Four Hours’ of Free Movies Are Halloween ‘Substitute’
Parents in Washington recently showed new ingenuity in meeting the destructive inclinations of Halloween pranksters. To keep the droughts of 4,000 youngsters in their section away from such valuable as electric light globes, house windows and automobile lyres, the Chevy Chase Citizens’ Association decided to entertain them at four hours of free .movies held in two school auditoriums. The parents reasoned that a surfeit of movies like that would send any child home to bed without any desire for such strenuous activity as gate-lifting or window-soaping. Only those youngsters were a • mitted to the movies who had tickes given them by their school teacher. Glen Echo, just outside the c . appointed a boy Mayor for the, ho »* day. It was his duty to see no damage was done to signs, s light, automobiles and homes, and his aides bad full author y make arrests whenever necessary. Enlisting the aid of the you ‘ Glen Echo to help keep _ community on Halloween was idea of Mrs,. Beulah McCuen, woman Mayor in Molltg ° ' County. - '
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 12915, 9 December 1939, Page 6
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