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Show UNICEF HALLOWE'EN UNICEF Have some pennies on hand for the goblins, ghosts, witches, and other frightening apparitions you will greet at your doors on Hallowe'en, this Saturday night. Again this year the youngsters have been provided with boxes to hold the pennies at their Sunday Schools. UNICEF is the United Nations Children's Fund. The sums collected instead of candies will go to children in less fortunate circumstances in other lands. It wouldn't hurt to have a little treat supply on hand to reward these noble children who are foregoing fore-going the traditional "trick or treat." UNICEF means United Nations International Children's Emergency Emer-gency Fund. HALLOWE'EN TRADITIONAL Hallowe'en, or All Hallows Eve, sounds like a Christian festival. But it dates far back into antiquity to the Druids. Two of the common early beliefs were that roaring fires were a part of the holiday and that witches and ghosts chose October 31st to appear. The Romans added the Feast of Pomona, the goddess of gardens, on November 1st to the celebration. The Irish added their own touch to the day, the "Festival of Saman." Saman, the god of lost souls", would call the dead, condemned souls to him on this "e'en". Through the English, this festival came to us through the centuries, clouded in the mists of the past, to become the boisterous, rowdy pleasurable holiday we all know and enjoy. |