Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-12-21
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By PERCY GREENE
BY PERCY GREENE

PARISH STREET SATURDAY
NIGHT: What makes Parish ST.
on Saturday night what it is, and
what makes Parish ST. on Christ
mas night what it is because Far
ish ST. on Saturday night and Far
is st. on Christmas night is where
you can always see something and
hear something and if your eyes
and ears are keyed to the right
pitch you can hear something and
see something that bears the stamp
of what my grandma meant when
she was talking about 'horse
sense" For instance, Christmas
is here, and before I say my
merry Christmas Everybody" l
got to say something about the
Christmas talk, overheard from
Parish Streeters as they gathered,
like it was, around their fish and
beer. One fellow starts out by
saying, well, Christmas is here now
and everybody will be giving some
thing but most of the giving will
be folks giving somebody some
thing who don't need what they
give them and the other folks Civ
ing them back something that they
don't need, and all the folks what
do that kind of giving they think
that they are having a grand and
glorious Christmas and all day
Christmas and a long time after
wards they'll be calling up Sal and
Sue, and Tom, Dick and Harry
talking about what a great Christ
mas they had and calling off the
list of who they got gifts from and
who they sent gifts to. Well, to
this fellow that Pm listening to
that amt no Christmas, at least
he say that amt the way it should
work out if the Man that Christmas
was invented for had anything to
do with the giving. Still talking,
he says, all that kinda giving don't
count for nothing cause it's most
ly swapping you give me
something good and l give you
something good and on the
other hand folks don't get no credit
for giving to them that's got. /
been thinking ever since I heard
that conversation about how much
more merry" Christmas could be
to lot of folks if they had
better understanding of Christmas
giving and if their gifts were di-
rected more in accordance with the
idea of the man who said, at is
more blessed to give than to re-
ceive" | got good idea for |
folks who want to do some real |
Christmas Giving" ;. where you
can give folks what they need and !
don't have to be worrying about |
giving them what they might like. |
The kind of giving to any one is |
crowd of kids what shows the !
kinda Christmas they're gonna
have when you see them running
up and down the street of any
neighborhood Merry Christ
mas Everybody.
ALONG THE OLE AVENUE:
James Oliver, the clothes salesman
in town from Arkansas reporting
all quiet in Little Rock, and in
quiring about the welfare of his
competitor, Burgess Brooks. Bill !
D. D. Sheppard looking more con- I
tented than ever at Xmas time
since he became manager of the
Crystal Palace pool room. Fudge
"Big Daddy" Moore, reported
counting the cost of Christmas
presents as the price of being
single man, or as the hep cats say,
a Lady's Man. Well dressed fur
niture and appliance statesmen Civ
ing real new look to the Ole
Avenue at the Christmas time. The
crowd up at the Dotty Cab Grill /
intently watching the Xmas shows
on television
GO SOUTH FOR SORROW: |
That's the title of new book
about the South by Negro author
Carl Rowan. When we go on our
frequent trips up north and find
a lotta folks from down home liv-
ing doubled-up and worse in those
basement apartments, if they can |
be called apartments, and who al
ways invite their friends to have |
a drink at a bar because they are
ashamed to let them see where |
and how they're living, Brother
Rowan knows there's whole lotta
material for book bout Aine !
Haggar's Chillun titled, go NORTH
For Sorrow"
: CHRISTMAS TIME SPORTS:
A big basketball tournament out
at the Jackson State College Gym