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"And So It Was - - - "
A youthful correspondent of the Patriot, in describing some
the Hallowe'en pranks, concluded with the statement, "and
1jt was and always will be."
As we all know, there are two kinds of pranks. One kind
. j fun and harmless; the other is wanton and destructive.
V one could justly complain of the first kind. The second kind
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harmful to the perpetrator as much as it is to the property
Iner whose house or barn or car he damages.
VVanton destruction is not fun, rather it is a perversive
of energy which cannot help but react badly on the one
ho does it. Clean fun, however, which injures no one and
harms no property, is a very wholesome outlet for cooped-up
*" From all accounts of this past Hallowe'en, there was much
0f the second, and little of the first kind of pranking on Cape
Cod a fact at which we should rejoice.
Whatever bad there was under "and so it was" need not
always be if training is coupled with sufficient outlets pro-
Led in the way of parties, contests, and the like ; whatever
good is meant by "and so it was" we say we hope it will always
be.
EDITORIAL
I Frank J. Mather, commander ot
[Barnstable Post 206 of the Ameri-
can Legion, has announced the or-
der of exercises for Armistice Day,
which include the parade and exer-
cises, instructions Issued for the
parade and line of march are as
follows:
PARADE ORDER
Barnstable Post 206, American
Legion
Hyannls, Mass.
Parade Order No. 1
1
. The traditional Armistice Day
parade will be held on November
1
1
. Place of assembly, Sherman
Square , Hyannls. Time of assembly,
10:15 a.m.; first call, 10:20 a.m.;
time of march, 10:25 a.m.; line of
march , Main Street to Town Hall
for exercises.
2. Order of March: First section
—Police escort, Grand Marshal Mar-
tin J. Brown and staff ; National
Guard ; Barnstable High School
Band; Barnstable Post 206, Ameri-
can Legion, and V.F.W.; Barnstable
Unit Post 206 American Legion
Auxiliary, and V.F.W. Second sec-
tion—Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Cub
Scouts , American Red Cross Motor
Corps.
:',. Veterans not members of or-
^'•iiizerl groups are invited. +q par-
ticipate and will be formed In a
special group under command of
Hobert Day.
Disabled veterans will be placed
in cars in a special group.
4. First section will form on
Main Street, headed at Burch's
store facing East. Second section
will f orm on South Street headed
at Burch's Store, facing West. Upon
arrival at Town Hall units will
form In line as per instructions of
Qrand Marshal.
Colors will be massed on the
:
steps ot the monument. There will
be a period of silence at 1
1 a.m.
5. Units are requested to keep at
least a 10-yard interval. Grand
Marshal and staff and town officials
will review parade opposite Town
Hall on return from monument.
.6. Assistant to Grand Marshal :
Graham N. Scudder. Aides to Grand
Marshal : Frank Mather, Chief of
Police Harry W. Lawes, Jr.; Henry
L. Murphy.
, Veterans of Foreign
Wars; Geo'rge LaMondy, Spanish-
American War Veterans.
By order of Martin J. Brown,
Post 10th District Commander
Department of Massachusetts
American Legion
Grand Marshal
Official :
Frank Mather.
Post Commander
When the marchers reach the
Town Office Building, brief cere-
monies will be held, in which Rev.
E. Gage Hotaling, and Robert F.
Counsell, commander of Dennis F.
Thomas Post, Representative Allan
F. Jones, and possibly Captain J, D.
Wilson or Commander John W.
Thompson of the Massachusetts
Maritime Academy, will addrdess
those assembled,
During the minute of silence 53
F-84 Thunderjets from Otis Air
Force Base will fly over Town Of-
fice Building in formation and dip
their wings in salute to the hon-
ored dead. Following the ceremo-
nies, the parade will disband.
Parade, Exercises, Jet Salute to Mark
Observances of Armistice Day
At a special Council Board ot Re-
view held in the Barnstable,Town
Office Building on Thursday, No-
vember 3, Explorer Scout Robert
Edmunds, formerly Senior Patrol
Leader and now Junior Assistant
Scoutmaster of Boy Scout Troop
76 of Harwich, was reviewed by a
group of Cape Cod Executive Board
members and representative busi-
ness and professional men to as-
certain if he had satisfactorily com-
pleted the long list of requirements
for the Eagle Scout Award. Hav-
ing successfully met the qualifica-
tions at this session , his application
will be completed in the Council
Office and sent to the National
Court of Honor in New York for
final approval. When such is se-
cured the actual presentation of
the award will he made at a special
Court of Honor to be held at some
future date.
The extensive requirements for
this rank generally require several
years to complete, but Edmunds
qualified in a two-year period
without sacrificing his studies ,
home duties , or gainful occupations ,
as attested by the severul letters
of recommendation submitted to
the Board .
Acting as chairman of the Board
of Review was Rev. E. Gage Hotal-
ing, Protestant Council Chaplain ;
Dan B. Gnylord , Council Chairman
of Public Relations; Selectman Vic-
tor F. Adams , John D. Doyle and
Entile Guertin. In attendance were
Scout Executive Chester G. A.
Zueker and Edmutid's Scoutmaster,
Lester L. Shatzer of Harwich. Two
other young men qualifying for
Eagle rank within the past year
were Henry Draper , Jr., Ship 72
Orleans and Myron Bettencourt ,
Assistant Scoutmuster of Troop 53,
Hyannls.
Board Approves Can-
didate for Eagle Scout The Stewardship Advance was
launched at a supper meeting Mon-
day, Nov. 7, in the Parish Hall of
the First Baptist Church of Hyan-
nls. Representatives of the Baptist
churches in Brewster, Barnstable,
Bass River, Pocasset and Pondvllle ,
as well as Hyannls, were present at
the meeting and voted to engage In
the program in their local church-
es. Seven thousand Baptist church-
es of the Northern Baptist Conven-
tion" are emphasizing Stewardship
as their main goal of the year
1949-1950.
Rev. Herschel Rogers, minister
of the First Baptist Church of
Rockland , was the guest speaker.
His topic was "The Meaning of
Stewardship. " Packets or literature
were passed out to each church ,
and a question and answer period
followed his talk ,
Bap. Churches Launch
Stewardship Advance
At the monthly meeting of the ,
Hyannls Board ot Trade , held
Tuesday evening at the Cape Cod
Inn, Mr. Walter Gaffney, Chairman
of the Town Planning Board, re-
vealed that negotiations are being
carried on between the officials
of the New Haven R. R. and the
Selectmen for the purchase of land i
now owned by the Railroad. It •
wns stated that the prime reason ,
for selling the land Is duo to tho i
fact that It is no..linger uBod ns a i
rail siding. The land In question Is
tho right-of-way from Main Street i
to South Street. Mr. Gaffney
pointed out that It would be his
recommendation that the town
purchase the land at tho present
time , even though It Is not de-
veloped. A special town meeting
Is planned to decide whether the
town should expend tho money to
acquire tho land.
The chairman of tho Planning
Board further discussed the possi-
bility of the present linllroad Sta-
tion being torn down and a park-
ing area developed at this slto. It
was disclosed that the present sta-
tion facilities are too costly to
maintain for the revenue derived .
If this action Is taken , tho rail
point will he moved farther down
near the site of the New England
Transportation Company 's garage,
Mr. Onffnoy pointed out tho
various traffic bottlenecks which
now exist In the town proper and
tho lack of adequate parking facili-
ties. Tho "bottlenecks" nxlst par-
ticularly at South and Ocean
St roots , Barnstable Road and Main
Street , and at tho junction of Elm
Street , Barnstable Road , and North
Street. It was fell (hat the acquisi-
tion of this land would , sometime
in the near future , alleviate tho
congestion.
Mr. Onffnoy revlowod llio pro-
gress which has been nindo In tho
town during tho paBl. 25 years In
respect to now buildings , new
roads, and other factors involved
In the planning for tho town. It
wns shown that tho development
of tho area around Hearse's Way
unci Route 28, and of tho Ridge-
wood sections of Hyannls wore
only the beginning of the largo
scale erection of housing areas.
And with this growth there will
he a greater demand for shopping
centers shopping coalers which
cater to our nation that travels
on WIICO IH. Ho envisioned tho ne-
cessity of a central shopping area.
Mr. Gaffney mentioned the work
which has been accomplished in
the area adjacent to North Htroot ,
the Baptist Church and Hatch
Field, With tho purchase of the
new land , and the feasibilit y of
one-way traffic again being used
in Hyannls, Mr. Onffnoy stressed
tho value of careful town planning
to achieve the maximum use of all
facilities. President Roland T, Phil
summed up Mr. Gaffnoy 's talk by
saying thut tho throe most im-
portant considerations before (lie
Board of Trade and the Town as a
whole are a master parking plan ,
zoning and the traffic problem.
Although the members present
took no specific action on these
proposals , tho Board Instructed lta
secretary, Mr. R. Ralph Homo, to
arrange a mooting of the Commit-
tee on Parking and Traffic and the
Town Engineer with the Town
Planning Board to study tho possi-
bilities of developing a now park-
ing area within tho town and the
Improvement of the existing sites.
Written suggestions are to bo for-
warded by all interested persons to
Mr. Home.
Mr. Leo Goulet of the Cape and
Vineyard Electric Co. was again
appointed chairman of the Com-
mittee to arrange for the Christ-
mas lighting of Main Stroot, Mr.
Goulet was asked to study the pos-
sibility ot using In Hyannls such
arrangements as Taunton bus at
Christmas time. The necessary ar-
rangements were made for the an-
nual visit of Santa clans , complete
with Ills modern airplane and Jeep
—under the able chairmanship of
Mr. Rene L. Poyant.
New membors welcomed by
President Plbl included M. Mor-
rell Berg, Loster A. Jonas, Henry
White , Nicholas Foumaris, and
Nelson and Samuel Malchman.
The next meeting of the board Is
scheduled for December 8th . j
Town Considers Buy-
ing Railroad Land
Those of tis who avidly rend tides of the exploits and tho
everyday lives of olil -tiine Capo Dodders and who hoar thorn
told by parents , to whom they have been passed down by word
of month from generation to ojeiiemtion,—those of ns who have
a fool for these stories re-llveS
them over and over again in our
thoughts and , sometimes , when we
are dreaming away off In thought-
land , wo try to recapture tho pic-
ture of scenes, now familiar to us,
as they looked in those old days,
and tho faces of our forebears , as
they walked and talked and did
things. Wo oven try to hoar tholr
voices in imagination. In blood
relationship, thoy are very CIOBO
to ns, tholr children , oven it by
several generations. They pro-
duced us, and much of what wo
oro and have developed into has
(•oino from thorn. Without tilem,
wo should not he bore at all.
What, If by magic, wo could bo
transported back to those days and
sot down In tho midst of whatever
generation we chose, watch the
lite and actually BOO and bear those
about whom wo'vo heard, especial-
ly those from whom we ourselves
have sprung? There are story tol-
lers, whoso voices and manner of
tolling carry us back to tho past
almost beyond resistance; there
are writers, tho reading of whose
storlos make us oblivious to all
the present around us.
Wo have no formula for taking
us hack In person;—the best we
human beings have been able to
do to date is experiencing the piiBt
through tho written word and the
word-to-nioulh reports from parents
to children in an endless chain ,—
coupled with u live Imagination
and a nature able to adjust Itself
to thanged surround 1
.,,. * • ml cir-
cumstances.
What, should wo say If , by play-
ing a record , wo could hoar actual
voices of the past speaking In the
language and custom of their day,
telling of contemporaneous events,
common to tholr lives , but perhaps
strange to us '.
'
Through » I'bin, devised and
being (lovelopod right hero In our
Town of Barnstable the voices of
today may ho recorded for the
benefit or rut ure general Ions. To
a small extent II has already been
done , but the whole plan Is in (ho
mailin g and may boeomo an Im-
portant link In each general Ion
toward Its own piiBt and future
In September lust, two of our
oldest citizens wore recorded on a
I ape, Captain Ensign Jerauld and
Miss Clara ,1. Ilullott. Tho record-
ing was released September 7, a
few days Jul or, nt a meeting of the
Biiriistablo Historical Society In
tho histori c Hlurgls Library. For
I he first time in history, an attompt
hail been made to record I lie voices
of (he few remainin g old-timers of
any general ion. Such a recording
IB "recalling by first-band accounts
tho historical past as hoard of and
as participated In. " A visitor pres-
ent on (Ivis historic, occasion , from
Connecticut , expressed a desire to
take tho recording back with him
to play II to those there Interested ,
saying thai at one day a number
from Barnstable went to Connecti-
cut to settle.
There are few, genuine old-
timers left today. It will be a mat-
ter of but a few years when they
will all bo gone and the mlddlo-
aged portion of tho present popu-
lation will become the old-timers.
The trouble is that each genera-
tion of old-timers, so-called, is one
generation further from tho first,
settlers; and, with each such gen-
eration , some of the old tal es must
be lost by tho wayside, With each
passing generation the connection
with the beginnings of Capo Cod
grows loss direct and , therefore,
loss strong.
lOac.h village and town has Its
own memories and traditions and
tho iloslro to preserve thorn for
posterity. Hero Is a moans of
doing Just thi s. And, with tho co-
operation of tho historical societies
mid libraries of the Cape, it will
be possible to record voices, while
thoro Is yet. time, and presorvo
thorn for all time.
A word us to the originator ot
Ibis plan. Mr. LOII IH CaUtdo, »
citizen of our Town , Barnstable,
Is I' io dispatcher for the Barnsta-
ble bounty roil. lj Rai.io Bjsterfl;
with liuadiinarterB In the County
Court House, Barnstable village.
Mr. Catahlo Is a graduate of the
National Academy of .Broadcast-
ing, Washington , D. <' ., and during
and following the lato war spout
seven years with III" navy In radio
work. Formerly with the Joint
House and Senate Radio Record-
ing Facilities, Washington, D. • '.,
bo recorded the voices of tho sen-
ators and representatives in Hi«
radio studios of the House and
Honato. Thoro he made broadcasts ,
recordings , and transcri ptions. •
In the course or ibis work, Mr.
Catablo recorded over half or the
Congressional voices, lie also re-
corded hearings in committee
rooms,
Ctnthuit on Pant 4
Tales of Cape Cod
Recording for Posterity
Historic Project Starts
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