Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1951-09-15
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BY PERCY GREENE

By PERCY GREENE
PARISH STREET SATURDAY
NIGHT: Every season in the year
brings it's blessing and new hopes
{. truth which becomes evident
with the coming of the Fall sea-
son. 1t dawned on me with much
greater force though when | was
eating my Fish and drinking my
beer down at julius MitchelPs
Booker t. Grill, where there was
a lotta folks from out by the
forks of the creek. What caused
me to look around and start think
ing was when | heard somebody
say, Cotton Picking Time Is Here,
And Cotton Picking Time Is Ny
Time. What made me start think
ing was that | had just read in
the papers where this years cot
ton crop was gonna be one of the
largest in history and the cotton
planters and folks who raised all
that cotton are already worrying
about how to get it all out of the
field before the SHOWS begin to fly.
in spite of the mechanical cotton
picker. This worry has led to the
bringing in of a lotta Mexican
laborers to pick the cotton that
the machines won't get, and what
was thinking about most was
/ why is it necessary to bring in
| the Mexicans with so many of
/ Aunt Haggar's Chillun running
loose, and without work up and
down the streets of any town
i got to figuring it out and it came
to me that back in the old days |
used to hear folks call one aonther
! you COTTON PICKER"
sorta derisive remark calculated
to lower ones esteem among his
friends and deal a body blow to
his personal self-estimation
The remark being the result of
something that happened in the
struggle of Aunt Haggar's Chill
lun that caused them to stray
from the teaching of their fore
fathers, and the good advice of
Booker T. Washington and caused
them to start looking down on
honest labor, especially the labor
of the farm j.. Well, all | wanta
say here is that there was more
sense wrapped up in what that
fellow said when he said COTTON
PICKING TIME is HERE
AND COTTON PICKING
TIME IS MY TIME that in
those folks who think they be-
little somebody when they call
'em "YOU COTTON PICKER"
and if | was doing nothing
like you I'd have me some money
when the snow begins to fly
CAUSE COTTON PICKING
TIME WOULD BE MY TIME. A..
THAT OLE BIRD that carries
in its bill that little old heart
warming and family
bundle, left another one the other
day for DR.. and Mrs. A. B. Brit
ton it's their third and
girl making it three in all
two girls and one boy
and everybody is well and happy.
WHAT THE PARISH STREET
KATS ARE SAYING Wonder
why it is that LITTLE MAN'
the Parish Street Playboy has
started to wearing them COATES.
THE OLD AVENUES LATEST
ROMANCE !. has now reached
the boiling point it's Essie
Lee and Spencer, seen holding
hands everywhere even win
dow shopping up and down Cap
itol Street of Sunday night. i
SEEN ALONG THE OLE Az
ENUE Hon. B. A. Greene,
the mayor of Mound Bayou, in
town to file brief with the State
Supreme Court, took time to ex-
change some comment with US,
lamenting the fact that there are
no young lawyers in sight to follow
the paths blazed by him. He is
the first Negro graduate from
the Harvard University Law
School.
|. H. RHONE, the Mobile Pub
Usher, who is doing a series of
pictorial histories on the Southern
Negro, state by state, having COM
pleted one on the State of Ala
bama, is now assembling material
for history of the Negro in Mis-
sissippi since 1868 -. He was
entertained by the Jackson Advo-
cate with a luncheon up at the
WMCA Thursday night The
folks there were just bubbling
ever with praise for those tasty
plates from Stacey's Delicatessen.
WEEKLY QUOTATION: ''The
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