Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1955-03-19
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By PERCY GREENE

ONE up to the front gate. I was
settin down eatin my fish and
lrinkin ma beer when l heard a
group of Aine Haggar's Chillun
ielineating on how us "leaders"
lone juss now 'scovered freedom
# talk, and while they were talk
ing about how desc hyar new
leaders" is gwineta innegrate de
whole world, I noticed one old TYNE
Parish Streeter who was jess
'tanding there saying muffin but
eyeing them what called they
selves saying something, and keep
ing an ear to every thing that was
being said, and when some time
had gone by and lotta loose talk
had been done ne started to
talking as though he was looking
back at the past, and gathering up
the wisdom that them what some
Of us now lack to call "Uncle
Toms" and Rag-Head used to git
something SO we could start to
eating regular jess after Marse
Lincoln had us turned loose wild
bare hands and loose-fitting britch-
es, when he looked at one of the
young-uns as ma grandma used to
call Penn, what had been doing
most of the loose and big talk
bout how US "BIG NEW LEAD
Frs" is talking, and with quiet
ness in his voice that seemed to
have shocked the young'un into
attention he says, Son, lse been
standing hyar whilst you-alls were
doing yo talking, and the way you
alls were talking, and the way them
dat you-alls were talking bout as
to how dey don 'scovered de free
dom 1--WE de speeks, is what us
called back in youse Grandma's
days, BACK GATE TALK, and |
amt calling ma self buttin in on
you-alls conversayshun, but ! fig
ured | oughta say something what
| believes will do you-all and dem
dat you-alls is talking bout more
good, what calls they self doing
somefin to lead Aine Haggar's
Chillun out 1--WE de wilderness what
the is now in up to de promise
land | took another gulp of
ma beer and bite of my fish, just
when he was saying You see
dat back-gate talk is allrite, when
you at de back gate, but when
your leaders move up to de front
gate, deys got to start talking lack
what the why-folks calls dem
statesmen and dimplummats, cause
what you say is gotta be polished
up, when you gifts freedom of de
speaks, which means you done
moved up to de front gate
and its different when you comes
up to de front gate and starts
talkin where everybody can hear
what you says -.
ALONG THE OLE AVENUE:
DR.. J. E. Walker, of Memphis,
president of the Tri-State Bank,
and Founder and Chairman of the
Board of the Universal Life Insur-
ance Company, and his Chip-off-
the old-block son, Maceo, in town
for short stay Sunday.
SOMETHING THAT MADE NE
LAFF: The jokes that I've been
hearing all the week about how
dangerous it is to take the attached
girl friend in the moving picture
show now since they turn on the
light so everybody can buy them
hot dogs and popcorn, and see
everybody else in the show. That's
how that lady saw her husband
setting up front with his girl friend
and went back home and got her
razor and turned out the show
when the light went out. l hear
they had to take more'n eighty
five stitches where she made jess
one slash.
WONDER is 1T TRUE DEPT:
What I've been hearing up and
down the Ole Avenue all week
about w. C. Summers, big-time
Parish Streeter who blew in town
the other week with a wad OF
dough big enough to choke an ele
plant and a brand new Cadillac
They said it different down in
Texas the other day.
THAT OLD BIRD: l didn't tel
you, but that Old Bird that carries
in his little old bill that little
heart-warming and family-cement
ing bundle, left an eight-pounc
bundle for Ella Polk and her hus
band she's the one time secre.
tary of the Jackson Advocate.
WEEKLY QUOTATION: "Rea
son and judgement are the quail
ties of leader Tacitus.
Ed Sullivan 80.
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emeritus, Mrs. Mary Mcleod Be-
thune.
Sullivan, who shared the plat
form with Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt