The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 6, 1929, Page 10

oth] anes thee ‘ty By RODNEY DUTCHER (NEA Service Writer) (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) ‘Washington, Mar. 6.—There lives a man in Pennsylvania who regards the Republican party as a religious institution and speaks of the protec- tive tariff as of the sacred memory of a dearly beloved and departed parent. He can—and does—raise more money for political purposes than any other man in the United States, His power today in state and nation is a frank and vivid demonstration that in Pennsylvania, as everywhere else, politics and great wealth walk hand in hand. Lately he has been spending much time in Washington. His demands are never treated lightly on Capitol Hill and he has been making them for years and years. His name is Joseph R. Grundy and he is sometimes known as “Blue- Eyed Joe.” His two principal objects in life are to see the tariff raised as high as he thinks it should be raised and to keep the manufactur- ing corporations of Pennsylvania free x. of ta: ee * “Blue-eyed Joe” never quite gets everything he wants because he in- variably wants the earth. Or perhaps he just pretends to want it, on the theory that the more one demands the more one is likely to get. His best friends among politicians admit that his requests are often unreasonable and sometimes he is so aggressive, persistent, determined and possibly overbearing that other Pennsylvania political leaders simply have to sit on him. The late Boss Boies Penrose, who was an autocrat himself, is said on oceasion, virtually to have ordered Grundy out of his office. But the man gets results. He is absolute dictator of the very power- ful Pennsylvania Manufacturers’ As- sociation, which he founded many years ago and which regularly re- elects him its president. When an important campaign comes on he is in @ position to write his check for nearly any amount as an advance and subsequently to assess the 7500 manu- facturers who are behind him. Thus, in the famous Vare-Pepper-Fisher Beidleman of 1926 he ad- vanced $300,000 personally and gave & note for $90,000 more with serene confidence that he would be reim- bursed. see In that primary Grundy and his associates raised $615,000. He per- sonally turned $547,000 into the ‘Hoover campaign fund last year and in 1924 he raised $700,000 for the Coolidge . Hoover and Coolidge both favored the protective tariff and Fisher, his 1926 guberna- torial candidate, was opposed to any THE BISMARCK.1'RIBUNE WEDNESDAY; MARCH 6, 1929] == —————— ————[—_£_—_—_—_—__ OH, MR. AUSSTINN = WHAT WILL You. DO NEXT ? You'rE wUST ‘Too INA ROCKING CHAIR teourd Do MY KNITTING IN IT = JERRY — WHEN ARE You GOING TO BUY ME “ACAR LIKE ALTE WELL, YOU CERTAIN! Ane Goines YOUR PART, MR. AUSSTINN = capital. Hoover has let it be known that he wants tariff revision at the special session of Congress confined to duties which will aid agriculture; Grundy insists on a blanket embargo, through prohibitive duties, on all im- ports competing with articles made in Pennsylvania. *x oe * “Blue-eyed Joe” apparently not seeking active political leadership in Pennsylvania at this propitious time when the Mellons have failed to dem- onstrate their ability at it and the Vare machine is being shot to pieces in Philadelphia. And he does not go in at all for petty graft; the politi- cians can have that. But ne has always been open and frank and has never sought to camou- flage his motives. In effect he says, in Harrisburg and in Washingto1 “I'm the guy who raised the dough and I'm entitled to recognition.” He made no bones about telling the Reed committee just why he had advanced so much financial support to the Pepper-Fisher cause in 1926. He didn’t care much about Pepper, but he testified: “The question of state taxation was what primarily interested me. Our corporations are specifically exempted from taxation, by legislation. We have not any income tax. Mr. Beidle- man had, in our opinion, always been antagonistic to that settled policy of the party and we believed that if he had been nominated—which would have been equivalent to election—he would have been for the imposition of a tax on the capital stock of cor- porations in Pennsylvania. “I do not want to put it on any selfish grounds. I was looking at it as an economical policy of the state.” * * Grundy’s men have been appointed to key positions by Fisher in Penn- sylvania and he is able to talk to that state's large congressional delegation in most convincing terms. He is said to use the Pennsylvania Manufac- turers Insurance Company, with agents throughout the state, as his own political organization. Personally this high priest and chief worshipper of the protective tariff is a suave, likeable and smil- ing person, despite his ability to be- come hardboiled. He is 66 years old, but those who don’t know that some- times say he “looks about fifty,” for he remains energetic and has a ruddy, outdoor complexion. He is stocky and his height is slightly more than medium. When Grundy comes to Washing- ton he represents manufacturers everywhere by inference, though he emphasizes that many industries in Pennsylvania are -badly in need of tariff help, notably textiles, tanning and cement. Grundy is hard to interview, but this writer was invited to submit a few questions to him. These ques- YES—BUT IM ANKEN Do YOU THINK, GOING To SEE YOULL START UNCLE { THAT“ WANT 7 WARRY. IN A To GET AWAY WEEK OR SOP WE NEEDNT worRy ABOUT US, NEED hE, FRECKLES? UNCLE AARRY'S TRIP TO HAWAII STRIZE You, FRECKLES ? DO You MAINZ You'LL WANE A GooD BE LEANING IN A DAY OR SOm-Z LIKE TO EAT ON TRAINS =80Y! THEY KANE G00D “THINGS To GAT, I Wongsr ! NO-l ALMAYS LANE A GooD TING WTA amy! AMY! FOR THE LOVE- Ae MKeE ¢ Amy !! ANHAT'S. WRONG WITH UAT YounasTer ? oe aos, STOPPED UP, DOP, AND 1 CAN'T HEAR HOW MANY TIMES DO T WAVE tax on Pennsylvania manvfacturers. "Today Governor Fisher is regarded as Grundy’s man, though the Mellons are very friendly to him. Already some observers foresee & contest of strength between President, Hoover and Grundy over the pro- posed tariff revision upward, in be- half of which Grundy has spent so tions asked his views, principally as to what effect a general prohibitive tariff would have on prices to con- sumers and, most importantly whether it would be likely to have an effect on our foreign relations and foreign trade. ‘Word came back from Mr. Grundy that these questions were “a little too much time and effort recently in the unsuccessful career as a member of Stanton’s most exclusive “younger get” would have been terminated be- fore Nils Jonson reached the door into the sun parlor. As it the girl who was tolerated only she George Pruitt’s sis- gleefully into the mur- from Harry Blaine's thaway, turning the radio dial, blissfully obli- ‘vious to the electric undercurrents of drama with whiclt his liv- =] oe 5. g i i \2 If looks could slay, Selma Pruitt's academic at this time.” SAY, MISTER, | WANNA GUY ANOTHER Base: Bacc SuIT- AN’ “This TIME GIMME ONE WITH XWO PAIRS O' PANTS, Two SUITS; TWO CAPS, AN’ “Wo SELTS — GEE WHIZ! NOT A BAD LINE-Ye AT THat! AN’ LOOKIT HERE — @ COUPLE O' GAMES ARE ON TAP FOR EVERY HOLIOAY=1'M GLAD ( NoTICeO “Thert! Roser BEFORE 1 GO OUT To “THE PELICANS' PARK Pecxinpaven,|| CVESS WO BETTER LooK OVER THE INDIANS CLEVELAND '|| SEASON SCHEOULE aN’ SEE Le ( REALLY WANNA PLAN WITH “THEM — S0Su, Thats @ New KINDA ORDER To me! “He. DUST PLANIN’ SAFE — WHO CAN TELL? | (AA, GET INTA Some. O' TH’ DOUBLE leading from the sun parlor to the HEADERS! « living room, and shrilled at the in- visible occupants of the room she had just quitted: “You beasts! You cads! I loathe you both! I never want to see either of you again!” For an instant after she had slammed the door upon the two men whom she had publicly insulted, Cherry stood against it, her small bosom rising and falling tempest- uously, her topaz eyes blazing in a white face. Then, before any of her stunned audience could recover suffi- ciently to move toward her, her tiny body was flashing across the room. Faith, her face as pale as her sis- a 3 A ter’s, was about to follow Cherry, : é > eT A when Bob, his arms held out, stepped 2 y : | mommy <4 = (im in her path, | “My dance, honey? No use wasting ‘ = this music I had such a hard time finding,” he invited, with ' casual sits cheerfulness, for the benefit of their a * guests. Then, in a low voice, as she dazedly submitted to his embrace and fell into step with him, “Act as if nothing had happened. We've got to be civilized, even if Cherry isn't.” George Pruitt and his sister, Selma, Harry Blaine and Rhoda Jonson were joining their host and hostess in the dance when the slam of the front hall door told Faith that Cherry had fled the house. Just then,:as if they had been waiting for a signal, the door into the sun parlor was opened and Nils Jonson and Alan Beardsley denouement. NEXT: A startling (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.)