Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1952-03-29
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BY PERCY GREENE

Tnofe Is flOIG gOOQ oOuili, oOAiN
horse sense in them old sayings
that Ant Haggar's Chilluns My
Grandma and them, invented way
back FOUNDER before readin' and
writin' got popular 'mongst de
tribe, than can be found in whole
carload of these pin-on- the-bosom
Young interleckturals, with which
the tribe is bout to git 'fflicted
wild who from the demonstrations
the put on, and am the mostly
famous fur, seemed to spent most
of their time while Citing edicated,
learning more bout the relative
ingredient kontents of pinto
burbon and a pint of scotch, and
their effectiveness, in point of time,
in getting them "in-the-grove"
than they did bout what gittin'
edicated is fur which is a mat
ter that has been causing heep
of concern 'mongst old school
teachers and professors, and in
creasing the arguments 'mongst
lot of other folks who have been
saying all the time that a lot of
gittin edicated amt no good for
jest anybody and everybody. Being
what | is, b'leving in the Ameri-
can way of life, our system of Free
Education an everything, [ amt been
one who held too the argument that
heep of edicatin amt no good
Jest for naybody and everybody
but my views long dem lines done
got seriously 'ffected, | have jest
learned that a long time ago Amt
Haggar's Chillun, way back youn-
der before readin' and writin' got
popular 'mongst de tribe, had in
vented somefun that 'splains that
too | learned it while l was
watching and listening while eating
my fish, and drinking my beer
What | heard was what a preacher
of the old school said in summing
up his concern bout the short
comings of most of the young
members o-the-tribe fof Haggar
who done got exposed to edication,
but use the sam vulgarity, and act
jest lack them that amt never been
outside the atmosphere of the pool
room What the preacher said
was this NO MATTER HOW
LONG YOU PULL A FICE'S
EARS YOU CAN'T MAKE A
HOUND DOG OUT OF HIM
IF THE BLOOD Amt THERE.
COM NJ AN PERFORMANCE:
Out at the school Teachers Meeting
here last week Mrs. ARENA C.
Mallory, President of Saints Indus
trial School up at Lexington was
elected Vice-President Of the Asso-
citation without opposition
friends say Mrs. Mallory wants
everybody to know that hers was
call to high duty a case
where the office was seeking the
person and not the person seeking
the office Which they say
was as it should be.
SOMETHING THAT MADE NE
LAFF The way some of my
FRIENDS" was cutting their eyes
at me when Mrs. Edith Sampson
was saying all them good things
about me, before all them folks
out at the college park auditorium
Friday Night.
SOMETHING YOU'D LIKE TO
KNOW That other grand
daughter of mine, over in Atlanta,
| told you about week before last,
where my wife Missus Frances still
is, has her name now as | learned
over the telephone this week
Her name is BERTHA LORRAINE
KELLY, after her fathers mother,
and her mother, who eased in her
middle name, her name being
Frances Lorraine, the best my dau-
ghter Gwendolyn could escape with
for the first of the grandchildren
was Frances Percine You
see what I'm talkin bout dontyuh.
WHAT THE PARISH STREET
KATS WANNA KNOW: Who was
that chic down on the corner of
Parish and Hamilton the other
evening with that poodle cut, loose
fitting coat, and red-white-and
blue parasol / don't know you
all.
WEEKLY QUOTATION "Once
a wise man was asked, What is
intelligence? He answered, Mod
esty. Then he was asked, What is
Modesty? And he answered, in
telligence. "-Gabirol.
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