Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1959-09-05
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BY PERCY GREENE

PARISH STREET SATURDAY
NIGHT: remember when | was
a boy, or thereabout, the folks
used to sing a song with the title
1T AMT NOBODY'S BUSINESS
IF / DO. used to set and listen
when l heard the song but every
time | made up my mind that what
| did wasn't nobody's businss but
mine, my Oldham, Brother Wash,
as he was known in our neighbor-
hood, used to see that | got it I'M
made whole lot quicker than
got it made-up, and most times
with good piece of wet rope, right
out in the front yard, where all
the neighbors, including my beau
las we called them then not
my Broad" as they say today
could see and understand what
was going on and why and
outside of running off to join the
army | can't figure out nothing
that / did while growing up that
really caused my Oldham any Sc
rious concern, and even the Army
business didn't really, because
after | got back | used to hear
about him Dragging abut it down
at Jim Wonders and Jones' bar
Der shop Well, I've been hear
ing about few things lately that
| know must be all but breaking
the hearts of the parents involved,
and l take it that while they've
stopped singing that song, there's
still a lot of half grown kids that
don't know from nothing, who have
the idea that they might do any
thing and anytime, and wind it all
up just by saying 1T AMT
NOBODY'S BUSINESS IF l DO
Thinking of those who may
be still following that road and that
way of thinking, l was hearing
some different stories about the
latest happenings and di-dos of the
younger set while watching and lis
tening to group of them as / en-
joyed my Fish and Beer One
thing that | have become convinced
about is that let a young man or
woman get that 1T AMT NO
BODY'S BUSINESS IF l DO at
titude, and he loses all respect for
his family, parents and everybody
else but, almost always, and some
times before becoming a complete
wreck, they run up again the LAW
and one good thing sometime
for all those who can hear and see
that with the LAW there's no such
thing as 1T AMT NO
BODY'S BUSINESS IF l DO.
SIGN OF PROGRESS: We were
over in Sanders Millinery the other
day looking around where we saw
as good evidence of a growing
business a much increase in stock
and the addition of another clerk
who upon first look at her figure
we thought was in the place just
to model some of the late style
dresses and suits that Sanders is
now showing. Incidentally when
you're shopping at Sanders you get
free parking in the lot just across
from the store on Hamilton Street.
THAT OLD BIRD: That carry in
his bill that little old heart-warm-
ing and family bundle
left one the other day for Mr.. and
Mrs. Raymond Tisby. It's boy
named Terence Addison Tisby. The
dad is the new Assistant Public
relations Directors up at Mississip-
pi Vocational College the
mother is the former Miss Elsie
Jean Vaughn of Memphis. It's
their first and everybody is
well and happy.
WEEKLY QUOTATION: The
notion that God by special inter-
position marked off the subdivi-
sions of the human family, and set
upon each one an indelible seal
of permanence, is the dream of
ignorance and bigotry." - Arch
bishop John Ireland.