Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-01-17
Bigger DeIiberates Between Job Or Career In Crime
Gets Idea How Other Folks
Live While Watc hing Movie
to kiss in the end"

blSScr Saw Tie ITCH young WOHldu
rush home TO her millionaire hus-
band. There were long embraces and
kisses as the rich woman and the
rich man vowed never to leave each
other and to forgive each other.
you reckon folks really act like
that?" Bigger asked, full OF the
sense OF life he had never seen.
Sure, man. They rich," Jack said.
i wonder if this guy I'm going
to work for is rich man like
that?" Bigger asked. Maybe
So" Jack said. "Shucks. got
great mind To take that job"
Bigger said.
Sure. You don't know what you
might see"
They laughed. Bigger turned his
eyes to the screen, but he did not
look. He was filled with a sense of
excitement about his new job. Was
what he had heard about rich white
people really true? Was he going
to work for people like you saw in
the movies? If he were, then he'd
see lot OF things from the inside;
he'd get the dope, the low-down. He
looked at TRADER HORN unfold
and saw pictures of naked black
men and women whirling in wild
dances and heard drums beating and
then gradually the African scene
changed and was replaced by images
N his own mind of white men and
women dressed in black and white
clothes, laughing, talking, drinking
and dancing Those were smart
people; they knew how to get hold
Of money, millions of it. Maybe if
ne were working for them some
thing would happen and he would
get some of it. He would see just
how they did it. Sure, it was all
game and white people knew how
TO play it. And rich white people
were not so hard on Negroes. it was
the poor whites who hated Negroes.
They hated Negroes because they
didn't have their share of the
money. His mother had always told
him that rich white people liked
Negroes better than they did poor
whites. He felt that if he were a
poor white and did not get his share
of the money, then he would de-
served to be kicked. Poor white
people were stupid It was the
rich white people who were smart
and knew how to treat people. He
remembered hearing somebody tell
story of a Negro chauffeur who
had married a rich white girl and
the girls family had shipped the
couple out OF the country and had
supplied them with money.
Yes, his going to work for the
DaltOns was something big. May
be Mr.. Dalton was a millionaire.
Maybe he had a daughter who
was a hot kind of girl; maybe
she spent lots of money; NAV
be shed like to come to the
South Side and see the sights
sometimes. Or maybe she had a
secret sweetheart and only he
would know about il because he
maybe she would give him
money not to tell.
He was fool for wanting to rob
Blum's just when he was about to
get a good job. Why hadn't he
thought of that before? Why take a
FOOLS chance when other things.
big things, could happen? If some
thing slipped up this afternoon he
would be out of job and in Jail,
maybe. And he wasn't so hot about
robb1ng Blums anyway. He frown-
ed in the darkened movie, hearing
the roll of TOM toms and the screams
OF black men and women dancing
free and wild, men and women who
were adjusted to their soil and at
home in their world, secure from
fear and hysteria. Come on, Big
ger, Jack said. I'VE gotta CO."
Hump"
"It's twenty to three"
He rose and walked down the
dark aisle over the soft, invisible
carpet. He had seen practically
nothing of the picture, but he did
not care. As he walked into the
lobby his 4nsides frightened again
with the thought of Gus and Blum's
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