The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1944-01-01
THIS N THAT
BY Your Rowing Reporter

mas Season The holiday sea-
son has just about gone, today the
New Year has reached the age of
several hours and all around we
see our good friends attempting to
adjust themselves and return to
state of normally.
PERHAPS, because of a war
hysteria, the gravity and uncertain
ness of the situation and things to
come, Jacksonians possessed a bit
more of the real honest-to goodness
Christmas spirit, more of the old
fashioned spirit of giving-of re-
membering the true significance of
the day. There were not so many
gaily lighted trees, but all around
one could see smiling faces, hear
warm and true greetings, feel the
closeness and unity of all mankind,
determined for just a short time
to forget the horrors of war and
give themselves up to fully enjoy
ing the birth anniversary of our
Lord Jesus
THANKS TO the Christmas
Cheer Club and other similar orga-
nizations money in the amount of
$1,754, which provided 40 baskets,
brought to many hundreds of jack
son folk Christmas Cheer, folk who
would ordinarily have had nothing.
Many of the churches had early
morning services and despite the
inclement weather, some few peo-
pie did go to church i.
THROUGHOUT THE holidays
the city was literally Overlooking
with an influx of visitors-soldiers
students, teachers, relatives and
friends, these visitors taking part
in a number Of family reunions,
house parties, informal get-to-
gethers, private club affairs, and
the like The dance for Christmas
Eve and the Football Classic, be-
tween the New Orleans Bears and
the Alexander Golden Panthers
We're cancelled becaused of rain
The dance Christmas Night at the
Skating Rink drew a crowd of
nearly three hundred the To-
cal cafes seemed to have done ex-
ira good business and all in all,
Jackson's Christmas was a Merry
one
WE OF THIS paper, mourn
with the state in the passing of
our dearly beloved Governor, Paul
B. Johnson, who was laid to rest
in Old City Cemetery, Hattiesburg,
Wednesday, in the presence of hun
dreds of his friends and neighbors,
many of whom had stood in the
chill air for more than an hour
during the final rites at Tall
Pines"
''The night was filled with music,
and the cares that infest the day,
folded their tents like Arabs, and
silently stole away" Yes,
that's exactly what happened last
Tuesday night when hundreds of
pleasure seekers packed the new
club, owned and operated by Mr..
Ebert Tops, opened its doors.
From the moment the first guests
arrived, until the last guests left,
aerived, until the last guests left,
only one note of discord could be
found in the perfect harmony Of
the place and since it is the
policy of this paper to reflect only
he better side of Negro life, we
Will refrain from saying anything
concerning the very unpleasant and
unnecessary occurance that took
place at this a u u club
Tuesday evening and in which we,
| by force, had to take one of the
main roles but our good breed
| ing makes it imperative that we
offer to Mrs. Hawkins and Mr.
Tops an apology for our part in
the affair-we feel that we did
both our host and hostess, as well
as our large number of friends, an
objectionable injustice to mar the
perfection of this, possibly the love-
lest place of its kind in the South
but our friends who were present
realize that we had no choice in
the matter but to make some effort
to protect ourselves from an unpro-
voked attack-and when we take
this fact in to consideration, real
| izing that our interiors can't hurt
us, our equals wouldn't hurt US,
and we don't have any superiors
we'll, we can say after all,
ours was a very. very Merry
Christmas, and we wish for all our
readers a Peaceful and Victorious
New Year