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A SOCIAL THINKER
(Continued from page 7)
newspapers that reported his speeches
and activities and the journalists who
commented on them, all attest to his ef
fectiveness. There was room in that
struggle for every sort of talent—for a
Brvan, a La Follette, a Roosevelt, a Stef
fens, a Hapgood, a Wilson. But when
most of the brilliant legal ability of the
country was being enrolled in the service
of the corporations, the talents of a first-
rate legal and statistical mind were worth
more than the talents of all the politi
cians and journalists. Mr. Brandeis
found himself at home with the sort of
problems that had now to be mastered.
His career, winding its way from one
.ft i financial and political intricacies
i another, takes on something of the
fiber of the period.
In two important respects he stands
out from the group of turn-of-the-century
liberals with whom his name is asso
ciated. He had a passion for detail and
concreteness where most of them dealt
in invective and generalities. And he
had a capacity for constructive achieve
ment in the field of social legislation and
social invention. An exposure of insur
ance companies was accompanied by a
plan for reorganizing the industry and
by a new form of savings-bank insurance;
an attack on the railroads gave him a
•hance to launch on its career the prin-
ipie of scientific management; a call to
arbitrate a labor dispute resulted in the
protocol” and the “preferential open
shop.” And he knew not only how to
create and state these ideas and plans;
he knew also the technique of publicity
and persuasion without which in the
apathy of modern life they would have
been ignored. But perhaps most im
portant of all was the will to “follow
through” an idea until it was function
ing, and the infinite capacity for pains
which saw to the details of organization.
In the stress he laid upon social inven
tion he was closely related to the Jeremy
Bentham whom Mr. Wallas interprets,
more closely even than was the adminis
trative constructiveness which the Webbs
were seeking to effect in London.
Yet even twenty years of unremitting
effort in this direction would probably
not have sufficed to rescue his name from
the comparative oblivion of those who
fight heroically in a hopeless case. To
say this is not to do injustice to either
the seriousness or the effectiveness of Mr.
Brandeis’ public career before 1916.
Whatever else happened, his position in
the amazing history of these two decades
of American life would have been dis
tinctive and secure. Nor is this the place
to enter upon an extended critique of the
Causes with which he was allied. From
the vantage ground of the present it
seems clear that the cards were stacked
against them. The forces they were fight
ing were too integrally part of a capital
ist-industrialist society—part of the logic
of its development and part of its psy
chological context—to be severed from it
for separate destruction. None of them
was either willing or ready to attack
the foundations of the society itself. And
to save the body while striking at the
excrescences required a more subtle diag
nosis of historic and economic forces and
a more mature grappling with the com
plexities of the problem than the re
sources of those decades could command.
If Mr. Brandeis stands out as a unique
and heroic figure in the populist thought
of that period, it is not for the raking
fire of his analysis of the Money Trust,
not even for that stubborn command of
facts and figures which made men call
him the mathematician of the movement.
It is rather because of the stress we find
him laying, even in those days, upon the
necessity for the continuous application
of social intelligence to social problems
and upon the inadequacy of any solu
tion which did not have behind it the
creative will of the people.
BROADWAY’S MIRACLE MAN
(Continued from
Box,” which he built eleven years ago,
with Irving Berlin, is the luckiest theatre
in New York. Out of 20 productions it
housed, only two proved failures. It is
called, on Mazda Lane the house of hits.
Whenever Harris announces a new Music
Box show, ticket agents prick up their
ear', and start booking in advance.
Yet all this does not bring out the
iominant trait of Sam H. Harris, who
refuses to grow old. At a time when the
o-called intellectual highbrow producers
have been left hopelessly behind by the
new trend in entertainment, unable to
nd plays that are in harmony with our
fickle moods of today, Sam H. Harris, by
'ds intuition, inspiration or gambler’s
uck, if you will, has put his finger on
ne success after another, giving to the
la«e New Yorker the kind of plays that
ckle the intelligentsia, arouse the sophis-
icated and please the masses.
And if you want to know another rea-
°n for the big parade of success under
he Sam H. Harris banner, it is this: He
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does not interfere with his directors, com
posers or playwrights. He picks them and
then tells them “go ahead and let your
selves go.” The results are such exhila
rating scores and lyrics as “Face the
Music” and “Of Thee I Sing.”
As if to condense his motto for suc
cess in one definition, Sam H. Harris told
us: “I believe in hunches. If you pro
ceed by pure logic you may manage to
limp behind your public, but you’ll never
succeed in surprising it. If you have an
idea, play it to the finish, bank on it
everything you have. You can’t win by
waiting. You have to go out and get
things.”
This is the philosophy of Sam H. Har
ris, who todav stands head and shoulders
above all the other theatrical producers
of this country. He gambled and won.
Broadway loves money less than the thrill
of making it.
Copyrighted 1932 for Thf Soithern Israelite:
New York, N. Y.—Americana, the new
atir ical monthly of which Gilbert Seldes,
ewish publicist, is literary editor, con-
iins a full-page cartoon depicting an
"ensively-caricatured Jew sitting in a
°rd motor car holding aloft a Zionist
ag. Henry Ford is also in the car. The
aption reads: “Ford joins the Zionist
art y- ’ The ridicule in the cartoon is
elieved to refer to an endorsement by
lenry Ford of the George Washington
lemorial Forest in Palestine which is
e; ng sponsored by the Jewish National
und.
New York, N. Y—In a cablegram
sent from China, where he is in the in-
terests of the China Famine Relief Com
mittee of which he is chairman, David
A. Brown, publisher of the American
Hebrew, categorically denied all state
ments attributed to him by the Polish
Telegraphic Agency and the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency, in which he is al
leged to have minimized the situation of
Polish Jewry. Mr. Brown declared that
the only views which he expressed and
which are authorized appear in the
American Hebrew.
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