Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-10-24
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BY PERCY GREENE

NIGHT: A chicken amt nutnln DuC
"a bird, is a saying that Amt
,aaggar's Chillun invented some
where back down the road and /
thought about that saying whilst
I was eating my fish and drinking
my beer when l heard a crowd of
the tribe members indulging them
selves in the subject of "Negro
Education" national, state, and To-
cal. This time all of the emphasis
being on the local NEGRO Educa-
ton" What appeared to have pro-
voked all the talk on the subject
was the recent piece in the news
papers about where somebody up
in Chicago wrote and told some
body down here that the schools
for Amt Haggar's Chillun right
here in the Capital City Of the
Old Magnolia is better'n them up
in the Big Windy City al
though whilst l was listening |
didn't get it clear if the folks that
rote, and the newspaper said that
the schools for Amt Haggar's Chill
lun here was better'n the schools
for 'em up in the Big Windy F..
it was all right bout what was sed
bout the schools up in Chicago til
somebody said that the same fell
low that put that in the paper bout
the letter from Chicago sed that
the schools for Amt Haggar's
Chillun here is equal to them for
the Why-Folks here and from
what / heard when he said that
somebody axed about the library
out at Lanier Hi School and how
it stacks up wild the Library over
at Central Hi and the argu-
ment got hotter when it was scd
that a Library Amt no part of
the Institutional and teaching
equipment" of school When
| heard that part of the converse
ton that's when the saying of
Amt Haggar's Chillun "A CHICK
EN- Amt MUFFIN BUT-A
BIRD" jumped into my mind, see
ing as | do that all of the sayings
invented by members-O-t the tribe
will sometimes put wise men to
flight, and it wasn't long as | con-
tinued to listen before l got woke
up on the subject of library and
schools as one fellow ups and says
Man, don you-alls know that a
school amt muffin but books, jest
lacka library amt muffin but books
and you gotta read 'em in both
places in you intends to git eddy
Gated kept on drinking my
beer and eating my fish but it
kept runnin over and over in my
mind eff school and library amt
the same thing How come
A CHICKEN Amt NUTHIN
BUT A BIRD
CONGRATULATIONS A N ID
BEST WISHES: You can do
lotta good, along with what you
buy from them buying going down
on the Ole Avenue and saying
congratulations and best wishes
to Houston Wells and Joseph
Knox, two young Negro business
men who had the courage to invest
their money in something beside
a hamburged stand, juke-joint, and
bawdy house They just in
stalled this week a big electric
sign locating the KNOX-WELLS
APPLIANCE COMPANY where
you can buy television sets, sewing
machines, record-players and other
appliances.
WHERE'D HE GIT THAT
CAR? All you folks whose done
already asked, and all the rest of
you-alls whose Citing ready to ask
where JOE NEWMAN, up
and coming JACKSON ADVO-
CATE MAN, got that car he's
driving since he quit driving that
Green Henry-J !. l recommend
that you ask him not me.
THERE'S A REASON FOR EB-
ERTHING: The reason Mrs. Thel-
ma Cobb Jones, good looking widow
of the late Henry Jones, is look
ing so bright-eyed and happy now
is more than romantic she's
expecting her second grandchild
almost any day now -.
SATURDAY NIGHT is THE
NIGHT. Jackson College and
Tougaloo will engage in their ira
ditional football rivalry out at the
Jackson College Alumni Stadium,
Saturday night. If you go out
you'll not only see bang-up game
but you'll have chance to win
a television set which is being
given by the Knox Wells Appliance
Go. You'll have to be there to