Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-08-26
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By PERCY GREENE


tor made at the first Annual Meet
ing OF the Mississippi Negro Demo-
Gratis Association here last FRIDAY
night sure did give me a lot of
things to think about as | sat down
for my regular Saturday nights
repaSt of hot fresh fried catfish
and a bottle of one of my two
favorlte beers, which happens to
be Goldcrest 81 and or Canadian
Ace. | figured it all out as | sat
waiting for my first helping, and
reached the conclusion, for as | am
concerned that Brother Jackson
knows whereof he speaks, as al
most everybody else does when it
comes down to the effect of the
Mississippi Negro Preacher, and
the Mississippi Negro Teacher, and
Lodge Brother, in teaching Negroes
the things they need to know about
citizenship. One reason is, and one
that Me and Brother jackson didn't
overlook is that most of them don't
know nuthin about what they need
to know to teach folks about citi
zenship. And come down to Negro
history, and almost everything else
worth anything for that matter.
as | sat there enjoying my fish
and beer and thinking of Brother
Jackson's speech couldn't help but
waste a lot of thought ON the Col
lege teacher here, who got to argu-
ing with me one day trying to
make me believe that BENJAMIN
Franklin INVENTED lightning.
and said that he had his Masters
Degree" from somewhere way-up-
FOUNDER, and there never had been
no Negro United States Senator
from. Mississippi, cause at his
school, where he got his Masters
Degree" he hadn't seen it in no
book, and nobody had told him, and
was the first one that he'd heard
talk about it and therefore it
wasn't SO. The Negro teacher needs
to find out something of the root
age" and history of the race, so
that they can transmit the tradi-
ton and engender the spirit and
courage of the youth to emulate
their forebearers, history's only
lesson. A worse indictment of the
Negro School Teachers was made
than that of his failure to register
and vote, when Brother Jackson
told about the class studies being
made by scholars to find out why |
kid fourteen years old just quit" |
going to school, the real reason he |
said being that the kid just got
tired of listening to somebody that |
he had already found out didn't |
know nuthin' and therefore couldn't
have nuthin' to teach.
1T HAPPENS SOMETIME IN
THE BEST REGULATED FAMI-
LY: According to the gossip sU<.
and Down the Ole Avenue this week
a well, known young Parish Street
Business Couple, in one of those
arguments of man and wife, got
so mad with one another until it
couldn't be stopped until they went
far enough for someone to call in
the Law. There friends should cease
their gossip. Sometime a thing like
thatll straighten things out for all
time to come.
YOU NEVER CAN TELL A.
BOUT WOMEN: Down on the Cor
ner of Parish and Hamilton this
past Saturday night, a group of |
the Ole Avenues stre-nuff Hep
Kats were huddled-up in a bunch
beating-up their gums when around
this corner pops a 'broad" putting
a big Cigar, the smoke a-flying
like the back-end Of 1929 Ford.
One of the Kats who thought he
knew it all and had seen every
thing, just turned around and with |
a look of amusement said, Well, | |
be Da :, You show can't tell a.
bout women.
JAMES OLIVER the Big !
time Clothing Salesman, known
from here-to7yonder for the high
class stuff he sells, has opened of
flee down at the ADVOCATES old
Stand at 1191a N. Parish Street.
He says, Drop i'll and see for your
self.
UNCLE SAM CALLING = Iso-
dore Gross, the Veterans Cab Com
pany Man, and w. K. Thames, the
Valley Street Grocery Man, whose
big success at carrying
on the Stewart Grocery Store has
been called by Uncle Sam. They're
both members of the reserves, and
have been told to be prepared for
one year service.
THE JACKIE ROBINS SON |
STORY = One of the greatest sue
cess stories of modern times is the
story of Jackie Robinson, the great
Negro Ball Player. The Story of
Jackie Robinson has been made in
to q Moving Picture which will he