The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1957-04-25
By A Golden Named Harry
Baby Doll And David Dubinsky

that the move is playing all over the South without ripple When
you "eary beginnings praded
you you you exaggerae early
struggles and speak with pride of the time at four
o'clock in the morning to milk the cows and deliver the
South RICH today abuousy rich and getting richer
every minute.
plantation baby-crib
your whring prawling
braw huge hotels and Du Pont and Ceanee and guided
missiles and the hydrogen bomb and three quarters of million
people retail merchants Thanksgiving
Day parade daytoday naturalization without parallel
the history The Chambers of Commerce cannot
keep with advertising brochures; all they
advise where possibly find parking for your
But there is an interesting story behind this Many my
fellow liberals the North love hang the Tobacco Road
idea of the South They hate let And the white supemacsts
the South of refuse let that plantation with
Uncle Remus rolling laughter under the magnolia tree Well
that's all All dream There's Tobacco Road and there's
plantation there's certainly Uncle Remu Tobacco Road
today full of TV with electric washing machine
every back porch and Mrs Jeter Lester is not begging ole Dude
to bring her unip What she doing right getting dressed
to the Tuesday afternoon garden club maybe meet
ing of the League of Women Voters.
Under that magnolia a
chef who decatessen
with Presbyterian folk who are asking for Jewish rye bread and
down Dallas they meeting
they soup green
and Bahia an Rum served with Chabis.
The folks Nawh who refuse give up the
idea feel somehow that this legend helps emphasize the struggle
end racial segregation in the south And this precisely the
make If the South still "Tobacco
segregation
Negro was satisfied with his status when he looked around and saw
nothing poverty Road" and the cotton mill
towns Today story all around him
OH so entirely different and now he wants IN This has been
the all change history
when things GOOD the people BETTER Only
twenty-five the Negro would
WalNd along the street Well he doesn't
Not by long shot and neither rolling under the
magnolia tree He doesn't have the Today walking
y along the street his his little girl
ing school that is if he's not
Judge He not in Egypt He standing square top Mt
Nebo-and he wants the Promised Land because finally
his reach.
Now if Tennessee Williams and Ella Kazan are serio abt
producing movie about the South really today am
willing TO provide them with following
would have Eli Wallach manufacturer of
ladies foundation garments slips and basseres
West Both Street and Seventh International Ladies
Garment Workers Union after him contract and
Eli (ke SO hundreds of of New
York He makes arrangements factory
scented town of Keniworth South Carolina
raising halfmlon dollars provide Eli factory
building
To throw the union off the track Eli
factory Balance Agriculture with Industry but he
has made big mistake He has recently Doll
ms former model to fifty cent partnership
following him in her. Jaelar
And this where old Karl Maiden PLAYS David
Duonsky who has keeping this time
and he catches with her They pav
hide and seek IN an old plantation house which The
Carolina sraee and succeeds in eettino
BABY Doll to the behalf
ture With Industry, Incorporated"
The big however of Kenilwortb l.
dedlcatng the factoryWe of
factory Mr. Eli and behalf of all of
worth hereby hand this certificate your
renree Water-free powerree the first five
OF operations; thing more Mr. Eli and IN,
certainly mighty proud to be able are
very peceIu lutte town here With trouble
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