Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-05-30
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BY PERCY GREENE

PARISH STREET SATURDAY
NIGHT: There's whole lotta Amt
Haggar's Chillun here still holding
on to their claims of being Demo-
Gratis after the Republicans done
won the election last November,
and President Eisenhower is gone
to talking bout what oughta be
done for Gus" jest lack President
Truman and President Roosevelt,
and the "Cullud" Republican lead
ers, with their voice done got raised
after being lower for the past 20
years is gone to talking, and while
thinking all the time about Marse
Lincoln, they're telling the chillun
that nothings gonna be did for
them cept by the Grand Old Party,
seeing that Marse Lincoln freed US
But lack me all us Democrat
Amt Haggar's Chillun done quit
talking bout Citing freed" be-
cause of having to think about git
ting Feed" which is what we got
most of, and thought most of dur
ing the past twenty-years while
President Roosevelt and President
Truman was on-the- throne in the
White House /. ". That's the kinda
thoughts l was having over my
Fish and Beer, as l thought about
reading in the newspapers about
Mr.. Mitchell, the National Chair
man of "our" Democratic Party a.
coming down here in the Dear Old
Magnolia State this Friday to pay
us Democrats a visit and |
hadn't more'n got up from eatin
ma feesh and drinkin ma beer,
when | sees in the newspapers
again where there's gonna be open
house at four o'clock this Friday
evening up at the New Capitol
Building where "all' Democrats
kin git to see Mr.. Mitchell, the
Democratic National Chairman
| imagine | can hear a lot of Gus"
Democrats, who done got used to
thinking backwards instead of for
ward settin round wondering do
that "all' in that open house for
the National Chairman up at the
New Capitol Building include "me."
Before say what | started to say
lemme cut off a bit and say that
the Democrat votes of Amt Hag-
gar's Chillun down here in the Dear
Old Magnolia State is done got,
and is Citing mighty important
and a National Chairman is
a mighty "big" man . The best
way to find out if that open house
includes "me" is to go up to the
New Capitol Building at four
o'clock Friday evening and see .
before you start talking about it.
ALONG THE OLD AVENUE:
Rev. Louis Rawls, Pastor, Taber-
nacle Baptist Church, Chicago,
Atty. Chas. Vaughn, and brother,
sons of a one-time we'll known
Jackson shoemaker, from Chicago,
in town after attending an uncle's
funeral in Greenwood c.. H.
Webster, of Little Rock, Ark, one
time high Baptist Lay Official >.
Chas. c. Stringer, of the Magnolia
Life Insurance Co., Mound Bayou,
R. L. Drew, of the United Order
of Friendship, Clarksdale, John C.
Melchoir, prominent mortician,
ClarkSdale =.
BIG VOICE: One of the "big-
gest" male voices heard around |
these parts lately is that of Rev.
Isaac Bender, of Hattiesburg,
heard on the Commencement
Program of the Mississippi |
Baptist Seminary at Parish Street
Church last Thursday :. His rem
dition of two solos including the !
"Love of God" sounded truly pro-
fessional.
THEY WAS HERE: Public Re-
lations Director and four Talladega
College students spent Sunday, !,
May 10, with the Talladega Alumni
Club of Jackson at the home of
Mrs. Walter Williams, 223 East
Church Street. The following Mon
day they visited Jackson and Vicks-
burg High Schools, and on Tues
day and Wednesday they visited
the high schools of Hattiesburg,
Laurel and Meridian. Students
accompanying Mr.. William ivy
man for the purpose of presenting
undergraduate views of Talladega
College to High School Seniors
were Gloria Hubbard of Lynch
burg, Va; Ora Myles, of Monroe,
La; Eleanor Blackwell, of Merid-
ian, and William Davis of Akron,
Ohio.
WEEKLY QUOTATION: "They
must hunger in frost that will not
work in heat"
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