Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-06-13
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BY PERCY GREENE

DO IT'S THE WAY THAT YOU
DO 1T" was the title Of popular
song a few years back, which ]
figured to have as much sense in
it, as it was an attempt to sooth
the conscience stricken souls, who
under the gathering clouds of their
blase indiscretions and escapades
start wishing, but too late, that
they had taken a little heed to
the words above said, with the
possible addition of the wisdom
and prophesy contained in the
equally sage saying that EVERY
BODYS BUSINESS Amt NO.
BODYS BUSINESS, which means
when things git to where every
body knows what is going on, it
amt no business but done already
got to be scandalous what
throwed me into this line of
thought was that l was settin'
down in one of my favorite spots
under the fan to dodge the heat
while waiting for my Feesh and
Beer, when l heard some of the
more matured minded Parish
Streeters start of long conversa-
ton with the remark, well, Sun
day they gonna have the State
Elks convention up at Canton =.
and then they went on to talk a
bout how the Brother Bills and
Daughters always get themselves
lined up with somebody else's Bill
and Daughter, and how the Broth
er Bills who hold the example
setting offices" leaves the love of
their early choice at home to ex-
hibit their latest found "love"
for everybody to see that they
don't know nothing about, or don't
care nothing about the wisdom
in the words . 1T Amt WHAT
YOU DO IT'S THE WAY THAT
YOU DO 1T l listened as l ct
ma feesh and drunk ma beer while
the above foresaid conversation
went on, and what was to, me a
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. prophecy of what
is already the case one of the
Brothers said, Man, the Elks Amt
never gonna be muffin in Mississip-
pi, cause the worthwhile fellers'
wives amt gonna let'em git out and
follow no kinda Rulers whose
famous for leaving their wives at
home while they show themselves
off with some other woman, and
where all of the wisdom and most
of the time is spent in trying to
see who gets the best poker hand
=. Yes, they talked and | listened,
and then it got clearer and clearer
to me that the thing that's wrong
with the Elks in Mississippi is
that most Of the Brother Bills and
Daughters don't pay no 'ttention
to that old song 1T AMT
WHAT YOU DO IT'S THE WAY
YOU DO 1T
HOW LONG WILL 1T LAST?
Narissia, of the Eat 1t and Beat
It Cafe, up on the Harlem end of
the Old Avenue has been riding a.
round for the last few days in, and
sometime driving that Big baby
blue Oldsmobile with the Illinois
license plate passing crowd If
hep-cats, somebody said, Yea, they
done got together now, and the
answer was, but how long is it
gonna last?
ALL THE SAME THING BUT
JEST DIFFERENT: The Hep-cats
along the Ole Avenue was telling
me the other day about some Cat
who'd got crazy about the Lady
Cab Driver Carrie Jennings ana
got mad with her and knocked a
knot on her head bout the same
time Anna Rudd (the ex-Mrs. JAM
es Oliver is said to have told
friends who cited a knot on her
head that she got it from a fall.
SPEAKING OF PICTURES:
Have you seen Hundred Dollar
Betting" Meade walking up and
down the Ole Avenue holding an
umbrella over his head I. and
did you see James Oliver the 9TH
er day in that red white-and blue
shirt and that little scull-cap of
the same color back in town from
his new Arkansas habitat.
LISTEN TO YOUR RADIO
SATURDAY: This coming Satur-
day (June 49, Jackson College
Teacher Gloria Evans will talk
with some big White Folks on the
Radio about GREAT ISSUES IN
A DEMOCRACY" it'll be at three
thirty in the afternoon. Git to your
Radio and listen, it oughta do you
good.
HEADS-UP BASEBALL PLAY
ERS: Last Sunday a Scout from
the New York Giants of the Ma
tional League was out at Brown
Stadium watching the game be-
tween the Jackson Cubs and the
Memphis Red Caps, which means