Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1952-03-15
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BY PERCY GREENE

PARISH STREET SATURDAY
NIGHT: When | was a little boy,
coping fire around the wash pot
while my grandma was washing
the why-folks clothes, there were
times when she would start off
humming tune, now and then
sounding out with the words, YOU
BETTER MINE, YOU BETTER
MINE, YOU GOT TO GIVE AN
ACCOUNT IN JUDGMENT, YOU
BETTER MINE | been reading
in the newspapers and hearing over
the radio speakers and folks talk
ing about we amt got no more
"morals," and that somebody better
git up and start doing something
to renew, or git back or do some
thing about MORAL LEADER
SHIP, and despite everything, while.
| was setting down with my Fish
and Beer contemplating the pass
ing scene, | couldn't help that tune
and the voice of my Grandma from
coming back and Citing in my
ears :. and while | was setting
there waiting for my Fish and
Beer, and thinking about what |
was thinking about, | kept hum
ming the words myself YOU
BETTER MINE, YOU BETTER
MINE, YOU GOT TO GIVE AN
ACCOUNT IN DE JUDGEMENT,
YOU BETTER MINE the tune
and the humming kept on coming
back, and before | got up from
where l was setting, | had it all
figured out, what's causing all this
talk that is now going on, in the
newspapers and over the radio,
about "MORALS" and the need for
MORAL LEADERSHIP. What |
figured it oct to be is that, since
us Why-folks, done got us the
Atom Bomb, and the World Full
of Dollar Bills, Us Amt Scared of
Muffin, No more even GOD
Himself and l know amt much or
none of the kind of fear ofGOD,
that my Grandma mad left amongst
Why-folks, Amt Haggar's Chilluns,
and much of number else here
bouts, cause you cant hear nobody,
no where, (not even in Church,
singing lack my Grandma use to
sing and the only time | hear
it is when | git by myself and
listen, and first the humming comes
:. and then the words that kept
folks honestly scared of devilment
and GOD YOU BETTER
MINE, YOU BETTER MINE, YOU
GOT TO GIVE AN ACCOUNT IN
DE JUDGEMENT, YOU BETTER
IT'S NEVER TOO LATE TO
DO GOOD: From over in Ray
mond comes the news that Brother
Harry Dixon, age "a, and Brother
Cintha Balls, age so, after years of
prayer got religion, and has been
accepted "by letter" as members
Of the Baptist church.
SEEN ALONG THE OLE AVE.
-. This week was Daryl F. Grish-
am, Advertising Manager, the Tri-
State Defender, Memphis. a new
adventure in the field of Negro
journalism, headed by Louis 0.
Swingler, as editor.
KEEP EN- Tagging: Up in
that law suit about equalizing
Teachers Salaries somebody kept
testifying that the reason things
are lack they is as far as Amt
Haggar's Chilluns rights goes is be-
cause the members-o-the-T Tribe is
suffering from a cultural lag"
that followed them from Africa,
and what they Amt been able to
'scape from in 10 desc many years,
spite, out-houses for schools, and
teachers, jest past de abc's, as one
Parish Streeter said, from that rul-
ing about Why-folks on the stage
of the College Park Auditorium,
and US cant see 'eIn at de city an
ditorium, it looks lack somebody is
up to keeping us tagging -.
WEEKLY QUOTATION: at is
incumbent on every generation to
pay its own debts as it goes--a
principle which, if acted on, would
save one-half the wars of the
world"
by one of her voice students of
Tougaloo College, Miss Josephine
Springs whose scintillating colora-
tora voice of flute-like quality add
ed greatly to the enjoyment of the
concert.