The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1920-02-10
Up IN THE AIR
AlthO' Not Much Conceited, the Star
Editor for Awhile Monday Had a
Perfect Right to Look Down
on His Fellow Citizens

that he concluded he might have the
game as well as the name. So when
the Wrigley Chewing Gum Corpora
ton sent what was virtually chal-
lenge for the Star to fly as we'll as to
shine, he jumped at the chance.
The note informing the Star that
the Wrigley Airplane Circus was
headed this way said among other
things, eff one of your intrepid re-
porters desires to fly" The "intrepid"
was underscored, like Mr.. Wrigley
thought the Star had no intrepid re-
porters. So when we read it, we said
to ourself: "Mister Wrigley, if we
had you and US and Walter Tucker
and Ed Bennett out in fat-bottom-
ed boat on a Marion county lake some
windy day, and US with all we could
do to row. and Tuck standing on a
thwart to swing his line, and Ed too
busy cutting bait to bail; or if we had
you and Henry Livingston and Jim
Slcoak and some more of the boys
hunting in the big scrub, and occasion
~ kicking a fve-foot rattlesnake
loose from your leggings; or if we
bad you sitting a-fshing on a log
sticking out over the Oklawaha at
place where the water was ten feet
deep and as black as a mOOnshiner's
soul, and you looked up at the tree
limb above you and saw a friendly
blacksnake about nine feet long lick
ing out his tongue like he was pre-
pairing to kiss you, and looked down
and saw fourteen-foOt gator eating
your bait. and as you looked to one
side preparatory to doing marathon
to the mainland you saw a sociable
cotton amounted moccasin with his
head in your lunchbox; or if we had
you and - and - and
- - sitting in a Censor will
please delete this; we have been up
before the grand jury Once)-at any
rate if we had you in one of these or
some other such place, you'd wish
you was in a nice, safe airplane, a
couple of thousand feet Or more above
the dangers and vexations of this
world"
However, for all the mild sarcasm
in his letter, this Wrigley man is a
live wire when it comes to business,
delivering his chewing gum thru the
ait and generally landing it on time
to the dot. It cost many thousand
dollars to fit out his circus, and hun
Oh eds a day to keep it flying. Wrig-
ley is one of the pioneers in air busi-
ness enterprise. What he is doing to-
day may be commonplace ten years
from now. but he like other leaders
finds the game mighty interesting just
at present.
There are over a hundred million
people in Amerca, and it's safe to say
that twenty million a day chew
Wrigley's gum. which would satisfy
most men, but Wrigley has started
out to make it forty million, and
Ocala is doing its proportion today.
When we was a boy we read in the
| Arabian Nights how the poor but
worthy young man fell in love With
the beauchersome princess, and how
the wicked magician carried said
princess away to his brass castle, and
how the poor young man wandered
around in the tall timber, very sor-
rowful, and how he found the magic
! hobby horse, and got on the horse but
didn't get anywhere until he found a
peg sticking in the horses neck, and
pulled it out. and then the horse went
! up in the air and galloped and gallop-
ed and galloped for nine days and nine
nights, and on the tenth day the
when they had "come closte" he look
ed down in the garden and saw the
pl incess all alone, very sad and moth
! ing to take up her time but a wash
basin full of diamonds, rubies, pearls,
etc, which the magician had given
her to play with. And then the young
man stuck the peg back in the horses
neck and the horse slid down the air
/ into the garden and the young man,
after first putting the jewels in the
| hobby horses feed bag and tieing it
carefully to the saddle took the girl
| on his lap and stuck the peg back in
| the horses neck, and the horse rose
and galloped and galloped and gallop-
ed nine days and nine nights and on
the tenth day they reached home, and
the young man sold the jewels and
built castle of his own, in the harem
of which the princess became wife No.
! /. We didn't know at the time that
a young man can get mighty tired of
holding a girl in his lap in less than
nine hours, let alone nine days, so the
story seemed reasonable to Us. and
we have always wanted to ride a
magic horse or some other magic
contraption thru the air-and now we
have ridden and yearn to ride again.
The Wrigley circus arrived from
Gainesville in sections. Mr.. Nimmo
| Black came over Ocala Sunday after
noon, from Gainesville, making the
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