Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1952-07-12
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BY PERCY GREENE

ing about pOlltlcS ana whose gonna
be the next President of the United
States them folks that thinks Amt
Haggar's Chillun do not have no
interest in what's going on, as the
saying goes, got another thought
coming. Get good plate of Hot
Fish and a bottle of Cold Beer lack
| do and set down in a corner in
any spot up and down the Ole Ave
nue., and listen and you'll learn
something about Amt Haggar's
Chillun and politics ;. From what
/ heard this time about politics
and Amt Haggar's Chillun gave
me the answer to the reason why
the members Of the tribe here
abouts and elsewhere in the land
of cotton and sunshine have been
slow about entering the game OF
politicking when they can look all
around them and see that poll
ticking" is what makes what we
call American Democracy click,
and see the great need for some
body from the tribe itself, in every
nook and corner, to lead the tribe
ana show them the rules Of play
ing Americas greatest game. As
I was listening I heard a fellow
member of the tribe who was talk
ing about politics, saying how hard
it was for him to tell all them can
didates the truth who has been
coming around to him since he reg
istered and got qualified to vote
asking him to vote for him in the
next voting time What made
it so hard was that to be lack he
used to be, and do lack he used to
do before he got qualified to vote,
he'd have to tell all the Why-fClks
the same thing, Yes Sir, Pm For
You, and the Why-Folks would feel
all right and the time never would
come when he actually had to put
his "souP' to the test. But, said
this Brother OF the Tribe, in this
business of politicking and voting
Use found that your Soul Jest
want let you stand up and say,
Yes, Sir, Ph For You, to everybody
that comes along with they picture
iii the newspaper saying that they's
in politics and wants to git they
self elected to some kinda politick
office | thought a while after
| had listened while and it came
to me that the hardest thing for
Amt Haggar's Chillun to face, and
the hardest lesson for them to learn
about politics is that you've gotta |
be "FOR" somebody and "AGIN"
somebody. In politics you jest
cant be all things to all people, |
and "FOR" everybody that comes
BURN Up YOUR LETTERS. |
BROTHER: You fellows that gets
the mushy letters from that Old |
Use-To-B Be, mad better run to same
corner and stick match TO them
from what | jest heard . Out in
West jackson Mrs. Cleopatra Ram
sey found some letters in Brother |
Ramsey's pocket, they say. and got
SO mad she hit him over the head |
nine times with Ratchet, and sent /
the Brother to a hospital not so |
far from taking up his account
with st. Peter.
COMING EVENTS: The old say
ing that coming events cast their
shadows before them" is again
proven with all the preparations I
hear that are going on for the
MEXICAN FIESTA, a Festival of
Outdoors Music, for July 23rd, pre-
sented by the Pearl Street AME
Church and the Mammoth Rally
Of Mississippi-Louisiana AME's
set for August 27-29 at Campbell
College.
AN ARGUMENT SETTLED:
Down on the corner Of Parish and
Hamilton some kats was having
an argument two women, a
great big one, and a little one had
jest passed by wearing the little |
pants with all their legs out up to
the hips. The argument was,
which one of them looked the best,
when fellow who had been stand
ing by walked up and said that
Parish Street would have looked !
better if both of 'em had stayed at
home.
WEEKLY QUOTATION: "Pol-
tics conceive to be nothing more
than the science of the ordered
progress Of society along lines of
greatest usefulness and convent
ence to itself. Woodrow Wilson.
nent will ask that both major 20
lltical parties include in the for
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