Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-12-24
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BY PERCY GREENE

street on Saturday night what it
is, and what makes Parish Street
on Christmas night what it is is
because Parish Street on Satur-
day night and Parish Street on
Christmas night is where you can
always see something and hear
something and if your eyes and
ears are keyed to the right pitch
you can hear something and see
something that bears the stamp
OF what your grandma meant when
she was talking about "horse
sense" and or the lack of it. For
instance, Christmas is here, and
before | say my Merry Christ
mas Everybody" | got to say some
thing about the Christmas talk
overheard from Parish Streeters
as they gathered, like it was,
around their fish and beer. One
fellow starts out by saying, Well,
Christmas is here now and every
body will be giving something but
most of the giving will be folks
giving somebody something who
don't need what they give them
and the other folks giving them
back something that they don't
need, and all the folks what do
that kind of giving they think
that they are having a grand and
glorious Christmas and all day
Christmas and long time after
wards they'll be calling up Sal
and Sue, and Tom, Dick and Harry
talking about what a great Christ
mas they had and calling off
the list of who they got gifts
from and who they sent gifts to.
Well, to me, this fellow that I'm
listening to that amt no Christ
mas, at least he say, that amt the
way it would work out if the Man
that Christmas was invented for
had anything to do with the Civ
ing. Still talking, he says, all
that kinda giving don't count for
nothing cause its mostly like
swapping . you give me some
thing good and l give you some
thing good and on the other
hand folks don't get no credit |
for giving to them that's got. / |
been thinking ever since | heard |
that conversation about how much
more merry" Christmas could be
to lot of folks if they had a
better understanding of Christmas
giving and if their gifts were di-
rected more in accordance with /
the idea of the man who said, at I
is more blessed to give than to
receive" | got good idea for
folks who want to do some real
christmas Giving" where
you can give folks what they need
and don't have to be worrying
about giving them what they
might like, seeing that they al
ready have everything what
| am thinking about is them kids
down at the Oakley Training
School Merry Christmas.
THE S E A SON IS LAST
CHANCE: Out at the new Jackson
College Football Stadium, Mon
day, December 26, the day after
Christmas, the Lanier High School
Bulldogs and Alexander High
School of Brookhaven will meet
at 2 o'clock in the day time in the
final High School Football Game
of the Season. 1t promises to be
a real game and besides the
Alexander High School Band,
from what | hear has some very
special antics for the Half-Time
Show You oughta be there. J
DON'T BOTHER U Nc L E
SANS ARSENAL :. Over in
East Jackson on the Fannin Road
one of the beginners is "Big
john" He's doing six months in
Jail on federal charge. Some
fellows l hear sold him some rifles
that didn't belong to them but did
belong in Uncle Sans Arsenal.
IT'D BITS OF NEWS Down
i'm Quincy, Florida, Sunday night,
DR.. w. S. Stevens, 65-year-old
practicing physician, died follow
ing a stroke s. He's the father
of Rev. Stevens, Pastor of Pearl
Street AME Church here. Up
in Holmes County few days ago
DR.. Wayne Howard was buried in
the little community of Ebernezer,
his home and the home of his
relatives the late DIR. S. d. Red
mond, Perry w. Howard, A. M.
Redmond, and DIR. "Jim" Parker
of Jackson.
COL. ROSCOE CONKLIN SIM
MONS is COMING Famous
among the orators Of his day and
time and still possessing rare ora
torical gifts IS Colonel Roscoe
Conklin Simmons, who has stood
in the presence of kings. On
January 3rd, at night, in the
Campbell College Auditorium Col.
Simmons will speak under the aus
pices of the local Republican Com
mittee headed by S. w. Miller.
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