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Show 01 BAHT IN . HONOR OF STRAUS NEW YORK, Jan. 31. At a dinner given tonight to Nathan Straus, merchant mer-chant and philanthropist, by bIx hundred hun-dred citizens of New York Vlty, Including In-cluding men prominent In every calling, call-ing, Governor Dix. William R. Hearst and others eulogized Mr. Strauss "as a man who had done so much for humanity." hu-manity." Mr. Hearst speaking of himself, said that ho had been called by some a violent manr by others a radical man. "I detect a thlof and desplso a fraud and I simply cannot help calling a spade a bpado," said Mr. Hoarsa "That, my friends, Is tbe extent of o- radicalism and violence." " " "My ono Idea for twenty years," Mr Straus said, in part, "has'been to save -: the lives of babies. To this end I have dono what I could and I have sought to Incite others to take up this work and then establish the dutj of the public authorities to protect child life." Ono per cent of -the annual outlnv of I the world for war, he said, would glo j every baby a fair chance to live, would u maintain milk depot In every town ' and city and would check the white plague. "A great man,"' he said, "who Islf doing moro than any other today forlc the bonefit of humanity, John D. Rnck-i efeller, wrote to mo this year, 'yourl noble example stimulates others to their best ondcavors for tho better! life of mankind.' " ' |