Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-09-09
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By PERCY GREENE

/ PARISH STREET SATURDAY
| NIGHT: This season of the year
always reminds me of the DAYS
when | was just pup-Gub having
saved up all the nickles / could
get a hold on during the summer
so | could buy a full supply of
colored pencils and one of those
red-white- and-blue erasers in or
der to feel completely ready at the
first tapping of the bell over at
Smith Robinson Now that il
is far away and getting farther
away when | sum it all up, in my
thoughts there is always some
thing that | think longer about
than nickles, colored pencils and
edwhite-and-blue erasers. What
| think about longer is that half
inch-thick eighteen inch rule that
was standard equipment for teach
ers in my day, used not only tc
measure lines and squares but
more often to measure the seats
of pants whenever there was guilt
or suspicion of guilt evidenced in
the class room and especially when
after due effort on the part of the
teacher there appeared reluctance
to master the times tables up to
twelve or repeat that poem YER
batim about "The Cow Jumped
Over The Moon. All that for me
is something to think about seeing
that Aunt Haggar's Chilluns has
been letting their youngerns get
out of hand for so long that par
ents and teachers and nobody else
can do anything with 'em J.. What
| lay it too is them new education
philosophers with that talk about
free conduct, or free will or indie
pendent conduct for chillun
Which make you feel like saying
that 1T don't mean nothing to open
the schools if the kids are going to
be able to set up in the school
room and do just as they please,
with the teachers to do anything
IN the first place cause hereof
late they've been taught to do
nothing, and on the other hand if
they try to knock some sense in
the brats head like they ought to
do, the parents, who amt got as
much sense as the brats they send |
to school, will be over at the school |
the next morning, if not with three |
policemen, with a butchers knife |
and a half of a brick ready to MUIR
der the teacher the more | |
think about it the more | wonder |
when will Aunt Haggar's Chilluns |
learn that the wisest thing ever
said about raising chilluns is
Spare the rod and spoil the |
child"
1T AMT NECESSARILY so |
Back in town from a recent |
trip north and East is the popular
West Jackson lady Nellie Miss |
Lightfoot . /. . her return giving
rise to rumors that while she was
away she renewed her love and
took the vows which amt neces-
sarlly so -. as the lady in ques-
ton says that she is not married.
and what's more, if she was. no.
body would have to be mistaken
by 1t because she would make the
announcement herself, and will, if
and when.
QUEEN OF ELKS Back in
town is Daughter Willie Rudd, af-
ter attending the Elks convention
in Chicago the Other Day. In Chi
cago during the great parade
Daughter Rudd was Queen of the
Magnolia State Marching Club
representing the state. The Mis-
sissippi Float says Daughter Rudd
was finally awarded First Prize
because the only other float equal
the Mississippi float represented
National Officer and was not eligi-
bic for a prize. Daughter Rudd is
getting credit all over the state
for doing Grand job She has
served for the last three years
and Grand-travelling Deputy for
the state, and for the past six
years and Daughter State Presi-
dent.
| LOST MY GLASSES
You've seen me wearing a pair of