Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1955-06-11
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BY PERCY GREENE

PARISH STREET SATURDAY
NIGHT: There used to be an ex-
rression which l heard used whole
lots 'mongst Aine Haggar's Chill
Jun when l was boy which the
old folks would use to show their
.ack of respect and contempt for
the wise aces, who was always
shooting off his mouth about things
hat it was obvious anybody that
had half-ounce of good common
sense that he didn't do anything
,bout what he was talking about
but all that he was doing land
'ometimes she) was just running
off at the mouth the express
sion by which the old folks used
20 describe such meanderings was
to say :. Don't pay any attention
to that fellow He's jess talk
ing lotta Who Shot John !
was thinking about some many
folks that we have now amongst
Aine Haggar's Chillun settin
around the barbershops, and git
ting-up in the little outta the way
churches calling themselves speak
ing with great knowledge, but who
in reality amt doing nothing but
what the old folks used to say . g.
Talking lotta Who Shot John =. g.
While l was thinking about folks
talking a lotta Who Shot John 1
was invited to have another help
ing of fish and beer by one of the
wise old TYNE Parish streeters who
musterhaveben reading my mind
as he come over to the corner
where | was settin What
made me think that the Brother
musta been reading my mind, was
that he started to talking about
the same thing that l had been
thinking about, how Aine Haggar'5
Chillun, needing somebody to keep
them on the right road now worse
than they did when Marse Lincoln
fust broke the chains NV bondage
as my Grandpa used to say, but
only hearings allotta folks whose
jess got wise gitting-up every
where trying to tell them what us
is gonna Go, and what US is gwine-
a make dem other folks do, which
my wise old tyne Parish streeter
said had about as much sense in
it as the fellow standing up shak-
ing his fist in the mans face who
had a pistol in his pocket :. and
Jess as the old folks used to say
when | was boy, befo he got
through talking he said what Aine
Haggar's Chillun needs to do right
now is quit paying 'tention to folks
Citing up talking lotta Who
Shot John =.
GOOD NEWS FROM AN OLD
FRIEND. l heard this week that
John King, Old Tyne Parish
Streeter, who was rushed from his
store out in Washington's Addition
to the Veterans Hospital the other
week desperately i'll is setting
on the side Of his bed making the
other patients almost bust their
sides laffing at them funny tales
that nobody can heat him telling
and what's more they say he'll
be back to his old self and up and
out again soon /.
WHAT THE HEP CATS ARE
SAYING: That Sam Baker, big
time East Jackson Night Club Or
orator is now one of the top men,
bers of the NAACP Board of
Strategy backing the drive they
have announced for petition for
mixed schools
THAT OLD BIRD: That carrys
in his bill that little old heart
warming and family cementing
bundle left one the other day for
young Mr.. and Mrs. Horace Jones.
He is Assistant Manager of the
Denton Burial Association. 1t is
boy and everybody is we'll and
happy.
SOMETHING THAT MADE NE
AEE. Cow two Girls marching
up and down the Ole Avenue the
other night with some of them
short breeches on tat was show
ing all they had but didn't have
much to show, when they pass one
kat said trouble bout women
wearing them breeches they jess
let anybody wear 'em. @
WEEKLY QUOTATION: "He
who has little silver in his pouch