Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 275, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1913 — MADE MATTER OF NECESSITY [ARTICLE]

MADE MATTER OF NECESSITY

According to This, There Is Little Doubt About Colored Man’s Liking for Chickens. In the endeavor to uplift the race, a friend of ours started In by trying to smash silly old superstitions. Our friend believes that negroes are maligned, and that many of the Btock jokes about them are not founded on fact. He has, in fact, succeeded in proving that a number of the old minstrel standbys are mere senseless Jests. And the other day he interviewed the, elevator boy in We . office building. "Arthur,” he said, “there’s a silly oldsaying that you colored people are crazy about chickens. I can’t see how that started. Do you like chicken?*/ "Yasßah." V

“Of course—almost everybody likes chickens. I mean to say, do you like it better than uiything else in the world? Do you like it so well that you would steal it if you couldn’t obtain it honestly?” “Boss, I likes chicken so well dat if I couldn’t git it no other way, I’d buy it!” —Cleveland Plain Dealer.