Evening star., 1939-10-22
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= BY PHILIP H. LOVE,
Junior Star Editor,

Do you realize that Halloween Is
only q little more than a week
away?
Well, I hadn't realized it, either,
until just few minutes ago. Hav-
ing the material for today's issue of
The Junior Star pretty we'll taken
care of, began looking over a few
possible publication next Sunday,
which happens to be two days before
Halloween. Right on top of the pile
was an article telling how boys and
girls could have hilarious fun" by
celebrating the holiday with bad
manners party"
Now, I'm not an old fogy-I hope!
but it has always seemed to me
that the principal fault to be found
with Halloween is that it is marred
too often by bad manners" OF
course, the author of the article sug-
gesting bad manners" as the theme
OF party was thinking only of the
amusement that could be provided
by such a get-together: he had no
thought of encouraging the cele-
orators to adopt rudeness as mat
ter of daily conduct. But good man.
ners can't be put on today, taken off
tonight for the sake of a party, and
then put back on tomorrow. The
kind of manners you have, good or
bad, are as much a part of you as
your eyes, your hair. or your teeth,
and you can't change them at will,
party or no party, Halloween or no
Halloween
That's the way I feel about it,
anyhoW-and it's also the reason
why decided against using the bad
manners party article.
Halloween is one of the most joy-
GUS of all holidays. Yet many peo-
pile dread to see it come. simply be-
cause of the bad manners" dis
played by so many of its most
enthusiastic observers It's fun to
dress up to parade the streets in
a costume in which even your closest
friends will have difficulty recogniz-
ing YOU, TO sing and shout, and add
TO the general hullaballoo. But
Well, suppose you have settled in
your easy chair after hard days
work. and the doorbell rings, You
sigh YEARLY. turn down the radio
drag yourself out of the chair and
60 TO the door. There's no one
there, but off in the distance-per-
haps from behind the hedge a few
doors down the street-you hear
laughter.
Blast those pesky kids you NUT
ter, returning to the chair.
You're no sooner settled again than
the doorbell r-r-rings once more.
You decide not to answer it. A few
minutes later. it rings again-and
continues to do so at intervals for
the next half-hour or So And in
the midst of all the ringing, pea
shooters 60 into action against your
windows. beating tattoo almost as
steady as machine-gun fire. You
determine to ignore that, too.
You try to listen to the radio. but
now the chalkers are at work. You
can hear them as they swing their
chalk across the wall of the house.
hear them, too. as they switch TO
soap and 60 to work on your
windows.
It's getting on your nerves
You'll have to do something .
Maybe if you sneak out on the side
porch. you can catch them at their
deviltry; then you can give them a
good bawling-out. perhaps frighten
them into leaving you alone.
Something about the porch looks
strange -. No wonder! The chairs
are gone! There's one of them
hanging from the limb of a tree
across the street. And that looks
like your garbage can, too, out in the
middle of the street. . And so it
goes until next morning. when
you go of to another hard days
work, thanking Heaven that Hal
loween comes only once year. =.
Fun is fun. but bad manners" are
something else again. Let's have
more fun and less bad manners"
this Halloween!