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LETTERS The Eggs We Hope Won't Hafch PASS 1H REVIEW Voting is your 'duty. iff Fort Lauderdale Daily News ANV ICNTINIL THE GOftE PUBLISHING COMPANY i. W. DICKEY. Preildent-Publiiber JACK W.

OORK, Editor aad Co-Publthc BIU, STARR. AdTrUln Manager Editorial, Page Six MONDAY, APRIL 22, 1957 -mHhe4 Try week-day afternoon and Sunday morning at Ft. Laadardala, Ch Hewe Building. 330 SB Flrat An. Classified Department Dial JA 3-5425 All Other Departments Dial JA 2-3711 By Orville Revelle MEMBER OF TEC ASSOCIATED PRESS fM Aaaoclated! Presa Is entitled xclujlrely to the use for pubUeatlaa local bows printed In thia newspaper-aa wall all AP saws dUpatcKea.

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THIS is directed toward all registered Ft. Lauderdale voters: You have a job to do at the polls tomorrow. for whom you want to but just be sure you vote. A big turnout tomorrow will- help erase thoughts of your poor showing at the polls two weeks ago. Voters who refuse to participate in the selection of officials to govern their community are not entitled to much government.

It's just a shame that those who do their duty must suffer because of those who don't. But that's one of the prices we must pay When we govern ourselves. If It hadn't happened im broad light many persons would be changing their brand by now. Last Friday at 1:30 p.m., a boat came ever the Andrews Ave. bridge instead of traveling beneath It.

Naturally, it was on wheels but these you didn't see until it started on the downgrade. Glenn Hoffer's reaction, as the bow came into sight from the, seuthside of the bridge: ''Now I've seen everything." Tomorrowt is your last chance to see the bangtails In action in Florida this season. Tuesday's card at Gulfstream Park rings down the curtain on a successful meeting that stands as a monument to the "late season" Broward County enjoyed this year thanks to James Donn and Horace Wade. BOO-BOO It's Our Opinion EDITORIALLY YOURS Ft. Lauderdale oters Can Erase Disgraceful Performance at Polls Two Weeks Ago by Getting Out LETTERS THE BEACHCOMBER! aTaaaBBBBBBBB.WBaaBBBBBBBBBBB You may know or maybe not.

By Wesley W. Stout YOUR REVIEWER, as avid a Redleg fan as those you'll find In the vicinity of Findlay St. and Western site of Crosley Field, in Cincinnati, feels that Birdie Tebbetts, the Redleg manager, pulled a boo-boo in publicly denouncing Lew Bur-dette, Milwaukee pitcher, as "a cheating spitballer" last Friday. The smart thing to have done would have been to employ three cameramen with telescopic-lensed movie cameras to follow Burdette from city to city and recorded his every pitch for evidence. One camera behind the plate and the other two at and, third would give these- men in the stands some pretty good pictures IF Burdette is using saliva on the ball to show Warren Giles, president of -the National League, who demands proof instead of name-calling.

And If our old pal, Gabe Paul, prexy of the Redlegs, wants to apply some good old Rhineland psychology to beat Burdette the next time his team faces him just have Birdie instruct every third batter to ask the plate umpire to see the ball no less than two times while he is at bat but make sure you ask to see the ball while Burdette is handling it and not after it has reached the catcher's mitt. Along about the fifth Inning, the big righthander of the Braves will be so disturbed over what is taking place he won't even see the plate. To find out if this kind of psychology works we refer Gabe to the first game of a July 4, 1939, doubleheader in Chicago, when the Cubs' applied it to Johnny Vander Meer with much success. In this instance the Cubs ever so often called it to the attention of the umpire Johnny's rockin' chair motion of delivery that they claimed was illegal. When it came time for Johnny to head for the showers he was the most nervous but happiest person in thejball park.

PRANKSTERS TWO, elderly women from Philadelphia' who moved to our city because of Illness are on the verge of moving on because of recent incidents from which there is no protection or so it seems. These' two women, one is 65, the other 70, are the victims of the telephone pranks of a group of "voices" that sound like they are in the teens. One of the women almost was scared into a coma last Thursday midnight when she answered the phone and the voice at the other end warned her to get out immediately bo-cause "your house is on fire!" After the other sister helped the one, who answered the call, back to bed the phone rang again. This time 'the voice asked, "Did'we scare you?" To Tlie Editor Non-pariisan Edller. The Newi: ALONG with yourself i Judging from your fine April 8 editorial, the Ft.

Lauderdale League of Women Voters and many other citizens are concerned with the injection of partisan politics into our city elections. At our' monthly luncheon meeting, the membership voted unanimously to have me, as their president, write the newspapers voicing their concern and dis- approval. First let me make clear that the league Is a non-partisan national organization which backs issues rather than parties or candidates. Our membership here in Ft. Lauderdale, as everywhere, Is made up of Republicans, Democrats and Independents.

We have to the city charter the present and the proposed one, to the county registrar's office, and to the polls- and find that the whole election is set up on a non-partisan basis. At the polls we found the ballot in the voting machine was not divided into parties. The election officials did not ask for party affiliation. There were no party observers at the polling places. From the registrar's office we learned that no candidate was required to register i with the party committee, not to pay a party fee.

The candidates winning in the primary are the 10 receiving the most votes-regardless of party. In the city charter there is no mention of partisan qualifications. All of these facts that we are pointing out may seem elementary but it is evident that some people do not know them, or do not choose to acknowledge them. We also found that in the past many good Republicans and many good Democrats have served in our city offices-having been selected as. the best candidates without mentioning their party.

all of these reasons we hope that the good citizens of Ft; Lauderdale will join with us in demanding that the city elections remain non-partisan for the good of our community and in the best interests of future growth. JEAN DOYLE Understood Editor. The Nw- IT is readily understood that any kind of a controversial issue in a political campaign makes good copy and sells newspapers, however, don't you believe that it is the soleftin duty of the local press to bring to the voters the true facts pertain-' ing to certain serious accusations, claims and counterclaims, not only by the candidates, but also by the so-called "Ring Makers?" Any. reporter- attending recent political rallies, could not help but notice that only one recently elected office holder is always present and together with his party boss, is actively engaged in disseminating the doctrine- of his party. The writer worked as hard as any individual in our city for the election of this man to his first political office, never dreaming, of course, that his election would bring about the first attempt to bring machine politics into Fort Lauderdale and Broward County.

Many of your readers left their northern homes because of repulsion against machine politics and one man rule. I believe we are entitled to know the truth, and only through the press can we arrive at all the facts and the true character of the didates. la Partisan Editor, The Newa: SINCE the beginning of the "Government of the Free" -political history shows that voters align themselves with certain political parties in the election of national, state, county and municipal candidates. At the present time two major parties, Republican and Democrat, are in control of the various political offices in the executive, legislative and judicial branches of government. Political parties are instrumental in the formation of platforms, or sets of principles and policies to be- followed.

The party, endorses to put the platform into operation. Thus it comes clear that the organization candidate, whether he be a Democrat or Republican, is bound by moral law to execute the office to which he has been elected in accordance with the platform, the policies, and the promises the party organization has made. A party candidate thus has responsibilities not only to the electors, but the party as well. This dual responsibility is the foundation of good government. One often hears of the "Independent" or "non-partisan" candidate.

A strict examination of the political history of such a candidate will generally disclose that he favors one of the two major parties. Ask him how he votes in the national or gubernatorial election, and his "Independent" or "non-partisan" disappears. An Independent or non-partisan candidate speaking before a group of electors once said "I am not a Republican, neither am I a Democrat, I am nothing." This type of candidate has no responsibility but to himself. It is a matter of public record that some such elected candidates have offered to vote a certain way, thereby making a "dear in order: to secure some favor he wanted. Such a situation leads only to corruption and poor government; A candidate should be proud of his political affiliation; he should not hide his light under a bushel.

If he tries to hide or conceal his political connections, he is then like the old aged expression of "trying to carry water on both shoulders." For the sake of good clean politics, for the sake of stimulating interest, for the sake of good government, and for goodness' sake let Ft. Lauderdale have party politics. PERRY C. BRESTEL Were Excellent Edit-. The THE editorial and cartoon appearing in the April 9 issue of The Daily News concerning the Florida members of Congress who voted for the $50,000,000 Public Health Service Program, were excellent.

This one problem Is Just about 50 per cent what is wrong with federal taxation. The other 50 per cent is the income tax law the 16th Amendment and withholding taxes. The 16th Amendment must be repealed or we will go clown the same path as the Roman Empire, the British Empire. Greece, Spain, Egypt, Portugal and every other great country in history. The same thing which caused their decline will make us a "gone goose." E.

M. MATTI3 And Voting Tomorrow JTT. LAUDERDALE voters go back to the polls tomorrow to finish the job they started two weeks ago. This time the voters will actually choose a City Commission with the five highest vote-getters scheduled to take office on May 7 as the new governing body. The campaign leading up to tomorrow's election has been somewhat different than the one which preceded the balloting two weeks ago.

This time it has been more or less of a group campaign in that both the incumbents and their challengers have seen fit to do battle with each other as rather tightly knit groups rather than individual entities. The challengers, all of whom are Republicans and who have been erldorsed by, the county Republican leadership, have1 based their campaign on the idea it is time to break the monopoly the Democrats have exercised over City Hall. They have claimed that Republicans have been virtually ignored by the incumbents in making appointments to advisory bodies and in filling city jobs and they have urged voters to put City Hall under Che same two-party system of government that characterizes our county, State and national governments. THE incumbents have strongly denied Republican claims that the city government has been operated on a partisan political basis. They have pointed, out that the City Charter calls for non-partisan city gov? ernment and that they, as city officials, have never considered national affiliations as pertinent to any person's employment or appointment in the city government.

They have also argued that bringing partisan politics into city election campaigns would be destructive to efficient Management of the In all fairness to the incumbents The Daily News must say there is little evidence that this commission, or others in the past, have made any real attempt to inject partisan politics into the operation of the city. 1 Prior to this present campaign, we can't even recall that candidates for city office did any more than make casual mention of their national party -affiliations. Now, however, due to the recent insurgence of the Republican Party in these parts, we "have a city election campaign in which party affiliation has become' the major issue. Individual candidates and their qualifications are presumably of lesser importance than the political party they represent as virtually the whole campaign has been based" on the argument that one. party should be tossed out and the other given an opportunity to prove what it can do.

THE DAILY NEWS doesn't subscribe to this theory at all. We belie that as far as the management of Ft. Lauderdale is. concerned the individual who is elected to office is much more important than the party-he represents. Being a Republican doesn't make a candidate better qualified for the job of city commissioner than some other candidate who happens to be a Democrat.

Nor, in the opposite vein, does membership in the Democratic Party bestow upon a candidate any more common sense, civic responsibility or integrity than a Republican might possess. And in the final summation who is there today who can say what the terms Republican and Demo-, crat really mean? The two parties -are so mixed up in their beliefs that you find wild-eyed liberals and staunch conservatives all filing together in both parties to such an extent that it is impossible for one party to embrace them all in any intelligible manner. Our recommendation, therefore, would be that Ft. Lauderdale voters forget all about this partisan politics business and elect men to office tomorrow on the basis of their individual qualifications, their individual records and the individual efforts they have made in the past two weeks' to convince the "voters they are the man for the job. If some voters sincerely believe the five Republicans are better individually qualified to manage the affairs of this city than the five incumbent Democrats then by all means these voters should give their support to the candidates they believe are best qualified.

The same holds true for yotfers who think: the Incumbents have done well as individual members of the "TO cast a vote for one or another candidate simply on the basis of" his party "membership, however, is something else again. This is carrying partisan politics to the extreme and It Indicates such a voter holds the interest of a political party above his own interests and that, of the city as a whole. One other point about this election might be worth stressing. In the primary election two weeks ago only 9,296 voters of this community bothered to go to the polls. This represented less than 30 percent of those eligible to vote and It was rather a disgraceful exhibition of good citizenship.

We have an opportunity to do much better tomorrow, and certainly the task of voting Isn't so onerous that all of us can't spare the few min- utes It will take to go to the polls and choose the five men we want to guide the destiny of our city for the next two years. Jack" W. Gore When the woman requested the young To Tlie Editor Very Bored i Kditor, The News: 1 i I NOTED the article in the April Daily News regarding a resolution by the Humane Society asking the City and County Commissioners of Broward County to' forbid the sale Of small pets. The article put it as, chicks, rabbits and other small pets'." -V" As a pet shop owner, I become very, bored with self-appointed "pet lovers" who constantly try to impress everyone with their great love for pets. The kind who go in pet shops and tell the owner probably a man who has devoted his life to pets! how to treat them, feed them and care for them.

They come in and tell him it is too hot, too cold, too drafty for the "poor, poor little things." The pet shop owner tries to be courteous even though he can quickly prove these self-styled pet lovers do not know what they are talking about. Now along comes the Humane Society and to deprive children and adults of the pleasure, education and companionship-of pet ownership. Sure, little children occasionally injure or even kill a pet. Not on purpose, but perhaps loving the pet too much. When this happens the child realizes and learns the proper way to take care of their pets.

The small pets love their owners and most of them in fact, the vast majority of "them eat better, live better and are far happier and healthier when loved and cared for by a family in what the Humane Society calls their "unnatural condition," than they would be if wild or even on a farm. If the City Commissioners ot County Commissioners seriously consider such foolishness, then they should go ahead and forbid the sale of parakeets. II have heard: of them being stepped on by adults, squeezed to death by small children, and allowed to escape and thereby be exposed to the dangers of predatory birds and animals. They should forbid the sale of puppies as many children manhandle them, tease them, pull their tails. Adults sometimes do not properly handle puppies either.

The City Commissioners should not overlook the faet that many people buy tropical' fish and take them home and put them' in a bowl of city water which has chlorine in it. This chlorine kills the fish in about 20 to 30 minutes. It is poison to fish. This is very cruel to the fish so why not stop the sale of them? Of course, disregard the fact that these things can be overcome and any pet shop dealer can instruct people how to take fish home and make them healthy and happy in their aquarium. "I believe the Humane Society plays very important part in every community all over the country.

However. I beliew that they should take care of their pr e-scribed duties and not allow any beavers" in their organization to detract from their great Importance by making ill considered, inept and illogical reso-" lutions. DONALD TALLMADGE Disqualified Editor, The Newa: WHILE investigating the Tropical Park race track, how about our Gulfstream, too? Just last March 26, a horse by name of Gunman won the second race there and was disqualified. Could it have been that a certain gang was betting on another one in the same race? This is just one of the many things that has happened there. KENNETH B.

HENSON (EDITOR'S NOTE: Gunman was disqualified by the racing judges mhen he swerved out on the last turn, bumped A'o. 5 and then tut off No. 7.) Splendid Editorial Salter, The Neve: THE entire membership of the Lau- derdale Board of Realtors is keenly appreciative of the splendid editorial which you wrote and published in The Ft. Lauderdale Daily News commemorating our Realtor Week. v-v Local realtors are proud of the recognition accorded your paper this past year for your outstanding real estate section.

When the rpal estate pages are exhibited at our national convention this year I feel certain that The Ft. Lauderdale Daily News, for its outstanding co-operation with realtors, will again be spotlighted. JACK HIGGINBOTHAM Information Editor. The New: IT isn't my intention to prolong the pat on the back of the writer of "Little Protest" THAT. Pompand's first movies were shown in McNabb Hall, Whites only on Wednesday- and Friday nights.

Negroes only on Thursdays and Saturdays. That Dania, led by Quince Bryan, erected a welcome arch over the Dixie in 1915, outdoing the arch at NE Second and 40th which marked the entrance to Miami. That )D. E. Jonson.

elected 'town clerk in 1913, always wrote "minuets" for "minutes' of the town council. v- THAT George E. Russell, oldest Miami Beach street car conductor in 1939, said that when he took the job each passenger was provided with an Australian pine switch against the skeeters. each car with a smudge can. -1 That the Federal Trade Commission In 1939 was trying to prohibit calling the Florida crayfish a lobster, and had issued a cease and desist order against East Coast Fisheries.

That Popeye and Olive Oyl were married here in 1939 at Judge Boyd Anderson's home; They were Jack Mercer, 24, and Margie Hines. 21, the voices of these comic strip characters for the animated cartoons then being made at the Miami Fleischer studio. "Olive has been my bestest sweetie ever since I first seen her" was a Popeye line. "Ain't he courageous!" was Olive's response. The couple were remarried later that year In a New York church at the insistence of Margie's Long Island mother.

THAT John H. Dingwall, chief of a crew of girl magazine -subscription solicitors. was convicted under the Mann Act at Miami in 1939 and given five years in prison. The' girl who wrote the most subscriptions each day was Dingwall's partner by night. That a Gallup poU that year made the United States the favorite foreign nation of he English and French.

That was before we had given our blood and billions a second time to save them. That as far back, as 1939, when there was one automobile here to today's four, Herbert U. Nelson, executive v.p. of the National Assn. of Realty Boards, was proposing that six blocks of Flagler be closed to all vehicular traffic.

Nelson said he got the idea In a Michigan country town where the merchants had closed Main St. to cars each Saturday from 3 p.m. to midnight. THAT Florida Motor Transportation, successors to the White Star, banned women passengers from the front seats of their buses in 1921 too distracting for the driver. The seats ran the width of the chassis like park benches.

:1 -v That we did have a hospital before Memorial. PinecrestJ. The Sentinel of Nov. 10, 1922, reported that Drs. Edwards and Carter had operated upon Mrs.

A. D. Marshall "at the temporary hospital in the Wallace Apts." And Mrs. Maxwell Baxter recalls that she underwent an appendectomy there. That the Sentinel in September, 1921.

reported: "A party of boys composed of Henry Marshall, Wallace Shealey, Elmo Baker and Robert Mathews are spending the weekend camping with. the mosquitos just south of the Inlet." THAT Dr. J. B. Hanson of Coconut Isle eats a Rotary Club luncheon five times a week, belonging to that many area clubs.

He never misses an international convention either, and is off now to Switzerland with J. B. Fraser. letter of March 19. but the letter signed "Cest la Vie" commenting on this letter should have said: "There was little protest by men she helped to put in office," rather than "men now in office." I wish to thank the editor for accepting such letters we have been reading of.

late-Most of us do not have a chance to read national magazines or articles by nationally known writers. As for TV, we who hold, two jobs for proper maintenance of our families appreciate the information in The Daily News. HERMAN C. SCHMIDT i voice to refrain from such antics, the answer was: "We can't. We're members of the Hi-ball When warned she was going to report them to the police, this thoughtless kid hung up.

In answer to the plea as to what they could do to stop these nocturnal calls, we suggested they ask the telephone company to tap into their wire and trace the calls. What kind of youngsters would derive pleasure from this kind of a prank? Probably, the kind that grow up into adults that enjoy creating panics. In our book, these youngsters need and should have psychi- atric once apprehended. EGGS DID you ever color 60 dozen eggs for children? If not, and you would like to know how it feels when it-comes to Eggs Nos. 719 and 720 just ask Keith Hendee Who spearheaded the job for his Andrews Drive-In and Davie Blvd.

theaters which held Egg Hunts for about 500 youngsters yesterday. Incidentally, 719 and 520 were specials both golden the former worth a $25 Savings Bond, donated by the Wilton Manors Bank, and the latter a table model radio by Gateway. BIRTH DATES April 23 L. G. Howell Katharine Stokes Shirley Temple Frank Ciccone Lucius D.

Clay.i Mrs. William (Ruthl Dotson Dorothy Fajmquist. COL. BROWARD'S Notebook A Michigan man remarried his divorced wife and we'll bet she won't forever be saying nice things about her ex-husband. Winter brings a lot of skating romances when either party is liable 'to break the ice.

Most young kids know that dessert for' dinne'r. is what comes and goes with company. There, are a lot' of teen-age girls who are not interested in boys. That's where the men come in..