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Anybody know a good Halloween trivia site? According to NPR's Says You, a government PSA in the 1930s(?) requested kids ask for candy because

Posted by Max Oct 27 '08, 10:49

the degree of vandalism on the night before Halloween became rampant, so the government or president asked children to be nice and go around asking for candy.

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Sounds about right according to the history of the holiday I've heard. -- nm - The Grim Grinning Ghosts Oct 27, 11:21
That seems to be straight out of Wikipedia. -- (link) - Mop Oct 27, 10:56

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