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PALACIOS BEACON, PALACIOS. TEXAS
Halloween Was First Celebrated
By Inhabitants of Rural Sections
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Thanksgiving for
Good Crops Offered
By Early Man.
By CLIFF LANGE
Released by Western Newspaper Union.
Halloween is essentially and
basically a rural celebration.
It belongs to the country-
side, the small town where
the people are close to the
earth, and all that comes from
and lives upon the earth.
Far back In history, man, realiz-
ing that summer was done and the
work of nature, busy all the previ-
ous months, was at an end, held re-
ligious ceremonies to thank the gods
ORIGIN OF THE NAME
November 1 Is All Saints' day,
also called All-Hallomaa, or All
Hallows. The evening preceding
this day Is All-halloween.
for sending him food upon which to
live.
To early man, Nature, with all
Its blessings and woes, was some-
thing of a mystery to him. As he
became more familiar with It and
more civilized through the cen-
turies, he had certain gods ns guard-
ians of his crops. When the crops
were collected, and the cattle gath-
ered In, he then held his celebration
with his family and with friends.
This was the beginning of our
present day celebration of Hal-
loween. Many of Ihc wild spirits
In which early man believed are
reflected in the witches riding
brooms, the goblins with their
fearful faces that decorate Hal-
loween parties wherever they
are held.
Primitive man’s basic spirit of
thankfulness for favors done by the
ruler of all nature through religious
celebrations and ceremonies was
continued by the Druids of England,
the early Romans, and even the In-
dians of the United States.
In the pre-Christian days of early
England, the Druids, priests of an-
cient Britain, celebrated the feast
of Samhain on November 1. At that
time the flocks were driven in and
the workers of the community rest-
ed from their arduous summertime
labors.
But before midnight on October
81 the Druids put out the old fire on
the altar of their god, Baal, and
made a new one. This signified the
beginning of another year of work
with Nature by those early ruralites
who worshiped before the heathen
god Baal.
In the early Roman festival of
Pomona, held at harvest time,
fruits and nuts played a very im-
portant part. How the customs of
the early Roman religious festival
have come down to the present day
is noticed in the giving of fruits and
nuts to youngsters who go “visiting"
on Halloween.
There also is a definite reason for
pumpkins—always a necessary or-
nament, either real or artificial-
having a definite place in any Hal-
loween decoration.
The reason is not difficult to
understand. The early Indians
combined deep solemnity and
hearty relaxation at their bar- ~
vest time celebration, held
around the present time ol Hal-
loween. The Indians of the
Southeast and Northeast United
Slates placed the pumpkin in a
conspicuous spot during their
celebrations because It was a
staple article of their diet.
Many people have further seen a
definite relation between the hol-
lowed, decorated and lighted pump-
kin in homes on Halloween with
the ceremonial dances and masques
of the Hopi Indians held In the
Southwest at harvest time.
In fact, almost all the early Amer-
lean — rather, native American —
foodstuff's grown by the early In-
dians and given proper appreciation
during their harvest celebrations
are today noticed in Halloween dec-
orations. Corn is one of the out-
standing foodstuffs so displayed.
The priests of early Chriatianl-
ty found it difficult to stamp out
the mystery and symbolism of
the last night of Oclobcr. They
effected a compromise between
the old religious ceremonies of
the Romans and Druids and
those essentially Christian. To
offset the black magic of Druid
superstitions, the next day was
declared All Saints' day (as it
still Is today) and the evening
preceding it was renamed hal-
lowed or holy evening.
The corruption of the name, by
constant usage by the untutored na-
tives, came to be Halloween.
But the new name could not
change the character of the festi-
Hoot Owl Is a patient animal he
Is, he Is. All year long he doesn't
do anything but sleep all day, work
all night catching mice and other
delicacies that tickle his palate.
Then, come Halloween, he gets him-
self all prettied up to have his pic-
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ture taken. From the looks of him
you wouldn't believe that he has
been sitting like that for ten days.
Before that he was resting in n
storeroom with other stuffed ani-
mals. Oh, well: What would Hal-
loween be without an owl?
By VIRGINIA VAI.E
Relouaed by Western Newspaper Union.
T)UD ABBOTT figures that
-D the three-year-old son,
Bud Abbott Jr., whom he and
his wife have just adopted, is
a direct present from Uncle
Sam. It was through on offi-
cial who accompanied Abbott
and Costello on their recent
bond-selling tour that the
comic entertainer first heard
about the availability of the
youngster, and subsequently ar-
ranged for the adoption. Universal
recently announced the purchase of
the farce, “See My Lawyer,” as a
vehicle for the two comedians; Mil-
ton Berle and Paddy Hart starred in
It on Broadway.
Fat O'Brien, who recently filmed
“The Navy Comes Through’’ at
RKO, believes that he and Spencer
Tracy can boast the longest endur-
ing friendship in Hollywood. It’s
lasted more than 35 years; they
wero childhood playmates, went to
■cbool together, served together in
the navy during World War I, and
launched their professional careers
together.
Pack a Lunch That Gives Them a Lift
(See Recipes Below.)
Victory Lunch Box
David Holt, appearing with Mick-
ey Rooney In “The Human Com-
edy," was tabbed as a sure-fire fu-
ture star until stricken with infan-
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Just waiting for a train, boys. That’s all. She’s been invited over
to the next town's Halloween celebration given for the benefit of the
USO. Isn't it a far cry from the days when witches were in style in-
stead of be-witching beauties such as she? Who said, “The good old days”?
tile paralysis. Now he’s climbing
back toward stardom, after a long
fight. He gives a swell performance
os a crippled boy in “Pride of the
Yankees."
“Let’s see now, where was I? Oh,
yes. Phone Janey after this man
takes my picture and ask her if
she has some extra hobby pins. I
wish he would hurry up. I'm get-
ting tired of sitting here holding this
val. To those back hundreds of
years ago. and continuing on down
through the centuries, Halloween
has always remained, both serious-
ly and humorously, as a time when
supernatural influences prevailed.
Through the years the reli-
gious significance of the eve has
ail but disappeared. But the pic-
ture of witches riding their
brooms across the harvest fields
with the full, bright moon in the
background has stayed with us.
And speaking of witches it should
be remembered that it hasn't been
so very long ago that here in the
United States they were considered
hy many to fee harmful old women
under the diabolic control of the
master Evil One, the Devil.
In New England during 1691-92,
when an outburst of fanaticism took
place there, hundreds of persons
were thrown in jail for either being
witches, or consorting with them. In
the summer of 1692, 19 persons were
tried in court, convicted and hanged
for witchcraft.
Today the emotion, the spirit of
thankfulness which the early peo-
ples expressed in their harvest cere-
monies on Halloween has been all
but forgotten.
Today the same power which
brought good crops and healthy
stock to the early dwellers brings
not only plenty for this nation, but
also for those nations battling with
us, the Evil One of Europe who is
riding the witch’s broom of cruelty
and hate, but who will, when the
magical words of freedom are spo-
ken, crash to earth destroying him-
self and the evil spirits that have
been consorting with him.
There will be a poignant touch to
those who will celebrate Halloween
this year in the United States, re-
member that France, Belgium—
even Germany—when free, also cel-
ebrated Halloween.
In those oppressed countries the
harvest has brought nothing but con-
tinual privation, want and death.
In the United States it has been
different. A moral is here.
Bob Hope Is taking no chances on
having readers of his autobiography,
“They Got Me Covered," think that
the Samuel Goldwyn picture of the
same name Is his life story. A fore-
word to the film, which stars Bob
and Dorothy Lamour, declares that
"Any resemblance between the
| characters in this photoplay and me
is entirely fictional," and it's signed,
"Bob Hope."
Editor Shows How
In southwestern Missouri the mer-
chants of a progressive small town
dreaded the approach of Halloween
as much as the kids happily antici-
pated it.
Metro's hoping that it has another
Greer Garson in Valerie Hobson,
another young English actress,
who’s playing the lead opposite
Robert Donat in "Sabotage Agent,”
being filmed in London. America
The police officials, school teachT
ers, and principals were perplexed,
too, as to how they could stop the
damage, even though light, inflicted
by the masked kids as they trooped
about the streets on the night of
October 31.
The editor of the local weekly was
giving thought to the matter, too.
The editor was still a comparatively
young man. He remembered some
of his youthful Halloween pranks
all too well. It was a different situ-
ation now, he realized.
Suddenly he got a brilliant idea.
He talked to the members of the
town's business club about it.
In the next edition of the editor’s
newspaper was a large ad offering
an attractive money prize by the
towns’ merchants to the young per-
son who drew the most attractive,
artistic picture on any of the mer-
chants’ store windows with soap on
Halloween.
Result? Damage dropped off to a
minimum; many fine pictures
drawn; one youth the proud posses-
sor of the money prize; much pub-
licity for the town, the business men
—and the editor.
has seen her in "U-Boat" and
••Blackout.”
When Joan Crawford stepped Into
the role intended for Carole Lom-
bard iit the picture, “They All
Kissed the Bride," she donated her
entire salary for the job to war
charities. Recently Paulette God-
dard was engaged to do the radio
version of the picture on the CBS
Playhouse, and announced that her
■alary for the performance would
buy war bonds to he put in (rust
for five children of war heroes who
do not come home at the war's end
—which probably means quite a loi
of bonds!
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How's the vim, vigor and vitamin
eontent on the put-up lunches for
your school chil-
dren and defense
. workers? You may
n • • S not realize it, but
thc thrce ,,v’s"
CS 'V ■— I] have an important
—(HL bearing on their
intelligence quo-
tient, for good, well balanced food
makes both child and adult fit for
whatever the day may bring. A
poorly nourished body isn't recep-
tive to learning exposure, nor is it
capable of meeting the intensive re-
quirements of physical or mental
work.
Lunches should pull no punches.
Just because they are compact, and
it's difficult to have as much variety
and hot food as when you are pre-
paring the lunch in your own kitchen,
is no reason for skipping over the
lunch lightly, in the hope you can
make up these shortages at dinner.
This meal in the middle of the day
should take care of a third of the
day's food requirements and as such
is not a matter to be considered
lightly.
Yes, it's a challenge, homemak-
ers! You may bake the best cake
in miles around or turn out a roast
that's proud to behold, or a dessert
that's purely ambrosial, but if you
don't put up a lunch that your child
or defense worker husband eats with
gusto, you won't get my vote for
excellence.
Now, let's get to work! Sandwiches
are a standby, but let's make them
something more than peanut-butter
and jelly or cheese between a couple
slices of bread.
Sandwich Ideas.
Sliced or chopped hard-cooked
eggs, combined with pickle and
moistened with salad dressing.
Sliced tongue or ham with mus-
tard or horseradish.
Liverwurst, mashed and seasoned
rith catsup.
Chopped ham, chopped hard-
cooked eggs, minced green pepper,
cooked salad dressing.
Cream cheese, grated yellow
xtieese, chopped pimiento,
This Week's Menu
Lunch Box
•Vegetable Soup
•Tongue Sandwiches
•Grated Cheese Sandwiches
Grated Carrot-Pineapple Salad
Devilled Eggs
Fresh Pear 'Honey Brownies
•Recipes Given
pumpkin. It isn't heavy, but the
heat from the light in it IS hot. I
wish those people who see this pic-
ture have a happy Halloween. I
know I will." (That’s Ellen Drew,
In case you haven’t recognized her.)
John Gay, thc early English poet (1688-1732), wrole thc following
lines of poetry which reflected a superstition of his day concerning
the Halloween festival:
At even o’ Hallowmas no sleep I sought,
But to Ihc held a bag of hempseed brought.
I scattered round thc seed on every side,
And Ihrce times three in trembling accents cried,
“This hempseed with my virgin hand I sow,
Who shall my true love be, thc crop shall mow."
This poem, as does thc accompanying story, further brings out
the fact that Halloween is essentially a rural festival.
Hobble My Goblins!
Keep your eye on the pumkpins.
Then you will remember it’s Hal-
loween again. No, the second girl
on the right doesn't remind you of
anyone but movie actress Eva Ga-
bor. Those you see (left to right)
acting as though they’re scared are
Barbara Britton, Katharine Booth,
Eva, and Ella Neal.
It’s always warm at Halloween
time where they work. That’s why
they haven’t put on fur coats.
Rumors that Cary Grant would
enlist In the army air forces were
confirmed for moviedom when it was
announced by RKO that "Bundles
for Freedom," starring Grant, had
been moved up on the production
schedule so that he'd finish before
his enlistment.
The shortage of leading men may
precipitate a cycle of man-less
films; looks as if Metro is getting
ready by buying “Cry Havoc,” a
little theater play dealing with vol-
unteer nurses during the siege of
Bataan.
.Tack Durant and Shirley Temple
made their screen debut in the snme
picture, "Stand Up and Cheer"; he
was part of a slapstick act in that
musical extravaganza. In "Journey
Into Fear” he appears as the male
half of an adagio dancing team, op-
posite Dolores Del Rio.
ODDS AND FNDS—Seems as if the
fall and winter season «l radio is offi-
ciully thirled now tliot Fred Allen's no.
der way again . . . One of the luckiest
husbands in the armed services is Cap-
tain Frank Chapman, V. S. marines—
far it minutes every Sunday afternoon
he con tune in on "The Family llonr"
and hear his wife sing; lie's stationed at
Qltantico, l a. . . . Wallace /leery, who
recently celebrated his 29lli year on the
screen, made one of his first films in
lapan, after forming his own company;
in “Salute to the Marines," his latest
one, lie's a marina sergeant-major who
fights the Japs on Bataan.
green olives, salad dressing to
moisten.
Ground corned beef, chopped
pickle, and chopped ripe olives
blended with mayonnaise.
Peanut butter and honey or cream
cheese and honey.
Meat loaf, lettuce, rye bread.
Have a hot dish, too. This makes
for top-notch efficiency besides giv-
ing the luncheon a hearty and sub-
stantial angle that your children or
defense-plant husband will welcome.
How to do? Simply use a thermos
bottle for soup or a hot drink or
unwaxed paper cups and containers
for hot foods. Packing the kind of
lunch your family can work on
should be your aim—an aim, which
is fast gaining prominence because
hours lost out of the plant or by
children from school by illness,
mean sabotage on the nutrition
front.
LYNN SAYS:
Ideas In a Box: Surprises are
as welcome in a lunch box as on
a birthday. Try adding a few
stuffed prunes (with cream,
cheese, honey and peanut butter
or dates) just as an extra. It
will go over big, as will a few
salted nuts, a bit of stuffed celery
and whole carrots.
Dress up lunch with a perky
salad. They'll like cooked or
canned green beans with cooked
or canned carrots with lettuce and
French dressing. Shredded cab-
bage with shredded carrots,
strips of green pepper; grated
carrots, diced pineapple and rai-
sins; canned peas, chopped onion,
hard-cooked egg. Devilled eggs
are nice, too—with a touch of
paprika for color.
Creamed meat or fish in the
hollow of a bun which has been
scooped out, and the top of the
bun held on together with a tooth-
pick is good. Try creamed dried
beef, creamed sausages, tuna fish
or salmon salad, or creamed
stuffed eggs.
Do you ever realize how much the
family raves over your good home-
made vegetable soup? Yes, they do,
and it will be especially welcome in
the lunch box:
•Vegetable Soup.
1 soup bone
2 quarts cold water
1 cup chopped onion
1 cup diced carrots
1 cup sliced okra
1 cup green beans, cut
2 cups diced potatoes
2 cups tomatoes
Wash bone and remove all loose,
small pieces of bone. Cover with
water and let simmer for two hours.
Remove bone from broth and cook
all vegetables until tender. Season.
Salads make a complete meal ol
lunch besides providing the day’s
quota of vitamins. Neatly packed
in small, waxed containers salads
will retain their original freshness
and appeal:
•Vitamin Salad.
1'., cups spinach leaves, raw
2 tablespoons chopped, mixed
pickles
*4 cup diced celery
1 teaspoon chopped onion
14 teaspoon salt
4 tablespoons mayonnaise
1 cup cottage cheese
Add pickles and celery, chopped
onion and salt to spinach and mix
well. Chill overnight in covered |
waxed paper container in refrigera-
tor. Pack cottage cheese and
mayonnaise in separate small paper
containers to serve with spinach j
mixture.
Bright, fresh, juicy fruits such as
oranges, pears, apples, bananas.
grapes, individual- I
ly wrapped in j
waxed paper will j
give -a.- lift in tha-
middle of the day. I
Then for variety's !
sake you might
have a pudding I
packed in an indi-
vidual paper container like this one:
Apricot Cream.
(Serves 6)
4 egg yolks
>4 cup sugar
Juice and rind of 1 lemon
2 tablespoons hot water
■4 cup strained apricot pulp
4 egg whiles
2 tablespoons powdered sugar
Beat egg yolks, add sugar, lemon
juice, water and apricot pulp. Cook
over hot water until thick. Beat egg
whites stiff and add powdered sugar. I
Fold into cooled, cooked mixture.
Place in refrigerator until thick and |
cold.
Cookies with fruit or puddings pol. j
ish off the dessert course, and child j
or plant worker is ready for an |
afternoon of real “production.” Fa- j
vorite cookies made with honey to
keep in tune with the times are:
•Honey Brownies.
(Makes 2 dozen)
1 package semi-sweet chocolate
chips
)4 cup shortening
2 eggs, beaten
6 tablespoons strained honey
14 cup sifted flour
!i teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup chopped nuts
Melt chocolate and shortening
over hot water. Cool. Beat eggs
until lemon-colored and add honey
gradually. Add sifted dry ingredi-
ents. Mix in chocolate, add vanilla
and nuts. Pour into greased, waxed-
paper.lined 8 inch square pan. Bake
35 minutes in a moderate (370-
degree) oven.
Cake Making? Bread Making?
Cookie linking? llutlget Fixing? House-
keeping? Yon nuntc the problem and
explain it. Miss Lynn Chambers will
be glad to give you expert advice if you
write to her, enclosing a self-addressed,
stamped envelope for your reply, at
Western Newspaper Union, 210 South
Desplaincs Street, Chicago, III.
Released by Western Newspaper Union,
St. Joseph
AS PI Ft *IXJ ,
World’s Largest Seller at (0l
There is really nothing more
pleasant than the warm glow you
get when you know your gift is
well received. For assurance of
that this Christmas, send thosa
Bmokers on your list Camel ciga-
rettes or Prince Albert Smoking
Tobacco. They’re favorites both,
especially with men in thc service.
You have your choice of three dis-
tinctive gift-wrapped packages.
Camels in the Christmas Carton,
10 packages of 20's—also the gay
“Holiday House” containing four
boxes of "flat fifties." Either way
you give 200 mild, flavorful Cam-
els. Prince Albert Smoking Tobac-
co comes in the pound canister all
wrapped and ready to give. The
packages even include space for
your “Merry Christmas” mes-
sage. You'll find them featured by
your local dealer as gifts sure to
please.—Adv,
Quintuplets Use
Musterole For
Chest Golds!
To Relieve Their Coughing
and Make Breathing Easier
Whenever the Dionne Quintuplets catch
cold—their chests, throats ana backs are
Immediately rubbed with Musterole—
a product made especially to promptly
relieve coughing and tight sore aching
chest muscles duo to colds—it actually
helps break up local congestion in thc
upper bronchial tract, nose and throat.
Musterole gives such wonderful re-
cults because it’s what so many Doctor#
and Nurses all a modern counter-irritant.
Since it’s used on the famous ‘‘Quints’*
—you can ho sure it’s just about the
BB8T cold relief you can buy!
IN 3STRENGTHS: Childrens Mild
Musterole for children and people with
tender skin. Regular for ordinary case#
end Extra Strength for stubborn cases.
Gold a Means
Misers mistake gold for good,
whereas it is only a means of ob-
taining it.—Rochefoucauld.
CORNS GO FAST
Pain goes quick, corns
■poedily removed when
you use thin, soothing,
cushioning Dr. Scholl's
Zlno-pads. Try them I
0-Scholls lino pads
Town Is Man's Work
God made the country and man
made the town.—Cowper.
SKIN
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eve
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cleansing is good soap. Enjoy famous
Black and White Skin Soap daily.
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weak, nervous, cranky, blue feel-
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Taken regularly—Plnkham’s Tab-
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Plnkham’s Tablets are made espe-
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SNAPPY FACTS
ABOUT
1 RUBBER
Rubber It not the tap
but it the latex fou
that run le
o# a tree,
! in tubes
mgthwiso throughout
tho Inner part of the bark.
Individual car owner* can com
r 35 mill
hour, check inllation pm:
week, check wheel alignment
>er. Never dr;
, check infla
>raure oncoa
:fionsl In Jerusalem 8 miles
hour it the limit for outemo-
week, check wheel alignment every
tix months, rotate tires (including
spares) to different wheels every
3,000 miles. It is net a difficult habit
to acquire and it will keop you roil-
ing longer.
Why balk at 35 miles an hour
rail
on
biles, with tho speed warnings
printed in Arabic, Hebraw and
English.
The Army is supplied by hundreds of
thousands of rubhor-tirerl trucks,
lust one of which lor a 2'*j ton ve-
hicle, takes more than 7 times as
much rubber as your paosonger car.
Pontoon bridges are built on
rubber floats that take more
than a ton and a half of rubber.
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