundreds 
of  miles  of  railroads,  the  cutting  of 
the  ties  therefor  in  Spain,  the  trans- 
port of  a  thousand  thousand  men  to 
Europe  without  loss,  the  millions  of 
tons  of  food  and  material  that 
followed  theml  Then  there  was  the 
story  of  the  work  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A., 
the  Knights  of  Columbus,  the 
Salvation  Army,  the  Jewish  organ- 
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this  is  "getting  there  "  as  Hubbard 
preached,  it  is  doing  the  job  prop- 
erly, it  is  canying  the  message  to 
Garcia.  And  Hubbard  would  have 
rejoiced  to  hear  John  Lentz  and  Joe 
Mitchell  Chappie,  and  Rev.  Capt. 
W.  H.  McGillivray,  the  Presby- 
terian padre  from  St.  Thomas, 
Ontario,  telling  how  well  our  boys 
are  taken  care  of,  how  their  health 
is  better  in  the  trenches  than  it  is  at 
home,  how  there  is  no  drinking 
among  them,  how  they  are  freer  of 
sexual  diseases  than  an  equal 
number  of  their  fellows  at  home, 
what  a  good  time  they  have  be- 
tween the  times  they  are  under  fire. 
Lentz  and  Chappie  and  the  padre 
McGillivray  had  been  there.  The 
padre,  who  looks  like  a  Catholic 
priest,  had  served  in  the  hospitals. 
Lentz  and  Chappie  had  been  on 
three  fronts.  They  made  everyone 
feel  that  they  spoke  the  truth  about 
the  boys.  They  did  not  make  the  war 
out  to  be  a  picnic.  Capt.  McGillivray 
told  hospital  tales  that  made  many 
of  his  auditors  weep. 
The  war  had  hit  all  these  men  about 
the  same  way.  It  had  inspired  them 
with  faith  and  admiration  for  the 
country,  given  them  a  sense  of  the 
glory  of  manhood  and  at  the  same 
time  of  the  iniquity  of  war.  Lentz 
and  Chappie  had  banqueted  with 
prime  ministers.  Chappie  had  even 
broken  into  Buckingham  Palace  and 
interviewed  King  George.  Both  of 


them  injected  a  little  Italian  and 
French  into  their  Roy  croft  ad- 
dresses. It  went  all  right  at  East 
Aurora,  as  it  might  at  Stratford- 
atte-Bowie. 

The  boys  though  were  their  theme, 
the  dear  young,  rollicking,  serious 
boys.  What  could  we  home-stayers  , 
do  for  the  boys?  Write  them  letters, 
cheerful  letters,  lots  of  them.  That 
is  the  best  way  to  keep  up  the 
army's  morale.  Capt.  McGillivray  ^ 
emphasized  this  too.  He  had  seen 
more  of  the  hell  of  war  than  Lentz 
or  Chappie  and  told  it  beautifully,  ' 
powerfully,  but  he  and  they  were 
joyous  in  their  insistence  that  our 
boys,  all  the  bojrs,  are  good,  honest 
boys,  clean  in  soul  and  body  «» 
But  I  certainly  should  like  to  have 
seen  Lentz  and  Chappie,  both  fat 
men  like  myself,  going  along  in  those  ' 
zig-zag  trenches  with  shells  burst- 
ing over  their  heads.  They  made 
glorious  American,  Hubbardian 
speeches,  even  if  John  Lentz  did 
work  in  a  boost  for  the  Moose — not 
Roosevelt's  followers — and  for  the 
American  Insurance  Union,  a  con- 
solidation of  a  dozen  or  maybe  more 
fraternal  organizations  in  an  in- 
surance scheme  on  a  sound  old-line 
basis;  and  even  if  Joe  Mitchell 
Chappie  did  intimate  that  if  his 
hearers  wanted  to  know  all  he  ^ 
could  n't  tell  about  his  war  ex- 
periences in  the  time  allotted  to 
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his  National  Magazine — now — ^thcn 
— ^w^as  the  time  to  subscribe.  John 
Lentz  said  that  this  war  would 
end  war  and  we  would  behold  a 
Jefifersonian  consummation  in  ''  a 
free  man,  in  a  free  nation,  in  a  free 
world,"  wherein  dwelleth  righteous- 
ness. I  wish  I  shared  his  conviction 
as  I  do  his  hope.  I  think  perfection 
is  not  yet.  But  then  an  ideal  is  to 
be  aimed  at  even  if  it  be  unattain- 
able. Joe  Chappie  is  *  a  bug  on 
celebrities.  He  will  introduce  him- 
self to  anybody  and  ask  him  about 
it  iTirhile  telling  him  about  it.  This 
habit  has  made  a  celebrity  of  Joe 
himself.  He  is  a  pride  of  Boston. 
The  war  is  making  more  celebrities 
and  it  means  that  Joe  will  be 
enabled  endlessly  to  write  as  most 
pleases  him,  "mainly  about  people." 
W'estemers  may  be  interested  to 
know  that  Frank  Putnam  of  St. 
Louis,  Milwaukee,  the  North 
American  company,  and  occasion- 
ally of  the  Mirror,  was  associated 
ivith  Chappli  in  the  founding  of  the 
very  successful  National  Magazine. 
Likewise  it  is  important  to  note 
that  Joe  Chappie  looks  like  Irvin 
Cobb,  only  not  so  handsome. 

JT  NOTHER  Roycroft  cele- 
^^^*%  brant  was  Dr.  Frank  CranR. 
Everybody  knows  him.  His  edi- 
torials are  printed  in  an  hundred 
papers.  His  specialty  is  everything. 
I^othing  that  is  human  or  inhuman 


— that  it  to  say,  German — is 
foreign  to  him.  He  writes  well,  that 
is,  simply.  He 's  a  pretty  good 
radical.  I  've  read  artides  of  bis 
about  almost  every  reform  proposal 
I  ever  heard  of.  Dr.  Crane  is 
sympathetic  with  them  all.  Some  of 
them  could  n't  be  put  in  the  same 
room  without  producing  an  ex- 
plosion. He  is  an  interpreter  of 
things  he  doesn't  necessarily 
believe  in.  In  this  he  is  often  much 
like  Hubbard  was.  I  remember 
Hubbard  once  wrote  a  Little 
Journey  to  the  Home  of  Henry 
George  and  did  it  so  well  that 
Daniel  Kiefer  solidted  him  at  once 
for  a  contribution  to  the  single  tax 
campaign  fund,  and  Hubbard  re- 
plied that  he  was  for  single  tax 
only  for  purposes  of  copy;  for  the 
rest  the  blamed  thing  could  n't  be 
any  good  or  Bill  Reedy  wouldn't 
be  advocating  it.  Frank  Crane 
writes  almost  as  much  as  Arthur 
Brisbane  but  not  so  much  at  the  top 
of  his  voice  or  in  such  long-primer 
type.  He  used  to  be  a  preacher,  but 
saw  the  error  of  his  ways  and  quit, 
resigned  his  pulpit,  went  to  Europe 
on  borrowed  money,  came  back 
broke  and  took  to  writing  in  order 
to  pay  his  board.  Now  he  makes  as 
much  money  out  of  his  syndicated 
editorials  as  Walt  Mason  makes  out 
his  prose-line  poetry  of  the  common 
people,  which  is  about  $15,000  a 
year  «»  «» 


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'■  FDU  get  a  Uttle  of  everything  at 
(^  East  Aurora.  There  it  art  and 
muric  as  well.  I  don't  know  when 
I  have  heard  better  music  than  the 
piano  playing  of  liUian  Hawley 
Oearhart,  the  violin  playing  of 
Martha  Alexander,  the  soprano 
singing  of  OUve  Nevin,  of  that 
Nevin  family  that  is  justly  proud  of 
Ethelbert.  These  three  young  and 
pretty  women  supplied  the  music 
for  a  week  and  at  the  end  everybody 
wanted  more.  They  are  all  tech- 
nicians but  their  technique  is  not 
frozen  or  ossified.  They  have  feeling 
as  well  as  art.  Miss  Nevin  is  diarm- 
ing  in  her  little  introductions  to  her 
songs,  her  talks  about  the  com- 
posers. She  sings  with  enthusiasm. 
Indeed,  I  never  knew  musicians 
who  were  more  generous  in  response 
to  the  call  of  audiences.  For  other 
art  there  were  talks  by  the  painters, 
Alex  Foumier  and  Sandor  L. 
Landeau.  The  mural  decorations  of 
the  Roycroft  salon  by  Foumier  are 
among  the  very  best  examples  of 
that  kind  of  art  in  this  country. 
They  are  colorful,  not  washed-out 
as  so  many  mural  paintings  are. 
They  give  the  room  a  glow  and  they 
seem  part  of  the  nature  picture 
framed  by  the  salon  windows  on 
either  side  of  the  hall.  Foumier's 
studio  is  a  hang-out  for  many 
during  Roycroft  week.  Mr.  Landeau 
talks  in  the  salon  and  exhibits  in 
the  chapel.  He  is  both  a  landscape 


and  figure  painter,  whose  work  has 
an  eager  intensity  with  mudi  free- 
dom and  a  fearlessness  of  color.  All 
this  I  mention  to  show  the  tone  that 
is  kept  by  the  Roycroft  establish- 
ment. It  has  n't  let  down  any  since 
Hubbard's  death.  Bert  Hubbard 
keeps  up  the  tone  of  art  and  the 
open  word.  Bert  is  making,  has 
made  good.  He  is  n't  traveling  on 
his  father's  name,  makes  no  pre- 
tense of  being  another  Fra,  is  very 
modest.  Most  Roycrofters  are  in- 
terested in  the  art  and  nature  life 
all  right  but  they  want  to  know  if 
the  shop  is  making  money.  It  is. 
Suffidentl  And  Mrs.  Bert  Hubbard 
is  a  coadjutor-manager  of  the  works , 
fully  as  efficient  as  was  Alice 
Hubbard,  and  good  to  look  upon  as 
she  walks  the  decks  like  a  sure  and 
serene  commander. 

^X  REMARKABLY  fine  thing 
7^^  at  the  Roycroft  reunion  was 
the  address  by  James  Schermerhom 
of  the  Detroit  Times,  He  talked  war 
and  the  hope  of  the  end  of  war,  but 
I  liked  his  reminiscences  of  the  days 
when  he  was  a  plebe  at  West  Point; 
his  description  in  graphic  bits  of  the 
life  there;  the  picture  of  the  fimeral 
of  General  Grant  and  a  few  felici- 
tdus  touches  about  "  Black  Jack  " 
Pershing  from  Missouri.  Before^ 
Schermerhom  came,  Mr.  Joseph 
Lamb  talked  about  human  speech. 
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He  told  how  to  cure  stammering  and 
it  was  as  interesting  as  S.  M.  New- 
ton's cowlogy  on  milk  and  its 
general  beneficence.  Now  Schermer- 
hom  has  a  flow  of  speech  as  smooth 
as  .creamy  milk»  and  harkening 
unto  him  you  'd  never  think  there 
was  such  a  thing  in  the  world  as 
stammering  «»  A  Schermerhom 
speech  is  the  slickest,  smoothest 
sp»eech  you  ever  heard;  never  a 
knock  in  tiv  talk-cylinders.  Entirely 
effortless.  All  this  as  to  manner — as 
to  matter,  it  *s  the  good  stuff  of  the 
new  Americanism.  Schermerhom 
sees  the  war  as  a  purification,  but 
-we  '11  have  to  watch  it  none  the  less, 
so  it  won't  sidetrack  lis  from  our 
progress  toward  better  civics.  I 
should  say  that  Schermerhom  is  the 
biggest  man  in  Detroit.  I  '11  bet  he  's 
the  pleasingest  either  in  private  or 
on  the  platform. 

What?  Schermerhom  bigger  than 
Henry  Ford?  Yes.  Hy.  Ford  is  in  a 
sort  of  eclipse.  That 's  what  he  gets 
for  getting  into  politics,  though  he 
hasn't  got  in  very  deep.  Chase 
Osbom  sajrs  openly  that  Ford  is  n't 
fit  to  be  Michigan's  senator,  that 
Ford  has  said  that  there  's  a  revel 
of  profiteering  at  Washington 
among  the  doUar-a-year  men,  and 
Wilson  knows  it;  that  Ford  broke 
his  pledge  to  help  out  Olivet  College 
with  an  endowment;  that  Ford  sent 
a  lot  of  professors  to  Europe  to 
collect  peace  data  and  then  suddenly 


stopped  their  pay  and  left  them 
high  and  dry;  that  Ford's  son  tried 
to  evade  the  draft,  and  his  exemp- 
tion daim  is  still  hanging  fire;  that 
Ford  promised  to  turn  his  plant  over 
to  the  government  for  nothing,  but 
gathered  in  government  work  in- 
stead; that  Ford  is  n't  eligible  to  the 
senatorship  because  he*  is  interested 
in  government  contracts;  that 
Ford's  philanthropy  would  be  all 
ris^t  if  it  did  n't  involve  his  system 
of  snooping  into  the  home  lives  of 
his  workmen.  This  is  a  big  indict- 
ment. One  would  n't  have  thought 
it  possible  five  years  ago.  It  all 
comes  of  his  coming  out  for  senator. 
He  says  President  Wilson  asked  him 
to  do  so.  As  showing  what  some 
people  think  of  Ford,  there  are 
people  in  Michigan  who  think  that 
President  Wilson  did  no  such  thing. 
They  don't  believe  Henry  even 
when  he  has  other  people  say  things 
for  him.  Over  in  Detroit  they  say 
that  Henry  finally  won't  run  for  the 
Senate.  Other  men  make  up  his 
mind  for  him,  and  they  are  against 
his  running.  They  will  stop  his 
candidacy  when  Ford's  plant  has 
had  enough  advertising  out  of  it. 
The  senatorship  boom  is  on  a  par 
with  the  peace-ship  expedition.  It  is 
press-agenting,  conducted  by  Ford 
retainers.  From  all  of  which  it 
appears  that  outside  of  automobile- 
making  Henry  is  not  an  intellectual 
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good  one-man  Ford  boat  to  fight 
submaiinet.  Wherever  there  are 
Detroiters  there  is  talk  of  Ford.  A 
diarming  widow  from  the  Straits 
Town  heard  me  discussing  him  and 
she  was  surprised  that  I  was 
interested  in  him.  **  Do  you  know," 
she  said,  "  I  've  never  ridden  in  a 
Ford  in  my  life."  If  only  Henry 
could  have  heard  that  I  'm  sure  he  'd 
place  his  hand  on  his  heart  and 
exclaim,  "  What's  the  use?  " 

-■^OR  variety  there's  no  place  to 
^IT^  beat  East  Aurora.  The  country 
round  about  is  very  beautiful  for 
tramping  or  automobiling  «»  And 
after  I  'd  been  over  it  one  after- 
noon I  heard  Ernest  Thompson- 
Seton  the  next  nK>ming  talk  of 
"  Woodcraft."  No  one  knows  more 
about  it,  as  you  know  from  his 
books.  But  you  should  hear  him 
talk  about  poison-ivy  or  toadstools, 
or  the  primitive  making  of  pottery. 
He  says  he  never  saw  an  American 
wild  animal  that  would  attack  a  man. 
You  should  see  him  describe  his 
experiences  in  photographing  a  bull 
of  a  prize  English  herd.  And  you 
can  hear  the  old  bull  bellowing  as  he 
charges  the  yoimgster  who  has 
challenged  his  supremacy.  Honestly, 
as  Thompson-Seton  goes  on,  you 
get  as  good  a  thrill  as  you  could  out 
of  a  bull-fight.  Best  of  it  is  that 
there  's  humor  thrown  in.  And  if 
ever  you  are  around  where  Thomp- 


son-SetOQ  is  just  make  him  tell  you 
the  story  of  "Little  Burnt  All 
Over,"  the  Indian  Cinderella.  I  saw 
and  heard  him  hold  three  hundred 
people  in  a  happy  hush  for  thirty 
minutes  with  it  and  when  he  finished 
everybody  got  up  and  shook  hands 
and  the  kiddies  danced  around  him, 
and  John  Barrett,  of  the  Bureau  of 
South  American  Republics  got  up 
and  made  a  speech  saying  the 
Thompaon-SetOQ  story  made  him 
a  boy  again.  It  did  the  same  for  me. 
Thompaon-Seton's  **  Woodcraft " 
cult  is  a  great  thing  for  man-making. 
It  starts  a  boy  off  with  an  interest 
that  will  never  die.  It  gives  him  an 
inexhaustible  fund  of  pleasure  and 
enlarges  his  sympathies.  I  mentioned 
John  Barrett  above.  He  talked  too. 
He  knows  all  about  South  America. 
It 's  a  wonder  land.  And  it  is  just 
getting  friendly  with  us.  I  'm  sure 
he  didn't  tell  all  he  knows  about 
Mexico  and  Mr.  Carranza.  But 
he  assured  us  that  the  Monroe 
Doctrine  was  safe,  though  I  im- 
agine it  will  have  to  be  revised 
somewhat  «»  John  Barrett  is  a 
pleasing  talker.  He  doesn't  mean 
it  at  all,  but  you  get  the  idea 
somehow  that  he's  the  proprietor, 
as  it  were,  of  Latin  America. 

Militarism  must  be  shorn  of  its 
buttons,  clipped  of  its  power,  in 
order  that  men  may  work,  and 
work  in  peace. — Elbert  Hubbard, 


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The  Dangers  of  Stomach  Acidity 
and  Fermentation 


By  R.  W.  LOCKWOOD 


Eugene  Chbistian 


If  I  wdre  asked 
to  sound  a  health 
warning  t^at  would 
be  of  the  greatest 
possible  benefit  to 
mankind,  I  should 
say  emphatically 
"  Beware  of  acid 
stomach."  For  acid 
stomach  is  the  cause 
of  fermentation 
which»  bad  enough 
in  Jtself ,  is  the  forerunner  of  a  hundred 
ills  that  sap  the  energy  and  vitality 
of  its  victims.  I  venture  to  say  that 
ninety  per  cent  of  all  sickness  starts 
with  acid  stomach. 

Nature  provides  hydrochloric  acid 
as  one  of  the  digestive  fluids,  but  too 
much  of  this  acid  causes  fermentation, 
hurries  the  food  out  of  the  stomach 
and  carries  the  acid  all  through  the 
body.  As  a  consequence,  poisons 
(toxins)  are  formed  which  are  absorb- 
ed into  the  blood  causing  autointoxi- 
cation, nervousness,  mental  depres- 
sion and  countless  ills  of  which  this 
is  only  the  beginning. 

Every  one  of  the  vital  organs  in 
time  becomes  affected — the  heart,  the 
liver,  the  kidneys,  the  intestines,  the 
nerves  and  the  brain  all  decline,  for 
the  stomach  is  the  Power  Plant  of  the 
body.  Even  the  teeth  are  affected  by 
acid  stomach,  for  the  gums  recede  and 
pyorrhoea  will  be  the  result. 

Stomach  remedies  only  neutralize 
the  acid  because  they  are  stronger 
than  the  acid.  This  ultimately  ruins 
the  lining  of  the  stomach.  The  acid 
being  neutralized  is  absorbed  into  the 


blood  only  to  come  back  to  the 
stomach  in  greater  quantities  at  the 
next  meal. 

How  much  more  sensible  would  it 
be  to  attack  this  disorder  at  its  source. 
Instead  of  attempting  to  neutralize 
the  acid  after  it  has  formed,  why  not 
prevent  it  from  forming  in  the  first 
place? 

Superacidity  is  caused  by  wrong 
eating  and  the  remedy  must  be  found 
in  the  field  of  the  cause — in  eating 
correctly. 

The  individual  sufferer  from  indi- 
gestion acidity,  fermentation,  ^as  and 
such  disorders  has  not  carried  his 
experiments  with  food  very  far.  If  he 
had  he  could  easily  cure  himself  as 
Eugene  Christian,  the  famous  food 
scientist,  has  proved  beyond  all  doubt. 

The  reason  which  led  Eugene 
Christian  to  take  up  the  study  of 
food  in  the  first  place  was  because 
he  himself,  as  a  young  man,  was  a 
great  sufferer  from  stomach  and 
intestinal  trouble. 

So  acute  was  his  a£9iction  that  the 
best  specialists  of  the  day,  after  every- 
thing within  their  power  had  failed, 
gave  him  up  to  die.  Educated  for  a 
doctor  himself.  Christian  could  get  no 
help    from    his    brother    physicians. 

Believing  that  wrong  eating  was 
the  cause  and  that  right  eating  was 
the  only  cure,  he  took  up  the  study  of 
foods  and  their  relation  to  the  human 
system.  What  he  learned  not  only 
restored  his  own  health  in  a  remark- 
ably short  space  of  time,  but  has  been 
the  means  of  relieving  some  25,000 
other  men  and  women  for  whom  he 


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has  preBcribed  with  almost  invariable 
success,  even  though  most  of  them 
went  to  him  as  a  last  resort. 

Christian  says  that  all  stomach  and 
intestinal  disorders  with  their  count- 
less sympathetic  ills — are  caused  by 
wrong  selections  and  wrong  combina- 
tions of  food  and  that  right  combi- 
nations of  food  will  positivelv  remove 
every  stomach  and  intestinal  disorder 
by  removing  its  causes. 

No  one  would  think  of  putting  salt 
into  an  open  wound,  and  yet  we  do 
worse  than  that  when  we  keep  putting 
irritating  acid-creating  food  combi- 
nations into  our  stomachs  already 
surcharged  with  acid. 

Christian  believes  in  good  foods 
deliciously  cooked — the  kind  all  of  us 
like  best  and  which  may  be  obtained 
at  any  home  store,  hotel  or  restaurant. 
He  says  that  most  of  the  things  we  eat 
are  all  right — but  that  we  do  n't  know 
how   to   combine   or   baladce   them. 

Often,  one  good  food  in  itself,  when 
combined  with  another  equally  good 
food;  produces  an  acid  reaction  in  the 
stomach;  whereas  either  of  the  foods 
alone  or  eaten  in  combination  with 
some  other  food  would  have  been 
easily  and  perfectly  digested. 

Unfortunately,  each  food  we  eat  at 
a  meal  is  not  digested  separately. 
Instead,  all  of  the  foods  we  combine 
at  the  same  meal  are  mixed  and  digest- 
ed together.  Consequently,  if  we  eat 
two  or  more  articles  at  the  same  meal 
which  don't  go  well  together,  there  is 
sure  to  be  acidity,  fermentation,  gas 


and  all   kinds  of  digestive  trouble. 

At  Eugene  Christian's  New  York 
office  there  is  a  constant  stream  of 
men  and  women  who  go  to  him  for 
treatment  after  having  tried  every- 
thing else,  and  rarely  are  they  disap- 
pointed in  the  outcome.  Some  of  the 
results  he  has  attained  read  like  fairy 
tales.  I  know  of  a  number  of  instances 
where  his  rich  patrons  have  been  so 
grateful  for  their  restoration  of  health 
and  energy  that  they  have  sent  him 
checks  for  $500  or  $1,000  in  addition  to 
the  amount  of  the  bill  when  paying  it. 

There  have  been  so  many  inquiries 
from  all  parts  of  the  United  States 
from  people  seeking  the  benefit  of 
Eugene  Christian's  advice  and  whose 
cases  he  is  unable  to  handle  person- 
ally that  he  has  written  a  course 
of  little  lessons  which  tell  you  exactly 
what  to  eat  in  order  to  overcome  the 
ailment    which    is    troubling     you. 

These  lessons,  there  are  twenty- 
four  of  them,  contain  actual  menus 
for  breakfast,  luncheon  and  dinner, 
curative  as  well  as  corrective,  cover- 
ing all  conditions  of  health  and  sick- 
ness, including  stomach  acidity, 
constipation  and  all  intestinal  dis- 
orders from  infancy  to  old  age  and  all 
occupations,  climates  and  seasons. 
They  also  tell  you  how  to  reduce  and 
how  to  gain. 

If  you  would  like  to  examine  these 
24  Little  Lessons  in  Corrective 
Eating  simply  write  The  Corrective 
Eating  Society,  Inc.,  Dept,  179.  443 
Eourth  Avenue,  New  York  City. 


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/  beg  to  say  that  a  canvass  of  all 
the  leading  News  Dealers  shows 
The  ROYCROFT  to  be  practi- 
ccMy  aU  sold  out  in  Denver,  The 
comments  of  the  dealers  are 
good.  We  are  sending  an  in- 
creased order,  (for  the  October 
issue). — F.  J.  Arnold,  Manager, 
Colorado  News  Company. 

First  issue  ROYCROFT  maga- 
zine received— do  not  like  it  as 
well  as  The  Fra.  Why  not  let  well 
enough  alone? 
Floyd  Palmer,  Kingston,  N.  Y. 

It's  surely  a  hummer,  a  real 
1918  Model,  perfect  Yacht  Body. 
I  really  like  it  better  than  either 
of  the  old  ones. 

W.  H.  Hart,  Salem,  N.  Dak. 

I  have  always  been  an  ardent 
advocate  of  the  pocket-size  mag- 
azine and  booh—therefore  wel- 
come most  heartily  the  change  in 
The  Fra*s  make-up.— Robert  H. 
G.  Smeltzer,  Philadelphia, 

Perhaps  when  the  newness  of 
the  latest  arrival  wears  off  I  wUl 
like  it  better.  Wishing  you  suc- 
cess in  this  new  venture. 
—A.  E.  Voight,  East  Grand 
Forks,  Minn. 


If  one-half  of  the  publications 
clamoring  for  recognition  were 
mercifully  chloroformed,  readers 
of  the  surviving  print  would  be 
just  as  well  off.  The  new  ROY- 
CROFT  wHl  receive  a  hearty 
welcome,  but  it  wHl  have  to  make 
a  place  for  itself. — J.  R.  Kathrens, 
West  Milton,  Ohio. 

I  am  just  in  receipt  of  the  first 
issue  of  ROYCROFT.  //  is  quite 
a  blow  to  have  The  Fra  taken 
from  us,  but  if  ifou  can  give  us  a 
better  rrutgazine,  which  will  be 
some  task,  we  wUl  welcome  the 
ROYCROFT.— IF.  H.  Meyer, 
Loyal,  Wisconsin. 

Hooray  for  the  ROYCROFT. 
I'm  keen  for  it,  'cause  it's 
printed  in  the  same  classy  style, 
fits  my  pocket  snugly,  and 
Felicitations  are  stUl  in  it.  More 
power  to  you. — Ed  Wanner, 
Columbus,  Ohio. 

Received  the  ROYCROFT  , 
today.  I  like  it  very  much.  One 
reason  perhaps  is  because  it 
rerrdnds  me  so  much  of  The 
Philistine.— i4dc/c  Hudnut, 
Philadelphia,  Pa. 


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The  ROYCROFT  is  just  the 
thing,  and  a  great  improvement 
on  The  Fra.  Congratulations  to 
you  and  Felix,  ROYCROFT 
should  have  a  mUlion  circulation 
ere  the  year  goes  out. 

Wutiam  Sidzer,  New  York. 

When  I  spied  the  ROYCROFT 
at  the  news-stand  this  afternoon, 
Ifjdt  as  though  I  had  met  an  okt 
friend. — Harold  B.  Franklin, 
Buffalo,  N.  Y. 

ROYCROFT  is  a  master  stroke. 
Lang  may  it  wave. — Leigh  Mit- 
ch^ Hodges,  Doylestown,  Pa. 

Welcome  the  coming,  speed  the 
parting  guest!  The  Fra  was  good, 
very  good,  but  ROYCROFT  is 
hetter.-^Eber  W.  Gurley,  M.D., 
Cleveland,  Ohio. 

It  is  a  typographical  beauty.  So 
was  The  Fra.  /  miss  the  many 
quotations  from  great  people. 
— James  B.  Murphy,  Philadel- 
phia.  Pa. 

lam  not  pleased  with  the  change, 
as  I  feel  sure  the  style  of  maga- 
zine will  not  be  as  popular  trith 
the  reading  public  as  The  Fra. 
—JohnF.  WhiUey,  Winnfield,La. 

IJike  the  ROYCROFT!  The 
Fra  always  rather  awed  me;  tfds, 
its  offspring,  is  companionable. 
Good  luck!  And  do  keep  right  on 
"speaking  out  in  meeting." — 
Harold  W.  Hawk,  Department 
of  Rhetoric,  Wabash  College, 
CrawfordsviUe,  Indiana. 


The  ROYCROFT  has  arrived. 
Like  all  that  comes  from  the 
house  ^  Hubbard,  it  is  excel- 
lent. — Charles  A.  Pearce,  New 
York. 

It  is  with  a  feeling  of  regret  that 
I  learn  that  The  Fra  is  to  be  no 
more.  It  had  a  place  as  a  publi- 
cation that  I  am  sure  none  other 
can  quite  fill,  and  I  had  come  to 
look  forward  each  month  for 
what  I  considered  the  most  beau- 
tiful magazine  in  America.  Why 
couldn't  the  ROYCROFT  have 
taken  the  place  of  The  Phitistine 
and  The  Fra  continued? — B.  B. 
Holland,  County  Agent,  AmarUlo 
Texas. 

Great  idea,  the  ROYCROFT! 
While  The  Fra  was  good,  be- 
cause of  the  characteristic  East 
Aurora  spirit  underneath  it,  yet 
in  size  it  was  a  distortion,  a  mis- 
fit, a  rift  in  the  Roycroft  lute. 
Note  I  don't  spell  it  with  a 
double  o.  This  new  pocket-size 
publication  is  exactly  the  right 
thing.— Strickland  GUlilan,  Ro- 
land Park,  Md. 

Why,  Felix,  I  did  not  know  that 
such  a  thing  as  the  ROYCROFT 
had  ever  been  conceived.  The 
birth  must  have  followed  the 
conception  in  a  very  short  time. 
Who  IS  the  mother  of  this  chUd? 
— W.  B.  MacBride,  Cleveland, 
Ohio. 

Congratulations  on  the  new 
litae-big  ROYCROFT.  //  packs 
a  migh^  wallop. — Karl  William 
Kessler,  Magazine  and  News- 
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The  ROYCROPT  magazine  is 
just  right:  right  in  size,  right  in 
frice,  and  the  rifht  kind  &  stuff 
IS  in  it.  It's  a  big  drive  forward 
and  I  conaratulate  you, — Frank. 
A,  Handshue,  Medina,  Ohio. 

A  sense  of  relief,  the  change  an 
excellent  one.  It  touches  the  spot. 
Introduction  good.  And  we  are 
heart  and  soul  with  you,  with 
Shay,  with  Roy  cr of  He. — William 
Urklsay,  Idaho  Falls,  Idaho. 

WhUe  it  can  never  be  exactly 
what  The  Philistine  was,  it  more 
nearly  meets  my  needs  than  the 
larfer  magazine  did,  as  I  can  slip 
it  into  my  pocket  and  enjoy  its 
spicy  articles  inintervals  between 
engagements. — G.  A.  Van  Wag- 
enen,  M.D.,  Newark,  N.  J. 

I  rejoice — I  don't  know  why — 
maybe  it 's  the  size,  or  style — or 
like  as  not  the  cover — at  any 
rate  it  is  more  Roycroftie  than 
The  Fra  has  been  in  the  past  two 
years,  and  I  rejoice. — E.  M. 
Davis,  ML  Vernon,  N.  Y. 

Words  on  paper  can  not  express 
my  happiness  upon  receiving  the 
small-sized  ROYCROFT  maga- 
zine.— M.  Annette  Pelham,  M. 
D.,  New  York. 

Personally,  "I  am  tickled  to 
death  ";  though  I  must  say  that 
long  ages  will  elapse  before 
another  REAL  Elbert  Hubbard 
breaks  into  our  mental  pleasure- 
house.  — Dr.  Grant  Mitchell, 
Pittsburgh,  Pa. 


I  am  pleased  that  you  have 
changed,  not  ordy  the  size  of 
your  magazine  but  the  general 
rrmke-up  of  the  same.  Tell  Felix 
Shay  that  his  editorials  are  fine, 
but  I  for  one  of  his  honored 
admirers  would  some  time  like  to 
read  something  of  a  humorous 
nature  written  by  our  friend 
Felix.— Hervry  E.  Bordtz,  WU- 
nungton,fN.  C. 

The   first    number    of    ROY- 
CROPT has  come  to  hand,  and 
am  pleased  to  say  it  is  t^  to  the 
Roycroft  standard. 
E.  H.  Taylor,  Jr.,  Frankfort,  Ky. 


I  have  just  finished 
Edison's  **  Oversleeping  and 
Overeating  "  in  your  September 
ROYCROFT,  and  if  the  next 
eleven  copies  come  to  me  blank 
— like  your  fathefs  Essay  on 
Silence — I  wm  have  my  money's 
worth. — C.E.  Leeboid,  Berkley, 
California. 

I  have  been  a  steady  reader  of 
The  Philistine  and  The  Fra,  arui 
I  expect  to  continue  as  a  literary 
devotee  of  the  ROYCROFT. 
/  do  miss  the  Literary  Land- 
marks in  your  new  publication. 
—Karl  S.  Batts,  Kansas  City. 

The  looks  of  the  rrmgazine  are  all 
that  could  he  desired.  I  shall  be 
glad  to  know  if  there  is  wkle- 
spread  approved  of  the  change. 
ROYCROFT  is  aU  right  in  its 
suggestion  of  revivification  of 
The  Philistine. — WHaam  Marion 
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most  heertQy  and  sincerely  con- 
gratulate you  on  your  newpubU- 
cation,  ROYCROFT.— /.  E. 
IngersoU,  Concord,  N.  H, 

I  like  it  very  much,  hut  of  course 
/mis<  The  Pra.  I  am  sure  though 
that  I  will  learn  to  love  the 
ROYCROFT  as  well—Mrs.  E. 
A.  Bwkart,  Peoria,  lU. 

Have  Just  received  the  new  baby 
ROYCROFT.  /  don't  see  how 
you  cotdd  have  done  better.  It 
looks  to  be  everything  it  should 
be  and  nothing  it  shouldn't. 
—Fred  L.  Seely,  AshevUle,  N.  C. 

The  new  magazine,  stiU  con- 
tairdng  the  good  stuff  on  current 
subjects,  has  an  added  advan- 
tage in  its  size.  It  can  be  slipped 
into  a  pocket  and  read  bit  by  bit 
at  odd  moments  spent  in  travel- 
ing about.  The  ROYCROFT 
magazine  is  quite  to  my  liking. 
— A.    B.    Smith,    Chicago,    lU. 

Stuff  that  passed  over  my  head 
in  clear  pica  type  is  simfly 
ununderstandable  in  nonpanel. 
Were  I  a  subscriber  to  your  mag 
I  would  cancle  my  subscription. 
But,  it  being  sent  me  by  friends 
the  best  I  can  do  in  a  way  of 
protest  is  to  say  "Shucks!" 
— Edgar  Sherman,  Trinidad,  Col. 

The  name  ROYCROFT  should 
be  profitable.  The  size  is  just 
right.  The  brown  paper  and  stuff 
inside  are  worthy  of  the  hero 
whomlam  glad  of  having  known. 
—£.  S.  Bundt,  Chicago,  III. 


Congratulations  to  you  on  the 
new  ROYCROFT.  /( is  certairdu 
the  ticket— I  can  take  this  with 
me  wherever  I  go  and  read  it 
wherever  I  am.  Not  a  word  will 
escape  me  from  cover  to  cover. 
—T.  J.  Dykema,  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 

I  have  just  read  the  new  maga- 
zine. It  is  not  bad.  You  are  grow- 
ing some  however,  and'  I  am 
pleased  to  note  it. — O.  P. 
Williams,  Milwaukee,  Wis. 

I  do  twt  like  it.  It  has  the  ap- 
pearance of  an  almanac  or  patent 
medicine  advertisement.  It  has 
lost  its  dignity.  It  is  a  cheap  imi- 
tation, you  have  destroyed  the 
ideal.  The  picture  is  turned  to  the 
Wtill.  I  am  truly  sorry. — R.  O. 
BrasweU,  Surgeon,  Fort  Worth. 

In  my  own  personal  instance  the 
new  form  brings  about  a  big  con- 
venience, as  I  am  very  partial  to 
"side-pocket"  publications.  The 
Fra  was  of  great  value  to  me  but 
ROYCROFT  iotK  be  of  more, 
—F.   H.  Fay,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 

For  Heaven's  sake  give  us  back 
the  dear  and  beautiful  Fra. 
ROYCROFT  is  not  and  can  not 
be  successor  to  The  Fra. — H.  F. 
Bowman,  Bourbon,  Indiana. 

I  do  miss  the  Literary  Landmarks. 
Here 's  much  success  to  ROY- 
CROFT. When  my  present  sub- 
scription expires  fiease  notify 
me  and  you  can  have  my  dollar 
for  another  year  of  The  Fra's 
successor. — Vrost  Orton,  Athol, 
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Why  is  the  Large  Intestine 
Five  Feet  Long? 


BVEBY  remarkable  book,  "Colon 
Cleanliness,"  has  recently  been 
published  and  is  being  distrib- 
uted gratis  by  Martin's  Method.  Inc. 
Written  by  an  authority,  this  book  dis- 
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rative— ^what  has  been  called  "Nature's 
big  mistake,"  the  large  intestine  in  man. 
Scientists  now  agree  that  poisons  ema- 
nating from  the  large  intestine  are 
responsible,  directly  or  indirectly,  for 
many  of  the  diseases  to  which  mankind 
IS  heir.  This  book  therefore  possesses  a 
tremendous  interest  to  every  man  and 
woman. 

Few  people  realize,  this  book  points 
out,  that  the  large  intestine  —  coiled 
around  in  a  small  space  in  the  abdomen 
— is  tmuiUy  at  least  five  feel  long.  It  is, 
in  a  sense,  a  long  exhaust  pipe  for  the 
body.  The  waste  matter  of  our  food 
reaches  it  in  a  semi-liquid  state.  The 
function  of  the  large  intestine  is  to  ex- 
tract the  liquid  from  this  matter>  and 
to  discharge  the  residue  from  the  body. 
This  long  exhaust  pipe  works  by  a  series 
of  muscle-contractions  along  its  five- 
foot  length. 

Too  Much  for  Lazy  Muscles 

But  very  often  these  muscles  work 
improperly.  They  are,  in  plain  words, 
lossy.  They  are  so  lazy  that  they  are 


incapable  of  pushing  along  the  waste 
matter  a  distance  of  five  feet.  The  result 
is  that  the  colon  gets  clogged.  It  then 
becomes  a  veritable  nest  of  decomposing 
matter.  Not  merely  millions,  but  bil- 
lions of  disease  germs  are  generated  in 
it.  These  are  absorbed  into  the  blood, 
and  are  carried  to  eveiy  part  of  the 
body,  producing  the  condition,  so  much 
written  about  of  late  in  medical  jour- 
nals, known  as  "auto-intoxication." 

"Colon  Cleanliness"  tells,  for  the 
layman,  exactly  what  happens  to  the 
various  organs  of  the  body  when  this 
condition  occurs.  It  is  an  ^mazing 
narrative.  Science,  like  a  detective,  has 
now  traced  many  diseases  to  the  clogged 
condition  of  the  large  intestine.  Indi- 
rectly and  directly  the  lazy  large  intes- 
tine causes  more  illness;  kills  more 
people ;  affects  our  health,  our  happiness, 
and  our  efficiency  more  vitally  than  all 
the  other  organs  of  the  body  put  to- 
gether. 

How  Nature  Made  the  Mistake 

Professor  Elie  Metchnlkoff,  in  the 
great  work  in  which  he  first  pointed  out 
the  method  and  effects  of  auto-intoxi- 
cation, has  an  interesting  theory  about 
the  large  intestine.  Nature  made  it  so 
long,  he  theorized,  because  originally 
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and  would  have  to  run  long  distances. 
For  his  safety  it  was  necessary  to  have 
an  organ  in  which  waste  matter  could 
be  stored.  There  was,  however,  little 
danger  of  clogging  of  the  colon,  because 
continuous  natural  exercise  kept  man*8 
colon  from  being  lazy.  Its  muscles 
functioned  normally. 

The  large  intestine  which  Nature 
fashioned  was  perfectly  adapted  to  our 
former  life.  It  is  not  adapted  to  modern 
life.  Man  is  easily  the  most  inactive 
large  animal  on  earth.  He  almost  never 
walks  when  he  can  ride.  The  first  thing 
physicians  tell  him  usually,  when  he  is 
in  a  run-down  condition,  is  to  "get  out 
in  the  air  and  exercise.*'  But  many  of 
us  are  too  busy  to  exercise ;  and  still 
more  of  us,  when  we  exercise,  exercise 
the  wrong  muscles.  The  most  important, 
the  most  vital  muscles  to  exercise  are 
those  of  the  large  intestine,  for  the 
simple  reason  that  those  muscles  cause 
more  trouble  by  their  laziness  than  all  the 
other  lazy  muscles  put  together. 

Mao's  Ingenuity  to  the  Rescue 

**  Colon  Cleanliness,"  after  describing 
minutely  the  problem  of  the  large  in- 
testine— as  discussed  by  many  scientific 
authorities — deals  with  a  new  invention 
that  is  now  used  to  combat  the  laziness 
of  the  large  intestine.  This  is  a  simple 
contrivance  which  does  nothing  else  but 
exercise  the  large  intestine.  It  wakes 
the  large  intestine  to  its  job.  It  is  called 
the  Kolon  Motor,  and  is  a  very  simple 
device,  since  it  can  be 'operated  by  a 


child.  Observations  of  its  effect  in  hos-  ' 
pitals  and  by  private  physicians  show 
remarkable  results.  One  merely  puts  the 
Kolon  Motor  on  a  door  or  wall,  leans 
up  against  it  and  turns  the  handle  for 
a  few  minutes.  The  face  rotates  with  a 
scientific  waving  motion,  which  inune- 
diately  stimulates  the  colon  and  causes 
proper  functioning.  Two  or  three  min- 
utes a  day  is  all  that  is  required. 

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The  Vital  Compelling  Force  That 
Animates  Us 

Have  You  Ever  Considered  What  It  la  That  Makes  Your  Heart  Pump— 
Your  Stomach  Digest  Tte  Food— Your  Kidneys  Perfonn  Their  Duties,  Etc., 
Etc.  Have  You  Ever  Considered  What  Keeps  You  Alive  Even— The  Answer 
Is  Nerve  Force.  Do  Not  Miss  This  Article.  Learn  How  to  Acquire  It. 
By  Stephsn  Habbiman 

DO  you  know  just  what  it  is  that  keeps  that  most  intricate  and  delicate  piece 
of  mechanism  in  the  universe,  your  body,  working  to  its  utmost  capacity, 
or  even  working  at  all  ?  If  you  are  not  already  acquainted  with  the  fact, 
you  should  learn  witlK>ut  delay  that  it  is  your  nerves  that  have  complete  control 
of  absolutely  every  process  and  function  within  your  body. 
4  Your  nerves  positively  control  every  mental  and  physical  process  taking  place 
within  you.  If  Uie  nerves  were  cut  leading  to  your  heart,  that  organ  would  never 
beat  a^in.  If  the  nerves  were  severed  leading  to  your  respiratory  organs — ^your 
breathmg  organs — ^you  could  never  breathe  again.  If  the  nerves  governing  diges- 
tion were  severed,  no  article  of  food  could  ever  again  be  transformed  into  healthy 
bone  and  tissue.  Without  the  nerves  you  would  never  see,  hear,  taste,  smell  or 
feel  again,  for  it  is  upon  the  nerves  that  every  sense  depends. 
fl  Ninety-nine  per  cent  of  all  humanity,  whether  young  or  old,  are  deficient  in 
nerve  strength,  or,  in  other  words,  nervous  energy.  If  the  action  of  every  bodily 
organ  is  directly  dependent  upon  nerve  strength  and  nerve  impulse,  it  does  not  take 
a  wise  man  to  see  that  if  the  nerves  did  not  create  Energy  upon  a  100%  basis, 
every  organ  womd  necessarily  be  weakened  to  just  the  degree  that  the  nerves  are 
below  par. 

4  No  man  has  ever  succeeded  in  business  to  any  unusual  degree,  no  man  has  ever 
succeeded  in  an  unusual  way  in  any  line  of  endeavor  who  did  not  possess  a 
highly  organized  and  highly  developed  nervous  system.  Did  he  not  possess  an 
unusual  amount  of  nervous  energy  he  could  never  have  the  vitality  to  carry  his 
endeavors  on  to  a  successful  conclusion. 

^  Mr.  Macfadden,  who  is  probably  the  foremost  general  physioil  culture  author- 
ity in  the  world,  says  of  Energy :  **  The  longer  and  more  Uioroughly  we  study  the 
structure  and  functions  of  the  human  body,  the  more  clear  and  absolute  becomes 
the  conviction  that  the  secret  of  human  strength  lies  in  the  nervous  system." 
4  Napoleon  said :  **  No  man  can  win  .in  the  battle  of  life  who  has  not  Courage 
and  Persistency.  These  are  impossible  where  Energy  is  lacking,  hence  Energy  is 
the  indispensable  quality  of  great  success.** 

^  Robert  Dimcan,  than  whom  there  is  no  greater  authority  in  th^s  country  on 
the  creation  of  Nerve  Force  and  Nervous  Energy,  says :  "  Nerve  Strength,  in 
short,  Nervous  Energy,  is  the  greatest  single  factor,  known  to  man  tod&y,  in 
maintaining  health  and  in  achieving  success.** . 

^  These  are  truths  that  should  become  your  daily  watchword.  Were  it  possible  to 
relate  stories  of  the  thousands,  and  perhaps  millions  of  wrecks  and  failures 
brought  about,  not  because  of  an  inferior  mentally,  but  solely  because  of  a  lade 
of  Energy  and  Vitality,  you  would  appreciate  the  value  of  this  same  vital  force 
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9  Every  great  man,  every  highly  successful  man  you  know  or  of  whom  you  have 
read  has  a  highly  devel(^^  and  a  highly  organized  nervous  system  else  it  would 
have  been  impossible  for  him  to  achieve  great  success.  Some  are  blessed  with  this 
"  gift,"  as  it  may  be  termed,  from  birth  and  others  develop  it  as  did  Roosevelt, 
Gladstone,  and  others.  **  From  a  weak  nervous  or  an  anemic  person  to  a  power- 
ful* mentally  superior  individual "  is  a  descriptive  phrase  that  might  be  applied 
to  many  of  our  best  known  men  of  today. 

9  And  you  might  be  possessed  of  muscles  as  mighty  as  Goliath's,  but  unless  those 
same  muscles  were  stimulated,  animated  and  actuated  by  that  wonderful  fabric 
of  tissue,  kno¥m  as  the  nervous  system,  these  same  muscles  would  be  as  inani- 
mate and  as  useless  so  far  as  movement  is  concerned,  as  a  rock  reposing  on  the 
hillside. 

9  If  your  nerves  are  weak,  every  organ  w«ll  be  weak  in  exact  proportion.  If  you 
are  troubled  with  a  weak  heart,  indig^ion,  a  torpid  liver,  weak  kidneys,  consti- 
pation, or  any  other  of  the  fimctional  ills  that  flesh  is  heir  to,  you  should  imme- 
diately undertake  that  which  will  insure  proper  strengUi  for  the  nerves. 
9  Owfinary  exercise,  electricity,  osteopathy,  chiropractic,  hydrotherapy,  massage, 
etc.,  have  been  advanced  from  time  to  time  as  a  means  for  the  restoration  or  the 
development  of  vitality  and  health.  There  is  a  certain  value  possessed  by  each 
of  these,  which  commends  them,  but  none  are  aimed  ^directly  at  the  real  source 
of  the  trouble,  namely  the  nerves. 

4  The  Western  Neurological  Society  is  offering  at  last  a  method  absolutely 
within  the  reach  of  every  man,  woman  and  child  in  this  CQuntry,  a  method 
whereby  you  can  realize  and  enjoy  a  degree  of  nerve  stimulation  that  can  be 
felt  within  five  minutes  after  undertaking  it.  You  can  feel  this  stimulation  in 
every  muscle  and  organ  within  your  body.  You  can  feel  the  mental  stimulus  it 
gives  inmiediately.  lliis  method  of  nerve  stimulation  is  endorsed  by  many  of  the 
leading  authorities  on  the  subject,  who  have  investigated  and  subjected  it  to 
every  test.  By  this  method  you  are  enabled  to  overcome  functional  weaknesses, 
mental  depression  and  other  disorders  without  resorting  to  drugging,  dieting  or 
objectionable  exercise.  The  method  positively  reaches  the  nervous  system  directly 
and  stimulates  it  immediately.  You  can  demonstrate  its  absolute  efficiency  in 
five  minutes. 

fl  The  Western  Neurological  Society  is  organized  for  the  physical  and  mental 
uplift  of  mankind.  They  have  experienced  the  wonderful  results  obtainable 
through  this  system  themselves  and  they  want  you  to  experience  like  results. 
Just  what  the  system  is,  how  it  operates  and  what  it  will  accomplish  are  all  told 
in  a  little  book  published  by  the  society  and  called  **  Human  Energy."  In  many 
respects  this  is  one  of  the  most  remarkable  books  ever  written,  giving  as  it  does 
concisely  and  succinctly  the  true  methods  for  the  building  and  creation  of  nervous 
energy.  All  you  need  do  is  to  write  The  Western  Neurological  Society,  468  Fourth 
Street,  San  Francisco,  Cal.,  enclosing  25c  in  stamps  or  coin,  and  the  work  com- 
plete will  be  forwarded  to  you  without  delay.  We  can  assure  you  that  nothing 
equal  to  it  has  ever  been  offered  at  ;nany  t^'mes  the  cost  and  nothing  superior  at 
any  cost. 

4  So  there  is  no  reason  why  every  man  and  woman  should  not  take  advantage 
of  this  wonderful  course  of  instruction  and  benefit  by  its  precepts.  Do  not  be  a 
slave  to  your  nerves  but  develop  them  so  that  you  may  enjoy  the  health  and 
success  that  ahotdd  be  yours. 


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tine, or  colon,  is  no  longer  able  to  elim- 
inate promptly  the  body's  waste  mat- 
ter in  which  virulent  poisons  are 
formed  and  absorbed  by  tJie  blood  «» 

Auto-intoxication  with  all  its  conse- 
quences is  the  result — ^headaches, 
backaches,  dizziness,  lassitude,  indi- 
gestion, and  their  complications — 
neurasthenia,  mental  and  physical 
exhaustion,  high  blood  pressure,  kid- 
ney and  liver  disorders,  skin  diseases, 
and  many  more  serious  maladies. 

The  sole  service  rendered  by  the  Colon 
is  Jto  receive  from  the  digestive  organs 
the  body's  waste  matter  and  to  eject 
it.  When  it  fails  promptly  and  regtUar- 
ly  to  perform  its  duty,  processes  of  pu- 
trefaction and  decay  proceed  rapidly 
in  its  contents  and  poisonous  toxins 
areTormed  and  released  into  the  blood 
by  absorption  through  the  mucous 
membranes. 

Professor  Verchow  many  years  ago 
discovered  in  making  hundreds  of  post 
mortem  examinations  of  the  colon  that 
intestinal  congestion  prevailed  imiver- 
sally  >  regardless  of  the  cause  of  death. 
Other  eminent  physicians  of  today  re- 
port exactly  the  same  conditions. 

From  these  facts  it  can  readily  be  seen 


that  the  colon  can  rightfully  be  re- 
garded as  the  seat  of  nearly  all  ail- 
ments. It  is,  in  fact,  a  very  hotbed  of 
disease,  comparable  to  a  garbage  can 
in  the  home.  Professor  Metchnikoff, 
the  famous  director  of  the  Pasteur  In- 
stitute of  Paris,  regards  colon  poisons 
as  the  direct  cause  of  premature  death. 
One  of  the  first  warnings  of  auto-intox- 
ication is  constipation  and  indigestion. 
Victims  of  chronic  constipation  are 
multiplying  with  remarkable  rapidity. 
Many  of  us  suffer  from  constipation 
without  even  knowing  it,  yet  it  is  due 
to  this  condition  known  as  intestinal 
congestion  that  so  many  of  us  are  far 
below  par  physically  and  mentally 
most  of  the  time. 

If  we  were  able  to  live  outdoors  and  to 
exercise  vigorously  every  day,  our  co- 
lons would  be  able  to  function  proper- 
ly ;  for  exercise  is  the  greatest  and  most 
satisfactory  colon  stimulant  known  «» 

To  most  of  us  this  is  not  possible.  We 
have  neither  the  time  nor  the  inclina- 
tion to  take  vigorous  exercise.  Instead 
we  dose  ourselves  with  laxative  drugs, 
mineral  waters,  and  other  nostnuns, 
with  the  result  that  while  we  get  tem- 
porary relief  we  not  only  aggravate  the 
condition,  but  find  that  repetitions  of 
the  same  dose  later  fail  to  produce  re- 
sults 9^  9^  9^ 

But  relief,  even  when  obtained,  is  not 
sufficient.  To  maintain  health  and  effi- 
ciency it  is  absolutely  of  paramount 


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day  in  iKJ  day  out  frccdooi  firoctt  Into* 
tnud  poitooSt  Slid  this  it  impotriUe 
with  lazativet. 

There  it  anew  way,  however,  to  keep 
the  coloQ  tweet  and  dean — a  way 
wfaidi  hat  the  tame  effect  at  \igorout 
ciercite,  yet  without  inconvenience  or 
time-contuming  featuret  of  ezerdte. 
And  the  retultt  are  even  better  be- 
caute  the  treatment  it  localised. 

The  principle  upon  which  thit  new 
method  it  founded  it  the  tame  at  that 
uted  in  mattage.  We  all  know  that 
mattage  hat  the  tame  effect  at  ezer- 
dte— it  ttimulatet  the  nervet  and 
ttrengthent  the  mutdet.  Colon  Mat- 
tage at  practiced  by  otteopatht  hat 
proved  wonderfully  effective. 

Thit  new  method  of  mattaging  the  co- 
lon involvet  the  ute  of  a  device  called 
the  Kolon  Motor-*a  mechanical  mat- 
teur,  the  face  of  which  it  thaped  to  fit 
over  the  colon  when  placed  againtt 
the  abdomen. 

Before  the  Kolon  Motor  wat  offered  to 
the  public  a  number  of  well  known 


acqua 
mcaitt  and  uted  it  In  thdr  practice. 
M^thout  exception  the  resukt  were 
mott  gratifying — in  fitct,  every  phy- 
ddan  who  hat  tetted  the  KcAoa 
Motor  endortet  it  mott  highly. 

Martin't  Method,  Incorporated^  Dept 
272B,  105  Eatt  30th  Street,  New  York, 
hat  prepared  a  booklet  called  IntettiB 
nal  Cleanlinett,  whidi  they  will  be 
pleated  to  tend  gratit  to  all  readers  of 
thit  magarine.  In  thit  booklet  the  Ko- 
lon Motor  it  dearly  illustrated  and  its 
application  thown.  It  also  contains  a 
tdentific  discussion  of  auto-intozica- 
tion,  and  explains  why  and  how  the 
Kolon  Motor  produces  such  assured 
results.  Letters  from  well  known  phy- 
sicians relating  their  experience  with 
the  Kokm  Motor  also  form  a  part  of 
the  book. 

There  may  be  some  who  scoff  ^t 
the  idea  of  colon  hygiene  and  its  di- 
rect rdation  to  health  and  effidency, 
but  the  wiser  ones  will  dther  write  or 
send  the  coupon  bdow  for  this  free 
book  and  learn  what  this  wonderful 
device  is  accomplishing  for  so  many 
others. 


MARTIN'S  METHOD,  INCORPORATED, 

Dept.  272-B,  105  East  30th  Street,  New  York. 

Without  any  obligation  whatsoever  on  my  part,  you  may  send  me  a'copy 
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RCNBT  HKRBKBT  KNIBBS 


I  *m  the  ramblin'  son  with  the  nenrous  feet 
That  Dever  was  made  for  a  steady  beat 

I  had  many  a  job  for  a  little  while ; 
I  've  been  on  the  bum,  and  I  've  lived  in  style ; 

But  khete  was  the  road  windin'  mile  after  mile 
And  nothing  to  do  but  go. 

So  beat  it.  Bo,  while  your  feet  are  mates ; 

Take  a  look  at  the  whole  United  States. 
Oh,  the  little  fire  and  a  pipe  at  night. 

And  up  again  in  the  momin'  bright, 

^th  nothing  but  road  and  sky  in  sight. 

And  nothing  to  do  but  go. 

Then  beat  it.  Bo,  while  the  goin'  's  good ; 

While  the  birds  in  the  trees  are  sawin*  wood. 
If  to-day  un't  the  finest  for  you  and  me. 

There 's  always  to-morrow  that 's  goin'  to  be. 
And  the  day  after  that  is  a-comin' — See ! 
And  nothing  to  do  but  go. 

So  beat  it.  Bo,  while  you  're  young  and  strong ; 

See  all  you  can,  for  it  won't  last  long. 
You  can  stop  for  only  a  little  spell 

On  the  long  gray,  joad  to  Fare-Ye-Well, 
That  leads  to  Heaven,  or  mebby — Hell 
And  nothing  to  do  but  go. 


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How  I  Raised  My  Earnings 
from  $30  to  $1000  a  Week 

Thm  Siory  ot^a  Yoang  Man's  Rmmarkabim  Rism,  at  Told  by  Himmmlf. 

2^^^HREE  yean  ago  I  was  eaming 
■  •J $30  per  week.  With  a  wife  and 
^■^two  children  to  support  it  was  a 
constant  struggle  to  make  both  ends 
meet.  We  sav^  very  little,  and  that 
only  by  sacrificing  things  we  really 
needed.  Today  my  earnings  average  a 
thuuAand  dollars  weekly.  I  own  two 
automobiles.  My  children  go  to  private 
schools.  I  have  just  purchased,  for  cash,  a 
$25,000  home.  J  go  hunting,  fishing, 
motoring,  traveling,  whenever  I  care  to, 
and  I  do  less  work  than  ever  before. 

What  1  have  done,  anyone  can  do — 
for  I  am  only  an  average  man.  I  have 
never  gone  to  college,  my  education  is 
limited,  and  I  am  not "  brilliant"  by  any 
means.  I  personally  know  at  least  a 
hundred  men  who  are  better  business 
men  than  I,  who  are  better  educated, 
who  are  better  informed  on  hundreds  of 
subjects,  and  who  have  much  better 
ideas  than  I  ever  had.  Yet  not  one  of 
them  approaches  my  earnings.  I  mention 
this  merely  to  show  that  eaming  capacity 
is  not  governed  by  the  extent  of  a  man's 
education  and  to  convince  my  readers 
that  there  is  only  one  reason  for  my 
success — a  reason  I  will  give  herein. 

One  day,  a  few  years  ago,  I  began  to 
"  take  stock  "  of  myself.  I  found  that, 
like  most  other  men,  I  had  energy, 
ambition,  determination.  Yet  in  spite  of 
these  assetsf  for  some  reason  or  other  I 
drifted  along  without  getting  anywhere. 
My  lack  of  education  bothered  me,  and 
I  had  thought  seriously  of  making 
further  sacrifices  in  order  to  better 
equip  myself  to  earn  more.  Then  I  read 
somewhere  that  but  few  millionaires  ever 
went  to  college.   Edison,   Rockefeller, 


Hill,  Schwab,  Carnegie — not*  one  of 
them  had  any  more  schooling^^than  I 
had. 

One  day  something  happened 'that 
woke  me  up  to  what  was  wrong  with  me. 
It  was  necessary  for  me  to  make'v  a 
decision  on  a  matter  which  was  of  little 
consequence.  I  knew  in  my  heart  what 
was  the  right  thing  to  do,  but  .some- 
thing held  me  back.  I  said  one  thing, 
then  another.  I  could  n't  for  the  life  ci 
me  make  the  decision  I  knew  was 
right 

I  lay  awake  most  of  that  night 
thinking  about  the  matter-^not  be- 
cause it  was  of  any  great  importance  in 
itself,  but  because  I  was  beginning  to 
discoffer  mys<^.  Along  towards  dawn  I 
resolved  to  try  an  experiment.  I  decided 
to  cultivate  my  will  power,  believing 
that  if  I  did  this  I  would  not  hesitate 
about 'making  decisions — ^that  when  I 
had  an  idea  I  would  have  sufficient  con- 
fidence in  myself  to  put  it  "over" — 
that  I  would  not  be  "  afraid  "  of  myself 
or  of  things  or  of  others. 

With  tLis  new  purpose  in  mind  I 
apphed  myself  to  finding  out  something 
more  about  the  will.  I  was  sure  that 
other  men  must  have  studied  the 
subject,  and  the  results  of  their  experience 
would  doubtless  be  of  great  value  to  me 
in  understanding  the  workings  of  my 
own  will  power.  So,  with  a  directness  ol 
purpose  that  I  had  scarcely  known 
before,  I  began  my  search. 

The  results  at  first  were  discouraging. 
WTiile  a  good  deal  had  been  written 
about  the  memory  and  other  faculties 
of  the  brain,  I  could  find  nothing  that 
offered  any  help  to  me  in  acquiring  the 


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new  power  that  1  had  hoped  might  be 
possible. 

But  a  little  later  in  my  investigation 
I  encomitered  the  works  of  Prof.  Frank 
Channing  Haddock.  To  my  amazement 
and  delight  I  discovered  that  this  emi- 
nent scientist  whose  name  ranks  with 
James,  Bergson  and  Royce,  had  ju^t 
completed  the  most  thorough  and  con- 
structive study  of  will  power  ever  made. 
I  was  astonished  to  r^d  his  statement, 
**The  will  is  just  as  susceptible  of 
development  as  the  muscles  of  the 
body! "  My  question  was  answered! 
Eageriy  I  read  further — ^how  Dr. 
Haddock  had  devoted  twenty  years  to 
this  study — ^how  he  had  so  completdy 
mastered  it  that  he  was  actually  able 
to  .set  down  the  very  exercises  by  which 
anyone  could  develop  the  will,  making  it 
a  bigger,  stronger  force  each  day, 
simply  through  an  easy,  progressive 
course  of  training. 

It  is  almost  needless  to  say  that  I  at 
once  began  to  practice  Uie  simple 
exercises  formulated  by  Dr.  Haddock. 
And  I  need  not  recount  the  extraordinary 
results  that  I  obtained  almojtt  from  the 
first  day.  1  have  already  indicated  the 
success  that  my  developed  power  of  will 
has  made  for  me. 

I  understMid  that  Prof  esw>r  Haddock's 
lessons,  rules  and  exercises  in  will 
training  have  recently  been  compiled 
and  published  in  book  form  by  the 
Pelton  Publishing  Co.  of  Meriden, 
Conn.,  and  that  any  reader  who  cares 
to  examine  the  book  may  do  so  without 
sending  any  money  in  advance.  In  other 
words,  if  after  a  week's  reading  you  do 
not  feel  that  this  book  is  worth  $3,  the 
sum  asked,  return  it  and  you  will  owe 
nothing.  Wlien  you  receive  your  copy 
for  examination  I  suggest  that  you  first 
read  the  articles  on;  the  law  of  great 
thinking;  how  to  develop  analytical 
power;  how  to  perfectly  concentrate  on 
any  subject;  how  to  guard  against 
errors  in  thought;  how  to  develop  fear- 


lessness; hb^  to  use  the  mind  in  sickness; 
how  to  acquire  a  dominating  personality. 

Some  few  doubtless  will  scoff  at  the 
idea  of  will  power  being  the  fouutam- 
head  of  wealtli,  position  and  every- 
thing we  are  striving  for,  and  some  may 
say  that  no  mere  book  can  teach  the 
development  of  the  will.  But  the  great 
mass  of  intelligent  men  and  women  will 
at  least  investigate  for  themselves  by 
sending  for  the  book  at  the  publishers' 
risk.  I  am  sure  that  any  book  that  has 
done  for  me — and  for  thousands  uf 
others — ^what  '*  Power  of  Will  **  has 
done — is  well  worth  investigating.  It  is 
interesting  to  note  that  among  the 
200,000  owners  w  ho  have  read,  used  and 
praised  "  Power  of  Will "  are  such 
projninent  men  as  Supreme  Court 
Justice  Parker;  Wu  Ting  Fang,  ex-U.  S. 
Chinese  Ambassador;  Lieut. -Gov. 
McKelvie,  of  Nebraska;  Assistant  Post- 
master-General Britt;  General  Manager 
Christeson  of  Wells-Fargo  Express  Co.; 
E.  St.  Elmo  Lewis;  Governor  Arthur 
Capper,  of  Kansas,  and  thousands  of 
others. 

As  a  first  step  in  will  training,  I 
would  suggest  immediate  action  in  this 
matter  before  you.  It  is  not  even 
necessary  to  write  a  letter.  Use  the  form 
below,  if  you  prefer,  addressing  it  to  the 
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Wilcox  Block,  Meriden,  Conn.,  and  the 
book  will  come  by  return  mail.  This  one 
act  may  mean  the  turning  point  of  your 
life,  as  it  has  meant  to  me  and  to  so 
many  others. 

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The  choice  of  his  varied 
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Why  50%  Fail  At  die  Country's  Call 

50%  of  iIm  Flower  of  America't  7011th  respondiiif  to  the 
Coostiyt  call  are  not  allowed  to  •honUler  arms  due  to 
physical  dbahilttj.  What  has  broufht  about  such  a  state 
of  affairs?  Why  the  physical  defeneracj  of  America? 

By  STBPflBif  Harbiman 

4  Speaking  editorially,  the  San  Francisco  Call  recently  $aid: 

4  Fifty  per  cent  of  the  Americans  drafted  for  service  have  turned  out  to^be 
phynodiy  unfit. 

4  These  are  the  figures  obtained  from  the  draft  machine  which  has  been  in  operation 
all  over  the  country. 

^  Fifty  per  cent  of  our  young  men  unfit  for  service!  What  did  we  expect.' 
4  Have  we  not  seen  them  in  the  streets  and  in  the  theaters,  and  in  the  schools  and 
in  the  tango  parlors,  these  well-meaning,  good-humored,  honest-hearted  boys  of 
ours?  And  have  we  not  known  by  the  very  look  of  them  that  they  were  not  the  men 
they  could  be  at  their  age? 

^  Stoop  shouldered,  narrow  chested,  the  head  with  the  forward  droop^wbat  has 
become  of  the  American  young  man  we  all  would  love  to  see  representing  us  any- 
where on  earth? 

4  What's  happened  to  him?  He  was  all  right  when  the  Spanish  war  broke  out.  He 
was  straight  enough  and  tall  enough  and  broad  shouldered  enough  in  those  days. 
What  has  come  over  him  since  then? 

4  Are  we  going  to  let  this  kind  of  degeneration  go  on  without  lifting  a  finger  to  stop 
it?  «•»  «•» 

4  Do  most  of  us  realize  that  in  the  last  ten  years  the  records  of  the  free  hospitals 
of  the  Atlantic  seaport  cities  show  that  the  boy  babies  bom  in  this  pei:iod  are  two 
mches  shorter  and  average  neariy  two  pounds  l^ss  in  weight  than  the  boys  bom  at 
these  same  institutions  twenty  years  ago? 

4  Do  we  realize  that  the  average  height  and  weight  of  the  American  high  schopl 
boy  is  going  down,  down,  down,  every  year?  iij 

9  In  London  there  is  a  special  type  of  man  known  as  the  East  End  dwarf.  He  came, 
they  say,  from  generations  of  underfeeding,  overwork,  and  th^  lack  of  f redi  air  and 
decent  surroundings. 

9  Are  we  beginning  to  breed  such  a  type  here  in  rich»  prosperous,  lavish  America? 
9  If  we  are,  what  ^ood  will  all  our  wealth  and  all  our  prosperity  do  us  uid  our  race? 
^  The  next  question  is,  what  is  the  remedy?  And  while  the  answer  cannot  be  all- 
inclusive,  the  greatest  single  bit  of  advice  that  can  possibly  be  given  is -"Look  to 
your  nerves." 

9  Do  you  know  just  what  it  is  that  keeps  that  most  intricate  and  ddicate  piece  of 
mechanism  in  the  universe,  your  body,  working  to  its  utmost  capacity,  or  even 
working  at  all?  If  you  are  not  already  acquainted  with  the  fact,  you  should  learn 
without  delay  that  it  is  your  nerves  that  have  complete  control  of  absolutely  every 
process  and  function  within  your  body. 

9  Your  nerves  positively  control  every  mental  and  physical  process  taking  place 
within  you.  If  tiie  nerves  were  cut  leading  to  your  heart,  that  organ  would  never 
beat  again.  If  the  nerves  were  severed  leading  to  your  respiratory  organs — ^your 


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breathing  orgicns —  you  could  never  breathe  again.  If  the  nerves  governing  digestion 
were  severed,  no  article  of  food  could  ever  again  be  transformed  into  healthy  bone 
and  tissue.  Without  the  nerves  you  would  never  see,  hear,  taste,  smell  or  feel  again, 
for  it  is  upon  the  nerves  that  every  sense  depends.   ^  , 

^  Ninety-nine  per  cent  of  all  humanity,  whether  young  or  old,  are  deficient  in 
nerve  strength,  or,  in  other  words,  nervous  energy.  K  the  action  of  every  bodily 
organ  is  directly  depeudent  upon  nerve  strength  and  nerve  impulse,  it  does  not  take 
a  wise  man  to  see  that  if  the  nerves  did  not  create  Energy  upon  a  100  per  cent 
basis,  every  organ  would  necessarily  be  weakened  to  just  the  degree  that  the  nerves 
are  below  par. 

9  No  man  has  ever  succeeded  in  business  to  any  unusual  degree,  no  mUn  has  ever 
succeeded  in  an  unusual  way  in  any  line  of  endeavor  who  did  not  p>ossess  a  highly 
organized  and  highly  developed  nervous  system.  Did  he  not  possess  an  unusual 
amoimt  of  nervous  energy  he  could  never  have  the  vitality  to  carry  his  endeavors 
on  to  a  successful  conclusion. 

^  If  your  nerves  are  weak,  every  organ  will  be  weak  in  exact  proportion.  If  you  are 
troubled  with  a  weak  heart,  indigestion,  a  torpid  liver,  weak  kidneys,  constipation, 
or  any  other  of  the  functional  ills  that  flesh  is  heir  to,  you  should  immediately 
undertake  that  which  will  insure  proper  strength  for  the  nerves. 
^  Ordinary  exercise,  electricitjr,  osteopathy,  chiropractic,  hydrotherapy,  massage, 
etc.,  have  been  advanced  from  time  to  time  as  a  means  for  the  restoration  or  the 
development  of  vitality  and  health.  There  is  a  certain  value  possessed  by  each  of 
these,  which  commends  them,  but  none  are  aimed  directly  at  the  real  source  of  the 
trouble,  namely  the  nerves. 

^  The  Western  Neurological  Society  is  offering  at  least  a  method  absolutely  within 
the  reach  of  every  man,  woman  and  child  in  this  country,  a  method  whereby  you 
can  realize  and  enjoy  a  degree  of  nerve  stimulation  that  can  be  felt  within  five 
minutes  after  undertaking  it.  You  can  feel  this  stimulation  in  every  muscle  and 
organ  ^ thin  your  body.  You  can  feel  Uie  mental  stimulus  it  gives  immediately. 
This  method  dt  nerve  stimulation  is  endorsed  by  many  of  the  leading  authorities 
on  the  subject,  who  have  investigated  and  subjected  itTto  every  test.  By  this  method 
y^  are  enabled  to  overcome  functional  weaknesses,  mental  depression  and  other 
disorders  without  resorting  to  drugging,  dieting  or  objectionable  exercrs'e.  The 
method  positively  reaches  the  nervous  system  directly  and  stimulates  it  imme- 
diately. You  can  demonstrate  its  absolute  efficiency  in  five  minutes. 
^  The  Western  Neurological  Society  is  organized  foi^the  physical  and  mental  up- 
lift oi  mankind.  They  have  experienced  the  wonderful  results  obtainable  through 
this  system  themselves  and  they  want  you  to  experience  like  results.  Just  what  the 
system  is,  how  it  operates,  and  what  it  will  accomplish  are  all  told  in  a  little  book 
published  by  the  Society  and  called  "  Human  Energy.  " 

^  The  Society  has  also  published  a  practical  course  in  Physical  Training  which 
deals  with  certain  fundamental  facts  pertaining  to  the  strengthening  and  develop- 
ing of  will  power  and  the  nerve  centers  with  the  least  expenditure  of  vital  energy. 
To  receive  these  two  valuable  publications  all  you  need  do  is  to  write  the  Western 
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this  wonderful  course  of  instruction  and  Physical  Training  and  benefit  by  their 
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THE 
ROYCROFT 

INN 

IS  OPEN  THROUGH- 
OUT THE  YEAR 

A  modem  hotel,  with 
steam  heat,  electric  Ughts 
nmning  water,  hot  and 
cold,  baths  a-plenty   smm 


^^^^^  HE  rec^^ption-room  is  large  and  roomy.  It  has 
j  C\  ai  big  fireplace  where  logs  crackle  from  the 
'^^^J  first  Signs  of  frost  in  the  fall,  until  the  birds 
^^^^  and  flowers  are  here  s^  s^ 
fl  The  Roycroft  Inn  is  furnished  throughout  with 
beautiful,  strong  furniture  made  by  The  Roycrofters. 
Q  The  music-room  has  mural  decorations  painted  by 
Alexis  Foumirr.  This  is  a  charming  room,  unlike  any 
olher  that  you  have  ever  seen. 

^  The  dining-room  is  also  unique  and  different.  The 
meals  are  appetizing  and  well-served. 
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rooms,  connecting  rooms,  outdoor  sleeping-rooms,  suites 
with  baths  *^  *^ 

Write  for  Roycroft  Inn  Booklet. 

The  Roycroft  Inn,  East  Aurora,  N.  Y. 


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The  Lazy  Muscles  That 
Cause  Constipation 

By  R.  H.  SINCLAIR 


It  is  now  agreed  by  all  of  the 
great  authorities  that  constipa- 
tion is  not  a  disorder  of  the 
stomach  or  even  of  the  small 
intestine,  but  of  the  large  in- 
testine or  colon. 

Under  normal  conditions,  this 
large  colon,  which  is  about  five 
feet  long  and  shaped  like  a 
horseshoe,  extracts  the  liquids 
from  the  waste  matter  entrusted 
to  its  care  and  promptly  passes 
the  residue  on. 

But  unfortunately,  due  to 
our  sedentary  lives,  the  colon 
has  gradually  become  so  lazy 
from  lack  of  exercise,  that  it  is 
luiable  to  perform  its  functions. 

If  we  were  able  to  live  out- 
doors and  to  exercise  vigorously 
every  day,  our  colons  would 
handle  their  work  properly ;  for 


exercise  is  the  greatest  and  most 
satisfactory  colon  stimulant 
known. 

To  most  of  us,  sufficient  daily 
exercise,  however, is  not  possible. 
We  have  neither  the  time  nor 
the  inclination.  Instead  we  dose 
ourselves  with  laxative  drugs, 
mineral  waters,  and  other  nos- 
trums, with  the  result  that,wh]le 
we  get  temporary  relief,  we  not 
only  aggravate  the  condition, 
but  find  that  repetitions  of  the 
same  dose  later  fail  to  produce 
results. 

But  relief,  even  when  ob- 
tained, is  not  sufficient.  To 
maintain  health  and  efficiency, 
it  is  absolutely  of  paramount 
importance  to  create  and  main- 
tain, day  in  and  day  out,  free- 
dom from  intestinal  poisons; 


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and  this  is  impossible  with 
laxatives. 

There  is  a  new  way,  however, 
to  keep  the  colon  sweet  and 
clean — a  way  which  has  the 
same  effect  as  vigorous  exercise, 
yet  without  the  inconvenience 
or  time-consuming  features  of 
exercise.  And  the  results  are 
even  better  because  the  treat- 
ment is  localized. 

The  principle  upon  which 
this  new  method  is  founded  is 
the  same  as  that  usedin  massage. 
We  all  know  that  massage  has 
the  same  effect  as  exercise— it 
stimulates  the  nerves  and 
strengthens  the  muscles.  Colon 
massage  as  practiced  by  oste- 
opaths has  proved  wonderfully 
effective.  C.  This  new  method 
of  massaging  the  colon  in- 
volves the  use  of  a  device 
called  the  Kolon  Motor^a 
mechanical  masseur »  the  face 
of  which  is  shaped  to  fit  over 
the  colon  when  placed  against 
the  abdomen.  You  merely  put 
the  Kolon  Motor  on  a  door  or 
wall,  lean  up  against  it  and 
turn  the  handle  for  a  few  mo- 
ments. The  face  rotates  with  a 
scientific  waving  motion  which 
immediately  stimulates  the 
colon  and  causes  proper  func- 
tioning. A  couple  of  minutes 
in  the  morning  each  day  is  aU 
that  is  required  and  tmless  your 
experience  is  different  from  the 


hundreds  of  other  users  you 
will  feel  like  a  new  person  aft^f 
the  very  first  applicatioo. 

Before  the  Kolon  Motor  was 
offered  to  the  public  a  number 
of  wdl -known  physicians  were 
acquainted  with  its  merits  and 
used  it  in  their  practice.  With- 
out  exception  the  results  were 
most  gratifying — in  fact»  every 
physician  who  has  tested  the 
Kolon  Motor  endorses  it  nMsst 
highly. 

Martin's  Method,  Incorpo- 
rated, Dept,  274  B,  105  East 
30th  Street.  New  York,  has 
prepared  a  booklet  called  Cokm 
Cleanliness,  which  they  wiH 
be  pleased  to  send  gratis  to  all 
readers  of  this  Tnaga2ine,  In 
this  booklet  the  Kolon  Motor 
is  dearly  illustrated  and  its 
application  shown.  It  also  con- 
tains a  scientific  discussion  of 
auto -intoxi  cation »  and  explains 
why  and  how  the  Kolon  Motor 
produces  such  assured  results. 
Letters  from  well -known  phy- 
sicians relating  their  experience 
with  the  Kolon  Motor  also  form 
a  part  of  the  book .  <t  There  may 
be  some  who  scoff  at  the  idea 
of  colon  hygiene  and  its  direct 
relation  to  health  and  efficiency, 
but  the  wiser  ones  will  write 
for  this  free  book  and  leam 
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Carelessness      Bad  Habits 


Parent  or  Child 

Who  Is  to  Blame? 


a  CHILD'S  habits  are  good  or 
bad  according  to  the  methods 
.  used  by  the  parents.  The  child's 
entire  future  depends  upon  the  training 
received  at  home.  Character  is  nothing 
more  than  an  established  set  of  habits. 

The  trouble  has  always  been  that  we 
have  never  given  any  really  scientific 
study  to  the  question  of  child  training — 
we  have  not  searched  for  the  cause  of 
disobedience,  the  cause  of  ^filfulness, 
the  cause  of  untruthfulness,  and  of  other 
symptoms  which,  if  not  treated  in  the 
right  way,  may  lead  to  dire  consequences. 
Instead,  we  pimish  the  child  for  exhibit- 
ing the  bad  trait,  or  else  "  let  it  go." 
As  a  result,  we  do  the  child  an  actual 
wrong  instead  of  helping  it.  What  we 
should  do  is  to  attack  the  trouble  at 
its  source. 

A  NEW  SYSTEM 

There  is  now  a  new  system  of  child 
training  which  has  completely  revo- 
lutionized old  methods,  founded  upon 
the  principle  that  confidence  is  the 
basis  of  control. 

Under  this  new  system  children  who 
have  been  well-nigh  unmanageable  be* 
come  obedient  and  willing,  and  such 
traits'  as  bashfulness,  jealousy,  fear, 
bragging,  etc.,  are  overcome.  But  the 
system  goes  deeper  than  that,  for  it 
instils  high  ideals  and  builds  character, 
which  is  ol  course  the  goal  of  all  parents' 
efforts  in  child  training. 


Physical  punishment,  shouted  com- 
mands, and  other  barbarous  relics  of 
the  old  system  have  no  place  in  this 
modem  system.  Children  are  made  com- 
rades, not  slaves,  are  helped,  not  pun- 
ished. And  the  results  are  nothing  short 
of  marvelous. 

Instead  of  a  hardship,  child  training 
becomes  a  genuine  pleasure,  as  the  par- 
ent shares  every  confidence,  every  joy 
and  every  sorrow  of  the  child,  and  at 
the  same  time  has  its  unqualified  respect. 

To  put  in  practice  these  new  ideas 
in  child  training,  strange  as  it  may  seem, 
takes  less  time  than  the  old  method.  It 
is  simply  a  question  of  applying  princi- 
ples founded  on  a  scientific  study  of 
human  nature,  going  at  it  in  such  a  way 
as  to  get  immediate  results  without 
friction. 

The  founder  of  this  new  system  is 
Professor  Ray  C.  Beery,  A.  B..  M.  A., 
(Harvard  and  Columbia),  who  has  writ- 
ten a  completejCourse  in  Practical  Child 
Training.  This  Course  is  based  on 
ProfeMor  Beery's  extensive  investiga- 
tions and  wide  practical  experience,  and 
providei  a  well-worked-out  plan  which 
the  parent  can  easily  foUow.  The  Par- 
ents' Association,  a  national  organization 
devoted  to  improving  the  methods  of 
child  training,  has  adopted  the  Beery 
system  and  is  teaching  the  Course  to 
its  members  by  mail. 


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XOTIIJK**  ELSK  LIKE  IT 

of  l«aspnt  b  rllild  tniiniog  by  l*tt3l< 
B<?i-ry .  Thcjc  Iir*»«ici*  jnusl  not  b*  ooq- 
fuvxf  With  Ihc  titintirpil!*  of  books  on 
child  Imuiinff  which  leave  Ibe  WAtler 
ID  tlir  <krk  ln^'aiiics''  i»f  \  lijB^ieJicss  and 
lark  vi  ilffinitt'  iiEui  iim*  tiral  uppliiTitkio 
of  Uic  pririri|>lr»  had  t\owa.  ll  dut*  not 
drjil  b  glittcrjfi^r  »?t'nenilitiei.  Instead, 
it  ahtiws  Uy  <*Jti<  rtte  iHustnitioija  and 
drt,iil*Ni  v/plrtUHticius  cKRcUy  whftt  to 
do  Uf  iiiet'l  I'ViT^  i*uu'rp«iry  aiid  how 
to  iicronvpliiU  iiniucfiiiit*?  r(>7iidtii  tind 
make  R  (H'riuttnt'nt  iiu press iud,  ^  No 
nmltcr  vibcthpr  your  rhild  is  still  in 
thi'  riadl*'  11  r  is  t'l^hUm  ycj^rs  oWt  this 
course  will  shoH  Imw  tu  jipply  llio  right 
mt-'thod*  n\  tmvv.  Vuu  mrrely  tab^  up 
th**  imrtitvihir  Iruit,  turn  Lu  iht-  proper 
pjtp*.  wud  Hpply  t|»#?  Ifisuns  to  the  iliild. 


Do  You  Know  How  — 

to   instTutl   cfaildrcn    In   the   ddicate 

mBitcri  of  sex  ? 
to  ftlwsya  obtftin  chrcrful  obedience? 
tq  correct  mistakes  of  csrly  training  ? 
to  keep  child  from  cryiog  ? 
to  suppress  temp-rr  in  children  without 

punishment  ? 
to  diucouraee  the  "Why"  habit  in  rt- 

l^ard  to  commands  ? 
to  prtvcnt  quarrrting  and  fighting  ? 
tode&l  with  supernengiiivr  chitd? 
to    curt    Impertinence  ?   Diicourteiy  ? 

Vulgarity  ? 
to   remove   fear  of  darkneat?    Fear  of 

thunder    anii    lightning?    Fear    gf 

harmless  animals  ? 
to  encourage  child  to  Lalk  ? 
to  teach   child  instantly   to  comply 

with  command  "Don't  touch"? 
to  inculcate  respect  for  elders  ? 
to  engender  interest  in  work  or  study  ? 
to  teach  honesty  and  truthfulness  ? 
to  cultivate  cleanliness  of  speech  and 

thought  ? 
to  break  a  child  of  sucking  thumb? 
to  prevent  fickleness?  Jealousy?  Self- 
ishness? 
These  are  only  a  few  of  the  hundreds 
of  questions  fully  answered. 


Yqu  mpc  totd  ^xuctljr  vhat  to  do.  YimIu 
cjiti  not  befiii  too  soon,  fm  th/c  dufdV 
bdutvior  m  the  first  few  ye*ra  of  Uf* 
dcpetidfl  on  Xht  parent,  not  on  lh«  chAd 

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b  the  titk  of  H  little  book  whicb  dc* 
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cidtioa  aad  outlines  Fra|ci*iir  B^^^*a| 
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If  you  are  truly  itnxtou^  to  mAku  Ibe 
greatest  possible  suocesj  of  your  c&il- 
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least  get  thi^  free  book  ^hicb  ^lOWi 
you  hon^  you  mtiy  t>ecome  a  mamlpir 
of  the  Parents*  Aastodation  arid  iiQici0<e 
the  fine  benefit  *it  IhLd  wonderful  new 
way  in  r:hitd  training.  Merely  nmil  the 
rijupott  or  a  post  c^rd  or  letter,  ftod 
the  book  witl 
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here  agniu. 


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How  I  Improved  My  Memory 
In  One  Evening 

The  Amazing  Experience  of  Victor  Jones 


"Of  c(mr$€  I  place  yon !  Mr.  Ad- 
dison Sims  of  Seattle. 

**If  I  remember  correctly — and  I 
do  remember  correctly — Mr.  Bur- 
roughs, the  lumberman,  introduced 
me  to  you  at  the  luncheon  of  the 
Seattle  Rotary  Club  three  years  ago 
in  May.  This  is  a  pleasure  indeed! 
I  haven't  laid  eyes  on  you  since  that 
day.  How  is  the  grain  business? 
And  how  did  that  amalgamation 
work  out?" 

The  assurance  of  this  speaker — ^in 
the  crowded  corridor  of  the  Hotel 
McAlpin — compelled  me  to  turn  and 
look  at  him,  though  I  must  say  it  is 
not  my  usual  habit  to  'iisten  in" 
even  in  a  hotel  lobby. 

'*He  is  David  M.  Roth,  the  most 
famous  memory  expert  in  the  United 
States,"  said  my  friend  Kennedy,  an- 
swering my  question  before  I  could 
get  it  out.  "He  will  show  you  a  lot 
more  wonderful  things  than  that,  be- 
fore the  evening  is  over." 

And  he  did. 

As  we  went  into  the  banquet  room  the 
toastmaater  was  ihtrtxiueing  a  Ions  Una 
of  the  guests  to  Mr.  Roth.  I  sot  in  Una 
and  when  it  came  my  turn,  Mr.  Roth 
asked,  "What  are  your  initiab,  Mr. 
Jones,  and  your  business  connection  and 
telephone  number?"  Why  he  asked  this, 
I  teamed  later,  when  he  picked  out  from 
the  crowd  the  60  men  he  had  met  two 
hours  before  and  called  each  by  name 
without  a  mistake.  What  is  more,  he 
named  each  man's  business  and  telephone 
nuipber,  for  good  measure. 

I  won't  tell  you  all  the  other  amasing 
things  this  man  did  except  to  tell  how 
he  called  back,  without  a  minute's  hes- 
itation, long  listB  of  numbers,  bank  clear- 
ings, prices,  lot  numbers,  parcel  post 
rates  and  anjrthing  else  the  guests  gave 
him  in  rapid  order. 

.'  When    I   met    Mr.    Roth   again— which' 


yoa  may  be  surt  I  ^d  the  lint  ehaiiee  I 
got— he  rather  bowled  me  over  by  saying, 
in  his  quiet,  modsit  way: 

"Thers  is  nothing  miraculous  about  my 
remembering  anything  I  want  to  remem- 
ber, whether  it  be  names,  faces,  figures, 
facts  or  something  I  have  read  in  a  mag- 


ins. 

*You  earn  do  thia  jn»t  as  eosilif  ob  i  do. 
Anyone  with  an  average  mind  can  learn 
quickly  to  do  exactly  the  same  things 
which   seiem   so   miraculous    when    I   do 


"My  own  memory,"  continued  Mr.  Roth, 
"was  originally  very  faulty.  Tes  it  was 
— a  really  voor  memory.  On  meeting  a 
man  I  would  lose  his  name  in  thirty  sec- 
onds, while  now  there  are  probably  10,000 
men  and  women  in  the.  United  States, 
many  of  whom  I  have  met  but  once, 
whose  names  I  can  call  instantly  on  meet* 
ing  them.** 

"That  is  an  right  for  you,  Mr.  Roth,- 
I  interrupted,  "you  have  given  years  to 
it.    But  how  about  me?" 

"Mr.  Jones,"  he  replied,  "I  can  teach 
you  the  secret  of  a  good  memory  in  one 
evening.  This  is  not  a  guess,  because  I 
have  done  it  with  thousands  of  pupils. 
In  the  first  of  seven  simple  lessons  which 
I  have  prepared  for  home  study,  I  show 
you  the  basic  principle  of  my  whole  sys- 
tem and  you  will  find  it — ^not  hard  work 
as  you  might  feaiv-but  just  Hke  plajring 
a  fascinating  game.  I  will  prove  it  to 
you." 

He  didn't  have  to  prove  it.  His  Ck>urse 
did;  I  got  it  the  very  next  day  from  his 
publishera,  the  Independent  Corporation. 

When  I  tackled  the  first  lesson,  I  sup- 
pose I  was  the  most  surprised  man  in 
forty-eight  states  to  find  that  I  had 
learned — in  about  one  hour — ^how  to  re- 
member a  list  of  one  hundred  worth  so 
that  I  could  call  them  off  forward  and 
back  without  a  single  mistake. 

That  first  lesson  stuck.  And  so  did  the 
other  six. 

Read  this  letter  from  C.  Louis  Allen, 
who  at  82  years  is  president  of  a  million 
dollar  corporation,  the  Pyrene  Manufao- 
turing  Ck>mpany  of  New  York,  makers  of 
the  famous  fire  extinguisher: 

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teblMd.  I  want  lo  teU  90a  bow  nodi  I 
hare  enioytftf  tim  itudy  of  this  moft  fat- 
ftnmtinf  lubiaci.     Csoally  Umm  eoonaf  in- 
volf*  a  great  deal  of  dnidfory,  but  this  baa 
beeo  nothing  bvt  pure  pleofwre  aQ  the  way 
through.     I  have  derlred  much  b«D«At  rrom 
taKlnf   the  course  of  inttructlons   and  feel 
that  I  ihaU  continue  Co  ttreogtheo  017  men- 
orj.     That  is  the  best  part  of  it     I  shall 
be  glad  of  an  opDortunlty   to  rseoameod 
your  work  to  my  friendt." 
Mr.  AHen  didn't  put  tt  a  Ut  too  btrons. 
The  Roth   Ck>iiiBe   is   prieeleasi    I   emn 
■faeotutely  count  on  my  memory  now.    I 
ean   call  the  name   of  most  any  man   I 
have  met  before — and  I  am  getting  better 
all  the  time.     I  can  remember  any  figures 
I  wish  to  remember.    Telephone  numbers 
come  to  mind  instantly,  once  I  have  filed 
them  by  Mr.  Roth's  easy  method.    Street 
addresses  are  just  as  easy. 

The  old  fear  of  foraretting  (you  Icnow 
what  that  is)  has  vanished.  I  used  to 
be  "scared  stiff-  on  my  feet^-because  I 
wasn't  mre.  I  couldn't  remember  what 
I  wanted  to  say. 

Now  I  am  sure  of  myself,  and  con- 
fident, and  "easy  as  an  old  shoe"  when  I 
cret  on  my  feet  at  the  club,  or  at  a  ban- 
quet, or  in  a  business  meeting*  or  in  any 
social  KatherinfiT. 

Perhaps  the  most  enjoyable  part  of  it 
an  is  that  I  have  become  a  good  conver- 
sationalist— and  I  used  to  be  as  silent  as 
a  sphinx  when  I  got  into  a  crowd  of 
people  who  knew  thinss. 

Now  I  can  call  up  like  a  flash  of  light- 
ning most  any  fact  I  want  right  at  the 
instant  I  need  it  most.  I  used  to  think 
a  "hair  trigger"  memory  belonged  only 
to  tJie  prodigy  and  genius.  Now  I  see 
that  every  man  of  us  has  that  kind  of 
a  memory  if  he  only  knows  how  to  make 
it  work  right. 

I  tell  you  it  is  a  wonderful  thing,  after 
groping  around  in  the  dark  for  so  many 
years  to  be  able  to  switch  the  big  search- 
light on  your  mind  and  see  instantly 
everything  you   want   to   remember. 

This  Roth  Course  will  do  wonders  in 
your  office. 


Sinee  we  took  it  op  yoti  never  bear 
anyone  in  ottr  office  saj  "I  sueBS**  or  "I 
think  it  was  aboat  so  much"  or  "I  forset 
that  right  now"  or  "I  can't  remember"  or 
"I  must  look  up  his  name."  Now  they  are 
right  there  with  the  answer— like  a  shot. 

Have  yoQ  ever  heard  of  "Multiffraph** 
Smith  T  Real  name  H.  Q.  Smith,  Division 
Manager  of  the  Multigraph  Sales  Com- 
pany, Ltd^  in  MontreaL  Here  is  just  a 
bit  from  a  letter  of  his  that  I  saw  last 


"BiM  is  the  whole  thing  In  a  nutshaO: 
Mr.   Both  has   a  most  remarkable  Memory 
Course.     It  is  simple,  and  easy  as  falling 
off  a  log.    Tet  with  one  hour  a  day  of  prac- 
tlee^  aOTUoe — I  don't  care  who  be  is— can 
improfe  bis  Memory  100%   in  a  week  and 
1,000  %>  in  six  months." 
My  advice  to  you  is  don't  wait  another 
minute.    Send  to  Independent  Corporation 
for  Mr.   Roth's  amazing  course  and  see 
what  a  wonderful  memory  you  have  got. 
Tour     dividends     in     incretu^d    earning 
power  will  be  enormous. 

Victor  Jones 

SEND  NO  MONEY 

So  confident  is  the  Independent  Cor- 
poration, the  pubUshers  of  the  Roth 
Memory  Course,  that  once  you  have  an 
opportunity  to  see  in  your  own  home  how 
easy  it  is  to  double,  yes,  triple  your  mem- 
ory power  in  a  few  short  hours,  that  they 
are  willing  to  send  the  course  on  free 
examination. 

Don't  send  any  money.  Merely  mail 
the  coupon  or  write  a  letter  and  the  cona- 
plete  course  will  be  sent,  all  charges  pre- 
paid, at  once.  If  you  are  npt  entir^ 
satisfied  send  it  back  any  time  within  five 
days  after  you  receive  it  and  you  will 
owe  nothing. 

On  the  other  hand,  if  you  are  as 
pleased  as  are  the  thousands  of  other  men 
and  women  who  have  used  the  course 
send  only  $6  in  full  payment.  You  take 
no  risk  and  you  have  everything  to  gain, 
so  mail  the  coupon  now  before  thb  re- 
markable offer  is  withdrawn. 


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HE  Mother  sits  by  Severn  side, 

Where  Severn  joins  the  Bay, 

And  great  gray  ships  go  down  the  tide 

And  carry  her  sons  away. 

They  carry  them  far,  they  carry  them  wide. 

To  all  of  the  Seven  Seas, 

But  never  beyond  her  love  and  pride, 

And  ever  the  deathless  tales  abide 

They  learned  at  the  Mother's  knees. 

Stern  she  is,  as  well  becomes 

The  nurse  of  gentle  men. 

Who  trains  their  trea4  to  roll  of  drums 

Their  hands  to  sword  and  pen. 

Her  iron-blooded  arteries  hold 

No  soft  Corinthian  strain; 

The  Attic  soul  in  a  Spartan  mould. 

Loyal  and  hardy,  clean  and  bold. 

Shall  govern  the  roaring  main. 

They  come  from  South,  they  come  from  North 

They  come  from  East  and  West; 

And  who  can  say,  when  all  go  forth, 

That  any  of  these  are  best? 

With  names  unknown,  and  names  that  won 

Their  fame  in  a  hundred  fights, 

The  admiral's  son,  and  the  plowman's  son. 

Mothered  by  her  they  all  are  one, 

Her  race  of  sailor  knights. 

Young,  and  eager  and  iinafraid. 
As  neophytes  they  kneeled 
And  watched  their  arms,  and  only  prayed 
^  **  Keep  stain  from  every  shield." 

Naught  felse  they  fear  as  they  hunt  the  foes 
Through  fog,  and  storm,  and  mine. 
Keen  for  the  joy  of  the  battle  blows; 
But  God  ipake  strong  the  hearts  of  those 
Who  love,  and  are  left  behind.    —W.  K.  Post, 


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part,  wofully  ignorant. 
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making  money,  and  too 
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the  best  and  noblest  men  that 
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A  MESSAGE   TO   Gii^ivCI 

By  ELBERT  HUBBARD 


.  M^  f  -*r  *•  «« lA-  J .»-.  M:   j  v^-^  i,  ^  b^mn.  k^»  '^'jt^        "*  ^  ■b*  p«.**>'^  -tw'-wy  ih^  Sj?  iS*'f^ir'i>S!f  *'**tftf!Sf!r*"r ^F 


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THE    SECRETARY  OF  THE  NAVY. 

WAS  HI  NGTON 

July  3,   1918 


lAy  dear  Mr.  Hu"bl3ard: 

I  take  pleasure  in  acknowledging  receipt 
of  the  enlarged  copy  of  "A  Message  to  Garcia"  which 
you  have  heen  good  enough  to  send  me*   Some  years 
ago  I  enjoyed  reading  this  message  in  pamphlet  form 
and  I  do  not  know  when  anything  has  appealed  to  me 
more  than  this  little  story.   It  is  so  true  to  life 
and  conveys  such  a  lesson  that  every  person,  at  least 
every  young  person,  should  read  and  profit  by  it. 

Sincerely  yours. 


Mr.  Elbert  Hubbard,  II. 
The  Boycroft  Shops, 
East  Aurora,  New  York. 


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faction as  well  as  foot  comfort. 

The  leather  of  its  upper  is  soft, 
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Its  shape  is  that  of  the  foot  as 
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ELBERT  HUBBARD,  who  went  down  with  the 
Lu5i7ania,  founded  the  Roycroft  Shops  21  years 
ago ;  founded  them  on  an  idea  borrowed  from 
the  English  Artist-Craftsman,  William  Morris,  to  make 
books  and  artistic  home  decorations  "  Not  how  cheap, 
but  how  good."  The  Roycrofters  and  their  handmade 
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content  and  see  the  Boys  and  Girls  making  beautiful 
things  by  hand. 

THE  ROYCROFTERS 

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East  Aurora,  N.  Y.,  is  located  on  the  Pennsylvania  Railroad,  18 
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everything  for  you,  to  a  finish  —  designing  the 
covers,  borders,  initials,  etc.,  writing  the  copy, 
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very  deluxe. 

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Did  The 
Kaiser 

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Elbert 

Hubbard 

Because  He  Wrote 

"WhoUftedThe 
Lid  Off  Heir? 


ELSERT  HUBBARD,  Foutider  of  Th^  HgycraftShopi,  Lost  aathe  Lasitania,  Mjlj  7, 1915 


0OME  say  that  the  Kaiser  in  his  blind  wrath  sent 
the  U-Boat  to  sink  the  Lusitania  because  Elbert 
Hubbard  was  aboard.  Elbert  Hubbard  named  the 
Kaiser  a  ''Mastoid  Degenerate"  and  told  about 
his  withered  arm  and  leaky  ear.  When  Hubbard  was  called 
to  Europe  to  write  from  first-hand  information  for  the 
American  People  the  Kaiser  knew  what  to  expect*  Then 
the  Sayville  Wireless  sputtered  spitefully — a  Sub  slipped 
out  from  Kiel  and  the  Lusitania  never  reached  port  I 
Elbert  Hubbard  died,  but 
his  indictment  of  the  Ger- 
man tyrant  lives ! 
Order  the  book,  Who  lifted  the 
Lid  and  learn  why  The  Hohen- 
zollem  was  afraid  to  let  the  man 
who  wrote  it  write  any  more ! 


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C  Send  mc  a  copy  of  Who  Liftrd  ihm  Lid, 
for  which  I  ftidOM  25  cents  (Forward  Poat- 
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6arrf— Modeled  Calf  Binding $10.00 

A  THOUSAND  AND  ONE  EPIGRAMS 

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WHITE  HYACINTHS— By  ElbeH  Hubbard 

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THE  AHNTAGE— By  Elbert  Hubbard— H 

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CITY  OF  TAGASTE— By  Elbert  Hubbard 

Alicia,  ^2  Ooze  and  Modeled  Calf 5.00 

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WILLIAM  MORRIS— By  Elbert  Hubbard 

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BATTLE  OF  WATERLOO— B^^  Victor  Hugo 

%  Levant 10.00 

SELF-RELIANCE— %  Ralph  Waldo  Emer- 
son— %  Levant 10.00 

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THE    RUBAIYAT— J5i/   Omar  Khayyam 

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Alicia  Binding 7.50 

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f  LBERT  HUBBARD  wrote  A  MESSAGE 
TO  GARCIA  in  1898,  the  year  of  the 
Spanish-American  War.  Since  then,  more 
copies  have  been  told  and  read,  than  of 
any  lother  Work  since  Time  began— the  Bible 
excepted.  It  has  been  translated  into  all  known 
tongues  t  Governments,  Generals-in-Command, 
Corporations,  Businessmen,  Employers  of  Labor, 
Heads  of  Schools,  Private  Individuals,  have  read 
the  "Messase"  and  ordered  thousands  of  copies, 
which  they  passed  along,  to  those  whom  the 
"Message**  would  especially  benefit  I 

C  There  never  was  a  year  when  the  "Message" 
was  so  much  needed  as  in  this  year  of  1918-— and 
right  here  in  America. 


C  Order  Your  Copy  today  — read  it  again  I 
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the  "Message**  and  find  out  what  it  is  that  is 
holding  you  back,  what  is  holding  back  your 
Employees,  your  helpers.  Order  the  "Message**— 
I     you  never  spent  a  Dollar  to  better  advanUge. 

C  The  "Message**  is  neatly  bound  in  real  Leather, 
title  blindstamped,  printed  in  two  colors,  on 
excellent  Book-Paper,  top  edge  in  gold.  The 
Frontispiece  is  a  tipped-in  Portrait  of  the  Author. 
The  Apologia  tdls  how  Elbert  Hubbard  happened 
to  write  this  amazing  composition. 


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ELBERT  HUBBARD 

foundtr  o/The  Roycroft  Shops 

Lo9t  on  th€  Lusitania. 

Mav  7,  1915 


SIX 

of  Elbert  Hubbard's 
Great  Business 

Essays 

and 

The  ROYCROFT 

for  a  year  ONE   DOLLAR 


^^^iTLBERT  HUBBARD  was  a  Farmer,  a  Printer,  a  Publisher.a  Banker. 
vX£^  a  Blacksmith,  an  Author,  an  Innkeeper, a  Manufacturer, a  Lecturer, 
V^J^  an  Editor,  a  Piiblicist  1  Does  this  sound  impossible?  In  the  group 
of  Industries  called  the  Roycroft  ^ops  is  found  definite  proof  that  this 
unusual  man  could  do  all  these  things  well  f  Yet,  when  asked  his  occupa- 
tion, he  always  answered,  "A  Businessman*'  I  Not  since  Ben  Franklin's 
Poor  Richard* s  Almanac  has  the  Human  Philosophy  of  Business  been  so 
well  written  as  in  these  booklets.  Millions  of  them  have  been  sold.  Eadi 
one  of  them  is  worth  one  Hundred  Dollars  to  You! 


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Revival  Of  Old  Englisb  Sheffield 

IRE  was  a  time  when  the  Silversmith  stood  side  by  side 
i  with  the  Painter  and  the  Sculptor.  With  his  skilled  hands 

and  dear  vision,  he  transformed  metal  into  beautiful  shapes 

and  forms,  whidi  found  their  way  into  the  shrines  of  Art  Lovers, 
together  with  rare  paintings  and  other  treasures.  t[  Today  this 
ancient  and  honorable  Craft  is  being  revived  by  a  Roycroft  Crafts- 
man. t[  We  illustrate  here  two  numbers  in  Roycroft  Sheffield.  Many 
other  pieces  are  shown  in  our  Catalog,  whidi  we  will  mall  '}ipon 
request. 


CANDLESTICKS 

409 — 9}4  in.  high 
$10.00  a  pair 


LAMP 

908—14}^  in.  high 
$30.00 


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