The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 8, 1940, Page 2

The Key West Citi | > 5 | Che wavy West Citizen | "THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO. INC. F shed Daily Except Sunday By . ARTMAN, President and Pablisher JO” ALLEN, Business Manager From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County Diember of the Assgelated Press ated Press is exclusively entitle to use ation of all news dispgtches credited to herwise credited in tifis paper and also | '8 published here. ; acre. | siderably higher than that figure, ards of thanks, resolutions of , Will be charged for at ment by churches from whieh od are 5 certs a line. and invites diseus- 's of local or general » anonymous communi- TLL always k the truth and print it ar and without favor; never be attack wrong or to applaud right; nt tor progress; never be the or- mouthpiece of any person, clique, always do its utmost for the never tolerate corruption or ; denounce vice and praise virtue, d od done by individua or organ- izatien; tolerant of others’ rights -‘iews and ns; print only news that w.:i elevate i contaminate the reader; never com- with principle. | | ‘VEMENTS TOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Bathing Pavilion. nd and Sea. 1 of County and City Gov- |, The snow birds are on the wing; be- re of them when they arrive in Key Verbum sap. | key are going to | boom prices—they paid over | into condemnation proceedings, and HOLDING UP THE WORKS: THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Two owners of land'on Boca: Chica’, be pretty unpopular among the dozen others who own land ad- joining theirs, if proceedings contem- plated by the County Commissioners are | carried out. ‘ihe Board is in a fighting mood on the subject, and rightfully so—for the difficulty now being experienced in ob- taining all of the 994-acre traet of land for the new army sub-airbase threatens to upset the applecart, as it were. Appraisals of land on the tract now determined as entirely suitable for the air- port brought out that a fair price for the | land would be something under $25.00 per : # The Board was prepared to go con- ever, as a premium for prompt action. They offered all owners $35.00 per acre. All but two have aecepted—but these two, as we say above, are rocxing the boat. It’s the old question of hanging on to the idea that land is worth what one pays for it. These two persors were victims of $100 per acre for the land, and, according to their statem« Now, it appears, unless they see the light and make up their minds that the ice offered is fair, which it is—the whole alling four times the land in- volved in the dispute, is going to be thrown it is its, believe they should now re- | considerably more than the oifering how- | Me DOIN! THESE CLOTHES Suit Me Fine ! * Editor, The Citizen: Roger Babson, Prohibition can- didate for president, in his tele- gram of congratulations to Presi- WOMAN’S (Associated: Press | CORNER Feature Service) IF YOU KNOW YOURSELF, YOU readily admitted that any jury sitting on | the case will peg a valuation figure well | , under the $35.00 now offered. Thus it can be seen that everybody is | going to be the loser—at the expense of the two that now are holding up pro- ceedi igs. The Citizen sincerely hopes that pres- sure can be brought to bear on the two re- | calcitrants—both by the Board and by the | | other property owners, in order that they | may accept the county’s just effer. It will leave a bad taste in‘the mouth of those closely involved in this new project—to witness the-court action decision valuing ; land around the $20-per-acre figure, when | funds have been assured to allow $15.00 | more than that figure. But, if there’s no other way out— | then the county will be in the way of sav- 1y peopie have put their cards | > that the American card manu-} have declared an extra dividend. | Se mar ain is dreaming of her ancient but if she casts her lot with Hitler will be a rude awakening when she herself a Fascist pawn on the Euro- beard. ing considerable money on the transaction, which, as all will agree, is another story on the credit side. $240,000,000 WORTH OF TOYS Regardless of the war, it looks like the toy manufacturers of the United States will be ready to lend Santa Claus a_ helping | hand this Christmas. United States to| use, please; we are not r necks for the Axis to chop with their Axe. wants the e ship of state dees not always | 2te on smooth waters, in fact nearly | ays the going is rough. There js al- isis of some kind, and that has us | what the crisis of 1944 will be? In advertisements we are asked to see | our dentist twice a year. Nothing is ever id doctor—unethica!, | haps. ss, it advisable, sven in apparently good health, to see | at least once a year—a diag- greater value than a post mor- | bout seeing our is The right to form an opinion is of no soever if one is refrained from | g it through fear of reprisals in another. Things have come to if the beneficiar of govern t e is looked upon as an ingrate | if he or she does not vote for the party in not the Administration's | whether distributed rightfully or} i ut it is the people’s money in funds | borrewed by the Treasury or received through taxation. “nele Sam is a kindly old chap. He | oing to give a let of lucky fellows aj y 2thletie training, with good board} and lodging ineluded, and he won't-charge I 4 penny, in fact he will include a sub- at’ money allowance every month. It joyous adventure, beneficial to mind, and: help this country te become stronger, physically, mentally and | —let us hope—spiritually. Were it not for the clouds of war, hovering near, it would be an ideal consummation, , sound.” tresults. The toy manufacturers announce that | they have $240,000,000 worth of toys ready for the holiday season, including 100,000 rew ones to gladden the hearts of Amer'can childhood. Naturally, national defense prepara- tions are reflected in the new battleships, | airplanes and anti-aircraft gurs but the old standbys will be available, including a new doll with a-magnetic hand, able te | hcld whatever is placed in it, and one with a skin that wrinkles, just like a new baby’s. A SALUTE TO GREECE Let’s give a hand to the Greek gov- ernment and the brave people of the small | Balka state! Tn the face of an Italian ultimatum | | the ancient inhabitants of the -altured lard made their choice and decided to fight for their liberty. It may be too much to expect great victories for the Greeks, even with all the assistance that the British can render, but, just the same, they have faced the initial test with courage thst deserves admiration. ADVERTISING INCREASING A substantial increase in advertising | expenditures is predicted in 1941 by the Association of National Advertisers, based on a poll conducted by the association. At a recent convention, the National Advertisers found sales expectations high for the coming year. Naturally, most of them plan bigger advertising budgets. Paul V. West, president of the as- sociation, emphasized that intelligent ad- vertising and sound merchandising are needed as never before and he urged that “we put the emphasis on intelligent and They will now as always bring By MARGARET There’s a little red-haired wom-! an in Manhattan who has made a big business out of prescribing colors for personality. You can buy gay rugs and }lamps, mateh your draperies and upholstery, paint your walls, se- lect your clothes and even your cosmetics by her 20th century color cards. » She is Mrs. Bernice Bowser and you can go to her beautiful modern office for a CP rating. Her idea isn’t brand new. It | sounds s> obvious you can hardly believe it ever was a money-mak- ing scheme much less understand exactly how it got involved in so many things you're likely to be buying. System Used By Others She sells you your own color personality. That's CP. Ske de- termines it by matching ysu- skin, eyes-and-hair with color cards and letting you see the ef- fects in mirrors. Her system is now used widely by others too. Right off the bat she'll say. “You can wear your favorite col- or regardless of your. skin and hair if you select the right tint or shade”. If your eyebrow goes up on that one. she'll probably send it {higher by this: “Nobody can feel | poor who sees color”. She'll tell you-that only about four percent of us are color blind physically, but she'll show you case histories that make about 50 percent of us seem color blind | mentally. i By AMY They are refugees, so ignorant of the language that they ordered bacon and got banana splits. It thappened in New York. | But the man, Erci Kolb (he is thoroughly French) thinks | wonderful ideas for women’s | clothes and makes sketches of oe | DUAL-PURPOSE DRESS’ = Eric Kolb’s dual-purpose dress mentioned im this art- | ce © |them. At least Patou thought his ideas were wonderful enough |to buy, and so did Balenciaga and \elong. | ning low and-all the ‘so well dressed already |can't imagine what signing art will be. } New York dress | vidding for Kolb's | t's likely he'll soor | what we wear. 2 | The dtess houses know el and a few other i, artists had a big hand in deter-. nining which way the sithouett® would jump. These men supplied KNOW YOUR COLORS KERNODLE Her coler business is based on charts that show you what color of hat or bathtub you should buy to best suit your skin, hair and eyes. She utilizes the laws of physics which she learned by listening to her ‘husband, a pioneer lighting engineer, and graphs she secured from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She leans heavily on knowledge of color gained studying art in Paris. Mrs. Bowser hasn’t always been a success. When her hus- band died, her life added up about like this: A runaway bride at 18; a wife who carefully watch- her in ed experimegts with the first | lamp that switched from day- light to artificial light; an ardent collector of ceramics with never a thought of having to know anythine about facts and figures. Tried Other Fields Her’ Paris job as‘ representative of about 20 American manufac-| turers collapsed. She tried to be a decorator. She invaded depart- ment stores~and eventually built her business on the only things she knew—lighting, color and people. She was the first American woman to work as a home light- ing- specialist. She’s learned that men are more logical than women in choosing color for themselves. She explains that women for- get that their skin and hair change color between the ages of '45 and 65. "DAME FASHION WELCOMES: A’ REFUGEE PORTER It is a simple black wool to be worn in the office and afterward. It is transformed at 5 o'clock, Mr. Kolb-says (does anybody know a secretary who is through at 5 o'clock?) into an engagement— not date—dress. How To Relieve ronchiti = B s one. pee of & Centrally Located > Free Swimming Pool, & : arate Floors for dent Roosevelt, pointed out to him that the proper allocation of less than one per cent of the to- tal vote cast in the country would have elected Willkie to the presi- dency. Several friends asked me how is that possible, in view of Roose- velt’s preponderant electoral vote, and I figured it out for them. Babson did not name the states on which he based his conclusion, but it was an easy matter to find them. Here they are: New York, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Oregon, Ohio, Nevada and Massachusetts. Those 12 states have an electoral vote of 203, and Roosevelt car- ried them by only 856,152. ac- cording to the latest tabulation I had seen up to the time of writ- ing this letter last night. Half of that majority is 422.576, less than one per cent of the vote cast in the country. Indeed, had Willkie been given one per cent of the Roosevelt vote in those states, properly allocated, Willkie would have had a majority of 6,000 in each of them, and would have had the required 266 electoral votes to assure his election. I may add that, at the time T tabulated the figures, Roosevelt was leading in Michigan by 2,196, and I heard later that Willkie had carried_that state. The changing of the result of the election by a margin of less than one per cent may seem sur- prising, considering that Roose- velt’s popular majority was more than 4,000,000, but it is net:sur- prising if we bear in mind that by far the greater part of the popular majority was obtained in the Solid South. SAM E. HARRIS. Subscribe to The Citizen, 20¢ FRIDAY, NOVEMEEER —— Observation taken et 7:30 2 m 75th Mer. Time (city office) Temperatures Highest last 24 hours Lowest last night Mean Normal Precipitati Rainfall, 24 hours ending 7:30 a. m., inches Total rainfall since Nov. 1, Deficiency since Nov. inches Total rainfall since Jan. 1 inches oa 1, 048 - inches 34.83 Deficiency since January 1. Sea level, 29.95 ( Moonset High Low - inches 0.30 Wind Direction and Velocity NE—8 miles per hour Reletive thea millibars) Tomorrow's Almanec 6:40 a 542 p. 2:36 p 2:02 a Tomorrow's Tides (Naval Base) AM 6:00 11:46 FORECAST (Till 7:30 p. m., Saturday) Key West and Vicinity: Gen- m m m. m erally fair and cool tonight; Sat- urday partly cloudy and slightly For Real Service For Real Protection DELIVERED DAILY EVERYWHERE Thompson Enterprises INCORPORATED ICE DIVISION will fit your adetoe T .. . and make them doubly effective!