Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1951-05-05
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By PERCY GREENE

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PARISH STREET SATURDAY !
NIGHT: That the Parish Street |
ers did not show the meeting Of |
he Mississippi Educational Coun-
I'll here the other week, out of |
which that petition went to the
Governor and the State Legislature !
about Negro Education, voting and
etc, go by, | learned as | gathered |
around Fish and Beer with few
Parish Street Oldtimers and
what they said about the problem
of better schools for Negroes in
Mississippi. report here in so
many words !. what the Parish |
Streeters seemed most elated about
was that at last some folks had
got together THAT WASN'T |
SCHOOL TEACHERS to try
and do something about Negro ed
ucation as one fellow said. Negro
education in Mississippi will hard
ly, if ever, get much better, de-
pending on the school teachers to
carry the greatest part of the
efforts" and nobody can beat them
Parish Streeters looking under
chip or in the wood-pile so
20 sneak What they said is
good for a lot of folks who call
themselves a lot smarter and
+Lo+ woe 4i,;e Ioro,,J;n,, ;,
those school teachers to carry the
load is JUST FOOLISH i. they
ought to be left to root for better
salaries but for better
schools, better books to study out
of and those ragged buildings
and walking miles in sunshine,
mud, rain to get to them {. that
should be the load to be carried
by the people whose children got
out to go to school and not
them that's got to make a living
out of school teaching . because
THEY CAN'T SAY MUCH.
SOMETHING THAT MADE
Me LAUGH The other day
very good looking Tin every
way) young lady, tho little far
over On the brown side, stopped
my old Burgess Brooks down on
the Avenue, took kimbo, and
blurted, "Mr. Brooks, | just want
to tell you when you get with your
bright lady friends you can at
least . r. speak"
| was the speaker down at SCI
College in observance of National
Negro Newspaper week last Fri
day and my own estimate of my
twin effort during the day was
pretty low | didn't realize
how bad | was though until one
of the preachers from the rural
Ministers School who heard me
down there met me down on the
Ole Avenue Saturday and began
to extend his compliments ;.
"Bruther Greene" said he, Il
joyed de speak you made to us
down there Friday it was
very EXPIRING.
If you want to laugh yourself
get somebody to tell you about
George Mcqueen the Dotty Cab
driver who had ghost to get in
his cab out in Virden's Addition
the other night.
Among the folks in town during
the past week was Mrs. Earlee
Griffin Combs, of Indianapolis,
Ind. Before leaving, she was a
mong the towns bellies Of the days
when my wife was a girl They're
good friends and about the same
age aud | am afraid to name the
vear) but she was visiting her
folks at Raymond and friends
here for the first time since leav-
ing Is years ago.
That very, very charming young
lady with the red hair) seen and
observed especially by John FL
ger, James Rundies, Leroy jack
son, ct al while strolling along the
ole Avenue, is Louise Miss
Bloomingburg of the Windy City.
WEEKLY QUOTATION: "The
Injustice to an individual is some
times a service to the public. Facts
are apt to alarm us more than
the most dangerous principle"
Eff vuh is been readin dis column,
yuh ought to know dat dis is one
dat | writ in 1916 and put dis here
one here kase sick dis week and
didn't feel like writing a new one.
And things amt changed much in
the last five years nohow.
They don't know what I'm think
ing when I'm out there singing.
No one does" That, says the is
su of Look magazine out today,
is the secret of the Incompatible
Lena.
I Naming her the Sophisticated
Lady of Song" Looks picture
studded story Elena is, also on the
ao,,o,.l declares that the Horns OBJ