Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1952-03-08
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BY PERCY GREENE

NIGHT: Amt Haggar'5 Chillun's is
bout to wake up and find they
sells burdened down with lot OF
"YOUNG N-TER-LEC-TULLS,"
mostly burdened down with some
both false and strange 'ceptlons OF
what it take to be man, and be
recognized as man; and whose
time and thoughts if they really
can do in "rail thinking" is being
mostly wasted in trying to escape
the fact of Negro Tradition and
Negro History, which they amt
took time to learn much, "ef any
thing" about, since the subject amt
being taught in the schools where
most of the "YOUNG INTER
LEC-TULLS" mytrickulates at, and
gifts dey pie-sigman-kamma pins
at. What made me thing lack |
was thinking while | was eating
my hot fried catfish and drinking
my "stew-o-t he-brew," was the
haggaling what | been heard that
been going on 'mongst the
"YOUNG IN-TER-LEC-TULLS,"
of the tribe Of Haggar. bout less
don't sing no more of'n dem Negro
Sperituals no more, fur us selves,
and Special less don't sing 'em no
more 70 no "why-folks." | used
to set around, lack I still do some
time now, and think about when |
used to hear my Grandma'sing long
time ago, and what mostly | been
thinking about now is when | think
about it is Where did US Old Folks
sway down FOUNDER in de corn
fields" find all that wisdom" what
lead them to invent such song
titles as NOBODY KNOWS DE
TROUBLES l SEES GO DOWN
MOSES WAY DOWN IN EGYPT
LAND TELL OLE FARO -.
LET MY PEOPLES GO ;. STEAL
AWAY TO JESUS =. YOU GOT
IA REAP WHAT YOU SOW -.
l AMT GOT LONG TO STAY
HERE SWING low SWEET
CHARIOT You can listen
whole lot while you eating and
drinking, and after / had been lis
tening for a long time at the con-
versation that was going on Ga
cross the crowded room" the ques-
ton rose in my mind +. which
one of the subjects of the above
remarks would Amt Haggar's
Chillun's bet effer-of if they got
rid of and jest about time
was asking myself the question
the answer came from across
the room, when one of the fellows
doing the talking stood up and
said MAN YOU KNOW US
Amt GONNA STOP SINGING
SPIRITUALS and | added if we
can escape being burdened down
by lot of "YOUNG IN-TER-LEC-
TULLS" who amt took the
time to discover the wisdom and
philosophy of tradition and history.
IN SHEPHERDS KITCHEN
ETTE The other night that
young Army Officer and good
looking young lady who were so
intently interested in what one an
other were saying was 1t. Oscar
Hicks, 1882 School Sqdn., School
Of Aviation Medicine, Center AFB,
Ala, and Miss Murtee Foules, of
Summerland. I was told that they
were talking about becoming "Mr.
& Mrs" at very early date.
ALONG THE OLE AVENUE
Z. President Scott, Of Wiley Col
lege in town in the interest of the
current campaign for the United
Negro College Fund Randolph
Wallace, of the Garfield Lounge,
Detroit, who drove over from Hot
Springs, Ark. lin his Cadillac) to
see his Dad, Rev. Wallace, out on
Pascagoula Street next to me =
and |. H. Rhone, the Mobile, Ala,
publisher in town in the interest
of his Forthcoming book . A
HISTORY OF THE MISSISSIPPI |
NEGRO SINCE 1863, and with
him Charlie Perkins of Mobile, one
of the Top Photographers of the
Nation one of the ten Negro
members of the National Photog-
raphers Association.
FOLKS JEST KEPT LOOKING
AT !. {. A certain two married
ladies who belong in the TOP So
CIALs BRACKETS all dressed
up in their husbands pants and
sweaters at the Basketball Game
out at Jackson College the other
night.
WEEKLY QUOTATION: "The
effigies and splendors of tradition
are not meant to cramp the ener-
gies of the development of a Wig
orous and various nation. They
are not meant to hold in mortmain
the proper territory Of human in
telligence and righteous aspira-
lions. They live and teach their