San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-06
FRIENDS HONOR
STRAUSSF0R
WAR WORK
Silent Force Behind Many
Big Drives to Receive
Public Thanks.

NEW YORK, Dec. 5.-New York
is, pre-eminently, the Banquet City,
and the chronicle of its public din
ners runs the whole gamut of novelty.
But brand new note will be sounded
in 4 testimonial dinner at the Hotel
Astor December 13 in tribute to the
public services of Nanny Strauss and
in celebration of his tenth anniversary
as New Yorker. Mr.. Strauss came
originally from Cincinnati.
For the first time in the history OF
testimonial banQuets there will be a
public dinner without after-dinner
oratory. There will be tribute aplenty
for Mr.. Strauss in program of novel
quality, but the old familiar medium
of laudation, the set speech, will be
barred, absolutely.
The committee in charge Of the
dinner includes close to two hundred
prominent bankers. nationally known
merchants, philanthropists, educators,
dominant figures in the amusement
world, judges, lawyers and writers.
NOTED OFFICIALS.
Colonel William NJ. Chadbourne a
DISTINGUISHED member Of the New
York bar is chairman of the commit
tee; Felix NJ. Warburg of the great
banking house of Kuhn, Loeb and
Company and Mrs. Oliver Hartman,
president of the Campfire Girls, are
vice-chairmen and Joseph +. Cullman
Jr., prominent among New York mer-
chants is treasurer.
Mr. Strauss, through his ideas and
organization psychology. has helped
raise more than 100000 for
national service in various fields and
for philanthrophy, within the last ten
years, but he has never held an Office,
assumed an official title of any kind
or sat at desk in an official capa.
lily.
WORKS FOR CHARITY.
The "high spots" in Mr.. Strauss
record, in. honor of which the testi-
monial dinner has been arranged, in
clude his work in behalf of the
yigilantes, that famous body of writ
ers who rendered signal patriotic ser
VICE, NJ tuc tiLlc VI DicoSiHS
need; also his services in organizing
the activities of the National Security
League services, which won for him
the regard and affection Of its leader
the late Robert Bacon, with whom
Mr.. Strauss was closely associated.
Other achievements which stand to
the credit of Mr.. Strauss embrace his
work for the Serbian Child Relief as
ISOLATION and for the Business Mems
Council of. me Federation of Jewish
Philanthropic Institutions, the largest
and most successful of all money rails
ing organizations in the field of
philanthrophy.
Mr.. Strauss also created the I'm
visible Guest" which brought unquali-
fled success to Secretary Herbert
Hoover's now historic drive for $780,
100000 for the starving children of
Europe, magically lifting depressed
campaign to the pinnacle of achieve
nent..
STIMULATES LOAN.
Mr.. Strauss, although not even "a
dollar year man" rendered service
upon service for the government in
Its supreme hour of war need. The
records show that his was a potent
voice in the council which gave to
the country the War Savings Stamp,
but It was in the Fourth Liberty
loan that he made his best known
contribution to the national welfare.
This loan found the people financially
exhausted, as many feared, and worn
out with patriotic giving and buying.
The popular stimulus of this loan
was supplied by Mr.. Strauss in the
never-to-be-forgotten "Avenue of the
Allies, which turned Fifth Avenue
from the Plaza down to Madison
Square into vivid panorama of the
mighty union of nations banded to-
gether for the defense of liberty
against the common foe.