Jackson advocate., 1951-01-20

Joylng my Fish and Beer when
my attention was suddenly at
Lracted by two young Parish
Streeters reading out loud and
spelling as they went, one of those
piacards of Gose Curry's Baseball
School, which will open here in
March, showing Roy Campannella.
as product of one of the schools
conducted by Goose Curry in for
mer years. Now Roy Campanella's
salary in baseball this year will
run way above $4,000, as one of
them kids pointed out as he
read and spelled as he went
along. | kept on looking and lis
tening for what l thought was in
evltabie, and sure enough. before
long, out comes the question. i
! WONDER WHY THEY DON'T
PLAY NO MORE BASEBALL
AT JACKSON COLLEGE
and as they mentioned Campbell,
Alcorn, and Tougaloo, l started
asking myself the very same
question HOW COME, WITH
ALL THE OPPORTUNITY OP-
ENING UP FOR YOUNG NE
GRO PLAYERS IN BASEBALL
THEY'RE NOT PLAYING AT
THE STATE SCHOOLS? Sum
up his opportunities and you will
find that nothing equals the op-
portunity offered in baseball for
a young Negro to make more
money than he can in any other
thing . E. and make it quicker
=. AS one of them Young Parish
Streeters said as | listened, What
else in the world, outside of read
ing and writing, and getting ready
to be school teacher are them
folks teaching in them schools,
anyway? As | sat there long rapt
in thought over what I'd Just
heard, | thought I'd put it down
here in this column, what them
two Parish Streeters have already
started, something that can turn
into a complacency wrecking
whirlwind . and what I'm do
ing IS trying to pass on some in
formation about what is Just
starting, to my friends the College
Presidents which can be stop
ped before the folks who are pay
ing the taxes, and sending their
boys to college to be given EVERY
opportunity Z. starts saying that
you'all just don't care nothing
about nothing but you'alls salary |
+. no hows -.
THAT OLD BIRD ;. That car
ries in his little Old Bill that lit
tie heartwarming and family |
cementing bundle, left one the
other day for young Prof. and |
Mrs. j. E. Mosley, Jr., of the
State School for the Deaf here. |
It's an eight-pound girl named |
Kathy Yvonne. In wishing them
many happy returns | know |
you'll be glad to hear that every |
body is well g.. and happy.
YOU DON'T HAFTA KNOW, |
EN- Just ask Jack Diggins of |
the Dotty Cab. He thinks that
Brother Fudge "Foots" Moore got |
mixed up in the price of shoes |
the other day and now he's
talking about "My' Running Bud
dy needs another car The one
he's got is a CADALLIC. /
Don't You Know.
| KNOW AN OLD MAN l.
Who is showing signs of increas-
ing his love for the pool game,
when he can't see can't con-
centrate, and is too nervous to
hold the cue on straight line.
Why don't you insist on playing
for fun and then they'll let |
you alone . you'd old rascal you.
4 SOMETHING THAT MADE
ME LAFF At certain
friends house the other day he
was saying how glad he would be
when the winter time got over
!. :. his wife hearing him talking
ups and says, All, shut up Old
Man, you just wants to start sit
ting out on the front porch every
Sunday with your shoes off.
THAT GOOD LOOKING LADY
]. who was strolling up and
down the Old Ave with James
Oliver, the big clothing man, the
other day wasn't none of his i.
She was Elenor (Mrs) Brown, a
Chicago model. Another Home
Town Girl who made good up in
the Big Windy.
WEEKLY QUOTATION: False
mood is so vile that though it
should praise the great works of
God it offends against his divin-
ity; truth is of such excellence
that if it praise the meanest
things they become ennobled.-
Leonardo Da Vinci.
Card OF Thanks
We, the family of the late George