Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-01-31
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BY PERCY GREENE

Parish STREET SATURDAY
NIGHT: My Grandma used to say
what you is, you is, and what you
amt you amt, which is another
way of saying that it amt no way
that you can make a bulldog outta
a flee. | been thinking of them
kind Of differences between folks
and things, specially since the
brothers and sisters is being called
upon to testify, and let the world
know who wants to go over into
the promised land, who wants to
go back to the flesh pots of slav-
cry, or who wants to jest stay in
the wilderness and wander around
and round lima ring. Well now,
as my grandma musta knowed, as
you knows, l knows and everybody
knows Chats the expression which
got me my wife) there's some folks
what's bull dogs, and some folks
what's fice-dogs, and if you figure
1T out which ever way you look at
the figures, there's heap more
fice-dogs,s than there's bulldogs
and you's liable to look up any
time and find a fice-dog widda
bulldogs collar on, cause most
ficedogs have figured it out that
)ther amt many bulldogs round
know how :. i. So, Pm setting over
my fish and beer listening at 2
lotta folks saying what oughta be
done bout them fellows who say
that we amt ready to cross over
into the promised land, and them
that say Yves ready to go back to
the flesh pots where we was bet
ter off, even dan we is now here
soJourning in the wilderness, and
one fellow says, after old President
Truman done smot the Red-sea wild
dem civil rights bills we'll one
thing bout me when it gifts too
tuff for my little head (size 7 5/8)
| always go back to my Grandma's
wisdom and relying on what
my grandma said on the subject
what | put down above in dis hyar
piece, letem say what they wanna
say (and collect where they cam
cause Amt Haggar's Chillun amt
beng sold" no more, and them
that's doing the buying and paying
is Citing bogus reseat think
ing as | was while eating my fish
and drinking my beer | thought
I'd tell you-alls not to be mad wild
bout what they say bout
our journey to the promised land.
cause some of them that talking
show-nuff thinks they is bulldogs
cause they's been wearing his col
lar so long, but lack my grandma
said, What you is you is, and what
you amt you amt and RICH
|ong-hyar it takes a bulldog to say
that Amt Haggar's Chillun wants
to go on over into the promised
land =. and not a flee in a bull |
dogs collar.
HE WASN'T THERE CHAR
LEY: Ny friend Earl Banks, of
the Peoples Funeral Home, the
ranking Republican here abouts.
in the thrill of the election was
getting ready to go to the inaug-
and having had some ex-
perience with such things | hep
him on how to fix himself up for
the occasion. You know, like when
you got up there in Washington,
when to wear your Tux, when to
wear jest a plain business suit, and
when you need your white-tie and
tails :. and | was so sure that
he was gone | had it writ up in
the papers but he wasn't there,
at the last minute he decided he
wouldn't go 49,.
HEPPING THE KATS AND
CH1CS: A certain big-time Chic
was. testing a new boy friend be-
fore she gave up the old one that
she could count on =. To see if
he'd make the grade she was TAX
ing him out in the wee wee hours
of the morning, after midnight,
the outta the way places,
but it all got messed when high
ass Georgia pine she, with her
new friend and party walked mi