The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-10-29
HALLOWEEN TO BE
A BIG NIGHT HERE
Civitan Club Invites City
To It's Downtown Par
ty Tuesday Night
PLAN MASQUE PARADE
Entire Community 10 Rcvel on
Evening Dedicated TO the
Weird and Ghosuy

Otherwise men beside yourselves
hays held tho thooory that people
never rcolly grow up, Years hair
restorntlvca. fl.25, OH or progeny can
mover quite destroy the play Instinct
latent within the most married or
worst dignincd of uH 10 BOO uIre,
the Instinct doesn't gee much of q
chance, owing tO The obligations that
merely being Erowr up Impose upon
ono. except on Fourth uf July or
Halloween. Chr.fin1s r. ont uf tho
RUNNING. There Del mo- use pretending
that father feels l.Hr n f.d when hiH
stronger emotion ia tho flat feeling
OF hia purse nor that mother iA lu-
cllncd 90 skip about ln Juvenile Tlce
when thC hurdou OF making tho
wheels 10 round nuI preserving In
tari the iovi0l Santa Claus tradition
doFolvcs upon hor.
But Halloween IA different.
Halloween IL PlHytimc
Everybody plays on Halloween
night. II may be the subtle alchemy
OF a witch -dciugcd atmosphere, tho
prompting Of an Imagination
qulckened by tho dorisivo gtins Of
pumpkin head and black cat or
merely the deliberate and temporary
belief In powers of divlnatiOn with
which tho least OF those arc trad.
uOnally supposed 20 be endowed.
given the proper iucantatlous and
environment OF mirror ana pnrlnFH.
But everybody is ready 10 believe
anything, 20 listen 70 anybody and
20 do lot n hasn't been 40 long
ago that tho playful youth Expressed
eNuberance by carrying Off gntcp,
parking COWS In the church belfry
or coyly turning upside down ovory-
thing that IN movable. They prob
ably do yet. Ccrtniniy the heart
rcnding affairs that rip across the
windows ana that were invented IN
some unfortunate moment by some
ono with moro energy than brains
still find a place IN Halloween cole
hrdtions But thore nro thoae pence
ful souls whose incliuatlous hold
them by mn open fireplace, supple
mented by nuts and nothing more
dangerous than apples that are to
he earned by plunglnR into tubs Of
water for them. They forctcll
weddings and deaths by the ghpstly
experiment OF burning nuts and
larlating apple poelinEs over their
heads and walking backwards down
tho cellar stairs and other slmple,
homeN toys, then eat pumpkin pies
and drink cider.
Spirits Abroad.
hut nll OF these things, together
with the custom ~ stalking, white
shceted, through The strccta, come
from tho ancient belief that spirits
OF the visible world free themselves
from all ties that bind them and
wander up and down the earth on
Halloween. or All IIaiiows Evo. An
enlightened age has robbed tho be-
lief OF Its terrors but the idea n ntill
embodied In all OF tho things that
have come to characterize Halloween
In the minds ana custom OF all
English-speaking people. But Il
has como tn be moro OF n time when
everybody drops for the night what
evergis troubling thom. and plays.
Halloween night down town here
in Tuisn last year was nm occasion
That the city win not soon forget.
Tho colorful, fantastlcally Earbod
crowds were n gorgeous panorama
that shifted back ana forth, back
and forth through tho streets until
long past midnight. Everybody was
All dressed up ana no place to go.
Nobody cared because everybody was
having a grand gay time
THIS year there is going 20 he
some place TO 70. Tulsn Ia going 10
inject into ita Halloween celebration
something OF the community splrit
that Is colorlng Its activities along
various other lines Knowing that
Tulsa people, as n cityahnd work TO.
Gether, plan together pull together.
there IL certain group OF mon who
believe that they can play together.
too.
Ciyitnn Plans Party.
These men are tho members OF the
Ctvtan club.
The Clvitan club has isaucd invita- .
lions to everybody in tho city 70
come to It's Halloween party. There
is going 20 be music, ana llght, and
color, and fun, dancing md frolick-
ins ana mnsuuos and back Of II all q
generous thought for "the least oI
these" The party will be down town
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