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Show 1 AN EDITORIAL BY FLORENCE DAVIES 4- ILVLLOWEEX. Once get a superstition or a custom hammcrod Into the human consciousness conscious-ness and It Is almost Impossible to cradlca,to it. Here today Is Hallowe'en, for Instance. In-stance. Time was, back ln the misty ! ages when Ignorance ruled the world j and men's minds were the playground j of evil spirits, a devil's garden of ; fnntistlc superstitions. Hallowe'en was 'looked upon with fear and trembling ilt was the night when the spirits ot evil ones left their graves and in ghostly erernenLs roamed the eart'i, in. .ling ill for all humans bold enough to stray ln their neighborhood, j Less ignorant today and In some ways less superstitious. too, ma.i 1 dOQ n't Worry about ghosts or I b tit habits a.- let Willie and his gang rl little roughnecku take or the ghost'.i stock In trade, and muke the night hideous In their own way. Civilization has transformed Hallowe'en Hal-lowe'en ln.o a night of merriment. We couldnt lot go the ceremony al together, you see, so WC simply illuminated illumi-nated It with the light of our later knowledge. Emulating Willie and hU marauding gang In their games, we revel In more mature, if Just as iron -some, entertainment. We've snapped our fingers at the ghosts, bade the:n l'i gone, nnd s. Ulr.l .ii:r.s-' i s down before the fire to enjoy the night. What if we don't Just remember the real inception of this merry time, forgetting thut It murks the safe par-nering par-nering of the year's erops, and signal-Ires signal-Ires the coming of the long winter? It's a good thing that man takes but little hint to make merry: the world needs good fellowship more than it needs most things that it has In abundance. abun-dance. So hero's to Hallowe'en; may we all dance the ghosts back to tlnir graves in shame! |