Alice Moore Hubbard's Daughter, Miriam, Remembered her father Elbert Hubbard

     Miriam Hubbard Roelofs speaking of her father's publication, The Philistine   

          "The Philistine was quite different. It was more a journal of Father’s opinion on current events.  Enthusiastic words for some, thundering denunciation for others all sorts of thoughts that came into his head found expression in the Philistine. He had a favorite quotation from Emerson   “consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds”.  He followed that admonition but I think might well have memorable command of Admiral Farragut.  “Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead”.  So in the Phil, along with remarks of Mr. Bach, then editor of the late Ladies Home Journal, as father said, was a judge Lindsey and his innovation of the juvenile court. The most published was the message to Garcia (Garsha) which was another article that first came out in the Philistine. The reprints of that kept the presses humming." 

       

          These thoughts on her father were recorded on an audiotape presentation Miriam Hubbard Roelofs prepared for a Social Studies class at East Aurora High School in 1975.

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