Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1960-08-20
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BY PERCY GREENE

NlHnl: l remember when / was
boy, or thereabouts, the folks
used to sing song with the title
It Amt Nobody's Business If I
Do. used to set and listen when
| heard the song but every time
made up my mind that what I did
wasn't nobody's business but mine,
my Oldham, Brother Wash, as he
was known in our neighborhood,
used to see that I got it unmade
a whole lot quicker than I got it
made-up, and most times with a
good piece of wet rope, right out
in the front yard, where all the
neighbors, including by beau las
we called them then not nv
Broad" as they say today could
see and understand what was going
on and why and outside of
running off to join the army l can't
figure out nothing that did while
growing up that really caused my
Oldham any serious concern, and
even the Army business didn't
really, because after l got back
used to hear about him Dragging
about it down at Jim Wonders
and Jones' barber shop Well.
I've been hearing about a few
things lately that l 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 lot of half
grown kids that don't know from
nothing, and have the idea that
they might dc anything and any,
time, and wind it all up just by
saying 1t Amt Nobody's Bust
ness If Do Thinking of those
who may be still following that
road and that way of thinking,
was hearing some different stories
about the latest happening and d.
dos of the younger set while watch
ing and listening to a group of
them as l enjoyed my fish and
beer One thing that I have
become convinced about is that let
young man or woman get that
1t Amt Nobody's Business If I Do
attitude, and he loses all respect
for his family, parents and every
body else but, almost always, and
sometimes before becoming a COM
plete wreck, they run up against
the law and with the law
there's no such thing as It
Amt Nobody's Business If I Do.
ALONG THE OLE AVENUE:
Chauncey Davis, back from out in
L. A. tellin Brother D. D. about
Amt Haggar's Chilluns out there
with two jobs, one in the daytime
and one at night trying to make
enough money to meet the high
cost of Twin and keep-up the
crowd and about them "Kats"
in them new Cadillac Cars with the
shot plate" in the back for a place
to cook staying anywhere
they're caught late enough at
night 3. or catching nap in the
first shade in the park in the
late afternoon.
SOMETHING THAT MADE ME
LAFF: The other day while walk
ing up Capitol Street facing two
young women who had just turned
around to look disgustedly at an
other young woman in a pair of
short shorts and nothing else
underneath warbling by and
how they looked when l said If
you think that way about her &.
What should l think about her.
HAVE YOU GOT YOURS: The
young ladies are really busy selling
tickets for the young Woman Of
the Year" contest sponsored by the
branch YWCA. The proceeds from
this affair will go to the YWCA
Building Fund.
SELLING CANDY FOR BUILD
ING: The American Legion Post
down at McComb, which is getting
ready to build them a Hut is sell
ing the famous Stuckey Candy
Pecan Roll in order to raise the
money for the project. They've al
ready learned that the Stuckey
Candy deal is the best way yet dis
covered for raising money without
begging If you wanna know
about it write to me at the Jack
con Advocate