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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 page 8) 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. 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