Show WHAT HUBBARD IS NOT Editor of Philistine Reveals Several Facts Concerning Himself and His Work Speaking of himself In a recent magazine article Elbert Hubbard thought best to begin by telllny what he was not First he said I am not popular in society Second I am not ar popular writer since my name has never been mentioned men-tioned In the Atlantic Scrlbners Harpers Century or the Ladles Home Journal Third I am not rich as the world counts wealth Fourth as an orator I am without the graces and do scant Justice to a doublebreasted Prince Albert Fifth The Roycroft Shop Is not so large as to be conspicuous on account of size Personally I am no tenthousand dollar beauty Seventh I have never committed crimes I Eighth my virtue has never been ao extreme a type aa to challenge attention at-tention With the above as a starter Hub bard wrote a highly Interesting article of himself and his work In this he tells oC the writing of A Message to Garcia one evening after a hard days work He thought so little of It that he van it In the Philistine without a heading Since then 4000000 copies of It have been sent over the civilized world by the New York Central It has been printed In nine different languages vnd 16000000 copies of It wore sent out within three years from the time It was written Hubbard cannot be Ignored he IB n positive factor If you hear him when he lectures In the Salt Lake Theater Sunday evening you may feel like getting up in meeting and com batting some of his statement but you will not go to sleep On the contrary con-trary he will give you something to think about for several rlnyc to follow |