Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1955-05-14
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BY PERCY GREENE

PARISH STREET SATURDAY
NIGHT: While | was settin down
eating my fish and drinking my
beer, and listening to a crowd of
Aine Haggar's Chillun specializing
on what is done happened and what
amt gonna happen, l got to think
ing about how my Grandma used
to say when folks got to talking
about what had just took place,
which they generally told in a
thousand different ways, there
amt no news that travels as fast
as bad news, and she'd always add,
there amt no news that gets
worse and worse as it travels like
bad news +. don't know wheth-
er Grandma knowed anything
about the philosophy she was ex-
pounding or not, that she didn't
say, fact of the business is that
Grandma, as | have come to real
ize, had the kinda sense that didn't
require the use of such big words
anyhow as l set there eating
my fish and drinking my beer,
after what Grandma used to say
come to mind, l couldn't help think
ing about how Aine Haggar's Chill
lun have come to the place that
they don't look for nothing but the
bad news and they don't want to
hear nothing but bad news, some
thing that made me wonder what
Grandma would say if she was
living 'mongst US now One
thing / do remember her saying
was that folks who go around all
the time looking for nothing but
the bad news, always find it, they
even find the good news, bad /.
! and with no immediate aid from
Grandma's wisdom and council,
jess relying on what she used to
say, it occurs to me to say to you
alls here, that from where l sit
it looks to me lack that the folks
who don't have nothing to tell but
the bad news, and in the telling
makes it Bladder, if that is possible,
is lack somebody staying all the
time in dark room. they
don't know when it is day and
they don't know when it is night
and to come to an end of
this, Aine Haggar's Chillun would
never be able to see the light, long
as they look for nothing but the
dark side, as one fellow said some
where | believe, Look at the Light
because when you see the
light there is still hope /. 4. Gimme
another order of that fish and an
other one of them beers
HOW COME: Rev. Adam Clay
ton Powell, Negro Congressman
from New York, and pastor of one
of the worlds largest church con-
gregations, took the money out of
his own picket and went over yon-
der to Banding where all the COL
ored people in the world got to-
gether to talk about what they
gonna do from here on out. Con-
gresham Powell has something
to tell Mr.. Eisenhower about what
went on, but he won't let him do
/ it.
DON'T MISS 1T: You folks
what's been telling yourself that
you're gonna put your baby in
that Big Second Annual Carnation
! Milk Healthy Baby Contest and
try to win that $500 fust prize,
what amt done it yet, but jess
keeps putting it off amt got no
longer than this Saturday :. Don't
say | didn't tell you about it be-
fore you missed it.
SOMETHING THAT MADE
Me LAFF: That lady down on the
Old Avenue telling her girls's boy
friend about what she was gonna
tell on him, and the look that came
on her face when he said, Yeah,
when you start telling We'll just
start swapping, you tell on me . =.
and | tell on you oh you kid.
/ WEEKLY QUOTATION: "He
gets along best with women who
best knows how to get on without
them. "-Imborse Bierce.
A.