The Daily Alaska Empire

OCTOBER 31

According to all of the pre-Hallowe'en dope, to-night may prove to be so quiet to Juneau residents that it will get on their nerves.

The action of Juneau high school, grade, parochial and Indian school students in pledging themselves to refrain from pulling off any of the seemingly innocent pranks which heretofore have resulted in a great deal of property destruction is something for Juneau parents to be truly proud of.

The students are taking care of the problem in their own way without accepting or asking any favors in return—and nicely.

After all, this is a people's war, and children are people. They can't contribute as often as others but they are proving that they can contribute to the winning of the war when they get a chance.

The youngsters seem to get quite a bang out of the clash a garbage can makes when it rolls down the street—and if it was just the noise it wouldn't be so bad. But even a child knows today that Americans everywhere are scraping together all of the scrap they can get in order to conserve metal. Garbage cans can't be replaced as easy as they once could.

Likewise, any form of destruction of property is taking valuable labor and material away from the war effort.

We are writing this for the parents not the children. The children know all of this. They were the ones who told us about it.

But at the same time, this is one of the few evenings of the year upon which children have a monopoly. About the only thing a Juneau child can look forward to tonight is a party. The more parties the better. The parents can help out on that end by furnishing the supplies and then stepping out to the show for the evening.