The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-10-20
ODD AND EVEN NUMBERED YEARS

The attraction Gov. Ali M. Landon held for Will liam Randolph Hearst that impeed the publisher to take his retinue of top talent to Topeka last winter for final appraisal is than met the eye of the embarrassed Kansas City Star newsmen who went along to the Executive Mansion to make the intro auctions It should have been realized by a neutral observer that there existed between the two men a certain spiritual relationship. This would have been discernable to any the uncomfortable member of the little coerie of Jayhawker journalists who had first sponsored the 18th, it the 18th, tive budget balancer of the state.
 For MT Hearst is by repute very discriminating connoisseur; he has rarely let it be known that his selections not his in the first instance
 AS the campaign progresses this similarity of mental qualities becomes more apparent. Recently the effort of MT Hearst to support the charge of Ogden L. Mills and Col. Frank Knox that the chief aim of the Roosevelt Administration has been to further the ambitions of the Stalin regime in Russia has disclosed that exactly does Governor Landon the publisher is staunch supporter Of public policies during even numbered years There is a sameness in this trait that is peculiarly the property strong silenced man of Kansas and his lege lord of San
 For example, Candidate Landon today asserts that planned economy is incompatible with the demo- cratic form of government. It must lead to ever n- creasng executive authority" In 1933 as chairman Of petroleum conference in Washington, appointed by Secretary Ickes, Governor Landon said: "A com pact between the states (Which this year he advo- cates) is an ridescent dream. In the end we must have the iron hand of dictator" And he then insisted upon cefixing provision in the oil code
 to NoA an autocratc and alien philosophy of government foisted upon us in the misery of the depression by Federal administration that used the emergency to absorb the powers of the states-an administration that assumed we had suddenly outgrown American institutions But in the odd year to be in July 1883 Governor Landon teegraphed Secretary Ickes Federal control under present (NRA is our only hope and if to be protected will be necessary for dictator to exercise authority in the premises and flx allotment to states also to pools within the states, also on storage withdrawal and imports"
 Well, this is like MT. Hearst as to go some distance toward explaining their affinity in the present crusade to defeat President Roosevelt and wreck his program for complete economic recovery Illustrations are innumerable but quite recent one may suffice Recently the publisher issued one of his nimitable edicts which included this sentence:
 MT Roosevelt compelled the recognition of the bloody dictatorship of Stalin in Moscow-a dictator ship born in riot and revolution and sustained by murder and plunder."
 But in the odd-numbered year of l933 wherein Ill that Landon now excoriates by Governor Lam don extolled essential MT. Hearst proclaimed in his New York American (Nov 22):
 On the initiative of President Roosevelt the United States and Russia have at last resumed nor mai relations on terms that are entirely honorable mutually advantageous and in harmony with a happy tradition of friendship AS the Hearst newspapers in their long advocacy of the restoration of friendly relations with Russia have repeatedly pointed out friendly political relations promote trade relations and trade relations when maintained on fair basis. promote friendly political relations"