The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-08-05
VARIOUS BRANDS OF COMMON SENSE"

The vagueness and quite obvious insincerity the relief plank in the Republican national platform was resented by many earnest men and women in tha party who recognize the impossbility of immediate discontinuance of Federal relief. Even deeper con- cern has been occasioned among his partisans by the persistent refusal of Gov Ali M Landon to answer public inquiries to his purpoted statement of last December that $108 a week is ample allowance for family of three in Kansas. Two weeks after the New York Post respectfully requested the Republi- can presidential nominee to comment the state ment quoted by State Senator Joseph S. Mcdonald of Kansas City Kan, the Post announced the "abso- hte refusal" of the candidate to make any response whatever
 But the exuberant Republican National Chairman John D M. Hamilton has been defining very clearly his partys stand relief Dashing down to Pennsyl vania from series of pep talks in New England this mdefatigabe interocutor of the Old Guard or ganization spoke before statewide assemblage of party workers Hershey Ignoring the fact that the Republican controlled state senate refused during II weeks of extra session of the Pennsylvania legis lature vote single cent for relief despite appeals of Republican mayors of Philadelphia and other cities MT Hamilton did exactly what he quoted in the press as having assured Governor Landon he woule do on leaving Topeka-he took the offensive" Al Hershey he declared:
 Tt is unnecessary for me to recall to you the poll.
  place in Pennsylvania at the hands of ruthless party machine In instance after instance the corruption you have long suspected has been proved by pconro vertible eyidence.1 AZ
 Supplying no such evidence against the suppor ters of President Roosevelt who number hundreds Of thousands of lifelong Republicans in the Keystone State the speaker then said pontedy, to the party workers: "The issue in your state is whether common sense is common sense"
 And exactly the sort of common sense the chair demanded produced in several localities where the word ruthless applied to the strongly entrenched Mellon -Grundy- Pew Republican machine, is inadequate adjective. Soon instance after n- stance of actual political perversion of unempoy ment relief" proved in Pennsylvania "by incon- trovertble evidence" particularly despicable in- stance was in Somerset near which there have been seyera fatal air crashes that cost many lives in that region known the Graveyard of the Alleghanies "
 For years the aeronautcal organizations and civic and patriotic bodies in western Pennsylvania have pe- ttoned Washington to construct a landing field in what las been recognized the most dangerous poi in the country Finally, after months of preparation site chosen two miles from Somerset and $l67,- GOO in PWA money allotted for the construction of the sorely needed airport the most important part of the plan of the Department of Commerce for 2 nation wide system of landing fields. The only requirement of Somerset was the donation of a site at an agreed price of 0OO to be shared equally by the borough and the country The project was t' supply employment to 22O men for ten months.
 But the members of the borough council, composed of organization Republicans, used the Hamilton brand of common sense" They held secret session barred the townspeople, and announced: We will give the borough the chance to vote in November or whether to accept the $l67.0OO" After the election