The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-01-10

retirement Of Nathan Suaus. the sen
Tor partner of r. H. Macy q Co. IRON
the firm with which he has Tor So many
Years been associated SAYS tho New
York Times.
Put an losing this notable figure ia
It's commercial life the city is but o.
gain his presence in an even more in
Innate relation. as a more ardent
worker than ever IN the great field of
human service For iu laying aside
the harness Of business career Mr..
IStraUs is bat preparing 10 devote him
self more stTenuously ANA wholeheart-
edly than before 20 the service of ms
leIawmsn in philautrophg and social
hertermeut
Not only has Nathan Straus retired
from the nrm of r. n. Macy & Co.. hut
both his sons, Nathan Straus. j., and
II. Grant Straus, retired with him; and
the former at least viii become his
fathers chief lieutenant in carrying
out The works Of wider ph.lanuophy ne
iplans rof the future.
Ina a few days Nathan Straus. Jr.
ivan sail tor Palestine The ancient
home ol The Jewish people. 10 take up
! there one part of the WORK of philau-
thropy his father has planned. and L.
Try boy wise and thorough-soing works
Of modern sanitation ana hygiene 10
hsaI the sick among his people and
those Who live among ana around them
Father and son are both ardent Zion
! isis,
Whether or not Nathan Sraus viii
accompany his son on the visit 10
Palestine has not yet been definitely
decided. Mrs Straus has been m poor
health Tor some time past and if she
| is sufficiently recovered by the middle
Of January he viii probably go.
In either case, however, Nathan
Straus will not remain idle.
The rental Of suite Of offices for
the carrying on Of his work last week
gave evidence Of this Before his son
IS half way across the ocean those Of
iices mere viii be hu22ire with bust
I ness Of humanity Already a demge
Of letters and applications Of one sort
or another from hundreds Of askers the
country over has been pouring in from
misguided askerS, many Of them. per
sons who read that the philanthropiSt
was going 10 retire from business and
devote himself 10 charity, and who
took that opportunity to put in some
little private bid or suggestion of this
new philanthropical venture or that on
their own account.
There is. however 10 be- nothing of
that Nathan Straus is not looking
for new philanthropies; he feels that
there are plenty Of lives 10 be saved
and plenty 81 souls 10 be made hap
pier in the mere extension Of the phil
anthropies he has already engaged ia.
His work is 10 be one Of extension. not
nf change II will continue under his
personal direction ana not be put into
The hands Of fund or corporation.
IS his son said recently, In telling
OF his fathers plans:
Two Divisions OF Work
For the last twenty-five years my
father has been devoting about one
half his time 10 phlantropy. lie means
now to devote an his time to phian-
ropy, bat along the same lines as be-
fore"
The philarthropic work which is TO
bc thus extended will fall INTO two
Giyisions-nrst. the work 10 which Mr.
Slraus has DEVOTED the greater part of
his life, the saving of infant lives and
The prevention Of disease through the
... f.I.IGgI,,u..,.t Of t.Ia g.. I,.
tcurization Of milk ana its distribution
Fat nominal cost, with cOncurrcntly AN
educational campaigu of propaganda toI
encourage world wide adoption of the
20 steurization principle; secondly
placing on a better practical basis the
work of sanitation which he has more
recently begun in Palestine
Mr.. Stras plans soon Ia start his
work in respect to the propa ganda for
pasteuri2atiou of milk ON u more ag
gresSiyc basis than at present. Up till
now he has contented himself with the
establishment and operation of model
milk laboratory at 3iS East Thirty sec
oud street where milk is pastcurI2cd
FOR all the stations throughout the city,
and sold at nominal cost. That has re-
durcd the death rate among infants
using the milk often by as much as
80 per cent. lie has established sim
liar pastcuriZatiOn plants in Chicago,
Philadelphia, ana a few other cities in
this country, and in several cities
the operation Of such plants nation