Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-04-03
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By PERCY GREENE

PARISH STREET SATURDAY
NIGHT: I was looking around and
listening while l set down over nv
feesh and beer to find out what
Aine Haggar's Chilluns is thinking
about that H-bomb and that big
whole that it knocked in the ground
and that Island that it et-up when
it was exploded the other day over
some where out from Japan where
the first A-bomb was shot-off for
keeps, and where them Japs is
trying to make everybody believe
that they amt thinking about that
no more wy. What made ne think
to think about what Aine Haggar's
Chillun might be thinking about
that big hole that that H-bomb
made was an old tune that used
to be sung mongst us long time
ago what went lack this: Gods
gwineta set dis world on fryer
some o desc days soon got
the cue to what | was listening
fur Somebody over in a cor
ner absorbing fish and beer lack
| was asked the question, Man, Is
you heard bout dat other bomb dat
they don drapped over FOUNDER -.
which was the beginning of live
ly conversation but I've learned
longtime ago that it amt no ways
of telling what tack Aine Haggar's
Chillun is gonna take when sub
ject as big as the H-bomb come
up, and during the talking that
went on that soon comes back to
me when somebody says faint no
body now that kin say that they
BIBLE amt right where it says
what it says about that fireyer and
rhinestone raining down on dis
earth. | was surprised tho when
somebody answered and says that
it amt nobody that knows whicha-
way that the fireyer is coming
from, which don't seem to me to
much of a fatalistic view to take
on the subject But with the knowl-
edge on the subject being what it
was in the crowd l knowed that
somebody was gonna say something
bout Citing skered. Then up it
comes. One brother who chimmed
in kinda late says, Man, don't Yuall
reckin that with us got that H
bomb and it knocking dat big hole
in de ground and wiping out that
Island and the dust falling on them
Japs again and settin 'em on fire
yer . Man, don't you reckin that
all dat amt got the whole world
Citing skered of us AS | got
up to leave the last thing | heard
was somebody say, Yea, OATS all
right efen everybody is gittin
skered of us, but what's gonna
happen if dat H-bomb make US
git skerred of us own self
HERE WHAT SOMEBODY
SENT Me FROM CHICAGO -
They calls it a Prayer for Ike . .
1t say, Dear Editor: Ike is my
shepherd l am in want. He maketh
me to lie down on park benches;
he leadeth me beside still fac
tories; he restoreth my doubt IN
the path of unemployment for his
party's sake. Yea, though | walk
through the valley of soup lines,
/ am still hungry. l fear all evils
for thou are against me. The
abinet, senate and house they d.
comfort me- Thou prepared a re-
duction in my wages in the pres
ence of my creditors. Surely pow
erty and hard times will follow me
all the days of the COP Admins
tratior and I will dwell in poor
house I'm gonna write and
tell this brother, Yea that what US
Democrats tried to tell You alls 80.
PEOPLE Joseph F. AL
bright, former assistant to the oil
rector of the Veterans Adminlstra-
ton, Washington, D. c., the man
who told me to say that we wanted
Negro Nurses out at the Veterans
Hospital here so it could be heard
UP in Washington coming by my
office to write me message OF
GOOD cheer while / was out :.
Mrs. Zee Anderson Barron, OF
Mound Bayou on two crutches at
the school teachers convention last
week. She fell down steps at. Tus-
kegee and broke an ankle
and those other folks among the
5000 or more present at the Teach
ers Convention whispering to tell
me don't forget to put it IN the
paper that they were there
SHE SAYS IT'S so: Good-to-
fnok-at Miss Elizabeth