Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-10-01
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BY PERCY GREENE

PARISH STREET SATURDAY
NIGHT: Well there amt much i'm
provement in the way delinquent
parents have been acting because
ever since the schools opened last
week I've been hearing folks talk
ing about delinquent youths. l said
that because long time ago / read
where some of the smart peoples
had reached the conclusion that
there amt no such thing as a
delinquent youth, just mostly de-
linquent parents. / gets to think
ing about this subject every time
the schools open the Saturday
night after when Pm up to my old
trick of indulging my fish and
beer before reporting to the Missus
out on West Pascagoula and thus
removing myself from circulation.
AS | have thought of it before
believe | have said in here before,
that after King Solomon wrote
them Tablets, and Benjamin Frank
lin wrote them books, and they got
together on saying SPARE THE
ROD AND SPOIL THE CHILD, /
figures about the worst thing that
ever happened to delinquent par
ents was when they stopped let
ting the teachers whip chillun at
school; and next to that was when
we got too much cotton and wool
til they put all the little kids in
long pants, soon as they started
walkin, and fixed it so you can't
tell a man from boy, and when
they put them long long dress,
high heels, and rouge on little girls !
as soon as they could go to the
store by themselves and fixed it
so you can't tell woman from a
girl. | remember once | got to talk
ing about this some where and a
lady friend who didn't know me as
we'll as she thought she did, and
who didn't know therefore that I |
had raised" two daughters, up and I
says what you talking about you
amt no authority on how to raise |
chilluns. Well, first | can speak
with authority on how | started off
getting mine raised" In the next |
place | still say that the worst
thing happens to them delinquent |
parents, when the teacher fans one
of them kids pants, and the next |
morning the Mama is at the school
with a brickbat in her apron !
threatening the teacher with may
hem if not murder. | still amt no
authority, but I've done raised my
own, and another thing, them folks
that wrote them books about let
ting children have ''free WILL" they
may be authorities, but there amt
none of them who had nearly as
much sense as SOLOMON, and |
twas him who said SPARE /
THE ROD AND SPOIL THE |
CHILD.
YES 1T is TRUE TOO One
of the choices conversation pieces
among the socialites in recent
weeks concerned the marriage of
Prof. |. S. Sanders, Principal of
Lanier High School, those who have
been contending all along that he
was married to pretty Miss Thelma
Caldwell, from up at Tougaloo, was
right, Fess fessed up his self this
week.
SOMETHING THAT MADE ME-
LAFt': Two of the Old Ave
nue's most popular young ladies
standing in front of their favorite
rendezvous telling friend, "Why,
we've got certain kinds of perfume
we use when we go out on certain
kinds of dates"
AMONG THE YOUNGER MAR
RlED SETS Attractive Jerlvn
Bert Keeling who became Mrs. Joe
3. Terry, has returned to her class
es. Last week she left st. August
me College The husband is
Keeping their year old daughter.
Young Mr.. and Mrs. Gleason
(She's the former Marion Calhoun
OF Montgomery Street, have
come to the parting of the ways
and Mrs. James Oliver has
gone to see her lawyer.
WEEKLY @ TON:
THOSE WHO BEAR EQUALLY
THE BURDENS OF GOVERN
MENT SHOULD EQUALLY PAR
TICIPATE OF IT'S BENEFITS
Thomas Jefferson.