Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1961-07-08
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BY PERCY GREENE

PARISH STREET SATURDAY
NIGHT: Back when l was a little
boy | used to 60 with my Grand
ma to the 'tracted meeting which
is what they call revival now, my
job being to help her across bitches
and hardplaces where her age
was something of a handicap, es-
pecially on such occasions when
she left her walking-cane and
pipe at home In rejection it
always comes back to me how dur
ing the devotion period before the
preacher got ready to take the pull
pit, after some soul-stirring pray
ers by the deacons and mothers
of the Church, some Brother or
Sister, to get the church really
ready for the Preacher would give
out with the song, which was 4
favorite in those days: Pm on The
Lords Side, Brother, Where Are
You . l thought about them Ole
Tyne 'tracted Meetings while
was settin down eatin ma feesh
and drinking my beer, where me
along with a goodly number of
Aine Haggar's Chillun, doing the
same kind of indulging, were gath
cred in one of the popular Satur-
day Night Spots along the Ole
Avenue. Over at table in a cor
ner group of the Brothels-O-
TheTribe were knee-deep in
discussion of the main topic of the
day that seems bound to come-up
whenever and wherever a crowd
of US get together where the at
mosphere (meaning 'mongst us
selfs) permits safe discussion of
what us wants to talk about :.
One of the Brothers got kinda
loud and kinda vehement lack
when he said, Man, us is show
gonna win-out cause De Lord is
on Uses Side . 1t was then fol
the first time in a long time that
my mind went back to the days
when | used to go with my Grand
ma to the "tracted' meetings, and
eventually came to feel the NOV
ing spirit as the congregation sang,
I'm On The Lords Side, Brother
Where Are You But before |
got too far in my musings | was
interrupted by one brother who
took up the issue about whose side
De Lord is on. .. Yves trust
rated, bothered, and bewildered,
everybody is got somefin but us,
and Yves tryin to give up dat lit
tie we is got while everybody |
is tryin to git somefin for dey
self, he said, and wound-up by
saying what we is doing is boast
ing bout De Lord being on our
side When we oughta be
doing everything we kin to make !
sure that we is on De Lords Side. /
QUESTION: Pm just raisin it
so you can answer. Everybody says |
that we love watermelons better'n
any other folks in the world. If
this is true how come its is that
you can't buy a cold slice of water
melon in any of our cafes and !
eating places up and down the Ole
Avenue.
ALONG THE OLE AVENUE:
The new sign on the window of
Johnson and Atkins Astoria Bar
bershop down at the corner of
Parish and Hamilton, The new
Pink Front on the Old Blackstone
Cafe, YWCA Lassies selling home
made Ice cream on the lot where
the new YWCA Building will be-
come '63 . Butch and his wild
cats attracting big crowds at the
dance pallor at the cornor of Far
ish and Amite
SOMETHING THAT MADE NE
LAFF: That story hear about
the fellow who cutoff the gas so
his step-daughters couldn't cook,
because he didn't want nobody to
cock but his wife who was attend
ing Sunday morning church.
HOPE 1T AMT so: That story
l hear about young father and
husband out west, with a high
class family background whose
about to run his wife up tele-
phone poles with of mental illness
because he keeps on coming home
in the late hours of the night or
early morning filled to the gills.
WEEKLY QUOTATION: He
who made all men hath made the
truths necessary to human happi-
ness obvious to all-Samuel Ad-
ans.
Negro Named -.
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