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PORTRAIT OF A FATHER’S SON
(Continued
What does the son of a wealthy father
do to launch his career? Play around
for a while, usually. But in those days
Straus, Jr., could follow his real inclina
tions. He joined the New York Globe as
nothing more startling than a cub re
porter. Occasionally he did an important
story, but more often he was informing
eager housewives about the most reason
able prices they might pay for 1 hanks-
giving tuikeys. Then came the oppor
tunity to buy Puck, the humorous weekly.
The stately and responsible style of Lon
don’s Punch and not our own Ballyhoo
ruled the humorous tendencies. Straus
had achieved his ambition, cartoonists got
ideas from him, writers took themes.
Straus’ sense of duty to his people
found first expression when he launched
a series of articles whose principal aim
was to show how much the Jews had
contributed to the upbuilding of America.
It was probably the first series of its kind
in an American magazine. “Life” was
then venomously anti-Semitic. Straus
wanted to scotch it. “Not jewels but
Jews furnished the money for Columbus’
discovery of America.” That was the
keynote. But Straus hastily disclaims any
credit for that particular epigrammatic
sentence. He is always hesitant about
seeming too original. Probably part of
his tradition of being suppressed. Wood-
row Wilson, in 1916, sent Straus a cordial
note thanking him for the series, saying
“exact and impartial justice is not often
given by the historian, particularly by
the national historian.”
From time to time Puck would inveigh
bitterly against war. In 1913 it even
published an editorial envisaging its pos
sibilities. Later on Wilson sent apprecia
tion to its publisher for the way in which
it had supported his disinclination to
war. But diplomatic relations were
broken off with Germany. The magazine
had been built up from a circulation of
18,000 to 105,000. Straus, nevertheless,
enlisted.
One feels aggrieved at Straus. How
could he preach pacificism so vocifer
ously and then plunge in at the outbreak
of hostilities? He can’t explain. “1 was
just as bad a lunatic as any one,” he
says, with a shamefaced grin. Today
he is one of the stalwarts preaching total
and unconditional disarmament. The in
tensity of his feeling is congrested when
he says that “I would die to end war.”
Not in the Woodrow Wilson way, though.
You ask him if he thinks that recent
charges about the cowardliness of the
Jews in war are to he taken note of.
“If the worst thing you can accuse the
Jews of is pacificism, then we are a
pretty fine people.” That, with just a
tinge of pride in his voice. His experi
ence in the war did nothing to increase
his admiration for it. He ended up in
charge of the intelligence for cable censor
ship. It gave him an excellent oppor
tunity to judge how hysteria can be pro
voked.
The conflict ended, he returned to the
Globe, this time as assistant to the
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editor. For a year and a half he had
been climbing upward. Then out he went
by resignation. The Globe had bitterly
attacked the League of Nations and
Woodrow Wilson, its parent. Straus dis
sented. Since he could not change the
paper’s views, he left. The Democratic
Party inveigled him, offered him a nom
ination in what was unanimously re
garded as a hopeless district, the silk-
stocking area of Manhattan. It was 1920,
days of the Harding landslide. But Straus
crashed in with a plurality of some
4,000. He was re-elected. In that period
he harassed the standpatters in the Senate
with his forward-looking bills. He led
the fight to prohibit landlords from dis
criminating against families with chil
dren; he introduced the cooperative mar
keting law to eliminate speculation and
waste in the marketing of agricultural
products; he championed the bill to' limit
women’s labor to the eight-hour maxi
mum; he fought to seat women on juries
on terms of equality with men; he in
itiated legislation to curb fraudulent deal
ings in the security market.
But politics was not a late acquisition,
designed to catapult him to public fame.
In 1909 when he returned from Germany
he entered Princeton intent on steeping
himself in civics. Woodrow Wilson was
his professor in constitutional govern
ment. It was the second time in his life
that Straus earned real money. It was
only fifteen dollars. But still his own.
He took second prize is an essay contest
on the commission form of city govern
ment.
But the first money he ever earned
indicated the depth of the relationship
between him and his father. A news
paper man entered their home and urged
Straus, Sr., to contribute an article on
“My Principles of Giving.” He offered
the inducement of $25. Straus declined.
He had neither time nor interest. But
Junior was standing at his side. “Why
not let me do it?” He did. He got the
$25. He was then about fourteen years
old.
Today Straus has his own son of fifteen
and three other children. 'They have not
a little to do with his being in the crock
ery business.
Some day Straus, Jr., will emerge from
the shadow of his father’s enveloping
name. He has his own views on Jewish
life. As when he insists that Jews are
too sensitive. Continually shouting Wolf!
Wolf! Instead of concentrating on the
major problems, they made a prother of
the minor things and distract the mind
of public opinion.
He is shy. Hesitant lest he be intruding
on his father s domain. He needs scope,
the stimulus of time. In Jewish affairs
particularly he defers; But the imagina
tion which veers him to literature and the
courage which impels him to pacificism
are the attributes which stamp his out
look on life. That sense of humor is a
grace which adds piquancy and charm.
Nathan Straus, Jr., should be more in
circulation.
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