Corpus Christi Caller-Times from Corpus Christi, Texas • 8

THE CORPUS CHRISTI CALLER TUESDAY NOVEMBER 3 191 FACE Your Vote Is Secret Unless Election Of ficials Agree Unanimously To Spy FINAL REDUCTIONS begin City Planning Program Urged By FHA Official Rrallors IluiMora City Official and flankers Hear Moll a i HOYT HAGER 1 Want to know how your neighbor votes In the presidential election today? how you find out: 4 Ask him you vote today?" This Is the blunt familiar pry ln approach rerhaps you may word it this way: "Did you vote for Willkte (or Roosevelt) today?" or you might open with a leading question like "Did you vote (Perhaps say "Yes" Maybe (and you of course hope that he does) say "Yes I voted for Roosevelt (or Will-kie) or straight one way or another or a split ticket" If you find out what you want to know about your ballot by these questions forget The American secret ballot forestalls investigation of the records Ethical Barriers Under existing laws of election hi Nueces County and the United States It appears on the surface that the ballots are not secret Mowers STS5 Mowers New Mow en Under certain circumstances they are nob With little Inconvenience It is possible to learn how a man votes but In this there are certain ethical barriers which must be overcome The system to this To be eligible to vote a man or woman must be a citizen of the United States and a resident of the state one year and the county six months Furthermore for the right of 1 franchise poll tax ($173) must be purchased The poll taxes are numbered In rotation ss they are sold and a master list of the county's voters to furnished earh precinct election Judge When person presents himself to vote the mas ter list to checked for his name before he to given sn official bat lob In this way any double-voting ran be checked In case of an election content Ballots Numbered The official ballot then to Riven number (written on the bark In pencil) which corresponds to the number of the line where a person's hame is written In listing those who actually voted at the different boxes His ballot In Itnnd the citizen then marks it arcording to his convictions or instructions depending upon his moral strength nr -political affiliations The ballot is folded by the voter himself and he is Instructed to-place it in box Nobody has seen the ballot marked un to that time When activities around the pre-rlnrt voting place slow down the election Judge and Ids begin counting the votes They open the box In which the bo I lot Mowers Mow era 487 5 559 5 589 5 639 5 719 798 51244 51298 51468 51636 51839 S7 Now 893 Now $993 Now $1355 Now $1623 Now $1833 Now Mowers ROOSEVELT AND Elliott Roosevelt (extreme right) second son of the President it shown above with five other officer from Wright Field Dayton Ohio who accompanied him on a week-end triy to Corpus Christi and Aransas Pass They are pictured just before taking off for Dayton in the giont Army B-1 8 bomber plane While in the South Texas area Captain Roosevelt and the other officers fished and went duck hunting Others in the photo ore reading from left to right Maj George Schulgen Moj Thomas Chapman Maj James Spry Capt Roy Lynn and Moj Norman Brophy have been deposited and tabulations of the results At this point it is possible to investigate the sentiments expressed by the voter on his ballot Unless one of the assistant election Judges or the judge remembers one or more particular numbers which were written upon the bark of the ballots and to whom it was assigned it would require cross-check to determine who marked which ballot For one or two out of eight or ten or more assistant Judges to fnd out how a person voted he would of necessity have to learn the number of the ballot then check It with the mimerous ballots then read the ballot Unless all tbs Judges and as-sifilanU were in favor ot such unethical practice it might cause "stink" or something worse A lone person at a precinct box wcuid encounter all sorts ot complications if he tried to check up on his neighbor The spy would arouse the suspicions ot his Associates at the voting pluce in a minute if be ataited checking Obviously for a check-up at tho voting place to succeed would require complete co-operation of air official of the precinct headquarters ruuiibie you my hut not probable and hardly worth the eifnit and risk of offering a bribe or suggesting irregularities in an on-the-Jevel county or precinct After the ballot are tabulated they are placed in an iron bos which is lucked and curried in thv county clerk who places it in vault Only of election rontcxiu or demands for re-counts aie the iiexcs opened ugoaui until two years lime paused After tw yrars by law the poxes are opened and the ballot burned The cnunly ch-ik ot Nueces Mr I Inn (longer and any ether honct official never would allow anyone to oien those boxes without a court order So there you ere Actually the Omiditiilionil right of American to necict ballots is not entirely protected It is the linn nl and ethical of the which inuko pus-ihr secret ballot under a system which iiprienrs uimn Hie surface to nothing but pul nolle Mow era Pyorrhea May Follow Neglect Are your gums irritated? Do your gums cause you annoyance? Druggists return your money it the first bottle of fella to satisfy Jtaurhrr Pharmacy Mowers Mowers Ellioll Roosevelt Here for Opening Of Duck Season Silent on Politics $2043 Now Be Quick To Treat $2293 Mnwrrs Now ing at 10:15 in a B-13 Army bomber for Fort Worth They spent Saturday night here and took time out for the opening of the duck season and for fishing Officers ho made the non-stop flight heie with Captain House- veil were Maj Thoma Chapman Maj James Spry Mfij Norman This sale Includes the famous Eclipse self-sharpening lawn mower the world's best mowers This to your opportunity to buy a good mower at a good saving Brophy Maj George and Capt Hoy Lynn The trip was described as "normal non-stop navigation Flliolt Rno'pvelt Whoo appointment to the rank of captain to the army nir corps recently raised a Florin of nationwide comment stopped at Cliff Mau Airport yc-tordny on his way back to Pay bui (Jiiin after a two-day fishing and duck-lninting slay hut was eloT-moutlicd concerning today's election "Your guess is good a mine a to the he declared "Thu only thing I know about the election is what I hear over the Young Roosevelt did say however that he thought the presidential election would be close but that he had no idea of how well his father stood in the race Roosevelt refused to comment on his recent appointment a captain In the Army Air Corps The soon in company with five Wright Field officers left here yesterday morn- flight" The civil population of the I Canal Zone in 1939 was 23078 of whom 8979 were Americans Thone 4349 I I I $11 Mesquite I I I I Chronic bronchitis may develop If your cough chest cold or acuta bronchitis ta not treated and you cannot afford to Ukeechanee with any medicine less potent than Creomulalon which goes right to the seat of the trouble to help loosen and expel germ laden phlegm and aid nature to soothe end heal raw tender inflamed bronchial mucous membranes Creomulslon blends beechwood creosote by special processwlth other time tested medicines fur coughs It contains no narcotics No matter how many medicines you have tried trlljrnur druggist to mil you a bottle of Creomulslon with the understanding you must like Uio wav It quickly allays the cough permitting rest and sleep or you are to have your money back (Adv) Active support of a well-rounded program establishing comprehensive control of land use and city growth to avoid the random dcevlopment of slum area and the unnreesaray expense of future corrective measures was urged by Seward Mott director of the FilA land planning diviAlon Washington in an address at the luncheon of the Corpus ChristI Real Estate Board The luncheon was attended by 154 realtor? members of the City Planning and Zoning Commission city officials members of the Board of Adjustment representatives of mortgage loan companies title companies builders and others "Problems and activities of Corpus ChristI are nttiacling attention all over the country Mott said "On a recent list of or cilim showing rapid development industry housing and defvnse work Corpus Chrinti was among llifee at the top Early Start Urged "it in obvious that with a community gi owing at Uu lull and the tiemeiidotis expense thrust upon you us a consequence you should tie suffering limn tvrnfic growing poms But now is the tune to slul on a riampirhensiv program of controlling land use and city growth in order that the city may develop without blighting cerium nieaa developing slums which must later he eliminated and failure to provide proper traffic aili'i'ie which later will cost a tremendous amount in develop "The txainple afforded hy hundred of other cities should be continuously In your mind und while you unquestionably face a rerlotis financial probUMii certain things rou-'t In done n'w to avoid greater expense later The FI I A executive praised the elty udiiiinhli'ilinit for It forethought in developing the present rity zoning and planning nviti-imnec and in its program of en i fumcing the value of the bay- front through the present ini provement project "But to fully take ear of yntir problem further thought i must be given to a well-rounded land u-e program bared on rom-ipietiensive run-li-r rity tdan i ve loped tli rough careful study of street planning I lends of existing I conditions and irulus-' trial needs" Mc't continued Deviation llirinful Hu warned against deviation from the official city plan and pointed out that member of the planning commission frequently enrntuder strong pressure from individual seeking variances "filizeos should renliro that changes in the enhhshcd rlmr-j aeter of the p'm n-enns ilepve-j rial ion of value in Hint pat licnlar I area and in some lost met has led Hie KIIA to reftiMi to approve loans wheie km mnw variances are grinled Tin he said strongly upon tlie protection pnn iitit lv tin: zoning he ml Mott said subdivision regulation seldom were sufficiently I'oirpfehrnxu to protorf Hie enm-i nniniiy m-iunsl evils of wildcat ili'velopiiieiil and pointed out that in some ciles tile developer is le-j quiied tin plicini tumto in cr-emw through lllplr1inn bonds to Install completn im- proveniviit in rintira with Icily or county reguliUons and ini-! dec tipct vision of the cuv or county eni'incer This he said prevents the di'vclopment of iin-I warranted and unuccdcd Mibdi-I visions wtiich offer uulitic or other inipiwrtnonlx Cti-Oi dilution Mutt cited the need tor com- pleie cn-ordmiitum ot city and I county activities in planing nd i zoning and sanl uoik is being I done Inward providing enabling acts to encourage tin cn-opci u-i lion Thu real estate profession a a whole he said is now hacking all activities tending toward pi oper i control and the Federal Housing Administration i nicer to assist i planning group In Hity movement to forward It Mott was introduced hy Gabriel Harmon o'usultml of the KHA lamd running Division Dallas who spoke briefly on Die problems Corpus Christ i shares in common with other growing communities ridWeros mo not w- str tried to Corpus Christi but are accentuated by the rapidity of this growth blit they serve to bring out the need for real community and regional planning for city planning i not a nutter which can he restricted to the corporate limits of a city" Harmon said 1-rxUlation Needed Harold Carr attorney for the City ITanuing and Zoning Com mission spoke of the need tor state legislation to support county and regional planning in conjunction with city planning and riled development just outside the city limit to the south mid west to support He explained work betng done In this connection and proposed revision of the city zoning ordinance to reduce Ike amount of commercial area lie also mentioned briefly tentative plan to acquire property on (lie new bnyfront to develop porks and parking lot amt explained legislation being sought to permit assessment of the central business area tor this purpose In order to Insure permanent parking lot A mind table discussion led by Mark A Welsh president of the Real Estate Board on question pertaining to subdivision regulation and city planning fol-j lowed the addresses Participating i were McLeod San Antonio I and Raloh Iscr chairman of the division i At one time Bridgeport Conn served ss winter headquarters lor lute Barnum TVtW circus Take This Easy Route To Eye Comfort: Buy An IES Floor Lamp Now! 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