Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-07-10
Up And Down
Parish Street
BY PERCY GREENE

PARISH STREET SATURDAY.
NIGHT: 1t was impossible for me
to have escaped a lot of talk about
race conditions in the city, as
got around to my favorite Satur-
day night spots. A lot of things
have happened and a lot OF UNI
founded and dangerous talk is
going around and I guess / had
best say something about them
here. In the first thing nothing
can be more dangerous than a lot
of loose and idle talk. The best
thing then is for me to advise you
and you to stop indulging in such
talk. In the next place, there has
been lot of riots and disturbances
over the country. The thing for
you, and you to decide first is
that there is NOT GOING TO BE
A RIOT HERE, and the way to do
that is to make up your mind to
attend strictly to your own bust
ness. Start now to being as cordial
and agreeable as possible with
everyone, white and Negro, with
whom you come in contact. AND
OF ALL THINGS, this is the most
important to keep in mind; when
ever anything happens that doesn't
concern you stay away from there.
The idea of running up to every
disturbance that might take place
on the streets has always been
wrong and dangerous. Because of
the tension that idea is worse
and more dangerous now than ever
Always remember this! 1T TAKES
THREE OR MORE PEOPLE TO
START A RIOT, and when any,
thing happens if people don't
CROWD AROUND 1T there never
will be enough to start a riot
PASTOR NOLAN out at the
Greater Pearl Street AME Church,
where I am member and pos
sible candidate for a Deacon, got
off one of those sermons that my
grandpa used to say, took the skin
off your heel. During his discourse
he had lot to say about the
ment provided for soldiers. About
a lot of the best young girls and
women who were perhaps being
unduly exposed to the harsh facts
Of life through the activities of
these agencies. Directors and folks
connected with the local USO and
Soldiers Center might well take
Pastor Nolan's remarks as a
warning to use every effort to
keep these activities upon the high
est plane, and to see that every
thing is under the eye of the
strictest possible chaperon.
Miss Gretchen Lamar Shorter
is the name of the new Secretary
Cashier of the Security Life In
Surance Company.
Lit Washington, than whom
none was more popular during
his day among Parish Streeters, is
in town for a brief visit. I am
sure that he, E. J.. Davis, John
King, Pie, and Cicero Jones have
already laid plans to get together
and sing THAT Old Gang Of
Mine" before he gets out of
town.
Oh, I forgot to tell you young
ladies one of the things that
Pastor Nolan said in his sermon
Sunday, and that was before get
ting married to a soldier it would
be a good idea to check up on him
little bit because some of them
have been getting married every
where they go, and already have
two or three wives.
Don't be surprised if Papa Chas.
Adams joins the church pretty
soon now. The other day a preach
er cornered him and was laying
him low with one of those lectures
about his soul that only preach
er knows how to lay out, and just
as he was telling Papa where he
was going if he didn't join church,
7 came up, and the preacher asked
me to witness the truth of his
predictions and I said, yes, Amen,
and Old Papa looked SO funny
believe if it had been Sunday he
would have left right away for the
Church.
For your sake and for the sake
of the boys of the Fighting Fronts
of the World, whatever happens,
don't loose your spirit and patrio-
tism. Keep on Buying War Bonds
and Stamps, and secure in the
faith in yourself and in the future,
remember the ancient and sacred