The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-04-13
This Rock
Of Our"
BY BILL GLIB

Call them any name you wish
bar girls, percentage girls, blue
mooners, hostesses-they are still
a blight on humanity. Probably
this is the only subject that the
non-drinking and the drinking
public agree upon. And even here
their mutual accord is derived
from different reasons.
The non-drinker is worried
aboGt the mo: ais of women who
hang out in bars, practically beg
men for whiSkey, and get a kick
back from the house when q suck
er buys them a drink
The drinking man is irritated
by having a woman pull at his
elbow, breathe down his neck, and
otherwise distract him from the
serious job of drinking enough to
pay for the bar owners new car
Personally, l GiSapprove of the
girls, but not on any of these
grounds. The average non-drinker
is enhancing a bar girl with
moral values which she doesn't
believe in. And probably never
has and never will believe in
She has a code of ethics it's true,
but somewhere along the line it
goes off on a tangent from the
usual code of ethics professed by
most women.
The drinking man really has a
juStifiable complaint, Drinking
can be serious business. Perhaps
lie man wants to join Alcoholics
Anonymous. To do this, he has to
pour enough whiskey down his
throat to convince at least his
own self that he is the biggest
fool in the world. When he ar
ives at this conclusion, his
friends and neighbo2s aIe usually
in hearty accord.
To this kind of man, a bar girl
is pest and a nuisance. Later in
the evening he might buy her
drink. BY that time, he would
also say. "Hi-ya, have drink"
if an elephant came prancing in
the bar and tapped him ever 50
gently on the shoulder with its
orepaW.
All of which leads to why am
against bar girls:
The real suckers, the ones that
these girls lie in wait for, are the
inexperienced young men who
perhaps have never been in bar
more than few times in their
ives. i
These boys in their early twen-~
ties, younger when they can get
by the door-man), are entranced
when an older woman plays ZIP
% them and coyly asks for a
drink. Their rude awakening
comes when their pocketbook is
empty, and their companion de-
'isively bitches them for another
tucker.
Instead of realizing that this
oar girl is a type to herself, they
90 often build up feeling of re-
sentiment and contempt for Wo-i
men in general. Such resentment
and contempt can cause world
disturbing changes when you stop
o realize that we owe to women
most of the gentler and better
.hings of life. We pay this debt
by regarding them with love and
lonor. We pay it that is, unless
100 many women prove them
jelves too unworthy. When this
comes to pass, we will decline to
the more cruel and more savage
values of the male alone.
Citizen Newscarriers
The boys who deliver your
paper have asked me to remind
The public that they are indie
pendent merchants. All of which
is nice way of saying on their
part that they would very much
like to have all of their customers
pay them promptly each week.
The Key West Citizen News
carriers buy their papers whole
sale each week and must pay for
them Immediately. Thus, if ten
Or fifteen customers fail to pay
their bill promptly, the boy him.
self is put in rather a tight spot.
He has very little capital upon
which to operate