Syracuse-Wawasee Journal, Volume 1, Number 47, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 28 October 1938 — Page 8

Teacher’s Korner

Halloween The season of ghosts and goblins and fun and frolic is with us again. To the majority of young people it is the occasion of genuine fun in which each one enjoys himself in a perfectly legitimate way. Others, however, use the occasion with license to do those things for which Halloween was never intended. Centuries ago the Druids of England held a feast on the first of November as thanksgiving to the Sun God for their harvest. Following the feast great bon-fires were built to render still greater honor to their gods. To this day the building of great bon-fires in Scotland is still an important part in the celebration of this old custom. During the time while Gregory IV <540-604) was Pope he instituted a day knoton as “All Saints Day” when all the saints of the churcn should be honored at one time. By decree, he set aside November the first as this day. In Ireland, just a little later, another celebration was

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One of the most interesting structures for the New York World’s Fair of 1939 is already under construction. It is the exhibition building of the Bell Telephone System, and will contain unique and striking popular and scientific displays revealing the advances which have been brought about in the transmission of the spoken word. The building occupies a triangular plot of slightly more than three acres immediately north of the Fair’s Theme Center. The formal entrance is through a pavilion at the point of the plot adjacent to the Theme Plaza. In the semi-circular court of this pavilion is a sculptured group by -Carl Millea. From this point to the building proper a walk leads through a grove of 150 mountain pine trees, chosen because they allow ample room for people to move about under their spreading lower branches. Pools and fountains add to the attractiveness of this landscaped area. tThe other entrances to the building, fronting on the two main avenues which bound the plot, will be {lantad by tan vermilion panels

set for the evening of October the thirty-first. This was known as the Vigil of Saman, the lord of death. According to their superstitious belief all of the wicked who had died were punished by having their souls imprisoned in body of some animal. On this particular night Saman recalled all of these lost souls and gave them their freedom for the night. They were pictured in the minds of the people as witches riding on brooms, as black cats, and as owls. In order to protect themselves from these evil omens, the people built large bon-fires and gathered around them to spend the night. Before morning, the ghosts returned and were re-imprisoned in the body of some animal for another year. Still later, Christian influences included in this Halloween celebration a feast to Pomona, The Goddess of Gardens and Fruits. In these feasts nuts and fruits represented her presence. So you see the witches on their

The Bell Telephone System’s exhibition building for the New York World’s Fair of 1939 is already under way and these pictures are of the architect’s model. Above: the central rotunda and southeastern entrance. Upper left: Night view, with formal entrance and shady grove In the foreground. Lower left: General view of the building, which will cover more than three acres. The Bell Telephone Laboratories are originating the unique displays of advances in voice communication which will be shown.

which will be decorated, respectively, by Hildreth Meier© and Edward Trumbull. The mass of building rises to different heights to house the varied exhibits that are now being developed in the Bell Telephone Laboratories. Along the south side of the site runs a decorative colonnade. Where the axis of the transportation of the Fair meets this side of the plot, the building wall presents a surface fifty feet high, which will be covered by a large map showing cities In relief and animated by changing lights to indicate the main lines of telephonic communication around the world. Above the large circular wing a decorative symbol of telephonic communication surmounts the building, lighted to form a distinctive night display. The Bell Telephone Laboratories are developing several new and interesting exhibits for the New York World’s Fair of 1939. It was this research organisation which introduced at the Century of Progress at Chicago the exhibit of the “acoustical illusion** with the dummy "Oscar*; at San Diego the "voice

brooms, black cats, owls, the custom of masquerading, and fruits and nuts, all so in season on Halloween, come down to us as a heritage of Pagan and Christian customs of the past. Now the occasion has lost all of the serious aspects that Gregory IV intended it should have and it comes to us only as a time for fun and frolic. The great majority of us use Halloween as a time for good fun and frolic, chasing our ghosts and goblins in a chivalrous manner. Others take advantage of the time and, assuming an air of licShse instead of liberty, go about commiting deeds boardering closely on to the criminal. Because of this latter group, Halloween has lost a great deal of our respect and because of many an ilj done act, the season may lose all of-its color and glamor and pass into discard. This year let us resolve that a little of the originally intended seriousness of Christian principles be reinjected into our Halloween fun.—By Mr. Cook.

mirror,” which allows one to hear how his voice sounds to others w’hen he telephones; and at Dallas a participating exhibit through which a visitor could test his own hearing. The exhibits of New York will be many times larger than at any of the previous expositions. The building is a design of Voorhees, Gmelin and Walker. The interior, including the display of exhibits and the decorations, is being designed by Henry Dreyfuss. The building Itself will be constructed by Marc Eidlitz and Son. An acoustic treatment inside the building has been engineered by Electrical Research Products Incorporated. The landscaping of the plot has been designed by Vitale and Geifert When the building has been completed tor the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, and its exhibits installed by the Bell Laboratories, the operation and management will be turned over to the New York Telephone Company, which will dondnet the exhibit through its Long Island Division, i

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