Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1960-07-30
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BY PERCY GREENE

BY PERCY GREENE
PARISH STREET SATURDAY
NIGHT: Since everybody is talk
ing about politics and whose gonna
be the next President of the United
States them folks that thinks Amt
Haggar's Chillun do not have no
interest in what's going on, as the
saying goes, got another thought
coming. Get q good plate of Hot
Fish and q bottle Of Cold Beer lack
l do and set down in q corner in
any spot up and down the Ole Ave-
nue., and listen and you'll learn
something about Amt Haggar's
Chillun and politics ;. From what
l heard this time about politics
and Amt Haggar's Chillun gave
me the answer to the reason why
the members Of the tribe here
abouts and elsewhere in the land
of cotton and sunshine have been
slow about entering the game of
politicking when they can look all
around them and see that "poli-
ticking" is what makes what we
call American Democracy click,
and see the great need for some
body from the tribe itself, in every
nook and corner, to lead the tribe
and show them the rules of play
ing Americas greatest game. As
I was listening l heard a fellow
member of the tribe who was talk
ing about politics, saying how hard
it was for him to tell all them can
didates the truth who has been
coming around to him since he
registered and got qualified to vote
asking him to vote for him in the
next voting time What made
it so hard was that to be lack he
used to be, and do lack he used to
do before he got qualified to vote,
he'd have to tell all the Why-folks
the same thing. Yes Sir, I'm for
You, and the Why-Folks would feel
all right and the time never would
come when he actually had to put
his "soul" to the test. But, said
this Brother of the Tribe, in this
business of politicking and voting
Use found that your "Soul" jest
want let you stand up and say,
Yes, Sir, I'm For You, to every
body that comes along with they
picture in the newspaper saying
that they's in politics and wants
to get theyself elected to some
kinda politick office thought
a while after I had listened a
while and it came to me that the
hardest thing for Amt Haggar's
Chillun to face, and the hardest
lesson for them to learn about
politics is that you've gotta be
FOR" somebody and "AGIN'
somebody. In politics you jest
can't be all things to all people,
and FOR" everybody that comes
NEWS TIDBIT: A thief broke
the glass in the show window of
Moseley's Shoe shop and stole
more than $500 worth of new
hand made leather ladies bags and
other items. If you are anywhere
and such an item is offered to
you for sale know Brother Nose
ley would appreciate it very much
if you'd notify him.
WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW:
Attorney Sidney R. Tharp has had
a recurrence of stomach ailment
and is confined to the hospital this
week for a series of tests to de-
termine future course of treat
ment and extent Of ailment.
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERY
THING: The Stuckey Candy Com
pany Pecan Roll which is now
being offered to Negro groups for
Fund Raising sales is the best
money making proposition for
Churches, Clubs, Lodges, Schools,
and other organized groups that
I've ever heard anything about.
Here in Jackson Central Metho-
dist Church which has already
raised $1,000 in less than three
weeks for its Building Fund is
over halfway thru raising anoth-
er $1,000 with the Candy Sale :.
Up in Louisville Mt. Moriah M. B.
Church has just about completed
its drive to raise $3.50, and down
in Brookhaven, the New St. Paul
M. B. Church is catching up on
some financial slack by selling
enough candy to raise $3.50 for
its Trustee Board. Wanna Know
more about it just write to me and
l will come and tell you more :.
WEEKLY QUOTATION: "Pol-
tiles l conceive to be nothing more
than the science of the ordered
progress Of society along lines of
greatest usefulness and convent
ence to itself."-Woodrow Wilson.
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