The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-07-02
4 This ROek
Of Ours
BY BILL GLIB

mas me boiling mad. Young child
rem are being enticed to play pin
ball machines in certain eating
establishments. Prizes are offered
such as hamburgers, soft drinks,
etc. One young-ten year old
boy last week put thirty nickels
in machine in order TO win d
hamburger he could have bought
for twenty cents.
There IS no harm in an inno-
cent game of pin-ball for the older
teenager. But to offer prizes and
such and suck in seven, eight,
nine, and ten year olds is going
too far The proper authorities
should take action on this mat
! ter.
EDISON KNOWLES
Was sadly disappointed on his
recent trip TO John Hopkins Hos
pltal. Arriving there, he discover
ed that the doctor who agreed to
| operate on his jaw had been trans
/ ferred.
Two other doctors offered to do
the work but said that it would
take at least seven hundred dol
lars for necessary supplies. APP
parently the lower jaw, or d major
portion Of it, has to be removed
and a plastic one inserted. This
will also necessitate lot of skin
grating.
The question is-how to raise
the necessary money?
Edison has wife and child,
With living expenses so high to-
day, even if he were able to
work normally, he could never
hope to save this amount of mon
ey. Besides he is shy about fur
ther public assistance.
I'm writing John Hopkins and
will have more information soon.
In the meantime, you good folks
scratch your head and try to ar
rive at suitable plan for raising
money,
All of us are strapped and have
to pinch pennies but this case is 50
desperately necessary The future
of the young man and the welfare
of his family is at stake.
Future contributions coming to
| this column and The Key West
Citizen for Knowles will be held
in trust until a satisfactory ar
rangement is worked out with the
hospital. So please do not send it
anonymously although we will
not publicize your name.
Past donations totaling approx
mately $l35.00, have been parti-
ally depletedS because of Edison'a
recent trip. The balance of the
money he is holding himself.
DEAR. DEAR!
Bill Glib,
The Rock,
, Key West
Dear Bill,
! Residing eomplacently, as you
do, in your Mari Tower. mot as
good as ivory, perhaps, but very
white in the unstinting SUM hav-
! ing recently had your blood test
ed and found that-as you ferV-
emily susEected--it was exceed
| ingly blue, you have decided 10
risk mouthful of air by giving
forth more golden words on art.
Snide words as we all know,
| Gibbsian froth calculated to
arouse. The fearless columnist
creating Juror in the Quest for
iTruthi
If you had a small finger ring
much in need of j minute set
ting, all you know about art, and
more important all you can seem
TO feel about it, would be no
lcrowded amount for the ring.
iS Since gdp sBel 6ngs ID tho plush
carpet a hd'3 flushed Whisper
School OF art wish you would
use the capital @A'' in your ar
ticles-there is no possible meet
ing ground, l suspect, for you
and contemporary painters, or
even contemporary people, You'll
| see to that
would advise you to desist
in your efforts to make all Of US
breathe your kind of art. 1t
hasn't been stirred in years and
it is too stale to support life
/ am, believe me, touched by
the many old hat criticisms you
have advanced. I regret that none
of them are valid as Of now be
cause progress has been made,
and attitudes have grown beyond
you.
You could learn, possibly, by
associating beyond your tight
little world, However your Cru
SADIE would be spoiled-whatever
it is. Chrome collecting, perhaps
incidentally in your sixth
paragraph the reasoning is not at
all good. 1t is spurious, in fact.
| Much like the manufactured at
Ititude in the entire article. A
street show is truly representa-
tive of itself, it is not representa-
tive of the Metropolitan Mu-
scum, or stuffed shirtism.
Happily you, Glib, are not
representative of living. Nor of
reasoning. Nor of anything eX-
cept the Key West Citizen--an